Patent application number | Description | Published |
20130020621 | SOLID-STATE IMAGING DEVICE - In each photosensitive cell, a photodiode | 01-24-2013 |
20130020654 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE - A semiconductor device includes first and second MIS transistors and a dummy element. The first MIS transistor includes a first gate insulating film which includes a first high-k insulating film formed on a first active region and contains an adjusting metal. The second MIS transistor includes a second gate insulating film which includes a second high-k insulating film formed on a second active region and is free of the adjusting metal. The dummy element includes a dummy gate insulating film which includes a dummy high-k insulating film formed on a dummy active region and at least a portion of which is free of the adjusting metal. The first active region is formed in a second conductivity type first well region. The second active region is formed in a first conductivity type second well region. The dummy active region is formed in a second conductivity type third well region. | 01-24-2013 |
20130020879 | POWER TRANSMISSION DEVICE AND WAVEFORM MONITOR CIRCUIT FOR USE IN POWER TRANSMISSION DEVICE - A power transmission device in a power transmission system including the power transmission device including a primary coil and a power reception device including a secondary coil, the primary coil being electromagnetically coupled to the secondary coil, to receive in the power reception device AC power transmitted from the power transmission device, comprises a waveform monitor circuit configured to detect an electric potential at one end of the primary coil and output a waveform monitor signal formed by restricting the detected electric potential to an electric potential which is equal to or higher than a ground electric potential; a waveform detection circuit configured to detect a waveform change in the waveform monitor signal input from the waveform monitor circuit; and a data detection circuit configured to detect data transmitted by load change by a load modulation unit in the power reception device based on a result of detection of the waveform change detected by the waveform detection circuit. | 01-24-2013 |
20130021389 | ORGANIC EL DISPLAY APPARATUS AND METHOD OF FABRICATING ORGANIC EL DISPLAY APPARATUS - A method of fabricating an organic EL display apparatus includes: obtaining a representative current (I)-voltage (V) characteristic of a display panel including pixels each having an organic EL device and a driving transistor; dividing the display panel into a plurality of divided regions, and calculating a light-emitting efficiency and a light-emission starting current value for each of the divided regions calculated by a luminance (L)-I characteristic of the divided region; measuring luminance of light emitted from each of the pixels and calculating an L-V characteristic of each of the pixels; calculating an I-V characteristic of each pixel by dividing each luminance value of the L-V characteristic calculated for the pixel by light-emitting efficiency, and by adding a light-emission starting current value; and calculating a correction parameter for each pixel such that the I-V characteristic of each pixel is corrected to the representative I-V characteristic. | 01-24-2013 |
20130021435 | REPRODUCTION DEVICE, REPRODUCTION METHOD, AND PROGRAM FOR STEREOSCOPIC REPRODUCTION - In performing stereoscopic view, a shift information memory stores, as a number of pixel lengths, an offset indicating how far in a right direction or a left direction to move coordinates of pixels to realize stereoscopic view. When realizing stereoscopic view, a plane shift engine moves the coordinates of image data in a graphics plane in the right direction or the left direction by the number of pixel lengths indicated by the offset. When a scale of video data targeted for stereoscopic view is changed by a basic graphics plane, a shift distance of pixel coordinates by the plane shift engine is based on a number of pixel lengths obtained by multiplying the offset by a changed scaling factor in the horizontal direction. | 01-24-2013 |
20130021456 | DEVICE AND METHOD FOR DETERMINING CONVERGENCE PERFORMANCE - Provided is a convergence performance determination device including an eye information acquisition unit configured to acquire eye information which is information on eye movements of a user when viewing a stereoscopic video; a convergence movement calculation unit configured to calculate amounts of convergence movement each indicating a degree of a convergence eye movement of the user, based on the eye information acquired by the eye information acquisition unit; and a determination unit configured to determine convergence eye movement performance of the user by comparing between distribution data indicating a distribution of the amounts of convergence movement calculated by the convergence movement calculation unit in an evaluation interval which is a predetermined playback time interval of the stereoscopic video being viewed by the user and distribution data indicating a distribution of the amounts of convergence movement determined in accordance with depth information on the stereoscopic video in the evaluation interval. | 01-24-2013 |
20130023059 | METHOD FOR IMMOBILIZING STREPTAVIDIN ON A SELF-ASSEMBLED MONOLAYER - Provided are a method for increasing an amount of streptavidin to be immobilized on the self-assembled monolayer and a sensor which comprises streptavidin immobilized with the method. The method of the current technology is characterized by that one molecule of an amino acid is interposed between the self-assembled monolayer and the molecule of streptavidin. | 01-24-2013 |
20130023070 | PRODUCTION METHOD FOR OXIDIZED CARBON THIN FILM, AND ELEMENT HAVING OXIDIZED CARBON THIN FILM AND PRODUCTION METHOD THEREFOR - The production method for the oxidized carbon thin film of the present disclosure includes: a first step of preparing a carbon thin film and iron oxide that is in contact with the carbon thin film and contains Fe | 01-24-2013 |
20130024046 | POWER TRANSMISSION CONTROLLER, POWER RECEPTION CONTROLLER, POWER TRANSMISSION SYSTEM, AND DATA COMMUNICATION METHOD OF POWER TRANSMISSION SYSTEM - A power transmission controller includes a control unit configured to output to a power transmission unit a drive signal modulated according to data and control a driving operation of the power transmission unit, a data storage unit configured to store data transferred from a power transmission device to a power reception device every time the data is input to the power transmission device; and a comparison unit configured to compare data newly input to the power transmission device to the data stored in the data storage unit to determine whether or not there is a match between these data, wherein a control unit is configured to output the drive signal modulated based on the newly input data to the power transmission unit and transmit the newly input data to the power reception device, if the comparison unit determines that these data do not match; and the control unit is configured not to transmit the newly input data to the power reception device, if the comparison unit determines that there is a match between these data. A power reception controller is configured in the same manner. | 01-24-2013 |
20130026479 | SEMICONDUCTOR THIN-FILM FORMING METHOD, SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE, SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE MANUFACTURING METHOD, SUBSTRATE, AND THIN-FILM SUBSTRATE - A semiconductor thin-film manufacturing method includes: forming, above a substrate, an amorphous silicon film (precursor film) having a photoluminescence (PL) intensity greater than or equal to 0.65 when photon energy is 1.1 eV in a PL spectrum normalized to have a maximum PL intensity of 1; and annealing the amorphous silicon film to form a crystalline silicon film. | 01-31-2013 |
20130026629 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE, SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE UNIT, AND SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE PRODUCTION METHOD - An example of a semiconductor device according to the present invention includes: a protective film ( | 01-31-2013 |
20130026849 | POWER RECEPTION DEVICE AND POWER TRANSMISSION SYSTEM - A power reception device in a power transmission system including a power transmission device including a primary coil and the power reception device including a secondary coil, the power transmission device being configured to drive the primary coil and transmit AC power corresponding to a clock signal which is frequency-modulated according to a binary data signal, the primary coil and the secondary coil being electromagnetically coupled together to receive by the secondary coil in the power reception device, the AC power transmitted from the power transmission device, comprises a clock-signal extraction circuit configured to extract the clock signal from an induced voltage induced at one end of the secondary coil in receiving the AC power; and a demodulation circuit configured to generate a pulse synchronously with the clock signal extracted by the clock-signal extraction circuit, and demodulate the pulse to obtain the binary data signal. | 01-31-2013 |
20130027268 | ANTENNA APPARATUS INCLUDING DIPOLE ANTENNA AND PARASITIC ELEMENT ARRAYS FOR FORMING PSEUDO-SLOT OPENINGS - In each parasitic element array, each of parasitic elements has a strip shape substantially parallel to a longitudinal direction of a dipole antenna, and the parasitic elements are formed at predetermined intervals. For example, the interval is set to be equal to or smaller than ⅛ of a wavelength λ of a high-frequency signal to be fed to a feeder line. The parasitic element arrays are arranged so as to form a plurality of pseudo-slot openings that allow a radio wave from the dipole antenna to propagate therethrough as magnetic currents. | 01-31-2013 |
20130027383 | ORGANIC EL DISPLAY APPARATUS AND METHOD OF FABRICATING ORGANIC EL DISPLAY APPARATUS - A method of fabricating an organic EL display apparatus includes: obtaining a representative current (I)-voltage (V) characteristic of a display panel including pixels each having an organic EL device and a driving transistor; dividing the display panel into a plurality of divided regions, and calculating a light-emitting efficiency and an offset luminance value for each of the divided regions calculated by an I-luminance (L) characteristic of the divided region; measuring luminance of light emitted from each of the pixels and calculating an L-V characteristic of each of the pixels; calculating an L-V characteristic of each divided region by dividing each current value of the representative I-V characteristic by light-emitting efficiency, and by adding an offset luminance value; and calculating a correction parameter for each pixel such that the L-V characteristic of each pixel is corrected to the L-V characteristic of the divided region including the pixel. | 01-31-2013 |
20130028032 | SEMICONDUCTOR MEMORY DEVICE - A first write transistor has a source connected to a power-supply node, a drain connected to a first local bit line, and a gate connected to a second write global bit line. A second write transistor has a source connected to the power-supply node, a drain connected to a second local bit line, and a gate connected to a first write global bit line. A third write transistor has a source connected to the first write global bit line, a drain connected to the first local bit line, and a gate receiving a first control signal. A fourth write transistor has a source connected to the second write global bit line, a drain connected to the second local bit line, and a gate receiving the first control signal. A read circuit is connected to the first and second local bit lines and first and second read global bit lines. | 01-31-2013 |
20130028083 | ROUTER, METHOD FOR CONTROLLING ROUTER, AND PROGRAM - An router includes: a plurality of data storage sections configured to store input data; and an arbiter configured to compare the availability of at least one of the plurality of data storage sections with respect to data that is stored in that data storage section and that shares at least a part of a transmission path to the availability of another data storage section in an adjacent router with respect to that data that also shares at least that part of the transmission path, thereby determining, based on a result of the comparison, whether or not to output that data. | 01-31-2013 |
20130028090 | ROUTER AND CHIP CIRCUIT - Routers in a data transfer system relay data between the first node and each of the second nodes. A router includes a load value processing section and an aggregation decision section. The load value processing section obtains information about a load value of another router connected to a communications bus. The load value is a time delay caused by that another router and/or the throughput of that router. The aggregation decision section chooses one of the second nodes at which the data is to be received, and determines a transmission path between the second node chosen and the first node in accordance with information about the load value obtained from each router and information determined during a design process about the number of stages of routers from the first node through each said second node and/or the length of data to be transferred. | 01-31-2013 |
20130028212 | SEMI-PERSISTENT SCHEDULED RESOURCE RELEASE PROCEDURE IN A MOBILE COMMUNICATION NETWORK - The invention relates to a method for deactivating a semi-persistent resource allocation of a user equipment in an LTE-based mobile communication system. Furthermore, the invention also related to a user equipment and an eNode B implementing this method. To provide a mechanism for deactivating a semi-persistent resource allocation in a LTE system which is not requiring any changes to the Physical layer-to-MAC layer interface and/or preferably no changes to the PDCCH formats agreed by the 3GPP a combination of NDI value and MCS index is defined that is commanding the release of SPS resources. Alternatively, another solution proposed to define a special transport block size that when signaled in a PDCCH is commanding the release of SPS resources. | 01-31-2013 |
20130028337 | VIDEO PROCESSOR - A video processor receives original video data, an original synchronization signal, and an original data valid region signal from a video signal source, supplements insufficient part of the original video data relative to a predetermined valid pixel region, and outputs new video data having the predetermined valid pixel region and a new data valid region signal indicating the predetermined valid pixel region. The video processor includes a valid position regeneration controller delaying at least one of the original video data or the original synchronization signal to match positions of color-difference signals in the original video data to positions of color-difference signals in the new video data in determining based on the original synchronization signal and the original data valid region signal that the color-difference signals in the new video data are displayed while being replaced with each other; and a controller controlling operation of the valid position regeneration controller. | 01-31-2013 |
20130028684 | STRUCTURE FOR PREVENTING INCORRECT ADVANCE OF SCREWS - A structure for preventing an incorrect advance of screws capable of reliably preventing incorrect screw advance with a simple configuration is provided. The incorrect screw advance preventing structure of the present disclosure includes: a first member having a screw hole in which a screw thread corresponding to the screw is formed; and a second member having an opening provided in a position opposed to the screw hole, and a slope part that rises from a peripheral edge of the opening toward the first member. In this structure, a tip of a long screw which is inadvertently inserted is guided in a predetermined direction by the slope part. Therefore, it is possible to prevent the tip of the screw from reaching an area to be protected, or let the tip of the screw move away from the area to be protected. | 01-31-2013 |
20130029364 | METHOD FOR IMMOBILIZING GLUCOSE OXIDASE ON A SELF-ASSEMBLED MONOLAYER - Provided are a method for increasing an amount of glucose oxidase to be immobilized on the self-assembled monolayer and a sensor which comprises glucose oxidase immobilized with the method. The method of the disclosed technology is characterized by that one molecule of an amino acid is interposed between the self-assembled monolayer and the molecule of the glucose oxidase. | 01-31-2013 |
20130029430 | PLASMON SENSOR, AND USAGE METHOD AND MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREOF - A plasmon sensor has a first metal layer and a second metal layer. The first metal layer has a bottom surface and a top surface configured to be supplied with an electromagnetic wave. The second metal layer has a top surface confronting the bottom surface of the first metal layer. Between the first metal layer and the second metal layer, there is provided a hollow region configured to be filled with a specimen containing a medium. Analyte capturing bodies are physically adsorbed at least one of below the first metal layer and above the second metal layer. | 01-31-2013 |
20130030569 | CONTROL APPARATUS AND CONTROL METHOD FOR ROBOT ARM, ROBOT, CONTROL PROGRAM FOR ROBOT ARM, AND INTEGRATED ELECTRONIC CIRCUIT - There is provided a control apparatus and control method for robot arm, robot, control program for robot arm, and integrated electronic circuit, which can improve robot arm operability upon performing tasks such as cooperative conveyance and direct teaching. The grip portion separated from the end effector attached to the robot arm is provided. When a person grips and shifts the grip portion, a tracking control unit controls so that the robot arm follows the shift. A fixing switch unit switches between a fixing state where, upon switching to “playback mode”, a fixing portion is located at a fixed position to fix the end effector and the grip portion to maintain a gap distance therebetween and a relatively shiftable state where, upon switching to “teaching mode”, the fixing portion is located at an accommodated position to relatively shift them from each other without maintaining the gap distance. | 01-31-2013 |
20130030728 | CRYSTALLINITY EVALUATION METHOD, CRYSTALLINITY EVALUATION DEVICE, AND COMPUTER SOFTWARE THEREOF - A crystallinity evaluation method of evaluating crystallinity of a semiconductor film formed above a substrate includes following steps. First, a peak waveform of a Raman band in a Raman spectrum of the semiconductor film is obtained using Raman spectrometry. The Raman band corresponds to a phonon mode unique to the semiconductor film. The peak waveform is a wavelength range having a peak of the Raman band. Next, a first waveform is generated by fitting the obtained peak waveform by Gauss function. Then, a peak value of the first waveform is extracted. Then, a second waveform is generated by fitting the obtained peak waveform by Lorenz function based on the extracted peak value. Then, a peak value, a FWHM, and/or a wavelength indicating the peak value regarding the generated second waveform are obtained. Then, crystallinity of the semiconductor film is evaluated based on the obtained information. | 01-31-2013 |
20130031310 | COMPUTER SYSTEM - A computer system includes: a main storage unit, a processing executing unit sequentially executing processing to be executed on virtual processors; a level-1 cache memory shared among the virtual processors; a level-2 cache memory including storage areas partitioned based on the number of the virtual processors, the storage areas each (i) corresponding to one of the virtual processors and (ii) holding the data to be used by the corresponding one of the virtual processors; a context memory holding a context item corresponding to the virtual processor; a virtual processor control unit saving and restoring a context item of one of the virtual processors; a level-1 cache control unit; and a level-2 cache control unit. | 01-31-2013 |
20130032899 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE - An N-type MIS transistor includes an active region surrounded by an element isolation region in a semiconductor substrate, a gate insulating film formed on the active region and the element isolation region and having a high-k insulating film, and a gate electrode formed on the gate insulating film. An N-type impurity region is formed at least in a portion located below the gate insulating film out of a portion of the active region which contacts the element isolation region. | 02-07-2013 |
20130033974 | SERVO CONTROL DEVICE, OPTICAL DISK DEVICE, AND DATA TRANSFER METHOD - A servo control device includes: a phase compensator configured to generate a plurality of types of control values for controlling a driver based on a signal output from an optical pickup, and output the control values; and a transfer data generator configured to serially transfer the control values to the driver. The phase compensator sends, to the transfer data generator, a notification that the phase compensator has output a control value which needs to be sent with a reduced delay among the control values. In response to the notification, the transfer data generator determines whether or not the transfer data generator is transferring one of the control values, and if the transfer data generator is not transferring one of the control values, the transfer data generator starts transferring a control value associated with the notification among the control values. | 02-07-2013 |
20130034077 | BASE STATION APPARATUS AND RADIO COMMUNICATION METHOD - A wireless communication apparatus capable of minimizing the degradation in separation characteristic of a code multiplexed response signal. In this apparatus, a control part ( | 02-07-2013 |
20130034126 | RADIO COMMUNICATION DEVICE AND RESPONSE SIGNAL SPREADING METHOD - A radio communication device capable of randomizing both inter-cell interference and intra-cell interference. In this device, a spreading section primarily spreads a response signal in a ZAC sequence set by a control unit. A spreading section secondarily spreads the primarily spread response signal in a block-wise spreading code sequence set by the control unit. The control unit controls the cyclic shift amount of the ZAC sequence used for the primary spreading in the spreading section and the block-wise spreading code sequence used for the secondary spreading in the spreading section according to a set hopping pattern. The hopping pattern set by the control unit is made up of two hierarchies. An LB-based hopping pattern different for each cell is defined in the first hierarchy in order to randomize the inter-cell interference. A hopping pattern different for each mobile station is defined in the second hierarchy to randomize the intra-cell interference. | 02-07-2013 |
20130034195 | INTERFERENCE SUPPRESSION METHOD AND INTERFERENCE SUPPRESSION DEVICE - A reception station | 02-07-2013 |
20130035038 | RADIO COMMUNICATION APPARATUS - A base unit of a radio communication apparatus of the present invention includes a controller that discriminates whether or not company identifying information transmitted from a cordless handset is specific information in connecting a line in a Bluetooth (BT) communication mode, performs communication in another radio communication standard (company's own mode) on determining that the company identifying information is the specific information, and performs the communication in a BT standard on determining that the company identifying information is not the specific information, and a registering unit for registering an ID peculiar to the apparatus. This simple structure allows long-distance communication at higher sound quality with the other apparatus capable of performing CDL communication in the company's own mode using an error handling function, and sound communication at usual sound quality in a BT data format allowing short-distance communication even when the company identifying information is not the specific information. | 02-07-2013 |
20130035450 | OUTER CASING AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING THE SAME - An outer casing for an electric device which is a molded article of a environmental resin wherein poly(lactic acid) and/or a lactic acid copolymer is used, is constituted by molding a flame-retarded resin composition including a resin component containing poly(lactic acid) and/or the lactic acid copolymer as a main ingredient, and silica-magnesia catalyst particles as a flame retardance-imparting component which imparts flame retardance, wherein the content of the silica-magnesia catalyst particles is 0.5% by weight or more and 9.0% by weight or less of the total weight of the flame-retarded resin composition. The silica-magnesia catalyst particles preferably have an average particle diameter of 10 μm or less. | 02-07-2013 |
20130036479 | CONTENT RECORD TERMINAL, CONTENT RECORD/REPRODUCTION SYSTEM, AND CONTENT RECORDING METHOD - When a content write unit records a content on a medium, a control unit controls to record a dummy license which is generated by a dummy license generation unit and an expiration time limit is set into a past time, into the medium. When a recording of the content on the medium is completed, the control unit controls to delete the dummy license recorded on the medium and to record a normal license into the medium. | 02-07-2013 |
20130037808 | THIN-FILM TRANSISTOR DEVICE AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING THIN-FILM TRANSISTOR DEVICE - A thin-film transistor device which is a bottom-gate thin-film transistor device, includes: a gate electrode formed above a substrate; a gate insulating film formed above the gate electrode; a crystalline silicon thin film formed above the gate insulating film and having a channel region; an amorphous silicon thin film formed above the crystalline silicon thin film including the channel region; and a source electrode and a drain electrode formed above the amorphous silicon thin film, in which an optical bandgap of the amorphous silicon thin film and an off-state current of the thin-film transistor device have a positive correlation. | 02-14-2013 |
20130037881 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE WITH VERTICAL GATE AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING THE SAME - A gate electrode is formed in a trench reaching a drain region so as to leave a concave portion on the top of the trench. A first insulating film is formed, which fills the concave portion and of which the thickness increases as the distance from an end of the trench increases on the substrate surface on both sides of the trench. First and second source regions are formed in a self-alignment manner by introduction of impurities through the first insulating film. | 02-14-2013 |
20130038507 | ANTENNA APPARATUS HAVING FIRST AND SECOND ANTENNA ELEMENTS FED BY FIRST AND SECOND FEEDER CIRCUITS CONNECTED TO SEPARATE GROUND CONDUCTORS - An antenna element is connected to a feeder circuit, and an antenna element is connected to a feeder circuit. The grounding terminal of the feeder circuit is grounded by being connected to a grounding conductor. The grounding terminal of the feeder circuit is grounded by being connected to a grounding conductor. Grounding conductors interpose therebetween the first portion of the antenna element, and grounding conductors interpose therebetween the third portion of the antenna element. The grounding conductors are mutually electrically connected by jumper conductors. | 02-14-2013 |
20130038666 | INK JET HEAD, METHOD OF FORMING IMAGE BY THE INK JET HEAD, ANGULAR VELOCITY SENSOR, METHOD OF MEASURING ANGULAR VELOCITY BY THE ANGULAR VELOCITY SENSOR, PIEZOELECTRIC GENERATING ELEMENT, AND METHOD OF GENERATING ELECTRIC POWER USING THE PEIZOELECTRIC GENERATING ELEMENT - The purpose of the present invention is to provide an ink jet head capable of ejecting an exact amount of ink, an angular velocity sensor capable of measuring an exact angular velocity, and a piezoelectric generating element capable of generating an electric power due to positive piezoelectric effect, even when the applied electric field of 40 kV/cm or more is applied. | 02-14-2013 |
20130039329 | INTEGRATED CIRCUIT FOR CONTROLLING RADIO COMMUNICATION - Provided is a radio communication device which can prevent interference between SRS and PUCCH when the PUCCH transmission bandwidth fluctuates and suppress degradation of CQI estimation accuracy by the band where no SRS is transmitted. The device includes: an SRS code generation unit ( | 02-14-2013 |
20130039492 | CONTENT RECEIVING TERMINAL, CONTENT EXPORTING AND REPRODUCING METHOD, AND RECORDING MEDIUM - A content exporting and reproducing method includes i) a content export step of encrypting a decryption key for content, that is used for decrypting the encrypted content, by using an encryption key for decryption key, recording the encrypted decryption key for content in the portable recording medium, and exporting the encrypted content sequentially to the portable recording medium, and ii) a content reproduction step of reading out the encrypted decryption key for content from the portable recording medium, decrypting the encrypted decryption key for content by using a decryption key for decryption key, reading out the encrypted content that has been exported to the portable recording medium, and decrypting the encrypted content that is read out from the portable recording medium, by using the decrypted decryption key for content to reproduce the content, while the encrypted content is exported to the portable recording medium sequentially. | 02-14-2013 |
20130039498 | ANNOYANCE JUDGMENT SYSTEM, APPARATUS, METHOD, AND PROGRAM - An annoyance judgment system includes: a biological signal measurement section configured to measure an electroencephalogram signal of a user; a database retaining a plurality of monosyllabic speech sounds such that, for each speech sound, the speech sound and a reference latency of an electroencephalogram negative component corresponding to the speech sound are retained in association; a presented-speech sound determination section configured to deteremine a monosyllabic speech sound to be presented by referring to the database; and an annoyance judgment section configured to judge annoyance of the output speech sound by comparing a peak latency of a negative component of the electroencephalogram signal in a range from 50 ms to 350 ms from a starting point, the a starting point being a point in time at which the determined speech sound is presented, against the reference latency corresponding to the determined speech sound that is retained in the database. | 02-14-2013 |
20130040086 | OUTER CASING AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING THE SAME - An outer casing for an electric device which is a molded article of a environmental resin wherein poly(lactic acid) and/or a lactic acid copolymer is used, is constituted by molding a flame-retarded resin composition including a resin component containing poly(lactic acid) and/or the lactic acid copolymer as a main ingredient, and silica-magnesia catalyst particles as a flame retardance-imparting component which imparts flame retardance, wherein an organometallic compound is attached to a part of surfaces or the entire surfaces of the silica-magnesia catalyst particles. The organometallic compound is preferably a titanium-based coupling agent or a zirconium-based coupling agent. | 02-14-2013 |
20130040411 | NITRIDE-BASED SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE AND METHOD FOR FABRICATING THE SAME - A method includes the step of preparing a GaN-based substrate 10, the step of forming on the substrate a nitride-based semiconductor multilayer structure including a p-type Al | 02-14-2013 |
20130043373 | SOLID-STATE IMAGING DEVICE - A solid-state imaging device includes: a plurality of photoelectric conversion units arranged in rows and columns in a pixel region; a plurality of vertical transfer units arranged for corresponding columns of the photoelectric conversion units, and transfer, in a column direction, the signal charges read from the corresponding columns of the photoelectric conversion units; a first and a second horizontal transfer units arranged in parallel, and transfer, in a row direction, the signal charges transferred by the vertical transfer units; and a first and a second output units which (i) include floating diffusion units each formed in a region adjacent to an output end of a corresponding one of the first and the second horizontal transfer units and (ii) output, as electric signals, the transferred signal charges, wherein the floating diffusion units are disposed at greater intervals than adjacent ones of the horizontal transfer units. | 02-21-2013 |
20130043492 | NITRIDE SEMICONDUCTOR TRANSISTOR - A nitride semiconductor transistor includes a heterojunction layer including a plurality of nitride semiconductor layers having different polarizations, and a gate electrode disposed on the heterojunction layer. An electron current reduction layer having a p-type conductivity is disposed between the heterojunction layer and the gate electrode to pass hole current therethrough and reduce electron current. | 02-21-2013 |
20130043500 | LIGHT EMITTING DEVICE - A light emitting device includes: a semiconductor multilayer film formed on a principal surface of a substrate, and including an active layer configured to generate light at a first wavelength; and a fluorescent material layer formed on the semiconductor multilayer film, and forming a first two-dimensional periodic structure. The fluorescent material layer generates light at a second wavelength by being excited by the first wavelength light, the semiconductor multilayer film has an optical waveguide through which the first wavelength light and the second wavelength light are guided, and the light radiated from an end face of the optical waveguide includes a higher proportion of light having an electric field oriented in a direction horizontal to the principal surface than a proportion of light having an electric field oriented in a direction perpendicular to the principal surface. | 02-21-2013 |
20130043566 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE AND FLIP-CHIP PACKAGE - A semiconductor device includes a substrate having a circuit formation region, an interlayer insulating film formed on the substrate, a first seal ring formed in the interlayer insulating film to surround the circuit formation region, a first protective film formed on the interlayer insulating film in the circuit formation region and on the first seal ring, and a second protective film formed on the first protective film and inside relative to the first seal ring. The first protective film has a first surface contacting the second protective film, a second surface located directly on the first seal ring, and a third surface connecting the first surface and the second surface together, and an end of the second protective film is located inside relative to the third surface. | 02-21-2013 |
20130043926 | LEVEL SHIFT CIRCUIT - In a level shift circuit allows satisfactory operation with short delay time in the case of low-voltage setting of a low-voltage source, for example, when a state of an input signal IN transitions from a H (VDD) level to a L level, a node W | 02-21-2013 |
20130044191 | DEVICE AND METHOD FOR GENERATING STEREOSCOPIC IMAGE - A rotation angle obtaining unit obtains an angle by which a stereoscopic image of a subject is to be rotated around a line-of-sight direction. A multi-viewpoint image accumulation unit accumulates a plurality of images of the subject obtained in one direction by changing capturing positions, as multi-viewpoint images. A selection unit selects base images for the stereoscopic image from the multi-viewpoint images accumulated in the multi-viewpoint image accumulation unit, based on the rotation angle. A rotation unit rotates the selected base images based on the rotation angle to generate images which are to form the stereoscopic image of the subject. | 02-21-2013 |
20130044246 | IMAGING APPARATUS - An imaging apparatus with improved convenience, which can perform various types of processing using an imaging device while performing phase difference detection, is provided. | 02-21-2013 |
20130044290 | VISUAL FUNCTION TESTING DEVICE - A visual function testing device includes: a visual target image presentation unit that presents a visual target image; a visual target image rendering unit that renders the visual target image to be presented on the visual target image presentation unit; a visual function test item selection unit that selects a visual function test item; a visual target image generation unit that generates a visual target image corresponding to the test item selected by the visual function test item selection unit; a viewpoint distance input unit that inputs a distance between the visual target image presentation unit and a viewpoint of an observer; and a visual angle input unit that inputs an angle to be made by the visual target image and the viewpoint of the observer. Based on the viewpoint distance and the visual angle, a display size and display position of a visual target image are calculated. | 02-21-2013 |
20130044291 | VISUAL FATIGUE LEVEL MEASURING DEVICE, VISUAL FATIGUE LEVEL MEASURING METHOD, VISUAL FATIGUE LEVEL MEASURING SYSTEM, AND THREE-DIMENSIONAL GLASSES - A visual fatigue level measuring device includes: a video presenting unit which presents 3D video; a test period determining unit which determines two or more time periods each of which is for a test for measuring a level of visual fatigue; an eye movement obtaining unit which obtains data indicating eye movements of left and right eyes of a player with respect to the presented video; an eye movement extracting unit which extracts, from the obtained eye movement data, eye movement data in each of the two or more time periods determined by the test period determining unit; an eye movement comparing unit which compares eye movements in the two or more time periods based on the extracted data; and a fatigue level determining unit which determines the level of visual fatigue of the player based on the comparison result. | 02-21-2013 |
20130044551 | SEMICONDUCTOR MEMORY DEVICE - A semiconductor memory device includes a memory cell connected to a read bit line and a pair of write bit lines, and a data amplifier connected to the read bit line. A precharge potential resetting circuit uses a function of generating precharge potentials to the pair of write bit lines based on data of the memory cell amplified by the data amplifier to set the precharge potentials of the non-selected pair of write bit lines to have a potential relationship corresponding to the data stored by the memory cell. As a result, data destruction of the non-selected memory cell during write operation is reduced or prevented, and the speed of operation is increased and the area is reduced. | 02-21-2013 |
20130044925 | SIMILAR CASE SEARCH APPARATUS AND SIMILAR CASE SEARCH METHOD - A similar case search apparatus includes: a keyword extracting unit which extracts a keyword from an image interpretation report; a diagnosis tree analyzing unit which extracts, based on the keyword, one or more target diagnosis flows corresponding to the image interpretation report, by referring to a diagnosis tree storage unit storing diagnosis trees; a similar diagnosis flow extracting unit which extracts one or more diagnosis flows similar to the one or more target diagnosis flows from among the plurality of diagnosis flows included in the diagnosis trees stored in the diagnosis tree storage unit, based on the degree of difficulty regarding a diagnosis item or the degree of difficulty regarding a disease name; and a similar case searching unit which searches out one or more case data sets corresponding to the similar diagnosis flows from among a plurality of case data sets stored in a case data storage unit. | 02-21-2013 |
20130044937 | METHOD OF INSPECTING ORGANIC ELECTROLUMINESCENCE DISPLAY DEVICE - A method of inspecting an organic electroluminescence (EL) display device which includes pixels each of which includes an organic electroluminescence (EL) element includes: imaging the pixels for a predetermined time with a reverse bias voltage being applied to the pixels; identifying light emitting points which produce, in the imaging, light leakage that is greater than or equal to threshold intensity, the light emitting points being located within the pixels; and determining that a pixel including one light emitting point is a defective pixel when, after plural iterations of the imaging and the identifying, the light emitting point is identified in twice or more in the plural iterations of the identifying. | 02-21-2013 |
20130050550 | IMAGING APPARATUS - An imaging apparatus with improved convenience, which can perform various types of processing using an imaging device while performing phase difference detection, is provided. | 02-28-2013 |
20130051163 | DATA TRANSMISSION CIRCUIT AND SEMICONDUCTOR MEMORY DEVICE INCLUDING THE SAME - The data transmission circuit includes: a plurality of local bit line pairs through which data is read simultaneously; a plurality of voltage change detection circuits provided for the plurality of local bit line pairs; a global bit line pair; a plurality of column selection circuits configured to select one of the local bit line pairs and connect the selected local bit line pair to the global bit line pair; and a sense amplifier connected to the global bit line pair. The sense amplifier is controlled by a sense amplifier activation signal to which the outputs of the plurality of voltage change detection circuits are connected, whereby the voltage of a selected read data line pair is amplified using discharge of a non-selected read data line pair, to achieve high-speed read. | 02-28-2013 |
20130055414 | DOWNLOAD TERMINAL, AND CONTENT UTILIZATION SYSTEM - A download terminal acquires and stores a content from a content server, acquires from a license server, a writing-out license including a use condition for writing out of the content to an exchangeable medium and writes out the content to the exchangeable medium according to the writing-out license. The writing-out license includes a pack identifier given to a content group to which the content belongs, and viewing term information of the content, as the use condition. The download terminal determines based on the viewing term information, a viewing time limit of the content to be written out, and synchronizes a viewing time limit of other content having a same pack identifier as that of the content. | 02-28-2013 |
20130056453 | ARC WELDING METHOD AND ARC WELDING APPARATUS - A consumable electrode arc welding method includes: setting an optimal voltage and an increasing slope of a short circuit current to correspond to a setting current; feeding a consumable electrode wire; and alternately generating a short circuit condition and an arc condition, thereby carrying out welding, wherein the short circuit current is controlled by changing the increasing slope of the short circuit current according to a difference between the setting voltage and the optimal voltage when the setting voltage is different from the optimal voltage. With this, the increasing slope of the short circuit current and the current value corresponding to the inflection point of the short circuit current are automatically changed. | 03-07-2013 |
20130056719 | ORGANIC EL DISPLAY PANEL AND ORGANIC EL DISPLAY APPARATUS - Provided is organic EL display panel and an organic EL display apparatus that can be driven at a low voltage and that exhibit excellent light-emitting efficiency. Included are a substrate, a first electrode, an auxiliary wiring, a hole injection layer, a functional layer, and a second electrode. The hole injection layer and the second electrode are formed to be continuous above the first electrode and above the auxiliary wiring. The second electrode and the auxiliary wiring are electrically connected by the hole injection layer in an organic EL display panel. The hole injection layer is a metal oxide film, and metal atoms constituting the metal oxide include both metal atoms at a maximum valence thereof and metal atoms at a valence less than the maximum valence. The metal oxide film includes a metal oxide crystal with a particle diameter on the order of nanometers. | 03-07-2013 |
20130056799 | CIRCUIT SIMULATION METHOD AND SEMICONDUCTOR INTEGRATED CIRCUIT - A simulation method of a circuit in which a transistor is formed of a material (e.g., SiGe, etc.) having a lattice constant different from that of a semiconductor substrate, on source and drain regions, an adjacent active region is formed near the transistor, and a gate electrode is formed in the active region, where a region not overlapping with the gate electrode in the adjacent active region is formed of a material such as SiGe, includes a step of calculating an electrical characteristic (e.g., flowing current, threshold voltage, etc.) of the transistor based on a distance between an edge closer to the transistor, of both edges of the adjacent active region disposed near the transistor, and the gate electrode formed in the adjacent active region. Thus, circuit simulation can be performed with high accuracy with respect to an electrical characteristic of the transistor. | 03-07-2013 |
20130056801 | JUNCTION FIELD EFFECT TRANSISTOR AND ANALOG CIRCUIT - A junction field effect transistor comprising: a semiconductor substrate having a first conductivity type; a channel region having a second conductivity type different from the first conductivity type, and being formed in a surface of the semiconductor substrate; a first buried region having the second conductivity type, being formed within the channel region, and having an impurity concentration higher than the channel region; a first gate region having the first conductivity type, and being formed in a surface of the channel region; and first drain/source region and a second drain/source region both having the second conductivity type, which are formed each on an opposite side of the first gate region in the surface of the channel region, in which the first buried region is not formed below the second drain/source region, but is formed below the first drain/source region. | 03-07-2013 |
20130056803 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE - Power supply plugs, which couple a power supply active region to a power supply metal interconnect, include a plurality of first plugs, which are arranged at first pitches of a predetermined length, and a second plug, which is spaced apart from the closest one of the first plugs by a center-to-center distance different from an integral multiple of the predetermined length. Among the power supply plugs, the second plug is closest to a third plug, which is an interconnect plug closest to the power supply active region and the power supply metal interconnect. | 03-07-2013 |
20130056804 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE - A semiconductor device includes a MIS transistor. The MIS transistor includes an active region surrounded by an isolation region in a semiconductor substrate, a gate insulating film formed on the active region and the isolation region, and having a high dielectric constant film, and a gate electrode formed on the gate insulating film. A nitrided region is formed in at least part of a portion of the gate insulating film that is located on the isolation region. A concentration of nitrogen contained in the nitrided region is nx, and a concentration of nitrogen contained in a portion of the gate insulating film that is located on the active region is n, wherein a relationship of nx>n is satisfied. | 03-07-2013 |
20130056831 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE - A first MIS transistor and a second MIS transistor of the same conductivity type are formed on an identical semiconductor substrate. An interface layer included in a gate insulating film of the first MIS transistor has a thickness larger than that of an interface layer included in a gate insulating film of the second MIS transistor. | 03-07-2013 |
20130056832 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE - A first dual-gate electrode includes a gate electrode located on a first active region and having a first silicon film of a first conductivity type and a gate electrode located on a second active region and having a first silicon film of a second conductivity type. A second dual-gate electrode includes a gate electrode located on a third active region and having a second silicon film of the first conductivity type and a gate electrode located on a fourth active region and having a second silicon film of the second conductivity type. At least a portion of the first silicon film of the first conductivity type has a first-conductivity-type impurity concentration higher than that of a portion of the second silicon film of the first conductivity type located on the third active region. | 03-07-2013 |
20130056833 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE - A semiconductor device includes: a first field-effect transistor of a first conductivity type formed on a first active region of a semiconductor substrate. The first field-effect transistor includes a first gate insulating film formed on the first active region, and a first gate electrode formed on the first gate insulating film. The first gate electrode includes a first metal electrode formed on the first gate insulating film, a first interface layer formed on the first metal electrode, and a first silicon electrode formed on the first interface layer. | 03-07-2013 |
20130057206 | CONTACTLESS BATTERY CHARGER, ELECTRONIC DEVICE, BATTERY PACK, AND CONTACTLESS CHARGING SYSTEM - A contactless charging system is made up of an electronic device and a contactless charger | 03-07-2013 |
20130057752 | CAMERA SYSTEM - In a camera system according to the present invention, a lens controller obtains an exposure synchronizing signal that is generated by a camera controller from a camera body, causes a configuration formed of a first encoder, a second encoder and a counter to detect the position of a focus lens according to the obtained exposure synchronizing signal, and notifies the camera body of the detected position of the focus lens. The camera controller associates the position of the focus lens or the mechanism member obtained from the lens controller with an AF evaluation value based on the exposure synchronizing signal, and controls an autofocus operation of the camera system based on the position and AF evaluation value that are associated with each other. With this configuration, it is possible to improve the accuracy of an autofocus operation with a contrast system. | 03-07-2013 |
20130058628 | RECORDING MEDIUM, PLAYBACK APPARATUS, RECORDING APPARATUS, PLAYBACK METHOD, AND RECORDING METHOD - A recording medium enables special playback processing although part of the AV stream recorded therein is transformed. An AV stream, a first EP map, and a second EP map are recorded on the recording medium. In the AV stream, a part of the multiplexed stream including a first video stream and a second video stream is transformed. The first EP map indicates one or more entry points of the first video stream and the second EP map indicates one or more entry points of the second video stream. TS packets constituting I-pictures of the first video stream are indicated by every 4N-th entry point in the first EP map, and TS packets constituting I-pictures of the second video stream are indicated by the entry points whose presentation time is closest to the presentation time of any one of the every 4N-th entry point in the first EP map. | 03-07-2013 |
20130060898 | COMMUNICATION SYSTEM DETERMINING EFFECTIVE REMAINING TRANSMISSION RATE USING SMALL-SIZED TEST DATA BEFORE TRANSMITTING ACTUAL DATA - A first communication device stores a transmission rate table including response times, and transmission rates associated with the response times, each first response time indicating a time for transmitting test data between the first and second communication devices, while transmitting load data between any pair of communication devices at one of different transmission rates. The first communication device determine a necessary transmission rate for actual data; detect a response time indicating a time for transmitting the test data between the first and second communication devices; determine a transmission rate associated with the response time, as a used transmission rate, based on the transmission rate table; determine an effective remaining transmission rate based on a maximum transmission rate of the communication network and the used transmission rate; and start transmission of the actual data when the effective remaining transmission rate is higher than the necessary transmission rate. | 03-07-2013 |
20130061740 | VEHICLE USING COMPRESSED GAS, AND CONTROL DEVICE THEREFOR - A power unit that can periodically determine a leakage of a compressed gas to early discover a defect, such as a crack, and a vehicle in which the power unit is used are provided. A vehicle that runs with an air engine including a gas machinery includes a control device. The control device includes an adjuster that controls an output of the gas machinery such that a target output is obtained, a pressure measuring unit that measures the pressure of the compressed gas at the piping unit of the air engine, and a determination unit that determines a leakage state of the compressed gas based on a change in pressure, which is measured by the pressure measuring unit every time the target output of the gas machinery becomes substantial zero. The control device suspends the determination of the leakage state when the target output of the gas machinery changes from substantial zero during the determination. | 03-14-2013 |
20130062216 | METHOD FOR REDUCING CARBON DIOXIDE - The present subject matter provides a method for reducing carbon dioxide with the use of a device for reducing carbon dioxide. The device includes a cathode chamber, an anode chamber and a solid electrolyte membrane. The cathode chamber includes a working electrode which includes a metal or a metal compound. The anode chamber includes a counter electrode which includes a region formed of a nitride semiconductor. First and second electrolytic solutions are held in the cathode and anode chamber, respectively. The working electrode and the counter electrode are in contact with the first and second electrolytic solution, respectively. The solid electrolyte membrane is interposed between the cathode and anode chambers. The first electrolyte solution contains the carbon dioxide. An electric source is not interposed electrically between the working electrode and the counter electrode. | 03-14-2013 |
20130062658 | LIGHT-EMITTING DEVICE AND MANUFACTURING METHOD - A light-emitting device comprises a substrate, a light-emitting layer, a wire formed on the substrate and supplying electric power to the light-emitting layer; a transition metal oxide layer formed on the substrate and over the wire; a bank formed on the transition metal oxide layer defining an opening over the wire; an interception layer formed on a portion of the transition metal oxide layer that is exposed through the opening and intercepting migrating fluorine; an organic layer formed on the interception layer and doped with an alkali metal; and an electrode formed on the organic layer, electrically connected to the wire via the organic layer, the interception layer, and the transition metal oxide layer, and providing the electric power supplied by the wire to the organic layer. | 03-14-2013 |
20130062700 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE AND MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREFOR - A semiconductor device according to the present invention has an n-type MIS transistor. The n-type MIS transistor has a first active region surrounded by a device isolation region in a semiconductor substrate, a first gate insulating film having a first high-dielectric-constant insulating film containing a first metal for adjustment, and a first electrode formed on the first gate insulating film. A protrusion amount of one end of the first high-dielectric-constant insulating film on the first device isolation part is smaller than a protrusion amount of an end of the first gate electrode above the first device isolation part. | 03-14-2013 |
20130062772 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE AND METHOD FOR FABRICATING THE SAME - In a method for fabricating a semiconductor device, first, a first metal interconnect is formed in an interconnect formation region, and a second metal interconnect is formed in a seal ring region. Subsequently, by chemical mechanical polishing or etching, the upper portions of the first metal interconnect and the second metal interconnect are recessed to form recesses. A second insulating film filling the recesses is then formed above a substrate, and the upper portion of the second insulating film is planarized. Next, a hole and a trench are formed to extend halfway through the second insulating film, and ashing and polymer removal are performed. Subsequently to this, the hole and the trench are allowed to reach the first metal interconnect and the second metal interconnect. | 03-14-2013 |
20130063318 | DUAL-BAND INVERTED-F ANTENNA APPARATUS PROVIDED WITH AT LEAST ONE ANTENNA ELEMENT HAVING ELEMENT PORTION OF HEIGHT FROM DIELECTRIC SUBSTRATE - An antenna apparatus includes firs and second antenna elements. The first antenna element operates as a loop antenna that resonates at a first wavelength, and the antenna apparatus operates as an inverted-F antenna that resonates at a second wavelength. The first antenna elements includes a first element portion formed to have a predetermined height from a surface of a dielectric substrate, and the second antenna element includes a second element portion which is formed to be substantially parallel to the first element portion at least at a predetermined distance apart from the first antenna element. | 03-14-2013 |
20130068273 | PIPE-SHAPED THERMOELECTRIC POWER GENERATING DEVICE - A pipe-shaped thermoelectric power generating device includes an internal through-hole along the axis direction of the pipe-shaped thermoelectric power generation device; a plurality of first cup-shaped components each made of metal; a plurality of second cup-shaped components each made of thermoelectric material; a first electrode; a second electrode. The plurality of first cup-shaped components and the plurality of second cup-shaped components are arranged alternately and repeatedly along the axis direction. The first electrode and the second electrode are provided respectively at one end and at the other end of the pipe-shaped thermoelectric power generation device. | 03-21-2013 |
20130069107 | NITRIDE SEMICONDUCTOR LIGHT EMITTING DEVICE AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING THE SAME - A nitride semiconductor light emitting device includes: an uneven substrate having an uneven structure in which recesses are formed; a first nitride semiconductor layer of a first conductive type formed on the uneven structure; a first light emitting layer formed on the first nitride semiconductor layer; and a second nitride semiconductor layer of a second conductive type formed on the light emitting layer, wherein each protrusion has a bottom made of a material or composition having a thermal expansion coefficient larger than the thermal expansion coefficient of the material or composition of the first nitride semiconductor layer. | 03-21-2013 |
20130069115 | FIELD EFFECT TRANSISTOR - A field effect transistor includes a nitride semiconductor multilayer structure formed on a substrate, a source electrode, a drain electrode, a gate electrode, an insulating film formed on the nitride semiconductor multilayer structure, and a field plate formed on and in contact with the insulating film, and having an end located between the gate electrode and the drain electrode. The insulating film includes a first film, and a second film having a dielectric breakdown voltage lower than that of the first film, and a thin film portion formed between the gate electrode and the drain electrode is formed in the insulating film. The field plate covers the thin film portion, and is connected to the source electrode in an opening. | 03-21-2013 |
20130069856 | DISPLAY DEVICE - Back cabinet ( | 03-21-2013 |
20130070096 | OBJECT DETECTION DEVICE, OBJECT DETECTION METHOD, AND OBJECT DETECTION PROGRAM - An object detection device ( | 03-21-2013 |
20130070150 | LENS BARREL AND IMAGING DEVICE - The lens barrel is a lens barrel for forming an optical image of a subject on an imaging element, comprising a first lens unit, a second lens unit, a focus lens unit, a zoom mechanism, and a focus actuator. The focus lens unit is movably supported by the second lens unit in the optical axis direction. The operating force inputted to the zoom control is mechanically transmitted to at least one of the first lens unit and the second lens unit. The focus actuator is fixed to the second lens unit and electrically drives the focus lens unit relative to the second lens unit in the optical axis direction. The second lens unit or the focus lens unit is disposed nearest to the image plane in the optical system including the first lens element, the second lens element, and the focus lens. | 03-21-2013 |
20130070820 | TRANSMITTING APPARATUS AND METHOD - A communication device which can reduce amount of control information, limit interference with other traffics, and prevent an increase in current consumption. In this device, a separation unit separates radio resource allocation information, specific section information and transmission parameter information from a received signal. A specific section information control unit selects a sub-carrier designated by the specific section information to allocate data to be transmitted to the own unit. A channel quality measuring unit uses a pilot signal to measure the channel quality of the selected sub-carrier. A channel quality information creating unit creates channel quality information indicating the measurement results input from the channel quality measuring unit. A multiplexing unit multiplexes the transmission signal with the channel quality information. | 03-21-2013 |
20130070841 | IMAGE CODING METHOD, IMAGE DECODING METHOD, IMAGE CODING APPARATUS, IMAGE DECODING APPARATUS, AND IMAGE CODING AND DECODING APPARATUS - An image coding method includes: writing, into a sequence parameter set, buffer description defining information for defining a plurality of buffer descriptions; writing, into the sequence parameter set, reference list description defining information for defining a plurality of reference list descriptions corresponding to the buffer descriptions; and writing, into a first header of each processing unit which is included in a coded bitstream, buffer description selecting information for specifying a selected buffer description. | 03-21-2013 |
20130070929 | SOUND PRESSURE ASSESSMENT SYSTEM, AND METHOD AND PROGRAM THEREOF - A sound pressure assessment system determines sounds to be presented by referring to a database retaining data of sounds, each of which is a pure tone. The system presents the determined sound as a first sound, and in a predetermined time after presenting the first sound, presents as a second sound a sound at least having the same frequency and the same sound pressure level as those of the'first sound to the user. The system extracts an amount of change from an N1 component in response to the first sound to that in response to the second sound. The N1 components are negative components of an user's event-related potential based on points of presenting the first and second sounds as respective starting points. The system determines whether the sound pressure level of the presented sound is excessive to the user, based on the amount of change. | 03-21-2013 |
20130070938 | NOISE CANCELLING DEVICE - A noise cancelling device includes an extracting unit configured to extract a first noise from a signal, the signal being based on an input audio signal, a storing unit configured to store noise characteristic information on a second noise, the second noise remaining after subtracting the extracted first noise from the signal based on the audio signal. And the device further includes a cancelling unit configured to perform cancelling processing for cancelling a noise on the input audio signal based on the first noise and the noise characteristic information on the second noise. | 03-21-2013 |
20130071094 | CONTENT TRANSMISSION SYSTEM INCLUDING CONTENT RECORDING APPARATUS AND CONTENT PLAYBACK APPARATUS CONNECTED THROUGH WIRELESS TRANSMISSION PATH, CAPABLE OF RECORDING PROGRAM CONTENT AND SIMULTANEOUSLY PLAYING BACK PROGRAM CONTENT IN REAL TIME - A content recording apparatus comprising: an encoding unit for encoding program content at a data rate; a HDD for storing the encoded program content; a wireless transmitting and receiving unit for transmitting the encoded program content to a content playback apparatus; a data rate memory for storing the data rate at which the program content is encoded; and a data rate setting unit for setting the data rate stored in the data rate memory, on the encoding unit. The wireless transmitting and receiving unit receives result information from the content playback apparatus, the result information indicating whether or not the program content transmitted to the content playback apparatus has been correctly played back on the content playback apparatus. The data rate setting unit determines, based on the result information, a data rate at which the program content is encoded, and stores the data rate in the data rate memory. | 03-21-2013 |
20130071972 | METHOD FOR FABRICATING THIN-FILM SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE FOR DISPLAY - A method for fabricating a thin-film semiconductor device for display according to the present disclosure includes: preparing a glass substrate; forming, above the glass substrate, an undercoat layer including a nitride film; forming a molybdenum metal layer above the undercoat layer; forming a gate electrode from the metal layer by an etching process; forming a gate insulating film above the gate electrode; forming a non-crystalline silicon layer as a non-crystalline semiconductor layer above the gate insulating film; forming a polycrystalline semiconductor layer which is a polysilicon layer by annealing the non-crystalline silicon layer at a temperature in a range from 700° C. to 1400° C.; forming a source electrode and a drain electrode above the polysilicon layer; and performing hydrogen plasma treatment at a stage after the metal layer is formed and before the polysilicon layer is formed, using a radio frequency power in a range from 0.098 W/cm | 03-21-2013 |
20130072049 | CONNECTOR ASSEMBLY, MALE CONNECTOR, AND MANUFACTURING METHOD FOR MALE CONNECTOR - In a connector assembly | 03-21-2013 |
20130073709 | COMMUNICATION APPARATUS - According to one embodiment, a communication apparatus includes a communication protocol processor configured to process a communication protocol based on a predetermined standard, and a communication unit configured to perform communication processing with a communication apparatus as a transmission destination of data under a control of the communication protocol processor. The communication protocol processor includes model identification information of the communication apparatus in a transmission command defined in the communication protocol as extended information of the predetermined standard. | 03-21-2013 |
20130073781 | INFORMATION RECORDING DEVICE, INFORMATION RECORDING SYSTEM, AND INFORMATION COMMUNICATION METHOD - An information recording device comprises a memory component configured to hold data, a first file system controller configured to manage data held in the memory component on the basis of a first file name formed by a first code, and a wireless component configured to send and receive wireless signals. The first file system controller receives, from an access device connected to the information recording device, the first file name and a second file name that corresponds to the first file name and is formed by a second code that is different from the first code, identifies specific data having the first file name out of the data held in the memory component, and sends the second file name and the specific data to another information recording device connected via the wireless component. | 03-21-2013 |
20130074344 | ELECTRIC SHAVER - An electric shaver includes a rod-shaped body part, a head part, and a link mechanism. The head part projects from one end portion of the body part and is swingably attached to the body part with a support base between the body part and the head part. The head part includes a shaving portion and a drive mechanism. The shaving portion is elongated in a direction orthogonal to a projecting direction of the head part and has paired blades configured to operate relative to each other. The drive mechanism is configured to drive at least one of the paired blades. The link mechanism includes two link arms each connected to the support base and the head part respectively at connecting axes parallel to a longitudinal direction of the shaving portion. The link mechanism is configured to support the head part on the support base swingably. | 03-28-2013 |
20130075591 | SOLID-STATE IMAGING DEVICE - A solid-state imaging device according to the present invention includes pixels which are arranged two-dimensionally and each of which includes: a light absorbing layer that converts light into signal charges; a signal read circuit to read out the signal charges, the signal read circuit being formed on a side opposite to a light incident plane side of the light absorbing layer; a metal layer that is formed on the light incident plane side of the light absorbing layer, the metal layer having an aperture to transmit, into the light absorbing layer, light of a wavelength range depending on a shape of the aperture, a driving circuit that applies a voltage to the metal layer to generate, in the light absorbing layer, a potential gradient to collect the signal charges. | 03-28-2013 |
20130075711 | THIN-FILM SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE FOR DISPLAY APPARATUS, METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING THIN-FILM SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE FOR DISPLAY APPARATUS, EL DISPLAY PANEL, AND EL DISPLAY APPARATUS - A thin-film semiconductor device for a display apparatus according to the present disclosure includes: a gate electrode above a substrate; a gate insulating film above the gate electrode; a semiconductor layer above the gate electrode; a first electrode above the semiconductor layer; a second electrode in a same layer as the first electrode; an interlayer insulating film covering the first electrode and the second electrode; a gate line above the interlayer insulating film; a first power supply line electrically connected to the second electrode and in a same layer as the second electrode; and a second power supply line in a same layer as the gate line. Furthermore, the gate electrode and the gate line are electrically connected via a first conductive portion, and the first power supply line and the second power supply line are electrically connected via a second conductive portion. | 03-28-2013 |
20130075727 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE - Electrode pads respectively have a probe region permitting probe contact and a non-probe region. In each of the electrode pads arranged zigzag in two or more rows, a lead interconnect for connecting another electrode pad with an internal circuit is not placed directly under the probe region but placed directly under the non-probe region. | 03-28-2013 |
20130075745 | THIN-FILM SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE, DISPLAY APPARATUS, AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING THIN-FILM SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE - A thin-film semiconductor device includes: a first gate line; a metal line; a first gate electrode extending from the first gate line; a second gate electrode on the first gate electrode; an insulating layer provided in a crossing area where the first gate line and the metal line cross; and a second gate line formed in the same layer as the second gate electrode, and on the first gate line in other than the crossing area, wherein the metal line is on the insulating layer, the second gate line and the second gate electrode are thicker than the first gate line and the first gate electrode, and an interface between the metal line and the insulating layer is positioned above a top surface of the second gate electrode, in a cross section in a direction in which the first and second gate lines extend. | 03-28-2013 |
20130075851 | SOLID-STATE IMAGING DEVICE - A solid-state imaging device includes a plurality of pixels arranged in a matrix pattern on a substrate. Each of the pixels includes a photoelectric conversion portion configured to convert incident light to an electric signal, an optical waveguide formed over the photoelectric conversion portion, an interlayer insulating film formed around the optical waveguide, and a color filter formed over the optical waveguide. The optical waveguide is configured so that light intensity distribution of light that has transmitted through the color filter has a single peak in a center of an upper surface of the photoelectric conversion portion. The plurality of pixels include at least two kinds of pixels that include the color filters configured to transmit light of different wavelength bands from each other therethrough. | 03-28-2013 |
20130076246 | LIGHTING CIRCUIT FOR LIGHT EMITTING ELEMENT AND ILLUMINATION APPARATUS INCLUDING SAME - A light-emitting-element lighting circuit for dimming a light emitting element having a diode characteristic by a PWM dimming signal is provided. The lighting circuit includes a dimming signal conversion unit configured to generate the PWM dimming signal having a duty ratio corresponding to an emission level specified by an input dimming signal. The lighting circuit further includes a minimum current generating circuit configured to flow a minimum current during an OFF period of the PWM dimming signal generated by the dimming signal conversion unit such that a voltage greater than a threshold voltage designed to allow the light emitting element to emit a light is applied to the light emitting element, and the light emitting element emits a light of a brightness equal to or less than a lowest emission level specified by the dimming signal. | 03-28-2013 |
20130076867 | IMAGING APPARATUS - An imaging apparatus includes a first imaging unit configured to generate a first image, a second imaging unit configured to generate a second image, a detector configured to detect trigger information for start of shooting based on one of the first image and the second image, and a processor configured to perform a capturing process on both the first imaging unit and the second imaging unit when the detector detects the trigger information. | 03-28-2013 |
20130076948 | SOLID-STATE IMAGING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, AND CAMERA SYSTEM - An imaging section outputs n pixel signals every pixel row of n×m pixels, and n AD conversion sections, corresponding to n pixel columns of the n×m pixels, convert the n pixel signals to n pixel values. A resolution control section controls the n AD conversion sections so that the AD conversion resolution of the n AD conversion sections become a first resolution, or a second resolution rougher than the first resolution, based on the AD conversion resolution of the n AD conversion sections and the n pixel values. | 03-28-2013 |
20130076959 | Imaging Device - An imaging device in the present disclosure includes: an imaging unit including an imaging optical system configured to form an image of an object and an imaging element configured to convert an optical image formed by the imaging optical system into an image signal and output the image signal; a distance-measuring section configured to obtain distance information of the object; an image display section configured to display an image of the image signal; an object recording section configured to previously register and record an object to be shot; and a distance designation section configured to designate a distance at which the object is to be shot. The imaging optical system performs a focusing operation for the distance designated by the distance designation section. The imaging unit performs shooting exposure when the object recorded previously by the object recording section is located at the distance designated by the distance designation section. | 03-28-2013 |
20130076975 | IMAGING DEVICE - An imaging device | 03-28-2013 |
20130077108 | DISPLAY CONTROL DEVICE, IMAGING DEVICE, AND PRINTING DEVICE - A digital camera | 03-28-2013 |
20130077237 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND IMAGING DEVICE - An electronic device includes a housing, a slide cover and a restricting member. The housing includes a plate-like member. The plate-like member has a guide member protruding from an outer face of the plate-like member. The slide cover is disposed on the outer face of the plate-like member. The slide cover includes a slot-shaped guide rail guided by the guide member. The guide member is inserted into the guide rail. The restricting member is disposed on the outer face of the plate-like member. The restricting member is configured to restrict the position of the slide cover so as to maintain a state in which the guide member is inserted into the guide rail and the slide cover does not move away from the plate-like member. | 03-28-2013 |
20130077656 | RADIO TRANSMISSION APPARATUS AND RADIO TRANSMISSION METHOD - Disclosed are a radio transmission device and a radio transmission method which can reduce a processing amount or a memory amount while maintaining the randomizing effect of other cell interference. When using as a reference signal, a ZC sequence of the sequence length uniquely correlated to a transmission bandwidth of a reference signal, as the transmission bandwidth becomes smaller and the sequence length of the ZC sequence becomes shorter, the sequence is switched at a shorter time interval and as the transmission bandwidth becomes greater and the sequence length of the ZC sequence becomes longer, the switching is performed at a longer time interval. Thus, a reference signal is generated by using the ZC sequence in accordance with the timing into which the reference signal transmission bandwidth and the sequence are switched. | 03-28-2013 |
20130077694 | IMAGE CODING METHOD, IMAGE DECODING METHOD, IMAGE CODING APPARATUS, IMAGE DECODING APPARATUS, AND IMAGE CODING AND DECODING APPARATUS - An image coding method of coding an image on a per coding unit basis, the method comprising: applying a frequency transform to luminance data and chrominance data of transform units in the coding unit including predetermined blocks each corresponding to one or more of the transform units; and coding the luminance data and the chrominance data to which the frequency transform has been applied to generate a bitstream in which the luminance data and the chrominance data are grouped on a per predetermined block basis. | 03-28-2013 |
20130077777 | INPUT/OUTPUT APPARATUS AND COMMUNICATION TERMINAL - An input/output apparatus includes a speaker, a microphone, an adaptive filter circuit and a control circuit. The speaker is configured to output audio based on a voice-receiving signal. The microphone is configured to produce a voice-transmitting signal based on gathered audio. The adaptive filter circuit is configured to produce a residual signal based on a pseudo echo signal and a amplified voice-transmitting signal. The pseudo echo signal is produced from the voice-receiving signal and a transfer coefficient which expresses audio transfer properties between the speaker and the microphone. The amplified voice-transmitting signal is produced by causing a microphone amplification circuit to amplify the voice-transmitting signal. The control circuit is configured to stop output of the residual signal from the adaptive filter circuit during at least one of the speaker and the microphone is muted. | 03-28-2013 |
20130078457 | METHOD OF FORMING METAL OXIDE FILM, METAL OXIDE FILM AND OPTICAL ELECTRONIC DEVICE - A metal oxide film forming method includes mixing an organic metal compound that is a liquid at room temperature and an organic solvent to form a paste, applying the paste onto a substrate, and oxidizing a metal element in the paste while vaporizing organic substances in the paste by irradiating atmospheric pressure plasma to the paste applied onto the substrate to form a metal oxide film. A metal oxide film composed of three layers is formed on a substrate such as a glass substrate. Such a structure can be obtained by repeating the steps of mixing the organic metal compound that is a liquid at room temperature and the organic solvent to form the paste, applying the paste onto the substrate, and oxidizing the metal element while vaporizing the organic substances in the paste. Also contemplated is an optical electronic device using the metal oxide film. | 03-28-2013 |
20130078883 | METHOD OF MANUFACTURING ORGANIC ELECTROLUMINESCENCE DISPLAY DEVICE - A method of manufacturing an organic electroluminescence (EL) display device includes: identifying a defective pixel which includes an organic EL element having a short defect from among the pixels; applying a reverse bias voltage within a predetermined range to the pixel identified as the defective pixel; applying, for a certain period, a predetermined voltage to the pixel to which the reverse bias voltage is already applied, and measuring light emission luminance or pixel current of the pixel; and performing another repair process on the pixel having a temporal change amount in the measured light emission luminance or pixel current that is greater than or equal to a threshold. | 03-28-2013 |
20130080671 | BUS CONTROLLER AND CONTROL UNIT THAT OUTPUTS INSTRUCTION TO THE BUS CONTROLLER - A bus controller is arranged on a plurality of network communication buses that connect together a plurality of bus masters, each sending out a packet, and at least one node, to which the packet is sent from each said bus master, in order to control the transmission route of a packet that is flowing through the plurality of communication buses. The bus controller includes: a route diagram manager configured to manage a plurality of transmission routes and their respective transmission statuses; a parameter generator configured to generate either a parameter that conforms to a predetermined probability distribution or a parameter that follows a predefined rule; a processor configured to select one of the plurality of transmission routes based on the respective transmission statuses of the transmission routes and the parameter; and a relay configured to perform relay processing on the packet that is flowing through the communication bus. | 03-28-2013 |
20130082040 | CONSUMABLE ELECTRODE ARC WELDING METHOD AND CONSUMABLE ELECTRODE ARC WELDING DEVICE - If a short circuit does not occur during deceleration of a wire feed speed in forward feed of a welding wire before the wire feed speed reaches a predetermined wire feed speed, a cyclic change is stopped and the wire feed speed is constantly controlled at the first feed speed. If a short circuit occurs during forward feed at the first feed speed, deceleration from the first feed speed starts, and the cyclic change is resumed for welding. This achieves uniform weld bead without increasing spatters even if any external disturbance such as change of distance between a tip and base material occurs. | 04-04-2013 |
20130082041 | CONSUMABLE ELECTRODE ARC WELDING METHOD AND CONSUMABLE ELECTRODE ARC WELDING DEVICE - If a short circuit does not occur during deceleration of a wire feed speed in forward feed of a welding wire before the wire feed speed reaches a predetermined wire feed speed, a cyclic change is stopped and the wire feed speed is constantly controlled at the first feed speed. If a short circuit occurs during forward feed at the first feed speed, deceleration from the first feed speed starts, and the cyclic change is resumed for welding. This achieves uniform weld bead without increasing spatters even if any external disturbance such as change of distance between a tip and base material occurs. | 04-04-2013 |
20130082249 | METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING ORGANIC LIGHT-EMITTING ELEMENT, ORGANIC LIGHT-EMITTING ELEMENT, ORGANIC DISPLAY DEVICE, ORGANIC LIGHT-EMITTING DEVICE, METHOD FOR FORMING FUNCTIONAL LAYER, FUNCTIONAL MEMBER, DISPLAY DEVICE, AND LIGHT-EMITTING DEVICE - A functional layer of an organic light-emitting element is formed by using an ink including a first solvent and a second solvent having equal or similar boiling points, and a functional material. The first solvent is such that an imitatively formed functional layer formed by replacing the second solvent with the first solvent, in a light-emitting region of an organic light-emitting element, is thicker at both end portions than at a central portion and top surfaces of the end portions are positioned higher than a top surface of the central portion. The second solvent is such that an imitatively formed functional layer formed by replacing the first solvent with the second solvent, in a light-emitting region of an organic light-emitting element, is thicker at a central portion than at both end portions and a top surface of the central portion is positioned higher than top surfaces of the end portions. | 04-04-2013 |
20130082271 | THIN-FILM SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE FOR DISPLAY APPARATUS, METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING THIN-FILM SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE FOR DISPLAY APPARATUS, EL DISPLAY PANEL, AND EL DISPLAY APPARATUS - A thin-film semiconductor device for a display apparatus according to the present disclosure includes: a gate electrode above a substrate; a gate insulating film above the gate electrode; a semiconductor layer on the gate insulating film; a first electrode above the semiconductor layer; a second electrode in a same layer as the first electrode; an interlayer insulating film covering the first electrode and the second electrode; a gate line above the interlayer insulating film; and a power supply line in a same layer as the gate line and adjacent to the gate line. Furthermore, the gate electrode and the gate line are electrically connected via a first conductive portion, and the second electrode and the power supply line are electrically connected via a second conductive portion. | 04-04-2013 |
20130082759 | LEVEL SHIFTER AND SEMICONDUCTOR INTEGRATED CIRCUIT INCLUDING THE SHIFTER - A level shifter for converting an input pulse signal of low-voltage amplitude to high-voltage amplitude includes a low voltage circuit configured to generate complementary-pulse signals of low-voltage amplitude from the input pulse signal, and a high voltage circuit configured to generate a pulse signal of high-voltage amplitude based on the complementary-pulse signals. The low voltage circuit, including high-threshold voltage transistors, includes a plurality of inverter circuits connected in cascade and at least one resistive-switch circuit connected between an input and an output of at least one of the plurality of inverter circuits configured to operate as a resistor when in a conductive state. | 04-04-2013 |
20130083227 | SOLID-STATE IMAGE CAPTURING ELEMENT AND METHOD FOR DRIVING SOLID-STATE IMAGE CAPTURING ELEMENT - A solid-state image capturing element includes: a plurality of pixels arranged in rows and columns, each of which outputs an electric signal corresponding to an amount of received light; a plurality of column signal lines each of which is disposed for a corresponding one of columns of the pixels and sequentially transfers the electric signal provided from the corresponding one of the columns of the pixels; and a plurality of holding circuits each of which is disposed for a corresponding one of the column signal lines and holds the electric signal transferred via the corresponding one of the column signal lines. Each of the holding circuits includes a circuit element including an input capacitance, and holds the electric signal in the input capacitance. | 04-04-2013 |
20130083734 | DYNAMIC DISCOVERY OF HOME AGENT WITH SPECIFIC BINDING - The invention relates to a method for obtaining a home node address in a packet switched network comprising nodes. The method comprises the steps of a first node sending to a first home node of a home network a request containing information about a home address of a mobile node to determine whether a binding with said home address indicating a registration of said mobile node at the first home node exists; the first home node receiving the request, said first home node comprising a stored binding table; determining whether the binding with said home address exists in any home node of the home network; and if the home address of the mobile node is in the binding table of any of the home nodes in the home network, the first node receiving a reply comprising the address of the home node with said binding. | 04-04-2013 |
20130083760 | TRANSMISSION APPARATUS AND TRANSMISSION METHOD USING A PLURALITY OF DIVIDED FREQUENCY BANDS IN A COMMUNICATION BAND - A radio communication apparatus capable of alleviating a burden in setting a transmission format and suppressing increases in the scale of the apparatus. In this apparatus, space multiplexing adaptability detection section ( | 04-04-2013 |
20130083763 | RADIO TRANSMISSION DEVICE AND METHOD - A radio transmitting device and method enables reduction of an increase of CGI memories for the control channel and an improvement of the throughput of the data channel. When multiplex transmission through the control channel and the data channel is carried out and when adaptive modulation is applied to both channels, an MCS selecting section ( | 04-04-2013 |
20130084021 | IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, IMAGE PROCESSING PROGRAM, AND INTEGRATED CIRCUIT - The grayscale of an input signal is converted without amplifying noise components thereof. A grayscale conversion portion performs grayscale conversion on an input signal IS to create a converted signal TS, a noise reduction degree determining portion determines a noise reduction degree NR that expresses a strength of noise reduction processing to be applied to the converted signal based on the input signal IS and the converted signal TS, and a noise reducing portion executes noise reduction processing on the converted signal TS based on the noise reduction degree NR. By doing this, it is possible to convert the grayscale of the input signal without enhancing the noise. | 04-04-2013 |
20130084793 | CEILING MOUNTED VENTILATION FAN - A ceiling mounted ventilation fan comprises a main housing including a first opening communicating with a duct and a second opening communicating with inside of a room, and a fan unit including a fan casing having an air inlet opened in the main housing, and the fan casing includes a first engagement part releasably engaged with the first opening of the main housing, and a second engagement part releasably engaged with an inner wall of the main housing, positioning of the fan casing in an installation position is achieved in a state that the first engagement part is engaged with the first opening and the second engagement part is engaged with the inner wall of the main housing, and a state of the engagement can visually be confirmed through the second opening in a state that the positioning is achieved. | 04-04-2013 |
20130085696 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR OBTAINING DEGRADATION OF BATTERY USING DEGRADATION MODEL AND PARAMETERS RELATED TO THE DEGRADATION - The present disclosure provides a method for obtaining degradation of a battery comprising the steps of collecting data of the battery and data related to the degradation of the battery; processing the collected data to obtain parameters related to the degradation of the battery; creating and updating a degradation model for the battery with the obtained parameters; and computing the degradation of the battery by using the degradation model and the parameters. | 04-04-2013 |
20130087542 | WELDING SYSTEM - The movement of a single electrode by a welding robot system (a) is followed by the movement of a single electrode by another welding robot system (b). By constructing the single electrode of one welding robot system (a) and the single electrode of the another welding robot system (b) to perform welding simultaneously in the same direction on the same welding line, the degrees of freedom of the robots are not restricted, the available welding range becomes wide, and constraints on the posture of the robots are eliminated, compared with a case where a tandem welding-dedicated torch is used. | 04-11-2013 |
20130087836 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE - A channel region having a first conductivity type is disposed in a surface portion of a semiconductor substrate. A gate region having a second conductivity type is disposed in a surface portion of the channel region. A first semiconductor region having the second conductivity type is disposed under the channel region. Source/drain regions having the first conductivity type are disposed in parts of the surface portion of the channel region on both sides of the gate region in a channel length direction. Second semiconductor regions each having a high impurity concentration and the second conductivity type are disposed in parts of the semiconductor substrate on both sides of the channel region in a channel width direction. | 04-11-2013 |
20130087858 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE - A bidirectional switch includes a plurality of unit cells | 04-11-2013 |
20130087862 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE AND FABRICATION METHOD FOR THE SAME - The semiconductor device includes: a transistor having a gate electrode formed on a semiconductor substrate and first and second source/drain regions formed in portions of the semiconductor substrate on both sides of the gate electrode; a gate interconnect formed at a position opposite to the gate electrode with respect to the first source/drain region; and a first silicon-germanium layer formed on the first source/drain region to protrude above the top surface of the semiconductor substrate. The gate interconnect and the first source/drain region are connected via a local interconnect structure that includes the first silicon-germanium layer. | 04-11-2013 |
20130087881 | SEMICONDUCTOR INTEGRATED CIRCUIT DEVICE - An interconnect plug which connects a first circuit metal interconnect to a second circuit metal interconnect provided above the first circuit metal interconnect is disposed near a feeding plug which connects a first feeding metal interconnect to a second feeding metal interconnect provided above the first feeding metal interconnect. The feeding plug and the interconnect plug are displaced relative to each other in a direction in which the first feeding metal interconnect extends. | 04-11-2013 |
20130088589 | METHOD FOR MEASURING LUMINANCE OF LIGHT-EMITTING DISPLAY PANEL - Disclosed is a method for measuring luminance of each of entire pixels two-dimensionally arranged in a light-emitting display panel at regular intervals, using an image sensor in which light receiving elements are two-dimensionally arranged at regular intervals, the method including: providing an optical lens between the light-emitting display panel and the image sensor, and adjusting distances between the light-emitting display panel, the image sensor, and the optical lens by setting intervals of images of the entire pixels to be N times as large as intervals of the light receiving pixels, where N is a natural number, the images being to be formed on a light receiving surface of the image sensor through the optical lens; displaying, on the light-emitting display panel, a display pattern in which predetermined pixels from among the entire pixels produce a luminescence; and measuring the luminance of the predetermined pixels, using the light receiving elements. | 04-11-2013 |
20130088598 | OBSTACLE DETECTION SYSTEM AND METHOD, AND OBSTACLE DETECTION APPARATUS - An obstacle detection system ( | 04-11-2013 |
20130088611 | DIGITAL CAMERA - A digital camera of the present invention allows a lens unit to be attachable/detachable with respect thereto. The digital camera of the present invention includes a plurality of display portions, and a control portion that causes the plurality of display portions to selectively display the image data as a moving image in real time. When the receiving portion receives a control signal from a remote controller, the control portion causes a first display portion among the plurality of display portions to display an image. Further, when the digital camera is fixed to a tripod, the control portion causes a first display portion among the plurality of display portions to display an image. Further, when the display portion capable of being rotated among the plurality of display portions is rotated, the control portion causes the display portion that is being rotated to display an image. Further, when a terminal from an external apparatus is connected to an output terminal, the control portion causes image data generated by the image pickup element or image data obtained by subjecting the image data generated by the image pickup element to predetermined processing to be output to the external apparatus through the output terminal. | 04-11-2013 |
20130088632 | INTERCHANGEABLE LENS AND CAMERA BODY TO WHICH INTERCHANGEABLE LENS IS MOUNTABLE - There is provided an interchangeable lens mountable to a camera body. The interchangeable lens includes a zoom lens which can change a field angle of a subject image, a receiving unit for receiving sound pickup property information from the camera body, the sound pickup property information indicating sound pickup property of the camera body, and a lens controller for controlling drive of the zoom lens. The lens controller decides an available driving speed based on the sound collecting property information, the available driving speed being a driving speed settable to the zoom lens. | 04-11-2013 |
20130088932 | SEMICONDUCTOR MEMORY DEVICE - A semiconductor memory device includes a memory cell connected to a word line and a bit line, for storing and holding data, a word line driver circuit connected to the word line, a bit line precharge circuit connected to the bit line, and a peripheral control circuit. First power supply VDD is connected to the memory cell and the peripheral control circuit, and first power supply VDD is connected to word line driver circuit and bit line precharge circuit through switching element controlled by first control signal PD. A leakage current is effectively reduced at the time of standby, while an area is prevented from being increased. | 04-11-2013 |
20130089168 | RADIO TRANSMISSION DEVICE AND RADIO TRANSMISSION METHOD - It is possible to improve the CQI reception performance even when a delay is caused in a propagation path, a transmission timing error is caused, or a residual interference is generated between cyclic shift amounts of different ZC sequences. For the second symbol and the sixth symbol of the ACK/NACK signal which are multiplexed by RS of CQI, (+, +) or (−, −) is applied to a partial sequence of the Walsh sequence. For RS of CQI transmitted from a mobile station, + is added as an RS phase of the second symbol and − is added as an RS phase of the sixth symbol. A base station ( | 04-11-2013 |
20130090069 | RECEIVING APPARATUS AND RADIO COMMUNICATION METHOD - A radio communication device capable of lightening the influence of a frequency selective fading in the wide-band transmission of a single carrier thereby to prevent deterioration of error rate characteristics. In this device, an FFT unit subjects a modulated signal inputted from a modulation unit to a Fourier transformation. A pilot insertion unit inserts a pilot symbol into a plurality of individual frequency components of the modulated signal. Weight multiplication units multiply the individual frequency components and the pilot symbols inserted into the individual frequency components, by weight coefficients set at a weight coefficient setting unit. IFFT units subject the frequency components to an inverse Fourier transformation, thereby to convert the frequency components into time domains. | 04-11-2013 |
20130090557 | ULTRASOUND DIAGNOSTIC APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR OUTPUTTING ULTRASOUND DIAGNOSTIC IMAGE - An ultrasound diagnostic apparatus which includes: an imaging unit which forms images of a subject; a motion detection region setting unit which selects a first image from among the images which include images of the ultrasound contrast agent, selects a second image from among the images which do not include images of the ultrasound contrast agent, and sets, as a motion detection region, a region in which an amount of image change between the first image and the second image is smaller than a predetermined amount; and an output unit which outputs, as the ultrasound diagnostic image, the second image on which a position adjustment has been performed to match a position of the motion detection region set by the motion detection region setting unit and a position of a region included in the second image and similar in an image feature to the motion detection region. | 04-11-2013 |
20130091404 | MEMORY CONTROLLER AND STORAGE DEVICE - According to one embodiment, a memory controller that writes write data provided from a host device into a memory, reads read data from the memory, and transmits the read data to the host device. The memory controller includes an external interface, a first ECC generating unit, an access unit, a first ECC correcting unit, and a control unit. | 04-11-2013 |
20130091709 | HAIR REMOVER - A hair remover comprising: a main unit having a gripper; a head unit having a blade for removing body hair; and a drive unit for driving said blade. Said main unit is provided in one end with an extension portion configured to support said head unit, an extending direction of said extension portion from said one end being defined as an extension direction. Said hair remover is configured to have a first state where the longitudinal direction of said head unit is parallel to the extension direction and a second state where the longitudinal direction of said head unit is perpendicular to the extension direction. Said hair remover is configured so that outer periphery of said head unit is located so as to be flush with or is located within outer periphery of said main unit when viewed from the extension direction. | 04-18-2013 |
20130091948 | ANGULAR VELOCITY DETECTION DEVICE AND ANGULAR VELOCITY SENSOR INCLUDING THE SAME - An angular velocity detection device includes an outer frame including fixed portions, outer beam portions connected to the fixed portions, a sensing part surrounded by the outer frame with first slit therebetween, and a joint connecting the outer frame and the sensing part. The sensing part includes an inner beam portion, a flexible portion, and a detector. The inner beam portion has a hollow region inside and is square-shaped when viewed from above. The flexible portion is formed in the hollow region of the inner beam portion, and is connected to the inner edge of the inner beam portion. The detector is disposed in the flexible portion. The first slit is formed to surround the sensing part excluding the joint. | 04-18-2013 |
20130092519 | ROTARY SWITCH - In a rotary switch, a latching portion having a recess or a hole provided in a decorative cover engages with a locking portion having a protrusion provided on an operating knob, and a catching portion of a rotary body contacts with an inner side of the locking portion on one side closer to the rotary body. The decorative cover is thus attached to the operating body. | 04-18-2013 |
20130092918 | ORGANIC EL ELEMENT AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING SAME - The present invention is to provide a method of favorably forming an organic EL device with the inverted structure by the wet process. On that account, an organic EL device includes a cathode, an electron injection layer, a light emitting layer, a hole transport layer, a hole injection layer, an anode are formed in this order on a substrate. The electron injection layer is formed by applying ink between banks and drying the ink. The ink is formed by dissolving a polymer compound having an organic phosphine oxide skeleton in an alcohol solvent. The light emitting layer is formed by applying ink between components of the bank and the drying the ink. The ink is formed by dissolving material for light emitting layer such as polyphenylene vinylene (PPV) derivative or polyfluorene derivative in a nonpolar solvent. | 04-18-2013 |
20130092967 | LED DEVICE AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING SAME - An object of the present invention is to provide an LED device which prevents a sealing material from being colored even under high-temperature and high-humidity environment, and suppresses the decrease in luminescent efficiency. | 04-18-2013 |
20130092968 | NITRIDE-BASED SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE AND METHOD FOR FABRICATING THE SAME - A nitride-based semiconductor light-emitting device | 04-18-2013 |
20130093257 | METHOD FOR DETECTING METAL FOREIGN OBJECT IN CONTACTLESS POWER SUPPLY SYSTEM, CONTACTLESS POWER SUPPLY DEVICE, POWER RECEPTION DEVICE, AND CONTACTLESS POWER SUPPLY SYSTEM - A contactless power supply system includes a power supply areas, each provided with a primary coil and a primary authentication coil. The primary coil and primary authentication coil are arranged at different locations. An electric appliance includes a power reception area provided with a secondary coil and a secondary authentication coil. The secondary coil and the secondary verification coil are arranged at different locations. The presence of a metal foreign object is detected between the primary coil and secondary coil based on a transmission oscillation signal generated by the primary coil, and the presence of a metal foreign object is detected between the primary authentication coil and secondary authentication coil based on an authentication oscillation signal generated by the primary authentication coil. | 04-18-2013 |
20130093531 | BALANCED-UNBALANCED TRANSFORMER - A balanced-unbalanced transformer includes: a balanced transmission line including paired transmission lines; an unbalanced transmission line; and two lead transmission lines connected to two neighboring end portions of four end portions of the paired transmission lines at a right angle to the paired transmission lines, wherein one of the two lead transmission lines has a first electrode face which faces the other of the two lead transmission lines, the other of the two lead transmission lines has a second electrode face which faces the one of the two lead transmission lines, and the first electrode face and the second electrode face are electrode faces of a capacitor. | 04-18-2013 |
20130093651 | DISPLAY DEVICE, ELECTRONIC DEVICE, AND DRIVING METHOD - A display device is described. The device includes an active-matrix luminescence panel that has data lines and pixels for determining luminescence of the pixels. Each pixel includes a driving transistor that converts a signal voltage from a data line into a signal current, and a first switch between the data line and the gate of the driving transistor. The device includes a test current generator to supply a test current to one of the data lines, a voltage detector to detect the voltage of one of the data lines, and a controller to control switches, the test current generator and the voltage detector. | 04-18-2013 |
20130093670 | IMAGE GENERATION DEVICE, METHOD, AND INTEGRATED CIRCUIT - When a television screen is split into sub-screens and the sub-screens are allocated to a plurality of operators, a television appropriately controls display positions and sizes of the sub-screens according to a position relationship between the operators, distances between the operators and the sub-screens, and rearrangement of the positions of the operators. Specifically, the television includes an external information obtaining unit that obtains position information items of the gesture operations and a generation unit that generates an image in a layout set based on a relative position relationship between the position information items. | 04-18-2013 |
20130093762 | DISPLAY DEVICE AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING THE SAME - A display device includes: a light source which emits light; a light deflector having a deflection region in which the light from the light source is deflected toward a predetermined position; a liquid crystal panel on which the image is formed by the light from the light deflector; and a control unit which determines a total number of right and left eyes of one or more users and controls operation of the light deflector based on the determined total number of right and left eyes, wherein the control unit segments the deflection region into a plurality of deflection subregions based on the determined total number of right and left eyes and controls light deflection in the deflection subregions to deflect the light from the light source toward different positions at the same time. | 04-18-2013 |
20130093923 | IMAGE GENERATION DEVICE AND IMAGE GENERATION SYSTEM, METHOD AND PROGRAM - The image generation device generates a new moving picture of a subject based on first and second moving pictures shot with a single-chip color image sensor, which detects two light rays including first and second color components, respectively, to represent the first and second color components of the subject. As the first moving picture has been shot in a longer exposure time than the second moving picture, the first picture has a lower frame rate than the second picture. The image generation device includes: a getting section which gets video signals representing the first and second moving pictures, respectively; a processing section which generates a new moving picture with as high a frame rate as the second moving picture based on the respective video signals representing the first and second moving pictures gotten; and an output section which outputs the new moving picture. | 04-18-2013 |
20130093929 | IMAGING APPARATUS AND METHOD OF CALCULATING COLOR TEMPERATURE - A control unit calculates the color temperature using at least a first visible light signal and a near-infrared signal when the amount of the near-infrared signal is larger than a predetermined amount. The first visible light signal is a signal generated by photoelectrically converting visible light. The near-infrared signal is a signal generated by photoelectrically converting near-infrared light. | 04-18-2013 |
20130093940 | Zoom Lens System, Interchangeable Lens Apparatus and Camera System - A zoom lens system, in order from an object side to an image side, comprising: a first lens unit having positive optical power; a second lens unit having negative optical power; and a third lens unit having positive optical power, wherein the zoom lens system is provided with an image blur compensating lens unit which moves in a direction perpendicular to an optical axis in order to optically compensate image blur, which is a part of the third lens unit, and which is positioned closest to the object side in the third lens unit, and wherein the condition: 0.504-18-2013 | |
20130093948 | SOLID-STATE IMAGING APPARATUS AND METHOD OF PRODUCING A SOLID- STATE IMAGING APPARATUS - A solid-state imaging apparatus in which heat dissipation and electromagnetic shielding can be efficiently performed is provided. | 04-18-2013 |
20130094214 | WAVELENGTH CONVERSION ELEMENT, LASER LIGHT SOURCE DEVICE, IMAGE DISPLAY DEVICE, AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING WAVELENGTH CONVERSION ELEMENT - A method of manufacturing a wavelength conversion element can control a formation process of a polarization inversion structure with single crystalline magnesium-doped lithium niobate having a congruent composition, and can stably manufacture wavelength conversion elements having high conversion efficiency. The method involves forming periodic electrodes on the +z face of an MgLN substrate and forming an opposite electrode on the −z face of the MgLN substrate; heat-treating the substrate after forming the periodic electrodes and the opposite electrode; and applying a pulsed electric field between the periodic electrodes and the opposite electrode while holding the MgLN substrate at a temperature of 100° C. or higher. The wavelength conversion element has a polarization inversion structure formed by applying an electric field to a heat-treated MgLN substrate. | 04-18-2013 |
20130094274 | METHOD FOR DRIVING SEMICONDUCTOR MEMORY DEVICE - An object of the present invention is to provide a novel method for driving a semiconductor memory device. | 04-18-2013 |
20130094338 | OPTICAL PICKUP AND OPTICAL READ/WRITE APPARATUS - An optical pickup includes: a light source; a first diffractive element which diffracts light polarized in a particular direction; an objective lens; a lens actuator which shifts the objective lens so that the magnitude of shift from its initial position in a tracking direction has an upper limit of 0.3 mm to 0.6 mm; a wave plate; a second diffractive element which has two diffraction regions configured to diffract light polarized in a direction that intersects with the particular direction at right angles and which splits the write beam reflected from the optical storage medium through each diffraction region into a transmitted light beam and at least one diffracted light beam; and a photodetector which detects the transmitted light beam, the diffracted light beams that have left the two diffraction regions, and the read beam reflected from the optical storage medium. | 04-18-2013 |
20130094582 | VIDEO CODING METHOD AND VIDEO DECODING METHOD - A video coding device codes video data, by performing motion compensation with sub-pel resolution by using an adaptive interpolation filter for calculating a pixel value of a sub pixel for interpolation between full pixels configuring an input image included in the video data. The video coding device includes a motion compensation unit setting a filter property for an adaptive interpolation filter on a predetermined process unit basis, determining, for each of sub-pel positions relative to a full pixel, a plurality of filter coefficients of the adaptive interpolation filter having the set filter property, and performing the motion compensation with sub-pel resolution, by applying the adaptive interpolation filter having the determined filter coefficients to the input image. The video coding device includes a subtraction unit generating a prediction error, by subtracting, from the input image, a prediction image generated in the motion compensation, and a coding unit coding the prediction error. | 04-18-2013 |
20130094583 | MOVING PICTURE CODING METHOD AND MOVING PICTURE DECODING METHOD - According to a picture coding method, a coded picture is stored, as a reference picture, into a storage unit; commands indicating correspondence between reference pictures and reference indices for designating reference pictures and coefficients used for generation of predictive images are generated; a reference picture being used when motion compensation is performed on a current block in a current picture to be coded is designated by a reference index; a predictive image is generated by performing linear prediction on a block being obtained by motion estimation within the designated reference picture, by use of a coefficient corresponding to the reference index; a coded image signal including a coded signal obtained by coding a prediction error being a difference between the current block in the current picture to be coded and the predictive image, the commands, the reference index and the coefficient is outputted. | 04-18-2013 |
20130094850 | OPTICAL SIGNAL TRANSMITTING APPARATUS - There is provided an optical signal transmitting apparatus included in an optical communication system which performs communication by transmission and reception of an optical signal indicating digital data. The optical signal transmitting apparatus includes a transmission data generating unit configured to set a data length of each frame constituting the optical signal based on a frequency tolerance of a clock signal on a transmission side and a reception side, and generate digital transmission data having multiple consecutive frames of same contents, each frame having the set data length; and a light emission driving unit configured to drive a light emitting unit to output the optical signal indicating the digital transmission data. | 04-18-2013 |
20130095416 | PHOTOMASK AND PATTERN FORMATION METHOD - A photomask includes: a transparent substrate; and first and second mask patterns located on the transparent substrate and at least partially facing each other with a space sandwiched therebetween. The first mask pattern includes a semi-light-shielding part which transmits part of light therethrough and a light-shielding part. In the first mask pattern, the semi-light-shielding part at least partially faces the space with the light-shielding part sandwiched therebetween. In a direction along which the first mask pattern and the second mask pattern face each other, the first mask pattern has a size greater than (0.7×λ/NA)×M, and the space has a size less than or equal to (0.5×λ/NA)×M where λ is a wavelength of exposure light, NA is a numerical aperture of a reduced projection optical system of an exposure device, and M is a magnification of the reduced projection optical system. | 04-18-2013 |
20130095592 | METHOD FOR FABRICATING ORGANIC EL DEVICE - Forming an adhesive layer on a part of a surface of the flexible substrate; forming a magnetic material layer on the surface of the flexible substrate in a part other than the part on which the adhesive layer is formed; temporarily holding, using magnetic force, the flexible substrate on which the adhesive layer and the magnetic material layer are formed, above an inflexible substrate having magnetic property; fixing the flexible substrate with the inflexible substrate via the adhesive layer; forming a layer composing an organic EL unit on the flexible substrate temporarily held using the magnetic force and fixed via the adhesive layer; removing the part in which the flexible substrate and the inflexible substrate are fixed via the adhesive layer; separating the flexible substrate from the inflexible substrate; and separating the magnetic material layer from the flexible substrate separated from the inflexible substrate are included. | 04-18-2013 |
20130095652 | METHOD FOR FABRICATING SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE - A method for fabricating a semiconductor device includes: forming an interlayer insulating film on a substrate; forming a first hard mask formation film on the interlayer insulating film; altering the first hard mask formation film; after the altering of the first hard mask formation film, transferring an interconnect groove pattern to the altered first hard mask formation film to form a first hard mask made of the altered first hard mask formation film; and etching the interlayer insulating film using the first hard mask to form an interconnect groove in the interlayer insulating film. The first hard mask formation film is made of a metal film or a metallic compound film. | 04-18-2013 |
20130097409 | INSTRUCTION-ISSUANCE CONTROLLING DEVICE AND INSTRUCTION-ISSUANCE CONTROLLING METHOD - In a multithread processor capable of executing a plurality of threads, in order to select a thread and instruction for increasing a throughput of the multithread processor, an instruction-issuance controlling device included in the multithread processor includes a resource management unit configured to manage stall information indicating whether or not each of threads in execution is in a stalled state; a thread selection unit configured to select a thread which is not in the stalled state among the threads in execution; and an instruction-issuance controlling unit configured to perform controlling so that simultaneously issuable instructions are issued from among the selected thread. | 04-18-2013 |
20130098386 | HAIR SHAPING DEVICE - A hair shaping device comprises a main unit having a gripper, a head having a rod-shaped heating unit, and a drive unit configured to rotate said head around an axis of said heating unit, and wherein said head is provided, in an outer periphery of said heading unit, with a comb, and wherein said comb comprises a comb section, and said comb section is formed so as to slope, over the entire circumference of said comb, toward an axial direction of said heating unit with respect to a circumferential direction of said comb and to intersect with the axial direction of said heating unit. | 04-25-2013 |
20130098444 | POLYCRYSTALLINE SILICON THIN-FILM FORMING METHOD, POLYCRYSTALLINE SILICON THIN-FILM SUBSTRATE, SILICON THIN-FILM SOLAR CELL, AND SILICON THIN-FILM TRANSISTOR DEVICE - A polycrystalline silicon thin-film forming method includes: preparing a substrate; forming a precursor of a first silicon thin film including a first polycrystalline silicon phase and a non-crystalline silicon phase; exposing the first polycrystalline silicon phase; and growing, above the first silicon thin film which the first polycrystalline silicon phase is exposed, a second polycrystalline silicon phase using the first polycrystalline silicon phase as a seed crystal by a plasma chemical vapor deposition method, wherein the first polycrystalline silicon phase is formed continuously in any direction perpendicular to a thickness direction of the first silicon thin film. | 04-25-2013 |
20130099221 | ORGANIC EL DISPLAY PANEL, AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING SAME - An organic EL display panel includes a substrate; an interlayer insulating layer on the substrate; first electrodes on the interlayer insulating layer to correspond to element formation regions in rows and columns; banks extending in columns to partition the regions in rows; organic light-emitting layers above the first electrodes, and each containing organic light-emitting material having light-emitting color differing between each two adjacent regions in rows; and second electrodes above the light-emitting layers, and being opposite in polarity to the first electrodes, wherein the interlayer insulating layer has first opening corresponding to interval between each two adjacent first electrodes in rows, the banks each have integrally formed buried part and main part, the buried part fills the interval and the first opening, and the main part is protrusion of the buried part and has recess on top thereof along with shapes of the interval and the first opening. | 04-25-2013 |
20130099343 | SOLID-STATE IMAGING DEVICE - A solid-state imaging device includes: a plurality of pixel cells; and column signal lines. Each of the pixel cells includes: a photoelectric conversion film, a pixel electrode, a transparent electrode, an amplifier transistor, a reset transistor, and an address transistor. The solid-state imaging device further includes: a lower-refractive-index transparent layer formed above the transparent electrode; and higher-refractive-index transparent parts embedded in the lower-refractive-index transparent layer and each having a refractive index higher than a refractive index of the lower-refractive-index transparent layer. Each of the higher-refractive-index transparent parts separates light passing through the higher-refractive-index transparent part into zero-order diffracted light, first-order diffracted light, and negative-first-order diffracted light which exit the higher-refractive-index transparent part and travel toward the photoelectric conversion film. | 04-25-2013 |
20130099678 | LIGHTING DEVICE, LIGHTING CONTROL DEVICE AND LIGHTING SYSTEM - A lighting device includes a pyroelectric sensor, a shutter and a lighting control unit. The lighting control unit is configured, when the lighting load is turned off, to turn the lighting load on if the pyroelectric sensor detects a change in infrared radiation. The lighting control unit is also configured, when the lighting load is turned on, to turn the lighting load off if a repetition count or time of a lighting retention time reaches a specified count or time, respectively, with no change in infrared radiation detected through the pyroelectric sensor within each lighting retention time per the passage of lighting retention time. | 04-25-2013 |
20130099691 | SEMICONDUCTOR LIGHT EMITTING ELEMENT DRIVE DEVICE AND LIGHTING FIXTURE WITH THE SAME - If a dimming ratio of a light source unit is higher than a first ratio, an ON width of a first switching device is increased with a second switching device kept off when the dimming ratio is increased, and also the ON width of the first switching device is decreased with the second switching device kept off when the dimming ratio is decreased. If a dimming ratio of the light source unit is lower than the first ratio, the ON width of the second switching device is regulated with the ON width of the first switching device held at a lower limit. | 04-25-2013 |
20130099694 | LIGHTING DEVICE AND LIGHTING FIXTURE USING THE SAME - The lighting device in accordance with the present invention includes: a switching regulator including a switching element and an inductor and configured to supply a direct current to a DC light source; a control circuit unit for controlling the switching element in accordance with a dimming signal for determining an on period in which the DC light source is kept turned on and an off period in which the DC light source is kept turned off to adjust luminance of the DC light source; a current detection unit configured to output a detection value indicative of a current flowing through the inductor; and a superimposing circuit unit. The circuit control unit, in the on period, turns off the switching element when an input value received via the input terminal for receiving the detection value exceeds a first threshold, and turns on the switching element when the input value falls below a second threshold, and keeps turning off the switching element in the off period. The superimposing circuit unit is configured to keep the input value not less than the second threshold in the off period. | 04-25-2013 |
20130099826 | POWER DETECTOR - In a power detector, a comparator for detection receives an input signal and a reference voltage, and compares the input signal to the reference voltage around the switching time of active and inactive states of the output of the comparator in accordance with an output of an input switching signal generator. Except for the switching time, an input voltage for non-use of the comparator is inputs to the comparator for detection, and the differential inputs are fixed to the same potential. Therefore, aging reduction in the accuracy of power detection caused by BT degradation is effectively mitigated. | 04-25-2013 |
20130099864 | POWER AMPLIFIER - A power amplifier according to the present invention includes: an input-side transformer which has an annular primary coil which is a first metal line and a plurality of linear secondary coils which are second metal lines, and matches input impedance and divides the input signal into a plurality of split signals; push-pull amplifiers each including a pair of transistors for amplifying one of the split signals; and an output-side transformer which has an annular secondary coil which is a third metal line and a plurality of linear primary coils which are fourth metal lines, and combines the amplified split signals and matches output impedance, two input terminals of the pair of transistors being connected to each other via each of the second metal lines and two output terminal of the pair of transistors being connected to each other via each of the fourth metal lines. | 04-25-2013 |
20130100002 | ORGANIC EL DISPLAY DEVICE - An organic electro-luminescence (EL) display device including: above a substrate, scanning lines; data lines; emissive pixels disposed near cross-points of the scanning lines and the data lines; and power supply lines for supplying currents to the emissive pixels, wherein the emissive pixels each have: a switching thin film transistor having a gate to which a scan signal is supplied via one of the scanning lines; a current control thin film transistor for controlling a current to be applied to the emissive pixel, in accordance with the voltage determined based on a data voltage supplied from one of the data lines via the switching thin film transistor; and an organic EL element to which a current is supplied from one of the power supply lines via the current control thin film transistor, the organic EL element including a lower electrode, an organic light-emissive layer, and an upper electrode. | 04-25-2013 |
20130100254 | IMAGE CAPTURE DEVICE AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD - An image capture device includes: first and second shooting sections, each of which is configured to shoot an image of a subject; and a signal processing section configured to generate, based on first and second images that have been shot by the first and second shooting sections, respectively, information indicating the amount of parallax between the first and second images. Based on at least one of the states of the first and second images, a zoom power during shooting, and the tilt of the image capture device during shooting, the signal processing section generates control information indicating the degree of stereoscopic property of a 3D image to be generated based on the first and second images or indicating whether or not the 3D image needs to be output, and records the control information and the information indicating the amount of parallax. | 04-25-2013 |
20130100328 | SOLID-STATE IMAGING DEVICE AND IMAGING DEVICE - A solid-state imaging device simultaneously completes pixel reset operation on all of pixels included in a unit cell when performing pixel reset scanning in a curtain shutter synchronous mode. The pixel reset operation is processing in which a photodiode corresponding to one of transfer transistors is reset. The pixel reset scanning is processing in which the pixel reset operation is performed on a row basis. The curtain shutter synchronous mode is a mode in which exposure of an imaging region to incident light is started by the pixel reset scanning and ended by blocking the incident light by a mechanical curtain shutter provided on an optical path of the incident light. | 04-25-2013 |
20130100336 | CAMERA SYSTEM AND CAMERA BODY - There is provided a camera system with which, when an interchangeable lens capable of electrical zooming has been mounted, the electrical zoom can be operated from the camera body side without sacrificing the function of the camera body. This camera system comprises a lens unit with which the zoom ratio of an optical image can be varied electrically, and a camera body having a body mount with which the lens unit can be attached and removed, a self-centering manipulation member, and a camera controller that controls the lens unit so as to vary the zoom ratio of an optical image electrically. | 04-25-2013 |
20130100353 | AUDIO VIDEO SYSTEM, CONTROL APPARATUS, OUTPUT APPARATUS, AND PROGRAM - When a conventional audio video system is used, it is necessary to identify an input source of audio video information. For this reason, complicated operations and slow operation times have been a problem. A control apparatus includes: an instruction receiving unit for receiving an instruction to be provided to an audio video supplying apparatus which is an input source of audio video information currently outputted from an output apparatus that outputs the audio video information; a determination unit for determining one of the audio video supplying apparatuses to be the input source of the audio video information currently being outputted from the output apparatus; and a control information sending unit for outputting control information to the audio video supplying apparatus determined by the determination unit, the control information corresponding to the instruction received by the instruction receiving unit and being used for controlling the audio video supplying apparatus. | 04-25-2013 |
20130100423 | LIGHTING DEVICE - There are provided a lighting device with which it is possible to avoid the problem of heat generation in parts subjected to the concentrated energy of irradiating light even when the parts are irradiated with high-energy light from a light source, and a projection type of image display device equipped with this lighting device. This lighting device comprises a light source and a rotary reflecting member that is disposed at an angle to light incident from the light source. The rotary reflecting member has on its periphery a portion that reflects incident light (first region) and a portion that does not reflect (second region). | 04-25-2013 |
20130100890 | INTEGRATED CIRCUIT FOR SEQUENCE REPORTING AND SEQUENCE GENERATION - Disclosed are a sequence report method and a sequence report device for reducing a signaling amount for reporting a Zadoff-Chu sequence or a GCL sequence allocated for a cell. Indexes starting at 1 are correlated to different ZC sequences and are allocated for cells so that the indexes are continuous. When such ZC sequences are reported from BS to UE, a start index indicating the start of the continuous indexes is combined with the number of allocated sequences and they are reported as allocation sequence information by a report channel. The UE and the BS share the correlation between the ZC sequences and the indexes and the UE identifies a usable sequence number according to the correlation and the allocation sequence information reported from the BS. | 04-25-2013 |
20130100965 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SPREAD SPECTRUM COMMUNICATION - A spreading code generating apparatus carries out M-sequence multiplication and zero value addition of generated orthogonal codes to obtain channel identification codes, and then carries out inverse Fourier transform of the channel identification codes to generate spreading codes and inverse spreading codes. A transmitting apparatus and a receiving apparatus store the spreading codes and the inverse spreading codes generated by the spreading code generating apparatus, respectively, and use a single code respectively selected from the stored codes to carry out spread spectrum communication. | 04-25-2013 |
20130101034 | IMAGE CODING METHOD, IMAGE DECODING METHOD, IMAGE CODING APPARATUS, IMAGE DECODING APPARATUS, AND IMAGE CODING AND DECODING APPARATUS - An image coding method includes: writing, into a coded bitstream, buffer description defining information for defining a buffer description; constructing a default reference list; reorder pictures included in the default reference list; writing, into the coded bitstream, reference list reordering information for indicating details of the reordering; and coding an image using the buffer description and a reference list resulting from the reordering, and in the reference list reordering information, among the pictures, a picture to be reordered is specified using an index which is used in other processing in the image coding method. | 04-25-2013 |
20130101042 | PICTURE CODING METHOD, PICTURE CODING APPARATUS, PICTURE DECODING METHOD, AND PICTURE DECODING APPARATUS - A picture coding method includes: performing a first derivation process for deriving a first merging candidate which includes a candidate set of a prediction direction, a motion vector, and a reference picture index for use in coding of a current block; performing a second derivation process for deriving a second merging candidate; selecting a merging candidate to be used in the coding of the current block from among the first and second merging candidates; and attaching an index for identifying the selected merging candidate to the bitstream; wherein the first derivation process is performed so that a total number of the first merging candidates does not exceed a predetermined number, and the second derivation process is performed when the total number of the first merging candidates is less than a predetermined maximum number of merging candidates. | 04-25-2013 |
20130101045 | MOVING PICTURE CODING METHOD AND MOVING PICTURE DECODING METHOD - According to a picture coding method, a coded picture is stored, as a reference picture, into a storage unit; commands indicating correspondence between reference pictures and reference indices for designating reference pictures and coefficients used for generation of predictive images are generated; a reference picture being used when motion compensation is performed on a current block in a current picture to be coded is designated by a reference index; a predictive image is generated by performing linear prediction on a block being obtained by motion estimation within the designated reference picture, by use of a coefficient corresponding to the reference index; a coded image signal including a coded signal obtained by coding a prediction error being a difference between the current block in the current picture to be coded and the predictive image, the commands, the reference index and the coefficient is outputted. | 04-25-2013 |
20130101263 | IMAGE CAPTURE DEVICE, PLAYER, SYSTEM, AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD - A system of the present disclosure comprises a shooting system and a playback system. The shooting system includes first and second shooting sections and a disparity calculating section that generates a differential image representing a difference between first and second images that have been shot by the first and second shooting sections, respectively. The playback system includes an image generating section that generates, based on the differential image and the first image, a third image that has as high a resolution as the first image and that forms, along with the first image, a 3D image. The image generating section generates, based on the first image and the differential image, a depth map representing the amount of parallax between the first and second images, and generates the third image based on the first image and the depth map. | 04-25-2013 |
20130101273 | REPRODUCING DEVICE, RECORDING DEVICE, RECORDING MEDIUM, DATA PROCESSING METHOD, DATA PROCESSING PROGRAM, DATA RECORDING METHOD, DATA RECORDING PROGRAM, AND INTEGRATED CIRCUIT - A data generating is device capable of preventing unauthorized extraction of plaintext content between decryption processing and digital watermark embedment processing. A content reproducing device obtains restoration information and, in accordance with the restoration information, selectively performs predetermined restoration processing and processing of embedding device unique information, on content data at a position shown by the restoration information. | 04-25-2013 |
20130102094 | METHOD FOR FABRICATING ORGANIC EL DEVICE AND METHOD FOR EVALUATING ORGANIC EL DEVICE - An organic EL device (OELD) having a defective portion is irradiated with a laser beam; first luminance of light emitted from the OELD is measured after the OELD is irradiated with the laser beam, while supplying, to the OELD, a first amount of current with which the OELD in a normal state would emit light having luminance corresponding to a first grayscale level smaller than a reference level; the OELD is re-irradiated with the laser beam when the first luminance is smaller than a threshold; and second luminance of light emitted from the OELD is measured when the first luminance is greater than or equal to the threshold, while supplying, to the OELD, a second amount of current with which the OELD in the normal state would emit light having luminance corresponding to a second grayscale level greater than or equal to the reference level. | 04-25-2013 |
20130102099 | METHOD OF MANUFACTURING CELLULAR ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY SENSOR CHIP - A cellular electrophysiology sensor is adapted to measure an electrical change of a test cell. A chip for the sensor includes a diaphragm, and a thermally-oxidized film mainly containing silicon dioxide on the diaphragm. The diaphragm includes a silicon layer and a silicon dioxide layer on an upper surface of the silicon layer. A through-hole passing through the silicon layer and the silicon dioxide layer is formed. The through-hole has an opening which opens at the silicon dioxide layer and is adapted to capture the test cell. The thermally-oxidized film is provided on an inner wall surface of the through-hole, and unified with the silicon dioxide layer at the opening of the through-hole. This cellular electrophysiology sensor chip can stably capture the test cell and provides a gigaseal stably even if test cells have different properties. | 04-25-2013 |
20130103773 | INFORMATION PRESENTATION CONTROL DEVICE AND INFORMATION PRESENTATION CONTROL METHOD - An information presentation control device includes: an acquisition unit which acquires information items; an information total amount calculation unit which calculates a total amount of the information items; a sender importance level determining unit which determines sender importance levels each of which indicates how important a different one of senders is; an information total amount determining unit which determines whether or not the total amount of the information items is greater than a predetermined value; a filtering unit which performs, when it is determined that the total amount of the information items is greater than the predetermined value, at least one process on an information item having a lower sender importance level, among the information items, so that an amount of the information item is reduced more; and an output unit which outputs the information items after the filtering unit performs the process. | 04-25-2013 |
20130104137 | MULTIPROCESSOR SYSTEM - A multiprocessor system including a plurality of processors, each including a task scheduler that determines a task execution order of the tasks in a task set to be executed by the processors within a task period which is defined as a period in repeated execution of the task sets, and processors that execute the respective tasks; and a scheduler management device having a command unit configured to issue a command for at least one of the task schedulers to change the task execution order, wherein each of the task schedulers, when receiving the command from the command unit, changes the task execution order of the processors. | 04-25-2013 |
20130113018 | FIELD EFFECT TRANSISTOR - A first group III nitride semiconductor layer has a low carbon concentration region having a carbon concentration of less than 1×10 | 05-09-2013 |
20130113060 | SOLID-STATE IMAGING DEVICE - A solid-state imaging device including unit pixel cells, each having a photoelectric conversion film and a pixel electrode which are formed above a silicon substrate, an amplification transistor which is formed on the silicon substrate and outputs a voltage according to a potential of the pixel electrode, and a reset transistor which is formed on the silicon substrate and resets a potential of a gate electrode of the amplification transistor, the imaging device including a vertical signal line which is disposed correspondingly to a column of the unit pixel cells, and transmits a voltage of the unit pixel cells of the corresponding column, and a vertical scanning unit which selects a row of the unit pixel cells having a voltage to be outputted to the vertical signal line, wherein the vertical signal line is located below the pixel electrode of the unit pixel cells corresponding to the vertical signal line. | 05-09-2013 |
20130113112 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE - A local interconnect is formed in contact with an upper surface of an impurity diffusion region and extends to below a potential supply interconnect. A contact hole electrically couples the local interconnect to the potential supply interconnect. The local interconnect, which is formed in contact with the upper surface of the impurity diffusion region, is used for electrically coupling the impurity diffusion region to the potential supply interconnect. | 05-09-2013 |
20130113394 | LIGHTING SYSTEM AND LUMINAIRE - A lighting system for controlling a plurality of light sources includes at least a first and a second light source, the second light source having a color temperature and relative luminous efficiency higher than those of the first light source. Further, the system includes: a driving unit configured to turn on and off each of the light sources; and a control unit configured to transmit a control signal to the driving unit in response to an input signal. In addition, the control unit transmits the control signal to the driving unit, to perform at least one of a fade-in control in which the first light source is turned on prior to the second light source when turning on the light sources and a fade-out control in which the second light source is turned off or is dimmed, prior to the first light source when turning off the light sources. | 05-09-2013 |
20130113409 | MOTOR CONTROLLER - There are provided: a plurality of notch filters which are arranged inside a control system for feedback-controlling a moving operation of a moving section of a motor and attenuate signal components having near frequencies with a notch frequency at a center in an input signal; a plurality of oscillation extracting filters which are set with different frequency bands as being corresponded to the respective notch filters and extract oscillating components in the set frequency bands from a speed detection signal; and a plurality of notch controlling sections which are arranged with respect to the respective oscillation extracting filters and control the notch frequencies of the corresponding notch filters so as to decrease amplitudes of the oscillating components extracted by the oscillation extracting filters. | 05-09-2013 |
20130113971 | SOLID-STATE IMAGE SENSOR AND IMAGE CAPTURE DEVICE INCLUDING THE SENSOR - In an embodiment, an image sensor includes pixels arranged in columns and rows, read signal lines connected to pixels arranged in the row direction. Each pixel is read in either a first exposure time or in a second exposure time shorter than the first exposure time. Each of a first type of read signal lines is connected to a group of pixels associated with the first exposure time, and each of a second type of read signal lines is connected to a group of pixels associated with the second exposure time. In two vertically adjacent horizontal pixel lines, the first type of read signal line is shared by two horizontally adjacent pixels associated with the first exposure time, and the second type of read signal line is shared by two horizontally adjacent pixels associated with the second exposure time. | 05-09-2013 |
20130113977 | CAMERA BODY AND IMAGING DEVICE - A camera body ( | 05-09-2013 |
20130113983 | IMAGING DEVICE AND CAMERA - A camera body including a mirror controller configured to retract the reflecting mirror out of the optical path of the optical system when the reflecting mirror is in the first state of being in the optical path of the optical system and the moving picture photography mode is selected, in the still picture photography mode. The image recording controller is configured to perform the autofocusing operation by contrast method and make the recorder to record moving images depending on an instruction of the moving picture photography when the moving picture photography mode is selected and the mirror controller retracts the reflecting mirror out of the optical path of the optical system, in the still picture photography mode. | 05-09-2013 |
20130113985 | IMAGING APPARATUS INCLUDING ZOOM LENS, FOCUS LENS AND FOCUS DRIVER - An imaging apparatus includes a zoom lens, a focus lens, a focus driver for moving the focus lens, a zoom position detector for detecting a position of the zoom lens, a focus position detector for detecting a position of the focus lens, a storing unit for storing the positions of the zoom lens and the focus lens, and a controller. When powering off, the controller stores detected positions of the zoom lens and the focus lens in the storing unit. When powering on, the controller compares a current position of the zoom lens which is detected at the power-on of the imaging apparatus with the stored position of the zoom lens, and controls the focus driver not to move the focus lens to a predetermined initial position of the focus lens. | 05-09-2013 |
20130114021 | SURFACE LIGHT SOURCE AND LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY DEVICE - A light emitting device including a lens in which light radiated from a light source with a wide angle can effectively be oriented while a directional characteristic of the light source is expanded is provided, and a surface light source including the light emitting devices and a liquid crystal display device are provided. The surface light source is configured such that the plural light emitting devices are disposed in a central portion thereof. The light emitting device radiates the light on an optical axis A and around the optical axis A. The light emitting device includes a light source and a lens that radially expands the light from the light source. The lens includes a reflection unit at a bottom surface of the lens partially. | 05-09-2013 |
20130114022 | LIGHT EMITTING DEVICE, SURFACE LIGHT SOURCE, LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY DEVICE, AND LENS - A light emitting device includes plural light emitting diodes and plural lenses each of which expands the light from the light emitting diode. The lens includes an incident surface through which the light from the light emitting diode is entered at an optical axis and around the optical axis, and an output surface from which the incident light is output while radially expanded. The incident surface includes a continuous concave surface, the output surface includes a continuous convex surface, and the lens has different refractive powers in a first direction orthogonal to the optical axis and in a second direction orthogonal to the optical axis and the first direction. | 05-09-2013 |
20130114782 | DISPLAY PANEL DRIVE DEVICE - A display panel drive device includes: a ring counter circuit that includes a first ring counter having a plurality of flipflops connected in cascade, configured to operate in synchronization with a first clock signal with a first-stage one of the plurality of flipflops being set by an initial signal, and outputs signals using outputs of the plurality of flipflops; a shift register having a plurality of flipflops connected in cascade, configured to operate in synchronization with a second clock signal lower in frequency than the first clock signal with a first-stage one of the plurality of flipflops being set by the initial signal; and an output section configured to perform a logical operation between one of outputs of the ring counter circuit and one of outputs of the shift register, to generate a scanning line drive signal for a display panel. | 05-09-2013 |
20130115780 | PLASMA PROCESSING APPARATUS AND PLASMA PROCESSING METHOD - A plasma processing apparatus has a circular chamber having an opening portion which serves as a plasma ejection port surrounded by a dielectric member, a gas supply pipe for introducing gas into the inside of the chamber, a coil provided in the vicinity of the chamber, a high-frequency power supply connected to the coil, and a base material mounting table. | 05-09-2013 |
20130117920 | TOILET SEAT APPARATUS - A linear heater is formed of an enamel wire composed of a heating wire and an enamel layer. The heating wire is made of a copper alloy containing silver, for example. The enamel layer is made of polyester imide (PEI), polyimide (PI) or polyamide imide (PAI), for example. The enamel layer is coated with an insulating coating layer. The insulating coating layer is made of fluororesin such as perfluoroalkoxy mixture (PFA), polyimide (PI), or polyamide imide (PAI). The linear heater is bonded to the lower surface of an upper toilet seat casing such that it is sandwiched between a metal foil and a metal foil made of aluminum, for example. | 05-16-2013 |
20130118882 | SWITCH OPERATION DEVICE - A switch operation device is for switching between two or more speed change modes of a speed change mechanism by switching a position of a component for use in speed change included in the speed change mechanism, and includes: a main member that is movable between two positions in the switch operation device in an operating direction; a click spring for stopping the main member at one of the two positions; a switch spring that switches the position of the component in conjunction with movement of the main member; a first holding member provided in the main member, and holds the click spring; and a second holding member provided in the main member, and holds the switch spring, wherein when viewed in a direction perpendicular to the operating direction, the first holding and second holding members at least partially overlap with each other. | 05-16-2013 |
20130118907 | METHOD FOR REDUCING CARBON DIOXIDE - A method for reducing carbon dioxide utilizes a carbon dioxide reduction device including a cathode chamber, an anode chamber, a solid electrolyte membrane, a cathode electrode and anode electrode. The cathode electrode includes indium or indium compound. The anode electrode includes a region formed of a nitride semiconductor layer where an Al | 05-16-2013 |
20130119366 | ORGANIC EL ELEMENT, DISPLAY DEVICE, AND LIGHT-EMITTING DEVICE - The present invention aims to provide organic EL elements operating at low voltage to emit light at high intensity. For this aim, each EL element includes an anode, a cathode, a functional layer disposed between the anode and the cathode and including a light-emitting layer composed of organic material, a hole injection layer disposed between the anode and the functional layer, and a bank defining the light-emitting layer. The hole injection layer contains tungsten oxide and exhibits: by UPS measurement, a UPS spectrum having a protrusion appearing near a Fermi surface and within a region corresponding to a binding energy range lower than the top of a valence band; and by XPS measurement, that the tungsten oxide in the hole injection layer satisfies a condition that a ratio in number density of atoms other than tungsten atoms and oxygen atoms to the tungsten atoms is equal to 0.83 or smaller. | 05-16-2013 |
20130119391 | THIN-FILM TRANSISTOR DEVICE AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING THIN-FILM TRANSISTOR DEVICE - A thin-film transistor device includes: a gate electrode above a substrate; a gate insulating film on the gate electrode; a crystalline silicon thin film including a channel region which is provided on the gate insulating film; semiconductor films on at least the channel region; an insulating film made of an organic material which is provided over the channel region and above the semiconductor films; a source electrode over at least an end portion of the insulating film; and a drain electrode over at least the other end portion of the insulating film and facing the source electrode. The semiconductor films include at least a first semiconductor film and a second semiconductor film provided on the first semiconductor film. A relationship E | 05-16-2013 |
20130119398 | NITRIDE-BASED SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE AND METHOD FOR FABRICATING THE SAME - A nitride-based semiconductor light-emitting device | 05-16-2013 |
20130119413 | LIGHT-EMITTING ELEMENT, DISPLAY DEVICE, AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING LIGHT-EMITTING ELEMENT - A light-emitter including: a transparent first electrode; a charge injection transport layer; a light-emitting layer; and a transparent second electrode, layered in this order. The light-emitting layer is defined by a bank. The charge injection transport layer has a recessed structure including: an inner bottom surface in contact with a bottom surface of the light-emitting layer; and an inner side surface continuous with the inner bottom surface. The inner side surface includes: a lower edge continuous with the inner bottom surface; and an upper edge continuous with the lower edge. The upper edge is aligned with a bottom periphery of the bank, or has contact with a bottom surface of the bank. The charge injection transport layer has contact with a side surface of the light-emitting layer. | 05-16-2013 |
20130119416 | LIGHT-EMITTING DIODE AND DISPLAY APPARATUS USING SAME - To provide a light-emitting diode enabling improvements to color purity as well as to luminous efficiency, a light-emitting diode comprises a reflective electrode and a transparent electrode having functional layers therebetween, the functional layers being a transparent conductive layer, a hole injection layer, and a hole transport layer, and further comprises a light-emitting layer emitting blue light and having an electron transport layer layered thereon, such that a total optical layer thickness of the functional layers sandwiched between the reflective electrode and the light-emitting layer is in a range of 455.4 nm to 475.8 nm, inclusive. | 05-16-2013 |
20130119422 | SEMICONDUCTOR LIGHT EMITTING DEVICE, LIGHT EMITTING MODULE, LIGHTING APPARATUS AND DISPLAY ELEMENT - A semiconductor light emitting device has a multilayer epitaxial structure for emitting light by a light emitting layer located between a first conductive layer and a second conductive layer. The multilayer epitaxial structure can be grown directly on a base substrate. A reflective layer can be provided in the multilayer epitaxial structure between the base substrate and the first conductive layer. A distributive Bragg reflector can be positioned adjacent the substrate. A surface of the multilayer epitaxial structure can be conformed to provide improved light extraction. A phosphorus film encapsulates the multilayer epitaxial structure and its respective side surfaces. | 05-16-2013 |
20130119486 | NITRIDE SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE - A nitride semiconductor device includes a nitride semiconductor multilayer including an active region, and first and second electrodes, each having a finger-like structure and formed on the active region to be spaced from each other. A first electrode interconnect is formed on the first electrode. A second electrode interconnect is formed on the second electrode. A second insulating film is formed to cover the first and second electrode interconnects. A first metal layer is formed on the second insulating film. The first metal layer is formed above the active region with the second insulating film interposed therebetween, and is coupled to the first electrode interconnect. | 05-16-2013 |
20130119791 | ELECTRIC POWER TOOL - An electric power tool includes a main body provided with a drive unit and a power supply pack detachably attached to the main body and provided with a power supply unit serving as a power source for the drive unit. A first power supply pack in which a secondary battery is used as the power supply unit and a second power supply pack in which an electric double-layer capacitor is used as the power supply unit are selectively used as the power supply pack to be attached to the main body. | 05-16-2013 |
20130119835 | MOTOR AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE COMPRISING THE SAME - A motor comprising a stator having a plurality of magnetic poles disposed in a circumferential direction along an outer periphery thereof, a rotor disposed rotatably around the outer periphery of the stator, and a magnet disposed in a circumferential direction along an inner periphery of the rotor. The stator is formed by laminating sheet-like plates. A plurality of the sheet-like plates including an outermost layer of this laminated body comprises a flat portion substantially perpendicular to the magnet, and an extended portion bent to a direction substantially parallel to the magnet. A part of the sheet-like plate having the extended portion disposed to the outermost side is formed into a thickness smaller than thicknesses of the other parts. | 05-16-2013 |
20130120067 | AMPLIFIER WITH PASS-THROUGH MODE - In an amplifier with pass-through mode of the present invention, in a pass-through mode, a signal transmission transistor and a bias control transistor are turned ON and a voltage of an output terminal is maintained in a ground potential via the bias control transistor and a resistor. Thus, a power supply voltage is applied to a control terminal of the signal transmission transistor and one main terminal of the signal transmission transistor is maintained in a ground potential. Therefore, an ON-resistance of the signal transmission transistor is decreased to a minimum level. | 05-16-2013 |
20130120290 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE - The user is allowed to simulatively experience a tactile sensation that would be felt when actually touching on the object being displayed on a screen. An electronic device | 05-16-2013 |
20130120622 | SOLID-STATE IMAGING DEVICE, IMAGING SYSTEM, AND METHOD FOR DRIVING SOLID-STATE IMAGING DEVICE - In a solid-state imaging device which includes column analog-to-digital conversion circuits (ADCs) for converting pixel signals output from pixels into digital signals, each of the column ADCs includes a comparator which outputs a result of voltage comparison (comparison result signal) between the voltage of the pixel signal and an analog ramp voltage; a column counter which counts a column counter clock signal, which is either a clock signal or a phase-shifted clock signal, and stores a value represented by upper bits of a count value at a time of change in the comparison result signal; and a first latch unit which stores a value represented by lower bits of the count value. A second latch unit stores the value stored in the first latch unit. | 05-16-2013 |
20130120625 | SOLID-STATE IMAGING DEVICE - A solid-state imaging device includes pixels, vertical signal lines, a high-order AD converter configured to convert M bits, a low-order AD converter, and first and second selection circuits. The first selection circuit is configured to output, in a normal mode, voltage of the selected vertical signal line and to output correction voltage in a correction mode. The high-order AD converter calculates 2 | 05-16-2013 |
20130120632 | IMAGING APPARATUS - An imaging apparatus includes a determining unit operable to determine whether a subject indicated by a feature quantity information extracted by an extracting unit is a same face indicated by a feature quantity information stored in a storing unit as the registration candidate, and a display unit operable to display a screen for prompting a user to perform an operation concerning registration in accordance with number of times the determining unit determines that the subject indicated by the feature quantity information extracted by the extracting unit is the same subject indicated by the feature quantity information stored in the storing unit as the registration candidate. | 05-16-2013 |
20130120637 | LENS BARREL AND IMAGING DEVICE PROVIDED WITH LENS BARREL, AND ASSEMBLY METHOD OF LENS BARREL - It is an object of the present invention to provide a lens barrel in which operability for a user is increased and a reduction in parts is achieved while provided with a manual operating member. There is provided the lens barrel that is provided with an imaging optical system for forming an optical image of an object, a focus lens unit which is included in the imaging optical system and capable of changing an object distance by moving in a direction parallel to an optical axis of the imaging optical system, moving means for moving the focus lens unit in the direction parallel to the optical axis, driving means for driving the moving means, a focus ring which is of a cylindrical shape coaxial to the optical axis of the imaging optical system and manually operated in a rotational manner in order to drive the driving means to thereby move the focus lens unit by the moving means, and a focus mode switching button which is integrally provided in the focus, and operated in order to switch between a state of allowing a manual rotating operation of the focus ring and a state of preventing the manual rotating operation. | 05-16-2013 |
20130120641 | IMAGING DEVICE - The imaging device includes: a first optical system; a second optical system; a first imaging element configured to convert an optical image of a first shooting range formed by the first optical system into an electrical signal; a second imaging element configured to convert an optical image of a second shooting range formed by the second optical system into an electrical signal; a first focus driving section configured to shift a focus lens of the first optical system to a focus position of a first object in the first shooting range; and a movement prediction section configured to predict movement of an image of a second object in the second shooting range. The first focus driving section shifts the focus lens of the first optical system to a position different from the focus position of the first object, according to a result of the prediction of the movement prediction section. | 05-16-2013 |
20130120689 | SURFACE LIGHT SOURCE AND LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY DEVICE - The light emitting device radiates light at an optical axis A and around the optical axis A, and includes a light source and a lens radially expanding the light from the light source. The light source includes a light emitting element and a fluorescent material covering the light emitting element and has an emission surface orthogonal to the optical axis. The lens is configured such that a refractive power in a first direction orthogonal to the optical axis differs from a refractive power in a second direction orthogonal to the optical axis and the first direction. An incident surface of the lens may include an anamorphic curved surface in which a curved shape in the first direction differs from a curved shape in the second direction. | 05-16-2013 |
20130120856 | LENS BARREL - A lens barrel includes a zoom optical system in which a focal distance is changeable; a first group frame moving together with the first lens group; and first and second cam mechanisms transmitting drive force to the first group frame. In a zoom region, each of a first group cam groove and a cam slot includes a first section, a second section which adjoins the first section and has an absolute value of a gradient smaller than that of the first section, and the third section which adjoins the second section and has the absolute value of the gradient larger than that of the second section, and in which a sign of the gradient is the same as that of the first section. A distance from an imaging surface to the first group frame in the optical axis direction has a local minimum in the second section. | 05-16-2013 |
20130121124 | VERIFYING DEVICE, IMAGING DEVICE HAVING VERIFYING FUNCTION, AND VERIFYING METHOD - A verifying device includes a receiving unit operable to receive data recorded on a recording medium and a verifying unit operable to verify the received data. The verifying unit sets a predetermined first range and a second range that includes a plurality of the first ranges on the received data, performs first verification about an error on data included in the first range out of the received data, performs second verification about an error on data included in the second range out of the received data on the basis of a result of the first verification, and determines whether the recorded data is successfully recorded on the recording medium on the basis of the results of the first and second verification. | 05-16-2013 |
20130121129 | RADIO COMMUNICATION DEVICE AND CONSTELLATION CONTROL METHOD - A base station is provided for receiving an acknowledgement or negative acknowledgement (ACK/NACK) signal, including a transmitting unit configured to transmit a control signal using one or a plurality of CCE(s). The base station also includes a receiving unit configured to receive an ACK/NACK signal, the ACK/NACK signal being multiplied by an orthogonal sequence, by a sequence defined by a cyclic shift, and by either a first value or a second value, wherein the first value rotates a constellation of the ACK/NACK signal by 0 degrees and the second value rotates the constellation of the ACK/NACK signal by N degrees, which is different from 0 degrees. | 05-16-2013 |
20130121202 | RADIO COMMUNICATION APPARATUS AND RADIO COMMUNICATION METHOD - A CIR measuring section measures CIRs of all blocks received and a block selection section makes a threshold decision based on the CIR measurement result and threshold information according to an amount of traffic in the own cell and neighboring cells. As a result of the threshold decision, blocks whose CIRs exceed the threshold are regarded as usable blocks. A CIR averaging section averages the CIRs of the usable blocks and a CQI generation section generates a CQI based on the CIR average value. The CQI generated and selected block numbers are reported to a base station apparatus. This allows the throughput of the own cell and neighboring cells to be improved. | 05-16-2013 |
20130121223 | WIRELESS COMMUNICATION APPARATUS AND WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A wireless communication apparatus operates in tributary to a control station that performs a time division multiplex communication. The wireless communication apparatus includes a switch unit that switches on/off a power supplied from a battery; a power supply control unit that controls the switch unit; a RAM to which a power is constantly supplied from the battery; a control unit that receives the power supplied through the switch unit. The control unit writes information for determining an operating state in the RAM when being shifted to a standby state. The power supply control unit turns off the switch unit upon receiving a signal of a power supply off. When the control unit is re-supplied with the power through the switch unit, the control unit determines an operation based on the information for determining the operating state stored in the RAM. | 05-16-2013 |
20130121224 | WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM AND WIRELESS COMMUNICATION APPARATUS - A wireless communication apparatus operates as a tributary. station in a wireless communication system including a control station and the tributary station that perform a time division multiplex communication. The wireless communication apparatus includes a wireless unit that performs a wireless communication with the control station; an event processing unit that notifies of an event occurrence based on an occurrence of an event; and a control unit that controls a communication in synchronization with the control station by detecting a control signal from the control station. When received a notification of the event occurrence, the control unit starts a search operation to acquire the control signal transmitted by the control station. When received the control signal, the control unit transmits a message according to the event occurrence using a slot that has a predetermined position relationship with the slot in which the control signal is received. | 05-16-2013 |
20130121292 | SERVICE IN WLAN INTER-WORKING, ADDRESS MANAGEMENT SYSTEM, AND METHOD - An address management method is provided, for use when a mobile terminal accesses a service from a WLAN access network, wherein the service is provided in a 3GPP network or in a service provider network via the 3GPP network. First, the mobile terminal connects to the WLAN access network. Second, the mobile terminal sends a tunnel setup request message from the WLAN access network to a network entity located in the 3GPP network, wherein the tunnel setup request message includes a service request identifier for accessing a requested service and a mobile terminal identifier. Third, the network entity receives the tunnel setup request message, and allocates an address for use by the mobile terminal to access the requested service based on the service request identifier and the mobile terminal identifier. | 05-16-2013 |
20130121386 | RADIO COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, RADIO COMMUNICATION APPARATUS, AND RADIO COMMUNICATION METHOD - The signaling amount in selecting a plurality of beams is reduced in pre-coding to enhance throughput. When notification of a beam number is provided in a feedback signal from a user equipment to a radio base station, a superior beam number, having a high quality rank with small time variation, is bound up and fixed for a predetermined time period and notification of only a inferior beam number is provided within the predetermined time period. For example, to select three beams among six beams, first, notification of the superior two beam numbers (beam numbers ‘b’ and ‘c’) is provided. These beam numbers are fixed for a predetermined time period and then notification of only the inferior one beam number (beam number ‘e’) is provided within the predetermined time period. Thus, the signaling amount for providing beam number notification is reduced. | 05-16-2013 |
20130121445 | RADIO RECEIVER APPARATUS AND RADIO TRANSMITTER APPARATUS - A radio receiver apparatus that can effectively utilize GI to improve the reception quality. In this apparatus, a data extracting part extracts a data portion of a direct wave from a signal subjected to a radio reception process by a received RF part. A GI extracting part extracts, from the signal subjected to the radio reception process by the received RF part, GI having a length determined by an extracted GI length deciding part. The extracted GI is adjusted by a data position adjusting part such that its rear end coincides with the read end of the extracted data portion. A combining part combines the extracted data portion with the GI the data position of which has been adjusted. The combined signal is then supplied to a frequency axis equalizing part, which equalizes the signal distortions of the combined signal on the frequency axis. | 05-16-2013 |
20130121665 | PLAYBACK APPARATUS FOR PERFORMING APPLICATION-SYNCHRONIZED PLAYBACK - A playback apparatus includes a package management unit operable to generate package information by merging files recorded on a first recording medium and a second recording medium, in accordance with merge management information. A selection unit is operable to detect a plurality of playable titles from the package information and select one of the detected titles as a current title. A processing unit is operable to execute an application specified in the current title and that is included in the package information. A playback control engine is operable to control playback of a digital stream in the current title and that is included in the package information. Status registers each store a parameter relating to a playback status of the digital stream, and backup registers each save one of the status registers. | 05-16-2013 |
20130121666 | PLAYBACK DEVICE AND AUDIO SELECTION METHOD - A playback device which performs processing using video signals and audio signals respectively corresponding to the video signals. The playback device includes: a reproduction unit which reproduces the video signals and the audio signals; a video output unit which performs processing for outputting a multi video that represents videos respectively obtained from the video signals through the reproduction performed by the reproduction unit; a playback state determination unit which determines at least one of: a playback state of at least one of the video signals; and a playback state of at least one of the audio signals; a selection unit which selects one of the audio signals based on the playback state determined by the playback state determination unit; and an audio signal output unit which outputs the audio signal selected by the selection unit. | 05-16-2013 |
20130121667 | VIDEO SIGNAL CONVERTING APPARATUS AND VIDEO SIGNAL CONVERTING METHOD - The recorder apparatus includes the controller that sets conversion mode used when input stream is processed and converted into recording stream to any of two-dimensional mode that converts the input stream into two-dimensional recording stream and three-dimensional mode that converts the input stream into three-dimensional recording stream, the controller that sets one recording mode that can be used when the video signal is converted and processed in the two-dimensional mode and the three-dimensional mode and specifies recording rate, and the signal processor that processes the video signal based on the set conversion mode and the set recording mode to convert the video signal into recording video signal. The controller sets the recording modes such that combination of the recording modes that can be set when the two-dimensional mode is set is different from combination of recording modes that can be set when the three-dimensional mode is set. | 05-16-2013 |
20130121809 | REFRIGERANT COMPRESSOR - A refrigerant compressor comprises an electric element; a compression element; and a sealed container; wherein the compression element includes: a crankpin; a piston pin; and a connecting rod having a large hole portion into which the crankpin is inserted, a small hole portion in which the piston pin is rotatably disposed, and a coupling rod portion; wherein an oil guide hole is provided in the coupling rod portion of the connecting rod such that the large hole portion and the small hole portion are communicated with each other via the oil guide hole; a circular first groove is provided on an outer peripheral surface of the piston pin such that the first groove communicates with the oil guide hole; and a second groove extending in a center axis direction of the piston pin is provided in a first region of the small hole portion of the connecting rod. | 05-16-2013 |
20130122251 | TOUCH PANEL AND METHOD OF PRODUCING THE SAME - A touch panel includes a cover substrate, an upper resin layer, upper conductive layers, a lower resin layer, lower conductive layers, and a protective layer. The upper conductive layers are in contact with the upper resin layer on the side opposite to the cover substrate. The lower resin layer is in contact with the upper conductive layers and the upper resin layer. The lower conductive layers are provided on the side of the lower resin layer opposite to the upper conductive layers with the lower resin layer placed between the lower conductive layers and the upper conductive layers. The protective layer is provided on the surface of the lower resin layer on which the lower conductive layers are formed. Each of the upper resin layer and the lower resin layer is formed of a uniform material. | 05-16-2013 |
20130122633 | METHOD FOR FABRICATING SOLAR CELL COMPRISING CONDENSER LENS AND PHOTOELECTRIC CONVERSION ELEMENT - The purpose of the present invention is to provide a method for disposing a photoelectric conversion element accurately on the focal point of a condenser lens. | 05-16-2013 |
20130122693 | NITRIDE COMPOUND SEMICONDUCTOR ELEMENT AND PRODUCTION METHOD THEREFOR - A nitride compound semiconductor element according to the present invention is a nitride compound semiconductor element including a substrate | 05-16-2013 |
20130123987 | ROBOTIC SYSTEM, ROBOT CONTROL METHOD AND ROBOT CONTROL PROGRAM - A robotic system includes: a detection unit that detects at least one of a voice, light and an image of a content outputted by a content output device; a decision unit that assesses information detected by the detection unit on the basis of reference data so as to assess the content outputted by the content output device; and a control unit that controls a behavior or a state of the robotic system on the basis of the assessment made by the decision unit. | 05-16-2013 |
20130124888 | NONVOLATILE STORAGE SYSTEM, POWER SUPPLY CIRCUIT FOR MEMORY SYSTEM, FLASH MEMORY, FLASH MEMORY CONTROLLER, AND NONVOLATILE SEMICONDUCTOR STORAGE DEVICE - Disclosed is a nonvolatile storage system including: a memory block having a plurality of flash memories; a flash memory power supply circuit outside of the memory block; and a flash memory controller. The flash memory power supply circuit has a plurality of types of power supply circuits for process execution, the power supply circuits for process execution generating and supplying power at a plurality of voltage levels needed to execute processes in the flash memories. The flash memory controller monitors changes of the internal states of the flash memories by communicating with the flash memories, thereby controlling the power supply circuits for process execution and the flash memories. | 05-16-2013 |
20130125064 | TERMINAL APPARATUS AND GUI SCREEN GENERATION METHOD - A terminal apparatus operates according to manipulation by a user on a Graphical User Interface (GUI) screen. The terminal apparatus includes: a generator that generates the GUI screen, the GUI screen including an object selectable in the manipulation and a pointer for selecting the object; and a blur calculator that calculates a vertical blur amount and a horizontal blur amount of a position at which the pointer is displayed on the GUI screen. The generator changes the GUI screen in a vertical direction depending on the vertical blur amount, and changes the GUI screen in a horizontal direction depending on the horizontal blur amount. | 05-16-2013 |
20130125401 | ELECTRIC SHAVER - An electric shaver including a hand grip | 05-23-2013 |
20130126359 | METHOD FOR REDUCING CARBON DIOXIDE - A method for reducing carbon dioxide utilizes a carbon dioxide reduction device including a cathode chamber, an anode chamber, a solid electrolyte membrane, a cathode electrode and anode electrode. The cathode electrode includes copper or copper compound. The anode electrode includes a region formed of a nitride semiconductor layer where an Al | 05-23-2013 |
20130126839 | ORGANIC LIGHT-EMITTING PANEL, MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREOF, AND ORGANIC DISPLAY DEVICE - A pixel in the panel includes sub-pixels | 05-23-2013 |
20130126840 | ORGANIC EL ELEMENT, ORGANIC EL PANEL, ORGANIC EL LIGHT-EMITTING APPARATUS, ORGANIC EL DISPLAY APPARATUS, AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING ORGANIC EL ELEMENT - An organic EL element includes a hole injection layer that yields excellent hole conduction efficiency. The organic EL element includes an anode, a cathode, and functional layers that include organic material between the anode the cathode. The functional layers include a hole injection layer that injects holes into the functional layers. The hole injection layer is a metal oxide film that includes a metal oxide. The metal atoms constituting the metal oxide include both metal atoms at a maximum valence thereof and metal atoms at a valence less than the maximum valence, and the metal oxide film includes metal oxide crystals having a particle diameter on the order of nanometers. | 05-23-2013 |
20130126841 | ORGANIC EL ELEMENT - An organic electroluminescent (EL) element comprises: an anode; a cathode; a functional layer disposed between the anode and the cathode, and including a light-emitting layer containing an organic material; a hole injection layer disposed between the anode and the functional layer; and a bank that defines an area in which the light-emitting layer is to be formed, wherein the hole injection layer includes tungsten oxide and includes an occupied energy level that is approximately 1.8 electron volts to approximately 3.6 electron volts lower than a lowest energy level of a valence band of the hole injection layer in terms of a binding energy, the hole injection layer has a recess in an upper surface of the area defined by the bank, and an upper peripheral edge of the recess is covered with a part of the bank. | 05-23-2013 |
20130126842 | LIGHT EMITTING ELEMENT, METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING SAME, AND LIGHT EMITTING DEVICE - Each of organic light-emitting elements | 05-23-2013 |
20130126843 | ORGANIC EL ELEMENT AND PRODUCTION METHOD FOR SAME - An organic EL element includes a hole injection layer yielding excellent hole conduction efficiency, and comprises: an anode; a cathode; a functional layer disposed between the anode and the cathode, and including a light-emitting layer containing organic material; the hole injection layer disposed between the anode and the functional layer; and a bank defining an area in which the light-emitting layer is to be formed, wherein the hole injection layer includes tungsten oxide, tungsten atoms constituting the tungsten oxide include both tungsten atoms with a valence of six and tungsten atoms with a valence less than six, the hole injection layer includes a crystal of the tungsten oxide, a particle diameter of the crystal being on an order of nanometers, an inner portion of the hole injection layer is depressed to define a recess, and an upper peripheral edge of the recess is covered with a part of the bank. | 05-23-2013 |
20130126844 | LIGHT-EMITTING ELEMENT, LIGHT-EMITTING DEVICE PROVIDED WITH LIGHT-EMITTING ELEMENT, AND LIGHT-EMITTING ELEMENT PRODUCTION METHOD - Organic EL elements are configured so that at least a hole injection layer and a light-emitting layer are laminated between a first electrode and a second electrode, and a bank defines an area in which the light-emitting layer is to be formed. An inner portion of the hole injection layer is depressed to define a recess. An upper peripheral edge of the recess is covered with a part of the bank. | 05-23-2013 |
20130126846 | ORGANIC EL ELEMENT, DISPLAY DEVICE, AND LIGHT-EMITTING DEVICE - An organic EL element comprising: an anode; a cathode; banks; a functional layer between the anode and the cathode, the functional layer including one or more sublayers including a light-emitting sublayer, the light-emitting sublayer defined by the banks and containing an organic material; and a hole injection layer between the anode and the functional layer, wherein the hole injection layer comprises tungsten oxide. An Ultraviolet Photoelectron Spectroscopy (UPS) spectrum, obtained from a UPS measurement, has a protrusion appearing near a Fermi surface and within a region corresponding to a binding energy range lower than a top of a valence band. The tungsten oxide contained in the hole injection layer satisfies a condition, determined from an X-ray Photoelectron Spectroscopy (XPS) measurement, that a ratio in a number density of atoms other than tungsten atoms and oxygen atoms to the tungsten atoms does not exceed approximately 0.83. | 05-23-2013 |
20130126847 | ORGANIC EL ELEMENT - In an organic EL element, a bank is formed on a hole injection layer so as to surround light-emitting layer. The hole injection layer is formed with a tungsten oxide thin film, and has, in an electronic state thereof, an occupied energy level 1.8 eV to 3.6 eV lower than the lowest energy level of a valence band of the hole injection layer. The hole injection layer has a recessed portion in an upper surface thereof. An inner surface of the recessed portion is in contact with a functional layer (light-emitting layer). the inner side surface of the recessed portion includes an upper edge that is one of aligned with part of a lower edge of the bank, the part being in contact with the functional layer, and in contact with a bottom surface of the bank. | 05-23-2013 |
20130126848 | ORGANIC ELECTROLUMINESCENCE ELEMENT AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING THEREOF - An organic light-emitting element comprising: an anode; a cathode; banks; a functional layer between the anode and the cathode; and a hole injection layer between the anode and the functional layer. The functional layer includes at least a light-emitting sublayer defined by the banks and that contains an organic material. The hole injection layer comprises tungsten oxide and includes a crystal of the tungsten oxide, whose particle diameter is on an order of nanometers. Tungsten atoms constituting the tungsten oxide include both tungsten atoms with a valence of six and tungsten atoms with a valence less than six. The hole injection layer has a surface facing the functional layer, and a portion of the surface overlapping with the light-emitting sublayer is located closer to the anode than other portions, thereby forming a recessed structure having a recessed portion whose inner surface is in contact with the functional layer. | 05-23-2013 |
20130126851 | LIGHT EMITTING DEVICE, LIGHT EMITTING APPARATUS PROVIDED WITH A LIGHT EMITTING DEVICE, AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING A LIGHT EMITTING DEVICE - The present disclosure aims to provide a light-emitter having a favorable luminescence property, a light-emitting device having the light-emitter, and a method of manufacturing the light-emitter. Specifically, the light-emitter has the following structure. A hole injection layer | 05-23-2013 |
20130126869 | THIN-FILM TRANSISTOR DEVICE AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING THIN-FILM TRANSISTOR DEVICE - A thin-film transistor device includes: a gate electrode above a substrate; a gate insulating film on the gate electrode; a crystalline silicon thin film above the gate insulating film; a first semiconductor film above the crystalline silicon thin film; a pair of second semiconductor films above the first semiconductor film; a source electrode over one of the second semiconductor films; and a drain electrode over an other one of the second semiconductor films. The first semiconductor film is provided on the crystalline silicon thin film. A relationship E | 05-23-2013 |
20130126898 | GALLIUM NITRIDE COMPOUND SEMICONDUCTOR LIGHT EMITTING ELEMENT AND LIGHT SOURCE PROVIDED WITH SAID LIGHT EMITTING ELEMENT - In a gallium nitride based compound semiconductor light-emitting element including an active layer, the active layer includes a well layer | 05-23-2013 |
20130126943 | FIELD-EFFECT TRANSISTOR - An insulator is formed on the upper surface of a first semiconductor layer on at least a part of a portion above which a second semiconductor layer is not formed due to an opening. In the opening, a source electrode is formed to cover an insulator. The source electrode is formed to be in contact with an interface between the first semiconductor layer and the second semiconductor layer. | 05-23-2013 |
20130127034 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE - A semiconductor device includes: a lead frame; a semiconductor element held by the lead frame; a frame body which is formed on the lead frame to surround the semiconductor element, cover a side surface of the lead frame, and expose a bottom surface of the lead frame; and a protective resin filling a region surrounded by the frame body. The lead frame includes an uneven part formed in a section which is part of an upper surface of the lead frame, and is covered with the frame body. | 05-23-2013 |
20130127254 | CONTACTLESS POWER SUPPLYING SYSTEM - The position and orientation of a power receiving coil are estimated based on a presence detection level of each power supplying coil. A power supplying pattern in which an output of the power receiving device becomes maximal is selected for the position and orientation and power is supplied in the power supplying pattern. Accordingly, power can be supplied to the power receiving device with high efficiency regardless of the position and orientation of the power receiving coil. | 05-23-2013 |
20130127255 | CONTACTLESS POWER SUPPLYING DEVICE - A user can be notified with an indicator of information related to a power supplying device. More specifically, the user can be notified by the activation of an LED that nothing is arranged on a power supplying surface. Further, the user can acknowledge from activation of two LEDs that a power receiving device or the like is arranged on the power supplying surface and that the presence of the power receiving device is recognized by the power supplying device. The use can also acknowledge from the activation of an LED that a foreign object of metal or the like is located between the power supplying device and the power receiving device. Further, the user can acknowledge from the activation of LEDs the power supplying coil that is being supplied with power. | 05-23-2013 |
20130127257 | POWER GENERATING SYSTEM AND WIRELESS POWER TRANSMISSION SYSTEM - A power generating system includes: a plurality of power generating units for transmitting generated electric power by wireless via magnetic coupling between resonators; an AC combining section for combining AC energy output from AC converting and outputting sections of the power generating units and supplying the converted AC energy to an AC load; a DC combining section for combining DC energy output from DC converting and outputting sections of the power generating units and supplying the combined DC energy to a DC load; and an output control section for controlling an output of each power generating unit by transmitting a control signal to an output switching section of each power generating unit based on power consumption of at least one of the AC load and the DC load. | 05-23-2013 |
20130127303 | COOLING STRUCTURE FOR BRUSHLESS MOTOR - A cooling structure for a brushless motor, which includes a stator, a rotor, and a motor shaft arranged integrally with the rotor. The stator includes a stator core including an inner circumferential surface, a cylindrical portion including first and second end surfaces adjacent to the inner circumferential surface, and teeth projecting from the inner circumferential surface. An insulator covers the inner circumferential surface, the first and second end surfaces, and the teeth. A coil is wound around each tooth that is covered by the insulator. The cooling structure includes a cooling fan coupled to one end of the motor shaft and arranged closer to the second end surface than the first end surface. At least one ventilation recess is arranged between two adjacent ones of the teeth in the circumferential direction in a portion of the insulator that covers the first end surface. | 05-23-2013 |
20130127339 | ORGANIC EL ILLUMINATION MODULE AND ILLUMINATION APPARATUS INCLUDING SAME - An organic EL module includes a flat plate-like light emitting panel configured to use an organic EL element; and a holding member configured to hold the light emitting panel. The holding member includes: a conductive member serving as at least a part of the holding member, and a capacitance component is provided between the conductive member and an electrode layer, the electrode layer being provided in the light emitting panel to supply a driving voltage thereto. | 05-23-2013 |
20130127366 | LIGHTING CIRCUIT FOR LIGHT EMITTING ELEMENT AND ILLUMINATION APPARATUS INCLUDING SAME - A light-emitting-element lighting circuit for dimming a light emitting element by a PWM dimming signal of a duty ratio corresponding to an input dimming signal is provided. The lighting circuit includes a PWM dimming signal generating unit which generates the PWM dimming signal by performing a summation of AC wave signals including a fundamental wave and harmonics of different frequencies that are integer multiples of a fundamental frequency of the fundamental wave. The fundamental frequency is equal to or higher than a frequency, at which a sound pressure level is at maximum, in an audible frequency range in a correlation spectrum between the sound pressure level generated from the light emitting element and a frequency of an AC wave signal inputted to the light emitting element. | 05-23-2013 |
20130127367 | LIGHTING DEVICE AND ILLUMINATION APPARATUS - A lighting device includes: a DC converter including at least an inductor, a switching unit and a diode and being configured to output an energy accumulated in the inductor to a load via the diode by using an input from a DC power source when the switching unit is turned off; a load voltage detection unit connected to the load to detect a load voltage of the load; and an abnormality determining unit configured to determine an abnormality when the load voltage is equal to or less than a preset threshold voltage. The device further includes an output control unit configured to drive the switching unit so that oscillation of the switching unit is stopped or the output of the DC converter is decreased when the abnormality is determined. | 05-23-2013 |
20130127424 | DISCHARGE SYSTEM - A discharge system includes: a secondary battery pack; a discharge device; and an application software running on a personal computer connected to the discharge device. The application software receives total battery voltage information, temperature information, and over-discharge information of the secondary battery pack through the discharge device, determines deterioration of the secondary battery pack based on the informations, and displays results of the determination. Further, the application software instructs the discharge device to terminate the discharge when the temperature in the pack exceeds a predetermined value and/or an over-discharge is detected. | 05-23-2013 |
20130127495 | HIGH-FREQUENCY SEMICONDUCTOR SWITCHING CIRCUIT - A diode-switch logic circuit of the present invention is configured such that: at least one of paths between a common input-output terminal and respective individual input-output terminals is caused to become a conducting state; control voltages of control terminals are respectively applied to gates of path switching FET stages; logic synthesis voltages of the control voltages of the control terminals are respectively applied to gates of shunt FET stages; and each of the logic synthesis voltages is generated by a logical product of a logical negation of the control voltage applied to one shunt FET stage and a logical sum of the control voltages respectively applied to the remaining shunt FET stages. | 05-23-2013 |
20130127645 | SERIAL TRANSMISSION SYSTEM INCLUDING TRANSMITTER APPARATUS AND RECEIVER APPARATUS, FOR USE IN TRANSMISSION OF AV DATA - A transmitter apparatus is provided for converting parallel data of natural number n×12 bits into n pieces of serial data, and transmitting n transmission signals each of natural number m bits. In the transmitter apparatus, a dividing buffer divides inputted parallel data into n pieces of 12-bit parallel data, and an encoder circuit 12B14B-converts the n pieces of 12-bit parallel data into n pieces of 14-bit parallel data, respectively, and outputs resulting data. A parallel-to-serial converter circuit parallel-to-serial converts the n pieces of 14-bit parallel data into n pieces of 1-bit serial data, respectively, and outputs resulting data, and an m-bit driver circuit amplifies and transmits the n pieces of 1-bit serial data, as n transmission signals each of m bits, respectively, to n transmission paths. | 05-23-2013 |
20130128130 | VIDEO DISPLAY DEVICE - A video display device includes a video display panel that displays video, a case that encloses an outer periphery of the video display panel, an audio device that is arranged in proximity to the outer periphery of the video display panel, the audio device being configured to linearly arrange a plurality of speakers, and a sound emitting hole that corresponds to an opening of the audio device, the sound emitting hole being provided to the case and emitting sound generated by the audio device. | 05-23-2013 |
20130128414 | SEALING MEMBER FOR A CAPACITOR AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING A CAPACITOR - A sealing member for a capacitor is formed of an elastic material, and has a circular cylindrical shape extending along an axial direction. The sectional view perpendicular to the axial direction shows a circular shape. Further, a pair of through-holes is formed parallel to the axial direction. The shape of each through-hole in the sectional view perpendicular to the axial direction of the sealing member is composed of a first arc and a second arc. The first arc protrudes toward the circumference of the sealing member. The second arc protrudes toward the center of the sealing member and has a curvature smaller than that of the first arc. | 05-23-2013 |
20130128846 | CONTROL CHANNEL SIGNALLING FOR TRIGGERING THE INDEPENDENT TRANSMISSION OF A CHANNEL QUALITY INDICATOR - The invention suggests a method for providing control signalling in a communication system, comprising the steps performed by a base station of the communication system of generating a control channel signal comprising a transport format and a channel quality indicator trigger signal for triggering a transmission of a channel quality indicator by at least one terminal to the base station, and transmitting the generated control channel signal to at least one terminal, wherein said transport format is a predetermined format for user data transmission by the at least one terminal to the base station and said control channel signal indicates a predetermined mode for reporting the channel quality indicator to the base station, wherein the channel quality indicator transmission is to be triggered by the at least one terminal based on the channel quality indicator trigger signal. | 05-23-2013 |
20130128849 | CONTROL CHANNEL SIGNALING USING A COMMON SIGNALING FIELD FOR TRANSPORT FORMAT AND REDUNDANCY VERSION - The invention relates to a method for providing control signalling associated to a protocol data unit conveying user data in a mobile communication system and to the control channel signal. The invention also provides a mobile station and a base station and their respective operation in view of the newly defined control channel signals. To reduce the control channel overhead, the invention suggests defining a common field for the transport format and redundancy version in the control channel information format. According to one approach, the common field is used to jointly encode transport format and redundancy version therein. According to another aspect, one shared field is provided on the control channel signal that indicates either a transport format or a redundancy version depending of whether the control channel signal relates to an initial transmission or a retransmission. In another embodiment, further enhancements to a HARQ protocol are suggested for addressing certain error cases. | 05-23-2013 |
20130129219 | PATTERN RECOGNITION APPARATUS, PATTERN RECOGNTION METHOD, IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD - An image and supplementary information of the image, such as a photographing point and time, are input by an image input section and are stored in an image data storage section. Character recognition in the image is performed by a character recognition section, and the recognition result is stored in a character recognition result storage section. An analysis section extracts object character information relevant to an object from the image, the supplementary information, and the character recognition result on the basis of the analysis conditions input in a designation section to thereby analyze an object, and the analysis result is output to a result output section. Accordingly, a change in the object can be analyzed by analyzing a change in character patterns indicating the identical object. | 05-23-2013 |
20130129236 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, PROGRAM AND SEMICONDUCTOR INTEGRATED CIRCUIT - An image processing apparatus includes a filter unit which filters image signals; a sampling unit which generates first digital image signals having a first resolution by sampling the filtered image signals at a predetermined sampling frequency; and a super-resolution unit which reconstructs a second digital image signal having a second resolution which is higher than the first resolution by performing super-resolution on the first digital image signals generated by the sampling unit, wherein the filter unit passes frequency components corresponding to or lower than the Nyquist frequency which is half the sampling frequency, and passes a part of frequency components within a range from the Nyquist frequency to the highest frequency which can be represented by the second resolution. | 05-23-2013 |
20130129238 | IMAGE CODING METHOD, IMAGE CODING APPARATUS, IMAGE DECODING METHOD AND IMAGE DECODING APPARATUS - An image coding method including: binarizing a first component and a second component which are included in last position information, to generate a first binary signal and a second binary signal, respectively; coding, by first arithmetic coding, a first partial signal which is a part of the first binary signal and a second partial signal which a part of the second binary signal, and coding, by second arithmetic coding, a third partial signal which is another part of the first binary signal and a fourth partial signal which is another part of the second binary signal; and placing the coded first through fourth partial signals in a bit stream, wherein in the placing, (i) the coded second partial signal is placed next to the coded first partial signal, or (ii) the coded fourth partial signal is placed next to the coded third partial signal. | 05-23-2013 |
20130129537 | REFRIGERANT COMPRESSOR - A refrigerant compressor according to the present invention is configured that at least one member constituting an electric element and a compression element is made of a rubber material. This rubber material is nitrile rubber, in which: Condition 1: bound acrylonitrile content is within a range of 35 to 51% by weight; Condition 2: organic compound having carbon atom, which is capable of creating double bond with sulfur atom, nitrogen atom or carbon atom and is also capable of creating single bond with sulfur atom or nitrogen atom, is not used as a vulcanizing accelerator in the process for creating cross-linkage; and Condition 3: no phthalic ester is contained. | 05-23-2013 |
20130130491 | DISPLAY PANEL MANUFACTURING METHOD, DISPLAY PANEL, AND DISPLAY APPARATUS - A method of manufacturing a display panel having a display part and a terminal part each formed on a different area on a TFT substrate, comprising: a step of forming the display part on the TFT substrate; a step of forming a conductive layer of a conductive metal oxide or a metal on an area where the terminal part is to be formed; a step of forming a chemical vapor deposition layer of an inorganic compound by a chemical vapor deposition method so that the chemical vapor deposition layer covers the display part and comes into contact at least with an upper surface of the conductive layer and so that the upper surface of the conductive layer alters; and a step of removing a portion of the chemical vapor deposition layer on the conductive layer. | 05-23-2013 |
20130131521 | CONCENTRATION PRESENCE/ABSENCE DETERMINING DEVICE AND CONTENT EVALUATION APPARATUS - A concentration presence/absence determining device includes: a brain blood flow volume obtaining unit configured to obtain a brain blood flow volume of the user; a varying threshold obtaining unit configured to obtain a varying threshold that is a value smaller than the brain blood flow volume of the user at a base time; and an determining unit configured to determine that the user concentrates, when the brain blood flow volume obtained by the brain blood flow volume obtaining unit falls below the varying threshold obtained by the varying threshold obtaining unit. | 05-23-2013 |
20130132659 | MICROCONTROLLER AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING MICROCONTROLLER - A microcontroller includes a RAM control unit configured to: perform a RAM access operation when an address designated by a CPU is within a range of a designated area; and read a program from a Flash EEPROM when the address is out of the range of the designated area. As the RAM access operation, the RAM control unit is configured to: read the program from the Flash EEPROM, store the read program into the RAM, and change valid bit information into a valid state, when the valid bit information indicates an invalid state; and output the program stored in the RAM to the CPU when the valid bit information indicates the valid state. | 05-23-2013 |
20130132662 | MEMORY MANAGEMENT UNIT, IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE, AND INTEGRATED CIRCUIT - A memory management unit manages a state of a memory which is to be accessed by bank interleaving. The memory includes p banks (where p is an integer of 2 or greater). The memory management unit includes a control unit that dynamically determines a bank to be accessed from among the p banks. When predetermined conditions for a reserving state of the memory are satisfied and there is any unused bank in the p banks, the control unit performs power consumption reduction to control the memory to cause power consumption of the unused bank(s) to be less than power consumption of other banks in the p banks except the unused bank(s). | 05-23-2013 |
20130132670 | MEMORY UNIT AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING CPU - A memory includes a storage element which stores the number of times of application of a rewrite voltage pulse into a memory array, and a required-time output unit which outputs data representing a required time for a rewrite operation based on the number of times of application stored in the storage element. | 05-23-2013 |
20130132705 | DE-INTERLEAVING DEVICE, DE-INTERLEAVING METHOD, DATA TRANSMISSION SYSTEM, AND DATA TRANSMISSION METHOD - A de-interleaving device for de-interleaving an input data block interleaved by storing data of an original data block including R×C′ portions (C′ represents any divisor of R×C) of data in a matrix of R columns×C rows in row-major order and reading the data of the original data block in column-major order includes a memory configured to store R×C portions of data, a write address generator configured to generate write addresses based on a first incremental value, a read address generator configured to generate read addresses other than other than (n×R)+1th read addresses based on the first incremental value and to generate the (n×R)+1th read addresses based on a second incremental value, and a memory interface configured to successively read data from a read address and to successively write data of an input data block to a write address. | 05-23-2013 |
20130134403 | ORGANIC ELECTROLUMINESCENCE ELEMENT - An organic light-emitting element comprising: an anode; a cathode; banks; a functional layer between the anode and the cathode; and a hole injection layer between the anode and the functional layer. The functional layer includes one or more sublayers including a light-emitting sublayer defined by the banks and that contains an organic material. The hole injection layer comprises tungsten oxide, includes an occupied energy level that is approximately 1.8 electron volts to approximately 3.6 electron volts lower than a lowest energy level of a valence band of the hole injection layer in terms of a binding energy, has a surface facing the functional layer, and has a recessed structure such that a portion of the surface overlapping with the light-emitting sublayer is located closer to the anode than other portions. The recessed structure has a recessed portion whose inner surface is in contact with the functional layer. | 05-30-2013 |
20130134474 | LIGHT EMITTING ELEMENT, METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING SAME, AND LIGHT EMITTING DEVICE - Organic light-emitting elements each have the following structure: a transparent anode, a functional layer including a charge injection layer and an organic light-emitting layer, and a transparent cathode are layered on a substrate in the stated order; a bank defines a formation area of the organic light-emitting layer; the charge injection layer is a metal oxide layer formed by oxidizing an upper surface portion of the anode composed of the metal layer, and a portion of the charge injection layer that is positioned under the area is depressed so as to form a recess; and the upper peripheral edge of the recess is covered with a covering portion of the bank. | 05-30-2013 |
20130134519 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE - A semiconductor device includes a conductive film formed on an insulating film, and a first polysilicon film formed on the conductive film. A stacked film including the conductive film and the first polysilicon film forms a first pattern including a central region, and end regions each located at a side of the central region. A silicide film is formed on at least the central region of the stacked film. A discontinuity is formed in a central region of the conductive film. The conductive film is separated into the two portions by the discontinuity. | 05-30-2013 |
20130134536 | SOLID-STATE IMAGING DEVICE AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING THE SOLID-STATE IMAGING DEVICE - A solid-state imaging device in which a plurality of pixels are two-dimensionally arranged, the solid-state imaging device includes: a silicon layer; a plurality of photodiodes which are formed in the silicon layer to correspond to the pixels and generate signal charges by performing photoelectric conversion on incident light; and a plurality of color filters formed above the silicon layer to correspond to the plurality of the pixels, wherein a protrusion is formed in a region on a side of the silicon layer between adjacent ones of the color filters, the protrusion having a refractive index lower than refractive indices of the adjacent ones of the color filters and, each of the color filters is in contact with the adjacent ones of the color filters, above the protrusion. | 05-30-2013 |
20130134550 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING THE SAME - A semiconductor device according to the present invention includes a p-type semiconductor substrate, a first n-type collector diffusion layer formed in the p-type semiconductor substrate, a deep trench formed in the p-type semiconductor substrate so as to surround the first n-type collector diffusion layer, a p-type channel stopper layer formed beneath the deep trench, and an n-type diffusion layer formed between a sidewall of the deep trench and the first n-type collector diffusion layer. | 05-30-2013 |
20130134779 | VOLTAGE CONTROL APPARATUS, VOLTAGE CONTROL METHOD, AND POWER REGULATING APPARATUS - A voltage control apparatus includes: an obtaining unit which obtains voltage values at voltage measuring points; a detecting unit which detects a system impedance value; a control quantity calculating unit which calculates, as control quantity, a reactive power value to be output by a power regulating apparatus to prevent at least a voltage value deviating from a predetermined voltage range from deviating from a target voltage value; and a notifying unit which notifies the power regulating apparatus of the control quantity. The control quantity calculating unit calculates the control quantity such that the voltage value at a specific voltage measuring point is substantially equal to the target voltage value, and when all of the voltage values deviating from the target voltage value deviate from the target voltage value in a same direction, only positive or negative reactive power is output by power regulating apparatuses. | 05-30-2013 |
20130134795 | WIRELESS ELECTRIC POWER TRANSMISSION APPARATUS - A wireless electric power transmission apparatus as an embodiment of the present disclosure includes: two antennas | 05-30-2013 |
20130134796 | WIRELESS ELECTRIC POWER TRANSMISSION APPARATUS - A wireless electric power transmission apparatus as an embodiment of the present disclosure includes: two antennas having the ability to transmit electric power by a non-contact method via resonant magnetic coupling, one of the two antennas being a series resonant circuit, of which the resonant frequency is fs, the other antenna being a parallel resonant circuit, of which the resonant frequency is fp; an oscillator which is connected to one of the two antennas that transmits RF power; and a control section which controls a transmission frequency according to the magnitude of the electric power to be transmitted from one of the two antennas to the other. If a coupling coefficient between the two antennas is k, then fs and fp are set so as to satisfy the inequality fs/fp<−0.6074×k | 05-30-2013 |
20130134797 | WIRELESS ELECTRIC POWER TRANSMISSION APPARATUS - A wireless electric power transmission apparatus as an embodiment of the present disclosure includes: two antennas having the ability to transmit electric power by a non-contact method via resonant magnetic coupling, one of the two antennas being a series resonant circuit, of which the resonant frequency is fs, the other antenna being a parallel resonant circuit, of which the resonant frequency is fp; an oscillator which is connected to one of the two antennas that transmits RF power; and a control section which controls a transmission frequency according to the magnitude of the electric power to be transmitted from one of the two antennas to the other. fs/fp is set to be a value that is less than one. | 05-30-2013 |
20130134884 | ORGANIC EL ELEMENT LIGHTING DEVICE AND LIGHTING FIXTURE USING THE SAME - An object of the present invention is to provide an organic EL element lighting device whereby surge current can be reduced at start-up while controlling start-up variation, along with a lighting fixture using the same. Provided are a current supply part for supplying lighting current to a light source formed of one or more organic EL elements and connected between output terminals of the current supply part, a current detection part for detecting the lighting current, a target setting part for setting a target value of the lighting current, and a control part for performing feedback control of the lighting current by controlling the current supply part so that the detected value of the current detection part matches the target value of the lighting current. The target setting part has a sweep period during which the target value is gradually increased at start-up of the light source. | 05-30-2013 |
20130135165 | ANTENNA, ANTENNA APPARATUS, AND COMMUNICATION APPARATUS - The claimed invention discloses an antenna including: a magnetic core ( | 05-30-2013 |
20130135298 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR GENERATING NEW VIEWPOINT IMAGE - An apparatus for generating a new viewpoint image includes: a new viewpoint image generation unit that shifts the foreground image region in the input image, based on a depth map to generate a new viewpoint image including a missing pixel region; a representative background pixel selection unit that selects background pixels located a predetermined number of pixels away from edge pixels, as representative background pixels; a texture direction map calculation unit that calculates a texture direction of each of the selected representative background pixels, to calculate a texture direction map indicating texture directions, each corresponding to one of missing pixels, based on locations of the representative background pixels and locations of the missing pixels included in the missing pixel region; and a hole-filling processing unit that fills the missing pixel region with the obtained background pixels in accordance with the texture direction map. | 05-30-2013 |
20130135452 | IMAGE DISPLAY APPARATUS - A liquid crystal prism element includes a pair of opposing substrates, a plurality of triangular prisms which have a ridge line extending in a Y axis direction and are arranged between the opposing substrates so as to be aligned along an X axis direction, and a liquid crystal layer formed between the opposing substrates. Each triangular prism has an inclined surface located on a center side of the opposing substrate in the X axis direction, an inclined surface located on a lateral side of the opposing substrate in the X axis direction, and a bottom surface. Both of the two inclined surfaces of a triangular prism provided at least in a portion of a region on the opposing substrate are formed so as to not be perpendicular to the opposing substrate. | 05-30-2013 |
20130135453 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS - In an embodiments, an apparatus includes: a polarized light source which sequentially illuminates an object with three or more plane polarized light rays; and an image sensor which sequentially captures an image of the object that is being illuminated with each plane polarized light ray and which obtains polarization images by sequentially changing the direction of the polarized light transmission axis at each pixel while the object is being illuminated with each polarized light rays. The apparatus further includes: a processing section for generating an intensity maximizing angle image YPH and a degree of intensity modulation image YD; and a distribution estimating section which estimates, based on YPH and YD, the distribution in a single pixel of the azimuth angles of V-grooves on the object's surface. | 05-30-2013 |
20130135487 | IMAGING APPARATUS - An imaging apparatus includes an image sensor that exposes a subject image by reading lines sequentially to generate an image; a detector that detects an angular velocity of a shake of the imaging apparatus; a controller that: (i) determines the detected angular velocity as an angular velocity for correction when the detected angular velocity is equal to or less than a predetermined angular velocity and, determines the predetermined angular velocity as the angular velocity for correction when the detected angular velocity is larger than the predetermined angular velocity; and (ii) corrects to reduce an influence of a shake to the image generated by the image sensor by image processing based on the determined angular velocity for correction. | 05-30-2013 |
20130135505 | SOLID-STATE IMAGING DEVICE AND IMAGING APPARATUS - A solid-state imaging device includes an imaging region having pixel units two-dimensionally arranged, each of the pixel units including a photoelectric converting device formed on a semiconductor substrate. The solid-state imaging device includes: an interlayer film made of a dielectric and formed above the photoelectric converting device; a light attenuation filter which is formed above the interlayer film for each of the pixel units or for each of pixel blocks, and changes a transmittance of light when a voltage is applied to the light attenuation filter, the pixel blocks each including a plurality of the pixel units; and a selecting transistor which is formed in the semiconductor substrate for each of the light attenuation filters, and connects or disconnects a path for applying the voltage to the light attenuation filter. | 05-30-2013 |
20130136059 | WIRELESS COMMUNICATION APPARATUS , WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM AND WIRELESS COMMUNICATION METHOD - A wireless communication system includes a first wireless communication apparatus, a second wireless communication apparatus, and a third wireless communication apparatus which operates as a control station of controlling the first and second wireless communication apparatuses. The third wireless communication apparatus receives data from the first wireless communication apparatus using a first slot, and sends the received data to the second wireless communication apparatus and an acknowledgment of reception of the data to the first wireless communication apparatus using a second slot. | 05-30-2013 |
20130136085 | TERMINAL APPARATUS, BASE STATION APPARATUS, AND COMMUNICATION METHOD - Provided is a cyclic shift sequence generation method which can prevent coming of an interference wave into a desired wave detection window even if a cyclic shift sequence has a high mutual correlation in different bandwidths, thereby improving a channel estimation accuracy in a base station. In this method, a cyclic shift sequence number to be allocated to a cell is decided in advance. Moreover, when the cyclic shift amount between cyclic shift sequences allocated in cells is Δ | 05-30-2013 |
20130136088 | INTEGRATED CIRCUIT FOR COMMUNICATION RESOURCE ALLOCATION - Provided is a base station capable of suppressing increase of overhead of allocation result report in frequency scheduling in multi-carrier communication and obtaining a sufficient frequency diversity effect. In the base station, encoding units ( | 05-30-2013 |
20130136162 | SEMICONDUCTOR INTEGRATED CIRCUIT AND ELECTRONIC APPARATUS PROVIDED WITH SAME - A semiconductor integrated circuit which operates based on a power supply voltage output from a power supply device configured to generate a voltage of a magnitude in accordance with an analog control signal includes: a first terminal to which the power supply voltage is applied; an internal interconnect which is connected to the first terminal, and distributes the power supply voltage to sections in the semiconductor integrated circuit; and a second terminal from which the analog control signal is output, wherein the analog control signal is generated to have a magnitude in accordance with a potential of the internal interconnect. | 05-30-2013 |
20130136169 | PICTURE CODING METHOD, PICTURE DECODING METHOD, PICTURE CODING APPARATUS, PICTURE DECODING APPARATUS, AND PROGRAM THEREOF - A picture coding method of the present invention codes a picture signal and a ratio of a number of luminance pixels and a number of chrominance pixels for the picture signal, and then one coding method out of at least two coding methods is selected depending on the ratio. Next, data related to a picture size is coded in accordance with the selected coding method. The data related to the picture size indicates a size of the picture corresponding to the picture signal or an output area, which is a pixel area to be outputted in decoding in a whole pixel area coded in the picture signal coding. | 05-30-2013 |
20130136173 | IMAGE CODING METHOD, IMAGE DECODING METHOD, IMAGE CODING APPARATUS, IMAGE DECODING APPARATUS, AND IMAGE CODING AND DECODING APPARATUS - An offset unit of an image coding apparatus includes: a band setting unit which sets at least one band subject to an offset process to be variable on a per-block basis among bands obtained by dividing possible tone levels of a pixel value of a decoded image into predetermined tone level sections; a band offset pixel classification unit which classifies, as one of classes, each pixel included in a current block to be processed in the decoded image, based on whether the pixel is included in the band set by the band setting unit; a band offset value calculation unit which calculates, for each class, an offset value that is an average of differences between pixel values of an input image and pixel values of the decoded image; and a band offset processing unit which adds the offset value to the pixel value of the decoded image for each class. | 05-30-2013 |
20130136340 | ARITHMETIC PROCESSING DEVICE - An image processor sets a first predetermined number of first blocks at first intervals in a second image, calculates a first evaluated value, selects one of the first blocks, and calculates a first parallax between the selected first block and the matching target block. An image processor sets a second predetermined number of second blocks at second intervals in a second image, calculates a second evaluated value, selects one of the second blocks, and calculates a second parallax between the selected second block and the matching target block. A controller determines, based on the first evaluated value and the second evaluated value and based on the first parallax and the second parallax, whether or not to employ one of the first parallax and the second parallax. | 05-30-2013 |
20130136436 | CAMERA COVER AND CAMERA - A camera cover and camera capable of mitigating water drop and dirt adhesion and of ensuring image clarity are provided. A dome section of the camera cover includes, on its outer surface, a hydrophilic coating made of an inorganic material whose main component is a silicon compound. The thickness of the hydrophilic coating is 0.01 to 1 μm. Surface roughness Ra of the hydrophilic coating is 0.06 μm or less. | 05-30-2013 |
20130136951 | PIEZOELECTRIC THIN FILM, METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING SAME, INKJET HEAD, METHOD FOR FORMING IMAGE USING INKJET HEAD, ANGULAR VELOCITY SENSOR, METHOD FOR MEASURING ANGULAR VELOCITY USING ANGULAR VELOCITY SENSOR, PIEZOELECTRIC POWER GENERATION ELEMENT, AND METHOD FOR GENERATING POWER USING PIEZOELECTRIC POWER GENERATION ELEMENT - Provided is a piezoelectric thin film including a non-lead-containing (that is, lead-free) ferroelectric material and having high piezoelectric performance comparable to that of PZT, and a method of manufacturing the piezoelectric thin film. The piezoelectric film according to the present invention comprises a laminate structure. The laminate structure comprises an electric film and a (1-x)(Na,Bi)TiO | 05-30-2013 |
20130137179 | METHOD FOR EXPRESSING A MOUSE OLFACTORY RECEPTOR OLFR15 ON A CELL MEMBRANE - Provided is a method for effectively expressing mouse olfactory receptor Olfr15 on the cell membrane. The method includes steps of:
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20130137360 | VENTILATING FAN - The present invention discloses a ventilating fan including a ventilating fan body located on the indoor side, an outdoor pipe hood located on the outdoor side, a ventilating fan mounting member located between the ventilating fan body and the outdoor pipe hood, and a panel removably mounted to the front of the ventilating fan body, the ventilating fan mounting member includes a cylinder and a flange, the outdoor pipe hood includes a pipe hood base and a back cover, the pipe hood base includes a base plate with a circular opening and a pipeline fixing ring removably mounted to the base plate; and, a hollow expansion pipe being connected to the cylinder of the ventilating fan mounting member at one end and connected to the pipeline fixing ring at the other end. The present invention has advantages of easy mounting of the expansion pipe. | 05-30-2013 |
20130137361 | VENTILATING FAN - The present invention discloses a ventilating fan mounted on a wall of an indoor side of a wind path therethrough from the indoor side to an outdoor side. The ventilating fan includes a ventilating fan hood, a filtering member, a ventilating fan body, and a ventilating fan mounting member. The filtering member is integrally formed by a frame provided with an engagement that is engaged with the ventilating fan body and a filtering screen located within the frame. The ventilating fan according to the present invention has the advantages that the filtering member can be fixedly mounted to the ventilating fan body in a simple structure manner without using fasteners such as screws, so as to facilitate the operation and save the working time. Moreover, the filtering member is not blown off to fall off when the ventilating fan hood is removed. In addition, the mounting of the filtering member in a reverse order is eliminated. | 05-30-2013 |
20130137422 | WIRELESS COMMUNICATION APPARATUS - A wireless communication apparatus includes a power switch unit that switches a power supplied from a battery, and a timer unit that measures a time period through a power supplied from the battery. The power switch unit is turned on upon receiving a trigger for turning on the power supply and turned off upon receiving a trigger for turning off the power supply. When a wireless unit and a control unit are supplied with the power through the power switch unit in accordance with the trigger for turning on the power supply, the control unit controls to receive a wireless signal from a different wireless communication apparatus, and the control unit then sets a given value of the expiration of the time period in the timer unit and outputs the trigger for turning off the power supply to the power supply control unit. | 05-30-2013 |
20130138012 | ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM RECORDING APPARATUS, HEARING AID, ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM RECORDING METHOD, AND PROGRAM THEREOF - In an electroencephalogram recording apparatus: a classification section classifies a collected sound into one of categories concerning sound pressure; an accumulation determination section determines whether or not to record an electroencephalogram of a user based on whether a number of times of data accumulation has reached a target value for the category into which the sound is classified; and an accumulation section accumulates an electroencephalogram data and a sound data in association if the electroencephalogram data is determined to be recorded. A first value is designated as a target value for a first category into which sounds of an expected minimum value are classified. A second value is designated as a target value for a second category into which any sound having a sound pressure greater than the minimum value is classified. The accumulation determination section sets the first value to be equal to or greater than the second value. | 05-30-2013 |
20130138374 | MAGNETIC-FIELD DETECTION MICROCOMPUTER AND MAGNETIC-FIELD DETECTION METHOD - A magnetic-field detection microcomputer includes: a magnetic-field detection device; a differential amplifier; a variable voltage circuit which generates a reference voltage that is variable; a comparator which compares an output from the differential amplifier with the reference voltage; a register which outputs a voltage control value to the variable voltage circuit; a ROM which previously store a first table in which a magnetic-field intensity and the voltage control value are associated with each other; and a CPU which sets, to the register, the voltage control value, and determines presence or absence of the magnetic-field intensity associated with the voltage control value based on a result of the comparison by the comparator and the first table. | 05-30-2013 |
20130138515 | ORDER RECEIVING SYSTEM AND ORDER RECEIVING METHOD - The present invention provides an order receiving system includes an order receiving unit that receives an order for an item from a customer terminal; an information obtaining unit that obtains reference information for determining a condition for starting preparation for provision of the item; a start condition setting unit that sets the condition for starting preparation for provision of the item whose order has been received by the order receiving unit, based on a content of the order and the reference information; and a condition determining unit that determines, after receiving the order for the item by the order receiving unit, whether the condition determined by the start condition setting unit is satisfied. When the condition determining unit determines that the condition is satisfied, the transmitting unit of the wireless center module transmits a preparation start instruction signal to the wireless headset. | 05-30-2013 |
20130140178 | METHOD FOR MEASURING ANALYSIS OBJECT, AND MEASURING DEVICE - The measurement device comprises a sensor holder to which is removable to a biosensor. The sensor holder has measurement-use connection terminals that are in contact with the electrode system in the biosensor and are used to take off signals required for measuring the specific component, and thermocouple-use connection terminals that are in contact with the thermocouple in the biosensor and are used to take off the thermoelectromotive force signals. | 06-06-2013 |
20130140514 | NONVOLATILE MEMORY DEVICE AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING THE SAME - A nonvolatile memory device includes a substrate, a lower electrode formed above said substrate, a second variable resistance layer formed above said lower electrode and comprising a second transitional metal oxide, a first variable resistance layer formed above said second variable resistance layer and comprising a first transitional metal oxide having an oxygen content that is lower than an oxygen content of the second transitional metal oxide, and an upper electrode formed above said first variable resistance layer. A step is formed in an interface between said lower electrode and said second variable resistance layer. The second variable resistance layer is formed covering the step and has a bend above the step. | 06-06-2013 |
20130140522 | LIGHT-EMITTING PANEL, MANUFACTURING METHOD OF LIGHT-EMITTING PANEL, AND FILM FORMING SYSTEM - A light-emitting panel includes: a substrate; and a light-emitting functional multilayer formed on the substrate, wherein the light-emitting functional multilayer including a first functional layer and a second functional layer, a thickness of part of the first functional layer positioned in a first light-emitting region is smaller than a thickness of part of the first functional layer positioned in a second light-emitting region, a thickness of part of the second functional layer positioned in the first light-emitting region is greater than a thickness of part of the second functional layer positioned in the second light-emitting region, and when the light-emitting functional multilayer is viewed in a layering direction thereof, the first light-emitting region and the second light-emitting region are adjacent or distant from each other in a direction perpendicular to the layering direction, and each include a plurality of pixels that are each composed of a plurality of adjacent sub-pixels. | 06-06-2013 |
20130140542 | ORGANIC ELECTROLUMINESCENCE ELEMENT AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING THEREOF - An organic EL element comprises: an anode; a cathode; a functional layer including at least a light-emitting layer; a hole injection layer disposed between the anode and the functional layer; and a bank. The hole injection layer contains tungsten oxide. Tungsten atoms constituting the tungsten oxide include both tungsten atoms with a valence of six and tungsten atoms with a valence less than six. The hole injection layer includes a crystal of the tungsten oxide. A particle diameter of the crystal is on an order of nanometers. The hole injection layer has a recessed portion whose inner side surface has an upper edge that is one of (i) aligned with part of a lower edge of the bank, the part being in contact with the light-emitting layer, and (ii) in contact with a bottom surface of the bank. | 06-06-2013 |
20130140543 | ORGANIC EL ELEMENT, DISPLAY DEVICE, AND LIGHT-EMITTING DEVICE - An organic EL element comprises: an anode; a cathode; a functional layer that is disposed between the anode and the cathode and includes at least a light-emitting layer; a hole injection layer disposed between the anode and the functional layer; and a bank. The hole injection layer contains tungsten oxide, and has a recessed portion. A UPS spectrum of the hole injection layer, obtained from a UPS measurement, has a protrusion appearing near a Fermi surface and within a region corresponding to a binding energy range lower than a top of a valence band. The tungsten oxide contained in the hole injection layer satisfies a condition, determined from an XPS measurement, that a ratio in a number density of atoms other than tungsten atoms and oxygen atoms to the tungsten atoms does not exceed approximately 0.83. | 06-06-2013 |
20130140680 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE - A semiconductor device includes: an active region located in an upper portion of a semiconductor substrate; a through-hole electrode penetrating the substrate, and made of a conductor having a thermal expansion coefficient larger than that of a material for the substrate; and a stress buffer region located in the upper portion of the substrate and sandwiched between the through-hole electrode and the active region. The stress buffer region does not penetrate the substrate and includes a stress buffer part made of a material having a thermal expansion coefficient larger than that of the material for the substrate and an untreated region where the stress buffer part is not present. The stress buffer part is located in at least two locations sandwiching the untreated region in a cross section perpendicular to a surface of the substrate and passing through the through-hole electrode and the active region. | 06-06-2013 |
20130140696 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE - A semiconductor device includes a first substrate; a plurality of first electrodes formed on the first substrate; and a first insulating film formed on sidewalls of the plurality of first electrodes. The first insulating film is formed not to fill spaces between the plurality of first electrodes. | 06-06-2013 |
20130140707 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE AND LAYOUT DESIGN METHOD FOR THE SAME - A semiconductor device includes: a plurality of line features including at least one real feature which includes a gate electrode portion, and at least one dummy feature. Two of multiple ones of the dummy feature, and at least one of the line features interposed between the two dummy features and including the at least one real feature form parallel running line features which are evenly spaced. The parallel running line features have an identical width, and line end portions of the parallel running line features are substantially flush. Line end portion uniformization dummy features are formed on extensions of the line end portions of the parallel running line features. The line end portion uniformization dummy features include a plurality of linear features each having a same width as each of the line features and spaced at intervals equal to an interval between each adjacent pair of the line features. | 06-06-2013 |
20130140711 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE - A semiconductor device includes a stacked via structure including a plurality of first vias formed over a substrate, a first interconnect formed on the plurality of first vias, a plurality of second vias formed on the first interconnect, and a second interconnect formed on the plurality of second vias. One of the first vias closest to one end part of the first interconnect and one of the second vias closest to the one end part of the first interconnect at least partially overlap with each other as viewed in the plane, and the first interconnect has a first extension part extending from a position of an end of the first via toward the one end part of the first interconnect and having a length which is more than six times as long as a via width of the first via. | 06-06-2013 |
20130141002 | LIGHTING APPARATUS AND ILLUMINATING FIXTURE WITH THE SAME - In a first control mode, a control circuit turns a switching element on and off at a predetermined oscillating frequency and an On time so that a current flows through inductor in continuous mode without a sleep interval. In a second control mode, control circuit fixes oscillating frequency of switching element and changes On time of switching element. In a third control mode, control circuit fixes On time of switching element and changes oscillating frequency of switching element. Second control mode and third control mode are allocated for at least two intervals of intervals into which a dimming range is divided. Control circuit selects first control mode to fully light a light source load, and then, if a dimming ratio is designated, control circuit selects one of second and third control modes according to the interval, to which the dimming ratio corresponds, to dim light source load. | 06-06-2013 |
20130141003 | LIGHTING APPARATUS AND ILLUMINATING FIXTURE WITH THE SAME - The lighting apparatus in accordance with the present invention includes: a switching regulator including a switching element; and a control circuit configured to adjust a switching frequency and on-duration of the switching element in accordance with a dimming ratio. The control circuit is configured to, when the dimming ratio falls within a first dimming range, adjust the switching frequency to a frequency associated with the first dimming range and adjust the on-duration to duration corresponding to the dimming ratio. The control circuit is configured to, when the dimming ratio falls within a second dimming range, adjust the on-duration to duration associated with the second dimming range and adjust the switching frequency to a frequency corresponding to the dimming ratio. | 06-06-2013 |
20130141011 | ILLUMINATION SYSTEM - An illumination system includes: a plurality of lighting devices; a control device for controlling the lighting devices; and a remote controller for remotely setting a control content to be performed by the control device. The remote controller includes: a light property setting unit for setting a light property of a control target lighting device; a pointer for emitting visible light to point the target lighting device; a projection position acquiring unit acquiring a projection position of the visible light; and a remote controller transmitting unit for wirelessly transmitting the property information indicative of the light property and the projection position information. | 06-06-2013 |
20130141016 | LIGHTING APPARATUS AND ILLUMINATING FIXTURE WITH THE SAME - A control circuit selects a first control mode in which a switching element is turned on/off so as to flow current in an inductor in a continuous mode by which the current flows in the inductor without a sleep period, thereby fully lighting a light source load. The control circuit selects one of a second control mode in which a turn-on time of the switching element is changed and a third control mode in which an oscillating frequency is changed according to an interval, to which the designated dimming ratio corresponds, to light the light source load. An output capacitor connected between output terminals of a step-down chopper circuit smoothes a pulsation component of an output current supplied to the light source load and has capacity set so that a ripple ratio of the output current is less than 0.5 at the full lighting of the light source load. | 06-06-2013 |
20130141017 | LIGHTING APPARATUS AND ILLUMINATING FIXTURE WITH THE SAME - A control circuit selects a first control mode in which a switching element is turned on and off so that a current flows through an inductor in a critical or discontinuous mode, thereby fully lighting a light source load. The control circuit selects one of a second control mode in which On time of the switching element is changed and a third control mode in which an oscillating frequency is changed according to an interval, to which a designated dimming ratio corresponds, to dim the light source load. An output capacitor connected between output terminals of a step-down chopper circuit smoothes pulsation component of an output current supplied to the light source load and has capacity set so that a ripple ratio of the output current is less than 0.5 at full lighting of the light source load. | 06-06-2013 |
20130141168 | LOW-NOISE AMPLIFIER WITH THROUGH-MODE - The low-noise amplifier with through mode is configured such that a source grounded transistor and a gate grounded transistor are connected in cascode, and a load impedance element and a switching transistor are serially connected between the drain of the gate grounded transistor and a power supply, and a through pass circuit is connected between an input terminal and an output terminal. The gate voltage of the gate grounded transistor is regulated by a bias circuit and the voltage of a mode control terminal is converted by a level shifter to control the gate voltage of the switching transistor, whereby, in the case of using only transistors whose terminal-to-terminal breakdown voltages are each equal to or less than the power supply voltage, it becomes feasible to prevent voltages equal to or more than the terminal-to-terminal breakdown voltages from being applied between the terminals of each transistor. | 06-06-2013 |
20130141378 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE - An exemplary electronic device includes: a display section for displaying display information; a touch panel arranged on a display surface side of the display section; a display information position detection section for detecting a position of the display information displayed; a display control section for controlling a movement of the display information based on an operation by a user on the touch panel; a vibrating section for vibrating the touch panel; and a vibration control section for controlling a vibration pattern of the vibrating section. When the user operates the display information on the touch panel, the display control section controls the movement of the display information based on the position of the display information detected by the display information position detection section, and the vibration control section controls the vibrating section in association with the movement of the display information. | 06-06-2013 |
20130141616 | ZOOM LENS SYSTEM, INTERCHANGEABLE LENS APPARATUS AND CAMERA SYSTEM - A zoom lens system, in order from an object side to an image side, comprising a first lens unit having negative optical power, a second lens unit having positive optical power, a third lens unit having negative optical power, and a fourth lens unit having positive optical power, wherein the second lens unit is, in order from the object side to the image side, composed of an object-side second lens unit and an image-side second lens unit, the image-side second lens unit moves in a direction perpendicular to an optical axis to optically compensate image blur, and the condition: 1<|f | 06-06-2013 |
20130141627 | ZOOM LENS SYSTEM, INTERCHANGEABLE LENS APPARATUS AND CAMERA SYSTEM - A zoom lens system comprising a negative first lens unit, a positive second lens unit, a negative third lens unit, and a positive fourth lens unit, wherein the first lens unit and the third lens unit move along an optical axis, and the fourth lens unit is fixed with respect to an image surface in zooming, the third lens unit moves along the optical axis in focusing, and the conditions: 0.0<|M | 06-06-2013 |
20130141628 | ZOOM LENS SYSTEM, INTERCHANGEABLE LENS APPARATUS AND CAMERA SYSTEM - A zoom lens system comprising a negative first lens unit, a positive second lens unit, a negative third lens unit, and a positive fourth lens unit, wherein the second lens unit is composed of an object-side second lens unit and an image-side second lens unit, the object-side second lens unit has positive optical power, an aperture diaphragm is located between the object-side second lens unit and the image-side second lens unit, and the conditions: −0.506-06-2013 | |
20130141629 | SINGLE FOCAL LENGTH LENS SYSTEM, INTERCHANGEABLE LENS APPARATUS AND CAMERA SYSTEM - A single focal length lens system comprising a front lens unit, an aperture diaphragm, and a rear lens unit, wherein the front lens unit is composed of three or less lenses including a negative lens located closest to the object side and a positive lens located on the image side relative to the negative lens, and does not move along an axis in focusing, the rear lens unit includes a focusing lens unit moving along the axis and a fixed lens unit not moving along the axis in focusing, and the conditions: 0.406-06-2013 | |
20130141632 | IMAGING DEVICE AND CAMERA BODY - A camera system includes an interchangeable lens and a camera body to which the interchangeable lens can be mounted, either directly or via an adapter. A lens microcomputer of the interchangeable lens is configured to hold lens information including information related to a focal point detection method. A body microcomputer of the camera body is configured to select a focal point detection method on the basis of lens information. The body microcomputer is configured to select a contrast detection method as the focal point detection method if the interchangeable lens is compatible with a contrast detection method. The body microcomputer is configured to select a phase difference detection method as the focal point detection method if the interchangeable lens is not compatible with a contrast detection method, and the adapter is compatible with a phase difference detection method. | 06-06-2013 |
20130141790 | DIFFRACTIVE OPTICAL ELEMENT AND IMAGING APPARATUS USING THE SAME - It is an objective of the present disclosure to prevent or reduce cracks in edge portions of raised portions of a diffractive optical element. | 06-06-2013 |
20130141800 | FRESNEL LENS - A Fresnel lens comprises a first surface, and a second surface being the reverse side surface of the first surface and having a plurality of lens surfaces. Each lens surface is configured from a part of a side surface of an elliptical cone, which has an apex located on the second surface side and a bottom surface located on the first surface side. Here, in the Fresnel lens, any normal line intersecting with the lens surface configured from the part of the side surface of the elliptical cone among normal lines of respective points on the first surface is non-parallel to a central axis of the elliptical cone corresponding to the lens surface with which the any normal line intersects. | 06-06-2013 |
20130142026 | LENS CLEANER AND OPTICAL DISC DEVICE - A lens cleaner capable of more surely cleaning grime off from an objective lens is provided. A lens cleaner of the present invention includes first and second lens cleaning portions. The first lens cleaning portion is provided to be brought into contact with a lens protector when the lens cleaner is rotated, to cause an objective lens to be away from a recording or reproducing position against an elastic force of an elastic member. The second lens cleaning portion is provided on an upstream side in a rotation direction relative to the first lens cleaning portion. The second lens cleaning portion is provided to pass above the lens protector while the objective lens is away from the recording or reproducing position, and to be brought into contact with the objective lens when the objective lens returns to the recording or reproducing position by the elastic force of the elastic member. | 06-06-2013 |
20130142066 | ROUTER, METHOD FOR CONTROLLING ROUTER, AND PROGRAM - A router includes an input section configured to receive data, a buffer section including a plurality of data storage sections and configured to store the data received by the input section, and an output section configured to output the data stored on the buffer section. The router also includes an allocation processing section configured to determine whether or not to store the data on a pre-secured specific data storage section among the plurality of data storage sections, or whether or not to store the data on a pre-secured specific data storage section among a plurality of data storage sections in a buffer section of another router which is an output destination, the determination being made based on information representing burstiness of the data received by the input section. | 06-06-2013 |
20130142153 | WIRELESS COMMUNICATION APPARATUS AND WIRELESS COMMUNICATION METHOD - A wireless communication apparatus is capable of improving communication efficiency by reducing the amount of control information transmitted. A channel quality information extraction section extracts CQI's from a received signal. An allocation control section allocates subcarriers for every communication terminal apparatus and selects a modulation scheme in such a manner that required transmission rate is satisfied for each communication terminal apparatus based on required transmission rate information, etc. and CQI's for communication terminal apparatus of each user. A required subcarrier number determining section decides the number of subcarriers allocated to every communication terminal apparatus so as to satisfy the required transmission rate for each communication terminal apparatus. A required subcarrier number information generating section generates information for the number of subcarriers allocated to every communication terminal apparatus. A subcarrier allocation section allocates packet data to selected subcarriers. Modulating sections adaptively modulate packet data allocated to each subcarrier. | 06-06-2013 |
20130142282 | RADIO COMMUNICATION APPARATUS AND RADIO COMMUNICATION METHOD - Provided is a wireless communication apparatus wherein channel estimation accuracy is improved while keeping the position of each bit in a frame, even when a modulation system having a large modulation multiple value is used for a data symbol. In the wireless communication apparatus ( | 06-06-2013 |
20130142422 | IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND IMAGE PROCESSOR - Included are (a) performing processes on second training data items stored in a training database to generate third training data items each obtained through a corresponding one of the processes, (b) selecting, from among the third training data items generated in step (a), a selection data item having a highest similarity to a feature data item of the input image, (c) generating a high-frequency data item by: determining (i) the second training data item used in generating the selection data item and (ii) a first process performed on the second training data item to generate the selection data item; and performing the first process on the first training data item that is paired with the determined second training data item; and (d) generating an output image by adding an image indicated by the high-frequency data item to the input image. | 06-06-2013 |
20130142519 | OPTICAL MICROPHONE - An optical microphone includes: a propagation medium portion; a light source to output a light wave passing through the propagation medium portion across the acoustic wave propagating through the propagation medium portion; a reflecting section to retroreflect the light wave having passed through the propagation medium portion; and a photoelectric conversion section to receive the light wave having been reflected by the reflecting section and passed through the propagation medium portion to output an electric signal. 0 | 06-06-2013 |
20130143101 | BATTERY MODULE - A battery module is configured such that n series blocks | 06-06-2013 |
20130143245 | RECOMBINANT PROTEIN CAPABLE OF BINDING SPECIFICALLY AND QUICKLY TO TROPONIN I DERIVED FROM HUMAN MYOCARDIUM - Provided is a recombination protein which binds specifically to troponin I derived from human myocardium. The recombinant protein includes a light chain variable region consisting of the amino acid sequence represented by SEQ ID NO: 63; and a heavy chain variable region consisting of the amino acid sequence represented by SEQ ID NO: 65. | 06-06-2013 |
20130143346 | METHOD FOR PRODUCING LIGHT-EMITTING ELEMENTS - A light-emitter is configured so that at least a hole injection layer and a light-emitting layer are laminated between a first electrode and a second electrode, and the light-emitting layer is formed in an area defined by a bank. In the area defined by the bank, the hole injection layer is formed so as to have a recess in an upper surface thereof. An upper peripheral edge of the recess is covered with a part of the bank. The light-emitting layer is formed with respect to the recess formed in the hole injection layer by a laser transfer method. | 06-06-2013 |
20130143531 | RADIO COMMUNICATION MOBILE STATION DEVICE AND CALL CONNECTION METHOD - Disclosed are a base station device and a call connection method for reducing a call connection delay. According to the device and method; in ST | 06-06-2013 |
20130144631 | AUDIO SIGNAL PROCESSING APPARATUS AND AUDIO SIGNAL PROCESSING METHOD - An audio signal processing apparatus that processes a bit stream generated by coding an audio signal on a frame-by-frame basis, the bit stream including, for each frame, coded data representing the audio signal, additional data and attribute information, the audio signal processing apparatus including a decoding unit configured to decode the coded data to generate a decoded signal, a processing unit configured to process the decoded signal, a detection unit configured to detect whether or not there has been a change in the attribute information, and a storage unit, wherein the processing unit is configured to, when the change is not detected, process the decoded signal by using at least two pieces of additional data stored, and when the change is detected, process the decoded signal by using only either additional data before detection of the change or additional data after detection of the change. | 06-06-2013 |
20130144930 | INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM - This information processing system processes information through communication between a first information processing device and a second information processing device. The second information processing device has a recording unit and a control unit. The recording unit records a first OS and a second OS. The control unit selects one of the first OS and the second OS, according to a connection state with the first information processing device. The control unit controls the second information processing device or a combination of the first information processing device and the second information processing device, using the OS selected here. | 06-06-2013 |
20130145228 | ENCODING METHOD - An encoder and decoder using LDPC-CC (Low Density Parity Check-Convolutional Codes) is disclosed. The encoder exhibits encoding rates realized with a small circuit-scale and a high data reception quality. In the encoder ( | 06-06-2013 |
20130145417 | SERVICE EXECUTING APPARATUS - A broadcast receiving terminal, which implements a service executing method, includes a receiver operable to receive a service that uses a plurality of resources, a recording medium, and a service executer operable to execute a service that uses the plurality of resources in a service execution environment intended for the service. The terminal also includes an associater operable to associate the service execution environment with resource set information indicating the plurality of resources used by the service, when an application requests the service executer to execute the service, and a storager operable to store a plurality of service execution environments together with the associated resource set information. The terminal further includes a resource manager operable to provide, to a selected service, the plurality of resources indicated in the resource set information in the associated service execution environment. | 06-06-2013 |
20130146564 | PLASMA TREATMENT APPARATUS AND PLASMA TREATMENT METHOD - A plasma treatment apparatus that includes a chamber having an opening portion which serves as a plasma ejection port surrounded by a dielectric member; a gas supply pipe that introduces gas into an inside of the chamber; a solenoid coil disposed in a vicinity of the chamber; a high-frequency power supply having a pulse modulation function which is connected to the solenoid coil; and a base material mounting table disposed on a plasma ejection port side. Plasma can be stably generated using the plasma treatment apparatus. | 06-13-2013 |
20130146926 | ILLUMINATING APPARATUS - Provided is a lighting apparatus that is suitable as a substitute for a conventional halogen lamp when positively utilizing leaked light. The lighting apparatus comprises: a heat dissipator | 06-13-2013 |
20130146946 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE AND METHOD FOR FABRICATING SAME - A semiconductor device includes: a buffer layer provided on a substrate and made of a group III-V nitride semiconductor; a first semiconductor layer provided on the buffer layer and made of a group III-V nitride semiconductor; a second semiconductor layer provided on the first semiconductor layer and made of a group III-V nitride semiconductor; a back electrode provided on a back surface of the substrate and connected to a ground; a source electrode and a drain electrode provided on the second semiconductor layer so as to be apart from each other; a gate electrode provided on the second semiconductor layer; and a plug which passes through the second semiconductor layer, the first semiconductor layer, and the buffer layer, and reaches at least the substrate to electrically connect the source electrode and the back electrode. | 06-13-2013 |
20130147278 | INDUCTION LOAD DRIVING SYSTEM - When a direction command signal indicates a first direction, a signal for causing the other end of the induction load to be connected to a second power supply unit is output as a second control signal. In addition, after a passage of a first predetermined delay time after a first current detection value becomes less than a reference value of a conducting current, a signal for causing the one end of the induction load 5 to be connected to a first power supply unit is output as a first control signal. And, after a passage of a second predetermined delay time after the first current detection value becomes equal to or greater than the reference value of the conducting current, a signal for causing the one end of the induction load to be connected to the second power supply unit is output as the first control signal. | 06-13-2013 |
20130147356 | LIGHTING APPARATUS - The lighting apparatus in accordance with the present invention includes a dimming control unit configured to control, in accordance with a dimming ratio, a light source including a plurality of light emitting elements designed to emit light in response to DC power. The dimming control unit is configured to, when the dimming ratio falls within a first dimming range, vary supply power to the light source in accordance with the dimming ratio. The dimming control unit is configured to, when the dimming ratio falls within a second dimming range different from the first dimming range, vary, in accordance with the dimming ratio, a lighting number defined as the number of the light emitting elements to be lit. | 06-13-2013 |
20130147469 | ROTATION ANGLE DETECTION DEVICE - The present invention relates to a rotation angle detection device mainly used for rotation angle detection of a steering wheel of an automobile and the like. | 06-13-2013 |
20130147504 | WAFER INSPECTION DEVICE - A wafer inspection device, which inspects the electrical properties of a semiconductor wafer on which a semiconductor integrated circuit is formed, and the wafer inspection device has: a holding mechanism for holding a probe card; a wafer stage that holds the semiconductor wafer on the upper surface and is movably provided; and a pressing mechanism that are held and press the wafer stage against the probe card. The wafer stage is provided on the outer periphery with a seal ring. The seal ring forms a sealed space in a state where the wafer and the probe card are brought close to each other by contacting the probe card and is provided in such a manner as to reduce the pressure of the sealed space. | 06-13-2013 |
20130147580 | ELECTROMAGNETIC RESONANCE COUPLER - An electromagnetic resonance coupler includes a transmission resonator provided on the transmission substrate and having a shape obtained by opening a loop shape including an inwardly recessed portion in part to make a transmission resonator slit, transmission wiring connected to the transmission resonator, a reception substrate, a reception resonator provided on the reception substrate and having the same size and shape as the transmission resonator, and reception wiring connected to the reception resonator. The transmission and reception resonators are symmetric with respect to a point and face each other so that their contours match. In the transmission resonator, at least part of wiring constituting the recessed portion is close to wiring other than the at least part of wiring at a distance less than or equal to four times the wiring width of the transmission resonator. | 06-13-2013 |
20130147920 | IMAGING DEVICE - The imaging device includes an optical system, imaging unit, and control unit. The optical system is configured to include a focus lens. The imaging unit is configured to capture a left-eye subject and a right-eye subject via the optical system. A image captured by the imaging unit includes a left-eye image for the left-eye subject and the right-eye image for the right-eye subject. The control unit is configured to generate a first AF evaluation for the left-eye image and a second AF evaluation for the right-eye image. The control unit generates a third AF evaluation value on the basis of the first AF evaluation value and the second AF evaluation value. The control unit controls the drive of the focus lens on the basis of the third AF evaluation value. | 06-13-2013 |
20130148000 | SOLID-STATE IMAGING DEVICE - The MOS solid-state imaging device includes: pixels arrayed two-dimensionally; first column signal lines; first holding circuit units each of which corresponds to one of the first column signal lines and holds electrical signals that are transmitted from the pixels through one of the first column signal lines; and first difference circuit units that each output a difference between one of the electrical signals in the reset state and one of the electrical signals in the light-received state that are held by one of the first holding circuit units, in which the first holding circuit units each include pixel-wise holding circuits, the number of which is identical to the number of the pixels provided for the corresponding one of the first column signal lines, the pixel-wise holding circuits being able to hold electrical signals in the reset state of the pixels and electrical signals in the light-received state of the pixels. | 06-13-2013 |
20130148005 | ZOOM LENS SYSTEM, INTERCHANGEABLE LENS APPARATUS AND CAMERA SYSTEM - A zoom lens system wherein a positive lens unit located closest to an object side is fixed with respect to an image surface in zooming, a negative lens unit, among lens units located on an image side relative to an aperture diaphragm, is a focusing lens unit which moves along an optical axis in focusing, and the conditions: −1.806-13-2013 | |
20130148006 | SINGLE FOCAL LENGTH LENS SYSTEM, INTERCHANGEABLE LENS APPARATUS AND CAMERA SYSTEM - A single focal length lens system comprising: at least a front lens unit having positive or negative power, and being fixed in focusing; a focusing lens unit having positive power, and moving along an optical axis in focusing; and a rear lens unit having negative power, and being fixed in focusing, wherein the focusing lens unit includes: a cemented lens of a negative lens and a positive lens; and a positive single lens located on the image side relative to the cemented lens and having an aspheric surface, the rear lens unit is composed of one single lens, and the condition: −0.506-13-2013 | |
20130148206 | OPTICAL COMPONENT - A lens includes a plurality of raised portions and recessed portions in an arrangement, and includes an antireflection structure which reduces reflection of light whose wavelength is equal to or greater than a cycle of the raised portions and a cycle of the recessed portions. The antireflection structure includes an area where a height of each of the raised portions is relatively low and a depth of each of the recessed portions is relatively shallow, and an area where a height of each of the raised portions is relatively high and a depth of each of the recessed portions is relatively deep. In the area where the height of each of the raised portions is relatively low and the depth of each of the recessed portions is relatively shallow, first and second flat surfaces are respectively provided at a top portion of the raised portion and a bottom portion of the raised portion. | 06-13-2013 |
20130148215 | IMAGING DEVICE - A digital camera comprising a lens barrel linking plate, a frame unit, and first and second lens barrels. The frame unit has first to third bosses that are linked to the lens barrel linking plate. The first and second lens barrels are disposed between the lens barrel linking plate and the frame unit. The first to third bosses are each disposed around the outer periphery of the first lens barrel. | 06-13-2013 |
20130148423 | SEMICONDUCTOR MEMORY DEVICE - A main bit line is disposed between a reference main bit line and core main bit lines. A selection transistor disposed between a sub bit line connected to a cell and the main bit line can switch between a conductive state and a non-conductive state independently of other selection transistors. A dummy main bit line can be set to ground potential by a shield grounding section, and can be used as a shield line of the reference main bit line. | 06-13-2013 |
20130148602 | TERMINAL RECEIVING RESOURCE BLOCK ALLOCATION AND METHOD THEREFOR - In a wireless communication base station device, a modulation unit carries out modulation processing for Dch data after coding to generate a Dch data symbol. A modulation unit carries out modulation processing for Lch data after coding to generate an Lch data symbol. An allocation unit allocates the Dch data symbol and Lch data symbol to each sub-carrier composing an OFDM symbol and outputs the allocated sub-carrier to a multiplex unit. In this case, the allocation unit allocates the Dch data symbol to a plurality of resource blocks where one Dch is arranged at an interval equal to integral multiples of the number of resource blocks composing a resource block group. | 06-13-2013 |
20130148704 | ADAPTIVE RECEIVER SYSTEM AND ADAPTIVE TRANSCEIVER SYSTEM - A phase comparison circuit outputs a first phase comparison signal indicating whether or not an edge of an equalization signal is in a first interval between sampling timing and timing having a first predetermined phase advance, and outputs a second phase comparison signal indicating whether or not the edge of the equalization signal is in a second interval between the sampling timing and timing having a second predetermined phase delay. A determination circuit compares a predetermined comparison target pattern with output patterns of the first and second phase comparison signals corresponding to each bit of a detection data pattern. | 06-13-2013 |
20130148742 | IMAGE CODING METHOD, IMAGE CODING APPARATUS, IMAGE DECODING METHOD AND IMAGE DECODING APPARATUS - An image coding method including: binarizing last position information to generate (i) a binary signal which includes a first signal having a length smaller than or equal to a predetermined maximum length and does not include a second signal or (ii) a binary signal which includes the first signal having the predetermined maximum length and the second signal; first coding for arithmetically coding each of binary symbols included in the first signal using a context switched among a plurality of contexts according to a bit position of the binary symbol; and second coding for arithmetically coding the second signal using a fixed probability when the binary signal includes the second signal, wherein in the first coding, a binary symbol at a last bit position of the first signal is arithmetically coded using a context exclusive to the last bit position, when the first signal has the predetermined maximum length. | 06-13-2013 |
20130148758 | FILTER CIRCUIT, SEMICONDUCTOR INTEGRATED CIRCUIT, COMMUNICATION APPARATUS, SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE, AND SYSTEM - A filter circuit includes two parallel digital filters, a DAC, and an LPF. The DAC includes two parallel decoders, a parallel-to-serial converter, a switch driver, and a switch. A PLL circuit supplies a reference clock to the DAC. A frequency divider provided in the DAC divides the frequency of the reference clock by two, and supplies the half frequency clock to a parallel processing section (the two decoders and the parallel-to-serial converter) of the DAC and the two digital filters. This makes it easy to secure a timing margin, permitting use in high-speed communication on the order of several GHz. | 06-13-2013 |
20130149012 | MAGNET ROLL - A magnet roll for development for a printer, a copying machine, or the like. The magnet roll comprises a metal pipe provided with recesses formed on a surface thereof and portion maintaining an original metal surface, and a magnet inserted into the metal pipe. Recesses on the surface of the metal pipe are formed by etching using a resist formed by an inkjet process, and irregularities based on crystal grains of metal are formed on an inner surface of each of the recesses and can effectively carry toner that is carried by carrier to a portion of latent images. | 06-13-2013 |
20130151009 | ROBOT, ROBOT CONTROL APPARATUS, ROBOT CONTROL METHOD, AND ROBOT CONTROL PROGRAM - A robot includes a multi-joint robot arm, an external force acquiring unit arranged at the multi-joint robot arm to acquire an external force, and an impedance control unit that causes the multi-joint robot arm to operate as a virtual spring-mass-damper system based on the external force acquired by the external force acquiring unit. The impedance control unit has an impedance map storage unit that defines impedance parameters at each of points of the work region, and an impedance map variable unit that changes the distribution of the impedance parameters in the impedance map storage unit in accordance with the current arm end position or the current arm end velocity of the multi-joint robot arm. | 06-13-2013 |
20130153028 | THIN-FILM TRANSISTOR, METHOD FOR FABRICATING THIN-FILM TRANSISTOR, AND DISPLAY DEVICE - A thin-film transistor according to the present disclosure is capable of balancing excellent on-characteristics and excellent off-characteristics, and in which the electrical characteristics are symmetric even when the source electrode and the drain electrode are switched. The thin-film transistor includes: a substrate; a gate electrode; a gate insulating layer; a crystalline silicon layer above the gate insulating layer above the gate electrode; a non-crystalline silicon layer above the gate insulating layer and on both sides of the crystalline silicon layer, having a thickness smaller than a thickness of the crystalline silicon layer; a channel protective layer above the crystalline silicon layer; and a source electrode and a drain electrode. | 06-20-2013 |
20130154009 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE - A standard cell has gate patterns extending in Y direction and arranged at an equal pitch in X direction. End portions of the gate patterns are located at the same position in Y direction, and have an equal width in X direction. A diode cell is located next to the standard cell in Y direction, and includes a plurality of opposite end portions formed of gate patterns that are opposed to the end portions, in addition to a diffusion layer which functions as a diode. | 06-20-2013 |
20130154497 | LIGHTING DEVICE AND ILLUMINATION APPARATUS INCLUDING SAME - A lighting device includes a voltage conversion circuit having at least a switching element connected to a positive potential side of the output terminals of the DC power source unit, and a drive unit which outputs a drive signal to the switching element. The drive unit has a first impedance element with a first impedance which is determined based on a power consumed by the drive unit before a predetermined time has elapsed after a control power source is supplied. A control capacitor for use in generating the drive signal is charged when the switching element is turned off during an on/off operation of the switching element. The lighting device further includes a second impedance element with a second impedance having a resistance component, which is arranged in a path in which the control capacitor can be charged in DC when the switching element does not perform the on/off operation. | 06-20-2013 |
20130154506 | DISPLAY DEVICE - A display device includes: a high-side potential variable-voltage source which outputs a high-side output potential and a low-side potential variable-voltage source which outputs a low-side output potential; an organic EL display unit in which pixels are arranged; a high-side potential difference detecting circuit which detects a high-side potential applied to a first pixel and a low-side potential difference detecting circuit which detects a low-side potential applied to a second pixel; a high-side potential voltage margin setting unit and a low-side potential voltage setting unit which regulate the output potential of the high-side potential variable-voltage source and the low-side potential variable-voltage source to set a potential difference between the high-side potential of the first pixel and a reference potential to a predetermined potential difference and set a potential difference between the low-side potential of the second pixel and a reference potential to a predetermined potential difference; and a signal processing circuit. | 06-20-2013 |
20130154578 | CHARGE CIRCUIT, AND BATTERY-CHARGER ASSEMBLAGE WITH THE CHARGE CIRCUIT - A charge circuit is composed of a first circuit and a second circuit. Said second circuit is provided at a battery pack in which a secondary battery is comprised. Said first circuit is provided at a charger for charging said secondary battery. Said charge circuit comprises: an output power supply section; a control section configured to control said output power supply section to perform a charging operation; a memory provided at said second circuit and storing a number of charging; and a threshold current setting section. Said control section is configured to, in said charging operation, perform firstly a constant current charging operation, and then perform a constant voltage charging operation, and finish the charging operation when a charging current reaches a charge stop current value. Said threshold current setting section is configured to decrease said charge stop current value along with the increase of said number of charging. | 06-20-2013 |
20130154579 | CAPACITOR DEVICE - A capacitor device includes a capacitor unit, a voltage-dividing circuit for outputting a divided voltage obtained by dividing a voltage of the capacitor unit, and a comparator circuit. The comparator circuit causes the charge circuit to operate such that the voltage of the capacitor unit reaches a full-charge voltage. The voltage-dividing circuit includes a semiconductor switching element, and outputs a divided voltage. A control circuit is operable to determine the full-charge voltage to be a high-temperature full-charge voltage by turning off the first semiconductor switching element when a temperature at the capacitor unit exceeds a reference temperature. The control circuit is operable to determine the full-charge voltage to be a low-temperature full-charge voltage that is higher than the high-temperature full-charge voltage by turning on the first semiconductor switching element when the detected temperature is not higher than the reference temperature. | 06-20-2013 |
20130154699 | REFERENCE FREQUENCY GENERATION CIRCUIT, SEMICONDUCTOR INTEGRATED CIRCUIT, AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE - An oscillator circuit complementarily increases or reduces, in response to a transition of a signal level of a reference clock, a signal level of a first oscillation signal and a signal level of a second oscillation signal. An oscillation control circuit compares the first and second oscillation signals to a comparison voltage, and transitions the signal level of the reference clock in accordance with a result of the comparison. A reference control circuit increases or reduces the comparison voltage so that a difference between a signal level of an intermediate signal which is proportional to respective swings of the first and second oscillation signals and a reference voltage is reduced. A reference voltage control circuit increases or reduces the reference voltage according to a frequency difference between a basis clock and the reference clock. | 06-20-2013 |
20130154867 | A/D CONVERTER - An A/D converter having high accuracy and high throughput irrespective of characteristic variations of analog circuits is provided. The A/D converter includes a voltage-to-time converter configured to synchronize with a sampling clock signal and convert an input analog voltage to a time difference between two signals, and a plurality of time-to-digital converters each configured to convert the time difference between the two signals to a digital value. The plurality of time-to-digital converters operate in an interleaved manner. | 06-20-2013 |
20130154904 | AUTOMATIC DEVICE CONTROL APPARATUS FOR AUTOMATICALLY CONTROL DEVICE AND APPLICATION OF INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS SUCH AS COMPUTER - An automatic device control apparatus is provided for displaying display data on a display terminal apparatus. A device detecting section detects a corresponding device by detecting one of an event that an external storage device that stores the display data is connected to the information processing apparatus and an event that application software to display the display data is activated, and a device information acquiring section acquires information of a detected device. A communication device setting section extracts a communication device communicable with the display terminal apparatus, and generates information of the communication device, and a schedule managing section judges whether or not the detected device and the communication device are activated, and forms an execution processing schedule. A display terminal retrieving section retrieves the display terminal apparatus to be transmitted, and a display terminal connecting section performs connecting with the retrieved display terminal apparatus, and transmits the display data. | 06-20-2013 |
20130155040 | LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY PANEL AND LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY DEVICE - The liquid crystal display panel includes a liquid crystal display unit, and a backlight unit illuminating the liquid crystal display unit. The backlight unit includes first and second white light-emitting diodes that respectively emit white light, and first and second drive units that respectively supply a current to the first and second white light-emitting diodes. The first and second drive units are respectively configured to be able to adjust supply current to the first and second white light-emitting diodes. Chromaticities of the first and second white light-emitting diodes are of a relationship of being positioned opposite each other across a blackbody locus on an xy chromaticity diagram. The first and second white light-emitting diodes change over time so that, on the xy chromaticity diagram, an intersection point of the blackbody locus and a line that passes through the chromaticities of the first and second white light-emitting diodes becomes constant. | 06-20-2013 |
20130155124 | DISPLAY DEVICE AND METHOD OF DRIVING THE SAME - The method is for driving a display device including luminescence pixels arranged in rows and columns. The method includes: applying a black signal voltage to (a) a first target luminescence pixel in one row of each row pair and (b) a second target luminescence pixel in the other row at the same time, thereby starting the non-light-emission durations of the first and second target luminescence pixels simultaneously; (ii) applying a first data signal voltage to the first target luminescence pixel; (iii) applying a second data signal voltage to the second target luminescence pixel; and (iv) causing the first and second target luminescence pixels to emit light simultaneously based on these data signal voltages, thereby starting the light-emission durations of the first and the second target luminescence pixels simultaneously. The processing starts at different times for all row pairs. | 06-20-2013 |
20130155201 | IMAGE CAPTURE DEVICE, CONTROLLER AND COMPUTER PROGRAM - A digital camera includes a first optical system including a first optical axis; a second optical system including a second optical axis which is different from the first optical axis; a first image sensor and a second image sensor for detecting subject images; and a controller for performing focus control on each optical system and for instructing each image sensor to execute shooting operation. The controller instructs the first image sensor and the second image sensor to execute shooting operation at a first timing when the focus operation for the first optical system is finished or a second timing when the focus operation for the second optical system is finished, which is later. | 06-20-2013 |
20130155202 | IMAGING APPARATUS - An imaging apparatus of includes an imaging sensor that captures a subject image formed by an attached 3D conversion lens and generates an image data, a display device that displays an image based on the generated image data, a lens adjusting unit that adjusts a lens position of an optical system included in the attached 3D conversion lens, a controller that: (i) determines that a predetermined portion of the subject image which is to be moved according to the adjustment of the lens position, is at least one of (a) within a predetermined range in the image and (b) not within the predetermined range in the image, and (ii) causes the display device to display the determined result. | 06-20-2013 |
20130155208 | IMAGE DISPLAY APPARATUS - An image display apparatus includes: an image display panel; a backlight device; first and second liquid crystal prism elements each configured to change a deflection direction of emitted light according to a voltage applied thereto; a position detection section configured to detect a position of a user; and a control section configured to control the voltages applied to the liquid crystal prism elements, on the basis of information of the position of the user detected by the position detection section. Each liquid crystal prism element includes a pair of opposing substrates, a plurality of triangular prisms which have ridge lines extending in a first direction parallel to one side of the image display panel and are arranged between the pair of opposing substrates so as to be aligned along a second direction orthogonal to the first direction, and a liquid crystal sealed between the opposing substrates. | 06-20-2013 |
20130155209 | EYEWEAR DEVICE, DISPLAY DEVICE, VIDEO SYSTEM WITH EYEWEAR AND DISPLAY DEVICES, AND CONTROL METHODS OF EYEWEAR DEVICE AND VIDEO SYSTEM - The present application discloses an eyewear device, including: a light amount adjuster configured to perform an adjustment operation for adjusting a fluctuation timing, at which a transmission amount of image light to a left eye and a right eye increases or decreases, and allowing a video to be perceived stereoscopically; a storage portion configured to store characteristic data about the adjustment operation; a receiver configured to receive a synchronous control signal which defines the fluctuation timing; and a first controller configured to control the light amount adjuster. The first controller corrects the fluctuation timing defined by the synchronous control signal, based on the characteristic data to control the adjustment operation. | 06-20-2013 |
20130155647 | LIGHTING DEVICE - A lighting unit emits light with an intensity in the wavelength from 430 to 510 nm that is maximum at 460 nm and minimum in the range from 490 to 500 nm, an intensity in the wavelength from 510 to 600 nm that is maximum in the range from 530 to 545 nm and minimum in the range from 570 to 580 nm, and an intensity in the wavelength of 600 nm or greater that is maximum in the range from 620 to 640. The lighting unit illuminates meat with light having a feeling of contrast index (FCI) of 135 to 145 and the illuminated meat has a metric hue angle from 54 to 56 and a color shift Duv from 0 to 5. | 06-20-2013 |
20130155989 | TRANSMISSION METHOD - A transmission method includes generating a plurality of orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) signals, each signal including different data and some of the plurality of OFDM signals including pilot symbols. The pilot symbols are assigned to a predetermined subcarrier in predetermined time. At least one of the plurality of OFDM signals is assigned the pilot symbols to the predetermined subcarrier in the predetermined time, and other OFDM signals are assigned data to the predetermined subcarrier in the predetermined time. The method further includes converting each of the plurality of OFDM signals to a radio signal and transmitting each of the radio signals from a different antenna. | 06-20-2013 |
20130156106 | MOVING PICTURE CODING METHOD, MOVING PICTURE CODING APPARATUS, MOVING PICTURE DECODING METHOD, AND MOVING PICTURE DECODING APPARATUS - Obtaining one or more motion vector predictor candidates includes: (a1) generating a motion vector predictor candidate, based on motion vectors of first adjacent blocks adjacent to a block to be processed in a first direction; and (a2) generating a motion vector predictor candidate, based on motion vectors of second adjacent blocks adjacent to the block to be processed in a second direction, and step (a2) (S | 06-20-2013 |
20130157296 | RECOMBINANT PROTEIN CAPABLE OF BINDING SPECIFICALLY AND QUICKLY TO TROPONIN I DERVIVED FROM HUMAN MYOCARDIUM - Provided is a recombination protein which binds specifically to troponin I derived from human myocardium. The recombinant protein includes a light chain variable region consisting of the amino acid sequence represented by SEQ ID NO: 63; and a heavy chain variable region consisting of the amino acid sequence represented by SEQ ID NO: 65. | 06-20-2013 |
20130157687 | WIRELESS NETWORK SYSTEM AND WIRELESS TERMINAL CONNECTING METHOD - A wireless network system includes wireless base stations, wireless terminals and a server. Each wireless terminal includes a terminal communications circuit configured to connect the terminal itself to each wireless base station, to get a first piece of information about a communication condition of ongoing communication between itself and each wireless base station, to connect the terminal itself to another wireless terminal, to get a second piece of information about a communication condition of ongoing communication between the two wireless terminals, and to send the first and second pieces of information to the server. The server includes: a server communications circuit configured to get the first and second pieces of information from the terminal communications circuit of each wireless terminal; and a processing circuit configured to locate the wireless terminals by reference to the first and second pieces of information and to output information about their locations. | 06-20-2013 |
20130158237 | RECOMBINANT PROTEIN CAPABLE OF BINDING SPECIFICALLY AND QUICKLY TO TROPONIN I DERIVED FROM HUMAN MYOCARDIUM - Provided is a recombination protein which binds specifically to troponin I derived from human myocardium. The recombinant protein includes a light chain variable region consisting of the amino acid sequence represented by SEQ ID NO: 63; and a heavy chain variable region consisting of the amino acid sequence represented by SEQ ID NO: 65. | 06-20-2013 |
20130159816 | TRANSMITTING METHOD, RECEIVING METHOD, RECEIVING APPARATUS AND TRANSMITTING APPARATUS - A transmitter apparatus wherein a simple structure is used to successfully suppress the degradation of error rate performance that otherwise would be caused by fading or the like. There are included encoding parts ( | 06-20-2013 |
20130160849 | POLYCRYSTALLINE SILICON SOLAR CELL PANEL AND MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREOF - An inexpensive polycrystalline silicon solar cell panel is provided by forming a polycrystalline silicon film in which pn junctions are formed by using fewer processes and in less time. Specifically, there is provided a manufacturing method for a polycrystalline silicon solar cell panel including: a process of forming an amorphous silicon film on a substrate surface using a vapor deposition method that uses an n-type or p-type doped vapor deposition material formed of silicon; a process of plasma-doping a surface layer of the amorphous silicon film with a p-type or n-type dopant; and a process of melting the amorphous silicon film by scanning the plasma-doped amorphous silicon film with plasma and performing re-crystallization. | 06-27-2013 |
20130161163 | MULTI-DIRECTIONAL INPUT DEVICE - An object is to provide a multi-directional input device mainly used for operations of various electronic devices, the multi-directional input device being capable of performing various reliable operations. A movable electrode installed on a lower surface of a sliding body which is engaged with a lower end of an operation body is connected to a ground, and a plurality of fixed electrodes arranged so as to face the movable electrode with a predetermined gap is arranged at predetermined intervals. Thereby, the plurality of fixed electrodes facing the movable electrode can be formed in a large shape, so that a change in a capacitance due to operations of the operation body can be increased. As a result, not only the operating direction but also an operation amount can be precisely detected. Thus, the multi-directional input device capable of performing various reliable operations can be obtained. | 06-27-2013 |
20130161488 | SOLID-STATE IMAGING DEVICE AND IMAGING DEVICE - A solid-state imaging device includes a plurality of AD conversion units respectively provided in a plurality of columns and each configured to convert a pixel signal converted by unit pixels provided in an associated column into digital data of N bits, and a plurality of data storage units respectively provided in the columns. The data storage units each include N flip-flop circuits. The solid-state imaging device further includes data switching units each configured to switch between a first state in which the digital data converted by the AD conversion unit is stored in the data storage unit of the associated column, and a second state in which the N flip-flop circuits in each of the data storage units are serially connected. | 06-27-2013 |
20130161630 | THIN-FILM SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE AND METHOD FOR FABRICATING THIN-FILM SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE - A method for fabricating a thin-film semiconductor device according to the present disclosure includes: preparing a glass substrate; forming, above the glass substrate, an undercoat layer including a nitride film; forming a barrier layer above the undercoat layer; forming a molybdenum metal layer above the barrier layer; forming a gate electrode from the molybdenum metal layer; forming a gate insulating film above the gate electrode; forming a non-crystalline silicon layer as a non-crystalline semiconductor layer above the gate insulating film; forming a polycrystalline semiconductor layer including a polysilicon layer by annealing the non-crystalline silicon layer using a continuous-wave (CW) laser, the non-crystalline silicon layer being crystallized by the annealing; and forming a source electrode and a drain electrode above the polysilicon layer. Part of the barrier layer changes into a layer including oxygen atoms as a major component by the annealing when forming the polysilicon layer. | 06-27-2013 |
20130162171 | STEP UP/DOWN CONVERTER - Provided is a step up/down converter, in which the inductor current can be easily detected by a simple configuration in any connecting mode of the switches. This comprises a first switch, one end of which is connected to an input power source, and the other end of which is connected to one end of the inductor, a second switch, one end of which is connected to the one end of the inductor, and the other end of which is connected to a reference potential applying unit, a third switch and a fourth switch, one end of which is connected to the other end of the inductor; a capacitor circuit element, connected between the other end of the third switch and the other end of the fourth switch, and configured to generate an output voltage for applying to a load, a detecting resistor, connected between the other end of the second switch and the other end of the third switch, and configured to detect an inductor current flowing through the inductor, and a control circuit configured to perform control from the first switch to the fourth switch based on the inductor current detected by the detecting resistor. | 06-27-2013 |
20130162368 | LADDER-TYPE SURFACE ACOUSTIC WAVE FILTER AND DUPLEXER INCLUDING THE SAME - A ladder-type surface acoustic wave filter includes a first series resonator having the lowest resonance frequency among a plurality of series resonators; and a second series resonator having a resonance frequency higher than the first series resonator. The film thickness of a dielectric film in the region where the first series resonator is formed is larger than that of a dielectric film in the region where the second series resonator is formed. | 06-27-2013 |
20130162622 | DISPLAY DEVICE - A display device includes: a power supplying unit which outputs at least one of a high-side output potential and a low-side output potential; a display unit in which pixels are arranged in a matrix and which receives power supply from the power supplying unit; a monitor wire arranged along a column direction of the pixels in the matrix, which has one end connected to at least one pixel inside the display unit, and is for transmitting the high-side potential to be applied to the pixel; and a voltage regulating unit connected to the other end of the monitor wire, which regulates at least one of the high-side output potential and the low-side output potential to be outputted by the power supplying unit, to set a potential difference between the high-side potential and the low-side potential to a predetermined potential difference. | 06-27-2013 |
20130162770 | 3D ENCODING APPARATUS - A 3D encoding apparatus encodes an input image and generates and outputs a three dimensional stream including a basic stream and an extended stream including a plurality of image groups. A 3D encoding apparatus includes a setter that sets a specific delay value for each image group based on the a first delay value as a delay value of the basic stream and a second delay value as a delay value of the three dimensional stream. The setter sets the specific delay value to a value not more than smaller one of the first delay value and the second delay value. The first virtual buffer and the second virtual buffer perform the buffer simulation for n+1th image group based on information about the specific delay value of the nth image group set by the setter in the basic stream and three dimensional stream. | 06-27-2013 |
20130162865 | IMAGING DEVICE - The imaging device includes an imaging component, an image recorder, an altitude recorder, and a display controller. The imaging component captures an image of a subject, produces image data at a first time and outputs the image data. The image recorder associates the first time with the image data and records the first time associated with the image data. The altitude recorder periodically acquires information related to an altitude. The altitude recorder also associates a second time with the information related to the altitude. The altitude recorder also records changes in the information related to altitude occurring by the second time, as altitude history information. The display controller displays the altitude history information recorded by the altitude recorder, and information indicating the first time. | 06-27-2013 |
20130162889 | LENS SYSTEM, INTERCHANGEABLE LENS APPARATUS, AND CAMERA SYSTEM - It has conventionally been difficult to reduce the size of a fast lens system having an F number of about 1.4 to 2.4. In a lens system of the present invention, a positive lens element is disposed closest to an object side. A diaphragm is disposed in a widest air space in the lens system. The lens system of the present invention satisfies the following conditions: | 06-27-2013 |
20130163001 | PLASMON SENSOR - A plasmon sensor includes a supporter, a first metal layer on a lower surface of the first supporter, and a second metal layer having an upper surface facing a lower surface of the first metal layer. A hollow space is provided between the first and second metal layers, and is configured to be filled with a test sample containing a medium. The area of the first metal layer is smaller than the area of the upper surface of the supporter. The supporter has a region having hydrophilic property and facing and contacting the hollow space. This the plasmon sensor has a small size and a simple structure. | 06-27-2013 |
20130163052 | PRINT SYSTEM - A print system is capable of processing a print order of image data through a network. The print system includes an information device operable to store image data, and an order reception server connected to the information device through the network. The information device sends print information specifying print content including image data to be printed to the order reception server with which a communication is established prior to a formal placing of a print order. The order reception server, when completing a reception of the print information, recognizes that the print order is completed, provides an order number for identifying the print order, and sends the order number to the information device. | 06-27-2013 |
20130163105 | LENS BARREL AND IMAGING DEVICE - A lens barrel is a lens barrel that can be mounted to a camera body, including a lens element, a lens support frame, an actuator, and an electrical contact. The lens support frame supports the lens element. The actuator is arranged to drive the lens support frame in an optical direction of the lens element, and includes a drive shaft and a detector configured to detect rotation of the drive shaft. The electrical contact is disposed on the opposite side from the actuator with respect to the lens element when viewed in the optical axis direction parallel to the optical axis of the lens element, and is configured to be electrically connected with the camera body. | 06-27-2013 |
20130163308 | METHOD OF PROGRAMMING VARIABLE RESISTANCE ELEMENT, METHOD OF INITIALIZING VARIABLE RESISTANCE ELEMENT, AND NONVOLATILE STORAGE DEVICE - Programming a variable resistance element includes: a writing step of applying a writing voltage pulse to transition metal oxide comprising two stacked metal oxide layers to decrease resistance of the metal oxide, each metal oxide layer having different oxygen deficiency; and an erasing step of applying an erasing voltage pulse, of different polarity than the writing pulse, to the metal oxide to increase resistance of the metal oxide. |Vw | 06-27-2013 |
20130163398 | MEDICAL-DATA MANAGEMENT DEVICE - A medical-data management device includes: a medical data determination unit | 06-27-2013 |
20130163548 | TERMINAL APPARATUS FOR BROADCASTING SIGNAL CONTAINING PREDETERMINED INFORMATION - A RF unit and a modem unit receive a packet signal from a base station apparatus, the packet signal containing information on a frame structure in a first period in a frame containing at least the first period and a second period. An extraction unit specifies the second period in the frame based on the received packet signal. A setting unit sets a wait time in the specified second period. A carrier sense unit performs carrier sensing for the set wait time. The modem unit and the RF unit broadcast a packet signal based on a carrier sensing result. | 06-27-2013 |
20130163774 | NOISE REDUCTION APPARATUS - The noise reduction apparatus according to the present disclosure includes a plurality of loudspeakers, control sound signal generating units, and a plurality of error microphones. Each of the control sound signal generating units generates control sound signal based on the error sound detected by a corresponding error microphone of the plurality of error microphones. The noise reduction apparatus further including an input switching unit that, when a level of the noise at a predetermined position is higher than the predetermined threshold value, feeds an error audio signal at a predetermined control point of the plurality of control points or a control point that is newly set based on the plurality of control points into each of the control sound signal generating units, the number of the newly set control point being less than the number of the plurality of control points | 06-27-2013 |
20130164164 | SCROLL COMPRESSOR - In a scroll compressor of the present invention, a fixed scroll | 06-27-2013 |
20130164763 | ANALYSIS DEVICE AND METHOD USING THE SAME - An analysis device includes: a separation cavity | 06-27-2013 |
20130164771 | MEASURING DEVICE, MEASURING APPARATUS AND METHOD OF MEASURING - The measuring device of the invention includes: a first container and a second container for holding a sample; and an optical measurement part for carrying out an optical measurement. The first container has a first sample supply inlet for supplying a sample containing an analyte to the first container and at least one electrode. The second container has a second sample supply inlet for supplying the sample to the second container and a reagent holding part for holding a reagent for the optical measurement. | 06-27-2013 |
20130166146 | IN-VEHICLE DISPLAY SYSTEM - An in-vehicle display system includes a steering switch disposed at a steering wheel, an in-vehicle display having a display screen, and a touch panel covering the display screen. When an operator operates the touch panel, the in-vehicle display is operable to display a touch panel menu including icons on the display screen. When the operator operates the steering switch while the touch panel menu is displayed on the display screen, the in-vehicle display is operable to replace the touch panel menu with a steering switch menu to display the steering switch menu on display screen. The steering switch menu includes the icons arranged differently than the touch panel menu. This in-vehicle display system is suitably used to operate both of the touch panel and the steering switch. | 06-27-2013 |
20130166289 | VOICE EMPHASIS DEVICE - There is provided a voice emphasis device with which voice clarity can be improved. This voice emphasis device comprises a correlation component removal filter circuit that removes a correlation component from a voice signal produced at a specific sampling frequency, a multiplication circuit that produces an extracted signal by multiplying a specific gain coefficient by the output of the correlation component removal filter circuit, and an arithmetic circuit that adds or subtracts the extracted signal to or from the voice signal. The correlation component removal filter circuit is a lattice-type filter circuit that combines a feedforward filter and a feedback filter. The feedforward filter and the feedback filter update the filter coefficient at the specific sampling frequency based on the formula k | 06-27-2013 |
20130166613 | INFORMATION PROCESSING EQUIPMENT - It is an objective to diminish time required to read or write divided data. An information processing equipment that can be connected to a storage includes a division processing section for dividing original data into a plurality of sets of divided data and a storage location selection section that selects either the storage or a storage section of the information processing equipment as a divided data storage location and that stores the divided data into the selected storage location, wherein the division processing section determines a division ratio of divided data according to a data reading rate and/or a data writing rate of the storage location selected by the storage location selection section. | 06-27-2013 |
20130167084 | INFORMATION TERMINAL, METHOD OF CONTROLLING INFORMATION TERMINAL, AND PROGRAM FOR CONTROLLING INFORMATION TERMINAL - An information terminal includes: a display unit which displays one or more objects; a sensor unit which obtains a position of a first point and a position of a second point designated by a user on the display unit; and a control unit which selects, from among the one or more objects, at least one object displayed on a straight line determined by the first point and second point, and when the first point or the second point is moved along the straight line, moves the selected object in a direction corresponding to a direction of the movement of the first point or the second point. | 06-27-2013 |
20130167089 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE - The touch panel superposed over a display component outputs a operation signal upon receiving an input operation. A controller displays icons on the display component. The controller also detects the selection of the icons based on the operation signal. The controller displays menu category icons indicating menu categories, on the display component. The controller displays setting icons indicating setting categories included in the selected menu category, on the display component according to the detection of the selection of the menu category icon. The controller displays first information related to the selected menu category, on the display component according to the detection of the selection of the menu category icon. The controller displays second information related to the selected setting category, on the display component according to the detection of the selection of the setting icon. | 06-27-2013 |
20130168677 | FLEXIBLE SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING SAME - A method for manufacturing a flexible semiconductor device includes (i) forming an insulating film on the upper surface of metal foil, (ii) forming an extraction electrode pattern on the upper surface of the metal foil, (iii) forming a semiconductor layer on the insulating film such that the semiconductor layer is in contact with the extraction electrode pattern, (iv) forming a sealing resin layer on the upper surface of the metal foil such that the sealing resin layer covers the semiconductor layer and the extraction electrode pattern, and (v) forming electrodes by etching the metal foil, the metal foil being used as a support for the insulating film, the extraction electrode pattern, the semiconductor layer, and the sealing resin layer formed in (i) to (iv) and used as a constituent material for the electrodes in (v). The metal foil need not be stripped, and a high-temperature process can be used. | 07-04-2013 |
20130168678 | THIN-FILM SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE FOR DISPLAY APPARATUS AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING SAME - A thin-film semiconductor device includes: a substrate; a gate electrode above the substrate; a gate insulation film above the gate electrode; a channel layer above the gate insulation film, the channel layer having a raised part; a channel protection layer over the raised part of the channel layer, the channel protection layer comprising an organic material, and the organic material including silicon, oxygen, and carbon; an interface layer at an interface between a top surface of the raised part of the channel layer and the channel protection layer, and comprises at least carbon and silicon that derive from the organic material; and a source electrode and a drain electrode each provided over a top surface and a side surface the channel protection layer, a side surface of the interface layer, a side surface of the raised part of the channel layer, and a top surface of the channel layer. | 07-04-2013 |
20130168733 | SEMICONDUCTOR-STACKED SUBSTRATE, SEMICONDUCTOR CHIP, AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING SEMICONDUCTOR-STACKED SUBSTRATE - Disclosed is a semiconductor-stacked substrate having a substrate, and a plurality of semiconductor layers which are different in thermal expansion coefficient from the substrate, and are formed in a plurality of regions of a surface of the substrate, respectively. Each semiconductor layer has a growth plane that is a nonpolar plane or a semi-polar plane, and has different thermal expansion coefficients between along a first axis and a second axis orthogonal to each other and parallel to the surface of the substrate. The following mathematical formula 1 is satisfied. D | 07-04-2013 |
20130169127 | OUTER CASING FOR ELECTRIC DEVICE - A molded article having a flexural strength of 40 MPa or more and including a flame-retarded resin composition including a resin component containing 50% by weight or more of poly(lactic acid) and/or a lactic acid copolymer, and silica-magnesia catalyst particles as a flame retardance-imparting component which imparts flame retardancy, is used as an outer casing of an electric device, thereby providing an electric device which is earth-conscious and is less likely to generate a chatter noise, and also has an appearance of a high specular glossiness. | 07-04-2013 |
20130169146 | ILLUMINATION APPARATUS - An illumination apparatus includes an LED light source including one or more LEDs. A spectrum of lights emitted from the LED light source has a first peak wavelength in a wavelength band ranging from 380 nm to 470 nm and a second peak wavelength in a wavelength band ranging from 500 nm to 700 nm, and a half width of the first peak wavelength is set to be equal to or less than 20 nm. | 07-04-2013 |
20130169460 | DELTA-SIGMA MODULATOR, INTEGRATOR, AND WIRELESS COMMUNICATION DEVICE - A delta-sigma modulator includes: an integrator having an operational amplifier; a quantizer quantizing an output of the integrator; a first D-A converter converting an output of the quantizer to a current signal to provide negative feedback to the operational amplifier; a feedforward path feeding forward an input of the integrator to the quantizer; and a second D-A converter converting the output of the quantizer to a current signal to provide negative feedback to the quantizer. The integrator includes a resistive element having a first end connected to the input of the integrator and a second end connected to an inverting input of the operational amplifier, n capacitive circuits connected in series between the inverting input and an output of the operational amplifier, and (n−1) resistive elements each having a first end connected to an interconnecting node of the capacitive circuits and a second end connected to a common node. | 07-04-2013 |
20130169510 | INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM - The present information processing system processes information through communication between a first information processing device and a second information processing device. The first information processing device is provided with a device detection unit that, if the case where the first information processing device and second information processing device are in proximity or in contact, the detection unit detects the position of the second information processing device. The first information processing device is provided with a first monitor unit that displays information, a first selection unit that selects information displayed by the first monitor unit, and a first communication unit that transmits the selected information to the second information processing device if first selection unit has selected information and moved the selected information across a first region a screen edge of the first monitor unit in a selected state. | 07-04-2013 |
20130169702 | DISPLAY DEVICE AND METHOD OF DRIVING THE SAME - A display device including pixels has formed therein at least two drive blocks each made up of pixel rows. Each of the pixels includes: a drive transistor; a first electrostatic capacitor and a second electrostatic capacitor; an organic EL element; a first switching transistor provided between the source and the drain of the drive transistor; and a second switching transistor that supplies a signal current to the organic EL element. Each of the pixels in a kth drive block includes a third switching transistor provided between a first signal line and the first electrostatic storing capacitor, and each of the pixels in a k-th drive block includes a fourth switching transistor provided between a second signal line and the first electrostatic storing capacitor. A second control line for controlling conduction of the first switching transistor is connected to each of the pixels in a same one of the drive blocks. | 07-04-2013 |
20130169704 | IMAGE DISPLAY APPARATUS - An image display apparatus according to the present disclosure includes: an image display panel; a backlight device; a first optical element located between the image display panel and the backlight device and configured to deflect a light incident thereon; a second optical element located between the first optical element and the image display panel and configured to change a deflection angle of emitted light according to a voltage applied thereto; a plurality of first lenses located between the first optical element and the backlight device; a plurality of second lenses located between the second optical element and the image display panel; a position detection section configured to detect a viewing position of a viewer; and a control section configured to control the voltage applied to the second optical element, according to the detected viewing position. The first lenses and the second lenses constitute an afocal optical system. | 07-04-2013 |
20130170042 | OBJECTIVE LENS ELEMENT - An objective lens element having excellent compatibility with optical discs having different base material thicknesses is provided. The objective lens element has optically functional surfaces on an incident side and an exit side. At least either one of the optically functional surfaces on the incident side and the exit side includes a diffraction portion which satisfies at least either one of the following formulas (1) and (2): | 07-04-2013 |
20130170290 | SPIN DEVICE, DRIVING METHOD OF THE SAME, AND PRODUCTION METHOD OF THE SAME - The present disclosure provides a spin device including: a graphene; a first ferromagnetic electrode and a second electrode that are in electrical contact with and sandwich the graphene; a third ferromagnetic electrode and a fourth electrode that sandwich the graphene at a position apart from the first and second electrodes in electrical contact with the graphene; a current applying portion that applies an electric current between the first ferromagnetic electrode and the second electrode; and a voltage-signal detecting portion that detects spin accumulation information as a voltage signal via the third ferromagnetic electrode and the fourth electrode. The spin accumulation information is generated, by application of the electric current, in a part of the graphene that is sandwiched between the third and fourth electrodes. The first and third ferromagnetic electrodes are disposed on the same surface of the graphene, and the second and fourth electrodes are non-magnetic or ferromagnetic electrodes. | 07-04-2013 |
20130170448 | WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM PROVIDED IN AIRCRAFT FOR COMMUNICATING USING PLURAL WIRELESS CHANNELS - In a wireless communication system including a plurality of wireless stations provided in a structure having a radio wave shield arranged at a fixed position, at least one of two wireless stations using an identical wireless channel and two wireless stations using wireless channels adjacent to each other are allocated on both sides of the radio wave shield, respectively. In this case, the structure is an aircraft, and the two wireless stations are allocated on different aisles of the aircraft, respectively. In addition, the two wireless stations are allocated to be apart from each other in a longitudinal direction of the aircraft. | 07-04-2013 |
20130170606 | SHIFT REGISTER - A shift register includes unit circuits connected in multiple stages, each of the unit circuits includes: a final buffer unit having an output transistor; and a signal A generating unit which supplies a first signal to a gate of the output transistor, the signal A generating unit includes: a capacitor; a transistor which switches conduction and non-conduction between the gate the output transistor and one of electrodes of the capacitor by a voltage from a clock signal line; a transistor which switches conduction and non-conduction between the other of the electrodes of the capacitor and the clock signal line by a voltage from an input line; and a transistor having a gate connected to a fixed power supply line, and which switches conduction and non-conduction between the one electrode of the first capacitor and the input line. | 07-04-2013 |
20130170607 | LEVEL SHIFTER, INVERTER CIRCUIT, AND SHIFT REGISTER - A level shifter includes: an input terminal to which an input voltage is applied; a capacitor; a first transistor provided between the input terminal and one of electrodes of the capacitor, and having a gate electrode connected to the other of the electrodes of the capacitor; a second transistor provided between the input terminal and the other electrode of the capacitor; a signal generating unit which generates a signal for switching the second transistor between conduction and non-conduction and supply the signal to the gate electrode of the second transistor, in a period when the input voltage is provided to the input terminal; and an output terminal for outputting a voltage at the other electrode of the capacitor which is level-shifted by a change in the second transistor to a non-conducting state in the period as an output voltage. | 07-04-2013 |
20130171811 | METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING COMPOUND SEMICONDUCTOR - In a method for manufacturing a compound semiconductor, a silicon oxide film is formed in an upper part of a substrate made of silicon. Subsequently, a base layer made of single crystal silicon to which ions are implanted is formed by performing ion implantation to a region of the substrate below the silicon oxide film and performing a thermal process. Then, the base layer is exposed by removing the silicon oxide film. Finally, a GaN layer is formed on the base layer. | 07-04-2013 |
20130173037 | CONTENT TRANSMITTING APPARATUS FOR TRANSMITTING CONTENT WITH COPY CONTROL INFORMATION, CONTENT IDENTIFICATION INFORMATION AND CONTENT STATUS INFORMATION - A content transmitting apparatus and the like which execute copy control of content more securely than conventional, and can count copy number correctly according to the situation, even in the case where content transfer is interrupted are provided. The content reproducing apparatus for transmitting content that is digital copyrighted work including a plurality of content blocks includes: the content reproducing unit which reads out content and the like from the DVD; the control unit which repeats, for each of the plurality of content blocks, transmitting in parallel with the content blocks, the copy control information indicating copy permission of the content, the content identification information identifying content, and the content status information indicating status of the content blocks in the overall content; the data building unit; the transmission unit; and the like. | 07-04-2013 |
20130173966 | MEMORY CONTROLLER AND MEMORY ACCESS SYSTEM - A controller section outputs a first signal and a second signal holding a phase relationship with the first signal. The second signal is received by a memory I/F section via a FIFO memory of an error detecting section. The memory I/F section performs timing adjustment for the first and second signals, outputs the first and second signals after the timing adjustment to a memory, and loops back the second signal. A data comparator compares the looped-back second signal with the original second signal outputted from the FIFO memory and corresponding to the looped-back signal. | 07-04-2013 |
20130174411 | DISASSEMBLY METHOD AND DISASSEMBLY DEVICE FOR DISPLAY DEVICE - The present disclosure relates to disassembly of a display device having a panel module in which a panel is joined to a support member by joint member ( | 07-11-2013 |
20130174898 | THIN-FILM SOLAR CELL AND MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREOF - To improve the conversion efficiency of a thin film solar cell constituted by a pin junction-type thin film layer. Specifically, a thin film solar cell including a laminate which includes first diffusion layer made of semiconductor having p-type or n-type conductivity, a film-forming layer made of semiconductor having lower conductivity than the first diffusion layer, and second diffusion layer made of semiconductor having different polarity from the film-forming layer inside is provided. The first diffusion layer and the second diffusion layer have impurities distributed in a film-thickness direction with a concentration gradient. | 07-11-2013 |
20130175192 | CARRYING CASE AND SYRINGE SYSTEM WITH SAME - A carrying case, which accommodates a pharmaceutical injection device for administering a pharmaceutical to a living body, comprises a case unit configured to accommodate the pharmaceutical injection device therein and a temperature regulation unit configured to regulate a temperature within the case unit. The temperature regulation unit includes: a cooling execution section configured to execute a cooling operation; a cooling fan configured to supply a cool air into the case unit; and a cooling control section configured to control the cooling execution section. | 07-11-2013 |
20130175566 | NITRIDE-BASED SEMICONDUCTOR LIGHT-EMITTING ELEMENT - A nitride-based semiconductor light-emitting element includes a substrate and a nitride semiconductor multilayer structure. The nitride semiconductor multilayer structure includes a nitride semiconductor active layer which emits polarized light. Angle θ, which is formed by at least one of the plurality of lateral surfaces of the substrate with respect to the principal surface of the substrate, is greater than 90°. Angle θ | 07-11-2013 |
20130175586 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE - A method for fabricating a semiconductor device includes: forming a fin-type semiconductor region on a substrate; and introducing an n-type impurity into at least a side of the fin-type semiconductor region by a plasma doping process, thereby forming an n-type impurity region in the side of the fin-type semiconductor region. In the introducing the n-type impurity, when a source power in the plasma doping process is denoted by a character Y [W], the supply of a gas containing the n-type impurity per unit time and per unit volume is set greater than or equal to 5.1×10 | 07-11-2013 |
20130175937 | WIRELESS POWER SUPPLY SYSTEM FOR LIGHTING AND LIGHTING APPARATUS - A wireless power supply system for lighting includes: a power transmission unit including a power transmission coil; and a power reception unit including a power reception coil. The power transmission coil generates an AC magnetic field in response to a supplied AC power. The power reception coil receives an electric power from the power transmission unit through an electromagnetic induction due to the AC magnetic field generated by the power transmission coil. The power reception unit further includes a power circuit and a receive-side control section. The power circuit receives an output power from the power reception coil and to perform Buck-Boost operation so as to output a predetermined electric power to a lighting load. The receive-side control section controls the Buck-Boost operation of the power circuit. The power circuit is configured to be capable of boosting and stepping-down of the output power from said power reception coil. | 07-11-2013 |
20130176066 | LEVEL SHIFT CIRCUIT - The invention provides a level shift circuit which uses a low supply voltage level shift circuit as a first level shift element and a high supply voltage level shift circuit as a second level shift element and which is configured to switch these level shift circuits in accordance with supply voltage. The low supply voltage level shift circuit is in an operating state with its power supply turned ON when supply voltage is low and in a shut-down state with the power supply turned OFF to ensure the breakdown voltages of the elements when supply voltage is high. The high supply voltage level shift circuit is in a shut-down state with its power supply turned OFF when supply voltage is low and comes into an operating state with the power supply turned ON while ensuring the breakdown voltages of elements when supply voltage is high. | 07-11-2013 |
20130176393 | SIGNAL PROCESSING DEVICE AND VIDEO DISPLAY DEVICE INCLUDING THE SAME - Local control for high-quality 3D images is achieved while reducing circuit cost and extraneous radiation. A control signal is outputted to an LED backlight | 07-11-2013 |
20130176431 | IMAGE ENCODING METHOD, IMAGE DECODING METHOD, IMAGE ENCODING DEVICE AND IMAGE DECODING DEVICE - In an image encoding device, a predicted pixel generator generates a predicted value for pixel data based on at least one of pixels adjacent to a pixel to be compressed. A quantization processor quantizes a difference value between the pixel data and the generated predicted value to a quantized value having a smaller number of bits than that of the pixel data to compress the pixel data to the quantized value. In a quantization width determiner, an edge determiner determines whether or not there are both a flat portion and an edge portion, based on a characteristic of the difference value in the group, and an edge pixel determiner determines whether each of pixels included in the group is a pixel in an edge portion or a pixel in a flat portion, based on the difference value, whereby a quantization width used in the quantization processor is determined. | 07-11-2013 |
20130176447 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE CAPTURING APPARATUS, AND PROGRAM - An exemplary image processing apparatus generates an interpolation frame to be inserted between a first frame and a second frame, contiguous with each other, of a moving picture obtained by an image capturing apparatus. The image processing apparatus includes: a motion vector calculation section configured to calculate a motion vector of an object by performing a block matching operation between the first and second frames; and an interpolation frame generation section configured to generate the interpolation frame through a process performed based on a magnitude of motion of the image capturing apparatus from a point in time when the first frame is obtained to a point in time when the second frame is obtained. | 07-11-2013 |
20130176460 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE CAPTURING APPARATUS, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM - An image processing section includes: a motion vector calculation section for receiving information representing the magnitude of motion of an image capturing section and calculating a motion vector by performing a matching operation between first and second frames within a search range determined based on the magnitude of motion (a first search range and a second search range different from the first search range); and an interpolation frame generating section for generating an interpolation frame in accordance with the motion vector calculation result. | 07-11-2013 |
20130176487 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE CAPTURING APPARATUS, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM - An image processing section includes: a repetitive pattern detection section for detecting whether a repetitive pattern is present in at least one of first and second frames; a motion vector calculation section for calculating a motion vector by performing a matching operation between the first and second frames within a search range determined based on a detection result from the repetitive pattern detection section; and an interpolation image generating section for generating an interpolation frame in accordance with a calculation result of the motion vector. | 07-11-2013 |
20130176488 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE CAPTURING APPARATUS, AND PROGRAM - An exemplary image processing apparatus generates an interpolation frame to be inserted between a first frame and a second frame of a moving picture contiguous with each other. The image processing apparatus includes: a repetitive pattern detection section configured to detect whether a repetitive pattern is present in at least one of the first and second frames; a motion vector calculation section configured to calculate a motion vector of an object in the first and second frames; and an interpolation frame generation section configured to compare a repetition cycle of the repetitive pattern in a first direction with a magnitude of the motion vector in the first direction so as to generate the interpolation frame through a process performed based on a result of the comparison. | 07-11-2013 |
20130176541 | OPTICAL COMPONENT, LASER LIGHT SOURCE APPARATUS AND IMAGE DISPLAY APPARATUS EACH INCLUDING THE OPTICAL COMPONENT AND MANUFACTURING METHODS THEREFOR - A laser light source apparatus is provided that can prevent an output mirror from breaking and can simplify adjustment of the attachment position of the output mirror. The laser light source apparatus includes: a semiconductor laser that outputs an excitation laser beam; a solid-state laser element that is excited by the excitation laser beam, to output a fundamental laser beam; and an output mirror that forms a resonator together with the solid-state laser element. The output mirror includes: a base part formed of a glass substrate; a convex part that is formed in the base part by dry etching; and a groove that is formed in the base part around the convex part while the dry etching proceeds. The convex part has a convex surface on which a film is formed. | 07-11-2013 |
20130176562 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MEASURING CONCENTRATION OF BIOGENIC SUBSTANCE - A method for measuring a concentration of a biogenic substance in a living body includes steps of: preparing an apparatus including a light source, a substrate which has periodic metal structures and generates surface enhanced Raman scattering light by being irradiated with light from the light source, and spectroscopic means which disperses and detects the light, wherein the periodic metal structure is arranged with first and second distances in first and second direction respectively, the first distance is set to generate surface plasmon by matching a phase of the light from the light source, and the second distance is smaller than the first distance and is set between 300 nm and 350 nm; irradiating the substrate with the light from the light source to generate the surface enhanced Raman scattering; detecting the scattering with the spectroscopic means; and calculating the concentration of the biogenic substance based on the scattering. | 07-11-2013 |
20130176633 | PLASTIC LENS, METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING THE SAME, AND IMAGING DEVICE USING THE SAME - A plastic lens | 07-11-2013 |
20130176635 | LENS BARREL - A lens barrel is provided that includes an optical system, a housing, a cover member, an electronic part, a flexible substrate. The optical system is configured to form an optical image of a subject. The housing supports the optical system in an interior. The cover member supports the housing in a state of covering an opening of the housing. The electronic part is provided in the interior of the housing. The flexible substrate is electrically connected to the electronic part. The flexible substrate has a connection terminal. The cover member has a through-hole formed in a specific direction. The connection terminal is positioned on inside of the through-hole when viewed in the specific direction. | 07-11-2013 |
20130176962 | COMMUNICATION APPARATUS AND RECEPTION METHOD - It is possible to provide a radio communication terminal device and a radio transmission method which can improve reception performance of a CQI and a reference signal. A phase table storage unit stores a phase table which correlates the amount of cyclic shift to complex coefficients {w1, W2} to be multiplied on the reference signal. A complex coefficient multiplication unit reads out a complex coefficient corresponding to the amount of cyclic shift indicated by resource allocation information, from the phase table storage unit and multiplies the read-out complex coefficient on the reference signal so as to change the phase relationship between the reference signals in a slot. | 07-11-2013 |
20130176965 | WIRELESS COMMUNICATION METHOD AND TRANSMISSION APPARATUS - A wireless communication method for a transmission apparatus that transmits an OFDM (orthogonal frequency division multiplexing) signal using a communication band, which comprises a plurality of subcarrier groups each including a plurality of subcarriers. The method includes specifying which subcarrier group and how many subcarriers are to be used to transmit the OFDM signal, determining a configuration of a transmission frame, generating the OFDM signal by mapping data symbols according to the determined configuration of the transmission frame, and transmitting the generated OFDM signal. | 07-11-2013 |
20130176969 | INTEGRATED CIRCUIT FOR RANDOM ACCESS METHOD AND APPARATUS - A mobile station apparatus includes a receiving unit configured to receive control information; a selecting unit configured to randomly select a sequence from a plurality of sequences contained in one group of a plurality of groups, into which a predetermined number of sequences generated from a plurality of base sequences are grouped and which are respectively associated with different amounts of data or reception qualities; and a transmitting unit for transmitting the selected sequence. The predetermined number of sequences are grouped by partitioning the predetermined number of sequences, in which sequences generated from the same base sequence and having different cyclic shifts are arranged in an increasing order of the cyclic shifts. A position at which the predetermined number of sequences are partitioned is determined based on the control information, and a number of sequences contained in each of the plurality of groups varies in accordance with the control information. | 07-11-2013 |
20130176972 | WIRELESS COMMUNICATION BASE STATION APPARATUS AND CONTROL CHANNEL ALLOCATION METHOD - A wireless communication base station apparatus that allows the number of times of blind decodings at a mobile station to be reduced without increasing the overhead caused by notifying information. In this apparatus, a CCE allocation part ( | 07-11-2013 |
20130177072 | IMAGE CODING METHOD, IMAGE DECODING METHOD, IMAGE CODING APPARATUS, AND IMAGE DECODING APPARATUS - An image coding method, comprising: subtracting a prediction signal from the input image signal for each coding unit, thereby generating respective prediction error signals; performing orthogonal transform and quantization on a corresponding one of the prediction error signals for each transform unit, eventually generating quantization coefficients; and coding pieces of management information indicating a structure of the transform units and the quantization coefficients into a tree structure. Each of the transform units corresponds to a corresponding one of leaf nodes in the tree structure. In the coding, for each leaf node, management information and a quantization coefficient are coded, eventually generating a coded signal in which the coded management information and the coded quantization coefficient are arranged in succession for each leaf node. | 07-11-2013 |
20130177080 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE CAPTURING APPARATUS, AND PROGRAM - An exemplary image processing apparatus generates an interpolation frame to be inserted between two contiguous frames of a moving picture. The image processing apparatus includes: a motion vector calculation section configured to calculate a first motion vector by performing a matching operation between first and second frames, of a first frame, a second frame and a third frame of the moving picture contiguous with one another, and calculate a second motion vector by performing a matching operation between the second and third frames; and an interpolation frame generation section configured to generate an interpolation frame to be inserted between the second frame and the third frame through a process performed based on a magnitude of a difference vector between the first motion vector and the second motion vector. | 07-11-2013 |
20130177082 | MOVING PICTURE CODING METHOD, MOVING PICTURE CODING APPARATUS, MOVING PICTURE DECODING METHOD, MOVING PICTURE DECODING APPARATUS, AND MOVING PICTURE CODING AND DECODING APPARATUS - A moving picture coding apparatus includes an intra-inter prediction unit which calculates a second motion vector by performing a scaling process on a first motion vector of a temporally neighboring corresponding block, when selectively adding, to a list, a motion vector of each of one or more corresponding blocks each of which is either a block included in a current picture to be coded and spatially neighboring a current block to be coded or a block included in a picture other than the current picture and temporally neighboring the current block, determines whether the second motion vector has a magnitude that is within a predetermined magnitude or not within the predetermined magnitude, and adds the second motion vector to the list when the intra-inter prediction unit determines that the second motion vector has a magnitude that is within the predetermined magnitude range. | 07-11-2013 |
20130177287 | REPRODUCTION APPARATUS, IMAGE CAPTURING APPARATUS, AND PROGRAM - A reproduction apparatus which reproduces more appropriate frames when reproducing a moving picture with interpolation frame images inserted therein. A reproduction apparatus disclosed in this application is a reproduction apparatus for reproducing moving picture data including images of original frames and images of interpolation frames generated from the images of the original frame, the reproduction apparatus including a reproduction section for receiving the moving picture data and outputting the moving picture data to a display section, wherein the reproduction section selectively outputs image data of an original frame from the moving picture data to the display section based on an instruction from a user. | 07-11-2013 |
20130177292 | RECORDING MEDIUM, REPRODUCTION DEVICE, INTEGRATED CIRCUIT, REPRODUCTION METHOD, AND PROGRAM - A playback apparatus reads a byte-code application from a recording medium, and performs a playback control in accordance with the byte-code application. The playback apparatus includes a manager that selects a current title specified by an index table recorded on the recording medium. A display controller initializes a display rate of a display device using display rate initialization information, including a display rate applied to playlist information specifying video data, in an operation mode object corresponding to the current title. The operation mode object is recorded on the recording medium. A platform starts the byte-code application indicated in an application management table in the operation mode object. A graphics plane stores graphics data drawn by the byte-code application, and a playback controller plays back the video data specified by the playlist information selected by the byte-code application. | 07-11-2013 |
20130178606 | RECOMBINANT PROTEIN CAPABLE OF BINDING SPECIFICALLY AND QUICKLY TO TROPONIN I DERIVED FROM HUMAN MYOCARDIUM - Provided is a recombination protein which binds specifically to troponin I derived from human myocardium. The recombinant protein includes a light chain variable region consisting of the amino acid sequence represented by SEQ ID NO: 63; and a heavy chain variable region consisting of the amino acid sequence represented by SEQ ID NO: 65. | 07-11-2013 |
20130180750 | COVER ATTACHMENT STRUCTURE AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE - A cover attachment structure used in an electronic device comprises a frame that allows one of a first terminal cover for covering at least a terminal and a second terminal cover for covering the terminal and a second terminal to be mounted selectively so as to enable the terminal cover to be opened and closed, a protrusion that is provided to the frame so as not to interfere with the second terminal cover in a state in which the second terminal cover has been mounted to the frame, and that can engage with the first terminal cover, and a protrusion that is provided on the frame so as not to interfere with the first terminal cover in a state in which the first terminal cover has been mounted to the frame, and that can engage with the second terminal cover. | 07-18-2013 |
20130180804 | GRAVITY COMPENSATION DEVICE AND LIFT APPARATUS INCLUDING THE SAME - A link has first and second ends coupled, so as to be axially shiftable, respectively to two shafts that include a reference point located in a base and cross each other. A gas actuator has an inner space that has gas pressure pressing the first end of the link toward the reference point so as to shift the first end of the link such that a distance between a first end position of the link and the reference point is equal to or more than a distance between the first and second ends in a state where the inner space has a volume equal to zero obtained by extrapolating variation of the inner space volume relative to the first end position. The second end and a lift section that is vertically shiftable with respect to the base are coupled by means of a coupling section. | 07-18-2013 |
20130180836 | LEVER SWITCH - A lever switch includes a case, a lever, a wiring board, a sliding body, and a movable contact. The wiring board has fixed contacts and is disposed at an opposite side to the lever with respect to the case. The sliding body has a sliding part and a second arm part having a supporting portion, and is disposed between the case and the wiring board. The movable contact is mounted to the sliding part and has an end to be brought into contact with the fixed contact. A first arm part of the lever extends from the main body part through the case and the wiring board. The second arm part extends from the wiring board through the sliding part. The holding portion and the supporting portion are engaged with each other at an opposite side to the case with respect to the wiring board. | 07-18-2013 |
20130180837 | PUSH SWITCH - A push switch is configured to be mounted on an upper surface of a circuit board the circuit board having a land provided on the upper surface thereof and a side edge. The push switch includes a front section and a rear section. The front section includes a switch contact unit activated by being pushed in a predetermined direction, and is configured to be located outward from the side edge of the circuit board. The rear section includes a terminal connected with the switch contact unit the rear section extending from the front section, and is configured to be disposed on the upper surface of the circuit board. The rear section is connected with the front section, and configures substantially an L-shape in combination with the front section. The terminal is configured to be connected with the land of the circuit board. The predetermined direction is parallel to the upper surface of the circuit board. The gravity center of the push switch is located away from the front section in a direction in which the rear section extends from the front section. | 07-18-2013 |
20130181358 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE INCLUDING A FIRST WIRING HAVING A BENDING PORTION A VIA - A first wiring ( | 07-18-2013 |
20130181767 | SEMICONDUCTOR INTEGRATED CIRCUIT - A power generation block configured to generate internal power by a charge pump circuit and a power supply control block configured to control the power generation block are provided. First and second power supply interconnects individually separated from an external power supply interconnect are connected to the power generation block and the power supply control block, respectively. At least any one of the power supply interconnects is provided with a filter section configured to remove noise propagating through the power supply interconnect. | 07-18-2013 |
20130182145 | IMAGING DEVICE - An imaging device includes an imaging component, a position acquisition component, an attribute image data acquisition component, and a recorder. The imaging component is configured to capture a subject and output captured image data. The position acquisition component is configured to acquire a position of the subject, the subject being captured at the position. The attribute image data acquisition component is configured to acquire map image data as attribute image data from a map database, the map image data including the position of the subject. The recorder is configured to record the captured image data and the attribute image data in one file. | 07-18-2013 |
20130182229 | PROJECTION TYPE IMAGE DISPLAY APPARATUS - An opening cover of a case is removed. A light source module is held, and the light source module is pulled outside an opening of the case while guide groove parts and guide-rail parts slide along each other approximately parallelly to a case base. At this moment, junction cable connection terminals of the light source module become separated from power-supply connection terminals of a composite optical system. Replacement of a light source is conducted by replacing the light source module as a unit, or by replacing a light source section or a light source section each as a unit. | 07-18-2013 |
20130182669 | RADIO TRANSMISSION APPARATUS, AND RADIO TRANSMISSION METHOD - Provided is a communication device, which is enabled to improve the throughput of a communication system by reducing the difference of a transmission power between an SCCH and an SDCH thereby to satisfy the required quality of a PAPR. In this device, an MCS selection unit ( | 07-18-2013 |
20130182764 | IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD AND IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS - An image processing method of performing filtering on image blocks using a plurality of deblocking filters having different filter strengths includes: a first parameter calculating step of calculating a first parameter indicating a boundary strength; a second parameter calculating step of calculating a second parameter indicating a limit value for each of the deblocking filters, based on the first parameter and a quantization parameter; and a selecting step of selecting a deblocking filter to be used in the filtering from among the deblocking filters, using one or more threshold values which are determined based on the second parameter. | 07-18-2013 |
20130182846 | WIRELESS COMMUNICATION APPARATUS FOR SETTING FREQUENCY BAND FOR WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS USING ENCRYPTION KEY INFORMATION TO PREDETERMINED FREQUENCY BAND - A controller receives first or second equipment identifier from a first wireless communication apparatus, by using one wireless communication circuit of the third and fourth wireless communication circuit. When the one wireless communication circuit is the fourth wireless communication circuit, the controller sets an encryption key information for wireless communications with the first wireless communication apparatus, to encryption key information including an equipment identifier that does not coincide with a received equipment identifier among the received plurality of encryption key information, and controls the third wireless communication circuit to transmit and receive encrypted transmission data to and from the first wireless communication apparatus by using key data included in set encryption key information. | 07-18-2013 |
20130182860 | UNCOMFORTABLE SOUND PRESSURE DETERMINATION SYSTEM, METHOD AND PROGRAM THEREOF, HEARING AID ADJUSTMENT SYSTEM, AND UNCOMFORTABLE SOUND PRESSURE DETERMINATION APPARATUS - An exemplary uncomfortable sound pressure determination system including: a sound data generator configured to generate sound data concerning sounds consecutively ascending or descending in sound pressure from first to n | 07-18-2013 |
20130183045 | COMMUNICATION CABLE APPARATUS INCLUDING SWITCH TURNED OFF IN REVERSE CONNECTION STATE OF COMMUNICATION CABLE APPARATUS - A switch is inserted and connected between a first portion and a second portion of an HPD line. The switch connects the first portion to the second portion when an HPD signal is outputted to the second portion. The switch cuts off the connection between the first portion and the second portion when the HPD signal is not outputted to the second portion. An AND gate generates a connection state detection signal that represents the connection state of an HDMI optical active cable, and outputs the connection state detection signal to a switch. | 07-18-2013 |
20130184871 | ROBOT ARM CONTROL APPARATUS, ROBOT ARM CONTROL METHOD, ROBOT, ROBOT ARM CONTROL PROGRAM, AND INTEGRATED ELECTRONIC CIRCUIT - A robot arm includes a grip part which is structured to be separated from an end effector attached to the robot arm. When the grip part is gripped by the user and shifted, the robot arm shifts tracking the grip part. Further, the grip part includes contact sensors, and a tracking control method is switched according to the value of the contact sensors. | 07-18-2013 |
20130185910 | METHOD FOR DISASSEMBLING FLAT DISPLAY DEVICE - The present disclosure relates to a method for disassembling a flat display device including a panel that includes a pair of glass substrates each having display materials formed on a surface thereof, the glass substrates being arranged so as to face each other. In the disassembling method, rotation body ( | 07-25-2013 |
20130185996 | PLANT CULTIVATION STRUCTURE AND SOIL FOR PLANT CULTIVATION - There is provided a structure including water repellent sand obtained by applying water repellent coating to sand, a plant having roots that grow in the water repellent sand, and a plurality of water retaining layers scattered in the water repellent sand, such that each of the roots grows to reach at least one of the water retaining layers. | 07-25-2013 |
20130187133 | ORGANIC LIGHT-EMITTING ELEMENT, DISPLAY PANEL, DISPLAY DEVICE, AND MANUFACTURING METHOD FOR ORGANIC LIGHT-EMITTING ELEMENT - A planarization film is formed as a silicon oxide monolayer using, for instance, a spin coat method, through, for example, applying a silicon-containing organic solvent to an upper portion of a TFT layer and planarizing an upper surface of a resist film made up of a silicon-containing organic solvent, heating a predetermined processing fluid, e.g., peroxymonosulfuric acid, and discharging the processing fluid heated to, for example, 150° C., onto the planarized upper surface of the resist film such that organic components of the resist film are dissolved while silicon in the resist film is oxidized by the processing fluid. | 07-25-2013 |
20130187177 | DISPLAY PANEL MANUFACTURING METHOD AND DISPLAY PANEL - A method of manufacturing a display panel includes a sub-step of forming a photosensitive material layer for formation of a second layer on a first layer, a sub-step of disposing, over the photosensitive material layer, a photomask having a different degree of transparency in a first region and a second region thereof, the first region overlapping the photosensitive material layer, in plan view, at a location for formation of a second aperture, and the second region being a remainder of the photomask other than the first region, and a sub-step of exposing the photosensitive material layer via the photomask. In plan view, the area of the first region in the photomask is larger than the area of a first aperture in the first layer. | 07-25-2013 |
20130187477 | ELECTROMAGNETIC RESONANCE COUPLER - The electromagnetic resonance coupler includes: a transmission substrate; a reflective substrate; the first resonant wiring having an open loop shape having a first opening; a first input/output wiring connected to the first resonant wiring; the second resonant wiring provided inside the first resonant wiring and having an open loop shape having a second opening; a second input/output wiring connected to the second resonant wiring, the first resonant wiring, the first input/output wiring, the second resonant wiring, and the second input/output wiring being provided on the transmission substrate; and a reflection wiring provided on the reflective substrate and having a open loop shape having a third opening, in which, when viewed in a direction perpendicular to a main face of the transmission substrate, the reflection wiring and the first resonant wiring overlap and the reflection wiring and the second resonant wiring overlap. | 07-25-2013 |
20130187554 | IMAGE DISPLAY DEVICE - An image display device includes: an organic EL element, a first electrostatic capacitor, a driving transistor having a gate connected to a first electrode of the first electrostatic capacitor and a source connected to an anode of the organic EL element, a second electrostatic capacitor having an electrode connected to a second electrode of the first electrostatic capacitor, a negative power source line which determines the potential of a cathode of the organic EL element, and a scanning line driving circuit which controls a first switching transistor, a second switching transistor, and a third switching transistor. In a non-light-emitting period, the scanning line driving circuit sets, during a period from a start of a reset period to an end of the non-light-emitting period, a fixed voltage corresponding to the potential of the negative power source line to the source electrode of the driving transistor. | 07-25-2013 |
20130187819 | MAGNETIC SHEET AND PRODUCTION METHOD THEREOF, AS WELL AS ANTENNA APPARATUS USING SAME - A magnetic sheet that is omnidirectionally flexible, particularly one that is thin, reliably divided into small fragments and has flexibility, is fired in a planar shape. A magnetic sheet of the claimed invention includes: a magnetic body; a protective member provided on at least one face of the magnetic body; and a plurality of holes provided in at least one face of the magnetic body. The magnetic body is divided into a plurality of small fragments using the plurality of holes. The plurality of small fragments vary in shape. | 07-25-2013 |
20130187878 | INPUT DEVICE THROUGH TOUCH PAD - An input device includes: a receiving unit for receiving a contact position on an input region of a touch pad on which a user's finger touches; and an input controller for determining a direction of movement of the finger according to a predetermined determining condition based on the contact position on the touch pad received from the receiving unit and outputting the direction of movement, wherein the input controller manages the input region of the touch pad by dividing the input region into a plurality of regions and changes the predetermined determining condition for each of the plurality of regions. | 07-25-2013 |
20130187879 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE - An electronic device | 07-25-2013 |
20130187881 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE - An electronic device presents, to the user, a realistic control feel in response to a complicated operation such as an operation using multiple fingers. An electronic device | 07-25-2013 |
20130187906 | STEREOSCOPIC IMAGE DISPLAY CONTROL APPARATUS, STEREOSCOPIC IMAGE DISPLAY CONTROL METHOD, AND PROGRAM - A stereoscopic image display control apparatus includes: an output unit which outputs a stereoscopic image to a display device; an input accepting unit ( | 07-25-2013 |
20130188028 | PLAYBACK DEVICE, PLAYBACK METHOD AND PROGRAM - The present disclosure decreases or avoids tearing at a time when a stereoscopic image is updated, without increasing the capacity of memory. The stereoscopic image playback apparatus extracts a set of rendering requests for a left image plane and a right image plane from the BD-J application, and prevents a discord between update timing of an image for the left eye and an image for the right eye by adjusting an actual rendering timing or rendering order depending on an operation of an image output side. This enables an image update which relatively does not make viewers uncomfortable. | 07-25-2013 |
20130188408 | WIRELESS POWER TRANSMISSION SYSTEM AND POWER TRANSMITTER - A wireless power transmission system includes: a power transmitting section that converts DC energy input from a DC energy source into AC energy of a frequency f | 07-25-2013 |
20130188465 | OPTICAL READ/WRITE APPARATUS - In an embodiment, an optical read/write apparatus performs both the operation of writing data on an optical disc and the operation of reading data written on the disc. The apparatus includes: a motor which drives the disc; a first optical pickup which irradiates the disc with a first light beam, thereby writing data on the disc; a second optical pickup which irradiates the disc with a second light beam and detects the second light beam reflected from the disc, thereby reading the data written by the first pickup on the disc; an evaluation section which obtains a distortion evaluation value of a signal waveform representing the reflected light detected by the second pickup while the disc is being driven by the motor; and a control section which controls, based on the distortion evaluation value, the power of the first light beam emitted from the first pickup. | 07-25-2013 |
20130188684 | IMAGE CODING METHOD, IMAGE DECODING METHOD, IMAGE CODING APPARATUS AND IMAGE DECODING APPARATUS - An image coding method for coding an image on a block-by-block basis, includes: selecting, for each of a plurality of sub-blocks included in a coding-target block and each including a plurality of coefficients, a context for performing arithmetic coding on a parameter indicating a coding-target coefficient included in the sub-block from a context set corresponding to the sub-block, based on at least one reference coefficient located around the coding-target coefficient, the coding-target block being a transform unit; and performing arithmetic coding on the parameter indicating the coding-target coefficient using probability information about the selected context, wherein, in the selecting, the context is selected from the context set, the context set corresponding to a sum of (i) a value indicating a position in a horizontal direction of the sub-block in the coding-target block and (ii) a value indicating a position in a vertical direction of the sub-block in the coding-target block. | 07-25-2013 |
20130188685 | IMAGE CODING METHOD, IMAGE DECODING METHOD, IMAGE CODING APPARATUS, IMAGE DECODING APPARATUS, AND IMAGE CODING AND DECODING APPARATUS - An image decoding method for decoding a coded moving picture includes: switching a decoding order to either a fixed processing order or an adaptive processing order based on first information included in the coded moving picture; and decoding image data items included in the coded moving picture according to the decoding order switched to. | 07-25-2013 |
20130188800 | NOISE REDUCTION APPARATUS - A noise reduction apparatus includes a noise reduction amount calculator. The noise reduction amount calculator includes a difference calculator that obtains a difference between a level of the noise detected by a first noise detecting microphone and a level of the noise detected by a second noise detecting microphone when control sound is not output, a storage unit that stores the difference, an estimated noise value calculator that estimates a noise level that is to be detected by the second noise detecting microphone when the control sound is output, based on the level of the noise detected by the first noise detecting microphone when the control sound is output and the difference, and a reduction amount calculator that calculates a noise reduction amount on the noise reduction target position, based on the estimated noise value and the level of the noise detected by the second noise detecting microphone when the control sound is output. | 07-25-2013 |
20130188935 | OPTICAL DISK FOR HIGH RESOLUTION AND GENERAL VIDEO RECORDING, OPTICAL DISK REPRODUCTION APPARATUS, OPTICAL DISK RECORDING APPARATUS, AND REPRODUCTION CONTROL INFORMATION GENERATION APPARATUS - A high resolution video signal is divided by video division means into a main signal and a sub signal, and the main signal and the sub signal are MPEG-encoded. The stream of the main signal and the stream of the sub signal are divided into 1 GPO or more of frames. First interleave blocks each including 1 GOP or more of the stream of the main signal and second interleave blocks each including 1 GOP or more of the stream of the sub signal are recorded on an optical disk. A high resolution reproduction apparatus reproduces both the first and second interleave blocks to obtain a high resolution video output. A non-high quality picture reproduction apparatus reproduces only the first or second interleave blocks to obtain a standard resolution video output. | 07-25-2013 |
20130189537 | CHASSIS FOR ELECTRONIC APPARATUS - There is provided a thin-plate shaped chassis for an electronic apparatus, which has a plurality of step portions extended substantially in parallel with each other in such a way as to form at least one bulge portion which is bulged in a convex shape. The step portions are formed to have a larger thickness than that of other thin-plate portion having a predetermined thickness, and wherein there is provided at least one rib having a predetermined height which extends from the step portion to the thin-plate portion. | 07-25-2013 |
20130189687 | METHOD FOR MEASURING PYROPHOSPHORIC ACID AND SNP TYPING METHOD - One general aspect provides a method for detecting pyrophosphoric acid in a sample solution with high sensitivity and high accuracy by a small sensor element, and an SNP typing method. In the general aspect, a sample solution having a volume of more than that of a measurement cavity is supplied to the measurement cavity through a flow path, so as to expose a droplet from the opening. The droplet has a shape of sphere. The shape of the sphere is maintained by surface tension generated on a surface of the droplet. At least part of the sample solution contained in the droplet is evaporated so as to increase a concentration of pyrophosphoric acid in the sample solution included in the measurement cavity. | 07-25-2013 |
20130189832 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE AND MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREOF - A semiconductor device including a semiconductor substrate having a first conductive type layer; a first diffusion region which has the first conductive type and is formed in the first conductive type layer; a second diffusion region which has a second conductive type and an area larger than an area of the first diffusion region and overlaps the first diffusion region; and a PN junction formed at an interface between the first and the second diffusion regions. The second diffusion region includes a ring shaped structure or a guard ring includes an inverted region which has the second conductive type. According to such a configuration, it is possible to provide a semiconductor device having the required Zener characteristics with good controllability. | 07-25-2013 |
20130189893 | METHOD FOR DISASSEMBLING PLASMA DISPLAY DEVICE - The present disclosure relates to a method for disassembling a plasma display device including PDP ( | 07-25-2013 |
20130190791 | PUNCTURE NEEDLE CARTRIDGE AND LANCET FOR BLOOD COLLECTION - A lancet is pressed against a puncture needle cartridge while fitting a puncture needle loading inlet of the lancet to the axis of a puncture needle on the puncture needle cartridge. In order to facilitate the operation, one of plural puncture needles, arranged in parallel, is tilted up from its initial position at a predetermined angle, and the puncture needle is guided into a puncture needle holding rod of the lancet. Simultaneously, the puncture needle is pressed up to a position where the rear end part of the needle pushes the bottom surface of a puncture needle loading chamber of the puncture needle holding rod, whereby the puncture needle is loaded. When discarding a used puncture needle, the puncture needle is inserted into a lancet guide member of the puncture needle cartridge, whereby the puncture needle is reliably captured to be discarded. | 07-25-2013 |
20130191438 | CONTENTS DISTRIBUTION SYSTEM, DISTRIBUTION SERVER, AGENT SERVER, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM - An exemplary contents distribution system includes a distribution server for distributing, to an information terminal, contents to which use right information for permitting playing the contents is set, and an agent server which distributes the contents to the information terminal in place of the distribution server when instructed from the distribution server. The distribution server includes a control unit for determining whether or not to execute surrogate distribution based on at least one of a load state of the distribution server and a load state of a network between the distribution server and the information terminal, and a distribution instructing unit for transmitting the use right information to the agent server and instructing the agent server to distribute the contents when it is determined that surrogate distribution is to be executed. | 07-25-2013 |
20130192055 | METHOD FOR PRODUCING DISPLAY DEVICE - According to the present disclosure, a display device has a casing including a back cabinet, a flat type display panel placed in the casing, backlight device ( | 08-01-2013 |
20130193311 | SOLID-STATE IMAGING DEVICE AND IMAGING APPARATUS - The solid-state imaging device includes an imaging region having pixel units two-dimensionally arranged, each of the pixel units including a photodiode formed on a semiconductor substrate. The imaging region includes, as a unit of arrangement, a pixel block having four of the pixel units arranged in a two-by-two matrix. The pixel block includes a red pixel detecting a red signal, a blue pixel detecting a blue signal, a white pixel detecting a first luminance signal, and another white pixel detecting a second luminance signal. A light attenuation filter is provided above the other white pixel to reduce transmittance of light in a visible light region. | 08-01-2013 |
20130193486 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE - A semiconductor device includes: a second nitride semiconductor layer formed on a first nitride semiconductor layer, and having a larger band gap than the first nitride semiconductor layer; and an electrode filling a recess formed in the first and second nitride semiconductor layers. The first nitride semiconductor layer has a two-dimensional electron gas layer immediately below the second nitride semiconductor layer. The electrode and the second nitride semiconductor layer are in contact with each other at a first contact interface. The electrode and a portion of the first nitride semiconductor layer corresponding to the two-dimensional electron gas layer are in contact with each other at a second contact interface connected below the first contact interface. The first contact interface is formed such that a width of the recess increases upward. The second contact interface is more steeply inclined than the first contact interface. | 08-01-2013 |
20130193841 | LIGHTING DEVICE - A lighting device includes a device body adapted to be installed on a surface of a room and first organic electroluminescence element modules including organic electroluminescence elements, the first electroluminescence element modules being held in the device body with light-emitting surfaces of the electroluminescence elements facing toward the surface of the room when the device body is installed on the surface of the room. The lighting device further includes a light-transmitting protection cover configured to cover the light-emitting surfaces of the first organic electroluminescence element modules. | 08-01-2013 |
20130193942 | CURRENT DRIVER CIRCUIT - A current driver circuit includes a converter part having a switching element and converting an input voltage into an output voltage; a current detector which generates a detection signal indicative of the current of the switching element; an input voltage compensating circuit which generates a compensation signal corresponding to the input voltage; a comparator which compares the detection signal and the compensation signal against each other; and a switch driver circuit which generates a drive signal. The drive signal turns the switching element off in accordance with an output of the comparator, and turns the switching element on again after a lapse of a prescribed time from the switching element being turned off. | 08-01-2013 |
20130194178 | DISPLAY DEVICE AND DISPLAY METHOD - A display device including a display unit that displays an image; an operation detection unit that detects designated positions on the display unit respectively designated by two or more fingers of an operator; an operation analysis unit that determines, when the operation detection unit detects that the designated positions are moving in parallel in a first region of the display unit, a position of a second region newly generated in the first region and a display direction of an image displayed in the second region, based on the designated positions and a direction of movement of the designated positions; and a display control unit that controls the display unit to display an image in the second region, according to the position of the second region and the display direction of the image displayed in the second region determined by the operation analysis unit. | 08-01-2013 |
20130194208 | INFORMATION TERMINAL DEVICE, METHOD OF CONTROLLING INFORMATION TERMINAL DEVICE, AND PROGRAM - An information terminal device according to the present disclosure includes: a plurality of sensor units configured to detect a finger for inputting operation to at least the information terminal device; a holding hand detection unit configured to detect a holding hand position that is a position of a holding hand for holding the information terminal device; and a control unit configured to select, based on the holding hand position detected by the holding hand detection unit, at least one sensor unit which detects the finger from among the sensor units. | 08-01-2013 |
20130194253 | STEREOSCOPIC IMAGE DISPLAY CONTROL APPARATUS, AND STEREOSCOPIC IMAGE DISPLAY CONTROL METHOD - A 3D tablet terminal ( | 08-01-2013 |
20130194441 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND IMAGING APPARATUS - An electronic device includes a first activation signal generator, a second activation signal generator, a third activation signal generator, a first controller including a first input terminal to which the first and second activation signals are input, and a second input terminal to which the first and third activation signals are input, a second controller that is activated by the first controller. The first controller activates the second controller when any activation signal is input. The second controller detects the first and/or second activation signal after completing its activation and executes a specific operation according to the detection result. The length of the first activation signal is set to not less than the time required for the second controller to become able to detect the first activation signal after the first activation signal starts to be output. | 08-01-2013 |
20130194456 | IMAGING DEVICE - An imaging device comprises a combination imaging mode. In combination imaging mode, recording-use image data is produced by capturing and combining a plurality of sets of image data. The imaging device further comprises a controller. The controller selects at least one set of image data from the plurality of sets of image data when it is determined in the combination imaging mode that the plurality of sets of image data are image data that do not satisfy a specific condition. The controller also produces the recording-use image data based on the one or more sets of image data. | 08-01-2013 |
20130194460 | IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE AND IMAGING DEVICE - Provided is an image processing device including: a 3D-NR unit that performs, using first image data and second image data obtained by capturing images at temporally different times, 3D noise reduction (NR) processing for reducing noise in the first image data; an edge detection unit that detects an edge strength in an image indicated by the 3D-NR processed image data; and a synthesization unit that determines, based on the detected edge strength obtained by the edge detection unit, a synthesis ratio of the first image data and the 3D-NR processed image data, synthesizes the first image data and the 3D-NR processed image data, using the determined synthesis ratio, and outputs synthesized image data obtained by synthesizing the first image data and the 3D-NR processed image data. | 08-01-2013 |
20130194489 | IMAGING DEVICE - An imaging device includes a flat printed substrate, a first lens barrel, a second lens barrel, a first rigid flexible substrate and a second rigid flexible substrate. The first rigid flexible substrate has a first flexible component, a first rigid component and a first electronic circuit component. The first flexible component is connected to the first imaging element and the first connector. The first rigid component is disposed in the rear of the first lens barrel. The first electronic circuit component is supported by the first rigid component. At least part of the first flexible component and/or the first electronic circuit component is disposed in front of the rear face of the flat printed substrate. At least part of the second flexible component and/or the second electronic circuit component is disposed in front of the rear face of the flat printed substrate. | 08-01-2013 |
20130194663 | STEREOSCOPIC IMAGE VIEWING EYEWEAR AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING THE SAME - Stereoscopic image viewing eyewear includes a left-eye shutter that controls a visual field of a viewer's left eye, a right-eye shutter that controls a visual field of a viewer's right eye, a distance determiner that detects a distance between the display device and the eyewear and determines whether the detected distance is smaller than a predetermined value, and a shutter controller that controls open and close of the left-eye shutter and the right-eye shutter based on the determined result of the distance determiner to cause the viewer to view the stereoscopic image when the detected distance is larger than a predetermined value, and to cause the viewer to view a non-stereoscopic image when the detected distance is smaller than the predetermined value. | 08-01-2013 |
20130194680 | LENS BARREL - A lens barrel includes a fixed frame, a rotary frame provided inside the fixed frame, a first frame provided inside the rotary frame, an electronic component provided inside the first frame, and a flexible printed circuit board connected, at one end thereof, to the electronic component and connected, at the other end thereof, to the fixed frame. A gear part is provided at an outer circumferential surface of the rotary frame. In the first frame, a first protrusion outwardly protruding beyond the gear part in a radial direction about the optical axis is provided at a position corresponding to the flexible printed circuit board in a circumferential direction about the optical axis on a side of the gear part opposite to the object in the optical axis direction. | 08-01-2013 |
20130194719 | CAPACITOR ARRAY AND SIGNAL PROCESSOR INCLUDING THE ARRAY - A capacitor array includes a plurality of comb capacitors sharing a common comb electrode. At least one of the comb capacitors has a comb electrode as a single base part. Each of the other ones of the comb capacitors has an electrode formed by coupling a plurality of base parts. In the other ones of the comb capacitors, a space between a wire coupling the base parts and an end of each of comb teeth of the common electrode, which is interposed between the base parts, is larger than a space between a base of each of the base parts of the plurality of comb capacitors and an end of each of the comb teeth of the common electrode, which is interposed between comb teeth of the base part. | 08-01-2013 |
20130194734 | RECEPTACLE AND PLUG - A DC receptacle has, in a housing, a pair of connection sockets with which a pair of connection terminals of a plug used in a DC electrical equipment is adapted to be detachably electrically connected. The DC receptacle includes a circuit opening/closing unit configured to open or close a power line; and a connection verification unit for verifying the connection of the plug to the receptacle. The circuit opening/closing unit opens or closes the power line depending on the connection state between the plug and the receptacle detected by the connection verification unit. | 08-01-2013 |
20130194830 | POWER SUPPLY DEVICE - A power supply device includes a transformer; a series circuit of two bidirectional switching elements connected between terminals of the commercial power supply and having a rectification function and a switching function; an LC resonant circuit connected between a primary coil of the transformer and both ends of one of the bidirectional switching elements; a rectifying element connected to a secondary coil of the transformer; and a control circuit for inputting a gate driving signal to the bidirectional switching elements. The power supply device performs synchronous rectification from the bidirectional switching elements. | 08-01-2013 |
20130194927 | ROUTER, METHOD FOR CONTROLLING ROUTER, AND PROGRAM - A router includes a buffer selection section for receiving a flit from an adjacent router and determining whether to store the flit on an input buffer or to store the flit on a bypass buffer. The buffer selection section executes at least one of a first control of, when a bypass process was performed, changing at least one of a transmission path and a transmission flow rate of data based on a transmission state of the router; and a second control of, when a bypass control section did not execute the bypass process, changing at least one of a transmission path and a transmission flow rate of data based on a transmission state of another first router at which data not subjected to the bypass process and data subjected to the bypass process by another second router are joined together. | 08-01-2013 |
20130195146 | INTEGRATED CIRCUIT FOR CONTROLLING RADIO COMMUNICATION PROCESS - Provided is a radio communication device which can make Acknowledgement (ACK) reception quality and Negative Acknowledgement (NACK) reception quality to be equal to each other. The device includes: a scrambling unit ( | 08-01-2013 |
20130195188 | IMAGE CODING METHOD, IMAGE CODING APPARATUS, IMAGE DECODING METHOD, IMAGE DECODING APPARATUS, AND IMAGE CODING AND DECODING APPARATUS - An image coding method with increased coding efficiency using a limited memory bandwidth includes: determining blocks usable for merging as merging candidates; determining a block to be used for coding a current block to be coded from the merging candidates; and attaching a merging candidate index indicating the determined merging candidate to the bitstream. In the determining of a block, when a motion compensation size of the current block is a bi-prediction-prohibited size and the merging candidates include a merging candidate coded using bi-prediction, a prediction image of the current block is generated using coding information for uni-prediction instead of coding information for the bi-prediction of the merging candidate coded using bi-prediction. | 08-01-2013 |
20130195207 | CODING DISTORTION REMOVAL METHOD, VIDEO ENCODING METHOD, VIDEO DECODING METHOD, AND APPARATUS AND PROGRAM FOR THE SAME - An image encoding and decoding apparatus includes an image encoder for encoding an input image and an image decoder for decoding a variable length coded signal. The image encoder includes a coding unit, a first decoding unit, a first coding distortion removing unit, a first storage unit, and a variable length coding unit. The image decoder includes a variable length decoding unit, a second coding distortion removing unit, and a second storage unit. In the encoding and decoding apparatus, a block size of a motion compensation block is smaller than a block size of the macroblock, a block size of a motion compensation block is larger than a block size of a transform block, and a coded motion compensation error of each of two adjacent motion compensation blocks located inside the same macroblock is zero. | 08-01-2013 |
20130195242 | METHOD FOR DISASSEMBLING LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY DEVICE - In the present disclosure, before disassembly of liquid crystal module ( | 08-01-2013 |
20130195303 | HEARING AID - With this hearing aid, when a battery case ( | 08-01-2013 |
20130195349 | THREE-DIMENSIONAL IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, THREE-DIMENSIONAL IMAGE-PICKUP APPARATUS, THREE-DIMENSIONAL IMAGE-PICKUP METHOD, AND PROGRAM - A sense of three-dimensionality and thickness is restored to a subject and a high-quality three-dimensional image with a low sense of a cardboard cutout effect is obtained, regardless of the cause of the cardboard cutout effect. In a three-dimensional image capturing apparatus (three-dimensional image processing apparatus) ( | 08-01-2013 |
20130195364 | SITUATION DETERMINING APPARATUS, SITUATION DETERMINING METHOD, SITUATION DETERMINING PROGRAM, ABNORMALITY DETERMINING APPARATUS, ABNORMALITY DETERMINING METHOD, ABNORMALITY DETERMINING PROGRAM, AND CONGESTION ESTIMATING APPARATUS - A congestion estimating apparatus includes an area dividing unit that divides a moving image into partial areas. A movement information determining unit determines whether there is movement, and a person information determining unit determines whether there is a person, in each partial area. A staying determining unit determines a state for each partial area. The staying determining unit determines the state as a movement area in which there is a movement of person when there is movement and there is a person; and determines the state as a noise area when there is movement and there is no person; and determines the state as a staying area in which there is a person who is staying when there is no movement and there is a person; and determines the state as a background area in which there is no person when there is no movement and there no person. | 08-01-2013 |
20130195426 | IMAGE EDITING APPARATUS AND THUMBNAIL GENERATING METHOD - An image editing apparatus includes: a processor that: (i) generates an editing information indicating a content of editing applied to at least one of frames included in a video stream, and performs an editing process in which the editing is applied to the at least one frame; (ii) specifies a subject frame to be edited from among the frames, based on the editing information; and (iii) generates a thumbnail for the subject frame to which the editing has been applied, and outputs the generated thumbnail. | 08-01-2013 |
20130195434 | PANNING DETERMINATION DEVICE, SHAKE CORRECTING DEVICE HAVING PANNING DETERMINATION DEVICE, IMAGING APPARATUS HAVING SHAKE CORRECTING DEVICE OR PANNING DETERMINATION DEVICE - A shake correcting device can correct a shake occurring on a target device. The shake correcting device includes an angular velocity detector, a DC component detector, a controller, a panning detector, and a storage unit. When the panning detector changes from a state in which the panning is detected to a state in which the panning is not detected, the controller controls the DC component detector to output the value of a DC component of angular velocity of the target device stored in the storage unit when the panning detector does not detect panning, and then controls the DC component detector to output a DC component based on angular velocity of the target device detected by the angular velocity detector. | 08-01-2013 |
20130196525 | CONNECTION CABLE - A connection cable includes a cable-side connector, a cable body, a cover member, and a locking member. The cover member is configured to define a gap between the cable-side connector and the cover member such that a bulb-side connector is fitted to the gap when the cable-side connector is connected to the bulb-side connector. The locking member includes a slide portion arranged to slide along an outer circumferential surface of the cover member. The slide portion is provided with a protrusion extending through the cover member and engaging with a locking hole formed in the bulb-side connector. The slide portion is configured such that, when the slide portion is caused to slide, the protrusion is moved away from the cable-side connector and disengaged from the locking hole. | 08-01-2013 |
20130196591 | COMMUNICATION DEVICE, COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, IMAGE PRESENTATION METHOD, AND PROGRAM - A communication device including an image capturing device having a RF-ID unit for performing proximity wireless communication with a RF-ID reader/writer connected via an infrared communication path to a TV. The image capturing device includes: an antenna for the proximity wireless communication; a data receiving unit receiving an input signal from the RF-ID reader/writer; a nonvolatile second memory storing at least UID and an execution program; and a data transmission unit transmitting the UID and the execution program to the RF-ID reader/writer via the antenna according to the input signal. The UID is used to identify the communication device, and the execution program is executed by the TV with reference to the UID. The transmitted UID and execution program are transferred to the TV via the RF-ID reader/writer. | 08-01-2013 |
20130198417 | ELECTRONIC APPARATUS - An electronic apparatus capable of operating as an USB function when being connected to a host device via an USB interface is provided. The electronic apparatus includes a storing unit configured to store a descriptor which is information indicating a function of the electronic apparatus, a sending unit configured to send the descriptor to the host device, a detector configured to detect a suspend signal that is output from the host device and indicates suspension, and a controller configured to perform predetermined processing based on the detection result, when the detector detects the suspend signal after the sending unit sends the descriptor to the host device, in enumeration between the electronic apparatus and the host device. | 08-01-2013 |
20130198535 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE - An electronic device can communicate with an external device according to a predetermined method. The electronic device includes a power switch operable to receive an operation for switching on and off the electronic device, a detector operable to detect a connection between the electronic device and the external device according to the predetermined method, and a requestor operable to request the external device to supply power. When the detector detects the connection between the electronic device and the external device with the power switch being ON, the requestor does not request the external device to supply the power in an establishing process for establishing the communication with the external device. When the detector detects the connection between the electronic device and the external device and the power switch is switched from ON into OFF, the requestor requests the external device to supply the power in the establishing process. | 08-01-2013 |
20130198536 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE - An electronic device includes a power input unit through which power from an external power source can be input, a battery connector that is electrically connectable to a battery, a device connector that is electrically connectable to a removable external device, and a power controller that controls supply of power to the external device from the external power source and the battery. When the external device is connected to the connector, the power controller stops supplying power from the power input unit and supplies power from the battery to the external device, before supplying power from the external power source to the external device. | 08-01-2013 |
20130199914 | PUSH SWITCH - A push switch according to the present invention includes a case with a substantially-box shape, a cover, a manipulation member, a movable contact point, and a spring with a substantially-U-shape. The case with the substantially-box shape is provided with a common contact point and a fixed contact point in its inner bottom surface. The movable contact point is swayably placed on the common contact point and is extended in a leftward and rightward direction. The spring with the substantially-U-shape has one end hitched on a lower surface of the cover, the other end slidably placed on an upper surface of the movable contact point, and a center potion being in elastic contact with a lower surface of the manipulation member. This enables to make the entire push switch have a reduced height and to certainly connect and separate relatively-larger electric currents of about several amperes therethrough. | 08-08-2013 |
20130200522 | METHOD OF MOUNTING SEMICONDUCTOR CHIPS, SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE OBTAINED USING THE METHOD, METHOD OF CONNECTING SEMICONDUCTOR CHIPS, THREE-DIMENSIONAL STRUCTURE IN WHICH WIRING IS PROVIDED ON ITS SURFACE, AND METHOD OF PRODUCING THE SAME - A method of mounting a semiconductor chip includes: forming a resin coating on a surface of a path connecting a bonding pad on a surface of a semiconductor chip and an electrode pad formed on a surface of an insulating base material; forming, by laser beam machining, a wiring gutter having a depth that is equal to or greater than a thickness of the resin coating along the path for connecting the bonding pad and the electrode pad; depositing a plating catalyst on a surface of the wiring gutter; removing the resin coating; and forming an electroless plating coating only at a site where the plating catalyst remains. | 08-08-2013 |
20130200775 | PLASMA DISPLAY PANEL - Provided is a high-efficiency plasma display panel having short decay time and high luminance and color purity. The plasma display panel includes a green phosphor layer emitting visible light when excited with vacuum ultraviolet rays, in which the green phosphor layer is formed of a green phosphor containing 30% by weight or more and 60% by weight or less of a phosphor represented by a general formula: dZnO.(2−d)MnO.eSiO | 08-08-2013 |
20130200940 | SWITCHING DEVICE - The present invention provides a switching device capable of further minimizing the ON resistance of a switching element. Switching element has field application electrode that is connected to semiconductor substrate with insulating film interposed therebetween. Field control unit of driving unit is connected to field application electrode and source electrode of switching element, and applies a bias voltage Ve between field application electrode and source electrode. Field control unit applies an electric field from field application electrode to a hetero-junction interface of semiconductor substrate, by applying the bias voltage Ve exceeding a threshold value to switching element. In short, in the ON state of switching element, the electric field that is applied from field application electrode to semiconductor substrate works to increase electron concentration in a channel region by a field effect and decrease the ON resistance of switching element. | 08-08-2013 |
20130200995 | APPARATUS FOR CONTROLLING VEHICLE OPENING/CLOSING ELEMENT - A system for controlling vehicle opening/closing element has a radiation block for irradiating near-infrared light to a peripheral region of an opening/closing element; a photographing block that photographs an image irradiated with the near-infrared light; a hand region extraction block that extracts a user's hand region from brightness of an image photographed by the photographing block; a motion detection block that detects motions of the user's hand from the extracted hand region; and a control block that determines whether or not the detected motions coincide with previously-set predetermined motions and that commands operation of the opening/closing element in accordance with the determined motions. | 08-08-2013 |
20130201040 | DECODING DEVICE AND DECODING METHOD - A decoding device includes an interface unit, a readout unit that reads out a file and recording medium management information from an external recording medium, a decoding unit that analyzes a read out file, a storage unit that stores file analysis information and recording medium management information, a determination unit that determines whether or not the recording medium management information pieces are the same when the external recording medium is connected to the interface unit, and a matching confirmation unit that, when the recording medium management information pieces are determined as being the same, determines whether or not the file contents match. When the determination results in a mismatch, the decoding unit generates new file analysis information and performs file decoding using the generated file analysis information, and when the determination results in a match, the decoding unit performs file decoding using the file analysis information in the storage unit. | 08-08-2013 |
20130201294 | IMAGING APPARATUS - An imaging apparatus comprises a first imaging unit, a second imaging unit whose use frequency is lower than that of the first imaging unit, an exterior case for housing the first imaging unit and the second imaging unit, and a brace mounting section mounted to the exterior case so as to be partially exposed to an outside. The first imaging unit, the second imaging unit and the brace mounting section are arranged so that a distance from the first imaging unit to the brace mounting section is longer than a distance from the second imaging unit to the brace mounting section. | 08-08-2013 |
20130201300 | IMAGING APPARATUS - An imaging apparatus that can connect with a | 08-08-2013 |
20130201389 | MOTOR CONTROL DEVICE AND IMAGING APPARATUS - A motor control device includes a counter that counts pulses output from a one-phase encoder according to rotation of a DC motor, and a controller that recognizes rotation number of the DC motor based on the number of pulses counted by the counter. After the DC motor is braked, the controller starts applying a predetermined voltage to the DC motor at first timing before the DC motor stops, and stops applying the predetermined voltage at second timing after the DC motor stops. The controller subtracts the number of pulses generated after the second timing from a value counted by the counter. The predetermined voltage is lower than a lowest voltage necessary for driving a driven object, and is higher than a lowest voltage necessary for rotating the DC motor against an attracting force between a magnet and a coil in the DC motor. | 08-08-2013 |
20130201412 | VIDEO DISPLAY APPARATUS - A panel of a plasma display apparatus includes a front substrate and a back substrate arranged in opposition to this front substrate, and an outer circumferential portion of the front substrate and an outer circumferential portion of the back substrate are adhered to each other by a sealing material. The panel is held on a front side of a chassis base portion of a chassis member. The chassis member includes a reinforcement portion having at least a first bent portion bent to a back side with respect to the chassis base portion at a position outside an image display area of the panel and inside the sealing material, and a first extending portion extending from the first bent portion to the back side. Occurrence of a crack of the panel due to drop impact, vibration, and external force can be prevented. | 08-08-2013 |
20130201413 | VIDEO DISPLAY APPARATUS - A panel of a plasma display apparatus includes a front substrate and a back substrate arranged in opposition to this front substrate, and an outer circumferential portion of the front substrate and an outer circumferential portion of the back substrate are adhered to each other by a sealing material. The panel is held on a front side of a chassis base portion of a chassis member. A conductive member fixed to an outer circumferential portion of the chassis member includes a first bent portion bent to a back side at a portion located inside a portion where the conductive member is fixed to the chassis member and a first extending portion extending to the back side from the first bent portion. Occurrence of a crack of the panel due to drop impact, vibration, and external force can be prevented. | 08-08-2013 |
20130201414 | VIDEO DISPLAY APPARATUS - A panel of a plasma display apparatus includes a front substrate and a back substrate arranged in opposition to this front substrate, and an outer circumferential portion of the front substrate and an outer circumferential portion of the back substrate are adhered to each other by a sealing material. The panel is held on a front side of a chassis base portion of a chassis member. The conductive member is fixed to a back cover of a casing by a first fixing member arranged inside a portion where the conductive member is fixed to the chassis member. The conductive member is fixed to the back cover also by a second fixing member arranged outside the portion where the conductive member is fixed to the chassis member. Occurrence of a crack of the panel due to drop impact, vibration, and external force can be prevented. | 08-08-2013 |
20130201425 | BACKLIGHT DEVICE AND LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY APPARATUS - Provided is a backlight device having: a light source element having LEDs and a lens expanding light from the LEDs; a housing containing the element; a diffuser plate covering an opening portion of the housing; and a reflection sheet reflecting light emitted from the element, toward the diffuser plate. The LEDs are arranged in one or more rows, at a central zone. The lens has an incident surface receiving light from the LEDs, and an exit surface from which the light goes out, being expanded. A plurality of the lenses are provided such that the arrangement intervals of the individual lenses at a center and edge regions of the light source element are narrow and dense, and the arrangement intervals of the individual lenses at intervening regions between the center and the edge regions are wide in comparison with those at the center and the edge regions. | 08-08-2013 |
20130201426 | BACKLIGHT DEVICE, LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY APPARATUS, AND LENS - Provided is a backlight device having: a light source element having LEDs and a lens expanding light from the LEDs; a housing containing the element; a diffuser plate covering an opening portion of the housing; and a reflection sheet reflecting light emitted from the element, toward the diffuser plate. The LEDs are arranged in one or more rows, at a central zone. The lens has an incident surface receiving light from the LEDs, and an exit surface from which the light goes out, being expanded. The incident surface is a continuous concave surface, and the projected shape thereof as seen from an upper surface of the lens is an ellipse centered on an optical axis of the lens. | 08-08-2013 |
20130201687 | LIGHTING DEVICE - A lighting device includes a device body attached to an installation surface, one or more surface light-emitting modules held in the device body, and a cover held in the device body in an opposing relationship with light-emitting surfaces of the surface light-emitting modules. Each of the surface light-emitting modules includes a light-emitting unit having a light-emitting body and a base unit fixed to the device body and configured to removably hold the light-emitting unit by an elastic force. At least portions of the cover facing the light-emitting surfaces of the surface light-emitting modules are made of a light-transmitting material. The cover is held in the device body by a force stronger than the elastic force. | 08-08-2013 |
20130201944 | RADIO COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, RADIO COMMUNICATION METHOD, BASE STATION DEVICE, AND TERMINAL DEVICE - A base station apparatus performs a radio communication with a terminal apparatus using a spatial division multiplex access method in a downlink. The base station apparatus includes a simultaneous connection information generation section that generates a simultaneous connection information data sequence, which includes a pilot sequence number concerning a number of a pilot signal assigned to another terminal apparatus. The base station apparatus also includes a multiplexing section that multiplexes a signal of the generated simultaneous connection information data sequence with a dedicated data signal which indicates data to be transmitted to the terminal apparatus. The base station apparatus further includes a transmission section that transmits, to the terminal apparatus, the multiplexed signal which includes the simultaneous connection information data sequence, and transmits, to the terminal apparatus, a unique pilot signal which is different from the aforementioned pilot signal assigned to the another terminal apparatus. | 08-08-2013 |
20130202024 | REPRODUCTION APPARATUS - A reproduction apparatus includes a setter configured to set at least one language, a separator configured to separate and output a video signal and an audio signal, a video signal processor configured to decode and encode the video signal, a first decoder configured to output a first center channel signal and a multi-channel signal generated by extraction of the first center channel signal, a second decoder configured to output a second center channel signal, and a selector configured to receive the first and second center channel signals and assign, according to a setting in the setter, the first and second center channel signals respectively to different outputs. | 08-08-2013 |
20130202044 | IMAGE REPRODUCING METHOD, IMAGE REPRODUCING DEVICE, IMAGE REPRODUCING PROGRAM, IMAGING SYSTEM, AND REPRODUCING SYSTEM - A image reproducing device decodes a moving picture stream having been subjected to inter-picture prediction encoding with a reference image memory accessed. A decoding processor performs variable length decoding of the moving picture stream on a picture-by-picture basis, and outputs an encoding parameter. A traffic analyzer estimates traffic to the reference image memory on the picture-by-picture basis based on the output encoding parameters. A reference image compression controller determines a compression mode in storing a reference image in the reference image memory based on the estimated traffic. | 08-08-2013 |
20130202138 | HEARING AID, HEARING AID FITTING MANAGEMENT SYSTEM, SERVER DEVICE, AND COMPUTER DEVICE - A hearing aid fitting management system comprises a fitting device, a server, and a client device that are connectable to each other in a network. The server stores hearing ability data received from the client device as a hearing ability certificate, produces a prescription number corresponding to the hearing ability certificate, and sends the prescription number to the client device. The fitting device sends the server the prescription number that has been inputted. The server sends the fitting device the hearing ability certificate corresponding to the prescription number received from the fitting device. The fitting device sends the hearing ability certificate to a hearing aid, and limits the settings in the fitting of the hearing aid to within the range of the hearing ability data. | 08-08-2013 |
20130202280 | IMAGING APPARATUS - An imaging apparatus includes an optical system, an imaging unit configured to capture an image incident thereon through the optical system, a shake detector configured to detect shake of the apparatus, a shake correction unit including therein a correction lens, and being configured to move the correction lens in a plane perpendicular to the optical axis of the optical system based on a result of the detection by the shake detector to shift an optical axis of the optical system, and a controller configured to control the shake correction unit to cause the correction lens to minutely vibrate, not based on the result of the detection by the shake detector. | 08-08-2013 |
20130203185 | METHOD FOR IMMOBILIZING A PROTEIN ON SELF-ASSEMBLED MONOLAYER - One molecule of the amino acid selected from the five kinds of amino acids consisting of cysteine, lysine, histidine, phenylalanine, and glycine is interposed between a self-assembled monolayer and a molecule of a protein. A method for immobilizing an protein on a self-assembled monolayer includes the following steps (a) and (b) in this order: a step (a) of preparing a substrate including one molecule of an amino acid and the self-assembled monolayer and a step (b) of supplying the protein to the substrate to form a peptide bond represented by a predetermined chemical formula as a result of reaction between the carboxyl group of the one molecular of the amino acid and the amino group of the protein. | 08-08-2013 |
20130203923 | OUTER CASING FOR ELECTRIC DEVICE - An outer casing for an electric device is obtained by molding a flame-retarded resin composition including a resin component containing 50% by weight or more of poly(lactic acid) and/or a lactic acid copolymer, of which each is an environmental resin, and silica-magnesia catalyst particles and a polyphosphate salt as flame retardance-imparting components which impart flame retardancy, wherein the combined content of the silica-magnesia catalyst particles and the polyphosphate salt is 10% by weight or less of the total weight of the flame-retarded resin composition. | 08-08-2013 |
20130204629 | VOICE INPUT DEVICE AND DISPLAY DEVICE - An voice input device includes a wave guide unit for guiding an incident sound wave, a microphone unit for converting a sound wave guided through the wave guide unit to an electrical sound signal, and a signal processing unit for processing the sound signal obtained by the microphone unit, using an acoustic characteristic given by the wave guide unit to the sound wave, in which, the wave guide unit has a structure which gives the acoustic characteristic that is different between direct sound, which is sound that reaches the microphone unit without reflecting off an internal surface of the wave guide unit, and indirect sound, which is sound that is reflected off the internal surface before reaching the microphone unit, and the signal processing unit determines whether or not the direct sound is input based on a difference in the acoustic characteristic between the direct sound and the indirect sound. | 08-08-2013 |
20130205057 | EXCLUSIVE CONTROL METHOD OF RESOURCE AND EXCLUSIVE CONTROLLER OF RESOURCE - Under the circumstances that a lock object which performs a restriction control on an exclusive use of a sharable resource is granting a second information processor a right of prior use of the sharable resource over a first information processor, a time length of exclusive use during which the sharable resource is exclusively used by the second information processor is measured when an attempt to acquire the right of prior use requested by the first information processor for the lock object fails, and least two standby operations are set, the at least two standby operations being carried out by the first information processor until the right of prior use of the sharable resource granted to the second information processor is no longer valid, and the time length of exclusive use is compared to a decision threshold value preset for evaluation of the time length of exclusive use so that one of the standby operations suitable for a comparison result is selected. | 08-08-2013 |