Patent application number | Description | Published |
20090222147 | TEMPERATURE CONTROLLING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, AND RECORDING MEDIUM - A temperature controlling apparatus determines a fan rotation speed from a surrounding noise and a fan noise, measures a temperature of a large scale integration (LSI) device or the like that is a controlled object, determines, in a cooling capacity range of the determined fan rotation speed, an operating clock frequency that falls within an allowable temperature range, and controls the LSI to be connected. | 09-03-2009 |
20090245217 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS - An information processing apparatus includes a storage unit including plural memory banks, a wireless communication unit for executing the wireless communication process, a communication quality information storage unit for storing the communication quality information indicating the communication quality of the wireless communication unit in the case where one of the plural memory banks is used, a memory bank selection unit for selecting the memory bank based on the communication quality information stored in the communication quality information storage unit in the case where the wireless communication process is executed by the wireless communication unit, and a memory bank switching unit for switching to the memory bank selected by the memory bank selection unit. | 10-01-2009 |
20100162008 | Information processing device, information processing system, program and controller - An information processing device is provided. The information processing device which operates upon receipt of power supply from a power unit connected to an alternative current power source or from a battery includes an obtaining unit which obtains load information of parts included in the information processing device itself, a deciding unit which decides a voltage value to be supplied by the power unit which supplies electric power to the information processing device, based on the load information obtained by the obtaining unit, and an output unit which outputs a signal relative to the voltage value decided by the deciding unit to the power unit. | 06-24-2010 |
20100169674 | POWER-SOURCE CONTROL SYSTEM AND POWER-SOURCE CONTROL METHOD - A power-source control system and method which calculates required power representing electric power to be supplied to an information processing apparatus, supplies electric power corresponding to the required power calculated, controls the power-source apparatus, generates frequency information representing an operating frequency to be determined by the frequency controller in accordance with a load of a CPU, and changes the operating frequency of the CPU by assigning the operating frequency represented by the frequency information to the CPU when the electric power to be used in the information processing apparatus is adjusted using the required power calculated. | 07-01-2010 |
20100201306 | CHARGING SYSTEM, PROCESSOR AND FEEDER - A charging system including: a processor that includes a containing part for selectively containing either one of a secondary battery of a first type and a secondary battery of a second type capable of being rapidly charged with an electrical quantity greater than that of the secondary battery of the first type, and that carries out processing using, as a power source, the secondary battery contained in the containing part; and a feeder for feeding power to the processor so as to charge the secondary battery, wherein the processor includes: a determination part for determining whether or not the contained secondary battery needs to be charged; a battery detection part for detecting the type of the contained secondary battery when it is determined that the secondary battery needs to be charged; and a transmission part for transmitting, to the feeder, a feed instruction. | 08-12-2010 |
20100264746 | WIRELESS POWER TRANSMITTING SYSTEM, POWER RECEIVING STATION, POWER TRANSMITTING STATION, AND RECORDING MEDIUM - A wireless power transmitting system that transmits power from a power transmitting station to a power receiving station wirelessly includes the power receiving station. The power receiving station includes a unit receiving power from the power transmitting station, a unit obtaining a level of power received through the antenna, a unit obtaining a level of power consumed by the device operating while being supplied with received power and a unit transmitting the received power level and the power consuming level to the power transmitting station wirelessly. The power transmitting station includes a unit receiving the received power level and the power consuming level from the power receiving station wirelessly, a unit controlling the level of power transmitted through the transmitting antenna based on the difference between the received power level and the received power consuming level, and a unit transmitting power to the power receiving station wirelessly. | 10-21-2010 |
20100325465 | POWER MANAGEMENT APPARATUS AND METHOD - An information processing apparatus and method include measuring power consumptions of devices and outputting power consumption data, receiving operational conditions of the devices for measuring the power consumptions of the devices, setting the operational conditions of the devices according to application-setting conditions, and executing an application program to measure reference power consumptions for executing the application program. The information processing apparatus includes a power consumption data-transmitting section transmitting power consumption data, a normalized power consumption-calculating section receiving normalized reference power consumption calculated from reference power consumptions of information processing apparatuses, and calculating normalized power consumption from the normalized reference power consumption and the reference power consumptions. | 12-23-2010 |
20110231860 | LOAD DISTRIBUTION SYSTEM - A load distribution system for allocating a job to one of a plurality of arithmetic devices includes a temperature data acquirer, a candidate selector, and a job allocator. The temperature data acquirer acquires temperature data indicating temperature of each of the plurality of arithmetic devices. The candidate selector selects at least one of the plurality of arithmetic devices as a candidate for a device to which the job is to be allocated. The job allocator allocates the job to the selected candidate. | 09-22-2011 |
20130262904 | STORAGE APPARATUS AND METHOD OF DETERMINING DEVICE TO BE ACTIVATED - In a storage apparatus, a calculation unit calculates first power consumption by adding the power consumption of a first storage device not in use to the total power consumption of a plurality of storage devices in operation, and calculates second power consumption by adding the power consumption of a second storage device not in use to the total power consumption of the plurality of storage devices in operation, and subtracting therefrom the power consumption of one of the plurality of storage devices in operation, from which data is movable to the second storage device. A determination unit determines to activate the first storage device when the second power consumption is not lower than the first power consumption, and determines to activate, the second storage device when the second power consumption is lower than the first power consumption. | 10-03-2013 |
20140379963 | STORAGE SYSTEM, STORAGE DEVICE, AND CONTROL METHOD OF STORAGE SYSTEM - The storage device includes multiple NAND devices each of which performs a process on the basis of a command; a command management unit that issues the command from a host to one of the NAND devices specified by the command and that sends an issue completion notification of the issued command to the host; and a state notifying unit that notifies, based on whether each of the NAND devices performs a predetermined process, the host whether each of the NAND devices is ready to accept the command. The host includes a NAND control unit that selects one of the NAND devices that is ready to accept the command based on the notification from the state notifying unit when the issue completion notification is received and sends, to the command management unit, a command to allow the selected one of the NAND devices to perform the process. | 12-25-2014 |
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20090112506 | TEMPERATURE DETECTION CONTROL APPARATUS AND IMAGING APPARATUS HAVING THE SAME - A temperature detection control apparatus including: a temperature detection means for detecting temperature of a heat generating section; a recording means for recording detected temperatures and detection times from the temperature detection means; a prediction means for predicting an attainment prediction time till attaining a predetermined temperature based on the detected temperatures and the detection times recorded in the recording means; and a control means for, in effecting switching control of a time interval of temperature detections at the temperature detection means in accordance with a plurality of predetermined temperature ranges, setting a shorter time as the time interval of the temperature detections at the temperature detection means in the highest-temperature predetermined temperature range of the plurality of predetermined temperature ranges as compared to the other predetermined temperature ranges. | 04-30-2009 |
20110125429 | ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD DISTRIBUTION MEASURING METHOD, APPARATUS FOR THE METHOD, COMPUTER PROGRAM AND INFORMATION RECORDING MEDIUM - Electromagnetic field distribution is measured by considering time variations of a measured electric and/or magnetic field value. In response to scanning performed with a probe at an arbitrary set of measurement coordinates in a predetermined measurement plane in the vicinity of an object to be measured, a signal is detected at each of plural sets of coordinates in a measurement plane. Electric and magnetic fields are computed during a measurement time period at each set of measurement coordinates in the measurement plane based on measurement coordinates where the probe is positioned and the signal is detected with the probe. Amplitude probability distribution during the time period at each set of measurement coordinates in the vicinity of the object is computed based on the computed intensity, then mapped and displayed. | 05-26-2011 |
20130235175 | ENDOSCOPE SYSTEM - Provided is an endoscope system in which an insertion unit includes a distal end, an optical fiber cable configured to transmit a first image signal output by an image signal generating unit as an optical signal, and an electric cable configured to transmit the second image signal output by the image signal generating unit as an electrical signal. An image signal processing unit performs image processing of any one of the first image signal or the second image signal transmitted by the insertion unit. A scope distal end includes an imaging unit configured to include a plurality of pixels to output a pixel signal, and the image signal generating unit configured to generate the first image signal and the second image signal having a data volume smaller than that of the first image signal using the pixel signal output by the imaging unit. | 09-12-2013 |
20130238264 | MEASUREMENT DEVICE FOR IDENTIFYING ELECTROMAGNETIC INTERFERENCE SOURCE, METHOD FOR ESTIMATING THE SAME, AND COMPUTER READABLE INFORMATION RECORDING MEDIUM ENABLING OPERATIONS THEREOF - With regard to EMC problems resulting from interference electromagnetic wave emitted from a subject electronic device, a source of interference electromagnetic wave is accurately located by measuring near-field electromagnetic wave emitted from the subject electronic device. The waveform of an electromagnetic wave received by an antenna under interference is compared with the waveform of an electromagnetic wave detected by a sensor, which moves across a vicinity of the subject electronic device, and when the temporal changes in amplitudes of these waveforms coincide with each other, or when a phase difference between the signals is found fairly constant over time, the position of the sensor at which such condition is found and/or the vicinity thereof is identified as the location of a source of the interference electromagnetic wave. | 09-12-2013 |