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20130065684 | GAME APPARATUS, GAME SYSTEM, AND STORING MEDIUM STORING GAME PROGRAM IN WHICH DISPLAY IS DIVIDED BETWEEN PLAYERS - A game apparatus that includes a CPU and in which a plurality of players participate and play a game on a display screen displayed on a common display device. A display area is divided by the number of participating players, and the divided areas are allotted to each player. In addition, an evaluating value is set according to a superiority or inferiority situation of a play content of each player, a size of the divided areas are changed based on the evaluating value, and the display screen in correspondence with a change of the divided areas is generated and displayed. Furthermore, when there is a player who reaches game-over, the display area is re-divided by the number of remaining players. | 03-14-2013 |
20130191540 | COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM RECORDED WITH INFORMATION PROCESSING PROGRAM, INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM, AND INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD - An example method includes: transmitting content data to a server that determines whether to permit or deny transmission of storage location information indicating a storage location of the content data; receiving the storage location information from the server; and transmitting the storage location information to another information processing device. | 07-25-2013 |
20130249953 | COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIUM, INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM, AND DISPLAY CONTROL METHOD - An example system causes a computer to execute: operation acceptance for accepting a first movement operation to move an object displayed in a folder area to a buffer area and a second movement operation to return the object moved to the buffer area, to the folder area; and display control in which when the first movement operation is accepted, an object in a selected state among the objects displayed arranged in the folder area is moved to the buffer area, and when the second movement operation is accepted, at least one of the objects displayed in the buffer area is moved to a predetermined position in the folder area in an order in accordance with a movement order of the first movement operation. | 09-26-2013 |
20140278872 | CONTENT SHARING SYSTEM, CONTENT SHARING SERVER APPARATUS, CONTENT SHARING METHOD AND RECORDING MEDIUM - An example system includes: a terminal device accepting operation of contributing content by a contributor or operation by an evaluator of evaluating published content or a contributor who contributed the content; and a content sharing server apparatus having a content contribution acceptance unit accepting a contribution of content from a contributor through communication with the terminal device, an evaluation acceptance unit accepting an evaluation, for the contributed content or the contributor who contributed the content, from an evaluator through communication with the terminal device, and an evaluation reward giving unit giving a reward to the evaluator who made the evaluation accepted by the evaluation acceptance unit. | 09-18-2014 |
20140278873 | CONTENT SHARING SYSTEM, CONTENT SHARING SERVER APPARATUS, CONTENT SHARING METHOD AND RECORDING MEDIUM - An example system includes: a terminal device accepting operation of contributing content by a contributor or accepting operation by an evaluator of evaluating published content or a contributor who contributed content; and a content sharing server apparatus having a value information providing unit providing value information to a user, a content contribution acceptance unit accepting contribution of content from a contributor through communication with the terminal device, and an evaluation acceptance unit accepting an evaluation, for contributed content or a contributor who contributed content, from an evaluator with reduction in value of the value information through communication with the terminal device. | 09-18-2014 |
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20110228517 | LED LAMP - An LED lamp A | 09-22-2011 |
20110297971 | LED LIGHTING DEVICE - An LED lighting device A | 12-08-2011 |
20120020087 | LIGHT EMITTING DIODE LAMP AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING THE SAME - A light emitting diode (LED) lamp includes a plurality of LED chips and a heat dissipation member configured to dissipate heat generated from the LED chips. The heat dissipation member includes a tubular unit having a constant cross-section perpendicular to an axial direction, and a plurality of fins, each of which extends outwardly from the tubular unit and extends in the axial direction, having a constant thickness in the axial direction. | 01-26-2012 |
20120182734 | LED ILLUMINATION UNIT, LED ILLUMINATION DEVICE, AND LED ILLUMINATION SYSTEM - The present invention provides an LED (Light Emitting Diode) illumination unit, an LED illumination device, and an LED illumination system with better visual effect. The LED illumination unit includes: a substrate, having a carrying surface with an x direction as a length direction and a y direction as a width direction and facing a z direction; a plurality of LED chips, supported by the carrying surface of the substrate; a casing, allowing the light emitted from the LED chips to penetrate and covering the LED chips; and a heat dissipation component, having a pair of outside surfaces being planar, and mounted with the substrate and the casing, wherein the pair of outside surfaces is configured opposite and parallel to each other in the y direction at an interval, and is longer than the substrate in the x direction. | 07-19-2012 |
20120250305 | LED BULB - An LED bulb includes one or more light emitting parts including one or more LED chips, a mount including a bulging portion in which one or more mounting surfaces on which the one or more light emitting parts are mounted are formed, a base attached to the mount, and a globe which covers the bulging portion and transmits light. | 10-04-2012 |
20130003361 | LED LIGHTBULB - An LED lightbulb is configured to properly illuminate a broader region. The LED lightbulb includes a light emitting unit, a pedestal, a power source unit, a heat dissipator, a base, and a globe swelling toward one side in a first direction for enclosing the light emitting unit. The globe is configured to diffusingly transmit light from the light emitting unit. The light emitting unit provides a light amount not less than 50% of the maximum light amount in a region not exceeding ±60° about the central axis extending in the first direction set as 0°. The globe provides a light amount not less than 50% in a region exceeding ±125° about the central axis set as 0°. | 01-03-2013 |
20130265752 | LED LAMP AND LENS UNIT THEREFOR - An LED lamp includes: a plurality of light source units, each of which includes one or more LED chips and an emission surface through which light from the LED chips is emitted; and a lens unit having a plurality of lenses, each of which is located in front of the emission surface of each of the plurality of light source units. | 10-10-2013 |
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20100328376 | IMAGE RECORDING DEVICE - An image recording device for recording an image by an interlace system of scanning a specified region repeatedly with use of an ink-jet head having a configuration of a plurality of nozzle heads arranged in a sub-scanning direction, the nozzle head including multiple ink discharged discharge nozzles arranged in the sub-scanning direction. | 12-30-2010 |
20120182347 | INKJET IMAGE RECORDER AND METHOD FOR CORRECTION OF BELT CONVEYANCE - Provided are an ink-jet image recorder for recording an image precisely and a method for correction of belt conveyance mechanisms by controlling the roller drive on the basis of fluctuation of the conveyance rate caused by a particular failure in the endless belt. In the belt conveyor mechanism of the ink-jet image recorder, the method for correction of the belt conveyance comprises a position detection step (Step S | 07-19-2012 |
20120249644 | INKJET PRINTER AND EJECTION TIMING CORRECTION METHOD - A head includes first and second outlet rows, and records uniform images in check regions. In each uniform image, a combination of a first dot row formed with the first outlet row and a second dot row formed with the second outlet row while being spaced apart from the first dot row in a movement direction is repeatedly arranged with a repeat pitch in its direction. When recording the uniform image in each check region, a distance obtained by changing a reference distance, which is half the repeat pitch, by a set shift amount is assigned as a distance between each first dot row and each second dot row, the set shift amount being progressively changed for the check regions. A maximum density check region is specified, and ejection timing of the second outlet row is corrected based on the set shift amount corresponding to the maximum density check region. | 10-04-2012 |
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20090051408 | SWITCH FOR VEHICLES - Provided is a switch for vehicles, which includes an intermittent driving device connected to a control device which opens and closes a switching device based on the magnitude of the magnetism of a magnet mounted on an operating body. Therefore, the supply of power from a battery to a detection device and the control device is intermittently performed at a predetermined period by the intermittent driving device. | 02-26-2009 |
20090051409 | SWITCH FOR VEHICLES - Provided is a switch for vehicles, including a first switching device which performs the electrical connection/disconnection between a battery and a stop lamp and a second switching device connected to a control device which opens and closes the first switching device based on the magnitude of the magnetism of a magnet mounted on an operating body. Various controls such as auto-cruise control and so on as well as the turn on/off of the stop lamp can be simultaneously performed by the one magnet mounted on the operating body of the switch for vehicles. | 02-26-2009 |
20090153278 | VEHICLE SWITCH - A vehicle switch has a case, a movable body, a spring, a magnet, a detector, and an operating shaft. The movable body is reciprocably accommodated in the case. The spring pushes the movable body in a direction away from an internal bottom of the case. The magnet is attached to the movable body. The detector detects a magnetic flux density generated from the magnet. A lower end of the operating shaft is in contact with the movable body. The movable body has a press contact portion with which the operating shaft is in contact at a point or along a line. | 06-18-2009 |
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20080298779 | MOVING IMAGE COMMUNICATION DEVICE, SEMICONDUCTOR INTEGRATED CIRCUIT AND MOVING IMAGE COMMUNICATION METHOD USED FOR COMMUNICATION OF MOVING IMAGE - A transmitter transmits moving image data generated by an image generator to a communication line. A controller judges whether or not the moving image data can be transmitted based on communication status in the communication line. An image analyzer analyzes the moving image data and calculates an information volume thereof when it is judged by the controller that the transmission of the moving image data is not possible, and a storage memory stores the moving image data therein. A transmit image selector selects the moving image data to be read for transmission from all of the moving image data stored in the storage memory based on the information volume when a result of the judgment by the controller shows that non-transmittable status is changed to transmittable status and transmits the selected moving image data to the transmitter. | 12-04-2008 |
20080313683 | MOVING IMAGE COMMUNICATION DEVICE, MOVING IMAGE COMMUNICATION SYSTEM AND SEMICONDUCTOR INTEGRATED CIRCUIT USED FOR COMMUNICATION OF MOVING IMAGE - A communication processor sets a storage request signal to be effective when it is judged that a packet cannot be transmitted and sets the storage request signal to be ineffective when it is judged that the packet can be transmitted. A data processor makes a buffer memory store encoded data therein when it is confirmed that the storage request signal is effective. The data processor reads the encoded data from the buffer memory and transmits the read encoded data to a packet generator when it is confirmed that the storage request signal is ineffective and the encoded data is stored in the buffer memory. The data processor receives the encoded data from the encoder and transmits the received encoded data to the packet generator when it is confirmed that the storage request signal is ineffective and the encoded data is not stored in the buffer memory. | 12-18-2008 |
20120300836 | VIDEO SIGNAL CODING APPARATUS AND VIDEO SIGNAL CODING METHOD - A video signal coding apparatus includes a coding unit which codes and re-codes a video signal and includes: a coding processing unit which codes, slice-by-slice, a current picture indicated by the video signal, to generate coded data; an integration unit which calculates a code-integrated value indicating a code amount of the coded data; a coding result determination unit which determines that re-coding of the current picture is necessary when determining that the code-integrated value is grater than a threshold; and a re-coding control unit which specifies a slice to be re-coded, based on coding information indicating a feature of the coded data, when it is determined that the re-coding is necessary, and the coding processing unit further re-codes the slice specified by the re-coding control unit. | 11-29-2012 |
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20080261281 | Novel Carbonyl Reductase, Gene Thereof and Method of Using the Same - The present invention relates to a polypeptide having an activity to asymmetrically reduce (3S)-1-chloro-3-tert-butoxycarbonylamino-4-phenyl-2-butanone to produce (2R,3S)-1-chloro-3-tert-butoxycarbonylamino-4-phenyl-2-butanol isolated from a microorganism belonging to the genus | 10-23-2008 |
20080269329 | Process for Production of Microbial Fat/Oil Containing Discretional Amount of Diacylglycerol and Said Fat/Oil - In a process for the production of diacylglycerol-containing fat/oil where the ratio of diacylglycerol to the total neutral lipid is more than 20% by weight and a polyunsaturated fatty acid is a constituting fatty acid, a process which is characterized in that a microbe being able to produce said fat/oil is incubated and, if desired, said fat/oil is collected. | 10-30-2008 |
20090137012 | Process for producing lactonase and utilitzation thereof - It has been required to economically produce a large amount of optically active γ-lactone derivatives (for example, pantolactone), which are useful as intermediates in synthesizing useful substances such as pharmaceutical drugs. To achieve this object, it is advantageous to employ an enzymatic technique of asymmetric hydrolysis with a hydrolyzing enzyme lactonase. However, it remains troublesome to prepare the enzyme or utilize a microorganism capable of producing the enzyme. Also, it is difficult to obtain a sufficient and stable enzymatic activity in the case of using recombination techniques. In producing lactonase, which asymmetrically hydrolyzes a γ-lactone derivative such as racemic pantolactone selectively, by a recombination technique, both mature lactonase DNA and signal peptide region DNA are transferred into a host. Thus, a stable lactonase activity comparable to naturally-occurring one can be achieved and a transformant sustaining a high enzyme activity in a stable manner can be acquired, thereby allowing the efficient and industrially advantageous asymmetric synthesis of γ-lactone derivatives. | 05-28-2009 |
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20120196681 | GAME SYSTEM AND GAME PROGRAM MEDIUM - A game system is composed by connecting a game apparatus with a monitor and a percussion type controller. A game player beats a first beating operation surface or a second beating operation surface to input an operation signal from the controller to the game apparatus. In the game apparatus, in response to the operation signal, a player character in a virtual world displayed on the monitor is moved in a left or a right direction. Furthermore, when a sound, input by clapping and so on in the vicinity of a microphone of the controller, is present, the game apparatus generates a shock wave from a position of the player character. By the shock wave, a predetermined change occurs, such as returning an enemy character to its initial position, gathering fairies in a form of block, and so forth. | 08-02-2012 |
20130057574 | STORAGE MEDIUM RECORDED WITH PROGRAM, INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM, AND INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD - An example program causes a computer connected to a display device to function as: a rendering unit rendering a virtual object image by imaging a virtual object mimicking an object to be displayed with a virtual camera; a virtual camera setting unit setting parameters for the virtual camera; a switching condition determination unit determining that the switching conditions are satisfied when a shooting angle of the virtual camera relative to the virtual object becomes within a predetermined range; an output control unit outputting an image to the display device; and a switching unit switching the output image to be output by the output control unit from the virtual object image to an image for switching which is preliminarily obtained by imaging the object to be displayed from a shooting angle corresponding to the predetermined range according to the switching conditions, when it is determined that the switching conditions are satisfied. | 03-07-2013 |
20130059542 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND TANGIBLE RECORDING MEDIUM RECORDING INFORMATION PROCESSING PROGRAM - An example information processing apparatus which is portable is provided that includes a zone identifying unit which identifies a zone where the information processing apparatus is located, a reception status measurement unit which measures a reception status of a signal from at least one transmitter in the zone identified by the zone identifying unit, a transmitter identifying unit which identifies the transmitter as a source of the signal in which the reception status corresponds to a predetermined condition, and a processing unit which executes a predetermined processing according to the transmitter identified by the transmitter identifying unit. | 03-07-2013 |
20130265386 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, STORAGE MEDIUM AND INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD AND SYSTEM - An example non-limiting game apparatus as an information processing apparatus includes a CPU which causes the game apparatus to function as a guide apparatus. A map image of a place or area to be guided is displayed on a lower LCD. When a predetermined position on the map image is designated, a photograph image of a part of a panoramic image produced from a panoramic photograph taken at a real position in a real space that corresponds to the predetermined position is displayed on a stereoscopic LCD. Therefore, not only a planar map image but also an actual photograph at the predetermined position are presented. Furthermore, if the map image is turned, the photograph image of a part of the panoramic image is changed such that the photograph image corresponds to a turned direction. | 10-10-2013 |
20130267245 | COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIUM, INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM AND INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD - An example system causing a computer of an information processing apparatus having a wireless communication unit to function as: an installation location designating unit for designating an installation location of a beacon transmitter; an equipment specifying unit for specifying the beacon transmitter based on a field intensity of radio waves received by the wireless communication unit; and an association unit for associating the beacon transmitter specified by the equipment specifying unit with the installation location designated by the installation location designating unit. | 10-10-2013 |
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20110279072 | MOTOR DRIVING CIRCUIT - First and second A/D converters perform analog/digital conversion of first and second signals of a Hall signal so as to generate third and fourth signals as digital signals. A differential conversion circuit generates a fifth signal as a single-ended signal that corresponds to the difference between the third and fourth signals. An offset correction circuit corrects offset of the fifth signal so as to generate a sixth signal. An amplitude control circuit stabilizes the amplitude of the sixth signal to a predetermined target value, and generates its absolute value, thus generating a seventh signal. A control signal generating unit generates a control signal upon the seventh signal. A driver circuit drives a motor according to the control signal. | 11-17-2011 |
20110292226 | CONTROL CIRCUIT AND CONTROL METHOD FOR MOTOR - A control circuit generates a driving signal indicating an actuator torque. A first operation unit generates position, speed, and acceleration signals, based upon a detection signal indicating the actuator mover state. A second operation unit generates a first difference signal indicating the difference between a target signal and the position signal. A third operation unit generates a second difference signal indicating the difference between signals based on the first difference signal and the speed signal. A fourth operation unit generates a position control signal such that the second difference signal becomes zero. A fifth operation unit generates a third difference signal indicating the difference between signals based on a driving signal and the acceleration signal. A sixth operation unit generates a driving signal by summing a signal based on the position control signal and a disturbance estimation signal based on the third difference signal. | 12-01-2011 |
20140177165 | MOTOR DRIVING CIRCUIT - A first calculation unit subtracts third digital data which indicates the minimum value of the duty ratio from first digital data which indicates the duty ratio of the PWM driving operation. A slope calculation unit generates slope data which is dependent on the temperature based upon second digital data which indicates the temperature. A second calculation unit multiplies the slope data by the output data of the first calculation unit. A third calculation unit sums the output data of the second calculation unit and the third digital data. A selector receives the output data of the third calculation unit and the third digital data, selects one data that corresponds to the sign of the output data of the first calculation unit, and outputs the data thus selected as a duty ratio control signal. | 06-26-2014 |