Patent application number | Description | Published |
20080247562 | COMMUNICATION SYSTEM USING SHORT RANGE RADIO COMMUNICATION HEADSET - In a short range radio communication headset, signals transmitted by the short range radio communications are received while direct sounds propagated from an external are detected. Then, a digital signal adaptation processing using either received signals or the direct sounds as reference signals are applied, and a ratio between the received signals and the direct sounds is controlled by correlating the reference signals and another one of the received signals and the direct sounds that are not used as the reference signals and extracting necessary components. | 10-09-2008 |
20080281595 | VOICE RECOGNITION APPARATUS AND METHOD - According to an embodiment, voice recognition apparatus includes units of: acoustic processing, voice interval detecting, dictionary, collating, search target selecting, storing and determining, and voice recognition method includes processes of: selecting a search range on basis of abeam search, setting and storing a standard frame, storing an output probability of a certain transition path, determining whether or not the output probability of a certain path is stored. Number of times of calculation of the output probability is reduced by selecting the search range on basis of the beam search, calculating the output probability of the certain transition path only once in an interval from when the standard frame is set to when the standard frame is renewed, and storing and using thus calculated value as an approximate value of the output probability in subsequent frames. | 11-13-2008 |
20090024961 | INFORMATION PROCESSOR AND RECORDING MEDIUM - A technique is provided in which the presence of application software stored in a recording medium can be effectively presented to a user. An icon processor acquires a first icon image indicating game software which can be installed is present, from a recording medium. A menu screen creator creates on a default background image a menu screen in which the first icon and another icon image are arranged. When an input receiving unit receives operation information indicating an operation for selecting the first icon image is performed, a background image processor directs the menu screen creator to switch the default background image to the first background image acquired from the recording medium. When the input receiving unit receives operation information indicating an operation for determining the first icon image is performed, the background image processor directs the menu screen creator to switch the first background image to a second background image acquired from the recording medium. | 01-22-2009 |
20090258712 | Game Device - Game data that can be conveniently used by a game program is provided: a save API processing module is configured as an application processor calls a save data utility function for data saving; a status acquisition unit acquires status information indicating the status of environment for executing the game program; an appending unit appends the status information thus acquired to the game data acquired by a game data acquisition unit as additional information and stores the resultant data in a hard disk; an additional information acquisition unit in a load API processing module acquires the additional information from the saved data; a determination unit determines whether the current status information matches the additional information; and the result of determination is communicated by a notification unit to the application processor. | 10-15-2009 |
20100017190 | Emulator - To provide an emulator capable of targeting a device capable of accepting connection of an expansion device for expanding a controller connection port to a plurality of controller connection ports. The emulator, targeting a device having at least one controller connection port and capable of accepting connection of an expansion device for expanding the controller connection port to a plurality of controller connection ports so as to accept connection of a plurality of controllers, emulates operation of the targeted device. The emulator assigns port identification information to each of controllers connected via wire or radio, the port identification information indicating to which of a controller connection port of the targeted device and the controller connection ports of the expansion device connected to the device the controller is assumed to be connected. The assigned port identification information is provided to a process for receiving an operation carried out on the controller. | 01-21-2010 |
20100120228 | SEMICONDUTOR MANUFACTURING METHOD - A manufacturing method for semiconductor devices having a metal support is provided. The method in one aspect includes growing a semiconductor film on a growth substrate; forming a metal support on a surface of said semiconductor film opposite to the growth substrate; thereafter removing said growth substrate from said semiconductor film; forming a street groove reaching said metal support in the said semiconductor film; radiating a first laser beam onto said metal support to form a first dividing groove having a substantially flat bottom in said metal support; and radiating a second laser beam onto said metal support to form a second dividing groove that penetrates though a portion of said metal support that remains where the first divining groove is formed. | 05-13-2010 |
20100137046 | Game System - In a game system ( | 06-03-2010 |
20100161766 | System and method for previewing AV data stored in AV server - A system in which a AV data stored in an AV server is previewed by a plurality of edit terminals includes a recording apparatus which is connected to those edit terminals and which is capable of higher speed access than a recording element in the AV server, and a first processing element which makes a request to transfer AV data from the AV server to the recording apparatus and a second processing element which previews AV data from the recording apparatus are provided for each of the edit terminals. Accordingly, a material stored in the AV server can be previewed by the plurality of edit terminals simultaneously in parallel without being limited to the number of the input and output ports of the AV server, and the waiting time becomes short when the edit terminal previews the material stored in the AV server. | 06-24-2010 |
20100299189 | ADVERTISEMENT DISPLAY SYSTEM - An advertisement display system includes a means for taking a photograph of a signal light of a signal | 11-25-2010 |
20100309757 | Disc Access Apparatus and Disc Access Method - The directory information on a file system recorded on an optical disc is cached onto a hard disk as a directory table. When accessing a file on the optical disc, a processor references the directory table so as to obtain information related to a position, on the disc medium, where the file to be accessed is located, without accessing the directory information on the optical disc. A disc I/O controller moves a pickup unit to the location indicated by the positional information on the file to be accessed and reads the data on the file. The pickup unit is used to detect signals from the optical disc. | 12-09-2010 |
20110032250 | Information Processing Apparatus - A storage stores content information for a trial version of an application program assigned identification information and content information for a product version; a license information acquisition unit acquires license information for the application program by referring to request information acknowledged by an input acknowledging unit; a determination unit determines whether the license information for the application program is stored in the memory by referring to the identification information; and a display processing unit generates a display screen using first content information until the determination unit determines that the license information is stored, and generates a display screen using second content information when the determination unit determines that the license information is stored. | 02-10-2011 |
20110055821 | Information Processing Apparatus - If a ROM medium is mounted on a media drive and a request for executing an application is received from an input device, a read controlling unit controls the media drive so that the media drive reads out a patch file from the ROM media and installs the patch file on a hard disk drive. After the patch file is installed, an execution processing unit applies the installed patch file and activates the game software. | 03-03-2011 |
20110092280 | Game Device - In a game device, a loading processor loads save data on which user ID information is attached from a storage device 80; an application executing unit executes a game program while using the loaded save data; a game requirement achievement determining unit determines whether or not a predetermined requirement of gameplay is achieved based on a progress status of the game; and item ID acquiring unit acquires an item ID associated with achieved requirement of gameplay; an item acquisition processing unit has a function for generating item acquisition information while using the acquired item ID; and a function limiting unit limits the function of an item acquisition processing unit in accordance with user ID information attached to the save data. | 04-21-2011 |
20110307582 | Information Processing Device - An activation history storage stores an activation history of applications. A determination unit refers to the activation history and determines a file that is related to an application and that should be downloaded from a server. A processing unit downloads the determined related file. The activation history storage maintains an activation history that maps identification information identifying an application into the latest activation date and time of the application, and the determination unit refers to the activation date and time and determines the related file to be downloaded. | 12-15-2011 |
20120190445 | Information Processing Apparatus - At least application programs and display files used to generate display images associated with the applications are recorded in a cartridge-type game recording medium. A storage is a built-in type recording medium. When the game recording medium is loaded in a drive, an installer processing unit acquires the display files from the game recording medium and installs the acquired display files in the storage. A board image generating unit generates a board image using the display file installed. | 07-26-2012 |
20120191683 | Information Processing Apparatus and File System - In an information processing apparatus, a file system manages files in a storage unit. Upon receipt of a boot instruction, a process boot unit starts an application. Once the application is started, a path acquisition unit acquires the path to an application file in the storage unit. A mount unit associates the path acquired by the path acquisition unit with a predetermined virtual mount point. A processor specifies the predetermined mount point and then accesses the file. | 07-26-2012 |
20120191765 | Information Processing Apparatus - A game recording medium records game files each containing at least a game program and configuration information with which to identify a data file usable by the game program. A recording medium records data files. An acquisition unit acquires the configuration information from the game recording medium, and a search unit searches the recording medium for the data file usable by the game program, based on the acquired configuration information. When a data file is detected, a copying unit copies the detected data file to the game recording medium. | 07-26-2012 |
20120192171 | Information Processing Apparatus and File System - In an information processing apparatus, a file system manages files in a storage unit. Upon receipt of a boot instruction, a process boot unit starts an application. Once the application is started, a path acquisition unit acquires the path to an application file and the path to a patch file in the storage unit. When there is contents with the same name in both the application file and the patch file, a path switching unit switches the path directed to the contents of the application file to the path directed to the contents of the patch file. | 07-26-2012 |
20130013402 | ADVERTISEMENT DISPLAY SYSTEM - An advertisement display system includes a photograph unit for taking a photograph of a signal light of a signal such as a traffic signal or an alarm for a railway crossing, a computer for analyzing the signal condition such as lighting or blinking of the signal light from image data thus photographed by the photograph unit, and a display unit for displaying advertisement display information which is stored in advance in the computer or the display unit in conjunction with the lighting or blinking condition of the signal light analyzed by the computer and displays a display body having a content correlated with the signal condition of the signal on the display unit. | 01-10-2013 |
20130085830 | CUSTOMER'S COMING-TO-A-STORE ACCELERATION SYSTEM - A customer's coming-to-a-store acceleration system for presenting strong incentive to the customers for their coming to the store, and for accelerating customer's coming to the store and enabling to collect information on customer's coming to the store is provided. | 04-04-2013 |
20130104121 | Information Processing Device - An information processing device is configured to start a download module at a predefined date and time. A transmitter unit | 04-25-2013 |
20130159654 | Electronic Device and Save Data Recording Method - A virtual capacity acquisition unit acquires a size of virtual capacity of a save data area from an application. A storage capacity acquisition unit acquires a size of save data of the application. A writing control unit prohibits the application from writing the save data exceeding the virtual capacity in a recording device. A free space acquisition unit acquires a size of free space of the recoding device, and the writing control unit prohibits the writing of save data whose size is larger than that of the free space. | 06-20-2013 |