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20090005128 | SLIDABLY AND ROTATIONALLY ATTACHING UNIT AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE - A slidable and rotationally attaching unit configured to slidably and rotatably attach a movable housing on a supporting base so that a part of the movable housing is overlapped with the supporting base, the slidable and rotational attaching unit includes a base plate provided between the supporting base and the movable housing and attached to the supporting base; a plate cam provided between the supporting base and the movable housing and attached to the movable housing; a slide guide provided on a surface of the base plate facing the plate cam, the slide guide being formed by a slit or a groove along upper and lower directions in a standard pose that is a basic using state of the movable housing; a guide pin provided on a surface of the base plate facing the plate cam, the guide pin being positioned on an extended line of a lower end of the slide guide; and a connecting pin slidably and rotatably engaged with the plate cam so that the connecting pin prevents the plate cam from coming off from the slide guide; | 01-01-2009 |
20090273890 | Coupling unit and electronic apparatus - A second enclosure defines the backside superposed on a first enclosure for relative rotation around a rotation axis set perpendicular to the front surface of the first enclosure in an electronic apparatus. First, second and third flat surfaces are defined on the backside of the second enclosure at positions inside the contour of the second enclosure. The receiving pieces receive the first flat surface when the second enclosure is set in the reference attitude. When the second enclosure is set in the lateral attitude by rotation by plus or minus 90 degrees, the second flat surface or the third flat surface is received on the receiving pieces behind the second enclosure. Even if friction resulting from the contact roughens the first, second and third surfaces, the asperity and scratches on the surfaces are hidden behind the second enclosure. | 11-05-2009 |
20100197372 | INFORMATION TERMINAL APPARATUS AND HINGE UNIT - An information terminal apparatus includes a base plate fixed on the surface of a first housing, having a guide opening formed in the base plate and extended in a direction parallel to the surface of the base plate; and a swing plate including a shaft portion protruding perpendicularly to the surface of the swing plate and engaging with the guide opening, the swing plate being rotatable about the shaft portion with respect to the base plate. The information terminal apparatus further includes a cam mechanism having a cam groove provided on one of the swing plate and the base plate, and a cam pin provided on the other of the swing plate and the base plate, the cam pin engaging with the cam groove, the swing plate being rotatable while sliding in the direction with respect to the base plate when external force is applied to the swing plate. | 08-05-2010 |
20130059629 | SLIDING PORTABLE TELEPHONE - A sliding portable telephone in which a second display section is provided on a surface exposed when an upper housing is slid, enabling self-shooting by a built-in camera. Further, in the telephone, a mechanism for stopping the upper housing before a fully opened position is provided so that, when a fingerprint sensor is built-in in an end section of a lower housing, fingerprint authentication is enabled without fully opening the telephone. Also, a recess is formed between sliding surfaces of the upper and lower housings, a flexible circuit board is received in the recess, the flexible circuit board is inserted and led through a slit that is provided only in one end surface of the recess, the insertion section is sealed, and as a result, there is no problem even if water droplets are splashed on the sliding portable telephone in an extended state. | 03-07-2013 |
20130147333 | INFORMATION TERMINAL APPARATUS AND HINGE UNIT - An information terminal apparatus includes a base plate fixed on the surface of a first housing, having a guide opening formed in the base plate and extended in a direction parallel to the surface of the base plate; and a swing plate including a shaft portion protruding perpendicularly to the surface of the swing plate and engaging with the guide opening, the swing plate being rotatable about the shaft portion with respect to the base plate. The information terminal apparatus further includes a cam mechanism having a cam groove provided on one of the swing plate and the base plate, and a cam pin provided on the other of the swing plate and the base plate, the cam pin engaging with the cam groove, the swing plate being rotatable while sliding in the direction with respect to the base plate when external force is applied to the swing plate. | 06-13-2013 |
20130225248 | MOBILE TERMINAL - A mobile terminal includes a first housing having a first space wall forming a first recess-shaped space and a first wiring opening in the first space wall, a second housing having a second space wall forming a second recess-shaped space and a second wiring opening in the second space wall, a swing connecting member disposed in a space between the first recess-shaped space and the second recess-shaped space facing each other, the swing connecting member having a through hole allowing the first recess-shaped space and the second recess-shaped space to be in communication with each other and being configured to swingably move the first housing and the second housing, and a first wiring member passing through the through hole, and having a first fixing end closely connected to the first wiring opening and a second fixing end closely connected to the second wiring opening. | 08-29-2013 |
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20090161644 | Wireless Resource Allocation Control System, Road-Side Unit, Wireless Resource Allocation Control Method and Storage Medium Storing Program Thereof - A wireless resource allocation control system for allocating and releasing wireless resource used for communication between vehicles in a predetermined area is provided. The control system includes a unit mounted on a vehicle, and the unit includes a transmitter for transmitting first information associated with the vehicle. A station receives information from the unit and sends information to the unit. The station calculates a priority level for each of the units on the basis of the first information transmitted from each of the units, ranks the units in the order of the priority level, allocates wireless resources to the units in descending of the priority levels, and releases the wireless resource previously allocated to the unit in the case of the unit unworthy of current allocation of the wireless resource. | 06-25-2009 |
20100069079 | WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A wireless communication system includes a first base station and a second base station. The first base station includes a designator for determining a first resources for using the first base station and a second resources for using other base station in the predetermined radio resources, and a first transmitter for transmitting a first data by the use of the first resources to the mobile station and designation information determined on the bases of the second resources. The second base station includes a receiver for receiving the designation information from the first base station, and a second transmitter for transmitting a second data by the use of the second radio resources to the mobile station. | 03-18-2010 |
20100081391 | WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A wireless communication system capable of using a plurality of frequency channels in a first predetermined frequency band being adjacent a second predetermined frequency band used in another wireless communication system, the wireless communication system includes a base station and a mobile station. The base station sends a notification for limiting each power of the plurality of frequency channels to the mobile station. The mobile station transmits data to the base station by the use of at least one of the frequency channel, and controlling data transmitting power based upon the notification. When the frequency channel for the data transmitting need more transmitting power and the frequency channel for the data transmitting is adjacent to the second predetermined frequency band, the mobile station change the frequency channel for the data transmitting. | 04-01-2010 |
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20100001831 | AUTHENTICATION METHOD - A method of controlling an apparatus including a display and a sensor for obtaining biometric data of a user, the sensor being movable to take a plurality of angular positions with respect to the apparatus, includes storing a plurality of sets of reference information in association with the positions of the sensor, respectively, determining which one of the angular positions which the sensor is currently taking, displaying on the display a direction as to which one of bodily parts is to be used in accordance with the current angular position of the sensor to urge a user to input biometric data of the one of the bodily parts by the sensor, and carrying out authentication of the user by comparing the inputted biometric data with one of the sets of reference information corresponding to the current angular position of the sensor. | 01-07-2010 |
20100033304 | Identification Method Control Device and Identification Method Control Method - An identification method control device includes a trend extraction unit that extracts a trend of a plurality of match information between a biometric data of an individual input by a biometric information input unit and a reference data of the individual stored in a storage unit, and an identification method control unit that changes an identification method with respect to the individual based on an extraction result of the trend extraction unit. | 02-11-2010 |
20120159600 | METHOD OF CONTROLLING BIOMETRIC AUTHENTICATION SYSTEM, NON-TRANSITORY, COMPUTER READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM AND BIOMETRIC AUTHENTICATION SYSTEM - A control method for controlling a biometric authentication system including a server that stores reference biometric data, and a client that acquires biometric authentication data of the user, has saving in the server a table in which identification information identifying the user and a previous authentication result of the user are associated with each other, transmitting the identification information to the server, referring to the identification information and acquiring a previous authentication result of the user corresponding to the identification information from the table, calculating, an authentication success rate of the user from the acquired previous authentication result, transmitting the reference biometric data to the client when the authentication success rate is less than or equal to a certain value, calculating, a degree of matching between the biometric authentication data and the reference biometric data, and determining, whether or not the authentication of the user has succeeded. | 06-21-2012 |
20120331479 | LOAD BALANCING DEVICE FOR BIOMETRIC AUTHENTICATION SYSTEM - A load balancing device is provided that allocates, to one of a plurality of authentication servers, biometric authentication requests of users received from client terminals by comparing input biometric authentication data and registration target biometric authentication data so as to estimate a check process time, including storing a process time for an authentication request being processed for each of the authentication servers, and allocating a process for a biometric authentication request from the client terminal to an authentication server having a process time that is short by estimating a check process time on the basis of a quality of the input biometric data and a quality of registration target biometric data and referring to the process time stored in the storage unit for each authentication server when the biometric authentication request has been received from the client terminal. | 12-27-2012 |
20150254445 | BIOMETRIC AUTHENTICATION APPARATUS AND METHOD - A biometric authentication apparatus includes processing apparatuses allocated with biometric data to be matched, a storage unit that stores a distribution of the biometric data for each of a plurality of quality levels, and an authentication processing time required by an authentication process of each of the processing apparatuses, and a management apparatus. The management apparatus extracts first and second processing apparatuses from the processing apparatuses based on the authentication processing time, identifies a quality level for which a difference between the distributions of the first and second processing apparatuses is greater than or equal to a threshold value, and exchanges the biometric data having the identified quality level between the first and second processing apparatuses. | 09-10-2015 |
20160104029 | BIOMETRIC AUTHENTICATION APPARATUS AND BIOMETRIC AUTHENTICATION METHOD - An apparatus performs a biometric authentication by acquiring matching data detected at a time of a biometric authentication and including a matching biometric data, a manner of holding and a posture of a terminal. A processor performs a process including acquiring matching data detected at a time of a biometric authentication and including a matching biometric data, a manner of holding and a posture of the terminal, and performing a matching process. The matching process compares the matching data and registered data including registered biometric data related to manners of holding and postures of the terminal, to extract the registered data including the manner of holding and the posture similar to those included in the matching data, and judge a successful biometric authentication when a similarity of the registered biometric data included in the extracted registered data with respect to the matching biometric data is a threshold value or greater. | 04-14-2016 |
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20090040211 | Method for driving plasma display panel - A method for driving an AC type plasma display panel includes the steps of performing initialization at least once for each frame so as to clear binary setting of wall charge quantity in a screen by discharge except for micro discharge in which electrodes covered with a plurality of fluorescent materials become cathodes, and performing special initialization at frequency of once for M frames, where M=two or more, so as to erase unnecessary wall charge in the screen by discharge in which electrodes become cathodes and that is stronger than the discharge in the initialization. | 02-12-2009 |
20090046086 | Method for driving plasma display panel - A method for driving an AC type plasma display panel includes the steps of performing initialization at least once for each frame so as to clear binary setting of wall charge quantity in a screen by discharge except for micro discharge in which electrodes covered with a plurality of fluorescent materials become cathodes, and performing special initialization at frequency of once for M frames, where M=two or more, so as to erase unnecessary wall charge in the screen by discharge in which electrodes become cathodes and that is stronger than the discharge in the initialization. | 02-19-2009 |
20090096374 | Plasma Display Panel - A plasma display panel, having a discharge space between a first and a second substrates, includes a plurality of scan electrodes, each disposed along a display line, which can be driven individually and a plurality of address electrodes disposed to intersect with the above scan electrodes, and pixel areas at the intersecting positions of the scan electrodes and the address electrodes Further, the plasma display panel includes a sustain electrode for producing sustain discharge with the scan electrodes, and the sustain electrode is formed to have a grid shape. Each pixel area is surrounded with the grid shape. | 04-16-2009 |
20100141560 | Plasma Display Panel - A plasma display device performing display control by utilizing plasma discharge includes a panel having a plurality of address electrodes and a plurality of display electrodes disposed to intersect with the address electrodes, and a drive circuit performing address discharge drive for selectively producing a discharge in cells between the address electrodes and the display electrodes, and display discharge drive for applying to the display electrode a display drive pulse having a voltage increasing with such a gradient as to continuously produce a discharge current in the selected cell. In the display discharge drive performed after the address discharge drive, a display drive pulse with an increasing voltage of gentle gradient is applied to the display electrode, thereby producing faint discharges continuously in the selected cell during the increase of the voltage applied to the display electrode. Display luminance is controlled by the above ramp-wave discharge. In such the ramp-wave discharge, differently from the conventional strong discharge, faint discharges are produced a plurality of times while the display drive pulse is being applied, enabling improvement on the discharge efficiency, and reduction of power consumption. | 06-10-2010 |
20120120032 | METHOD FOR DRIVING A PLASMA DISPLAY PANEL - The present method is to drive a plasma display panel which displays a frame composed of a plurality of sub-fields having different weights of luminance. The method comprises using plural kinds of application voltage waveforms different in light emission luminance, as pulse voltages for sustain discharges in display of each sub-field, and adjusting the number of waves in each of the plural kinds of application voltage waveforms according to the weight of luminance set for each sub-field, thereby performing gradation display. | 05-17-2012 |
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20090240836 | SUPPORT APPARATUS, DESIGN SUPPORT METHOD, AND DESIGN SUPPORT PROGRAM - The configuration data obtaining unit obtains a network configuration data, and the actual-apparatus collection result data obtaining unit obtains an actual-apparatus collection result data. Then, the comparing unit compares a network address in the network configuration data corresponding to a network apparatus with a network address in the actual-apparatus collection result data corresponding to the network apparatus, and determines whether the network address is normally set to the network apparatus based on the comparison result. | 09-24-2009 |
20090249058 | SYSTEM AIDING FOR DESIGN - A system aiding for design includes a determining unit determining whether it is possible to first product data with second product data by comparing interface data of the first product data with interface data of the second product data and a replacing unit replacing the first product data contained in design data with the second product data when the determining unit determines that replacement is possible. | 10-01-2009 |
20100262270 | DESIGN DATA MERGING APPARATUS AND DESIGN DATA MERGING METHOD - A design data merging apparatus includes a merging determining unit that determines, for a plurality of design data of which each has product name information and has a same identifier for uniquely identifying a product, whether the product name information given to the plurality of design data are the same, and a merged data creating unit that merges the plurality of design data when it is determined by the merging determining unit that the product name information given to the plurality of design data are the same, and creates merged data obtained by merging a plurality of design data. | 10-14-2010 |
20120254819 | CIRCUIT DIAGRAM CREATION SUPPORT METHOD AND APPARATUS - The disclosed method includes: generating data of a first circuit diagram by disposing a block that represents a connection relationship between first branch lines included in a first bus line in a second circuit diagram and second branch lines included in a second bus line to be connected to the first bus line in the second circuit diagram so as to connect the first bus line with the second bus line through the block, wherein the block represents that the connection relationship identified by connection relationship data is depicted in detail in a lower-layer than a layer of the block; and generating display data including the connection relationship data and the first circuit diagram to output the generated display data. | 10-04-2012 |