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20100049907 | Memory System and Control Method Thereof - A memory system includes a nonvolatile memory including a plurality of blocks as data erase units, a measuring unit which measures an erase time at which data of each block is erased, and a block controller which writes data supplied from at least an exterior into a first block which is set in a free state and whose erase time is oldest. | 02-25-2010 |
20100077266 | MEMORY SYSTEM AND CONTROL METHOD THEREOF - A memory system includes a nonvolatile memory including blocks as data erase units, a measuring unit which measures an erase time at which data in each block is erased, a block controller having a block table which associates a state value indicating one of a free state and a used state with the erase time for each block, a detector which detects blocks in which rewrite has collectively occurred within a short period, a first selector which selects a free block having an old erase time as a first block, a second selector which selects a block in use having an old erase time as a second block, and a leveling unit which moves data in the second block to the first block if the first block is included in the blocks detected by the detector. | 03-25-2010 |
20100106905 | DISK ARRAY CONTROL DEVICE AND STORAGE DEVICE - According to one embodiment, a disk array control device manages a plurality of drives as a single logical drive. The disk array control device includes a first register configured to store a to-he-accessed drive number which is designated by a host, and a control module. The control module is configured to receive a command from the host, determine whether the received command is a predetermined command which is used for maintenance of each of the drives, and execute, in a case where the received command is the predetermined command, a pass-through process of sending the received command to the drive which is designated by the to-be-accessed drive number in the first register. | 04-29-2010 |
20100146228 | MEMORY SYSTEM AND CONTROL METHOD THEREOF - A memory system includes a nonvolatile memory including blocks as data erase units, a measuring unit which measures an erase time at which data in each block is erased, a block controller having a block table which associates a state value indicating one of a free state and a used state with the erase time for each block, a detector which detects blocks in which rewrite has collectively occurred within a short period, a first selector which selects a free block having an old erase time as a first block, a second selector which selects a block in use having an old erase time as a second block, and a leveling unit which moves data in the second block to the first block if the first block is included in the blocks detected by the detector. | 06-10-2010 |
20110219177 | MEMORY SYSTEM AND CONTROL METHOD THEREOF - A memory system includes a nonvolatile memory including blocks as data erase units, a measuring unit which measures an erase time at which data in each block is erased, a block controller having a block table which associates a state value indicating one of a free state and a used state with the erase time for each block, a detector which detects blocks in which rewrite has collectively occurred within a short period, a first selector which selects a free block having an old erase time as a first block, a second selector which selects a block in use having an old erase time as a second block, and a leveling unit which moves data in the second block to the first block if the first block is included in the blocks detected by the detector. | 09-08-2011 |
20110238913 | DISK ARRAY CONTROL DEVICE AND STORAGE DEVICE - According to one embodiment, a disk array control device manages a plurality of drives as a single logical drive. The disk array control device includes a first register configured to store a to-be-accessed drive number which is designated by a host, and a control module. The control module is configured to receive a command from the host, determine whether the received command is a predetermined command which is used for maintenance of each of the drives, and execute, in a case where the received command is the predetermined command, a pass-through process of sending the received command to the drive which is designated by the to-be-accessed drive number in the first register. | 09-29-2011 |
20140351497 | MEMORY SYSTEM AND CONTROL METHOD THEREOF - A memory system includes a nonvolatile memory including a plurality of blocks as data erase units, a measuring unit which measures an erase time at which data of each block is erased, and a block controller which writes data supplied from at least an exterior into a first block which is set in a free state and whose erase time is oldest. | 11-27-2014 |
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20120076483 | IMAGING APPARATUS, CAMERA SYSTEM, AND ILLUMINATION APPARATUS - An imaging apparatus capable of imaging using an illumination apparatus includes an acquisition unit configured to acquire object luminance information, a calculation unit configured to calculate an exposure control value based on the object luminance information acquired by the acquisition unit, an exposure control unit configured to control exposure using the exposure control value calculated by the calculation unit, and an exposure fixing unit configured to set an exposure fixed state in which the exposure control value calculated by the calculation unit is fixed as the exposure control value to be used for exposure control, wherein the exposure fixing unit is configured to cancel the exposure fixed state when a state of the illumination apparatus is changed in the exposure fixed state. | 03-29-2012 |
20120200723 | IMAGING APPARATUS, COMMUNICATION APPARATUS, AND CAMERA SYSTEM - An imaging apparatus, which is capable of performing wireless communication with a light emitting apparatus via a wireless communication unit using a radio wave, includes a light metering unit configured to meter light of an object, a calculation unit configured to calculate a main light emission amount of the light emitting apparatus based on a light metering value acquired by metering the light, and a control unit configured to perform control such that at least a part of a communication operation of the wireless communication unit with the light emitting apparatus is performed during a light metering operation for acquiring the light metering value to be used when the calculation unit calculates the main light emission amount. | 08-09-2012 |
20130128102 | IMAGING APPARATUS AND CAMERA SYSTEM - An imaging apparatus capable of performing shooting with flash light emitted by a flash device includes an imaging unit configured to capture an image of an object to output image data, and a charging control unit configured to perform charging control of a capacitor configured to accumulate energy for performing flash emission by the flash device. The charging control unit, in a case where shooting with flash light emitted by the flash device is performed, among a plurality of shooting operations for acquiring a plurality of pieces of image data to be used for image combining processing, performs the charging control so that charging of the capacitor is not performed until the last shooting of the plurality of shooting operations for acquiring a plurality of pieces of image data to be used for the image combining processing is finished. | 05-23-2013 |
20140300801 | IMAGE PICKUP APPARATUS, LENS UNIT, AND METHODS OF CONTROLLING IMAGE PICKUP APPARATUS AND LENS UNIT - An image pickup apparatus on which a lens unit is to be removably mounted includes an image pickup element, a first focus detection unit which performs a focus detection by a contrast detection method based on a signal output from the image pickup element, a second focus detection unit which performs a focus detection by a phase difference detection method based on a pair of image signals output from the image pickup element, and a control unit which performs a focus control based on an in-focus position detected by the first or second focus detection unit, and the control unit receives, from the mounted lens unit, first information related to a displacement of the in-focus position by the phase difference detection method and determines whether to use the second focus detection unit for the focus control according to the first information. | 10-09-2014 |
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20110154189 | DISPLAY CONTROL APPARATUS AND DISPLAY CONTROL METHOD - A display control apparatus that controls to display images so that a plurality of images are assigned to each page changes display from a page being displayed to another page according to a user's operation. Here, the display control apparatus performs pre-reading in which images to be displayed in pages other than the page being displayed are read from a device storing the images and stored in a temporary memory unit while the page is being displayed. In the pre-reading, a predetermined number of images fewer than the number of images assigned to each page are pre-read for each page other than the page being displayed, in ascending order of distance of each page to the page being displayed. | 06-23-2011 |
20120133658 | DISPLAY CONTROL APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING THE SAME - A display control apparatus includes a moving image display unit configured to control a display apparatus to display a moving image thereon, a reading unit configured to read animation information including a plurality of frame images, a detection unit configured to detect touch on the display apparatus, and a display control unit configured to control the display apparatus to display a first frame image of the animation information thereon if touch on a specific position of the display apparatus is detected by the detection unit when the moving image is being displayed on the display aparatus, and to start a transition display of frame images of the animation information if the touch on the display apparatus becomes undetected by the detection unit. | 05-31-2012 |
20120154430 | DISPLAY CONTROL APPARATUS, CONTROL METHOD THEREFOR, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM - When rendering a graphic according to the locus of an input position, it is determined whether a region which has been preset for the graphic to be rendered, and has the start position of the continuous input as a reference overlaps a region preset for an already rendered graphic by a predetermined amount or more. If it is determined that the regions do not overlap each other by the predetermined amount or more, a graphic is rendered according to the locus of the input position. Alternatively, if it is determined that the regions overlap each other by the predetermined amount or more, control is switched to remove the already rendered graphic according to the locus of the input position. | 06-21-2012 |
20120182324 | DISPLAY CONTROL APPARATUS AND CONTROL METHOD THEREOF - A display control apparatus is provided that allows a user to easily continue a scroll operation while making the user recognize a particular position when the particular position is reached during the scroll operation. The display control apparatus controls a display unit to display a display object in a particular order and, further performs control to scroll the displayed display object by a movement amount according to an operation amount of an operation member which is a touch sensor or a rotation operation member. During the control, the display control apparatus determines the movement amount the display object is scrolled so that the movement amount according to the operation amount is smaller when the particular position, a break in the particular order, is included in the displayed screen than when the particular position is not included. | 07-19-2012 |
20140211168 | IMAGE PROJECTION APPARATUS, CONTROL METHOD, RECORDING MEDIUM, AND PROJECTION SYSTEM - An image projection apparatus obtains a first partial image, which is a part of a projection target image. The image projection apparatus also receives, from another image projection apparatus, a first overlap image that is a portion of an image corresponding to a predetermined overlap area in which a projected image that the image projection apparatus projects and a projected image projected by another image projection apparatus overlap with each other, and that is not included in the first partial image. Then, the image projection apparatus projects a combined image obtained by combining the received first overlap image and the first partial image. | 07-31-2014 |
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20120018484 | SHEET FEEDING APPARATUS - The present invention provides an inexpensive and compact printing apparatus. The printing apparatus includes a sheet feeding mechanism configured to convey a sheet in an orthogonal direction to a loading direction of a cassette, and moves between a press-contacting position and a retraction position, an urging member configured to urge the cassette in a drawing-out direction, a locking member configured to abut against the cassette at a locking position opposed to the urging member, to regulate a movement of the cassette, and to enable draw-out of the cassette at a release position, and an interlocking member configured to regulate the movement of the locking member when the sheet feeding mechanism is located at the press-contacting position, and to release the regulation of the movement of the locking member when the sheet feeding mechanism is located at the retraction position. | 01-26-2012 |
20130330494 | STICKER RECORDING SHEET - A sticker recording sheet includes an image-receiving paper portion having an receiving layer, an image-receiving base material, and an adhesive layer laminated on each other, and a release coated paper portion provided on a back surface side of the adhesive layer in a peelable manner, wherein the image-receiving paper portion is provided with a first half-cut portion cut in an approximately square shape, having an uncut bridge portion on at least one side of the approximately square shape, and a second half-cut portion cut from at least one side of the approximately square shape having the bridge portion toward an outer circumference of the image-receiving paper portion. | 12-12-2013 |
20150062278 | INK RIBBON CASSETTE AND PRINTER APPARATUS - An ink ribbon cassette includes an elastic engaging portion configured to engage with a rotation regulating portion of a supply bobbin or a rotation regulating portion of a winding bobbin to regulate rotation of the supply bobbin or the winding bobbin. The elastic engaging portion is elastically deformable in a direction of rotation axes of the supply bobbin and the winding bobbin. | 03-05-2015 |