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20090009927 | CERAMIC ELECTRONIC COMPONENT - A ceramic electronic component includes a ceramic body and an internal electrode layers disposed within the ceramic body. The ceramic body is covered with a diffusion layer, wherein said diffusion layer is an oxide layer into which at least a part of elements contained in the ceramic body are diffused and is located closer to a surface of the ceramic body than an outermost internal electrode layer. | 01-08-2009 |
20090042048 | CERAMIC GREEN SHEET STRUCTURE AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING LAMINATED CERAMIC ELECTRONIC COMPONENT - A ceramic green sheet structure has a ceramic green sheet including at least a ceramic material and a resin and a conductive layer formed on the ceramic green sheet. An electrode non-formed area has a porosity equal to or greater than 17%, and preferably, equal to or less than 25%. Moreover, an electrode formed area where the conductive layer is formed may have a smaller porosity than the electrode non-formed area where no conductive layer is formed. | 02-12-2009 |
20090207554 | CERAMIC ELECTRONIC COMPONENT, MANUFACTURING METHOD OF CERAMIC ELECTRONIC COMPONENT, AND PACKAGING METHOD OF CERAMIC ELECTRONIC COMPONENTS - A ceramic electronic component has a chip element body having a conductor arranged inside, external electrodes, and a discrimination layer. The chip element body has first and second end faces facing each other, first and second side faces being perpendicular to the first and second end faces and facing each other, and third and fourth side faces being perpendicular to the first and second end faces and to the first and second side faces and facing each other. The external electrodes are formed on the first and second end faces, respectively, of the chip element body. The discrimination layer is provided on at least one side face out of the first side face and the second side face in the chip element body. The chip element body is comprised of a first ceramic. The discrimination layer is comprised of a second ceramic different from the first ceramic and has a color different from that of the third and fourth side faces. | 08-20-2009 |
20090211687 | Method for manufacturing multilayer electronic component - The present invention aims to provide a method for manufacturing a multilayer electronic component capable to remove a multilayer body very easily from the press mold without breaking the multilayer body when removing a green sheet multilayer body applied with a pressure from the press mold, furthermore has no waste of material, contributes to the environment conservation, and also easy to automate. Among the plurality of green sheets constituting a multilayer body | 08-27-2009 |
20110114378 | MULTILAYER CERAMIC CAPACITOR MOUNTING STRUCTURE AND MULTILAYER CERAMIC CAPACITOR - A multilayer ceramic capacitor has an element body formed by alternately laminating a plurality of dielectric layers and a plurality of inner electrodes. On a substrate having a mounting surface provided with at least two lands, the multilayer ceramic capacitor is mounted such that the inner electrodes are parallel to the mounting surface. A multilayer ceramic capacitor mounting structure satisfies T | 05-19-2011 |
20130222969 | DIELECTRIC CERAMIC COMPOSITION AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE - A dielectric ceramic composition comprising a compound shown by a general formula {A | 08-29-2013 |
20130222974 | DIELECTRIC CERAMIC COMPOSITION AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE - Dielectric ceramic composition comprising a compound shown by a general formula {A | 08-29-2013 |
20140055910 | CERAMIC ELECTRONIC COMPONENT - A ceramic electronic component comprising; including a chip component of approximately rectangular parallelepiped, a first metal terminal portion having a first flat plate portion facing a first end face, at least a pair of first fitting arm portions connected to the first flat plate portion, having a first engagement projection engaging with a first wraparound portion holding the first wraparound portion in between, and a first mounting portion connected to the first flat plate portion and extending approximately parallel to one side face, and a second metal terminal portion having a second flat plate portion facing the second end face, at least a pair of second fitting arm portions connected to the second flat plate portion, having a second engagement projection engaging with a second wraparound portion, holding the second wraparound portion in between, and a second mounting portion extending approximately parallel to one side face | 02-27-2014 |
20140118882 | CERAMIC ELECTRONIC COMPONENT WITH METAL TERMINALS - A ceramic electronic component with metal terminals comprising a chip component formed with terminal electrodes at both ends, and a pair of metal terminals comprising a flat plate portion having a flat plate portion facing face provided so that it faces an end face of said chip component and connected to said terminal electrodes via a joining portion , and a mounting portion connected to one end portion of said flat plate portion and extending approximately perpendicular to said flat plate portion, wherein said mounting portion has a mounting portion bottom face forming an angle of approximately 270 degrees with respect to said flat plate portion, and a mounting portion upper face forming an angle of approximately 90 degrees with respect to said flat plate portion, and a solder adhering prevention area having lower wettability than said mounting portion bottom face is formed. | 05-01-2014 |
20150036262 | MULTILAYER CERAMIC ELECTRONIC DEVICE - A multilayer ceramic electronic device comprising a lamination in which an internal electrode layer | 02-05-2015 |
20150131202 | CERAMIC ELECTRONIC COMPONENT - The present invention is ceramic electronic component with metal terminals comprising a chip component of approximately parallelepiped shape having a pair of terminal electrodes, and a pair of metal terminal parts provided in accordance with said terminal electrodes. The terminal electrode is formed by wrapping around a part of side faces from an end face of the chip component. The metal terminal part comprises a connecting part connecting to the terminal electrode and including a connecting face extending approximately parallel to the end face, plurality of joint parts connecting to the connecting part and including a joint face extending in a different direction of the connecting face, and plurality of mounting parts connecting to the joint parts and including a mounting part upper face extending approximately parallel to any one of the side faces which is different direction of the joint face by taking predetermined spaces. | 05-14-2015 |
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20080199102 | Block noise detector and detection method, and block noise reducer and reduction method - A block noise detector has a spatial difference calculator that calculates differences between values of adjacent pixels. A spatial difference comparator detects edges by comparing the calculated differences. Eight counters count edges detected at different groups of positions spaced eight pixels apart in each horizontal line. The maximum count and the group of positions at which it occurs are detected at the end of each horizontal line to detect block noise and the positions of the block boundaries. The block noise detector is small in size because it only has to count edges in one line at a time, and detects edges accurately by comparing the difference at a given position separately with differences to the left and differences to the right. | 08-21-2008 |
20090003724 | Block noise reducer - A block noise reducer detects block boundaries in all components of an input video signal and smoothes the different components selectively on the basis of the detected block boundaries and their periodic locations. By removing block noise on the basis of block boundaries detected in color difference signals, the block noise reducer removes block noise from scenes with gradual changes in color but little or no change in luminance. | 01-01-2009 |
20090052774 | Image processing apparatus, image display apparatus, and image display method - A maximum and minimum color information detection means ( | 02-26-2009 |
20090208099 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS - An image processing apparatus enhances contrast without producing color balance distortion or color collapse by generating a gradation-scale correction table from a distribution of a characteristic quantity of an input image signal, using the gradation-scale correction table to derive a gradation correction parameter for each pixel from a maximum component value of the pixel, and multiplying all components of the pixel by the gradation correction parameter. | 08-20-2009 |
20090304274 | Image Processing Apparatus and Image Display Apparatus - A luminance information detector ( | 12-10-2009 |
20110214444 | HEAT PUMP WATER HEATER - A heat pump water heater in which the number of components is small, a measure against drain pan freezing is realized with a simple structure, and a drain reservoir is difficult to be generated in the drain pan is obtained. | 09-08-2011 |
20120045148 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS - An image processing apparatus has an image analyzer including a feature detector, a feature combiner, and a resolution discrimination signal generator. For each pixel in a prescribed area of an input image, the feature detector outputs a representative difference value obtained from the pixel values of pixels positioned, with reference to that pixel, at prescribed intervals. The feature combiner outputs a combined feature value obtained from the representative difference values obtained for each pixel in the described area. The resolution discrimination signal generator outputs a resolution discrimination signal obtained from the combined feature value. The resolution discrimination signal has a monotonic non-decreasing relationship to the combined feature value. The resolution discrimination signal indicates an extent to which the input image includes signal components with frequencies equal to or greater than a particular frequency determined by the prescribed intervals. | 02-23-2012 |
20130121611 | IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE AND METHOD AND IMAGE DISPLAY DEVICE - An image processing device includes an edge-enhancing image enlarger that converts an input image to a high-resolution image with edge enhancement. A difference calculator determines differences between the high-resolution image and the input image. A high-resolution image corrector corrects the high-resolution image by diffusing the differences to pixels of the high-resolution image, thereby generating a corrected image in which edges are enhanced without image degradation in textured areas. | 05-16-2013 |
20130314457 | STEREOSCOPIC IMAGE DISPLAY DEVICE - A light source portion includes a plurality of back lights provided corresponding to respective regions obtained by virtually dividing a liquid crystal panel screen into a plurality of parts, the back lights have a light emission intensity controlled based on a light emission intensity value and have ON and OFF operations controlled in response to a light emission driving signal, and the light emission driving signal is constituted to sequentially turn ON the plurality of back lights synchronously with a stereoscopic image signal and to turn ON the plurality of back lights at the same time in a predetermined timing, and is constituted to individually control a light emission period for the plurality of back lights based on image information about the stereoscopic image signal. | 11-28-2013 |
20130314629 | STEREOSCOPIC IMAGE DISPLAY DEVICE - A stereoscopic image display device includes a liquid crystal panel section, a light source section, a light detection section, a light source control section, a shutter glasses section, and a timing generation section generating a light emission drive signal, a light detection gate signal, and shutter switching signals in synchronization with an image synchronization signal. The timing generation section, generates the light emission drive signal which causes each of the regions of the light source section to emit light in accordance with scanning performed in the liquid crystal panel section, and which causes all the regions of the light source section to emit light in a predetermined period, and generates the light detection gate signal which enables detection of the light detection section in the predetermined period, and generates the shutter switching signals for switching left and right shutters to a non-transmissive mode. | 11-28-2013 |
20130314641 | IMAGE DISPLAY DEVICE - An image display device includes a liquid crystal panel section, a light source section divided into a plurality of regions, a light detection section detecting the light intensity of the light source section, and a timing generation section. The timing generation section generates a light emission drive signal which turns on each of the regions of the light source section according to scanning in the liquid crystal panel section, and which turns on all the regions of the light source section in a light detection period, and generates a light detection gate signal allowing the detection of the light detection section to be effective in the light detection period. | 11-28-2013 |
20130321491 | LIGHT EMISSION CONTROL DEVICE AND METHOD, LIGHT EMISSION DEVICE, IMAGE DISPLAY DEVICE, PROGRAM, AND RECORDING MEDIUM - A light emission control device includes a partial region feature quantity detector, an enlarged region feature quantity detector, a whole screen feature quantity detector, and a light emission controller. The partial region feature quantity detector detects a feature quantity of the image as a partial region feature quantity. The enlarged region feature quantity detector defines the partial region of interest and the partial regions neighboring the partial region of interest, and detects a feature quantity of the image of the enlarged region. The whole screen feature quantity detector detects this feature quantity as a whole screen feature quantity. On the basis of the partial region feature quantity and the enlarged region feature quantity pertaining to the partial region of interest, and the whole screen feature quantity, the light emission controller controls the light emission luminance of the light emission unit corresponding to the partial region of interest. | 12-05-2013 |
20150312542 | SIGNAL CONVERSION APPARATUS AND METHOD, AND PROGRAM AND RECORDING MEDIUM - A maximum value Yimax and a minimum value Yimin of input pixel data Ri, Gi, Bi for each pixel are determined. A saturation adjustment value X is determined using a function g (Yimax, Yimin), white pixel data Wo is determined using a function f (Yimin), and these are used to determine output pixel data Ro, Go, Bo. Even the saturation represented by RGB three-color data is high, conversion to RGBW four-color data with improved brightness can be made, without changing the hue. | 10-29-2015 |
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20120127464 | LIGHT SOURCE APPARATUS - A light source apparatus that emits pulsed light includes an optical resonator and a modulator. The optical resonator has an optical gain medium that amplifies light and an optical waveguide. The modulator modulates an intensity of the light in the optical resonator. The optical resonator with the optical gain medium includes a plurality of optical resonators having different optical path lengths from each other to make a difference between intervals of free spectral ranges in the plurality of optical resonators, to reduce a spectral line width of the pulsed light compared to that of a light source apparatus separately using the plurality of optical resonators as an individual optical resonator, the spectral line width determined by an envelope formed by a sideband wave of an oscillation mode which is generated by the modulation. | 05-24-2012 |
20120307257 | SWEPT LIGHT SOURCE APPARATUS AND IMAGING SYSTEM INCLUDING THE SAME - The present invention provides a light source apparatus capable of producing stable oscillation and performing high-speed wavelength sweeping over a desired wavelength range. | 12-06-2012 |
20130027714 | LIGHT SOURCE DEVICE AND OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY APPARATUS - A light source device capable of varying a light oscillation wavelength includes a plurality of optical gain media, a dispersing element, and a wavelength selecting element. The optical gain media amplify light, and have gain wavelength bands that partially overlap and different maximum gain wavelengths. The dispersing element is formed of a single element. Each of light beams emitted from the optical gain media is incident on the dispersing element. The dispersing element disperses the light beams emitted from the optical gain media into light beams of different wavelengths. The wavelength selecting element selects a light beam of a predetermined wavelength from the light beams of different wavelengths into which the light beams emitted from the optical gain media are dispersed by the dispersing element. The light source device emits the light beam of the predetermined wavelength selected by the wavelength selecting element. | 01-31-2013 |
20130169973 | OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY APPARATUS AND METHOD - An OCT apparatus includes, in addition to a first light source that changes a wavelength of light that is emitted, a second light source that emits light having a particular wavelength. The OCT apparatus is formed so that, when light having the particular wavelength is emitted from the first light source, the light emitted from the second light source is detected by a second optical detector. | 07-04-2013 |
20140029013 | OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHIC IMAGING APPARATUS - An optical coherence tomographic imaging apparatus includes a wavelength-sweeping light source. The wavelength-sweeping light source includes an optical resonator in which a light amplifying medium and a dispersive element configured to give angular dispersion to light emitted from the light amplifying medium according to the wavelength are provided, and a wavelength selection element having a rotating mechanism. An arithmetic processing unit converts a selected wavelength obtained in correspondence with a rotation angle of the rotating mechanism into an optical frequency, and obtains a data string of interfering signals at equal optical frequency intervals by interpolation on the basis of data on interfering signals sampled in correspondence with the rotation angle. | 01-30-2014 |
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20080215453 | Server apparatus, information processing apparatus, and information processing method - A server apparatus includes: a trend leader detecting portion that acquires purchaser identifying information for identifying a purchaser who purchased the product at an early stage satisfying a predetermined time condition, from at least two pieces of purchase history information; a recommended product acquiring portion that acquires at least one piece of product identifying information for identifying a product purchased by at least one purchaser identified with at least one piece of purchaser identifying information that has been acquired by the trend leader detecting portion; and a recommended product transmitting portion that transmits the at least one piece of product identifying information that has been acquired by the recommended product acquiring portion, to an information output apparatus. With this server apparatus, recommendation of a product can be provided based on the behavior in which a trend leader purchases a product. | 09-04-2008 |
20090204634 | INFORMATION-PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION-PROCESSING METHOD, AND COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM - An information-processing apparatus includes: a link information-generating portion that reads two or more pieces of operation information having a user identifier and an object identifier for identifying an object on which a user has performed an operation, detects two or more object identifiers linked via a user identifier contained in the two or more pieces of operation information, and generates link information indicating a link relationship between two or more objects; an object identifier-accepting portion that accepts one object identifier; an in-group object identifier-acquiring portion that acquires an object identifier having at least a predetermined level of relevance with the one object identifier accepted by the object identifier-accepting portion, using the generated link information; and an in-group object information output portion that outputs object information, which is information related to an object identified with the object identifier acquired by the in-group object identifier-acquiring portion. | 08-13-2009 |
20110119148 | Server apparatus, information processing apparatus, and information processing method - A server apparatus includes: a trend leader detecting portion that acquires purchaser identifying information for identifying a purchaser who purchased the product at an early stage satisfying a predetermined time condition, from at least two pieces of purchase history information; a recommended product acquiring portion that acquires at least one piece of product identifying information for identifying a product purchased by at least one purchaser identified with at least one piece of purchaser identifying information that has been acquired by the trend leader detecting portion; and a recommended product transmitting portion that transmits the at least one piece of product identifying information that has been acquired by the recommended product acquiring portion, to an information output apparatus. With this server apparatus, recommendation of a product can be provided based on the behavior in which a trend leader purchases a product. | 05-19-2011 |
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20120227769 | METHOD FOR COLLECTING LIQUID SURFACE RESIDUAL FILM, METHOD FOR TRANSFERRING LIQUID PRESSURE USING SAME, COLLECTION DEVICE THEREFOR, AND LIQUID PRESSURE TRANSFER DEVICE USING SAME - A method for collecting a liquid surface residual film floating on the surface of the liquid after transfer, and a transfer tank that includes a film holding mechanism, provided at inner sides of both right and left side walls, for holding both sides of the transfer film and conveying the transfer film to an immersion area. When a film that is no longer needed after the transfer is collected, dividing means divides the liquid surface residual film so as to split the liquid surface residual film in a longitudinal direction of the transfer tank before the object is removed from the transfer liquid, and the divided films are moved closer to the both side walls of the transfer tank. At the side wall portions, the film holding mechanism is canceled, and from this canceled portion, the divided liquid surface residual films are discharged out of the tank. | 09-13-2012 |
20130255514 | METHOD FOR TRANSFERRING LIQUID PRESSURE PROVIDED WITH DESIGN SURFACE CLEANING MECHANISM AND LIQUID PRESSURE TRANSFER DEVICE THEREFOR - The present invention relates to a liquid pressure transferring technique for forming an appropriate transfer pattern on the surface of an object by pressing the object from the upper side of a transfer tank, in a liquid-leaving area in which the object is pulled up from the transfer liquid in the transfer tank, a design surface oppositely-separating flow that is separated away from a design surface of the object that is in the process of getting out of a liquid is formed by using the design surface cleaning device such as an overflow tank, and foam on a surface of the transfer liquid and foreign substances staying in the liquid are separated away from the design surface of the object that is in the process of getting out of the liquid and are discharged outside the transfer tank. | 10-03-2013 |
20140367024 | METHOD FOR LIQUID SURFACE ACTIVATION OF TRANSFER FILM, HYDROGRAPHIC METHOD AND HYDROGRAPHIC DEVICE IMPLEMENTING SAME - Disclosed are an activation method and a liquid pressure transfer technique, where a transfer film is supplied to the surface of a transfer liquid and then is activated, capable of continuously performing a precise transfer. In forming an appropriate transfer pattern on the surface of an object by pressing the object from the upper side of a transfer tank, in the transfer tank, a pre-activation guide mechanism that holds both sides of the film, which is supplied with the center position matching the center of the transfer tank, at horizontally equivalent positions of the transfer tank and guides the film to an activation area is disposed. Accordingly, the film is urged to swell up in the thickness direction, and, in the activation area, the film is coated with an activating agent in a state in which the guide action of the film using the pre-activation guide mechanism is cancelled. | 12-18-2014 |