Patent application number | Description | Published |
20090116857 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - Disclosed is an image forming apparatus including: an image forming section for forming an image on a sheet; a tray on which an image-formed sheet is discharged as a discharged-sheet; and a controller for setting an amount of sheet to be discharged, the amount being smaller than a load limit of discharged-sheet on the tray, obtaining an amount of the sheet on the tray, comparing the obtained amount of the sheet with the set amount of the sheet, and executing at least one of warning about the amount of the discharged-sheet and stopping an image forming job for driving the image forming section on the basis of the comparison result. | 05-07-2009 |
20100230350 | Method and apparatus for treating selenium-containing wastewater - A method and an apparatus for treating selenium-containing wastewater, in which wastewater containing hexavalent selenium is subjected to reduction treatment, selenium can be effectively removed at a small amount of metal leached, and, preferably, sludge produced during treatment is white, thereby facilitating the disposal of the sludge. The selenium-containing wastewater is brought into contact with an alloy or a mixture of metallic titanium and a first metal other than metallic titanium to partially leach the first metal, thereby subjecting selenium in the wastewater to reduction treatment. | 09-16-2010 |
20110142242 | QUANTUM PUBLIC KEY ENCRYPTION SYSTEM, KEY GENERATION APPARATUS, ENCRYPTION APPARATUS, DECRYPTION APPARATUS, KEY GENERATION METHOD, ENCRYPTION METHOD, AND DECRYPTION METHOD - Provided is a key generation apparatus that generates, based on a generated random number, quantum gates U | 06-16-2011 |
20110168626 | REVERSE OSMOSIS MEMBRANE, REVERSE OSMOSIS MEMBRANE APPARATUS, AND HYDROPHILIC TREATMENT METHOD FOR REVERSE OSMOSIS MEMBRANE - A reverse osmosis membrane that can maintain high permeability for a longer time, a reverse osmosis membrane apparatus, and a hydrophilic treatment method for a reverse osmosis membrane. A reverse osmosis membrane to which poly(vinyl alcohol) is absorbed, wherein the poly(vinyl alcohol) is an ionic poly(vinyl alcohol). Preferably, adsorption of a cationic PVA to the reverse osmosis membrane is followed by adsorption of an anionic PVA. More preferably, an ionic polymer other than PVA is also absorbed to the reverse osmosis membrane. A reverse osmosis membrane apparatus including the reverse osmosis membrane. A hydrophilic treatment method for a reverse osmosis membrane, involving bringing the reverse osmosis membrane into contact with an ionic poly(vinyl alcohol). | 07-14-2011 |
20110183733 | POWER MANAGEMENT APPARATUS, AND METHOD OF PROVIDING GAME CONTENTS - There is provided a power management apparatus including a game service providing unit providing, to an electronic appliance, a service using game contents whose theme is power. The game service providing unit includes a game control unit controlling execution of the game contents, a real world constructing unit constructing a setting of a game reflecting a real-world environment, based on managed appliance information stored in a database, and a virtual world constructing unit constructing a setting of the game reflecting a virtual environment, based on a setting set in advance in the game contents. The game control unit is operable to initialize the game contents by combining the setting of the game constructed by the real world constructing unit and the setting of the game constructed by the virtual world constructing unit. | 07-28-2011 |
20110184575 | ANALYSIS SERVER, AND METHOD OF ANALYZING DATA - There is provided an analysis server including a first verifying unit that analyzes data acquired from a local power management system composed of an electronic appliance provided with a sensor and a power management apparatus managing power supply to the electronic appliance connected to a power network, by using history information of the local power management system or data acquired from another local power management system with a power usage state similar to that of the local power management system, a second verifying unit that analyzes the data acquired from the local power management system, by using an estimated value calculated by simulation using characteristics information and/or specification information of the electronic appliance, and a control unit that controls the first verifying unit and the second verifying unit. | 07-28-2011 |
20110184580 | ELECTRONIC WATERMARK GENERATING APPARATUS, ELECTRONIC WATERMARK VERIFYING APPARATUS, METHOD OF GENERATING ELECTRONIC WATERMARK, AND METHOD OF VERIFYING ELECTRONIC WATERMARK - There is provided an electronic watermark generating apparatus including an appliance characterizing information generating unit that generates appliance characterizing information that characterizes an electronic appliance, by using physical data acquired by a sensor that measures characteristics of the electronic appliance, an electronic watermark generating unit that generates, in relation to the appliance characterizing information, electronic watermark information that is used for detecting whether information has been tampered with or not, an embedded position deciding unit that analyzes the appliance characterizing information, and decides an embedded position for the electronic watermark information in the appliance characterizing information, and an electronic watermark embedding unit that embeds the electronic watermark information generated by the electronic watermark generating unit in a position on the appliance characterizing information decided by the embedded position deciding unit. | 07-28-2011 |
20110184584 | POWER MANAGEMENT APPARATUS, POWER MANAGEMENT SYSTEM, AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING APPLIANCE - Provided is a power management apparatus including an other-apparatus confirming unit that confirms presence of another power management apparatus that is operating that is managing a same electronic appliance, an attribute recognizing unit that recognizes, if N−1 (N≧2) power management apparatuses are confirmed to be operating, an attribute of one specific apparatus, among N power management apparatuses including its own power management apparatus, to be a parent device and the attributes of remaining N−1 apparatuses to be a child device, a signal collecting unit that collects from N−1 child devices, if the attribute of its own power management apparatus is recognized to be the parent device, control signals for controlling the electronic appliance, and a signal selecting unit that selects, among the collected control signals, control signals of the same type, the number of which is largest, and transmits the control signals to the electronic appliance. | 07-28-2011 |
20110184585 | POWER MANAGEMENT APPARATUS, ELECTRONIC APPLIANCE, AND METHOD OF REGISTERING ELECTRONIC APPLIANCES - There is provided a power management apparatus including: a managed appliance registering unit carrying out authentication on an electronic appliance connected to a power network and registering the electronic appliance as a managed appliance if the authentication has succeeded; and a control unit controlling operation of and supplying of power to the managed appliance. The managed appliance registering unit is operable, when an electronic appliance registered in another power management apparatus is connected to the power network, to acquire, from the electronic appliance, a digital signature, which has been assigned to identification information that is unique to the electronic appliance by the other power management apparatus, and identification information that is unique to the other power management apparatus, and is operable when verification of the digital signature assigned by the other power management apparatus has succeeded, to temporarily register the electronic appliance registered in the other power management apparatus. | 07-28-2011 |
20110184586 | POWER MANAGEMENT APPARATUS, AND METHOD OF REGISTERING ELECTRONIC APPLIANCES - There is provided a power management apparatus including a managed appliance registering unit that carries out authentication on an electronic appliance connected to a power network, and registers an electronic appliance for which the authentication has succeeded as a managed appliance, and a control unit that controls operation of the managed appliance and supplying of power to the managed appliance. The managed appliance registering unit transmits, to one or more electronic appliances, a challenge message that is used when registering an electronic appliance, and collectively verifies one or more response messages sent back from the one or more electronic appliances in reply to the challenge message. | 07-28-2011 |
20110185196 | Power Management Apparatus, Electronic Appliance, and Method of Managing Power - There is provided a power management apparatus including: a managed appliance registering unit carrying out authentication on an electronic appliance connected to a power network and registering an electronic appliance for which the authentication has succeeded as a managed appliance, a control unit controlling operation of the managed appliance and supplying of power to the managed appliance, a managed appliance information acquiring unit acquiring, from the managed appliance, as managed appliance information, at least any of appliance information including identification information that is unique to the electronic appliance, information indicating an operation state of the electronic appliance, information indicating an usage state of the electronic appliance and power information of the electronic appliance, and an appliance state judging unit judging a state of the managed appliance based on the managed appliance information acquired by the managed appliance information acquiring unit. | 07-28-2011 |
20110185197 | OUTLET EXPANSION APPARATUS, AND DELEGATE AUTHENTICATION METHOD - There is provided an outlet expansion apparatus including a first connection outlet to which an electronic appliance is to be connected, a second connection outlet that is for connecting to a power supply outlet that is to be a supply source of power, and a delegate authentication unit that carries out, in a case the electronic appliance not having a function of carrying out authentication with a power management apparatus managing an amount of power to be supplied to the electronic appliance is connected to the first connection outlet and the power supply outlet is connected to the second connection outlet, authentication to be carried out on the power management apparatus by the electronic appliance connected to the first connection outlet on behalf of the electronic appliance. | 07-28-2011 |
20110185198 | ELECTRONIC APPLIANCE, POWER MANAGEMENT APPARATUS, AND METHOD OF IDENTIFYING APPLIANCE - There is provided an electronic appliance including a plurality of electrical parts having electrical characteristics that are different thereamong and for each electronic appliance, a characteristics measuring unit that measures the characteristics of at least one electrical part, a switch that switches between the electrical parts whose characteristics are to be measured by the characteristics measuring unit, and a control unit that controls the switch and causes the characteristics measuring unit to measure the characteristics of a predetermined electrical part, and that transmits, to a power management apparatus managing at least power supply to its own electronic appliance, information relating to the characteristics measured by the characteristics measuring unit and an appliance ID of its own electronic appliance. | 07-28-2011 |
20110185303 | POWER MANAGEMENT APPARATUS, AND DISPLAY METHOD - There is provided a power management apparatus including an authentication processing unit that carries out an authentication process on each individual electronic appliance that is to be managed, a consumption amount acquiring unit that acquires information on power consumption from the electronic appliance, and an information display unit that displays an authentication state or an authentication result obtained from the authentication processing unit, together with the information on power consumption acquired by the consumption amount acquiring unit. | 07-28-2011 |
20110238988 | APPLIANCE AUTHENTICATION SYSTEM, AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING POWER SUPPLY - Provided is a method where a power management apparatus (a) acquires, from a server managed by a manufacturer of an electronic appliance, a public key paired with a secret key that the electronic appliance and the server hold, (b) generates a ciphertext by generating a random number and encrypting the random number by the public key, and (c) transmits the ciphertext to the electronic appliance and the server, where the electronic appliance (d) restores the random number by decrypting the ciphertext transmitted in (c), (e) causes an electrical part to operate, based on the random number, and (f) transmits to the server the value of current flowing through the electrical part, and where the server (g) restores the random number by decrypting the ciphertext transmitted in (c), (h) calculates the value of current to flow through the electrical part based on the random number, and (i) compares values of current. | 09-29-2011 |
20120087500 | QUANTUM ENCRYPTION COMMUNICATION APPARATUS, QUANTUM ENCRYPTION COMMUNICATION METHOD, AND QUANTUM ENCRYPTION COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - Provided is a quantum encryption communication apparatus of a transmission side which performs a communication process based on quantum encryption, including: a light source unit which generates a light pulse; a polarization modulating unit which performs polarization modulation of the light pulse by using a variable wavelength plate; and a controller which drives the variable wavelength plate to convert a polarization state of the light pulse to one of a plurality of predetermined polarization bases at random. | 04-12-2012 |
20120110679 | SERVICE PROVIDING SYSTEM, SERVICE PROVIDING METHOD, PORTABLE COMMUNICATION TERMINAL AND SERVER - A service providing system includes a portable communication terminal operated by a user; a service providing apparatus providing a service to the user, and a server managing the service providing apparatus, wherein the service providing apparatus calculates a response using a challenge, and the portable communication terminal transmits a challenge generated by the server to the service providing apparatus subjected to a legitimacy check of the service providing apparatus and presents a result of the legitimacy check based on a response calculated by the service providing apparatus subjected to the legitimacy check using the transmitted challenge. | 05-03-2012 |
20120152837 | BIOLOGICAL TREATMENT METHOD OF ORGANIC-MATTER-CONTAINING WATER - Provided is a biological treatment method of organic-matter-containing water in which a decrease in the permeation flux of a membrane in a membrane-separation activated-sludge process can be effectively suppressed. A biological treatment method of organic-matter-containing water includes introducing organic-matter-containing water containing organic matter into a biological treatment tank, mixing the organic-matter-containing water with activated sludge, biologically treating the organic-matter-containing water, and subjecting a mixed liquor of the organic-matter-containing water and the activated sludge to membrane separation, wherein an iron salt and a phenolic resin are added to the raw water. Substances (for example, metabolites of activated-sludge organisms) that cause a decrease in the permeation flux of a separation membrane become insoluble due to the flocculating effect by the iron salt and bonding with the phenolic resin. | 06-21-2012 |
20120160768 | ORGANIC-WASTEWATER TREATMENT METHOD AND ORGANIC-WASTEWATER TREATMENT APPARATUS - By adding an iron salt, the sedimentation property, the concentration property, and the filtration property of sludge in an activated-sludge mixed liquor in a biological treatment tank are effectively improved and treated water of high quality is efficiently provided. When an iron salt such as ferrous chloride, ferric chloride, or polyferric sulfate is added to organic wastewater and the organic wastewater is biologically treated, the iron salt is added to the organic wastewater and mixing is conducted; and the water mixture is mixed with activated sludge and biologically treated. By mixing organic wastewater and an iron salt at a pH close to an optimum pH for ferric hydroxide in advance, the turbidity of the treated water due to the formation of iron oxide or ferrous carbonate is suppressed. | 06-28-2012 |
20120269345 | INTEGRATED CIRCUIT (IC) CARD - There is provided an integrated circuit (IC) card including a modulating unit that modulates an optical pulse and outputs the modulated optical pulse to a quantum communication path, a communication unit that performs classical communication via a classical communication path, and a control unit that changes a modulation state of the optical pulse, performs quantum communication, and generates a common key based on the classical communication of information according to a communication result of the quantum communication. | 10-25-2012 |
20120286723 | POWER MANAGEMENT SYSTEM, POWER MANAGEMENT APPARATUS, AND POWER MANAGEMENT METHOD - There is provided a power management system including a power receiving unit for receiving power from outside according to consumption of power, an electrical storage unit for storing the power received by the power receiving unit, and a discharge control unit for controlling a second power amount discharged from the electrical storage unit so that a first power amount provided by the power receiving unit attains a predetermined time-series pattern. | 11-15-2012 |
20130256226 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR TREATING ORGANIC WASTEWATER - [Object] In relation to the treatment of organic wastewater in which organic wastewater is separated from biosludge by solid liquid separation using a separation membrane and the permeate water is subjected to RO membrane separation treatment and further in which normal solid liquid separation treatment is suspended and the membrane is cleaned by passing a cleaning liquid through the membrane from the permeate water side to the concentrated water side, the invention prevents a decrease in the flux of RO membranes due to TOC components eluted from the sludge during membrane cleaning and thereby reduces the frequency of chemical cleaning of the RO membranes as well as increases water recovery rate, thus allowing the treatment to be performed stably and efficiently. | 10-03-2013 |
20130289977 | INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - There is provided an information processing device including an acquisition unit that acquires a first word input by a user, and a presentation unit that presents second words for replacing the first word when the first word is acquired by the acquisition unit. | 10-31-2013 |
20140012862 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, PROGRAM, AND INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM - An information processing apparatus includes a calculation unit and a generation unit. The calculation unit is configured to calculate a frequency function which is a function relating to an appearance frequency of one or more attribute values of a database having a predetermined attribute and the one or more attribute values relating to the attribute. The generation unit is configured to generate sample data in accordance with the appearance frequency relating to the database on the basis of the frequency function calculated, the sample data including at least a part of the one or more attribute values as one or more sample attribute values. | 01-09-2014 |
20140068788 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, PROGRAM AND CLIENT TERMINAL - There is provided an information processing apparatus including a processing request acquisition unit configured to sequentially acquire a plurality of processing requests from a user, and an authentication execution unit configured to distribute and execute user authentication processing according to a timing of acquiring the plurality of processing requests. | 03-06-2014 |
20140108798 | INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, INFORMATION PROCESSING CLIENT, ACCESS AUTHENTICATION METHOD, AND PROGRAM - There is provided an information processing device including a public key setter that sets a public key corresponding to a public-key authentication scheme in an access area defined as a given area of an object of access, and a device authentication processor that authenticates access to the access area against a secret key paired with the public key. | 04-17-2014 |
20140217828 | POWER RECEIVER, METHOD OF CONTROLLING POWER RECEIVER, AND PROGRAM - User convenience is reduced if vibration of a power receiver is inhibited when the power receiver is receiving power through a cable or when the power transmitting region is large and vibration of the power receiver does not cause the power receiver to deviate from a power transmitting region of a power transmitter. It is desired to selectively inhibit the vibration of the power receiver during power reception, depending on the power reception status. The power receiver includes a vibrating unit, and includes a power receiving unit configured to receive power, an identifying unit configured to identify a power reception technique used in the power receiving unit when the power receiving unit receives the power, and an inhibiting unit configured to inhibit the vibrating unit from vibrating in accordance with the identification by the identifying unit. | 08-07-2014 |
20140331056 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - An information processing system comprising interface circuitry configured to receive message-independent information, the message-independent information having been generated by another apparatus and transferred to the interface in advance of a digital signature being generated, send message-dependent information to an external device, and receive a digital signature from the external device; and processing circuitry configured to generate the message-dependent information from a message and at least a part of the message-independent information, and associate the digital signature with the message. | 11-06-2014 |
20150163209 | INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM - There is provided an information processing device including an information storage unit configured to store information about a state in which a first secret key used during authentication is held in devices, and information about connection between the devices, and a communication unit configured to send the first secret key so that the first secret key is delivered to the devices based on the information stored in the information storage unit. | 06-11-2015 |
20150188716 | SERVICE PROVIDING SYSTEM, SERVICE PROVIDING METHOD, PORTABLE COMMUNICATION TERMINAL AND SERVER - A service providing system includes a portable communication terminal operated by a user; a service providing apparatus providing a service to the user, and a server managing the service providing apparatus, wherein the service providing apparatus calculates a response using a challenge, and the portable communication terminal transmits a challenge generated by the server to the service providing apparatus subjected to a legitimacy check of the service providing apparatus and presents a result of the legitimacy check based on a response calculated by the service providing apparatus subjected to the legitimacy check using the transmitted challenge. | 07-02-2015 |