| NEC Corporation Patent applications |
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| 20160143034 | FREQUENCY RESOURCE ALLOCATION METHOD AND BASE STATION DEVICE - This frequency resource allocation method involves receiving, from each mobile station, channel quality information for each frequency resource and a determination result indicating whether or not data has been correctly received by the whole of the frequency resources allocated to that mobile station; for each mobile station, an allocation index for the allocation of frequency resources is calculated on the basis of the channel quality information and the determination result received from the mobile station, and frequency resources are allocated to each mobile station on the basis of the allocation index. To calculate the allocation index, a correction value based on the determination result is found for each of multiple groups into which the frequency resources allocated to that mobile station are divided, and then the allocation index is calculated on the basis of the correction value for each group and the channel quality information. | 05-19-2016 |
| 20160142952 | METHOD OF HANDOVER CONTROL, RELAY APPARATUS, AND METHOD FOR SELECTING TARGET CELL IN RADIO COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A method of handover control, a relay apparatus, and a method for selecting a target cell are provided that make it possible to identify a target cell in a hand-in phase even in a network topology in which relay apparatuses are connected in multiple stages. In a radio communication system in which a base station controller ( | 05-19-2016 |
| 20160142942 | COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, BASE STATION, GATEWAY DEVICE, BASE STATION CONTROL METHOD, AND GATEWAY DEVICE CONTROL METHOD - A base station ( | 05-19-2016 |
| 20160142326 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR CONTROLLING SERVICE QUALITY IN COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, AND COMMUNICATION APPARATUS - A communication system, a method for controlling service quality, a control apparatus, and a communication apparatus are provided that enable flexible packet forward processing control based on service quality information. A communication system in which a logical path is established over a network to perform communication includes: a control apparatus that retains a policy indicating an association between a logical path and service quality information (QoS); and a communication apparatus that provides a packet with the service quality information (QoS) corresponding to the logical path to which the packet belongs, in accordance with a control message sent from the control apparatus. | 05-19-2016 |
| 20160141916 | POWER SYSTEM, POWER MANAGEMENT METHOD, AND PROGRAM - A power system | 05-19-2016 |
| 20160140160 | TRANSACTION PROCESSING APPARATUS, TRANSACTION PROCESSING METHOD, AND COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM - The transaction processing apparatus ( | 05-19-2016 |
| 20160139811 | CONFIGURATION CONTROL SYSTEM AND CONFIGURATION CONTROL METHOD - An FPGA can be started up without system failure when a soft error occurs. A configuration control system includes: a first semiconductor chip which is capable of programming a logic circuit inside an LSI; a semiconductor memory which stores a plurality of pieces of circuit information of the first semiconductor chip; and a second semiconductor chip which, when controlling a configuration of the semiconductor chip using the circuit information stored in the semiconductor memory, if the configuration using any one of the plurality of pieces of circuit information fails, performs a re-configuration using another piece of circuit information among the plurality of pieces of circuit information. | 05-19-2016 |
| 20160135098 | RESOURCE ALLOCATION IN TARGET CELL AFTER HANDOVER - A system is proposed to provide handover in a mobile telecommunications environment, particularly applicable to 3GPP networks, in which a user device, such as a mobile telephone provides a buffer status report to the target base station during a handover procedure. The target base station uses this status report to allocate appropriate resources for uplink data to be transmitted from the user device to the target base station. | 05-12-2016 |
| 20160134745 | TOUCH-PANEL CELLULAR PHONE AND INPUT OPERATION METHOD - A touch-panel cellular phone specifies an invalid area not accepting a user's input operation on a touch panel in advance. The cellular phone detects a user's touch area on the touch panel so as to execute a function pre-assigned to the touch area not encompassed by the invalid area. Additionally, it is possible to reduce and display menu icons in the display area precluding the invalid area on the touch panel. Thus, it is possible to prevent an error operation when a user holding a cellular phone inadvertently touches the touch panel. | 05-12-2016 |
| 20160134145 | SUPPLY AND DEMAND ADJUSTMENT SYSTEM, SUPPLY AND DEMAND ADJUSTMENT METHOD, AND SUPPLY AND DEMAND ADJUSTMENT PROGRAM - A supply and demand adjustment system, that utilizes characteristics of a supply-and-demand adjustment apparatuses and precisely matches the total supply-and-demand adjustment amount with a required adjustment amount, when adjusting supply and demand, is provided. The supply and demand adjustment system that includes a central control apparatus and one or more supply-and-demand adjustment apparatuses, the central control apparatus including, supply-and-demand-adjustment-apparatus-state-collection unit that collects information with regard to a state of each supply-and-demand adjustment apparatus, allocation band calculation unit that calculates a frequency band and an intensity of a fluctuation of supply and demand adjustment to be allocated to the supply-and-demand adjustment apparatus based on the information of the state, and a supply-and-demand-adjustment-amount-calculation-unit that calculates a supply-and-demand adjustment amount for each supply-and-demand adjustment apparatus based on the frequency band and the intensity of the fluctuation of supply and demand adjustment to be allocated to the supply-and-demand adjustment apparatus. | 05-12-2016 |
| 20160132755 | TRAINING DATA GENERATING DEVICE, METHOD, AND PROGRAM, AND CROWD STATE RECOGNITION DEVICE, METHOD, AND PROGRAM - To provide a training data generating device capable of easily generating a large amount of training data used for machine-learning a dictionary of a discriminator for recognizing a crowd state. A person state determination unit | 05-12-2016 |
| 20160132343 | INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, LIBRARY LOADING METHOD, AND COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM - Provided is an information processing device and others in which a plurality of applications are capable of appropriately using a plurality of libraries requested to be loaded with an identical name and including different contents. The information processing device includes an identifier generation unit which generates identifier information used for identifying contents of a library file, generates load request association information representing a relationship between the identifier information and request target information; a load request interpretation unit which obtains identifier information about the library file including a target of a load request; and a load unit which loads at least a part corresponding to the target of the load request from the library file indicated by the obtained identifier information when the load unit determines that the part corresponding to the target of the load request is not loaded. | 05-12-2016 |
| 20160127941 | SON CONTROL SYSTEM, SON CONTROL METHOD, AND MOBILE COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A mobile communication system ( | 05-05-2016 |
| 20160127923 | APPARATUS, METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM FOR SELF-ORGANIZING NETWORK - An apparatus ( | 05-05-2016 |
| 20160126549 | POSITIVE ELECTRODE MATERIAL FOR LITHIUM ION SECONDARY BATTERIES, AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING SAME - The present invention relates to a lithium manganese composite oxide having a metal-containing compound film and a carbon coating, in which at least a part of a surface of the lithium manganese composite oxide represented by Formula (1) is coated with the metal-containing compound film, and at least a part of the surface thereof is further coated with the carbon coating. The present invention can provide a positive electrode material capable of improving the discharge characteristics and the capacity retention rate after cycles of lithium ion secondary batteries. | 05-05-2016 |
| 20160125268 | IMAGE PROCESSING SYSTEM, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND RECORDING MEDIUM - An image processing system includes: a first identification unit that identifies a static area from an input image captured at each of a plurality of time points; an image generation unit that generates a first image by using the static areas of respective input images captured in a first time span from a processing time point and generates a second image by using the static areas of respective images captured in a second time span from the processing time point; and a second identification unit that compares the first image and the second image and identifies an area having a difference. | 05-05-2016 |
| 20160125211 | ARTICLE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM, ARTICLE MANAGEMENT METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM STORING ARTICLE MANAGEMENT PROGRAM - An article management system includes RFID tags ( | 05-05-2016 |
| 20160124792 | FAULT ANALYSIS APPARATUS, FAULT ANALYSIS METHOD, AND RECORDING MEDIUM - An apparatus includes: a log element extraction unit that extracts a log element from log information a combined unit that attaches, to each of the log elements, related system constituent element information and combine the log elements; a pattern extraction unit that extracts a pattern from the combined log information; a conversion unit, when an analysis target pattern includes system constituent element information of conversion target not included in a comparison target pattern, that performs conversion between the system constituent element information of the conversion target and the system constituent element information similar to the conversion target in the comparison target pattern or the analysis target pattern; a comparison unit that detects a difference the analysis target pattern and the comparison target pattern; and a presenting unit that presents, as a portion of a cause of a fault, the system constituent element information indicated by the difference. | 05-05-2016 |
| 20160119972 | COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, COMMUNICATION TIMING CONTROL APPARATUS, CONNECTION CONTROL APPARATUS, COMMUNICATION TIMING CONTROL METHOD, AND COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM - An exemplary object of the present invention is to provide a communication system capable of efficiently and equally allocating communication opportunities. A communication system according to the present invention includes: a connection control apparatus ( | 04-28-2016 |
| 20160119830 | RADIO TERMINAL, NETWORK APPARATUS, AND METHOD THEREFOR - A radio terminal establishes a control connection with a network, and receives, from the network, a selection policy used for selection of a core network entity that provides a mobility management service or a data transmission service for the radio terminal. Further, the radio terminal selects a target core network entity based on the selection policy, and transmits, to the network, a request message for requesting provision of the mobility management service or the data transmission service by the target core network entity. | 04-28-2016 |
| 20160119425 | DISTRIBUTED PROCESSING SYSTEM - The server device includes a cache, and identification information of data used in a previously executed transaction. The server device compares identification information of data to be used in a transaction received from a client, with the identification information held by it. When the comparison result shows a mismatch, the server device executes the transaction after updating the cache by using data acquired from a persistent storage device, while when the comparison result shows a match, the server device executes the transaction without updating the cache. Then, the server device determines whether optimistic exclusion succeeded or failed, and in the case of failure, re-executes the transaction after updating the data in the cache by using the data acquired from the persistent storage device. | 04-28-2016 |
| 20160118804 | EQUIPMENT POWER MANAGEMENT SYSTEM - An equipment power management system in accordance with the present invention has a plurality of electrical devices and a control device. The electrical devices can operate in any one of multiple operational states different from each other in power consumption of a commercial power source. The control device switches the operational state of an electrical device to that of a smaller power consumption of the commercial power source in ascending order from the electrical device of the lowest priority when a receiving power amount of the whole equipment including the plurality of electrical devices exceeds a first threshold value until the receiving power amount falls below a second threshold value which is lower than or equal to the first threshold value. | 04-28-2016 |
| 20160117526 | INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, METHOD FOR VERIFYING ANONYMITY AND METHOD - The present invention provides an information processing device that enables a reduction in the processing cost of verifying anonymity during anonymization when multi-dimensional data is the subject of anonymization. The information processing device is provided with: a unit which generates information indicating the correspondence between a record contained in a data set and a class specifying a unique combination of quasi-identifier attribute values; a unit which verifies the anonymity of each record on the basis of the class thereof indicated in the information; and a unit which, on the basis of the results of verifying the anonymity, updates the information in a manner such that whether or not the record satisfies the anonymity can be identified and outputs the record-class correspondence information. | 04-28-2016 |
| 20160117198 | LOAD DISTRIBUTION APPARATUS, LOAD DISTRIBUTION METHOD, STORAGE MEDIUM, AND EVENT-PROCESSING SYSTEM - This invention implements appropriate load distribution in an event-processing system, that includes: a plurality of event generators that generate events and transmit the events to an allocation apparatus, and a plurality of allocation apparatuses that receive events from one or a plurality of event generators and transmit the received events to a processing apparatus. The load distribution apparatus includes an acquiring unit that is configured to acquire a reception status, or a transmission status, these status representing information about receiving or transmitting of the events. The load distribution apparatus also includes an updating unit that is configured to update the allocation apparatus specified for the specific event generator to another allocation apparatus, on the basis of the reception status or the transmission status, so that a load applied to the allocation apparatus is leveled among the plurality of allocation apparatuses. | 04-28-2016 |
| 20160116932 | POWER SUPPLY SYSTEM, POWER MANAGEMENT APPARATUS, POWER MANAGEMENT METHOD, AND POWER MANAGEMENT PROGRAM - To ensure the electricity storage amount of a power storage device in preparation for the peak period of power consumption when supplying power to a plurality of devices, a power management apparatus includes a controller that controls the plurality of devices that receive a distribution of total power supplied from the power storage device and another power supply, an acquirer that acquires the remaining electric energy of the power storage device, and a determiner that determines whether the remaining electric energy of the power storage device is not more than a first predetermined value. If the remaining electric energy of the power storage device is not more than the first predetermined value, the controller controls the plurality of devices such that the power from the other power supply is distributed to the power storage device. | 04-28-2016 |
| 20160116677 | OPTICAL WAVEGUIDE DEVICE AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING AN OPTICAL WAVEGUIDE DEVICE - An optical waveguide device includes first and second branching devices and first to fourth distribution optical waveguides that are formed on an optical waveguide substrate including a latticed dummy pattern of a predetermined pitch and that are arranged, in a region where the dummy pattern is removed, so as to be separated from the dummy pattern, and an interval between the first and second distribution optical waveguides at an output point of the first branching device is equal to an interval between the third and fourth distribution optical waveguides at an output point of the second branching device, and a distance between light propagation centers of the first and second branching devices is an integer multiple of the pitch, and at a point where a distance between neighboring distribution optical waveguides becomes maximum, the distance between the neighboring distribution optical waveguides is an integer multiple of the pitch. | 04-28-2016 |
| 20160116676 | OPTICAL WAVEGUIDE ELEMENT, OPTICAL WAVEGUIDE DEVICE, AND METHOD FOR ARRANGING OPTICAL WAVEGUIDE - An optical waveguide element according to an exemplary aspect of the invention includes a first optical waveguide configured by combining a plurality of first element waveguides; and a second optical waveguide configured by combining a plurality of second element waveguides each of which having the same structure as the plurality of first element waveguides. | 04-28-2016 |
| 20160113057 | Communications Device, Apparatus, System, Method and Computer Implementable Instructions Product | 04-21-2016 |
| 20160112989 | MOBILE COMMUNICATION METHOD, MOBILE MANAGEMENT NODE, AND SERVING GATEWAY APPARATUS - A mobile communication method in a mobile communication system according to the present invention in which when MME# | 04-21-2016 |
| 20160112906 | WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, BASE STATION, AND CONTROL METHOD THEREFOR - The base station of the present invention manages a cell and is capable of communicating with peripheral base stations that manage cells that are adjacent to this cell. When assigning to the cell that it manages a cell identifier that identifies the cell, the base station supplies a determination request whether or not to assign the cell identifier that is intended to be assigned to the peripheral base stations, and when, in response to the determination request, an indication of permission to assign the cell identifier that is intended to be assigned is supplied from the peripheral base stations, the base station assigns the cell identifier that is intended to be assigned to the cell that the base station manages. When a determination request whether or not to assign a cell identifier that is intended to be assigned is supplied from a peripheral base station, the base station determines whether or not to assign the cell identifier that is intended to be assigned according to the state of assignment of cell identifiers to cells that are adjacent to the cell that it manages, and supplies the determination result to the peripheral base station that originated of the determination request. | 04-21-2016 |
| 20160112858 | CELLULAR NETWORK ASSISTED DEVICE TO DEVICE (D2D) DISCOVERY - A method is disclosed for use in device-to-device (D2D) discovery in a wireless communication network. The network includes at least one base station and a plurality of D2D capable user equipments (D2D-UEs). The network also supports cellular communication and direct communication between D2D-UEs. The method includes transmitting D2D discovery system information (D2D-SIB) from the base station to D2D-UEs, wherein the D2D-SIB indicates frame(s)/subframe(s) for D2D-UEs to transmit D2D discovery request signal(s) and frame(s)/subframe(s) for D2D-UEs to transmit D2D discovery response signal(s). The method also includes transmitting one or more D2D discovery request signal(s) from one D2D-UE, and upon receipt of a said D2D discovery request signal by another D2D-UE, transmitting from said other D2D-UE one or more D2D discovery response signal(s). The D2D discovery request signal(s) and D2D discovery response signal(s) are transmitted on the frame(s)/subframe(s) indicated in the D2D-SIB. | 04-21-2016 |
| 20160111638 | SWITCHING ELEMENT, SWITCHING ELEMENT MANUFACTURING METHOD, SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE, AND SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE MANUFACTURING METHOD - To provide a switching element having excellent operational stability and a high production yield, and a semiconductor device using the switching element, a switching element according to this invention includes a non-volatile resistive-change element, a rectifying element, and an insulating material. The non-volatile resistive-change element includes a first electrode, a second electrode, and a non-volatile resistive-change layer provided between the first electrode and the second electrode. The rectifying element includes the second electrode, a third electrode, and a volatile resistive-change layer provided between the second electrode and the third electrode. The insulating material is provided at least on the side surface of the third electrode. | 04-21-2016 |
| 20160111153 | METHOD FOR PROGRAMMING SWITCHING ELEMENT - In order to realize a switching element that is highly reliable and can be highly integrated, in a method for programming a switching element of the present invention, programming of the switching element is performed by increasing or decreasing a resistance value R of a resistive-change film by applying a first pulse voltage to a first electrode or a second electrode, a measurement of the resistance value R is performed, verification in which it is determined whether or not the measured resistance value R is equal to a desired value is performed, and reprogramming of the switching element is performed by applying a second pulse voltage whose polarity is the same as that of the first pulse voltage to the same electrode to which the first pulse voltage is applied on the basis of the resistance value R when the resistance value R is not equal to the desired value. | 04-21-2016 |
| 20160110586 | IMAGE RECOGNITION APPARATUS, IMAGE RECOGNITION METHOD AND COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIUM - An image recognition apparatus, method and non-transitory computer-readable storage medium are disclosed. An image recognition apparatus may include a memory storing instructions, and at least one processor configured to process the instructions to, determine an occlusion pattern of a face in a facial image representing the face by comparing the facial image with a standard facial image representing a standard face, and identify the facial image using a region determined by the occlusion pattern in the facial image. | 04-21-2016 |
| 20160110285 | METHOD OF CONTROLLING DATA WRITING TO PERSISTENT STORAGE DEVICE - A second computer transmits, to a first computer, confirmation data including identification information and a version number of copy data updated in a cache. Based on the confirmation data received from the second computer and information stored in the persistent storage device, the first computer extracts the identification information and the version number corresponding to the copy data to be written to the persistent storage device, from the confirmation data, and transmits response data including the extracted identification information and the version number to the second computer. Based on the response data received from the first computer and information stored in the cache, the second computer determines the copy data in the cache to be transmitted to the first computer so as to be written to the persistent storage device. | 04-21-2016 |
| 20160105919 | COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEM - A communication system is disclosed comprising an X2 gateway, a number of base stations, and a mobile device. The base stations are able to establish X2 connections directly with each other or via the X2 gateway. Various procedures are disclosed to determine how X2 connections should be established based on compatibility of the respective base stations with the X2 gateway. | 04-14-2016 |
| 20160105837 | COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE AND FEMTO BASE STATION THEREIN, METHOD AND PROGRAM FOR CONTROLLING THE SAME, AND METHOD OF TRANSMITTING INFORMATION TO FEMTO BASE STATION - In order to change control over a user equipment within a femtocell in accordance with a change in camping of the user equipment, a communication system includes a femto base station ( | 04-14-2016 |
| 20160105833 | MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATIONS SYSTEM - A method of processing a handover request from a base station controller (BSC) of a GSM (Global System for Mobile communication) -type network. The method comprises the steps of passing a handover request with GSM-type parameters from a base station controller (BSC) through a Master Switching Center (MSC) of the GSM-type network to a UMTS core network (CN) and to a Radio Network Controller (RNC) of the UMTS (Universal Mobile Telecommunications System) network, translating the GSM-type parameters to UTRAN parameters in the Radio Network Controller (RNC), and allocating UTRAN resources in response to the translated parameters. | 04-14-2016 |
| 20160105815 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR ESTIMATING COMMUNICATION LOAD, RADIO STATION AND UPPER-LEVEL APPARATUS IN RADIO COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A method and a device for estimating a communication load, as well as a radio station and an upper-level apparatus in a radio communication system, are provided that can estimate a communication load in a target network with high accuracy by using received quality information. A communication load estimation function ( | 04-14-2016 |
| 20160105277 | ENCRYPTED TEXT MATCHING SYSTEM, METHOD, AND COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM - An encrypted text matching system includes: an auxiliary data generating unit that generates first and second auxiliary data, which are for verification of matching between a first encrypted text that is obtained by encrypting at least one of a plurality of data segments into which input data is divided by segmenting unit and that is registered with a storage device and a second encrypted text that is obtained by encrypting at least one of a plurality of data segments into which input data to be matched is divided by segmenting unit, the verification being performed by using a Hamming distance between plaintexts; and a matching determining unit that takes a difference between the first and second encrypted text, and determines whether a Hamming distance between plaintexts that corresponds to the difference between the first and second encrypted text is equal to or less than a predetermined certain value. | 04-14-2016 |
| 20160100358 | WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, BASE STATION DEVICE, MOVE CON-TROL NODE, AND METHOD OF WIRELESS COMMUNICATION - The wireless communication system of the present invention includes a base station ( | 04-07-2016 |
| 20160098993 | SPEECH PROCESSING APPARATUS, SPEECH PROCESSING METHOD AND COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIUM - A speech processing apparatus, method and non-transitory computer-readable storage medium are disclosed. A speech processing apparatus may include a memory storing instructions, and at least one processor configured to process the instructions to calculate an acoustic diversity degree value representing a degree of variation in types of sounds included in a speech signal representing a speech, on a basis of the speech signal, and compensate for a recognition feature value calculated to recognize specific attribute information from the speech signal, using the acoustic diversity degree value. | 04-07-2016 |
| 20160098636 | DATA PROCESSING APPARATUS, DATA PROCESSING METHOD, AND RECORDING MEDIUM THAT STORES COMPUTER PROGRAM - Provided is a data processing apparatus creates teacher data used for learning of a machine learning system by classifying data extracted from time series data on the basis of a specific reference. The data processing apparatus includes a data extraction unit which extracts a candidate of teacher data, from time series data, a teacher data creation unit which creates the teacher data based on a label to classify the candidate of teacher data, and the candidate of teacher data which are labeled, and a teacher data complement unit which further extracts the candidate of the teacher data from the time series data that exists between a specific candidate of the teacher data at a specific timing and one of other candidates of the teacher data at a timing different from the specific timing, based on a degree of a variation between these candidates of the teacher data. | 04-07-2016 |
| 20160094862 | TIME SERIES DATA ENCODING APPARATUS, METHOD, AND PROGRAM, AND TIME SERIES DATA RE-ENCODING APPARATUS, METHOD, AND PROGRAM - A time series data encoding apparatus includes a time series data encoding means | 03-31-2016 |
| 20160092739 | OBJECT TRACKING APPARATUS, OBJECT TRACKING SYSTEM, OBJECT TRACKING METHOD, DISPLAY CONTROL DEVICE, OBJECT DETECTION DEVICE, AND COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIUM - An object tracking apparatus, method and computer-readable medium for detecting an object from output information of sensors, tracking the object on a basis of a plurality of detection results, generating tracking information of the object represented in a common coordinate system, outputting the tracking information, and detecting the object on a basis of the tracking information. | 03-31-2016 |
| 20160092131 | STORAGE SYSTEM, STORAGE SYSTEM CONTROL METHOD, AND RECORDING MEDIUM STORING VIRTUAL TAPE DEVICE CONTROL PROGRAM - A storage system according to an aspect of the present invention includes: a virtual tape device that includes circuitry configured to operate as a management unit that reads a data set from a virtual tape storage unit that stores the data set, the data set including, in an associated manner, a piece of virtual tape data including a piece of user data stored in a virtual tape and management data including a piece of location data indicating a storage location at which the piece of virtual tape data is stored, a conversion unit that generates a virtual tape file including the data set, and a transfer unit that transmits the virtual tape file as transfer data to an external storage device; and the external storage device that stores the transfer data upon receipt of the transfer data. | 03-31-2016 |
| 20160088470 | COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEM - A communication system is disclosed comprising a gateway, a number of base stations, and a mobile device. The gateway holds information mapping address data for each base station to information identifying a respective cell operated by that base station. A base station obtains information identifying a cell operated by a neighbour base station and provides this information to the gateway. The gateway obtains from the information held address data for the neighbour base station based on the information identifying the cell operated by the neighbour base station. The gateway generates and sends a message including address data to the base station. The base station receives the message and establishes a connection with the neighbour base station using the address data. | 03-24-2016 |
| 20160087870 | PATH SETTING VERIFICATION DEVICE, CONTROL METHOD AND PROGRAM - A path setting verification device verifies a validity of a path setting in the network system including a host, a switch, and a control device. A topology information acquisition unit acquires information on topology. A path setting information acquisition unit acquires path setting information which is used in updating the path setting by the control device. A test header generation unit generates a test header which is given to a test packet, using the path setting information. A test data generation unit generates a packet sequence which is simulated using the test header. A switch simulation unit simulates an operation of the switch, and a control device simulation unit simulates an operation of the control device. A path setting verification unit verifies a validity of the simulated path setting. | 03-24-2016 |
| 20160086135 | EVALUATION APPARATUS, EVALUATION METHOD AND EVALUATION SYSTEM FOR EVALUATING EVALUATION TARGET PERSON - The present invention provides an evaluation apparatus and an evaluation method which can evaluate an evaluation target person without difficulty, based on data regarding the evaluation target person. An evaluation apparatus | 03-24-2016 |
| 20160086005 | ARTICLE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM, ARTICLE MANAGEMENT METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM STORING ARTICLE MANAGEMENT PROGRAM - An article management system includes RFID tags ( | 03-24-2016 |
| 20160081022 | MOBILE TELEPHONE, APPARATUS, METHOD AND COMPUTER IMPLEMENTABLE INSTRUCTIONS PRODUCT - A communication system ( | 03-17-2016 |
| 20160080267 | MONITORING DEVICE, SERVER, MONITORING SYSTEM, MONITORING METHOD AND PROGRAM RECORDING MEDIUM - Disclosed is a monitoring device etc. which can carry out server load control in the light of the relationship between contents and load fluctuation, configured to monitor one or more servers which perform a processing in response to a request from a client, and transmit a reply to the client, the monitoring device including an operating plan unit which generates an operating plan of carrying out server load control depending on matter-of-interest information or depending on time information, based on access information related to the request and based on a request analysis result obtained by analyzing the request, the access information and the request analysis result being collected from the server, and a control unit which carries out the server load control based on the operating plan when the matter-of-interest information or the time information satisfies an execution condition included in the operating plan. | 03-17-2016 |
| 20160077563 | SEMICONDUCTOR INTEGRATED CIRCUIT AND POWER SUPPLY CONTROL METHOD THEREFOR - A semiconductor integrated circuit ( | 03-17-2016 |
| 20160073391 | COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A communication system is provided in which a communication node can allocate resources, for another communication node, within a number of consecutive subframes using a single control message. The other communication node receives codewords transmitted over using the allocated resources, aggregates ACK/NACK feedback for the received codewords and transmits the aggregated ACK/NACK feedback to the communication node for use in controlling subsequent transmission of new codewords or retransmission of previous codewords. | 03-10-2016 |
| 20160073295 | WIRELESS COMMUNICATION APPARATUS, WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, AND WIRELESS COMMUNICATION METHOD - A wireless communication apparatus, a wireless communication system and a wireless communication method that can suppress the occurrence of differences in transmission delays in a plurality of wireless lines are provided. The wireless communication apparatus ( | 03-10-2016 |
| 20160073248 | COMMUNICATION SYSTEM | 03-10-2016 |
| 20160072624 | ENCRYPTED TEXT MATCHING SYSTEM, METHOD, AND COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM - An encrypted text matching system includes: an auxiliary data generating unit configured to generate first auxiliary data and second auxiliary data, respectively, which are for verification of matching between a first encrypted text that is obtained by encrypting input data and is registered with a storage device and a second encrypted text that is obtained by encrypting input data to be matched, the verification being performed by using a Hamming distance between plaintexts; and matching determining unit configured to perform one-way conversion on at least part of the first auxiliary data, perform one-way conversion on intermediate data that is generated based on a difference between the first encrypted text and the second encrypted text and on the second auxiliary data, and determine, by using a result of the one-way conversion performed on the intermediate data as well as using the first auxiliary data that underwent the one-way conversion, whether a Hamming distance between plaintexts is equal to or less than a predetermined certain value, the Hamming distance corresponding to the difference between the first encrypted text and the second encrypted text. | 03-10-2016 |
| 20160072194 | MIMO ANTENNA DEVICE - The MIMO antenna device of the present invention includes a first conductor layer having a first opening portion, a first feed line and a second feed line. Each of the first feed line and the second feed line crosses the first opening portion, has a connection point with a first opening edge of the first opening portion, and feeds power to the first conductor layer at the connection point, wherein the first conductor layer includes a first split portion and a second split portion at the first opening edge. The first split portion and the second split portion are cut up to a conductor edge of the first conductor layer. Thus, the MIMO antenna device which is small in size and securing isolation between antenna ports is realized. | 03-10-2016 |
| 20160071529 | SIGNAL PROCESSING APPARATUS, SIGNAL PROCESSING METHOD, SIGNAL PROCESSING PROGRAM - This invention provides a signal processing apparatus for improving the speech determination accuracy in an input sound. The signal processing apparatus includes a transformer that transforms an input signal into an amplitude component signal in a frequency domain, a calculator that calculates a norm of a change in the amplitude component signal in a frequency direction, an accumulator that accumulates the norm of the change in the amplitude component signal in the frequency direction calculated by the calculator, and an analyzer that analyzes speech in the input signal in accordance with an accumulated value of the norm of the change in the amplitude component signal in the frequency direction calculated by the accumulator. | 03-10-2016 |
| 20160071285 | INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - An information processing device, apparatus, method and non-transitory computer-readable storage medium are disclosed. An information processing device may include a memory storing instructions, and at least one processor configured to process the instructions to generate a comparison image by transforming a reference image, associate the comparison image with a class variable representing an object included in the reference image, calculate a degree of difference between an input patch which is an image representing a sub-region of an input image and a comparison patch which is an image representing a sub-region of the comparison image, estimate a displacement vector between the input patch and the comparison patch, calculate a first degree of reliability corresponding to the displacement vector and the class variable on the basis of the displacement vector and the degree of difference, calculate a second degree of reliability for each comparison patch on the basis of the first degree of reliability, and identify the object is represented by the class variable associated with the comparison image including the comparison patch whose second degree of reliability is greater than a predetermined threshold value, as a recognition target. | 03-10-2016 |
| 20160070591 | DISTRIBUTED PROCESSING SYSTEM, DISTRIBUTED PROCESSING DEVICE, DISTRIBUTED PROCESSING METHOD, AND DISTRIBUTED PROCESSING PROGRAM - A distributed processing system in which a plurality of computers are interconnected, wherein each of the computers is provided with a module loader which loads each module and performs initialization processing, a metadata management unit which acquires metadata including a command for the initialization processing from a previously provided storage means or another computer, a file management unit which reads and writes a file within the storage means or the other computer, and an execution container which executes a distributed batch application. The file management unit examines whether or not an execution region including an execution code of a corresponding module is present in the storage means after the initialization processing, and when the execution region is not present, loads the execution code from the other computer and writes the loaded execution code as the execution region. | 03-10-2016 |
| 20160066333 | CONTROL APPARATUS, COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, COMMUNICATION APPARATUS, COMMUNICATION METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM STORING PROGRAM - A control apparatus ( | 03-03-2016 |
| 20160065471 | COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, COMMUNICATION DEVICE, CONTROLLER, AND METHOD AND PROGRAM FOR CONTROLLING FORWARDING PATH OF PACKET FLOW - A communication system includes a network device to be used for packet handling; and a controller capable of sending, to the network device, a packet handling rule according to a first protocol. The network device classifies, based on a condition, indicative of a scope under which the controller is capable of controlling the network device, whether to handle the packet according to the packet handling rule sent from the controller or to handle the packet according to a table entry that the network device autonomously sets based on a second protocol. | 03-03-2016 |
| 20160065141 | POWER AMPLIFIER - The disclosed power amplifier has: a first amplifying unit and a second amplifying unit provided with a plurality of amplifying circuits connected in parallel in which a bias voltage can be adjusted in accordance with a control signal supplied from outside, the first amplifying unit and the second amplifying unit for amplifying an input signal by each amplifying circuit and combining and outputting the amplified signal; a divider for dividing the input signal to the first amplifying unit and the second amplifying unit; and a combiner for combining and outputting an output signal of the first amplifying unit and an output signal of the second amplifying unit. | 03-03-2016 |
| 20160063519 | DATA ANALYSIS APPARATUS, DATA ANALYSIS SYSTEM, COMMODITY EXCHANGE FORECASTING APPARATUS, COMMODITY EXCHANGE FORECASTING SYSTEM, DATA ANALYSIS METHOD, COMMODITY EXCHANGE FORECASTING METHOD, AND COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIUM - A data analysis apparatus, system, method and non-transitory computer-readable storage medium are disclosed. A data analysis apparatus may include a memory storing instructions, and at least one processor configured to process the instructions to identify products included in a captured image, specify placement positions of the products, and analyze connection between a positional relation among the products and sales of the products based on the placement positions of the products and commodity exchange data of the products. | 03-03-2016 |
| 20160062728 | DRAWING CONTROL APPARATUS, INFORMATION SHARING SYSTEM, DRAWING CONTROL METHOD, AND RECORDING MEDIUM STORING DRAWING CONTROL PROGRAM - Disclosed is a drawing control apparatus capable of efficiently performing the adjustment process of avoiding overlap between the writing areas for the users who have gained access on-line writes. | 03-03-2016 |
| 20160057634 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR CONTROLLING RADIO PARAMETERS, NETWORK OPERATION MANAGEMENT APPARATUS, AND RADIO BASE STATION - A method and an apparatus for controlling a radio parameter, as well as a network operation management apparatus and a radio base station, are provided that enable optimization control taking a dead zone into consideration. A radio parameter control apparatus ( | 02-25-2016 |
| 20160057455 | VIDEO ENCODING DEVICE, VIDEO DECODING DEVICE, VIDEO ENCODING METHOD, VIDEO DECODING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - A video encoding device includes: pixel bit length increasing means for increasing a pixel bit length of an input image based on pixel bit length increase information; transform means for transforming output data of the pixel bit length increasing means; entropy encoding means for entropy-encoding output data of the transform means; non-compression encoding means for non-compression-encoding input data; multiplexed data selection means for selecting output data of the entropy encoding means or output data of the non-compression encoding means; and multiplexing means for multiplexing the pixel bit length increase information in a bitstream, wherein a pixel bit length of an image corresponding to the output data of the entropy encoding means and a pixel bit length of an image corresponding to the output data of the non-compression encoding means are different from each other. | 02-25-2016 |
| 20160057443 | VIDEO ENCODING DEVICE, VIDEO DECODING DEVICE, VIDEO ENCODING METHOD, VIDEO DECODING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - A video encoding device includes: pixel bit length increasing means for increasing a pixel bit length of an input image based on pixel bit length increase information; transform means for transforming output data of the pixel bit length increasing means; entropy encoding means for entropy-encoding output data of the transform means; non-compression encoding means for non-compression-encoding input data; multiplexed data selection means for selecting output data of the entropy encoding means or output data of the non-compression encoding means; and multiplexing means for multiplexing the pixel bit length increase information in a bitstream, wherein a pixel bit length of an image corresponding to the output data of the entropy encoding means and a pixel bit length of an image corresponding to the output data of the non-compression encoding means are different from each other. | 02-25-2016 |
| 20160057442 | VIDEO ENCODING DEVICE, VIDEO DECODING DEVICE, VIDEO ENCODING METHOD, VIDEO DECODING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - A video encoding device includes: pixel bit length increasing means for increasing a pixel bit length of an input image based on pixel bit length increase information; transform means for transforming output data of the pixel bit length increasing means; entropy encoding means for entropy-encoding output data of the transform means; non-compression encoding means for non-compression-encoding input data; multiplexed data selection means for selecting output data of the entropy encoding means or output data of the non-compression encoding means; and multiplexing means for multiplexing the pixel bit length increase information in a bitstream, wherein a pixel bit length of an image corresponding to the output data of the entropy encoding means and a pixel bit length of an image corresponding to the output data of the non-compression encoding means are different from each other. | 02-25-2016 |
| 20160056630 | ELECTRIC POWER CONTROL SYSTEM - An electric power control system of the present invention includes an electric power supplying means, a load means, and an energy storing means. The electric power control system includes: an energy storage controlling means for controlling the energy storing means so as to decrease charge or discharge electric power over a response time corresponding to a set time constant for energy storing means; and a supplied energy controlling means for executing control to change electric power supplied by the electric power supplying means over a response time corresponding to a set time constant for electric power supplying means so that the electric power supply and demand difference is kept within the preset given range. The time constant for energy storing means is set to be longer than the time constant for electric power supplying means. | 02-25-2016 |
| 20160055367 | FEATURE POINT INPUT ASSISTING DEVICE, FEATURE POINT INPUT ASSISTING METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM STORED WITH PROGRAM - To provide a feature point input assisting device that can carry out the input assistance of the feature point. | 02-25-2016 |
| 20160055187 | INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD AND STORAGE MEDIUM - Setting or verification of a monitoring rule in response to a monitoring target environment is supported. An information processing system includes a situation information receiving unit that receives an input of situation information indicating a situation in a monitoring target environment. The information processing system further includes a normal situation storage unit. The normal situation storage unit stores environment information indicating the monitoring target environment in association with a set of situation information indicating a situation that is not abnormal in the monitoring target environment. The information processing system further includes a retrieval unit. The retrieval unit refers to the normal situation storage unit upon receiving the input of the situation information indicating the information in the monitoring target environment. The retrieval unit then retrieves the environment information associated with the set of the situation information that does not include the input situation information. | 02-25-2016 |
| 20160055037 | ANALYSIS CONTROLLER, ANALYSIS CONTROL METHOD AND COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIUM - An analysis controller, method and computer readable medium for determining an allocation pattern representing an allocation of at least one analysis unit, among a plurality of analysis units, to one or more processing devices, among a plurality of processing devices, on a basis of an estimated load for each of the at least one analysis unit for each of one or more time spans, allowable delay time for each of the at least one analysis unit, and a processing capacity of each of the plurality of processing devices. | 02-25-2016 |
| 20160050081 | CONTROL APPARATUS, COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, COMMUNICATION NODE CONTROL METHOD, AND PROGRAM - A control apparatus includes a representative port selection unit configured to select, for each of a plurality of domains formed by a plurality of communication nodes disposed on a network to be controlled, a representative port configured to transfer a broadcast packet with an adjacent one of the domains, a broadcast path calculation unit configured to calculate a forwarding path for the broadcast packet that passes through the representative port, for each of the domains, a control information generation unit configured to generate, for each communication node on the forwarding path, control information for causing the broadcast packet to be forwarded along the forwarding path, and a control information setting unit configured to set the generated control information in each communication node on the forwarding path. | 02-18-2016 |
| 20160049161 | SPEECH PROCESSING APPARATUS, SPEECH PROCESSING METHOD, SPEECH PROCESSING PROGRAM, METHOD OF ATTACHING SPEECH PROCESSING APPARATUS, CEILING MEMBER, AND VEHICLE - To input the voice of the passenger of a vehicle and output a piece of high-quality enhanced speech independently of the direction of a piece of speech or noise, a speech processing apparatus includes a first microphone that is provided on one of a ceiling member in a vehicle and an accessary thereof, inputs a sound mixture including a voice of a passenger of the vehicle and noise in the vehicle, and outputs a first signal, a second microphone that is provided on one of the ceiling member in the vehicle and the accessary thereof at a position farther than the first microphone when viewed from the passenger of the vehicle, inputs the noise in the vehicle while insulating the voice of the passenger of the vehicle using one of the ceiling member of the vehicle and the accessory thereof, and outputs a second signal, and a noise suppressor that outputs an enhanced speech signal based on the first signal and the second signal. | 02-18-2016 |
| 20160048702 | INFORMATION RECEIVING DEVICE, INFORMATION RECEIVING METHOD, AND MEDIUM - An information receiving device according to the present invention includes: a request information generation unit which generates request information including actual behavior information which is behavior information representing an actual behavior of a user, and pseudo behavior information not representing an actual behavior of the user; a distribution information request unit which transmits the request information to an information distribution device, and receives distribution information distributed from the information distribution device on a basis of the transmission of the request information; and a distribution information selection unit which selects distribution information associated with the actual behavior information, out of the distribution information received by the distribution information request unit. | 02-18-2016 |
| 20160044717 | CONNECTION IDENTIFIER SYSTEM AND METHOD - A method and system are proposed for establishing a requested connection between a source node and a destination node in a telecommunications network. The system and method are described in relation to a 3GPP network, but are applicable to other types of networks. The method includes generating a source application identifier for the connection within the source node, retrieving a source node identifier for the source node and transmitting the source application identifier and the source node identifier to the destination to provide a source connection identifier for the requested connection between the source node and the destination node. | 02-11-2016 |
| 20160044637 | RADIO STATION AND METHOD OF PROCESSING USER DATA WITH RADIO STATION - A radio station ( | 02-11-2016 |
| 20160044573 | RELAY STATION APPARATUS, MOBILE COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, BASE STATION APPARATUS, AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING RELAY STATION - A mobile communication system includes at least one upper radio station ( | 02-11-2016 |
| 20160044311 | IMAGE ENCODING APPARATUS, IMAGE ENCODING METHOD, AND RECORDING MEDIUM - Provided is an image encoding apparatus capable of encoding a region important to a user with high quality. An update interval index calculation unit calculates an update interval index representing an index having a long update interval in an entire update tile overlapping the update region for each update region. An importance region specification unit specifies an important region, from each update region by using the update interval index. An quality control unit allocates a code amount, which is larger than a result obtained by dividing the total target code amount per one frame proportionally according to a ratio of an area of an entire important region with respect to an area of an entire update region, as a target code amount of the entire important region and specifies a quality value of the entire important region on the basis of the target code amount. | 02-11-2016 |
| 20160044072 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, DATA PROCESSING METHOD THEREOF, AND PROGRAM - An information processing apparatus ( | 02-11-2016 |
| 20160042647 | AIR TRAFFIC CONTROL ASSISTANCE SYSTEM, AIR TRAFFIC CONTROL ASSISTANCE METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - Provided is an air traffic control assistance system whereby it is possible to display the reliability of an avoidance recommendation over time in a manner which is easily understood by an air traffic controller. For each combination of link information of an aircraft of interest and link information of an aircraft in the vicinity thereof, a graphic identification unit identifies a graphic which represents a prescribed range which is defined by the aircraft in the vicinity thereof, in a plane which includes a three-dimensional vector which is represented by the link information of the aircraft of interest and which is perpendicular to the x-y plane. When transforming a two-dimensional vector in an x-y plane from one fix of the aircraft of interest to the next fix to align in order along the x-axis, a transform matrix computation unit computes, for each two-dimensional vector, a transform matrix which represents a transform from a plane which contains the two-dimensional vector and is perpendicular to the x-y plane to a plane which is defined by the x-axis and a time axis. A display processing unit transforms the graphic, and displays a line which joins the fix and a point which is determined by the time whereat the aircraft of interest transects the fix, and the transformed graphic. | 02-11-2016 |
| 20160041885 | Data Replicating System, Data Replicating Method, Node Device, Management Device and Computer Readable Medium - Each node constituting this data replicating system returns a response to a data operation requesting device upon having written, into a temporary storage device of the node itself, a post-update log of a data record for which an operation requested by a data operation request was executed. Furthermore, when a checkpoint is reached, each node updates a data record storage unit of the node itself on the basis of the post-update log of the data record stored in the temporary storage device of the node itself, writes the post-update log of the data record stored in the temporary storage device of the node itself into an update history storage unit of the node itself, and writes, into a shared storage device shared with other nodes, checkpoint information having information for specifying a latest post-update log written into the update history storage unit. | 02-11-2016 |
| 20160040460 | LOCKING/UNLOCKING DETECTION DEVICE - A locking/unlocking detection device ( | 02-11-2016 |
| 20160037462 | RADIO COMMUNICATION DEVICE, RADIO COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, CONGESTION CONTROL METHOD, AND RECORD MEDIUM - A radio communication device that communicates with other radio communication devices that become communication partners includes first detection means that detects moving states of said other radio communication devices; second detection means that detects a moving state of its own device; third detection means that detects a congestion level of communication between said other radio communication devices or a congestion level of communication between said other radio communication devices and said own device; transmission means that transmits a radio signal from said own device to said other communication devices; and control means that controls said transmission means to transmit the radio signal based on the moving states of said other radio communication devices, the moving state of said own device, and said congestion level. | 02-04-2016 |
| 20160037403 | BASE STATION DEVICE AND HANDOVER CONTROL METHOD - [Problem] To provide a base station device and a handover control method capable of avoiding a situation in which the base station device of a cell becomes overloaded when the cell transitions from an inactive state to an active state. [Solution] A base station device ( | 02-04-2016 |
| 20160037370 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR CONTROLLING RADIO PARAMETER, NETWORK OPERATION MANAGEMENT APPARATUS, AND RADIO STATION - A method and a radio parameter control system, as well as a network operation management apparatus and a radio station, are provided that enable optimization control for problems varying with sites of occurrence. Using location information at the time of measurement included in a measurement report from a radio terminal ( | 02-04-2016 |
| 20160037322 | METHOD FOR USE IN DEVICE-TO-DEVICE COMMUNICATION, WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, AND ARCHITECTURE - A wireless communication system ( | 02-04-2016 |
| 20160036654 | CLUSTER SYSTEM - A cluster system of the present invention is a cluster system including a plurality of node devices. Each of the node devices is connected with the other node devices by a first network and a second network, and includes: a first node managing unit configured to operate on an operating system embedded in an own device and detect operation statuses of the other node devices via the first network; a second node managing unit configured to operate without being affected by the operating system and detect operation statuses of the other node devices via the second network; and a node status judging unit configured to judge whether each of the node devices is in a down state according to a preset standard, based on results of the detection of the other node devices by the first node managing unit and the second node managing unit. | 02-04-2016 |
| 20160036573 | RECEIVING APPARATUS IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM AND CHANNEL ESTIMATION CONTROL METHOD - It is desired to provide a receiving apparatus in a wireless communication system and a channel estimation control method that are capable of reducing delay in channel estimation and the error rate in decoding channel information. To achieve this, in a wireless communication system using a first reference signal, with which a control information signal is not multiplexed, and a second reference signal, with which a control information signal is multiplexed, a receiver ( | 02-04-2016 |
| 20160036510 | CONTROL METHOD OF RADIO COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, RADIO COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, AND RADIO COMMUNICATION APPARATUS - When communication is to be performed between communication devices having a directivity control function, a plurality of antenna-setting pairs available for the communication are stored by an initial training, and the communication is started by using one of the plurality of antenna-setting pairs. When the communication quality is deteriorated, firstly, a training signal is transmitted while successively setting each one of the plurality of antenna-setting candidates determined in the initial training in a transmitting antenna of one of the communication devices ( | 02-04-2016 |
| 20160036051 | LITHIUM SECONDARY BATTERY - The present invention relates to a lithium secondary battery, wherein a peak at 167 to 171 eV and a peak at 162 to 166 eV are present in XPS analysis of sulfur (S2p) of a positive electrode surface, and P169/P164 is in the range of 0.7 to 2.0 wherein the P 169/P 164 is the ratio between the intensity of the peak at 167 to 171 eV (P169) and the intensity of the peak at 162 to 166 eV (P164). The present invention can provide a lithium secondary battery having excellent cycle characteristics. | 02-04-2016 |
| 20160034557 | INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, DATA PROCESSING METHOD THEREFOR, AND RECORDING MEDIUM - An information processing device includes: a feature quantity obtaining unit which obtains a feature quantity of an object to be extracted, which is extracted from a retrieval target, and specific information to be specified an appearing location of it; a feature quantity holding unit which, when storing the feature quantity in a feature quantity table, adds new identification information to the feature quantity and holds the feature quantity in the feature quantity table when a similar feature quantity in which a similarity with the feature quantity is no less than a threshold is not included in the feature quantity table, and outputs identification information of the similar feature quantity as identification information of the feature quantity when the similar feature quantity is included in the feature quantity table; and a retrieval table holding unit which holds the specific information associated with the added identification information or the outputted identification information. | 02-04-2016 |
| 20160034335 | INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE - An information processing device includes: a virtual machine built in the information processing device and able to use a physical device included by the information processing device; and an information processing device failure managing unit for detecting a failure in the information processing device. The virtual machine includes: a virtual machine failure managing unit for detecting a failure in the physical device which the virtual machine can use; and a failure notifying unit for notifying occurrence of a failure in the physical device detected by the virtual machine failure managing unit to the information processing device failure managing unit. | 02-04-2016 |
| 20160034315 | INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM, DEPLOYMENT METHOD, PROCESSING DEVICE, AND DEPLOYMENT DEVICE - An objective of the present invention is to construct a system in which a plurality of software components having dependencies are deployed dispersedly on a plurality of processing devices. | 02-04-2016 |
| 20160029477 | WIRING SUBSTRATE, SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE, PRINTED BOARD, AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING WIRING SUBSTRATE - A wiring substrate, to be interposed when an electronic component including an integrated circuit is mounted on a printed wiring board, includes a signal wire transmitting a signal from the electronic component, and a power supply wire supplying a power voltage to the electronic component, and the power supply wire is coated directly with a magnetic thin coat, and the magnetic thin coat is not provided on the signal wire so that the magnetic thin coat is arranged to be separated from the signal wire. | 01-28-2016 |
| 20160029431 | METHOD OF DETERMINING EXPIRATION PERIOD OF TIMER, NETWORK NODE, BASE STATION, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM - A network node ( | 01-28-2016 |
| 20160029201 | PORTABLE TELEPHONE, COMMUNICATION CONNECTION CONTROL METHOD, AND PROGRAM - A portable telephone equipped with a communication section used for communication inside and outside a country that includes an acquisition section configured to acquire information on a communications company that can be connected at the time of connection to a base station, a judgment section judges whether or not the acquired information on the communications company indicates a communications company for which flat-rate data communication is accessible, and a connection control section performs connection by the communication section to the communications company indicated by the acquired information on the communications company and sets that flat-rate data communication is accessible when judged YES by the judgment section, and conversely performs connection by the communication section to the communications company indicated by the acquired communications company information and sets that flat-rate data communication is not accessible when judged NO by judgment section. | 01-28-2016 |
| 20160029025 | VIDEO ENCODING DEVICE, VIDEO DECODING DEVICE, VIDEO ENCODING METHOD, VIDEO DECODING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - A video decoding device for decoding video using inter prediction comprises decoding control unit setting partition type of CU to be decoded to a type other than N×N which indicates a size of PU obtained by dividing a CU to be decoded is a minimum size, when a prediction mode of the CU to be decoded is an inter prediction and a size of the CU to be decoded is equal to a minimum CU size. | 01-28-2016 |
| 20160028664 | CHAT SYSTEM, KEY TELEPHONE UNIT, AND RECORDING MEDIUM - A chat system includes a key telephone unit and a plurality of user terminals connected to the key telephone unit. When the key telephone unit receives presence information including an IP address of the user terminal, it refers to a list in a list table, selects the received IP address in presence information, and transmits the presence information including the IP address to a recipient included in the list. Thus, the key telephone unit establishes peer-to-peer chat communication between the user terminal that has transmitted the IP address and the recipient. When the user terminal which is continuing a chat moves to a different user terminal, the chat is being continued by transmitting presence information including an IP address of the different user terminal to the key telephone unit and chat data are transferred between the user terminal and the different user terminal in a peer-to-peer connection. | 01-28-2016 |
| 20160028628 | COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, CONTROL APPARATUS, ADDRESS ALLOCATION METHOD, AND PROGRAM - A communication system includes an allocated address storage unit that stores an address allocated using host location information, and an address management unit that refers to the allocated address storage unit and uses the host location information to allocate an address to a host to which the address has not been allocated. | 01-28-2016 |
| 20160028500 | COMMUNICATION DEVICE, RECEPTION POWER MONITORING DEVICE, AND COMMUNICATION DEVICE SYSTEM - A communication device system includes a communication device ( | 01-28-2016 |
| 20160028491 | OPTICAL RECEPTION DEVICE AND OPTICAL RECEPTION METHOD - An optical reception device according to an exemplary aspect of the invention includes an optical front-end means for demodulating an inputted optical signal, converting the demodulated signal into an electrical signal and outputting the electrical signal, a pre-emphasis means for adding a high frequency component to the electrical signal, a digital signal processing means for receiving input of the electrical signal with the high frequency component added thereto via a transmission wire, and for performing a digital coherent reception process on the inputted electrical signal, an error detection means for detecting a signal error in the digital coherent reception process and a feedback control means for varying the level of a high frequency component added at the pre-emphasis means and, in accordance with signal errors detected at that time, controlling the pre-emphasis means. | 01-28-2016 |
| 20160028209 | OPTICAL AMPLIFIER AND CONTROL METHOD THEREOF - In an optical amplifier, the excitation light level of an excited laser diode decreases, or, when the output of an excitation light is stopped, a backup excited laser diode is operated, and therefore the current consumption increases. [Solution] This optical amplifier is provided with multiple excitation laser diodes, a first current control element, a second current control element, and control means. The excitation laser diodes oscillate excitation light, the excitation light being inputted to an optical fiber amplifier. The first current control element controls a current flowing in the excitation laser diodes. The second current control element controls a current flowing in at least one of the excitation laser diodes. The control means controls the first current control element and the second current control element. | 01-28-2016 |
| 20160028143 | DUPLEXER - A duplexer according to the present invention includes a transmission-side terminal, a reception-side terminal, a common terminal, a transmission-side circuit unit, and a reception-side circuit unit. Here, the transmission-side circuit unit is connected between the transmission-side terminal and the common terminal. The reception-side circuit unit is connected between the common terminal and the reception-side terminal. The transmission-side circuit unit includes a first transmission-side filter, a second transmission-side filter, and a transmission-side directional propagation circuit. Here, the first transmission-side filter is provided in the subsequent stage of the transmission-side terminal. The second transmission-side filter is provided in a stage subsequent to the first transmission-side filter. The transmission-side directional propagation circuit is connected between the first transmission-side filter and the second transmission-side filter. The reception-side circuit unit includes a first reception-side filter, a second reception-side filter, and a reception-side directional propagation circuit. Here, the first reception-side filter is provided in the subsequent stage of the common terminal. The second reception-side filter is provided in a stage subsequent to the first reception-side filter. The reception-side directional propagation circuit is connected between the first reception-side filter and the second reception-side filter. | 01-28-2016 |
| 20160028123 | NONAQUEOUS ELECTROLYTE SOLUTION SECONDARY BATTERY - A nonaqueous electrolyte solution secondary battery having an electrode element having a positive electrode and a negative electrode disposed so as to face each other, a nonaqueous electrolyte solution, and an outer package housing the electrode element and the nonaqueous electrolyte solution, wherein the nonaqueous electrolyte solution contains a cyclic sulfonic acid ester represented by the general formula (1), and a positive electrode active material in the positive electrode is a mixture of a lithium manganese composite oxide having a spinel structure and a lithium transition metal composite compound having a layered rock salt structure. | 01-28-2016 |
| 20160028119 | LITHIUM ION SECONDARY BATTERY - A lithium ion secondary battery comprising: a positive electrode comprising a positive electrode active material; a negative electrode comprised mainly of a material capable of storing and releasing lithium ions; and an electrolytic liquid,
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| 20160028118 | ELECTROLYTE SOLUTION FOR SECONDARY BATTERIES, AND SECONDARY BATTERY USING SAME - Disclosed is an electrolyte solution for lithium secondary batteries, including a cyclic sulfonic acid ester represented by the general formula (1): | 01-28-2016 |
| 20160026571 | INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, MEMORY ORDER GUARANTEE METHOD, AND RECORDING MEDIUM STORING PROGRAM - An information processing device includes a plurality of processors including an Acquire side processor and a Release side processor, and a shared memory. The Acquire side processor and the Release side processor includes a cache, a memory access control unit in the Release side processor configured to issue a StoreFence instruction for requesting a guarantee of completing the cache invalidation by the Acquire side processor, a memory access control unit in the Acquire side processor configured to issue a LoadFence instruction in response to the StoreFence instruction for guaranteeing completion of the cache invalidation in accordance with the invalidation request from the shared memory after completing a process for the cache invalidation, and an invalidation request control unit configured to perform a process for invalidating the cache in accordance with the invalidation request from the shared memory. | 01-28-2016 |
| 20160025496 | Positioning Device, Method for Controlling Same, and Program - This positioning device includes: a first positioning means that measures the position of the positioning device at prescribed time intervals; a second positioning means that measures the position of the positioning device with lower accuracy than the first positioning means and at time intervals that are shorter than those used by the first positioning means; a correction means that corrects the measurement results of the second positioning means on the basis of the position measured by the first positioning means at a prescribed point in time and the position at the prescribed point in time obtained from the measurement results of the second positioning means; and a generation means that, on the basis of the measurement results of the first positioning means and the measurement results of the second positioning means as corrected by the correction means, generates path information indicating the path of movement of the positioning device. | 01-28-2016 |
| 20160021672 | COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEM - A communications system is described in which a test device monitors operation of a communication device. The test device identifies each communication bearer associated with the communication device; determines a subset comprising at least one communication bearer to be used when performing the test and not comprising at least one other communication bearer; and initiates the test in which each communication bearer in the subset is used and each communication bearer not in said subset is not used. | 01-21-2016 |
| 20160021231 | COMMUNICATION TERMINAL AND COMMUNICATION METHOD - A communication terminal ( | 01-21-2016 |
| 20160021028 | COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, CONTROL APPARATUS, FORWARDING NODE, CONTROL METHOD AND PROGRAM - A plurality of forwarding nodes includes: a topology holding unit that holds as first topology information connection relationship between an own node and at least part of the group of nodes; a topology notification unit that notifies a node(s) adjacent to the own node among the group of nodes of the first topology information; and an in-band communication unit that notifies a control apparatus of the first topology information. The control apparatus includes: a topology configuration unit that generates second topology information by combining a plurality of pieces of the first topology information notified by the plurality of forwarding nodes; and an in-band control unit that derives a path from the control apparatus to the plurality of forwarding nodes based on the second topology information and establishes a control channel for controlling the plurality of forwarding nodes along the derived path. | 01-21-2016 |
| 20160021012 | CONTROL MESSAGE RELAY APPARATUS, CONTROL MESSAGE RELAY METHOD, AND PROGRAM - A control message relay apparatus is arranged between a switch that processes a packet(s) based on externally set control information and a control apparatus that sets the control information in the switch. The control message relay apparatus comprises a control information storage unit that stores control information received from the control apparatus and information indicative of a setting status of the control information in the switch; and a control information conversion unit that reflects a control content(s) received from the control apparatus in control information held in the switch based on a predetermined control policy(ies). | 01-21-2016 |
| 20160020971 | NODE INFORMATION DETECTION APPARATUS, NODE INFORMATION DETECTION METHOD, AND PROGRAM - A node information detection apparatus ( | 01-21-2016 |
| 20160020492 | LITHIUM ION SECONDARY BATTERY - A lithium ion secondary battery comprising a negative electrode comprising one or more types of carbon selected from the group consisting of natural graphite, artificial graphite, non-graphitizable carbon and easily graphitizable carbon; and an electrolyte solution comprising a cyclic sulfonic acid ester represented by the following formula (1); | 01-21-2016 |
| 20160019913 | SIGNAL PROCESSING APPARATUS, SIGNAL PROCESSING METHOD, AND SIGNAL PROCESSING PROGRAM - Disclosed is a signal processing apparatus that processes an input signal to accurately detect an abrupt change in the input signal in accordance with the degree of linear change of a phase component in a frequency domain. The signal processing apparatus includes a converter that converts the input signal into the phase component and an amplitude component in the frequency domain, a linearity calculator that calculates the linearity of the phase component in the frequency domain, and a determiner that determines presence of the abrupt change in the input signal based on the linearity calculated by the linearity calculator. | 01-21-2016 |
| 20160019673 | FINGERPRINT IMAGE CONVERSION DEVICE, FINGERPRINT IMAGE CONVERSION SYSTEM, FINGERPRINT IMAGE CONVERSION METHOD, AND FINGERPRINT IMAGE CONVERSION PROGRAM - A fingerprint image conversion device includes image conversion means | 01-21-2016 |
| 20160018933 | DISPLAY CONTROL DEVICE, INFORMATION APPARATUS, DISPLAY CONTROL METHOD AND RECORDING MEDIUM - A display control device includes: detection means that detects an inclination and movement amount of the display control device; and control means that switches a display direction of an image according to the inclination if the movement amount satisfies a predetermined condition, and maintains the display direction of the image irrespective of the inclination if the movement amount does not satisfy the predetermined condition. | 01-21-2016 |
| 20160007403 | RADIO COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, RADIO STATION, RADIO TERMINAL, COMMUNICATION CONTROL METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM - A radio terminal ( | 01-07-2016 |
| 20160007388 | APPARATUS AND METHODS FOR SMALL DATA TRANSMISSION - The invention provides for a wireless communications terminal ( | 01-07-2016 |
| 20160007360 | METHOD FOR PHICH RESOURCE ALLOCATION - A method is disclosed for PHICH resource allocation in a wireless communication system that supports flexible TDD UL-DL configuration and in which different TDD UL-DL configurations are available and the TDD UL-DL configuration used by first UEs which operate according to the flexible TDD configuration can be different to the TDD UL-DL configuration used by second UEs which operate according to a long term TDD UL-DL configuration. The method comprising allocating a PHICH resource for both first UEs and second UEs according to LTE timing rules applicable to the TDD UL-DL configuration in use by second UEs. | 01-07-2016 |
| 20160007332 | Radio Communication System, Radio Station, Radio Terminal, Communication Control Method, and Non-Transitory Computer Readable Medium - A radio terminal ( | 01-07-2016 |
| 20160007284 | RADIO COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, RADIO STATION, RADIO TERMINAL, COMMUNICATION CONTROL METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM - A radio terminal ( | 01-07-2016 |
| 20160007166 | COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, SERVICE PLATFORM, COMMUNICATION METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM - An object of the present invention is to provide a communication system capable of broadcasting and distributing various types of messages. The communication system according to the present invention includes a network operator device ( | 01-07-2016 |
| 20160006801 | DATA SHARING SYSTEM - Provided is a data sharing system in which data are shared between a plurality of communication terminals capable of wirelessly transmitting and receiving a communication message to and from each other. Each communication terminal determines whether or not the own communication terminal is a specified terminal. Each communication terminal, in case of it is determined that the own communication terminal is a specified terminal, transmits a holding list that lists information about data that the own communication terminal holds, to another communication terminal through use of a communication message. Each communication terminal, when receiving a holding list from another communication terminal, transmits and receives communication messages to and from the other communication terminal that is a source of the holding list that does not match the holding list of the own communication terminal so as to share data with each other. | 01-07-2016 |
| 20160006685 | RECEIVING DEVICE, RECEIVING DEVICE CONTROL METHOD, NETWORK SYSTEM, NETWORK SYSTEM CONTROL METHOD, AND MEDIUM - A receiving device according to the present invention includes: a packet receiving unit which receives a packet transmitted from a transmitting device which is a communication device transmitting the packet; and a transmitting device information acquiring unit which acquires, from an information providing device storing communication device information which is information concerning the communication device and information used for a purpose other than name resolution for the communication device, the communication device information corresponding to the transmitting device which is a source of the packet. | 01-07-2016 |
| 20160006601 | CONTROLLER, COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, PATH SWITCHING METHOD AND PROGRAM - A controller includes a first control information generation unit that generates the first control information that causes a forwarding apparatus being controlled to forward a packet(s) over a first path, and a second control information generation unit that generates the second control information that causes the forwarding apparatus being controlled to forward a group of packets inclusive of the packet as an object controlled by the first control information over a second path different from the first path. The controller also includes a forwarding control unit that sets the priority level of the first control information and the second control information in the forwarding apparatus being controlled so that the priority level of the second control information will be higher than that of the first control information and that, by instructing the forwarding apparatus being controlled to delete the second control information, changes over the forwarding path of at least the packet(s) matching the first control information. | 01-07-2016 |
| 20160006568 | TAG GENERATION DEVICE, TAG GENERATION METHOD, AND TAG GENERATION PROGRAM - Provided are a tag generation device, method and program which are capable of parallel execution, need no precomputation, and are capable of reducing block-cipher calls to the minimum necessary using one block cipher key when a tag to be attached to a message is generated. A tag generation device is provided with: an input means ( | 01-07-2016 |
| 20160006246 | ENERGY MANAGEMENT SYSTEM AND ENERGY MANAGEMENT METHOD - An energy management system and an energy management method enable an improvement of the balance between power supply and demand. A storage battery ( | 01-07-2016 |
| 20160006099 | WIDEBAND TRANSITION BETWEEN A PLANAR TRANSMISSION LINE AND A WAVEGUIDE - A wideband transition of the present invention between a planar transmission line and a waveguide comprises a substrate, a segment of the planar transmission line, a conductive patch, an adjusting conductor plate and a section of the waveguide. The segment is arranged in a top conductor layer of the substrate. The conductive patch is arranged in the top conductor layer and connected to one end of the segment. The adjusting conductor plate is arranged in the top conductor layer or another conductor layer of the substrate next to the top conductor layer and isolated from any other conductor. The section is disposed above the conductive patch and connected to a conductor plane at the top conductor layer. Another end of the segment is a first terminal of the wideband transition. Another end of the section is a second terminal of the wideband transition. | 01-07-2016 |
| 20160006094 | CROSS COUPLED BAND-PASS FILTER - [Problem] To provide a cross coupled band-pass filter that reduces a loss of a signal due to a dielectric loss and enables a resonance frequency to be easily changed. | 01-07-2016 |
| 20160006010 | NEGATIVE ELECTRODE FOR SECONDARY BATTERY, METHOD FOR PRODUCING SAME, AND SECONDARY BATTERY USING SAME - The present invention relates to a negative electrode for a lithium secondary battery containing a lithium sulfonate represented by a general formula (I) and provides a secondary battery that is excellent in a cycle characteristic and a storage characteristic under a high temperature environment: | 01-07-2016 |
| 20160004932 | Diagnosis Assisting System, Diagnosis Assisting Method, and Program Thereof - When making a diagnosis by synthetically taking into account the information obtained by preparing a plurality of samples using different staining methods or the like and sequentially observing the samples, a diagnostician must remember information about the plurality of samples. | 01-07-2016 |
| 20160004801 | SYSTEM ANALYSIS DEVICE AND SYSTEM ANALYSIS METHOD - In invariant relation analysis, a correlation diagram with improved visibility is obtained. | 01-07-2016 |
| 20160004736 | SIMILAR DATA SEARCH DEVICE,SIMILAR DATA SEARCH METHOD,AND COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM - A similar data search device includes: an inverted index generating unit which determines size ranges of sets of search targets for each of inverted indexes so that the number of sets of search targets is not smaller than a specified number and generates inverted indexes by dividing the sets of search targets according to the determined size ranges; an unnecessary inverted index identifying unit which determines, based on a size of a set of search conditions and a threshold value specified for a similarity between sets, a condition necessary for the similarity to be no smaller than the threshold value, and identifies, as an inverted index unnecessary for searches, any inverted index other than those inverted indexes containing a set whose minimum size value satisfies the condition; and a data search unit which conducts a search on a non-identified inverted index. | 01-07-2016 |
| 20160004583 | SYSTEM FOR PROJECT MANAGEMENT FROM NON-FUNCTION EVALUATION, METHOD FOR PROJECT MANAGEMENT FROM NON-FUNCTION EVALUATION, AND PROGRAM FOR PROJECT MANAGEMENT FROM NON-FUNCTION EVALUATION - Provided is a progress management technique for a project, the technique also covering a non-functional requirement of the project. A parameter required for evaluating the non-functional requirement is adjusted according to the progress of the project, and calculation is made, using the adjusted parameter, on to which extent the non-functional requirement may finally differ from a target value. | 01-07-2016 |
| 20160004553 | INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR RELOCATING APPLICATION - An application owned by an information processing device of any of a plurality of bases connected to each other via a network and each having an information processing device for operating the application by a virtual machine unit is, including the virtual machine unit, relocated to another base. The migration of the virtual machine unit that executes the application is controlled, the information processing device of the base that is a relocation destination is determined, and a base-by-base and application-by-application backup generation is grasped for each application. As bases for backing up data required to execute the application, information processing devices of a plurality of bases are selected, and the data is moved to each of the information processing devices and stored. | 01-07-2016 |
| 20160004550 | VIRTUALIZATION SYSTEM - A virtualization system includes: a virtualizing means for activating a virtual machine to which identification information identifying the virtual machine is assigned and which is capable of executing a predetermined function; a plurality of virtual machines activated by the virtualizing means; and a correspondence table creating means for creating a function correspondence table in which the identification information assigned to each of the virtual machines is associated with a function to be executed by the virtual machine among functions that can be executed by the virtual machines. The virtual machine specifies an associated function in the function correspondence table on the basis of the identification information assigned to the virtual machine, and executes the specified function. | 01-07-2016 |
| 20160004543 | PARALLEL PROCESSING DEVICE, PARALLEL PROCESSING METHOD, AND PARALLEL PROCESSING PROGRAM STORAGE MEDIUM - Provided is a parallel processing device whereby a plurality of single processes is efficiently and simply parallel processed by a plurality of processors. The parallel processing device includes: a first processor which executes, upon data which is included in data sets, a first program which defines a single process which is executed with the data as an input thereof, and outputs a first result; and includes a second processor which executes, upon the inputted data, a second program which defines a unit process and outputs a second result. A selection unit selects, based on a prescribed index which denotes either performance or function of the first processor and the second processor, a first partial set and a second partial set from the data set. A first processor control unit inputs into the first processor first data which is included in the first partial set. A second processor control unit inputs into the second processor second data which is included in the second partial set. The first and second programs are executed in parallel by the first and second processors. | 01-07-2016 |
| 20160004262 | SPATIAL STABILIZATION DEVICE, SPATIAL STABILIZATION METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM FOR SPATIAL STABILIZATION PROGRAM - Provided is a spatial stabilization apparatus that realizes high spatial stability with a single inertial sensor. The present invention includes: a first object that is rotatably connected to a moving body; a second object that is rotatably connected to the first object; means that measures angular velocity of either the moving body or the first object and outputs a first detected signal that includes one or more components of an orthogonal coordinate system that is fixed to either the moving body or the first object; means that outputs an estimated signal that is estimated or detected angular velocity with respect to a first angle of the first object in relation to the moving body: means that outputs a target angle signal of the first angle; means that outputs a target angle signal of a second angle of the second object in relation to the first object; means that outputs a second detected signal obtained by adding a signal based on the estimated signal and a signal based on the first detected signal; means that controls the first angle based on a signal based on the target angle signal of the first angle and a signal based on the first detected signal; and means that controls the second angle based on a signal based on the target angle signal of the second angle and a signal based on the second detected signal. | 01-07-2016 |
| 20150382371 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR NETWORK-ASSISTED INTERFERENCE SUPPRESSION/CANCELATION - A system which can achieve effective interference suppression/cancelation in downlink coordinated multi-point (CpMP) transmission is provided. The system has a network including multiple points which are capable of communicating with a user equipment, wherein the network sends information related to an interfering point to the user equipment for interference suppression or cancelation at the user equipment, wherein the interfering point is a candidate for a coordinated multi-point measurement set of the user equipment but not selected for any coordinated multi-point scheme. | 12-31-2015 |
| 20150382203 | RADIO WAVE OBSERVATION SYSTEM, CENTRAL STATION DEVICE, AND RADIO WAVE OBSERVATION METHOD - [Problem] To observe radio wave usage circumstances over a wide area and convert same into a database, at an achievable cost. [Solution] A radio wave observation system comprises: a plurality of wireless networks, further respectively comprising multiple terminal stations ( | 12-31-2015 |
| 20150381775 | COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, COMMUNICATION METHOD, CONTROL APPARATUS, CONTROL APPARATUS CONTROL METHOD, AND PROGRAM - A communication system including: a plurality of communication nodes that process received packets on the basis of a packet handling operation for processing packets; and a control apparatus that sets the packet handling operation in the plurality of communication nodes; wherein, in response to setting a first packet handling operation for changing header information of a packet(s) in a first communication node, the control apparatus sets a second packet handling operation for processing the packet(s) including the changed header information in a second communication node. | 12-31-2015 |
| 20150381520 | DATA SET MULTIPLICITY CHANGE DEVICE, SERVER, DATA SET MULTIPLICITY CHANGE METHOD AND COMPUTER REDABLE MEDIUM - A data set multiplicity change device of the invention, after a job is started, the number of data sets (multiplicity M) can be changed so that the access efficiency for accessing multiplicity management target data sets becomes as high as possible. The data set multiplicity change device includes priority degree calculation unit which calculates priority degree information representing an order of a plurality of nodes into which data sets are to be stored, on the basis of data set usage related information including information related to usage of the data sets referred to in a parallel processing executed by the plurality of nodes; and multiplicity management unit which performs multiplicity change processing to change a multiplicity of the data sets by changing the number of at least one or more data sets held in the plurality of nodes in a distributed manner on the basis of the priority degree information and data set arrangement information indicating a particular node holding the data sets in a storage area thereof. | 12-31-2015 |
| 20150381254 | COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - The invention provides a communication system and components thereof for controlling coordinated transmissions using a plurality of carriers operated by a plurality of transmission points. A transmission point configures a number of signal quality and interference measurements for a mobile telephone communicating over the plurality of carriers, each measurement being associated with multiple carriers and multiple measurement configurations. The mobile telephone performs the configured measurements with respect to each of the multiple carriers and reports the results of the relevant measurements to the transmission point. | 12-31-2015 |
| 20150380630 | Thermoelectric Conversion Structure and Method for Making the Same - A thermoelectric conversion structure according to an exemplary aspect of the invention includes a thermoelectric conversion unit structure including a magnetic fine particle including a magnetic material with the spin Seebeck effect arising and an electromotive body with which to cover the magnetic fine particle, wherein a plurality of the thermoelectric conversion unit structures form an aggregate with the electromotive body connecting to each other. | 12-31-2015 |
| 20150379366 | ARTICLE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM, INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, AND CONTROL METHOD AND CONTROL PROGRAM OF INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS - An apparatus of this invention is directed to an information processing apparatus that effectively counts, on a type basis, articles of a plurality of types displayed in a depth direction on a display shelf. The information processing apparatus includes a display count acquirer that acquires display count information of articles using article presence/absence sensors provided on the display shelf on which the articles are placed, an article identifier that acquires article identification information capable of identifying the types of articles based on an image acquired by capturing the display shelf, and a display recognizer that recognizes, based on the display count information and the article identification information, display count of each type of the articles. | 12-31-2015 |
| 20150379326 | IMAGE RESOLUTION RECOGNITION DEVICE, METHOD FOR RECOGNIZING IMAGE RESOLUTION AND IMAGE RESOLUTION RECOGNITION PROGRAM - To accurately show the size of a standard resolution on an image of a fingerprint. A device comprises: a starting point setting unit ( | 12-31-2015 |
| 20150378856 | STORAGE SYSTEM, STORAGE DEVICE, CONTROL METHOD AND CONTROL PROGRAM OF STORAGE DEVICE, MANAGEMENT DEVICE, AND CONTROL METHOD AND STORAGE MEDIUM - Convenience of data access is to be secured. A storage system includes two or more storage devices that store original data or copy data of the original data, and a management device that identifies a first storage device for storing the original data and a second storage device for storing the copy data. The storage devices each include two or more data storage units different in accessibility, a data copy control unit that controls generation of the copy data, an access frequency control unit that pseudo-conforms the access frequency to the copy data to the access frequency to the original data, and a data storage location control unit that determines the storage location of the original data and the copy data based on the access frequency and accessibility. | 12-31-2015 |
| 20150378436 | INPUT DEVICE, CONTROL METHOD FOR THE SAME, AND PROGRAM - An input device of the present invention includes: a detector that detects a position at which an input means touches or approaches a touch surface; a vibration generator that vibrates the touch surface; and a controller that controls intensity of vibration of the vibration generator in accordance with the detected position by the detector, at which the input means touches or approaches the touch surface. | 12-31-2015 |
| 20150378098 | POLARIZATION BEAM SPLITTER AND OPTICAL DEVICE - Provided are a polarization beam splitter and an optical device with high productivity. A polarization beam splitter (PBS) according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention includes: a demultiplexer ( | 12-31-2015 |
| 20150378020 | MEASUREMENT APPARATUS, MEASUREMENT SYSTEM, PROGRAM AND CONTROL METHOD - The present invention provides a new art for grasping a moving direction of an underwater vehicle. In order to grasp the moving direction of the underwater vehicle, a measurement apparatus | 12-31-2015 |
| 20150373594 | CELL INFORMATION TRANSMISSION SYSTEM, BASE STATION, CELL INFORMATION TRANSMISSION METHOD, AND CELL INFORMATION TRANSMISSION PROGRAM - In a wireless communication system, information about neighbor cells does not necessarily include information about all neighbor cells; instead, the movement history of each mobile station is taken into consideration when information about cells is included. Provided is a base station for performing wireless communication with a mobile station, the base station differentiating, according to the content of the movement history of the mobile station that moved into a cell under control of the base station, the content of a neighbor cell list as used by the mobile station. | 12-24-2015 |
| 20150373528 | MOBILE COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, SERVICE PLATFORM, NETWORK PARAMETER CONTROL METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM - A mobile communication system capable of executing optimization of network processing based on a change in utilization characteristics is provided. The mobile communication system according to the present invention includes a network operator device ( | 12-24-2015 |
| 20150373257 | IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD AND PERMANENT COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIUM - A storage portion stores ( | 12-24-2015 |
| 20150372729 | TERMINAL APPARATUS, BASE STATION APPARATUS, AND METHOD FOR SHARING CODEBOOK IN COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A communication system, a terminal apparatus, a base station apparatus, and a method for sharing a codebook are provided that make it possible to improve system capacity by using precoding according to a cell environment. In a communication system in which beam directivity control is performed by precoding using a codebook that is common between a base station ( | 12-24-2015 |
| 20150372703 | WIRELESS COMMUNICATION APPARATUS, ANALYSIS APPARATUS, ANALYSIS METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM ON WHICH PROGRAM HAS BEEN STORED - Provided are a wireless communication apparatus, an analysis apparatus, an analysis method and a non-transitory computer readable medium on which a program has been stored, wherein a threshold value to be used for determining whether received radio waves are noise or not can be determined independently of an operator's capability. A reception means receives radio waves. A threshold value determination means determines, on the basis of a number of intersections between a variation curve of radio wave intensity relative to the frequencies of the radio waves received by the reception means and a first line indicating a given radio wave intensity, a threshold value of radio wave intensity to be used for determining whether the received radio waves are noise or not. | 12-24-2015 |
| 20150372488 | ELECTRIC POWER CONTROL SYSTEM - An electric power control system of the present invention is connected to an electric power supplying means for supplying electric power and a load means for accepting supply of electric power and consuming the electric power. The electric power control system includes: a supplied energy acquiring means for acquiring a supplied energy as the amount of electric power supplied from the electric power supplying means; a consumed energy acquiring means for acquiring a consumed energy as the amount of electric power consumed by the load means; and an electric power supply and demand controlling means for changing the status of supply of electric power to a distribution line with the load means connected, depending on a total supplied energy as the total of the acquired supplied energy and a total consumed energy as the total of the acquired consumed energy. | 12-24-2015 |
| 20150372383 | DUAL BAND ANTENNA DEVICE - A dual band antenna device includes a first antenna unit which includes a first long element, a first short element whose resonant frequency is different from the resonant frequency of the first long element, a first frequency adjustment element provided in the first long element to adjust the resonant frequency, and a first power feeding port that is a power feeding end; a second antenna unit which includes a second long element, a second short element whose resonant frequency is different from the resonant frequency of the second long element, a second frequency adjustment element provided in the second long element to adjust the resonant frequency, and a second power feeding port that is a power feeding end; and a coupling element which connects the first antenna unit and the second antenna unit while adjusting a mutual impedance between the first antenna unit and a second antenna unit. | 12-24-2015 |
| 20150371630 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS AND INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD - An information processing apparatus and a method for performing speech training in speech rehabilitation are disclosed. A report about content to be uttered in an utterance training is made to a trainee of the utterance training and the volume of a voice uttered by the trainee in response to the report is obtained. Then, the result of comparison between the obtained volume and a volume predetermined as a target volume is reported. | 12-24-2015 |
| 20150371403 | TARGET OBJECT IDENTIFYING DEVICE, TARGET OBJECT IDENTIFYING METHOD AND TARGET OBJECT IDENTIFYING PROGRAM - Monitoring target matching means | 12-24-2015 |
| 20150371371 | IMAGE CORRECTION SYSTEM, IMAGE CORRECTION METHOD, AND PROGRAM RECORDING MEDIUM - This image correction system corrects image data from pixels, is connected to at least two different input pathways, and is provided with: a pixel value relationship extraction means that extracts the pixel value relationship among neighboring pixels from image data that is the subject of correction; a pixel value relational expression estimation means that estimates a relational expression representing the difference in characteristics in each pixel from the pixel value relationship between neighboring pixels; and a pixel value correction means that forms a corrected image by correcting the pixel values of the image data that is the subject of correction using the relational expression. | 12-24-2015 |
| 20150371310 | INDIVIDUAL PRODUCT IDENTIFICATION SYSTEM, INDIVIDUAL PRODUCT IDENTIFICATION METHOD, AND DEVICE AND PROGRAM USED BY SAME - The present invention is an individual product identification method, comprising: previously storing epidermal pattern images in a predetermined scope with a predetermined location of a registered product taken as a reference; imaging the epidermal pattern in the predetermined scope with the predetermined location of the product, being a target of individual product identification, taken as a reference; correcting the imaged epidermal pattern image of the product, being a target of individual product identification to an image for collation with the registered product with the predetermined location of the product taken as a reference: and collating an image characteristic of the epidermal pattern image of the registered product with the image characteristic of the corrected epidermal pattern image, and identifying whether the product, being a target of individual product identification, is one of the registered products. | 12-24-2015 |
| 20150371108 | IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE, AND RECORDING MEDIUM - An image processing method separates an input image into a skeleton component, and residual component. In the method a local variation amount, which is a variation amount between a target pixel and a pixel adjacent to the target pixel, is calculated; a skeleton component extraction filter weight is calculated based on the local variation amount; an image feature amount of a gradient direction of a pixel value around the target pixel, and an image feature amount of a gradient strength of the pixel value around the target pixel, are calculated; the skeleton component extraction filter weight is corrected based on these image feature amount; a skeleton component extraction filter coefficient is calculated based on the corrected skeleton component extraction filter weight; and the skeleton component is extracted by applying skeleton component extraction filtering to the target pixel using the calculated skeleton component extraction filter coefficient. | 12-24-2015 |
| 20150371088 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIUM - An information processing apparatus including a memory storing instructions, and at least one processor configured to process the instructions to obtain an orientation, size, and position of a first subject in a first image, and an orientation, size, and position of a second subject in a second image, generate an estimated position of the first subject in the second image based on the orientation, size, and position of the first subject in the first image and the orientation and size of the second subject in the second image, calculate a distance between the estimated position of the first subject in the second image and the position of the second subject in the second image; and determine whether or not the first subject is the second subject based on the distance. | 12-24-2015 |
| 20150370886 | INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE WHICH CARRIES OUT RISK ANALYSIS AND RISK ANALYSIS METHOD - An information processing device includes: a unit configured to compute a service influence degree for each risk factor with respect to each service, on the basis of information which indicates a relation between components which have the risk factors and other components which are influenced by the state of the components, information which denotes characteristics of the respective risk factors, and information which denotes a correspondence between the services and these components; and a unit configured to compute, on the basis of the computed service influence degrees, similarities between specific risk factors and other risk factors, and for generating and outputting a set of component identification information on the basis of the computed similarities. | 12-24-2015 |
| 20150370565 | DATA PROCESSING DEVICE AND METHOD, AND PROCESSOR UNIT OF SAME - A processor unit ( | 12-24-2015 |
| 20150369657 | OPTICAL RECEIVER AND CONTROL METHOD THEREOF - (Object) To provide an optical receiver and a control method thereof that enable equalization of both the quantum efficiencies and the dark count probabilities of multiple photon detectors. | 12-24-2015 |
| 20150368442 | CELLULOSE RESIN COMPOSITION, MOLDING MATERIAL AND MOLDED ARTICLE - A composition containing a cellulose resin (X) obtained by binding an organic group to cellulose or a derivative thereof and a linear aliphatic polyester (Y), which is at least one of the following linear aliphatic polyesters (Y1) and (Y2) or a crosslinked product thereof:
| 12-24-2015 |
| 20150365993 | RADIO COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, BASE STATION, MOBILE STATION, COMMUNICATION CONTROL METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM - A first base station ( | 12-17-2015 |
| 20150365822 | COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A communication system is described in which user plane communication and control plane communication for a particular mobile communication device can be split between a base station that operates a small cell and a macro base station. Appropriate security for the user plane and control plane communications is safeguarded by ensuring that each base station is able to obtain or derive the correct security parameters for protecting the user plane or control plane communication for which it is responsible. | 12-17-2015 |
| 20150365313 | CONTROL APPARATUS, COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, TUNNEL ENDPOINT CONTROL METHOD, AND PROGRAM - A control apparatus includes: a connection detection unit configured to detect that a virtual machine has newly been connected to one of a plurality of tunnel endpoints each of which functions as an endpoint of a virtual tunnel used for a communication between virtual machines that belong to a virtual network; a virtual network determination unit configured to determine a virtual network to which the detected virtual machine belongs on the basis of information in which virtual machines and virtual networks are associated with each other; and a tunnel endpoint control unit configured to cause, if the tunnel endpoint has not participated in the determined virtual network, the tunnel endpoint to participate in the determined virtual network. | 12-17-2015 |
| 20150364952 | ELECTRIC POWER CONTROL SYSTEM - An electric power control system of the present invention is connected to an electric power supplying means for supplying electric power and a load means for accepting supply of electric power and consuming the electric power. The electric power control system includes: a supplied energy acquiring means for acquiring a supplied energy, which is the amount of electric power supplied from the electric power supplying means; a consumed energy acquiring means for acquiring a consumed energy, which is the amount of electric power consumed by the load means; and an electric power supply and demand controlling means for, depending on a total supplied energy as the total of the acquired supplied energy and a total consumed energy as the total of the acquired consumed energy, transmitting and/or receiving electric power to and from another device to change the total supplied energy. | 12-17-2015 |
| 20150363638 | INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - To provide an information processing system, an information processing method, and a program, whereby it is possible, using a plurality of video camera videos, to desirably carry out person tracking. An information processing system includes: an appearance time score computation unit which computes a time from when a first mobile body exits a frame from a video of a first video camera to when a second mobile body enters a frame of a video of a second video camera; and a person association unit which, on the basis of an attribute of the first mobile body, a degree of similarity between the first mobile body and the second mobile body, and the time, determines whether the first mobile body and the second mobile body are the same mobile body. | 12-17-2015 |
| 20150363538 | DESIGN SUPPORT DEVICE, DESIGN SUPPORT METHOD, AND PROGRAM - A design support device having a permissible power supply fluctuation deriving unit and a target impedance deriving unit. The permissible power supply fluctuation deriving unit derives the fluctuation in the power supply voltage that is permissible on the basis of jitter-voltage correlation information, which indicates the correlation between the power supply voltage fluctuation generated in an I/O buffer and the jitter generated by the power supply voltage fluctuations, and jitter constraint information, which is for stably transmitting a signal, for the generated jitter. The target impedance deriving unit derives a target impedance in the permissible range of impedance for a power supply circuit, on the basis of information on the signal operating current flowing through the power supply circuit of the I/O buffer, and the power supply voltage fluctuation. | 12-17-2015 |
| 20150363250 | SYSTEM ANALYSIS DEVICE AND SYSTEM ANALYSIS METHOD - In state detection of a system using a correlation destruction pattern, the versatility of the correlation destruction pattern is improved. A system analysis device ( | 12-17-2015 |
| 20150363240 | SYSTEM FOR CONTROLLING RESOURCES, CONTROL PATTERN GENERATION APPARATUS, CONTROL APPARATUS, METHOD FOR CONTROLLING RESOURCES AND PROGRAM - A system for controlling the resources includes a control pattern generation unit for generating a plurality of control patterns from a virtual system model, produced by modeling the behaviors of a network element and a server of a virtual system operating on a virtual datacenter, and from a resource allocation change policy stipulating a policy or policies of change of allocation of resources to the virtual systems. The control patterns prove candidates for control commands to network resources and server resources of the virtual systems. The system for controlling the resources also includes a control unit for carrying out prediction of a service level, using the control patterns, selecting such control pattern that satisfies the service level of the virtual systems and that also satisfies a preset standard or reference for selection, from among the control patterns, with the use of the result of prediction, and putting the control pattern selected to use. | 12-17-2015 |
| 20150363086 | INFORMATION PROCESSING TERMINAL, SCREEN CONTROL METHOD, AND SCREEN CONTROL PROGRAM - Provided is a technology for preventing erroneous operation of an information processing terminal while allowing for visual recognition of what is displayed on a display screen by using a translucent erroneous operation preventing image. The information processing terminal according to this invention includes a configuration for superimposing a transmissive image on icon images on the display screen, to thereby put apps that are associated with the respective icon images in an erroneous operation preventing state. | 12-17-2015 |
| 20150363069 | DISPLAY CONTROL - A display control unit ( | 12-17-2015 |
| 20150363039 | TERMINAL DEVICE, INFORMATION DISPLAY METHOD, AND RECORDING MEDIUM - A screen display ( | 12-17-2015 |
| 20150362596 | STATE DETECTING METHOD, CORRECTION VALUE PROCESSING DEVICE, POSITIONING SYSTEM, AND STATE DETECTION PROGRAM | 12-17-2015 |
| 20150359084 | PRINTED WIRING BOARD, ELECTRONIC DEVICE, AND WIRING CONNECTION METHOD - A printed wiring board is provided with a wiring layer, a first ground layer, a second ground layer, a grounding through-hole, a signal through-hole, a first clearance, and a second clearance. The wiring layer has a signal line. The first ground layer has a first ground plane. The second ground layer is positioned between the wiring layer and the first ground layer and has a second ground plane. The grounding through-hole passes through the wiring layer, the first ground layer, and the second ground layer and is connected to the second ground plane. The signal through-hole passes through the wiring layer, the first ground layer, and the second ground layer and is connected to the signal line. The first clearance is formed in the first ground layer, is positioned in the vicinity of the signal through-hole and the grounding through-hole, and separates the first ground plane from the signal through-hole and the grounding through-hole. The second clearance is formed in the second ground layer, is positioned in the vicinity of the signal through-hole, and separates the second ground plane from the signal through-hole. | 12-10-2015 |
| 20150359026 | RADIO COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, RADIO ACCESS NETWORK NODE, COMMUNICATION DEVICE, AND CORE NETWORK NODE - An RAN node ( | 12-10-2015 |
| 20150358837 | MOBILE COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, SERVICE PLATFORM, NETWORK PARAMETER CONTROL METHOD, AND COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM - An object is to provide a mobile communication system capable of optimizing network processing based on a change in a utilization characteristic. A mobile communication system according to the present invention includes a network operator device ( | 12-10-2015 |
| 20150358829 | COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A wireless telecommunication system is described comprising a shared base station able to divide resources between multiple network operators sharing the base station. The base station resources are divided into resource pools having their own set of sharing rules and associated scheduling method that may be configured independently for each resource pool. A number of techniques are described that may be used to ensure flexibility and fairness of access to the base station resources for the multiple network operators. | 12-10-2015 |
| 20150358678 | DATACAST INFORMATION CONTROLLER, DATACAST INFORMATION DISPLAY SYSTEM, DATACAST INFORMATION CONTROL METHOD AND COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM - Disclosed is that datacast information from at least one or more broadcast station is searched for information that a user wants to view and searched information is presented to the user in a manner desired by the user. A datacast information controller includes a content storage unit storing datacast information obtained by splitting a broadcast radio wave, a keyword comparison unit determining whether the datacast information includes a specified keyword, a broadcast information storage unit storing datacast information that includes the keyword detected beforehand, a broadcast information comparison unit comparing datacast information determined to include the keyword with datacast information being stored in the broadcast information storage unit and including the same keyword, and a notification instruction unit instructing to display the determined datacast information in a specified manner of notification if the comparison shows that the determined datacast information does not match the datacast information including the same keyword. | 12-10-2015 |
| 20150358474 | COMMUNICATION PROCESSING SYSTEM, COMMUNICATION PROCESSING METHOD, COMMUNICATION PROCESSING DEVICE, COMMUNICATION TERMINAL, AND CONTROL METHOD AND CONTROL PROGRAM THEREFOR - This system pertains to a communication processing system that effectively makes phone conversations possible from a communication terminal even in a non-business mode that does not identify a user. The communication processing system is provided with the following: a communication terminal; a storage unit that is provided inside the communication terminal or outside the communication terminal, and that stores the association between the communication terminal user-information and customer number, and stores a role number for the communication terminal; and an outgoing call relay unit that, in a case where the communication terminal is being used in a business mode that identifies the user thereof, relays an outgoing call from a call origination communication terminal to the communication terminal corresponding to the customer number, and that, in a case where the communication terminal is being used in a non-business mode that does not identify the user thereof, relays an outgoing call from the call origination communication terminal to the communication terminal corresponding to the role number. | 12-10-2015 |
| 20150358223 | CONTROL INFORMATION MANAGEMENT APPARATUS, CONTROL INFORMATION PRESENTATION METHOD, AND PROGRAM - A control information management apparatus, includes: a control information storage unit that stores a path(s) in association with an item(s) of control information that is set in a switch(es) by a control apparatus for controlling the switch(es) in a centralized manner; a search condition reception unit that receives information about a path associated with the item(s) of control information as a search condition for the item(s) of control information; a control information search unit that searches the control information storage unit for the item(s) of control information associated with the path that matches the search condition; and a search result output unit that outputs the item(s) of control information searched by the control information search unit. | 12-10-2015 |
| 20150358189 | PEAK SUPPRESSING DEVICE AND PEAK SUPPRESSING METHOD - A peak suppressing device ( | 12-10-2015 |
| 20150358180 | NETWORK DEVICE - This network device ( | 12-10-2015 |
| 20150358078 | POLARIZATION DIVISION MULTIPLEXING OPTICAL COMMUNICATION RECEPTION DEVICE, POLARIZATION DIVISION MULTIPLEXING OPTICAL COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, AND POLARIZATION DIVISION MULTIPLEXING OPTICAL COMMUNICATION METHOD - A polarization demultiplexing optical communication receiver is provided with a signal quality change imparting means which imparts a signal quality change to multiplexed two optical signals; and a signal quality monitoring means which compares signal qualities of the two optical signals with each other after the multiplexed two optical signals imparted with the signal quality change are subjected to polarization separation so as to specify the two optical signals based on a result of the comparison. This makes it possible to reduce transmission characteristics degradation of a polarization-multiplexed optical signal, and to implement transmission having high reliability. | 12-10-2015 |
| 20150357909 | POWER ROUTER AND OPERATION CONTROL METHOD THEREOF, POWER NETWORK SYSTEM, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE MEDIA STORING PROGRAM - A management or control of a power router is more appropriately performed when a power network system in which power cells are asynchronously connected with each other. A plurality of power conversion legs bi-directionally convert power, one ends thereof are connected with a direct current bus and the other ends thereof are connected with an external connection partner as an external connection terminal. A control unit controls operations of the plurality of power conversion legs. The control unit receives a control instruction including a designation of a stopping target leg. The control unit performs an adequacy determination of whether the stopping target leg can be stopped. The control unit stops the stopping target leg when the stopping target leg can be stopped. | 12-10-2015 |
| 20150357719 | ANTENNA DEVICE - An antenna device capable of performing precise positioning by using a small number of components and having a low side-lobe characteristic is provided. An antenna device includes a primary radiator ( | 12-10-2015 |
| 20150357698 | WIDEBAND TRANSITION BETWEEN A PLANAR TRANSMISSION LINE AND A WAVEGUIDE - A wideband transition between a planar transmission line and a waveguide of this invention comprises a substrate, a segment of the planar transmission line and a section of the waveguide. The substrate includes a plurality of conductor-layers stacked from top to bottom and isolated by an insulating material. The segment of the planar transmission line is disposed in a top conductor-layer of the plurality of conductor-layers. The section of the waveguide is disposed on a bottom conductor-layer of the plurality of conductor-layers by a first end. The substrate comprises a conductive patch and a conductive dispersion plate. The conductive patch is disposed in the top conductor-layer and connected to a first end of said segment. The conductive dispersion plate is disposed in the bottom conductor-layer and under the conductive patch. The conductive dispersion plate comprises a corrugation. | 12-10-2015 |
| 20150356974 | SPEAKER IDENTIFICATION DEVICE, SPEAKER IDENTIFICATION METHOD, AND RECORDING MEDIUM - A speaker identification device includes: a primary speaker identification unit that computes, for each pre-stored registered speaker, a score that indicates the similarity between input speech and speech of the registered speakers; a similar speaker selection unit that selects a plurality of the registered speakers as similar speakers according to the height of the scores thereof; a learning unit that creates a classifier for each similar speaker by sorting the speech of a certain similar speaker among the similar speakers as a positive instance and the speech of the other similar speakers as negative instances; and a secondary speaker identification unit that computes, for each classifier, a score of the classifier with respect to the input speech, and outputs an identification result. | 12-10-2015 |
| 20150356870 | MOBILE COMMUNICATION APPARATUS, MOBILE COMMUNICATION METHOD AND PROGRAM - A mobile communication apparatus includes an abnormality detecting unit that detects whether or not there is an abnormality on a route; and a communication unit. When second abnormality detection information which differs from first abnormality detection information that indicates the detected abnormality has been received, it is determined that whether or not the abnormalities indicated by both information items coincide with each other. If it is determined that both abnormalities coincide with each other, then whether or not it is necessary to transmit the first abnormality detection information is determined based on a positional relationship between a position of the own apparatus and an occurrence point of the abnormality at the time when the abnormality indicated by the second abnormality detection information was detected. | 12-10-2015 |
| 20150356609 | INFORMATION DISTRIBUTION SYSTEM, INFORMATION DISTRIBUTION METHOD, AND RECORDING MEDIUM - An information distribution system includes a distribution server and a mobile terminal The distribution server includes: a distribution area information storage unit that stores advertisement information having a display area and a distribution region of the advertisement information that is larger than the display area of the advertisement information in association with each other; and a distribution advertisement determination unit that receives the present location information of the mobile terminal and distributes the advertisement information corresponding to the present location information to the mobile terminal. The mobile terminal includes: a present location positioning unit that performs positioning of the present location information and transmits the present location information; and an advertisement display determination unit that determines whether to display the distributed advertisement information based on the display area and the present location information that the present location positioning unit has performed positioning after receiving the advertisement information. | 12-10-2015 |
| 20150356346 | FEATURE POINT POSITION DETECTING APPARARUS, FEATURE POINT POSITION DETECTING METHOD AND FEATURE POINT POSITION DETECTING PROGRAM - A feature point position detecting apparatus according to the present invention detects a position of a feature point of an target image by: inputting initial information on the feature point position, which is provided from the outside, according to the target image; estimating feature point estimation positions, whose number is requested, in the target image on the basis of the feature point position initial information and feature point position estimation dictionary information; finding a search parameter, which is used for searching the feature point position of the target image, on the basis of the feature point estimation position; and carrying out parameter fitting to a model of the target image on the basis of the search parameter. | 12-10-2015 |
