| OKI ELECTRIC INDUSTRY CO., LTD. Patent applications |
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| 20160133081 | MEDIUM DISPENSING DEVICE AND MEDIUM DISPENSING SYSTEM - A medium dispensing device including a storage section that stores a sheet shaped medium, a conveying section that conveys the medium, plural dispensing ports that dispense the medium, an instruction reception section that receives from plural external terminal devices instructions related to dispensing the medium, a controller that, based on the instructions, feeds out the medium from the storage section and conveys the medium to a dispensing port using a conveying section, and a notification section that notifies a correspondence between the terminal device that the instruction is received from and the dispensing port for dispensing the medium. The notification section is equipped with a display section that displays characters, graphics, symbols, images, hue, or brightness, or a combination thereof. | 05-12-2016 |
| 20160119888 | WIRELESS COMMUNICATION DEVICE, NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM, AND WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - There is provided a wireless communication device including a reception timing sense unit configured to sense reception timing information, a reception timing storage unit configured to store the reception timing information and to disclose and delete the stored reception timing information, a frame group arrival confirmation unit configured to confirm that a frame group arrives, a first frame group transmission unit, a second frame group transmission unit, a third frame group transmission unit, and a frame group transmission control unit configured to select any of the first frame group transmission unit, the second frame group transmission unit, and the third frame group transmission unit on the basis of the reception timing information and a result of frame group arrival confirmation, and to control a frame group transmission operation. | 04-28-2016 |
| 20160119181 | NETWORK STATE MONITORING SYSTEM - In a device monitoring system for a communication network, an SNMP monitor acquires state information of devices to be monitored from a group under monitoring, and monitors the states of the devices to be monitored. A command monitor uses a monitor command to acquire the state information of the devices to be monitored. A monitor manager checks monitoring conditions of the devices to be monitored by the SNMP monitor, and sets, if there is a device to be monitored from which state information has failed to obtain, the device as a new target for monitoring and causes the command monitor to transmit a monitor command. The monitoring result is updated by the state information acquired by the command, thereby improving the reliability of failure monitoring. | 04-28-2016 |
| 20160110941 | CASH PROCESSING DEVICE - Provided is a cash processing device including a pay-in section, a pay-out section, a medium identification section, one or plural medium storage sections that each includes a stacking function and a separating function, a temporary holding section that includes a stacking function and a separating function, and a pay-in processing section that, based on a classification result by the medium identification section for a medium taken in through the pay-in section, conveys a medium to be stored in the one or plural medium storage sections to the corresponding one or plural medium storage sections, and that conveys a medium not to be stored in the one or plural medium storage sections to the temporary holding section. | 04-21-2016 |
| 20160101953 | MEDIUM PROTECTION DEVICE AND MEDIUM SEPARATING AND STACKING DEVICE - The present invention provides a medium protection device and a medium separating and stacking device capable of avoiding damage to a medium when moving the medium along a guide. In a banknote cassette, a guide body is attached to a circumferential side face of a central body of a tongue piece roller in a range not provided with tongue pieces. When feeding out banknotes, the banknote cassette stops the tongue piece roller in a retracted state, thereby positioning an outer circumferential face of the guide body in the vicinity of the surface of a front upper curved portion of a hole in the conveyance guide, such that the hole can be placed in an almost completely blocked state. The present invention can accordingly prevent the vicinity of a corner of a banknote from entering the hole, enabling creasing during conveyance to be forestalled. | 04-14-2016 |
| 20160094469 | STATION-SIDE TERMINAL APPARATUS, AND PATH SWITCHING METHOD - A station-side terminal apparatus comprises terminal devices and a terminal device sorting unit. The terminal devices includes: a buffer unit; a subscriber-side terminal apparatus sorting unit configured to transmit a unicast packet addressed to a switch-target subscriber-side terminal apparatus to the switch queues, and transmit a packet addressed to a plurality of subscriber-side terminal apparatuses to the broadcast queue, and transmit a unicast packet addressed to a non-switch-target subscriber-side terminal apparatus to the through queue; and a scheduler unit configured to read a packet from the switch queues, the broadcast queue, and the through queue. The terminal device sorting unit is configured to transmit a received unicast packet to the terminal device, and transmit a received packet addressed to a plurality of subscriber-side terminal apparatuses, to each of the terminal devices. | 03-31-2016 |
| 20160077123 | STATE DETERMINATION DEVICE AND STORAGE MEDIUM - There is provided a state determination device including: an acquisition unit configured to acquire information indicating a kinetic state of a moving object existing in a target space; a setting unit configured to set a plurality of subspaces in the space; a storage unit configured to store statistical information of kinetic states of the moving object acquired by the acquisition unit from the respective subspaces set by the setting unit; a model estimation unit configured to estimate a kinetic model of the moving object on the basis of the statistical information stored in the storage unit; and a determination unit configured to determine a state of the moving object by comparing the kinetic states of the moving object acquired by the acquisition unit with the kinetic model estimated by the model estimation unit. | 03-17-2016 |
| 20160065743 | STEREO ECHO SUPPRESSING DEVICE, ECHO SUPPRESSING DEVICE, STEREO ECHO SUPPRESSING METHOD, AND NON TRANSITORY COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM STORING STEREO ECHO SUPPRESSING PROGRAM - According to the embodiment of the present invention, the stereo echo suppressing device that suppresses an acoustic echo signal based on a near-end input signal and far-end signals of two channels as a stereo signal includes: first and second far-end signal amplitude spectrum calculating units for calculating amplitude spectrums of a first far-end signal and a second far-end signal; a near-end input signal amplitude spectrum calculating unit for calculating an amplitude spectrum of the near-end input signal; first and second estimation echo signal estimating units for estimating amplitude spectrums of a first estimation echo signal and a second estimation echo signal; first and second echo suppressing units for suppressing the acoustic echo signal; first and second echo path characteristic updating unit for calculating and updating echo path characteristics of the first far-end signal and the second far-end signal. | 03-03-2016 |
| 20160056913 | STATION-SIDE TERMINAL APPARATUS, OPTICAL ACCESS NETWORK, AND COMMUNICATION METHOD - The station-side terminal apparatus for the optical access network includes: the station-side terminal apparatus; the subscriber-side terminal apparatuses connected to the station-side terminal apparatus via the optical transmission line; the terminal devices to which mutually different wavelengths are assigned; and the communication failure detecting unit. Each of the terminal devices includes the uplink communication state monitoring unit configured to monitor a state of uplink communication for each registered subscriber-side terminal apparatus, on the basis of the input uplink signal, and the downlink communication failure information extracting unit configured to extract information of a state of downlink communication, which is transmitted from the registered subscriber-side terminal apparatus. The communication failure detecting unit detects a failure of the uplink communication and a failure of the downlink communication, on the basis of the state of the uplink communication and the state of the downlink communication. | 02-25-2016 |
| 20160052741 | MEDIUM PROCESSING DEVICE AND MEDIUM TRANSACTION DEVICE - An operation knob that turns a drum is exposed at the outer side of a left side face of a temporary holding section, and a knob cover is disposed at the outer side of the operation knob. When an opening guide of the temporary holding section is in a closed state and is closed onto the upper side of the drum, the knob cover is put into a covering state, via a stud, preventing operation of the operation knob. When the opening guide of the temporary holding section is turned in an opening direction from the closed state and opens apart from the upper side of the drum, the knob cover is turned in an exposing direction by the action of a spring and put into an exposing state. | 02-25-2016 |
| 20160042746 | NOISE SUPPRESSING DEVICE, NOISE SUPPRESSING METHOD, AND A NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM STORING NOISE SUPPRESSING PROGRAM - There is provided a noise suppressing device for suppress a noise component included in an input signal. The noise suppressing device comprises: a noise estimating unit configured to estimate a noise spectrum based on an input spectrum obtained by performing a frequency analysis on the input signal; a speech-likelihood calculating unit configured to calculate speech-likelihood based on the input spectrum and the noise spectrum; a suppression-gain calculating unit configured to calculate first suppression gain based on the input spectrum and the noise spectrum; a suppression-gain combining unit configured to calculate third suppression gain by combining the first suppression gain and second suppression gain, which is provided as a predetermined constant value or provided by smoothing the first suppression gain, based on the speech-likelihood; and a multiplying unit obtaining an output spectrum by multiplying the input spectrum by the third suppression gain. | 02-11-2016 |
| 20160030006 | CHARACTERISTIC-VALUE CALCULATING DEVICE, CHARACTERISTIC-VALUE CALCULATING METHOD, AND RECORDING MEDIUM - [Object] To provide a characteristic-value calculating device, a characteristic-value calculating method, and a recording medium that can extract a characteristic value for more accurately recognizing the state of a moving object, such as a human, from a Doppler signal. | 02-04-2016 |
| 20160025928 | DIRECTIONAL COUPLER AND DESIGN METHOD THEREOF, OPTICAL WAVEGUIDE ELEMENT AND WAVELENGTH FILTER - There is provided a directional coupler including a first optical waveguide core and a second optical waveguide core that are arranged in separate and parallel to each other and that propagate one of TE polarized waves and TM polarized waves of an m-th order and propagate the other of the TE polarized waves and the TM polarized waves of an n-th order. A separation distance between the first optical waveguide core and the second optical waveguide core and a width of the first optical waveguide core and the second optical waveguide core are set such that a mode coupling coefficient of a p-th mode of one of the polarized waves and a mode coupling coefficient of a q-th mode of the other polarized waves match between the first optical waveguide core and the second optical waveguide core. | 01-28-2016 |
| 20160025847 | STATE RECOGNIZING DEVICE, STATE RECOGNIZING METHOD, AND RECORDING MEDIUM - Provided is a state recognizing device including: a first filter unit performing a filtering process on a time-series signal obtained by performing remote measuring on a space, in accordance with a first cutoff frequency to allow a signal component deriving from movement of a biological organism to pass through; a second filter unit performing a filtering process on the time-series signal in accordance with a second cutoff frequency to allow a signal component based on biological information to pass through; an amplitude-component extracting unit extracting a first feature quantity related to an amplitude component from a signal passed through the first and/or second filter units; a frequency-component extracting unit extracting a second feature quantity related to a frequency component from a signal passed through the first and/or second filter units; and a recognizing unit recognizing a state of the space by using the first and second feature quantities. | 01-28-2016 |
| 20160021612 | WIRELESS TRANSMISSION DEVICE, WIRELESS RECEPTION DEVICE, WIRELESS TRANSMISSION PROGRAM, WIRELESS RECEPTION PROGRAM, AND WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - There is provided a wireless transmission device in which a lower layer processing unit inserts first random delay before frame transmission in response to a frame transmission request made by an upper layer processing unit, the wireless transmission device including a frame transmitting unit configured to transmit a frame when the frame transmission request is made by the upper layer processing unit, and a frame group transmitting unit configured to transmit a frame group including one or two or more types of frame in accordance with a listening state of a facing wireless reception device when the frame transmission request is made by the upper layer processing unit. | 01-21-2016 |
| 20160021478 | SOUND COLLECTION AND REPRODUCTION SYSTEM, SOUND COLLECTION AND REPRODUCTION APPARATUS, SOUND COLLECTION AND REPRODUCTION METHOD, SOUND COLLECTION AND REPRODUCTION PROGRAM, SOUND COLLECTION SYSTEM, AND REPRODUCTION SYSTEM - The sound collection and reproduction system reproduces comprise: a microphone array selection unit which selects a microphone arrays; an area sound collection unit which collects sounds of all areas by using the microphone arrays; an area sound selection unit which selects an area sound of an area corresponding to a specified listening position, and area sounds of surrounding areas of this area corresponding to a listening direction, in accordance with a sound reproduction environment; an area volume adjustment unit which adjusts a volume of each area sound unit in accordance with a distance from the specified listening position; and a stereophonic sound processing unit which performs a stereophonic sound process, for each area sound to which volume adjustment has been performed by the area volume adjustment unit, by using a transfer function corresponding to a sound reproduction environment. | 01-21-2016 |
| 20160019906 | SIGNAL PROCESSOR AND METHOD THEREFOR - A signal processor is configured to suppress a noise component contained in an input voice signal by means of coherence filtering. The processor includes an iterative coherence filtering function for repeatedly conducting the coherence filtering on a signal, which has been subjected to the coherence filtering and then input to the processor again as input signal, and performs the iteration processing on the signal obtained by the coherence filtering until a condition for terminating the iteration is satisfied, thereby preventing musical noise from generating while a noise component is suppressed. | 01-21-2016 |
| 20160005418 | SIGNAL PROCESSOR AND METHOD THEREFOR - The signal processor suppresses noise components contained in input sound signals by iterative spectral subtraction. The processor derives coherence from first and second directional signals having directivity characteristics on the basis of a pair of input sound signals, and controls the times of iteration of spectral subtraction on the basis of the coherence, thereby suppressing the noise components contained in the input sound signals. | 01-07-2016 |
| 20150365262 | ELECTRICAL DISPERSION COMPENSATOR AND TAP COEFFICIENT CALCULATION METHOD SUITABLY APPLICABLE THERETO - There is provided an apparatus allowing waveform shaping even at a low sampling rate, and including a sampling unit | 12-17-2015 |
| 20150363659 | DATA PROCESSING APPARATUS, DATA PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - An aspect of the present invention provides a data processing apparatus, including: an image acquisition section that acquires a captured image depicting a road along which vehicles pass; a calibration section that computes a road parameter for converting coordinates in the captured image to coordinates in real space based on the captured image and road data related to the road; a vehicle lane region detection section that detects a vehicle lane region in the captured image based on the captured image and the road parameter; and a processing region setting section that, based on the vehicle lane region, sets a processing region in the vehicle lane region for detecting a vehicle passing. | 12-17-2015 |
| 20150359359 | DRAWER DEVICE AND MEDIUM TRANSACTION DEVICE - A drawer device. The drawer device includes a casing including a specific internal space, a unit that adopts a pulled out state by being pulled out forward from a housed state of being housed in the casing, a subunit on a front face of the unit that adopts an open state in which the unit interior is open to the outside by swinging in an opening direction, and adopts a closed state in which the unit interior is closed off from the outside by swinging in a closing direction, and a push-in restriction section that restricts movement of the unit toward the casing when the unit is moved toward the casing with the subunit still in the open state. The push-in restriction section may contact the casing before the subunit contacts the casing when the unit is moved toward the casing with the subunit still in the open state. The subunit may swing about a pivot point of a shaft provided extending left and right in the vicinity of a lower end portion on a front face side of the unit. | 12-17-2015 |
| 20150356808 | MEDIUM PROCESSING DEVICE - A banknote deposit and withdrawal apparatus causes a control section to function as an inserted medium counting unit, a normal medium counting unit and an abnormal mediums number calculation unit. The normal medium counting unit again feeds out and conveys banknotes from the banknote deposit and withdrawal section to the verification section in a quantity corresponding to the number of inserted banknotes, conveys abnormal banknotes that are verified as abnormal by the verification section to the banknote deposit and withdrawal section together with following banknotes but conveys normal banknotes that are verified as normal by the verification section to the temporary holding section and retains the normal banknotes therein, and counts a number of normal banknotes. The abnormal mediums number calculation unit subtracts the number of normal banknotes from the number of inserted banknotes to calculate an abnormal banknotes number. | 12-10-2015 |
| 20150356807 | MEDIUM HOUSING DEVICE AND MEDIUM PROCESSING DEVICE - A medium housing device includes: a frame including an internal space; a partitioning plate that partitions the internal space so as to intersect with a specific collection direction, and that forms a collection space in which the medium is collected along the collection direction; a partitioning plate moving section that moves the partitioning plate along the collection direction; a side guide that is attached inside the frame and that determines the size of the collection space in an intersecting direction intersecting with the collection direction; a positioning portion that positions an end portion of the side guide at one attachment position selected from a plurality of attachment positions; and a retention switching portion that switches between a retained state in which the end portion of the side guide is positioned, and a retention-released state in which the end portion of the side guide is not positioned. | 12-10-2015 |
| 20150325073 | INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, CASH PROCESSING TERMINAL, AND INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM - Provided is an art by which serial numbers read by a cash processing terminal can be easily searched or analysed, and the time and effort of recording the serial numbers of counterfeit banknotes in the cash processing terminal is reduced. An information processing device ( | 11-12-2015 |
| 20150317858 | SHUTTER DEVICE AND MEDIUM TRANSACTION DEVICE - A bill deposit/dispensing section has: an opening/closing section that moves a shutter in an opening direction and a closing direction; a driving section having driving force; a lock gear that serves as a gear section that drives the opening/closing section by transmitting driving force of the driving section to the opening/closing section by contacting the driving section and the opening/closing section and rotating; and a shutter locking/unlocking section that, by contacting the gear section and restricting rotation of the gear section, restricts operation of the opening/closing section and locks the shutter such that the shutter does not move, and, on the other hand, by coming apart from the gear section and freeing rotation of the gear section, releases locking so as to move the opening/closing section and move the shutter. Due thereto, a shutter device and media transaction device having improved security are provided. | 11-05-2015 |
| 20150314977 | MEDIUM HANDOVER DEVICE AND MEDIUM PROCESSING DEVICE - A medium handover device is provided including: a fixed peripheral side section that covers portions of side faces enclosing a periphery of a collection space in which a paper sheet shaped medium is collected, other than at least a portion of an opposing side face opposing a medium support section supporting the medium inside the collection space, which portion is open, and other than at least a portion of an adjacent side face adjacent to the opposing side face, which portion is open; a lid section that has a shape covering portions of the side faces enclosing the periphery of the collection space that are not covered by the fixed peripheral side section; a transition section that transitions the lid section to enable the lid section to adopt a closed state with respect to the fixed peripheral side section in which the lid section is close to or abutting the fixed peripheral side section and the collection space is closed, and to adopt an open state with respect to the fixed peripheral side section in which at least a portion of the lid section is separated from the fixed peripheral side section and the collection space is opened; and a transfer section that transfers the medium between an interior and an exterior of the collection space. | 11-05-2015 |
| 20150310690 | AUTOMATIC TELLER MACHINE - An automatic teller machine includes a guide, shafts and rollers. The guide extends in a conveyance direction along which papers are conveyed and includes a conveyance surface on which the papers are conveyed. The shafts are retained in the guide, and the rollers are turnably supported by the shafts. The guide includes a roller slot in which the rollers are disposed, and pairs of shaft slots that are opposingly formed to sandwich the roller slot. Each pair of shaft slots retains two ends of one of the shafts. The guide may include protrusion portions in the shaft slots that protrude in a direction orthogonal to the conveyance surface, and the shafts may include holes through which the protrusion portions are inserted when the shafts are retained in the shaft slots. Projection portions may be formed at the guide, projecting from predetermined positions of inner faces of the shaft slots, and the projection portions may abut against the shafts when the shafts are retained in the shaft slots. | 10-29-2015 |
| 20150307306 | PAPER SHEET HANDLING DEVICE - A paper sheet handling device that facilitates removal of paper sheets blocked on a conveying path. The device includes a safe casing internally provided with a paper sheet storage box; a processing unit capable of being pulled out from, or stowed in, a main device; a conveying section coupled to the processing unit, and that forms a conveying path; a handover section coupled to a top plate of the safe casing to hand over the sheets between the storage box and the conveying path; and a positioning section that positions for connecting the handover section and the conveying path together when the processing unit is being stowed in the main device. | 10-29-2015 |
| 20150302679 | MEDIA PROCESSING DEVICE - The present invention provides a media processing device having improved ease of use. An automatic teller machine has: a housing having predetermined space at interior thereof, and at which opening portion is formed in at least one side surface; a unit housing that houses plural storage containers storing bank notes, and that can be accommodated within the housing, and that is provided so as to be able to be pulled out along a pull out direction to exterior of the housing via the opening portion; and a reject container housing case that is structured so as to be able to be attached to and removed from the unit housing at a front side of a unit housing front surface plate that is at a distal end side in the pull out direction of the unit housing, and that houses a reject container that stores bank notes. | 10-22-2015 |
| 20150298929 | MEDIA CONVEYING DEVICE AND MEDIA PROCESSING DEVICE - A media processing device has a roller conveying section having an upper conveying guide that is electrically non-conductive, and forms one side surface of a bank note conveying path, and has an internal space; a frame that is electrically conductive and holds the upper conveying guide; a pushing spring that applies pushing force that urges pushing rollers toward driving rollers; and a supporting point shaft that is electrically conductive, and whose position in a front-rear direction is positioned by the upper conveying guide in vicinities of both end portions in a length direction of the supporting point shaft, and that supports the pushing spring in a vicinity of a central portion in the length direction, and that abuts laterally long upper end surfaces of the frame by receiving reaction force that arises in a direction of separating from the bank note conveying path in accordance with the pushing force. | 10-22-2015 |
| 20150298928 | MEDIUM STORAGE AND FEED-OUT DEVICE AND MEDIUM TRANSACTION APPARATUS - A temporary holding section winds banknotes onto an outer peripheral face of a circular, cylinder-shaped and rotatably supported drum to retain the banknotes between a facing portion and the outer peripheral face. More specifically, the temporary holding section uses an upper side tape and a lower side tape, that respectively have one end wound onto the drum, such that accompanying rotation of the drum, the supplied banknotes are sandwiched between the tapes and the outer peripheral face. Moreover, in the temporary holding section, a movable section that presses the banknote against the drum outer peripheral face while being movable with respect to the drum is positioned with the other end further away from the drum than the facing portion. | 10-22-2015 |
| 20150298920 | MEDIUM PROCESSING DEVICE - A medium processing device including a holding section that includes an opening forming a medium insertion port, and that holds a medium inserted through the insertion port, a medium press section that is capable of moving between a first end side wall and a second end side wall of the holding section, and that presses the medium inserted through the insertion port against the second end side wall of the holding section, and an opening-out section that spans between the medium press section and the first end side wall of the holding section, and that opens out in a medium non-holding area between the medium press section and the first end side wall of the holding section accompanying movement of the medium press section from the first end side to the second end side of the holding section in order to press the medium inserted into a medium holding area between the medium press section and the second end side wall of the holding section against the second end side wall of the holding section. | 10-22-2015 |
| 20150295672 | OPTICAL WAVELENGTH DEMULTIPLEXER HAVING OPTICAL INTERFERENCE FILTERS CONNECTED IN CASCADE - An optical wavelength demultiplexer includes a wavelength demultiplexing device, a first wavelength filter and a first- and second-stage wavelength sub-filters. The wavelength demultiplexing device demultiplexes an input light into a first wavelength band including wavelengths λ | 10-15-2015 |
| 20150294674 | AUDIO SIGNAL PROCESSOR, METHOD, AND PROGRAM - The invention provides an audio signal processing device capable of improving sound quality by causing a voice switch to operate appropriately. Delay-subtraction processing is performed on an input signal to form a first and second directional signal with nulls in a first and second specific direction, respectively, and a coherence is obtained using the two directional signals. The coherence is then compared to a determination threshold value to determine whether the input audio signal is a target-sound segment arriving from a target-direction, or a non-target-sound segment other than the target-sound segment. A gain is set according to the determination result, and any non-target-sound is attenuated by multiplying the input signal by the gain. The determination threshold value is controlled based on an average value of coherence in interfering-sound segments. | 10-15-2015 |
| 20150291381 | POSITION ADJUSTMENT DEVICE AND PAPER SHEET PROCESSING DEVICE - A position adjustment device including: an adjustment body including a row of fitting portions in which plural fitting portions of a specific shape are disposed every specific fitting cycle along a specific direction; a holder that holds the adjustment body in one of plural holding modes, such that the fitting portion row faces in a specific holding direction; and an adjustable body whose position with respect to the holder is determined by fitting a fitted portion that is fittable with the fitting portions together with one of the fitting portions. The fitting portion row is disposed such that the minimum distance between a position of the adjustable body with the fitted portion fitted together with one fitting portion in the fitting portion row within a fittable range when the adjustment body is held in a first holding mode by the holder, and a position of the adjustable body with the fitted portion fitted together with one of the fitting portions in the fitting portion row within the fittable range when the adjustment body is held in a second holding mode by the holder, is shorter than the specific fitting cycle | 10-15-2015 |
| 20150281730 | CODING FORMAT CONVERTER PARTIALLY HALTING SEARCH FOR CODING CANDIDATES - A coding format converter for converting an input stream of data of pictures of a first coding format into a data stream of data of pictures with a second coding format includes a decoder decoding the input stream with the first coding format, an encoder encoding the data of the picture thus decoding with the second coding format, a coding candidate search controller using first information on prediction residual availability indicative of whether or not residual information is encoded for each block in the decoded picture. When a search for coding candidates reveals a result that the first information for a coding target region of the picture is indicative of the absence of a residual, the controller refrains from searching for coding candidates which depend on second information on residual availability of the coding with the second coding format. | 10-01-2015 |
| 20150281012 | COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, SESSION CONTROL DEVICE, AND TRANSFER CONTROL DEVICE - When an IBCF provided between different types of networks requests information of a receiver, the IBCF can notify a TrGW of call identification information. When the IBCF identifies a call from a log of the TrGW during checking of the log related to the call, the IBCF can use the call identification information. Therefore, the log can be efficiently checked. A session controller configured to connect to a plurality of communication networks of different types and perform a session control, and a transfer controller configured to connect to the plurality of communication networks and perform a packet signal transfer control, are provided. The session controller provides a termination information request message including call identification information for identifying a call included in a call connection request received by the session controller, to the transfer controller. | 10-01-2015 |
| 20150280851 | DWA CONTROL IN AN OLT WITH DECREASE IN MARGIN OF BANDWIDTH UTILIZATION CAUSED BY BANDWIDTH REALLOCATION MINIMIZED - In a TDM/WDM-PON using cyclic sleep, a controller in an OLT calculates the total bandwidth in use for each OSU, and compares the total bandwidth with a threshold. If the calculated bandwidth exceeds the threshold, the controller determines the number of ONUs staying in sleep mode among the ONUs managed by the assignor OSU. If such an ONU exists, that ONU is selected as an ONU whose management is to be changed. From the total bandwidth in use of an assignor OSU from which the management is to be changed, a bandwidth allocated to the ONU which is in sleep mode is subtracted to thereby obtain a bandwidth, which will be compared with the threshold. If the calculated bandwidth exceeds the threshold, from among active ONUs managed by the assignor OSU an ONU whose management is to be changed is selected. | 10-01-2015 |
| 20150280815 | OPTICAL COMMUNICATION APPARATUS CONTROLLING RECEIVED OPTICAL INTENSITY WITH GAIN-SWITCHABLE OPTICAL AMPLIFIER - In an optical network unit, an optical-intensity monitor monitors the received optical intensity of a received light beam input thereto, and a controller uses the received optical intensity to produce an intensity control signal, in response to which a semiconductor optical amplifier selectively amplifies or attenuates the optical intensity of the received light to produce an intensity-adjusted light beam, which a receiver can receive within its receivable-intensity range. | 10-01-2015 |
| 20150274459 | MEDIUM CONVEYANCE DEVICE - The present invention provides a medium conveyance device whose reliability is enhanced. Namely, a roller conveyance section uses support parts to couple together an upper side shaft, which receives a first reaction force produced in accordance with a first contact-pressure force that urges first driven rollers toward first drive rollers, and a lower side shaft, which receives a second reaction force produced in accordance with a second contact-pressure force that urges second driven rollers toward second drive rollers. Because of this, the medium conveyance device of the present invention may cancel out the two reaction forces that cause an upper side guide and a lower side guide to bend in two bank note conveyance paths adjacent to one another. | 10-01-2015 |
| 20150262584 | VOICE DECODING APPARATUS OF ADDING COMPONENT HAVING COMPLICATED RELATIONSHIP WITH OR COMPONENT UNRELATED WITH ENCODING INFORMATION TO DECODED VOICE SIGNAL - A voice decoding apparatus includes an MBE-type decoder, a sampling convertor, a non-linear components generator and an adder. The decoder decodes digital voice-encoded information to generate a first decoded voice signal. The convertor converts the first decoded voice signal to a second decoded voice signal with a higher sampling frequency. The generator performs a non-linear process to the first or second decoded voice signal to generate an additional voice signal with the same sampling frequency as the second decoded voice signal. The additional voice signal has components in a frequency band in which the first decoded voice signal has no component and continuing to another frequency band of the first decoded voice signal. The adder adds the second decoded voice signal to the additional voice signal. | 09-17-2015 |
| 20150249885 | APPARATUS SUPPRESSING ACOUSTIC ECHO SIGNALS FROM A NEAR-END INPUT SIGNAL BY ESTIMATED-ECHO SIGNALS AND A METHOD THEREFOR - In an echo suppressing apparatus suppressing from a near-end input signal acoustic echo signals caused by a far-end signal, an estimated-echo path characteristic is multiplied by a far-end signal to produce an estimated-echo signal for each frame, and frames of the estimated-echo signals thus obtained are stored in an estimated-echo signal storage. A delay amount estimator calculates the total of differences between the near-end input signal and each estimated-echo signal thus stored, and determines the amount of frame delay having its total of differences minimal. A delay estimated-echo signal calculator uses the amount of frame delay to read out an optimum frame and near frames respectively preceding and following the optimum frame and to calculate a corrected, delay estimated-echo signal. An echo suppressor uses the estimated-echo signal thus corrected to suppress the acoustic echo signals from the near-end input signal. | 09-03-2015 |
| 20150235188 | BANKNOTE PROCESSING DEVICE, AND BANKNOTE PROCESSING METHOD - A banknote processing device includes a first pay-out port and a second pay-out port in which banknotes for pay-out are stacked, a conveyance section that conveys banknotes to the first pay-out port or to the second pay-out port, a first opening-closing member capable of opening and closing the first pay-out port by moving, a second opening-closing member capable of opening and closing the second pay-out port by moving, and a controller that controls conveyance of the banknotes by the conveyance section, and that controls opening and closing operations of the first and second opening-closing members. When the number of banknotes stacked in the first pay-out port has reached a maximum stacking number in pay-out processing, the controller performs a switching operation to switch a conveyance destination of the banknotes from the first pay-out port to the second pay-out port, and performs an opening operation to open the first opening-closing member. | 08-20-2015 |
| 20150230023 | NOISE ESTIMATION APPARATUS OF OBTAINING SUITABLE ESTIMATED VALUE ABOUT SUB-BAND NOISE POWER AND NOISE ESTIMATING METHOD - A noise estimation apparatus of estimating a noise in an input signal includes a sub-band noise estimator estimating a noise in a sub-band input signal, obtained by dividing the input signal by sub-bands. The sub-band noise estimator includes a power calculator calculating a sub-band input power of the sub-band input signal; a probability model holder holding information on probability model; and an a posteriori probability maximizer calculating an instantaneous estimated value of a sub-band noise power based on the sub-band input power, an estimated value of the sub-band noise power and the information on the probability model, so as to maximize a posteriori probability of the sub-band noise power. The information on the probability model includes a likelihood function regarding a posteriori signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) in dependence upon predictive a posteriori SNR; and a priori probability of the a posteriori SNR under a condition establishing averaged a posteriori SNR. | 08-13-2015 |
| 20150213667 | BANKNOTE PROCESSING DEVICE, AND BANKNOTE PROCESSING METHOD - The present invention provides a banknote processing device that, even when banknotes are being processed based on commands from plural users, the banknotes that each user is responsible for handling may be easily identified. Namely, banknote processing device according to the present invention is connected with plural operation devices respectively operated by plural users and processes banknotes based on commands from the users inputted via the operation devices. The banknote processing device includes a conveyance section that conveys the banknotes and plural banknote storage sections that store the banknotes conveyed by the conveyance section. The plural banknote storage sections include: a first dedicated storage section that stores only banknotes processed based on commands from a first user among the plural users; and a second dedicated storage section that stores only banknotes processed based on commands from a second user among the plural users. | 07-30-2015 |
| 20150189693 | WIRELESS COMMUNICATOR CONNECTABLE TO DIFFERENT TYPES OF WIRELESS COMMUNICATION NETWORKS - A wireless communicator includes network processors transmitting data to and receiving data from respective different networks; a media access control (MAC) setter receiving pieces of information on a MAC layer from the plurality of network processors and storing the pieces of information on the MAC layer; and a MAC processor performing operations on media access control on the basis of the pieces of information stored in the MAC setter. In the wireless communicator, the network processors supply a frame signal containing network identification information corresponding to the respective network processors to the MAC processor. Thus, it is possible to provide a wireless communicator which can give a notice to every network processor even when broadcast frames are received and which can make a reply even when beacon request command frames are received. | 07-02-2015 |
| 20150186569 | OBJECT DETECTION DEVICE, OBJECT DETECTION METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - The invention provides an object detection device including a statistical model estimation section that, using a Doppler signal in a specific period of time for a given reflecting object, or using data obtained by performing a specific data conversion on the Doppler signal, estimates a statistical model expressing time series fluctuations in the Doppler signal or in the data, and a determination section that determines whether or not there is an aperiodically moving object present at the reflecting object based on incompatibility between the statistical model estimated by the statistical model estimation section and time series fluctuations in the Doppler signal or in the data. | 07-02-2015 |
| 20150185863 | ENTRY DEVICE AND PAPER SHEETS HANDLING DEVICE - An entry device is provided with a plural number of operation keys and a temperature changing unit. The operation keys can be operated by pressing by a fingertip of a hand touching respective operation surfaces thereof, and are used for entry of an authentication character string. When the authentication character string is to be entered, the temperature changing unit changes temperatures of the operation surfaces of the plural operation keys to be substantially equal. | 07-02-2015 |
| 20150181619 | DEVICE, METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR WIRELESS COMMUNICATION ON A CHANNEL SELECTED FROM AN AVAILABLE-CHANNEL LIST - In a wireless communication system managing wireless communication channels, a wireless communication device includes a radio unit communicable by switching to select any one of wireless communication channels, a channel list storage storing therein a list of the channels, a channel transmission controller controlling the radio unit to transmit a packet while switching a channel on the basis of the list, a channel search transmission controller controlling the radio unit to transmit the packet while switching the channel on the basis of the list until the packet is successfully transmitted, and a transmission control selector selecting either the channel transmission controller or the channel search transmission controller on the basis of a content of the packet of a transmission target for transmission control. | 06-25-2015 |
| 20150154849 | CONTROL DEVICE, AND CONTROL SYSTEM - To improve the accuracy of the determination on whether or not a moving object is present in a predetermined region, a control device for use in a system configured to conduct presence-or-absence determination on whether or not a moving object is present on the basis of detection by a first sensor provided in a predetermined compartment region, the control device comprising: a mode control section configured to control switching of an operation mode for the detection by the first sensor or the presence-or-absence determination; and an acquisition section configured to acquire a determination result of whether or not a moving object is present in an adjacent region adjacent to the predetermined compartment region and not including the predetermined compartment region; wherein the mode control section controls the switching of the operation mode in response to the determination result acquired by the acquisition section, is provided. | 06-04-2015 |
| 20150154473 | INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, CASH PROCESSING TERMINAL, AND INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM - There is provided an information processing device disposed between a cash processing terminal group in a local network and an outside network existing outside the local network, the information processing device including: an information acquisition unit that acquires, in the local network, a serial number obtained as a result of a currency bill being read by a cash processing terminal configuring the cash processing terminal group; a storage control unit that stores the serial number in a storage unit; and a determination unit which, in a case in which a serial number obtained as a result of a currency bill being read by any cash processing terminal configuring the cash processing terminal group has been acquired, determines whether or not that serial number matches the serial number stored in the storage unit. | 06-04-2015 |
| 20150148945 | DATA PROCESSING DEVICE, CASH PROCESSING TERMINAL, AND DATA PROCESSING SYSTEM - A data processing device is provided between a cash processing terminal cluster in a local network and an external network outside the local network. The data processing device includes a data acquisition section that acquires, in the local network, serial numbers obtained from banknotes read by a cash processing terminal configuring the cash processing terminal cluster, a storage controller that stores the serial numbers in a storage section, a condition acquisition section that acquires conditions of decommissioned note serial number, and a serial number notification section that acquires a serial number satisfying the conditions from the storage section and provides notification of the serial number to any of cash processing terminal configuring the cash processing terminal cluster or to a cash processing terminal in a local network different to the local network. | 05-28-2015 |
| 20150134263 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND RECORDING MEDIUM - There is provided an information processing apparatus including: an input unit inputting first vibration information observed from a moving body; a generating unit generating second vibration information based on a periodic function including at least one parameter that models periodic motion of the moving body; and an estimating unit estimating the at least one parameter based on a comparison result for the first vibration information inputted by the input unit and the second vibration information generated by the generating unit. The estimating unit repeatedly estimates the at least one parameter based on a comparison result for the first vibration information and the second vibration information that has been regenerated by the generating unit using the estimated at least one parameter. | 05-14-2015 |
| 20150112479 | AUTOMATIC TRANSACTION DEVICE AND AUTOMATIC TRANSACTION METHOD - The objective of the present invention is to provide an automatic transaction device capable of suppressing wasteful operation of the automatic transaction device when a shutter failure has occurred. The present invention is an automatic transaction device that performs transactions related to cash, and is characterized by including: a deposit/withdrawal slot for depositing/withdrawing cash; an opening/closing member that is capable of opening and closing the deposit/withdrawal slot by way of movement; an opened/closed detection unit that detects the opened/closed state of the opening/closing member; and a control unit that opens and closes the opening/closing member at the time of a reset operation of the automatic transaction device to perform operation verification processing, causes detection of the opened/closed state of the opening/closing member after the operation verification processing, and if it is determined that the opened/closed state is abnormal, aborts the transaction. | 04-23-2015 |
| 20150093069 | SEMICONDUCTOR LASER MODULE AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING THE SAME - There is provided a semiconductor laser module with a semiconductor laser chip, in which a first optical waveguide is formed, flip-chip mounted on a silicon substrate with a mesa structure in which a second optical waveguide is formed. The optical axes of the first optical waveguide and the second optical waveguide make a specified angle with lines perpendicular to the respective cleavage planes. Alignment marks are provided on the silicon substrate and the semiconductor laser chip at at least two positioning locations to enable mounting of the semiconductor laser chip by passive alignment. The mounting position is decided so that laser light emitted in a direction of the optical axis of the first optical waveguide and refracted at the emission surface, is refracted at the incident surface of the second optical waveguide and becomes incident in the direction of the optical axis of the second optical waveguide. | 04-02-2015 |
| 20150086153 | OPTICAL DEVICE HAVING A STEPWISE OR TAPERED LIGHT INPUT/OUTPUT PART AND MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREFOR - In a method of manufacturing an optical device including an optical waveguide having a core, a cladding and a light input/output part through which a light beam is input or output, a substrate is prepared which is provided with a uniform thickness of single-crystalline film having its constituent atoms forming a diamond lattice structure and its surface being neither the (111) plane nor its equivalent planes. In the single-crystalline film, a precursor structure is formed which has a precursor of light input/output part. A mask is formed such as to expose the precursor with the remaining part covered. The structure is immersed into an alkaline solution for wet etching with the (111) planes used as etch-stop planes. | 03-26-2015 |
| 20150086006 | ECHO SUPPRESSOR USING PAST ECHO PATH CHARACTERISTICS FOR UPDATING - In an echo suppressor, a frequency bin component detector compares a far-end signal amplitude spectrum with a threshold value for each frequency bin to determine whether or not each frequency bin includes a frequency component. A frequency bin echo path characteristic estimator uses the far-end signal amplitude spectrum in the frequency bins determined to have a frequency component by the frequency bin component detector and the near-end input signal amplitude spectrum of corresponding frequency bins to estimate the echo path characteristics of the frequency bins. An estimated echo signal calculation-and-echo suppressor section calculates estimated echo signals based on the echo path characteristic in each frequency bin and the far-end signal amplitude spectrum to suppress the estimated echo signals from the near-end input signal amplitude spectrum. | 03-26-2015 |
| 20150085830 | WIRELESS COMMUNICATION NODE HAVING NEIGHBOR NODE INFORMATION REGISTERED - A wireless communication node on the multi-hop wireless network has a control message exchanger for exchanging control messages with peripheral nodes to determine neighbor nodes whose information should be registered in a neighbor node information storage; a timing adjuster for adjusting, depending on a connective state of the wireless communication node in the network, a timing at which a first control message is sent back in response to a second control message arriving from other wireless communication nodes; and a registered node determiner for primarily referencing the order of arrival of a first control message from the other wireless communication node to determining neighbor nodes whose information should be registered in the neighbor node information storage. | 03-26-2015 |
| 20150079984 | NETWORK REGISTRATION SYSTEM FOR REGISTERING COMMUNICATOR ON NETWORK AND NETWORK DEVICE THEREFOR - In a network registration system including a communicator to be registered on a network and a register registering the communicator on the network, either of the communicator and the register includes a check information generator generating a check information signal according to check information for prompting the user to check that the communicator is treated as an object to be registered in the network registration system; and a check information output section outputting the check information signal in a form sensible to the user. The other of the communicator and the register includes an evaluation criterion supplier supplying evaluation criterion information allowing the user to evaluate the suitability of the check information emitted from the check information output section. Thus, the network registration system can prevent an incorrect registration while easily registering the communicator to the network. | 03-19-2015 |
| 20150063811 | CENTRAL-OFFICE TERMINATION APPARATUS OF ADAPTIVELY CHANGING CONNECTION TO SUBSCRIBER-TERMINAL TERMINATOR AND PATH SWITCHING METHOD - A central-office termination apparatus includes plural termination devices and a termination device distributor. Each termination device includes a buffer, a subscriber-terminal terminator distributor and a scheduler. The buffer has a through queue and one or more switching queues. The subscriber-terminal terminator distributor transfers a packet meant for one subscriber-terminal terminator under switching to the switching queue, and transfers another packet meant for another subscriber-terminal terminator not under switching to the through queue. The scheduler reads out packets from the switching and through queues. The termination device distributor transfers a received packet to a termination device having the subscriber-terminal terminator registered for which that packet is meant. | 03-05-2015 |
| 20150063590 | SOUND SOURCE SEPARATING APPARATUS, SOUND SOURCE SEPARATING PROGRAM, SOUND PICKUP APPARATUS, AND SOUND PICKUP PROGRAM - There is provided a sound source separating apparatus including a bidirectionality forming unit configured to form a bidirectionality by use of a sound signal picked up by two microphones which are located to be horizontal with respect to the target direction, among three microphones disposed at vertexes of an isosceles right triangle, a unidirectionality forming unit configured to form a unidirectionality by use of a sound signal picked up by two microphones which are located in a same direction as the target direction, among the three microphones, and a target sound extracting unit configured to extract a target sound by performing a spectral subtraction of all outputs from the bidirectionality forming unit and the unidirectionality forming unit from a signal. | 03-05-2015 |
| 20150048197 | MEDIUM PROCESSING APPARATUS - A temporary holding section includes bridge portions that span along a shaft direction across respective groove portions of a drum at plural discrete locations around the drum circumferential direction. The temporary holding section can accordingly prevent an outer tape and an inner tape from slipping off into the groove portions, enabling damage to the tapes to be forestalled. The temporary holding section can also precisely determine the presence or absence of a banknote by shining a drum detection light toward the groove portions so as to pass through opening hole portions. | 02-19-2015 |
| 20150036819 | QUANTUM-KEY-DISTRIBUTION RECEIVING DEVICE AND METHOD FOR USING SINGLE-PHOTON DETECTOR - There is provided a quantum-key-distribution receiving device used in a quantum key distribution system that utilizes a pair of quantum-entangled photons including a signal photon and an idler photon, the quantum-key-distribution receiving device including a single-photon detector in which a secure-key generation rate is dependent on a first performance index η/(1+P | 02-05-2015 |
| 20150014469 | MEDIUM PROCESSING DEVICE - A medium processing device includes a drum; plural inner tapes; plural outer tapes; differing regions formed on a starting end portion that is an end at a drum side of at least one of the plural inner tapes or the plural outer tapes, and on a terminal end portion that is an inner reel side or an outer reel side of all of the inner tapes or all of the outer tapes; plural detecting unites that detect the physical property at a tape position of one of the inner tape or the outer tape that has a differing region formed on the starting end portion or the terminal end portion, the tape position being located between the drum and the inner and the outer reels; and a control unit that controls a rotation of the drum based upon the detection results of the plural detecting units. | 01-15-2015 |
| 20140374986 | MEDIUM INTAKE DEVICE - A lower pressure plate ( | 12-25-2014 |
| 20140355988 | COMMUNICATION CONTROL DEVICES AND METHOD - There is provided a communication control device including a communication control processing portion that performs at least one type of communication control processing when a control signal that requests a response signal is received from a partner device, a transmission processing portion that transmits the response signal to the partner device after the processing that the communication control processing portion performs when the control signal is received from the partner device, a processing time measurement portion that measures time that is consumed by the processing by the communication control processing portion, and a processing content setting portion that, based on the measured processing time that has been measured by the processing time measurement portion and on a response processing time for the response to the control signal, sets content of processing that the communication control processing portion will be made to perform within the response processing time. | 12-04-2014 |
| 20140341384 | SOUND EMITTING AND COLLECTING APPARATUS, SOUND SOURCE SEPARATING UNIT AND COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIUM HAVING SOUND SOURCE SEPARATION PROGRAM - The present invention relates to a sound emitting and collecting apparatus including a sound collecting portion that captures surrounding sound using two microphones, and a sound emitting portion that emits sound from at least one speaker. The apparatus includes a sound source separating portion that extracts a target sound from a sound source in a predetermined direction, based on an input sound signal obtained by capturing surrounding sound using the two microphones, and an emission non-target sound removing portion that removes a non-target sound that is emitted from the speaker and captured by each of the microphones, based on sound source data for the sound emitting portion. The emission non-target sound removing portion is provided on a path that reaches the sound source separating portion. The emission non-target sound removing portion has a structure similar to an acoustic echo canceller, for example. | 11-20-2014 |
| 20140335903 | ID MANAGEMENT DEVICE, PROGRAM, USER TERMINAL, AND ID MANAGEMENT SYSTEM - The present invention enables a user terminal to perform communication while maintaining anonymity of a user. An ID management device of the present invention includes a storage unit configured to store use status of identification information for communication of an application service provided within a predetermined area, an issuing unit configured to issue unused identification information to a user terminal provided with the application service, and an updating unit configured to, when unused identification information is issued, update the use status to indicate that the unused identification information is in use, and, when a use end condition for issued identification information is satisfied, update the use status to indicate that the issued identification information is unused. | 11-13-2014 |
| 20140332340 | BANKNOTE PROCESSING DEVICE - A banknote processing device is provided that is capable of securing a reject route that does not overlap with a route for conveying banknotes from a banknote storage section to a banknote identification section. The banknote processing device includes: a dispensing port that dispenses banknotes; a banknote identification section that identifies whether or not banknotes are normal; and a storage-only storage section that stores banknotes that the banknote identification section has identified as abnormal. Out of a first route on the dispensing port side between the banknote identification section and the storage-only storage section and a second route on the opposite side to the first route, one, or two or more, banknote storage sections capable of storing and feeding out banknotes are provided only on the second route side. | 11-13-2014 |
| 20140326575 | BANKNOTE PAY-IN/PAY-OUT DEVICE AND BANKNOTE PROCESSING MACHINE - A banknote pay-in/pay-out device and a banknote processing machine having a simpler pay-in/pay-out port section mechanism than hitherto. During paying in, out of banknotes inserted into a pay-in/pay-out port section, a pay-in reject banknote that has been determined to be unsuitable for paying in is conveyed to a sorting conveyance path, and temporarily retained in the sorting conveyance path. So doing enables, for example, the pay-in reject banknote to be temporarily retained in the sorting conveyance path until, for example, pay-in counting processing has been completed, with the pay-in reject banknote being replaced in the pay-in/pay-out port section to be returned to a user after the pay-in counting processing has been completed, without providing a partitioning plate to the pay-in/pay-out port section as hitherto. | 11-06-2014 |
| 20140314278 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, PROGRAM, AND IMAGE PROCESSING SYSTEM - An image processing apparatus including a region-of-interest decision unit that identifies an interest space region in which an object to be analyzed is likely to be present based on a distance image, which is shape information of an object space corresponding to a captured image to be analyzed acquired by a distance image sensor, to identify a region of interest in the captured image corresponding to the interest space region and an image analysis unit that performs different image analyses for the region of interest and other image regions. | 10-23-2014 |
| 20140301222 | NETWORK ANALYZING SYSTEM, AS WELL AS NETWORK ANALYZING APPARATUS AND NETWORK ANALYZING PROGRAM, AS WELL AS DATA PROCESSING MODULE AND DATA PROCESSING PROGRAM - The present invention relates to a network analyzing system that performs analyzing for a network. The network analyzing system includes one or a plurality of data processing modules and a network analysis apparatus, the network analysis apparatus includes a unit for accommodating the data processing modules, a unit for holding data-to-be-analyzed, a unit for storing data processing definition information that defines steps that carry out the processing of the data-to-be-analyzed using the data processing modules, a unit for causing the data processing modules to carry out data processing based on the data processing definition information to obtain a data processing result, and each data processing module includes a unit connecting to the network analysis apparatus, and a unit for carrying out data processing in accordance with a request. | 10-09-2014 |
| 20140291110 | BANKNOTE PROCESSING DEVICE - The banknote processing device includes plural dispensing ports that dispense banknotes; a banknote classification section that classifies banknotes; and a controller that selects a conveyance destination of banknotes classified by the banknote classification section from the plural dispensing ports, and effects control to convey the banknotes to a selected dispensing port. | 10-02-2014 |
| 20140282788 | SYSTEM FOR CONTROLLING VIDEO DISTRIBUTION IN RESPONSE TO A REQUEST ON REDUCED VIDEO DATA TRAFFIC AND A METHOD THEREFOR - In a video distribution apparatus, when a video data segment into which video data of a content is sectioned on the basis of a predetermined unit is received on a network, the received video data segment is cached into a memory, and at least content identification information of the video data is stored into the memory. When a cache distribution request is acquired on the network, a distribution controller obtains content identification information included in the request. A relay controller acquires a video data segment associated with the obtained content identification information from the memory, and transfers the acquired video data segment to a source of the request at a transfer rate at which the video data segment is transferred in the vicinity of a distributing source of the video data. | 09-18-2014 |
| 20140270775 | METHOD FOR REGISTERING OPTICAL NETWORK UNIT IN TELECOMMUNICATIONS NETWORK AND OPTICAL NETWORK UNIT THEREFOR - In a telecommunications network including an optical line terminal (OLT) having optical subscriber units (OSUs) and an optical network unit (ONU) connected to the OLT, bandwidth allocation signals are periodically transmitted at a first period from the respective OSUs to the ONU, and an acknowledgement request signal is transmitted from at least one of the OSUs to the ONU at a second period having a value corresponding to the first period multiplied by a constant. If an ONU is registered in none of the OSUs, the first period is determined from reception intervals of the assignment signals, and a second period is calculated from the first period. Transmissive wavelength of a variable-wavelength (VW) filter in the ONU is periodically changed at a third period longer than the second period. In the OSU having transmitted the request signal, the unregistered ONU having received the request signal is registered. | 09-18-2014 |
| 20140262678 | MEDIUM STORING DEVICE - A temporary storage in a medium storing device carries out ON/OFF monitoring of a jam sensor between a winding start position of a drum and a clamp point of a delivering roller. Accordingly, when bills are rewound in the reset operation, even when a relationship between a pulse count and a bill position becomes different from actual one, it is possible to detect, without using a pulse count, a jam between the winding start position and the clamp point. It is possible to more securely detect the abnormality in bill storing in comparison with the prior art. | 09-18-2014 |
| 20140248053 | OPTICAL NETWORK UNIT REGISTRATION METHOD AND OPTICAL NETWORK SYSTEM - An optical network unit registration method registers an unregistered optical network unit in a network that includes an optical line terminal having a plurality of optical subscriber units that allocate different wavelengths from one another, and a plurality of optical network units including a variable wavelength filter and configured to connect to the optical line terminal via one or more optical transmission paths. The optical network unit registration method includes a transmitting a wavelength notification signal that indicates a wavelength for the variable wavelength filter to one or more optical network units, a setting a transmission wavelength for the variable wavelength filter based on the wavelength that wavelength notification signal indicates, and a registering an unregistered optical network unit that receives the wavelength notification signal. | 09-04-2014 |
| 20140216888 | BANKNOTE PROCESSING DEVICE - A banknote processing device that stacks banknotes in a banknote storage section even when a jam occurs. The device has an insertion aperture, a verification section, the storage section and a controller. The aperture separates and feeds inserted banknotes. The verification section verifies the banknotes fed from the aperture. The banknotes are stacked in the storage section. The controller controls conveyance of the banknotes conveyed from the aperture to the verification section such that, depending on verification results, the banknotes are conveyed directly to the storage section. When a jam occurs during conveyance of the banknotes, the controller stops the separation and feeding of the banknotes from the aperture, and controls conveyance such that banknotes for which the storage section has been set as a conveyance destination by the verification section are conveyed directly to the storage section and banknotes for which no conveyance destination has been set are ejected. | 08-07-2014 |
| 20140204752 | PACKET PROCESSING SYSTEM PROCESSING PACKETS BY PLURAL PROCESSORS - A packet processing apparatus includes plural packet processors processing input packets constituting an input packet stream. A flow identification information manager holds flow identification information about flows included in the input packet stream. A flow assigner assigns each of the flows to one of the packet processors. A packet identifier determines, based on the flow identification information, one of the flows to which the input packet belongs. A packet distributor supplies the input packet to the determined packet processor according to a result of determination made by the packet identifier. | 07-24-2014 |
| 20140166432 | BANKNOTE PROCESSING DEVICE - A currency note processing device has a deposit opening. A currency note recognition section recognizes unique information of a deposited currency. A currency note storage section accumulates the deposited currency notes. A transportation control section controls the transportation of the deposited currency note such that the currency note is transported directly to the currency note storage section, and when a return instruction for the deposited currency note is detected, controls the transportation of the deposited currency note from the currency note storage section to the currency note recognition section. A comparison section compares the unique information recognized at the time of the first transportation, from the deposit opening to the currency note recognition section, is compared to unique information recognized at the time of the second transportation, from the currency note storage section to the currency note recognition section. | 06-19-2014 |
| 20140144749 | BANKNOTE PROCESSING DEVICE - A banknote processing device includes a differentiating section that differentiates banknotes, a temporary holding section that temporarily stores the differentiated banknotes, banknote storage containers that store the banknotes, and a conveyance route that connects the differentiating section, the temporary holding section, and the banknote storage containers. The processing device is constructed so that when the banknotes stored in the temporary holding section are sent out and stored in the banknote storage containers based on differentiation results of the banknotes by the differentiating section, the banknotes are conveyed from the temporary holding section via the differentiating section, and are stored in any one of the banknote storage containers, or the banknotes are conveyed from the temporary holding section, via a route that does not go through the differentiating section, and are stored in a specific one of the banknote storage containers. | 05-29-2014 |
| 20140138225 | KEY SWITCH STRUCTURE - A link mechanism detachably supporting a key top against a back sheet provides a first link member; one end side of the first link member is rotatably held at the obverse surface of the back plate, and the other end side is slidably held at the reverse surface of the key top. A second link member is rotatably connected to the first link member. One end side of the second link member engages rotatably with a rotation support part provided to the reverse surface of the key top and the other end side of the second link member is slidably held at the obverse surface of the back plate. A recess is provided to the second link member, and a protrusion is formed on the rotation support part. The protrusion engages with the recess and restricts detachment of the key top from the second link member. | 05-22-2014 |
| 20140131164 | MEDIUM HANDLING APPARATUS - Tapes holding bills and wound round a drum are pressed against the drum by a winding roller, and the tapes are further pressed against the drum by a guide roller provided downstream of the winding roller in the tape winding direction of the drum. Thus, bills difficult to be curved along the outer circumferential surface of the drum, such as creased or wrinkled bills, can be curved along the outer circumferential surface of the drum, and the bills wound round the drum can be prevented from shifting or skewing. | 05-15-2014 |
| 20140124334 | MEDIUM CONVEYANCE APPARATUS - A medium conveyance apparatus includes a conveyance roller, a pinch roller and a pinch roller spring. The pinch roller includes a pinch roller shaft and a bearing. The pinch roller shaft has a flat surface formed thereon to be made in contact with a spring flat surface of the pinch roller spring, thereby preventing the pinch roller shaft from rotating together with the bearing. | 05-08-2014 |
| 20140116840 | MEDIUM VALIDATING APPARATUS - A bill validator of an automated teller machine includes a magnetic detector for detecting magnetism of bills. The magnetic detector has pressing members of resin material having bearings bored therein. The bearings rotatably hold a shaft for a guide roller which presses bills against the lower surface of a magnetic sensor. The guide roller rotates as bills run on a conveyance path. However, since the bearings consist of fixed parts of resin material and the shaft is formed of non-magnetic material, the rotation does not cause changes in a magnetic field. Thus, when the guide roller rotates, the surrounding magnetic field does not change, so that, although the magnetic detector locates in the vicinity of the guide roller, the magnetic head of the magnetic sensor can well accurately sense the magnetism of bills. | 05-01-2014 |
| 20140116839 | MEDIUM STORAGE AND ADVANCING APPARATUS - An apparatus includes one-side reels rotatably arranged, one-side tapes wound around the one-side reels, a drum arranged to rotate in one direction to wind and store a medium with the medium being laid over the one-side tapes and in an opposite direction to pull out the wound medium, and retainers opposed to the one-side tapes with respect to the medium wound by or pulled out from the drum for abutting against a surface of the medium to hold the medium, the one-side tapes having a tape width shorter than the width of the medium corresponding to the length of the medium in a direction perpendicular to a transfer direction of the medium, the one-side tapes being arranged in parallel and spaced with a spacing shorter than the width of the medium in a direction of the width of the medium to abut against another surface of the medium. | 05-01-2014 |
| 20140105080 | WIRELESS COMMUNICATION APPARATUS AND WIRELESS COMMUNICATION PROGRAM - There is provided a wireless communication apparatus capable of using a first MAC protocol and a second MAC protocol including one wireless communication unit. The wireless communication unit includes: a MAC protocol control unit carrying out state transitions and processing in a present state according to the first MAC protocol and the second MAC protocol; and a frame communication unit carrying out communication of frames according to the first MAC protocol and communication of frames according to the second MAC protocol whose frame format is the same as the frames according to the first MAC protocol. | 04-17-2014 |
| 20140090949 | MEDIUM STORAGE AND FEEDING DEVICE AND MEDIUM PROCESSING DEVICE - A medium storage and feeding device and a medium processing device that may prevent occurrences of faults more reliably than the related art. A drum ( | 04-03-2014 |
| 20140090079 | BUSINESS DATA BROWSING SYSTEM MANAGING THE RETENTION PERIOD OF BUSINESS DATA - In a server of a business data browsing system, a management unit makes retention period information associated with business data of a user to be stored into a database. A determining unit is operative in response to a browsing inquiry of the business data held in a user terminal to reference the retention period information of the business data stored in the database to thereby determine whether or not browsing of the business data is permitted to produce a determination result. A transmitting unit transmits the determination result toward the user terminal. Thus, it is possible to improve the security level and convenience of business data held in the user terminal. | 03-27-2014 |
| 20140089335 | SYSTEM FOR VERIFYING A PLACE WHERE BUSINESS DATA ARE BROWSED - A server includes a collector which collects browsing positional information of a file from a user terminal device; a matching unit which checks matching of the collected browsing positional information with authenticated browsing positional information of the file; and an outputter which outputs a result of the checking performed by the matching unit. | 03-27-2014 |
| 20140088959 | BAND EXTENSION APPARATUS AND BAND EXTENSION METHOD - A band extension apparatus is provided. The band extension apparatus extends a narrow-band speech signal whose frequency band has been restricted to an arbitrary input band, such that the extension band includes signal components in an arbitrary extension band. The arbitrary extension band is a frequency band outside the input band. | 03-27-2014 |
| 20140059103 | HOWLING SUPPRESSION DEVICE AND ADAPTIVE NOTCH FILTER - An adaptive notch filter adaptively modifies one or more notch frequencies. The adaptive notch filter includes a transfer function equivalent to coupling j stages (where j is a natural number equal to or greater than 1) of adaptive notch filter units each having a transfer function H | 02-27-2014 |
| 20140056552 | OPTICAL PATH ROUTING ELEMENT - An optical path routing element includes first and second optical waveguide that are parallel to each other. The first and second waveguides have the same thickness and have the same width, the width being larger than the thickness. The width is within a range based upon coupling lengths of the first and second waveguides for a TE polarization and for a TM polarization such that the difference between the coupling length for TE polarization and the coupling length for TM polarization is no more than a predetermined percentage times the sum of the coupling length for TE polarization and the coupling length for TM polarization divided by 2. | 02-27-2014 |
| 20140054848 | MEDIUM PROCESSOR HAVING MEDIUM STORING BOXES FLEXIBLY LOADABLE IN A SLOT OF A MEDIUM STORAGE - A medium processor is provided with a medium storage which can house two small storing boxes next to each other and has plural slots into which the two small storing boxes can be detachably loaded. Thus, the two small storing boxes can be loaded in a space equivalent to one conventional bill storing box, and the small storing boxes can be detached for servicing even when there are two small storing boxes loaded in one slot. Thus, various kinds of media can be handled without impairing maintainability. | 02-27-2014 |
| 20140037010 | VIDEO ENCODING AND DECODING APPARATUS, METHOD, AND SYSTEM - A video sequence is encoded by encoding key frames to obtain coded data and non-key frames to obtain error-correcting information. In the encoding process, key frame data are stored in a buffer, first motion information pertaining to the key frames is obtained, and the first motion information is applied to the stored key frame data to generate predicted key frame data. Second motion information pertaining to the non-key frames is also obtained and used to generate predicted non-key frame data. Either the first motion information is obtained from the second motion information, or the second motion information is obtained from the first motion information. The encoder accordingly does not have to obtain motion information from the decoder, and can estimate the amount of error-correcting information to send to the decoder. | 02-06-2014 |
| 20130329735 | PACKET TRANSFER DEVICE, PACKET TRANSFER METHOD, PACKET TRANSFER PROGRAM AND COMMUNICATION DEVICE - A packet transfer device includes: an address conversion unit that allocates a global address to a plurality of private addresses of the plurality of private networks and converts address information and a port number included in a header of a received packet; a transfer unit that transfers a packet having the address information and the port number which are converted by the address conversion unit; and a session restriction unit that manages a number of sessions between a user terminal in the plurality of private networks and a device in the global network for each predetermined group and, when the number of sessions is greater than a number of available sessions which is set to each group, restricts the session of the user terminal which belongs to the group having the excess number of sessions. | 12-12-2013 |
| 20130328689 | MEDIUM PROCESSOR NOTIFYING WHEN SERVICING IS REQUIRED - A medium processor for processing a medium has a path for transporting the medium; a display for displaying a processing status of the medium; a sensor for sensing the medium on the path, the sensor including a light-emitting device for emitting light and a photosensitive device for receiving the light; and a controller for controlling the operation of the processor. The controller has a light amount detector for detecting the amount of the light the photosensitive device receives; a comparator for comparing the amount of the light with a predetermined reference value; a light amount adjuster for adjusting the amount of electric power to adjust the amount of electric power in steps; a cleaning determiner for determining that the sensor needs to be serviced under a certain condition; and a display controller for controlling the display to display an indication of the sensor to be serviced. | 12-12-2013 |
| 20130315391 | SECURE COMMUNICATION SYSTEM AND COMMUNICATION APPARATUS - There is provided a secure communication system comprising first and second communication apparatuses carrying out encrypted communication. The first communication apparatus includes: a first established communication path managing unit managing information on an encrypted communication path established with the second communication apparatus; and a first communication path reestablishing unit notifying the second communication apparatus of first communication apparatus identification information and operating with the second communication apparatus to reestablish an encrypted communication path using the information on the established encrypted communication path. The second communication apparatus includes: a second established communication path managing unit managing the first communication apparatus identification information and managing the information on the established encrypted communication path in association with the first communication apparatus identification information; and a second communication path reestablishing unit reestablishing the encrypted communication path based on the first communication apparatus identification information and the information on the established encrypted communication path. | 11-28-2013 |
| 20130314769 | OPTICAL AMPLIFICATION DEVICE AND OPTICAL AMPLIFICATION METHOD - An optical amplification device includes a first optical amplification portion, an intermediate portion and a second optical amplification portion. The first optical amplification portion receives input light including signal light and pump light, generates idler light as wavelength converted light based on wavelengths of the signal light and the pump light, and outputs first output light including signal light, pump light and idler light. The intermediate portion outputs second output light, and includes a demultiplexing portion that demultiplexes the first output light into signal light, pump light and idler light, a multiplexing portion that generates the second output light by multiplexing signal light, pump light and idler light, and a polarization plane adjustment portion that exchanges mutually orthogonal polarization components of idler light. The second optical amplification portion amplifies an intensity of signal light included in the second output light. | 11-28-2013 |
| 20130313773 | MEDIUM PROCESSOR HAVING MEDIUM STORING BOXES FLEXIBLY LOADABLE IN A SLOT OF A MEDIUM STORAGE - A medium processor is provided with a medium storage which can house two small storing boxes next to each other and has plural slots into which the two small storing boxes can be detachably loaded. Thus, the two small storing boxes can be loaded in a space equivalent to one conventional bill storing box, and the small storing boxes can be detached for servicing even when there are two small storing boxes loaded in one slot. Thus, various kinds of media can be handled without impairing maintainability. | 11-28-2013 |
| 20130307210 | SHEET TRANSPORT APPARATUS FACILITATING ESTABLISHING A CONTINUOUS SHEET TRANSPORT PATH - In a sheet transport apparatus, first transport guides are provided in pair in parallel to, and spaced from, each other to form a first transport path to convey sheets. The transport guides have one ends engageable with the ends of second transport guides, which are provided in pair to be parallel to, and spaced from, each other to form a second transport path. A supporting member rotatably supports the second transport guides in response to the position of the first transport guides. When the ends of the first and second transport guides are brought into engagement with each other with the one ends of the second transport guides inclined against the first transport guides to displace the ends from each other, both transport paths can be connected to each other without changing the transverse cross-sectional depth thereof, thereby preventing a step or hollow from being formed in the connecting section. | 11-21-2013 |
| 20130279011 | PRIVATE VIEW PROTECTOR - An automatic transaction apparatus ( | 10-24-2013 |
| 20130259482 | OPTICAL NETWORK UNIT REGISTRATION METHOD - In a network that includes one or a plurality of optical line terminals, a plurality of branches, and an optical routing unit, the optical network unit registration method includes a first process in which the optical line terminals transmit a discovery gate to the optical network units, and a second process in which, in response to the discovery gate, an unregistered optical network unit transmits a register request to a separate optical line terminal from the terminal that transmitted the discovery gate. A discovery window is provided in the optical line terminal that receives the register request. This optical line terminal receives the register request in the discovery window. | 10-03-2013 |
| 20130259425 | OPTICAL DEVICE - An optical device includes an optical waveguide including a core and a cladding, and includes a wide optical waveguide. An input optical waveguide is connected with one side the wide waveguide and output optical waveguides are connected to an opposite side of the wide waveguide. Center intervals between adjacent ones of the output waveguides meet either a condition 1 that the center intervals are wider than or equal to | 10-03-2013 |
| 20130258453 | QUANTUM ENTANGLED PHOTON PAIR GENERATOR - In a quantum entangled photon pair generator selectively generating polarization entangled photon pairs and time-bin entangled photon pairs, an excitation optical pulse shaper receives a linearly polarized optical pulse, and selectively outputs either one of a polarization excitation optical pulse pair to be a seedlight pulse for a polarization entangled photon pair and a consecutive excitation optical pulse pair to be a seedlight pulse for a time-bin entangled photon pair. An optical interferometer receives the polarization excitation optical pulse pair or the consecutive excitation optical pulse pair, and outputs a correlated photon pair forming signal and idler photons through a parametric fluorescence process. A quantum entangled photon pair extractor spatially extracting wavelength components corresponding to photons of the quantum entangled photon pair to output the components as the polarization entangled photon pair or the time-bin entangled photon pair. | 10-03-2013 |
| 20130248334 | MEDIUM CARRYING MECHANISM - Provided is an inexpensive and lightweight carrying mechanism in which side frames and a guide plate are not required to be formed separately and assembled and a small number of components are required. A pair of right and left side frames ( | 09-26-2013 |
| 20130248332 | MEDIUM CONVEYANCE MECHANISM - The present invention may lower the cost, save space and simplify assembly in a medium conveyance mechanism that conveys a medium with a pair of conveyance rollers provided facing each other. Namely, the medium conveyance mechanism is disposed with a torsion spring including a coil portion and arms at both ends of the coil portion; a first fixing wall that fixes one arm of the torsion spring; and a second fixing wall that fixes the coil portion at an opposite side from the first fixing wall, wherein the other arm of the torsion spring is made to contact a following roller shaft at the first fixing wall side. | 09-26-2013 |
| 20130248322 | CONVEYING DIRECTION SWITCHING APPARATUS - A conveying direction switching apparatus includes a first and a second blade assembly, and auxiliary blades rotatably provided at a shaft. The auxiliary blades are arranged between the first and second blade assemblies. When conveying bills, the portions of the bills passing between the first and second blade assemblies in the longitudinal direction of the shaft are guided by the auxiliary blades toward the conveying direction of the bills. Thus, the conveying direction of the medium is appropriately switched. | 09-26-2013 |
| 20130248320 | PAPER CURRENCY DEPOSIT-WITHDRAWAL MECHANISM - Provided is a means whereby improvement in fund efficiency of stored paper currency of a paper currency storage vault and reduction in withdrawal processing time are effected, and whereby a count value of a number of stored sheets and an actual number of sheets are matched. An accumulation order table, which stores an accumulation order of paper currency which is stored in a paper currency storage vault ( | 09-26-2013 |
| 20130247799 | BANKNOTE HANDLING DEVICE AND PASSING UNIT USED THEREIN - A banknote handling device includes a safe that protects banknotes (casing of a second unit), a first conveyance path externally provided to the safe, and a second conveyance path internally provided to the safe. The safe is provided with at least one opening portion through which the banknotes pass. A passing unit including a passing conveyance mechanism that passes a banknote between the first conveyance path and the second conveyance path and a left-behind sensor that detects a banknote that is left-behind, is detachably installed inside the opening portion of the safe. | 09-26-2013 |
| 20130244597 | RADIO TRANSMISSION DEVICE - A radio transmission device may comprise a stop condition assessment module and a stop reason reporting module. The stop condition assessment module may be configured to, in response to an occurrence of a transmission stop condition, determine at least a type of the transmission stop condition. The stop reason reporting module may be configured to send information relating to the transmission stop condition to an upper layer processing module. | 09-19-2013 |
| 20130240321 | MEDIUM STOCKING APPARATUS - A medium stocking apparatus includes a housing having an open area, reels on which tapes are wound, a diverting unit for turning backward the tapes, a cylindrical drum on which a medium is wound with the tapes overlaid, and an openable unit for closing and opening an internal space from and to outside. During an operation, a closed state can be retained, and, during a maintenance work, an open state can be achieved, in which the openable unit is rotated in an upward direction for displacing upper tapes. The medium stocking apparatus can thus be offered which allows a maintenance work with high workability without impairing the tapes. | 09-19-2013 |
| 20130230315 | EXCHANGE DEVICE - The exchange device groups PON branches into PON branch groups based on the amount of communication data traffic that has arrived via a communication network with a plurality of optical network units (ONUs) respectively belonging to one of a plurality of PON branches as a transmission destination, multiplexes the communication data for each PON group, and transmits the multiplexed data. The exchange device has an unit configured to transmit each piece of communication data from the ONUs to one output port selected from among a plurality of output ports based on the transmission wavelength of the communication data. The exchange device groups a plurality of PON branches into PON branch groups based on the required bandwidth of each of the ONUs, and designates the transmission wavelength for each of the ONUs so that each piece of the communication data from one PON branch group is transmitted to one port. | 09-05-2013 |
| 20130230100 | VIDEO ENCODING DEVICE AND PROGRAM, VIDEO DECODING DEVICE AND PROGRAM, AND VIDEO DISTRIBUTION SYSTEM - The present invention relates to a video distribution system including a video encoding device which generates video data encoded per a unit of frame and a video decoding device which decodes the video data supplied from the video encoding device. The video encoding device includes a predicted image generator which generates a predicted image of a non-key frame, by using a key frame, an updated original image generator which compares each parameter representing a predicted image of the non-key frame with respective parameter values for each parameter representing an original image of the non-key frame, and according to this comparison result, generates an updated original image by selecting parameter values of either the predicted image or the original image for each parameter, and an error correction code generator which generates an error correction code for correcting an error of the updated original image to the non-key frame. | 09-05-2013 |
| 20130229700 | POLARIZATION MODE DISPERSION GENERATING DEVICE, METHOD FOR GENERATING POLARIZATION MODE DISPERSION AND POLARIZATION MODE DISPERSION COMPENSATING DEVICE - It is possible to implement a PMD generating function which can set a PMD vector for each wavelength over wide wavelength bands and which has a simple control algorithm. A PCD and a DR can be controlled independently because the PMD can be set for each wavelength. Input signal light | 09-05-2013 |
| 20130223791 | WAVELENGTH-SELECTIVE PATH-SWITCHING ELEMENT - A wavelength-selective path-switching element has a silicon substrate on which a pattern of optical waveguides including a first optical waveguide, a second optical waveguide and an intermediary optical waveguide is formed. The widths W | 08-29-2013 |
| 20130215877 | WIRELESS ACCESS DEVICE, WIRELESS TERMINAL, PROGRAM, AND WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - There is provided a wireless access device including a wireless transmitter/receiver configured to receive a wireless signal including a network identifier, and a setting processing part configured to extract the network identifier from the wireless signal received by the wireless transmitter/receiver and to set a logical network identified by the network identifier. | 08-22-2013 |
| 20130204401 | DEVICE COOPERATION CONTROL SYSTEM, TERMINAL, CONTROL APPARATUS, AND DEVICE COOPERATION CONTROL METHOD - A mobile device and a display apparatus are caused to cooperate. A user is instructed to do a predetermined action and the user holds and moves the mobile device. A motion of the mobile device is detected by the mobile device and the motion of the user is detected by the display apparatus. A pair of the mobile device and the display apparatus that detect the same action at the same time is caused to cooperate. | 08-08-2013 |
| 20130195274 | COMMISSION INFORMATION GENERATOR FOR MAKING PROCESSES ON COMMUNICATION PERFORMED BY ANOTHER COMPUTER - In a communicator in a communication system, a commission information generator for generating a commission parameter to make a process on a communication between communicators performed by another computer includes a first memory for storing a secret key and an encrypter for generating N number of the commission parameters, where N is a natural number, from a first to an N-th commission parameter. The encrypter regards a j-th shared key, where j is a positive integer equal to or less than N, out of the N number of shared keys as key information, encrypts a bit sequence representation of j-th partial information, associated with the j-th shared key, out of N pieces of partial information, and thereby generates a j-th commissioned parameter. | 08-01-2013 |
| 20130182908 | VEHICLE TYPE IDENTIFICATION DEVICE - There is provided a vehicle type identification device including a detection section detecting, based on a vehicle region extracted from a captured image, on an imaging plane, a ground point, a first endpoint, a minimum ground clearance point, a second endpoint, and an upper endpoint of a vehicle, a vehicle width estimation section estimating a vehicle width in a real space based on the ground point, the first endpoint, and the minimum ground clearance point, a vehicle length estimation section estimating a vehicle length in the real space based on the ground point, the first endpoint, and the second endpoint, a vehicle height estimation section estimating a vehicle height in the real space based on the ground point, the first endpoint, and the upper endpoint, and a vehicle type identification section identifying a type of the vehicle based on the vehicle width, the vehicle length, and the vehicle height. | 07-18-2013 |
| 20130177073 | VIDEO ENCODER AND DECODER APPARATUS DECIDING ERROR IN TRANSFORM COEFFICIENTS BETWEEN AN ORIGINAL IMAGE AND A PREDICTIVE IMAGE - A video encoder apparatus using a distributed video coding (DVC) includes a Wyner-Ziv frame encoder for forming a predictive image of a Wyner-Ziv frame on the basis of coded key frames, and determining, according to the fallibility of the transform coefficients of the predictive image with respect to the transform coefficients of an original image based on the Wyner-Ziv frame, the amount of error correction codes to be transmitted so as to transmit the error correction codes corresponding to the determined amount. When no errors are found between the transform coefficients of the original image of the Wyner-Ziv frame and the predictive image, information indicating that no errors are found is sent out instead of the error correction codes for the Wyner-Ziv frame in question. | 07-11-2013 |
| 20130153361 | AUTOMATIC TRANSACTION APPARATUS - Disclosed is an automatic transaction apparatus comprising an upper unit and a lower unit, wherein a means is provided for reducing the cost of manufacturing the upper unit. An automatic transaction apparatus comprises: an upper unit ( | 06-20-2013 |
| 20130142192 | VOICE COMMUNICATION APPARATUS FOR INTERMITTENTLY DISCARDING PACKETS - In a voice communication device for use on an IP network, a transmitter encodes voice information and assembles RTP packets with the encoded voice information inserted in a payload of the RTP packets to transmit a stream of the assembled RTP packets. RPT packets may intermittently be discarded at a rate of discarding from a stream of the RTP packets to be transmitted. The remaining packets will be transmitted to a destination. | 06-06-2013 |
| 20130136005 | DATA MANAGER FOR MANAGING STATION DATA OF COMMUNICATION DEVICES ON A TELECOMMUNICATIONS NETWORK - The data manager manages in a station data memory information on connecting communication devices including various numbers and signal processing conditions in correspondence with state information on the state of the connecting communication devices with the information on the communication devices classified into managing groups to update the state information associated with the information on the communication devices on a managing group-by-group basis. | 05-30-2013 |
| 20130128900 | PACKET PROCESSOR AND METHOD FOR PROCESSING PACKETS BY MEANS OF INTERNAL CONTROL PACKETS - A packet processor for processing an input packet includes an information generator for generating process control information for processing the input packet, an internal packet generator for receiving the input packet as an packet to be processed and adding the process control information to the packet to be processed to produce an internal packet, an internal packet processor for processing the internal packet supplied from the internal packet generator on the basis of the process control information added to the internal packet, and a packet transmitter for extracting an output packet from the internal packet processed by the internal packet processor to transmit the output packet. The packet processor can reduce the amount of communication between modules even when the packet processor includes plural modules. | 05-23-2013 |
| 20130105271 | BILL DEPOSITING/WITHDRAWING MACHINE | 05-02-2013 |
| 20130099442 | MEDIUM ACCUMULATING DEVICE - A medium accumulating device has an accumulation table on which a medium is accumulated, an elastic member that supports the accumulation table, and an accumulation table detector that detects lowering of the accumulation table. It is sensed that the accumulation table inclined with respect to a lifting and lowering direction of the accumulation table lowers below a predetermined position to thereby determine whether or not a medium is accumulated on the accumulation table. This provides the medium accumulating device capable of determining whether or not a medium is accumulated whatever position the accumulation table may occupy. | 04-25-2013 |
| 20130089325 | TRANSMISSION CONTROL APPARATUS IMPROVED IN TRANSMISSION EFFICIENCY OF DOWNSTREAM DATA - In a transmission control apparatus, connected communication devices are detected to find round trip time of transmission to each of the detected communication devices, and the order of each communication device is determined on the basis of the round trip time of transmission to that communication device depending upon the distance thereto. On the basis of the round trip times of transmission to, and the orders of, the communication devices, transmission wait times are determined for delaying transmission of control signals from the communication devices to notify the communication devices of the transmission wait times. When starting communication with the communication devices, timer start signals prompting the communication devices to start counting the transmission wait time are transmitted to the communication devices. | 04-11-2013 |
| 20130086378 | PROXY SYSTEM FOR SECURITY PROCESSING WITHOUT ENTRUSTING CERTIFIED SECRET INFORMATION TO A PROXY - First communication units use a public key thereof certified by a certification authority on a PKI (Public Key Infrastructure), which is held by the first communication units in advance, and a secret key of the first communication units or delegation information generated by using secret information, as public key certificate, of the first communication units to thereby allow a proxy server to perform security processing, i.e. key exchange processing, authentication processing or processing for providing compatibility of encryption schemes, between the first communication units and a second communication unit on behalf of the first communication units. | 04-04-2013 |
| 20130085751 | VOICE COMMUNICATION SYSTEM ENCODING AND DECODING VOICE AND NON-VOICE INFORMATION - In a voice coding apparatus of a voice communication system, feature parameters of background noise in background noise sections of an input signal stream are extracted and background noise is encoded into a comfortable-noise code, and embedding positions where additional information is to be embedded are determined according to the values of the extracted feature parameters. Additional information is embedded into the embedding positions thus determined of the voice or comfortable-noise code, which will be transmitted to a voice decoding apparatus in the system. In the decoding apparatus, the transmitted code is separated into voice and background noise sections to be decoded. From the background noise sections, the values of the feature parameters are found out and used to reference a correspondence relationship table to determine the embedding positions where the additional information is embedded. The additional information is extracted at the embedding positions thus determined to be restored. | 04-04-2013 |
| 20130084067 | OPTICAL REPEATER COMPLYING WITH REDUNDANT CONFIGURATION - An optical repeater formed in an optical passive component passively relays an incoming multiplexed optical signal. The repeater has an optical decoder decoding the multiplexed optical signal, and an optical encoder encoding an optical signal from a termination unit connected to the repeater. The repeater further includes a first optical path switch outputting an incoming multiplexed optical signal to the optical decoder and outputting the optical signal delivered from the optical decoder, a second optical path switch outputting the optical signal coming from the first optical path switch to the termination unit, and a third optical path switch outputting the optical signal coming from the second optical path switch to the encoder and outputting the optical signal delivered from the encoder. | 04-04-2013 |
| 20130083803 | RELAY UNIT - A relay unit includes a main-system switch and a sub-system switch that are connected to each other via an inter-system line, that are connected to a main-system line and a sub-system line, and that relays a frame; and control sections that control a relay operation of the main-system switch and the sub-system switch. The control sections store information on a number of connections of relay units and information on a connection priority, and select a control aspect of the relay operation of at least one of the main-system switch and the sub-system switch according to the number of connections and the connection priority. | 04-04-2013 |
| 20130083393 | APPARATUS AND A METHOD FOR GENERATING, COMPENSATING AND EMULATING POLARIZATION MODE DISPERSION - A polarization mode dispersion (PMD) generating apparatus includes a polarization plane controller; a unit function block including a first differential group delay (DGD) generator, a first mode mixer, and a second DGD generator, a second mode mixer and a reflective mirror, which are arranged in this order from the input side of input light free from PMD. Part of the first and second DGD generators is disposed on a driven stage to modify the optical path length. The input light has polarization converted by the polarization plane controller and is inputted to the first DGD generator to propagate back and forth on an optical path from the unit function block through the second mode mixer to the reflective mirror. In the PMD-generating apparatus, the driven stage adjusts a DGD amount between orthogonal eigen-polarization modes generated in the first and second DGD generators on the basis of an applicable wavelength band. | 04-04-2013 |
| 20130078023 | KEY SWITCH STRUCTURE - A key switch structure which enables a reduction in the width of the key switch. A key switch structure comprises a first support member ( | 03-28-2013 |
| 20130077632 | BUFFER CONTROLLER CORRECTING PACKET ORDER FOR CODEC CONVERSION - A buffer controller has a buffer for holding plural sets of data contained in a packet entered from a telecommunications network, a codec converter and a controller. When receiving a packet, the buffer controller has the controller put data, in the packet, in a storage position in the buffer corresponding to the sequence number of the packet, and makes a decision as to whether or not the codec conversion is to be performed. If packets are out of sequence, lost or dropped during communication, the buffer controller can correct the packet order and compensate the packet loss with the minimum delay. | 03-28-2013 |
| 20130070648 | COMMUNICATIONS APPARATUS TRANSMITTING DATA ON CHANNELS ADAPTIVELY SWITCHABLE - In a communications apparatus, a communication controller transmits and receives signals on any of plural channels. A channel switching controller is responsive to channel switching information selectively defining plural reception-waiting periods using the channels to alter a channel to be used by the communication controller. A neighboring node channel controller exchanges channel switching information with other nodes to manage the channel switching information received from the other nodes. When transmitting transmission signals, a transmission controller refers to the channel switching information of the other nodes, and controls repetitive transmission of the transmission signals on the channel thus searched for. | 03-21-2013 |
| 20130069784 | AUTOMATED TRANSACTION APPARATUS - An embodiment of the invention provides an automated transaction apparatus including: an operation unit; a peep preventing cover that is provided in the operation unit; a sensor that detects removal of the peep preventing cover; and a control unit that performs control such that a transaction of the automated transaction apparatus is paused in accordance with a detection result of the sensor. | 03-21-2013 |
| 20130068834 | AUTOMATIC TRANSACTION APPARATUS - An automatic transaction apparatus includes a card insert port into which a card medium is inserted; a paper medium discharge section that has a discharge port from which a paper medium is discharged; and a conveying path that has a lower guide surface and an upper guide surface that guide conveyance of the paper medium and discharge of the paper medium from the discharge port, a dimension of the conveying path in a thickness direction of the paper medium being smaller than a thickness of the card medium at least at one position of the conveying path along a conveying direction. | 03-21-2013 |
| 20130066628 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR SUPPRESSING NOISE FROM VOICE SIGNAL BY ADAPTIVELY UPDATING WIENER FILTER COEFFICIENT BY MEANS OF COHERENCE - A voice signal processor detects background noise sections to reflect characteristics of the background noise on the Wiener filter coefficient to be used for suppressing noise components of input voice signals. In the voice signal processor, directivity signal generators form directivity signals having a directivity pattern. The directivity signals are used by a coherence calculator to obtain coherence, which is in turn used by a targeted voice section detector to detect a targeted voice section. A background noise section detector detects background noise sections containing no voice signal. When a background noise section is detected, a WF adapter uses characteristics of background noise in the detected temporal section to calculate a new WF coefficient. | 03-14-2013 |
| 20130047869 | PAPER PROCESSING APPARATUS AND PAPER PROCESSING SYSTEM - A paper processing apparatus includes a discriminating unit. The discriminating unit can discriminate papers inserted into the papers processing apparatus. Discriminated papers are ejected to storage compartments based on discrimination results. Only papers that are discriminated as counterfeit are ejected to one of the storage compartments. | 02-28-2013 |
| 20130046407 | BANKNOTE DEPOSIT AND WITHDRAWAL DEVICE AND BANKNOTE DEPOSIT AND WITHDRAWAL CONTROL METHOD - The present invention provides a banknote deposit and withdrawal device including: a verification section that verifies banknotes inserted through a service aperture for performing a transaction of banknotes; a serial number acquisition section that acquires serial numbers of the banknotes; a control section that controls conveyance of the banknotes in the device; and a memory section that, for each of one or plural storage cassettes in which the banknotes are stored in the device, memorizes the serial numbers of banknotes stored in the storage cassette and memorizes a storage sequence of the banknotes as administration information, wherein the control section conveys a banknote to a corresponding storage cassette, on the basis of a result of verification, and records the serial number of the banknote and the storage sequence of the banknote in the storage cassette in the memory section as administration information. | 02-21-2013 |
| 20130043113 | KEY SWITCH STRUCTURE - A key switch structure can include a key top, a link structure, a back plate, a membrane sheet, an elastic member, an arm bar, and a pushing member. The link structure can guide the key top in the pushing direction while the key top is pushed. The back plate can support the link structure. The membrane sheet can include a contact portion arranged on the membrane sheet and connectable, in response to a predetermined pressure, to an electrical contact to form a closed circuit. The elastic member can push and separate the key top from the back plate, and be elastically deformable. The arm bar can movably support the key top, and the arm bar can be supported movably at the back plate. The pushing member can push the link structure while the key top is pushed. | 02-21-2013 |
| 20130043106 | PAPER SHEET CONVEYING DEVICE AND AUTOMATIC CASH TRANSACTION DEVICE - There is provided a paper sheet conveying device of the present invention has: at least three or more conveying paths that are for conveying paper sheets and at each of which at least a partial segment is formed in an arc shape; and at least one or more switching portions for switching the conveying path that conveys the paper sheets, wherein the plural conveying paths are disposed such that two connection positions of each of the arc-shaped segments are connected to the connection position of the arc-shaped segment of a respectively different one of the conveying paths such that outer sides of arcs face one another, and the switching portion switches the conveying path that conveys the paper sheets, at a place of connection of the plural conveying paths. | 02-21-2013 |
| 20130004171 | OPTICAL LINE TERMINAL FOR OPTOELECTRICALLY CONVERTING A SIGNAL AND A METHOD THEREFOR - In an optical line terminal connectable to optical network units in an optical communication network, an receiver converts an upstream optical signal, received from an optical network unit, into a corresponding upstream electric signal and then derives an upstream control signal controlling the optical line terminal from the upstream electric signal. A controller generates a power control signal switching on or off power supply to the receiver on the basis of the upstream control signal, and a power feeder switches on or off the power supply to the receiver in response to the power control signal. Thus, the optical line terminal can reduce the waste of standby electricity. | 01-03-2013 |
| 20120313493 | MEDIUM PROCESSING APPARATUS - A medium processing apparatus comprises a casing surrounded by a partitioning wall with an opening; a reel on which tape is wound; a fold-back section provided on an opposite side of the medium processing apparatus to the reel, so as to folded back the tape pulled out from the reel; a drum in the casing to be rotatable such that a rectangular shaped medium fed in the casing is wound onto the drum together with the tape that has been folded back on itself by the fold-back section; a winding guide provided further to a drum side than the tape, the winding guide closes off an internal space of the casing from the outside and presses the tape and the medium against a peripheral face of the drum; and an opening and closing section configuring a portion of the winding guide and opening or closing off the internal space. | 12-13-2012 |
| 20120300786 | MEDIA CONVERSION DEVICE FOR INTERCONNECTING COMMUNICATION TERMINAL DEVICES WITH MEDIA CONVERTED AND A METHOD THEREFOR - A gateway device includes a SIP server and a media converter. The SIP server uses media communication control data output from communication terminal devices (CTDs) to discriminate the communication media standards adopted by the CTDs, based on a call control, to call-control the CTDs. The media converter uses the communication media standards discriminated and acquired to convert media data, delivered from the CTDs, involved in communication, to a signal of a relevant communication media standard. The SIP server causes the communication media standard and information used for communication to be stored in an information memory. The media converter includes input/output interfaces, a controller, a media converter circuit and a data switcher. The interfaces verify whether or not the received data is media data, the media converter circuit converts the communication media standard of received media data received from the source CTD to a communication media standard of the destination CTD. | 11-29-2012 |
| 20120296811 | AUTOMATED TRANSACTION APPARATUS, AUTOMATED TRANSACTION METHOD, AND PROGRAM STORAGE MEDIUM - An automated transaction apparatus is disclosed, which includes an identification section that, when a plurality of types of currency having mutually different currency units have been inserted, identifies the inserted currency; and a controller that effects control of a transaction with a user based on identification results determined by the identification section. | 11-22-2012 |
| 20120292849 | BILL ACCUMULATION DEVICE - Disclosed is a compact bill accumulation device which has a bill accumulation space with decreased depth and does not cause bill accumulation errors. The bill accumulation device ( | 11-22-2012 |
| 20120285811 | KEY SWITCH STRUCTURE - There is provided a key switch structure including: a plate shaped key top; a link mechanism supporting the key top such that the key top can be depressed; a membrane sheet comprising a contact point portion; a back plate supporting the link mechanism and adhered to the membrane sheet; a plurality of holder members insert molded onto the back plate and supporting the link mechanism; and a resilient member provided between the key top and the membrane sheet, the resilient member being compressed by depressing of the key top and pressing the contact point portion to make a continuity. | 11-15-2012 |
| 20120285787 | BILL DEPOSITING AND DISPENSING DEVICE - A bill depositing-and-dispensing device has: a customer-interface unit including a customer-interface-opening for performing a transaction of a bill with a user, a conveying-path connecting the customer-interface-opening and a storage-destination of a bill, a switching mechanism switching a traveling-path of a bill in accordance with a storage-destination of a bill conveyed on the conveying-path, and a discriminating section discriminating a bill conveyed on the conveying-path; at least one storage-cassette including a storage portion storing a bill, a first conveying-path connecting to the customer-interface unit or an adjacent storage-cassette, a second conveying-path conveying a bill in both directions between the first conveying-path and the storage portion, a switching mechanism switching a traveling-path of a bill, and a thickness sensor identifying a thickness of a bill drawn-out from the storage portion; and a reject take-in unit storing a bill that is not held at the customer-interface unit and the storage-cassette. | 11-15-2012 |
| 20120257894 | DYNAMIC COMMUNICATION BANDWIDTH ALLOCATION METHOD, COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIUM STORING DYNAMIC COMMUNICATION BANDWIDTH ALLOCATION PROGRAM, SEMICONDUCTOR CHIP, AND PON SYSTEM - The present invention provides a station-side terminal device including a control signals reading/generating section that receives a requested bandwidth which the subscriber-side terminal devices require for the communication, from each of the subscriber-side terminal devices, and an uplink band allocating section including a first calculation section that allocates a usable communication bandwidth to each of the subscriber-side terminal devices based on a ratio of a service level parameter predetermined for each of the subscriber-side terminal devices, and a second calculation section that obtains an updated usable communication bandwidth updated by subtracting a sum of the allocated bandwidths from the usable communication bandwidth, and obtains an updated requested bandwidth updated by subtracting the allocated bandwidth from the requested bandwidth, to allocate the updated usable communication bandwidth to each of the subscriber-side terminal devices based on a ratio of the updated requested bandwidth. | 10-11-2012 |
| 20120255832 | AUTOMATIC TRANSACTION APPARATUS - Disclosed is an automatic transaction apparatus | 10-11-2012 |
| 20120255829 | MEDIA PROCESSING DEVICE - Disclosed is a media processing device that offers ease of use in loading and removal of cartridges and is capable of aligning paper currency delivery units upon conveyance paths and paper currency delivery units upon cartridges with a high degree of precision. A cartridge loading frame ( | 10-11-2012 |
| 20120253813 | SPEECH SEGMENT DETERMINATION DEVICE, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - A speech segment determination device includes a frame division portion, a power spectrum calculation portion, a power spectrum operation portion, a spectral entropy calculation portion and a determination portion. The frame division portion divides an input signal in units of frames. The power spectrum calculation portion calculates, using an analysis length, a power spectrum of the input signal for each of the frames that have been divided. The power spectrum operation portion adds a value of the calculated power spectrum to a value of power spectrum in each of frequency bins. The spectral entropy calculation portion calculates spectral entropy using the power spectrum whose value has been increased. The determination portion determines, based on a value of the spectral entropy, whether the input signal is a signal in a speech segment. | 10-04-2012 |
| 20120253212 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR CALCULATING MICROVIBRATION FEATURE QUANTITY - A microvibration feature quantity apparatus includes a beat signal receiver receiving a beat signal output from a Doppler sensor, which radiates a radiation wave at a predetermined frequency to a body to be observed and senses part of the radiation wave reflected by the body to output the beat signal at a frequency corresponding to a difference in frequency between the radiation wave and the reflected part of the wave, a frequency converter transforming the received beat signal into a frequency-domain signal, and a beat signal feature quantity calculator using the frequency-domain signal to derive a beat signal feature quantity exhibiting an abrupt change with respect to time of a vibration velocity of the microvibration, thereby accurately calculating a feature quantity of the microvibration raised in the body. | 10-04-2012 |
| 20120251115 | POWER SUPPLY CONTROL METHOD, AN OPTICAL NETWORK UNIT, AN OPTICAL LINE TERMINAL AND A COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - In an optical communication system that communicates between an optical line terminal (OLT) and a plurality of optical network units (ONU), an ONU can decide an operation time period of communicating with the OLT and an idle time period of reduced or suspended communication with the OLT by using a timer. The OLT can decide a software renewal time period based on the operation time period and the idle time period. Accordingly, the ONU can supply electrical power to its own communication circuit during the operation time period or the software renewal time period, or cut off or reduce the electrical power if a present time does not occur in either the operation time period or the software renewal time period. | 10-04-2012 |
| 20120251040 | OPTICAL WAVEGUIDE - An optical waveguide includes a substrate, an upper clad layer arranged on the substrate; and an optical waveguide structure that is disposed in the upper clad layer so as to be parallel to a surface of the substrate. The optical waveguide structure includes a flat optical waveguide, channel optical waveguides that are each connected with a first edge face of the flat optical waveguide and extend radially therefrom, the channel optical waveguides each respectively have lateral sides parallel to the substrate surface that have a width therebetween which increases as the distance from the first edge face increases, and an input optical waveguide connected with a second edge face that is arranged at an side of the flat optical waveguide opposite to the first edge face. | 10-04-2012 |
| 20120250671 | INFORMATION COMMUNICATION APPARATUS AND PROGRAM STORAGE MEDIUM - An information communication apparatus may include a request buffer, a request sorting device, a sending device, a frame generating device, and a frame transmitting device. A request buffer may store transmission requests corresponding to frames. A request sorting device may sort the transmission requests. A sending device may send the sorted transmission requests in accordance with a transmission timing that is determined based on destinations of the frames and in which a receiving node can receive the frames. A frame generating device may generate frames based on the received transmission requests. A frame transmitting device configured to transmit the generated frames. | 10-04-2012 |
| 20120234215 | CASING - The fusion of a side wall may be made difficult by using a fusion-resistant material having light weight. Provided is a casing including a side wall having a multi-layer structure. In the casing, the side wall includes an outer wall, a fusion-resistant material provided at an inner side of the outer wall with a predetermined gap with respect to the outer wall, and an inner wall provided at an inner side of the fusion-resistant material with a predetermined gap with respect to the fusion-resistant material. | 09-20-2012 |
| 20120228812 | COVER OPENING-AND-CLOSING SUPPORT MECHANISM EMPLOYING GAS SPRING, AND AUTOMATIC TRANSACTION APPARATUS - A cover opening-and-closing support mechanism is provided that reliably locks a gas spring, and in which a rod section of a gas spring is not damaged by a stopper portion. The cover opening-and-closing support mechanism includes: a gas spring equipped with pivot points at both end portions and including a cylinder section and a rod section; a stopper portion rotatably provided at the pivot point at a first of the end portions, the stopper portion making contact with the cylinder section when the gas spring has been extended so as to lock the gas spring; a gas spring stopper including a limiter portion that makes contact with the cylinder section before the stopper portion makes contact with the rod section; and a release handle portion for releasing the locking, provided at the gas spring stopper on substantially an opposite side to the stopper portion, such that the gas spring stopper swings towards substantially the opposite side to the stopper portion due to a weight of the release handle portion. | 09-13-2012 |
| 20120224490 | DEVICE AND METHOD FOR IDENTIFYING THE LOCATION OF ANOMALY LINK WITH LINK CANDIDATES REFINED BY MEANS OF THE NUMBER OF OVERLAPPING ABNORMAL FLOWS - In an anomaly locating device, a flow information collector collects flow information on flows between terminal devices from observation nodes arranged at observation points over a telecommunications network, and an anomaly location narrow-downer counts, based on the flow information, the number of overlapping abnormal flows passing through each link connected to the observation points to determine a link having the largest number of overlapping abnormal flows from among the links connected to the observation points. The anomaly location narrow-downer then collects link candidates reachable by routing via the link thus determined. An anomaly link identifier narrows down the collected link candidates to an abnormal link. | 09-06-2012 |
| 20120213518 | OPTICAL LINE TERMINAL, DYNAMIC BANDWIDTH ALLOCATION METHOD, AND OPTICAL COMMUNICATION NETWORK - There is provided an optical line terminal that dynamically allocates communication bandwidth to a plurality of optical network units in an optical communication network, the optical line terminal including a minimum bandwidth allocation unit calculating allocation bandwidth of the plurality of optical network units based on bandwidth request information notified by the plurality of optical network units, a comparison unit comparing an allocation cycle given as the sum total of allocation bandwidth allocated to the plurality of optical network units respectively with a predetermined threshold value, a best-effort bandwidth allocation unit calculating remaining bandwidth as best-effort bandwidth of the plurality of optical network units when the allocation cycle is less than the threshold value, and a bandwidth allocation unit allocating communication bandwidth of the plurality of optical network units based on the allocation bandwidth and the best-effort bandwidth. | 08-23-2012 |
| 20120211328 | BANKNOTE PROCESSING APPARATUS - The present invention provides a banknote processing apparatus that enables left-behind banknotes to be removed by a lower rank employee and prevents banknotes inside a safe casing from being removed by a lower rank employee, thereby achieving increased convenience of use and ensuring the security of the banknotes inside the safe casing. Namely, a banknote processing apparatus is provided in which, by providing a left-behind banknote storage section for storing and managing banknotes that have been left behind by a customer in a withdrawal transaction inside a unit disposed above a safe casing, when returning left-behind banknotes stored in the left-behind banknote storage section in response to a request from a customer, the left-behind banknotes can be removed from the left-behind banknote storage section by pulling out the unit, without opening the safe casing in which a large number of banknotes are stored and managed. | 08-23-2012 |
| 20120210916 | SHUTTER STRUCTURE AND AUTOMATIC TRANSACTION APPARATUS - The present invention prevents water or the like from collecting on a shutter face by having a sufficient water discharge capability without requiring a bulky water discharge structure, in an automatic transaction apparatus that deposits and withdraws money by opening and closing the shutter. Namely, includes a sloping profile shutter having side wall faces at side faces on two sides, a casing cover that covers the side wall faces of the shutter, and that covers a shutter bottom edge portion at a position below the shutter face when the shutter is closed, and a chute that includes a water discharge outlet and is disposed to cover the shutter bottom edge portion from below when the shutter is closed. | 08-23-2012 |
| 20120204259 | BIOMETRIC AUTHENTICATION APPARATUS - The present invention provides a biometric authentication apparatus capable of evaluating during operation with a scenario the same as during scenario evaluation. A layered structure is employed, with a BSP, a framework including an input-output section and a DB, and an application. The BSP includes a device control section that controls the device, a registration code generating section that generates a registered code from biometric data acquired by the device and stores the registered code in the DB, a matching code generating section that generates a matching code from the biometric data acquired by the device, and a one-to-one matching section that matches the matching code against a registered code read from the DB. The framework includes a registration section that performs registration processing by sending instructions to the device control section and the registration code generating section, and a matching section that performs matching processing by sending instructions to the device control section, the matching code generating section and the one-to-one matching section. | 08-09-2012 |
| 20120197633 | VOICE QUALITY MEASUREMENT DEVICE, METHOD AND COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM - A voice quality measurement device that measures voice quality of a decoded voice signal outputted from a voice decoder unit. The voice quality measurement device includes a packet buffer unit and a voice information monitoring unit. The packet buffer unit accumulates voice packets that arrive non-periodically as voice information, and outputs the voice information to the voice decoder unit periodically. The voice information monitoring unit monitors continuity of the voice information inputted to the voice decoder unit, and calculates an index of voice quality of the decoded voice signal that reflects acceptability of this continuity. | 08-02-2012 |
| 20120193190 | BILL DEPOSIT/WITHDRAWAL MACHINE - Provided is a means for stably accumulating the bills to be paid out to a customer. A bill press ( | 08-02-2012 |
| 20120191637 | CONTEXT-AWARENESS SYSTEM AND METHOD OF FORMING EVENT DATA - A context-awareness system has an event data producer for forming event data from node data including a node value and node information, a context producer, and an event data manager for storing event data formation suppression information and event data conversion rules. The context producer sends the number of entries of event data (the number of inputs) to the event data manager per unit time. The manager sends to the event data producer the event data formation suppression information and event data conversion rules corresponding to the number of inputs. The event data producer forms event data depending on the event data formation suppression information and event data conversion rules corresponding to the number of inputs. Appropriate context information is formed without increasing the amount of resources when data including values related to events are entered in large amount and frequently. | 07-26-2012 |
| 20120157081 | LEADERSHIP SUPPORT SYSTEM DETERMINING A DANGER OF ISOLATION OF A GROUP MEMBER EVEN UNDER TEMPORARILY WORSENED COMMUNICATION CONDITIONS - A leadership support system includes a leader terminal and plural member terminals. The member terminals, according to either the relay of communication information not addressed thereto or the reception of communication information addressed thereto, send back a response to the appropriate communication information. The leader terminal determines, based on the times of relaying the communication information, whether or not the member terminal that transmitted the communication information is in danger of isolation. When the leader terminal determines the member terminal in danger of isolation, it outputs a warning signal indicative of a ranger of isolation to that member terminal. | 06-21-2012 |
| 20120153094 | CABLE FIXING STRUCTURE AND AUTOMATIC TELLER MACHINE - There is provided a cable fixing structure which improves actuation reliability of a device and facilitates decision of a wiring layout. The cable fixing structure A for fixing cables including a group of signal cables and a group of power cables includes: a support member; a first cable clamp which is mounted on the support member and in which a cable insertion hole for retaining the group of signal cables inserted therethrough is formed; and a second cable clamp which is mounted on the support member, in which a cable insertion hole for retaining the group of power cables inserted therethrough is formed, and which is disposed away from the first cable clamp in a direction intersecting an axial direction of the cables. | 06-21-2012 |
| 20120134411 | APPARATUS FOR UPDATING SIDE INFORMATION ON MOTION VIDEO DATA BY DIFFERENT RULES BETWEEN DC AND AC COMPONENTS - In a data updating apparatus for updating first data having plural bits according to a predetermined data format, a detector detects a domain point at which the first data are different from second data including plural bits decoded by Slepian-Wolf decoding according to the predetermined data format. The first data is used for decoding encoded data on a non-key frame separated from a stream of frames by Slepian-Wolf decoding and transformed from a predictive frame associated with the non-key frame and generated from information on a key frame. A data updater updates a less significant bit in the first data than the domain point supplied from the detector according to a predetermined updating scheme. | 05-31-2012 |
| 20120116724 | SENSOR DATA TRANSMISSION FREQUENCY CONTROLLER USING SENSOR SITUATION INFORMATION - A transmission frequency controller includes situation information storage and a transmission frequency changing director. The storage stores respective situation information of sensors, which information clarifies the association of cooperating sensor with a subject detecting sensor. The director refers to the situation information in accordance with the subject detecting data from the subject detecting sensor to confirm the cooperating sensors cooperating with the subject detecting sensor and directs change of a data transmission frequency to the subject detecting sensor and the cooperating sensors. Thus, it is possible to acquire only the needed sensor data and decrease the traffic on the entire network. | 05-10-2012 |
| 20120108286 | Wireless Communication Apparatus, Wireless Communication System and Transmitting Power Control Method - A wireless communication apparatus having a plurality of neighboring wireless communication apparatuses may includes a wireless transmitter, an information control storage member, and a transmitting power calculator. A wireless transmitter may transmit a wireless signal with a transmitting power to a destination wireless communication apparatus. An information control storage member may maintain first information of links between the wireless communication apparatus and the plurality of neighboring wireless communication apparatuses, and second information of a communication route between the wireless communication apparatus and the destination wireless communication apparatus. A transmitting power calculator may calculate the transmitting power based on the first and second information, so as to ensure reception of the wireless signal. | 05-03-2012 |
| 20120106379 | NETWORK MONITORING APPARATUS FOR MANAGING COMMUNICATION QUALITY AND A METHOD THEREFOR - In a communication quality monitoring apparatus, a learning estimator uses collected network information and operational expressions for service quality to update the expressions based on a difference between an estimation of the quality and service quality information to learn the relationship between the loads and the quality. Based on the service quality information, a determiner determines whether or not the quality is lower than a predetermined value. When the quality is determined lower than the predetermined value, a control selector generates candidate information based on the network information and network configuration information, and determines, before control, whether or not the service quality estimation obtained from this candidate information and the operational expression exceeds the predetermined value. Apiece of candidate information determined as exceeding this value is selected. Based on control contents in the candidate information, a network controller controls the network devices. | 05-03-2012 |
| 20120097700 | MEDIUM PROCESSING APPARATUS - A bill processing apparatus is provided that can reduce the frequency of occurrences of removal of a leaf shaped medium (dispensed bill) being forgotten. Processing a medium handover port where a leaf shaped medium is handed over, and a medium handover port mechanism provided at the medium handover port and successively raising and lowering the leaf shaped medium, fed out from inside the machine (the automated teller machine), inside the medium handover port. The medium handover port mechanism notifies a user of the position of the leaf shaped medium with a visible action by successively raising and lowering the leaf shaped medium inside the medium handover port. | 04-26-2012 |
| 20120089842 | COMMUNICATION SYSTEM FOR AUTHENTICATING MESSAGES WITH UNIQUELY SPECIFIED GENUINE INFORMATION - In a sensor network system, a transmitter device uses a message authentication key generated by a message generator to transmit a message with authenticator to plural receiver devices, which in reply produce a certification by a certification generator from a message with authenticator held by a message holder to transmit the certification to the transmitter device. An information generator of the transmitter device uses an identification from a reception checker and the message authentication key thus generated to generate an authentication key notification, which will be transmitted to receiver devices having transmitted the certification. In the receiver devices, the message holder holds the authentication key notification, from which an authentication key acquirer acquires the message authentication key, which a message authenticator uses to compare the message with authenticator generated with the message with authenticator held in the message holder to confirm the received message. | 04-12-2012 |
| 20120082065 | WIRELESS NETWORK AND TERMINAL, AND NETWORK CONFIGURATION METHOD AND DEVICE - A tree topology in a multi-hop wireless network is configured by having each node other than the root node select a parent node within direct communication range, thereby becoming a child node of the selected parent node. Neighboring nodes provide selection values such as routing costs and local structural information indicating the existing topology in their vicinities, including parent-child relationships. The selection of the parent node is based on the received selection values, but the local structural information is used to bias the selection in favor of neighboring nodes with at least one other child node. This selection strategy reduces the number of parent nodes in the network and enables more nodes to operate as end nodes, which can then conserve power by carrying out sleep control. | 04-05-2012 |
| 20120057882 | CARRIER-SUPPRESSED OPTICAL PULSE TRAIN GENERATING DEVICE - The device is structured to have a first electric modulation signal generator, a second electric modulation signal generator, a two-mode beat light source and an optical intensity modulator. The first electric modulation signal generator generates and outputs a first electric modulation signal. The second electric modulation signal generator generates and outputs a second electric modulation signal of a same frequency as the first electric modulation signal and to which a phase difference of δ radians is provided (δ is a real number satisfying 0≦δ≦π). The two-mode beat light source is driven by the first electric modulation signal, and generates and outputs two-mode beat light. The two-mode beat light is inputted to the optical intensity modulator, and the optical intensity modulator generates and outputs a CS optical pulse train. Light transmittance of the optical intensity modulator is modulated by the second electric modulation signal. | 03-08-2012 |
| 20120013235 | SLIDE RAIL STRUCTURE - A slide rail structure configured to mount a unit in a chassis, includes a first side slide rail including a first chassis-engaging slide member having a first side L-shaped projection portion projecting outward of a side of the first chassis-engaging slide member, and a first unit-engaging slide member slidably coupled to the first chassis-engaging slide member and configured to hold to one side of the unit. A second side slide rail includes a second chassis-engaging slide member having a second side L-shaped projection portion projecting outward of a side of the second chassis-engaging slide member, and a second unit-engaging slide member slidably coupled to the second chassis-engaging slide member and configured to hold to another side of the unit. The chassis has a first fitting hole in one side thereof, the first fitting hole being configured to receive the first side L-shaped projection portion so as to fix the first chassis-engaging slide member to said side of the chassis, and has a second fitting hole in an opposite side of the chassis, the second fitting hole being configured to receive the second side L-shaped projection portion so as to fix the second chassis-engaging slide member to the opposite side of the chassis. | 01-19-2012 |
| 20120011381 | INFORMATION TRANSMISSION DEVICE, SYSTEM, AND METHOD - A network includes nodes that transmit information to each other. Some nodes operate intermittently; other nodes operate continuously. Information is transmitted to an intermittently operating node by a handshaking protocol in which the intermittently operating node indicates that it is ready to receive. Information is transmitted to a continuously operating node without such handshaking, thereby saving time and power. Each transmitting node has a memory storing information indicating which other nodes require handshaking. | 01-12-2012 |
| 20120002924 | STAR COUPLER AND OPTICAL MULTIPLEXER/DEMULTIPLEXER - A star coupler includes a core embedded in a clad on a major surface of a substrate. The refractive index of the core differs by at least 40% from the refractive index of the clad. The core includes a slab optical waveguide, at least one input-output optical waveguide connected to the slab optical waveguide, and an array of channel optical waveguides connected to the slab optical waveguide. The star coupler also includes a high-index layer having a refractive index intermediate between the refractive indexes of the clad and core, covering the sides of the core orthogonal to the major surface of the substrate. The high-index layer reduces light loss. | 01-05-2012 |
| 20120002922 | OPTICAL MULTIPLEXER/DEMULTIPLEXER - A polarization-independent optical multiplexer/demultiplexer with wide passbands has a core including an input optical waveguide, an input slab optical waveguide connected to the input optical waveguide, a waveguide array connected to the input slab optical waveguide, an output slab optical waveguide connected to the waveguide array, a pair of multimode couplers connected to the output slab optical waveguide, and a pair of output optical waveguides connected to the multimode couplers. The multimode couplers are dimensioned so that as both TE and TM polarized light propagates through them, the phase difference between the fundamental and second-order modes changes by an odd multiple of pi radians. | 01-05-2012 |
| 20110282913 | DIALOGUE CONTROL SYSTEM, METHOD AND COMPUTER READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM, AND MULTIDIMENSIONAL ONTOLOGY PROCESSING SYSTEM, METHOD AND COMPUTER READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM - A dialogue control system that uses an ontology that systematically expresses domain knowledge representing concepts and relationships between concepts to determine questions for a user and implements the questions, and implements a dialogue in accordance with received user answers. One or more dimension-classified ontologies and a basic ontology are stored, a concept from a user response is specified as a condition, and one or a plural number of the dimension-classified ontologies that meet the specified condition are fetched. The content of the fetched dimension-classified ontology/ies is overwritten on the basic ontology, in order according to dimension priorities from the dimension-classified ontology with the lowest dimension priority, and a multidimensional ontology is generated. The dialogue control system uses this multidimensional ontology to control the dialogue. | 11-17-2011 |
| 20110260024 | STRUCTURE FOR POSITIONING OPERATING UNIT - A positioning structure, which fixes an operating unit ( | 10-27-2011 |
| 20110258522 | Encoding apparatus, decoding apparatus, and encoding and decoding system - An encoding apparatus derives a bit order based on a puncturing table that specifies different puncturing patterns for different transmission rates. The encoding apparatus then generates an error correcting code from an input information bit string and rearranges the error correcting code in the derived bit order. The error correcting code is punctured by taking a number of consecutive bits from the rearranged error correcting code. The number of bits taken varies depending on the transmission rate. The punctured error correcting code is output to a decoding apparatus, which realigns the code bits according to the transmission rate and the puncturing table, then uses the realigned error correcting code to correct errors in erroneous data. Rearrangement of the error correcting code makes the puncturing process more efficient by avoiding the need to decide whether to take or discard each bit individually. | 10-20-2011 |
| 20110249612 | Wireless communication system preventing traffic from being relayed concentratively onto a specific node - In a wireless communication network system performing multi-hop wireless communications, a network node has a calculator for exchanging control packets with its neighboring nodes to calculate link cost values, another calculator for calculating path costs incurred on the way to a network node of interest, a manager for managing the number of downstream nodes subsidiary to each daughter node, and a downstream node adjuster for adjusting the number of the downstream nodes subsidiary to each daughter node. The adjuster produces control information, into which link cost and/or path cost information is inserted. The adjuster adjusts the contents of the link cost or path cost information, to be inserted into the produced control information, according to the numbers of the downstream nodes subsidiary to the daughter nodes. | 10-13-2011 |
| 20110243560 | Passive optical communication network system extendable with codec modules - In a passive optical communication network system, an optical signal OCDM-coded is transmitted from an OLT to a first port of a circulator, which in turn transfers the signal from its second port to one end of a first SSFBG. The first SSFBG then decodes the signal of one channel to output the decoded signal from its one end to the second port of the circulator, which in turn transmits the decoded signal from its third port to an ONU. When the ONU transmits an optical signal to the third port of the circulator, the circulator transfers the signal from its fourth port to one end of a second SSFBG, which in turn encodes the signal to output the encoded signal from its one end to the fourth port of the circulator. The circulator then transmits the encoded signal from its first port to the OLT. | 10-06-2011 |
| 20110235915 | Apparatus for sensing user condition to assist handwritten entry and a method therefor - In an entry assistance apparatus, when the user makes handwritten entry on a medium, a detector detects person condition information on a condition regarding the body of the user. The person condition information may include either or both of positional information on the position of the user and postural information on the posture of the user. Based on the person condition information, a condition estimator estimates one or more conditions of the user. Based on the condition of the user, a presentation information selector selects presentation information on one or more information contents to be presented to the user. The information content indicated by the presentation information will be presented to the user by an information presenter. | 09-29-2011 |
| 20110235504 | Wireless communication system and nodes - A wireless communication system includes a first node, multiple second nodes, and multiple third nodes that communicate with the first node through the second nodes. The second and third nodes transmit control information to their neighboring third nodes, which calculate link costs from the reception status of the control information. The control information transmitted by each node includes a path cost indicating the cost of a path between the transmitting node and the first node. From the path costs in received control information, each third node selects a second node through which to communicate with the first node, and selects a parent node as the destination of the first hop on the path through the selected second node to the first node. Routing is thereby accomplished autonomously without having the second nodes flood the system with routing requests. | 09-29-2011 |
| 20110199911 | Network fault detection system - A network fault detection system includes a parameter extractor and a fault classifier. The extractor extracts a parameter value of a parameter for use in a classification feature vector from a packet received from a network. The parameter value relates to at least one of a first value for a first parameter associated with loss of packets, a second value for a second parameter associated with jitter among packets, and a third value for a third parameter associated with a characteristic of the occurrence of the loss of packets. The classifier determines whether or not a fault has occurred in the network and classifies the fault by type, based on numerical conditions and the parameter value. | 08-18-2011 |
| 20110198192 | MEDIUM PROCESSING APPARATUS - When a bill-jam occurs in a bill dispenser, the jammed bill or the subsequent bill is easily removed. | 08-18-2011 |
| 20110189826 | Method of manufacturing field effect transistor having Ohmic electrode in a recess - The contact resistance between an Ohmic electrode and an electron transit layer is reduced compared with a case in which the Ohmic electrode is provided to a depth less than the heterointerface. As a result, for an Ohmic electrode provided in a structure comprising an electron transit layer formed of a first semiconductor layer formed on a substrate, an electron supply layer comprising a second semiconductor layer forming a heterojunction with the electron transit layer and having a smaller electron affinity than the first semiconductor layer, and a two-dimensional electron layer induced in the electron transit layer in the vicinity of the heterointerface, the end portion of the Ohmic electrode is positioned in the electron transit layer in penetration into the electron supply layer at a depth equal to or greater than the heterointerface. | 08-04-2011 |
| 20110188654 | Communication terminal using a temporary network key for assembling a secure communication frame - A communication terminal generates a temporary network key based on a managed master network key and on key identification used for security processing on a communication frame. The security processing is performed on the communication frame using the temporary network key. A secure communication frame is produced in which the identification of the key is indicated. | 08-04-2011 |
| 20110188653 | Communication system and device - A communication device receives secure communication frames on which a security transform has been performed to permit authentication. The communication device maintains an authentication history and a local time varying parameter. In multi-hop communication, the communication device provisionally verifies the freshness of a received secure communication frame by verifying that identifying information extracted from the frame is not already present in the authentication history and that a received time varying parameter extracted from the frame is not older than the local time varying parameter by more than a certain margin. If these freshness tests both pass, the frame is authenticated. If authentication succeeds, the frame is transmitted on the next hop without performance of a new security transform. | 08-04-2011 |
| 20110185052 | COMMUNICATION CONTROL APPARATUS FOR CONTROLLING QoS ACCORDING TO APPLICATIONS AND NETWORK STATE - In a communication control apparatus controlling communications between terminals and network devices, the terminal communication optimizer includes a first acquiring section for acquiring first information indicating applications running on the terminal and their destinations, and a setting section for setting QoS for each application according to second information indicating an instruction. The communication optimizer includes a second acquiring section for acquiring third information indicating the QoS requisite for each application indicated by the first information and fourth information about the state of the network, a deciding section for deciding whether or not there are network resources requisite for the applications indicated by the first information, and a communication instructing section for performing communications, when the network resources are insufficient, with higher communication priority applications communicating at a first QoS and lower communication priority applications communicating within the limit not deteriorating the first QoS. | 07-28-2011 |
| 20110182549 | SPOT-SIZE CONVERTER - A spot-size converter is equipped with a substrate, a clad that is formed on the substrate, a core that is embedded inside the clad, and an input/output end face. The core is tapered toward the input/output end face along a light propagation direction. In the clad, groove portions that expose a substrate face are formed extending as far as the input/output end face and on both sides of the core along the light propagation direction. | 07-28-2011 |
| 20110181943 | Wavelength conversion device and wavelength conversion method - A first wavelength converter of a wavelength-conversion device includes: an optical amplifier amplifying an incident light beam; a first dispersion flat fiber spreading the wavelength spectrum width of the amplified beam; and a first wavelength filter transmitting a predetermined wavelength bandwidth of the first fiber output beam. A center wavelength of the first wavelength converted beam is shifted by Δλ | 07-28-2011 |
| 20110168537 | KEY SWITCH STRUCTURE - A key switch structure capable of reducing the height of a key switch, reducing the number of components, and reducing manufacturing costs. | 07-14-2011 |
| 20110163493 | MEDIA SEPARATOR AND METHOD - To provide a media separator including a lumped-media conveyer mechanism which receives lumped media to convey the lumped media in a predetermined direction, and a picker roller which separates the lumped media conveyed by the lumped-media conveyer mechanism, the lumped-media conveyer mechanism including an auxiliary conveyer body for conveying the lumped media to the picker roller. That makes it possible to reliably separate and send out the lumped media, when having shorter media mixed, and to achieve downsizing of the media separator. | 07-07-2011 |
| 20110162948 | KEY SWITCH STRUCTURE - Provided is a key switch structure wherein a membrane sheet ( | 07-07-2011 |
