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20100164546 | CIRCUIT SYSTEM INCLUDING FIRST CIRCUIT SUB-SYSTEM, SECOND CIRCUIT SUB-SYSTEM AND BIDIRECTIONAL BUS, CIRCUIT SUB-SYSTEM AND METHOD - A circuit system has a first and a second circuit sub-system, and a bidirectional bus, the first circuit sub-system having a first control circuit that receives a control signal for controlling the direction of the bidirectional bus, and controls the first sub-system to be either of a transmitting or a receiving state based on a state of the control signal, a first sending unit that receives the control signal, and outputs as a first control signal, and a second sending unit that receives the control signal, and outputs as a second control signal, the second circuit sub-system having a first receiving unit that receives the first control signal, a second receiving unit that receives the second control signal, and a second control circuit that controls the second sub-system to assume either the transmitting or the receiving state on the basis of the first and the second control signal. | 07-01-2010 |
20100207668 | CIRCUIT DEVICE NAD METHOD OF CONTROLLING CIRCUIT DEVICE - A circuit device has a first output buffer including a first adjustment circuit for adjusting a level of the first output signal, a first input buffer connected to the first output buffer, an adjustment controller for outputting a test signal to the first output buffer, outputting a control signal to the first adjustment circuit so that the level of the first output signal is adjusted on the basis of the control signal, monitoring an output of the first input buffer, and adjusting the control signal on the basis of the monitoring the output of the first input buffer, a second output buffer connected to the adjustment controller and operable to assume either an active or a non-active state, for outputting a second output signal when controlled to assume an active state, including a second adjustment circuit, and a second input buffer. | 08-19-2010 |
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20090093130 | Silicon oxycarbide, growth method of silicon oxycarbide layer, semiconductor device and manufacture method for semiconductor device - A method of manufacturing a semiconductor device includes the steps of: preparing an underlying structure having a silicon carbide layer covering a copper wiring, and growing silicon oxycarbide on the underlying structure by vapor deposition using, as source gas, tetramethylcyclotetrasiloxane, carbon dioxide gas and oxygen gas, a flow rate of said oxygen gas being at most 3% of a flow rate of the carbon dioxide gas. The surface of the silicon carbide layer of the underlying structure may be treated with a plasma of weak oxidizing gas which contains oxygen and has a molecular weight larger than that of O | 04-09-2009 |
20120252227 | SILICON OXYCARBIDE, GROWTH METHOD OF SILICON OXYCARBIDE LAYER, SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE AND MANUFACTURE METHOD FOR SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE - A method of manufacturing a semiconductor device includes the steps of: preparing an underlying structure having a silicon carbide layer covering a copper wiring, and growing silicon oxycarbide on the underlying structure by vapor deposition using, as source gas, tetramethylcyclotetrasiloxane, carbon dioxide gas and oxygen gas, a flow rate of said oxygen gas being at most 3% of a flow rate of the carbon dioxide gas. The surface of the silicon carbide layer of the underlying structure may be treated with a plasma of weak oxidizing gas which contains oxygen and has a molecular weight larger than that of O | 10-04-2012 |
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20100246107 | INFORMATION TERMINAL DEVICE - An information terminal device includes a first case; a second case electrically connected to the first case with a cable, the second case being movable relative to the first case; and a cable-containing section that allows movement of an extra-length portion of the cable, the extra-length portion being disposed so as to have a spiral shape, the movement of the extra-length portion being caused by movement of one of the first case and the second case, wherein the cable-containing section is disposed in one of the first case and the second case. | 09-30-2010 |
20100248789 | MOBILE TERMINAL DEVICE - A mobile terminal device includes a display member that displays an image; a first printed layer that is formed on an undersurface of the display member and annularly surrounds a part of the undersurface of the display member so as to provide color to the part; a second printed layer that overlaps an outer peripheral section of the first printed layer and provides color to an outer peripheral side, relative to the first printed layer, of the display member; an adhering member adhered to a region of the undersurface of the display member, the region being inward from an inner peripheral section, which does not overlap the second printed layer, of the first printed layer; and a detecting member that is adhered to the undersurface of the display member by the adhering member and detects contact on a surface of the display member. | 09-30-2010 |
20110074731 | INPUT DEVICE, INPUT PROCESSING PROGRAM, AND INPUT CONTROL METHOD - An input device and input control method including: a capacitance measurement unit to measure capacitances of a plurality of electrodes arranged on a touch panel; a deflection determination unit to determine a presence or absence of a deflection occurring in the touch panel based on a distribution of results of the capacitances of the electrodes; and a coordinate output unit to output coordinate data of an operation input on the touch panel based on the distribution of results. | 03-31-2011 |
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20110145197 | Storage system and method for operating storage system - By considering a device life and time needed for data migration, data stored in a storage apparatus is securely preserved until a retention term of each of the data. Multiple disk devices | 06-16-2011 |
20110202549 | CONFIGURATION MANAGEMENT SYSTEM AND CONFIGURATION MANAGEMENT METHOD FOR STORAGE SYSTEM - A configuration management system for a storage system including a host computer, a storage device providing a storage area for data processed by the host computer, and a communication network connecting the host computer and the storage device communicatively is disclosed. The configuration management system comprises a system condition table storing a system condition, a storage configuration table storing storage configuration information, a performance table storing a performance condition indicating a storage performance. searching the system condition table is searched using the required system condition and the performance table is searched using the required performance condition. If the storage system satisfying the required conditions fails to be extracted, content of the required system condition is changed and searching of the system condition table and the performance table is carried out. | 08-18-2011 |
20120144147 | STORAGE APPARATUS TO WHICH THIN PROVISIONING IS APPLIED - A storage control apparatus includes a first logical volume in which data has been stored in a pool that includes at least one of one or a plurality of logical volumes based on a plurality of physical storage devices as a pool volume, and divides the first logical volume into at least two real areas. The storage control apparatus allocates the first logical volume to a second logical volume that is a virtual logical volume that has been divided into at least two virtual areas. The storage control apparatus executes a first data movement processing for moving all data of the first logical volume to at least one pool volume other than the first logical volume, and allocates a real area of a movement destination of the data to a virtual area of an allocated destination of a real area of a movement source of the data as substitute for the real area in the first data movement processing. | 06-07-2012 |
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20080296643 | SOLID STATE IMAGE SENSING DEVICE - A solid state image sensing device in which many pixels are disposed in a matrix on a two-dimensional plane comprises a plurality of light receiving devices disposed in such a way that a center interval may periodically change in a column direction and/or a row direction, and a plurality of micro-lenses, for collecting an incident light of each light receiving device, wherein a center interval periodically changes in accordance with the periodic change of the center interval of the light receiving device. | 12-04-2008 |
20090207267 | METHOD FOR CALCULATING SHIFT AMOUNT OF IMAGE PICKUP ELEMENT AND IMAGE PICKUP ELEMENT - A method for calculating a shift amount of a microlens from a position of a light receiving element arranged in a pixel of an image pickup element is provided. The microlens collects incident light from an image pickup lens. The method comprises: acquiring an incident angle characteristic value indicating a relation between an arranged position of the pixel and an incident angle of the incident light to the pixel; calculating a sampled shift amount of the microlens from the position of the light receiving element corresponding the incident angle characteristic value based on light collection efficiency of the incident light; approximating the sampled shift amount by a second or higher order function to calculate a shift amount characteristic function indicating a relation between the arranged position and the shift amount; and calculating the shift amount of the pixel using the shift amount characteristic function. | 08-20-2009 |
20090304397 | LIGHT RECEIVING DEVICE AND LIGHT RECEIVING METHOD - The light receiving device includes a pixel array, such as a two-dimensional pixel array, of pixels each having a light-receiving element for receiving input signal light, an output selecting unit for selecting the outputs of pixels within the pixel array, a selected output adding unit for adding and outputting the selected outputs of the pixels, and an amplifying unit for amplifying the output of the selected output adding unit. | 12-10-2009 |
20100283879 | Solid-State Image Pickup Apparatus Including A Global Shutter Function and Control Method Therefor - A solid-state image pickup apparatus includes a pixel unit consisting of a plurality of pixels; a pixel control unit for controlling the plurality of pixels; a readout unit for reading a signal of each pixel output from the pixel unit; a shutter unit for establishing a state of a light incident to the pixel unit and that of shielding the pixel unit from the light; and a control unit. The control unit includes an exposure mode changeover unit for changing over an exposure mode to either a first exposure mode performing a simultaneous exposure for all pixels or a second exposure mode performing an exposure for each of a predetermined unit of pixels. The control unit controls the pixel control unit, readout unit and shutter unit according to an exposure mode changed over by the exposure mode changeover unit. | 11-11-2010 |
20110210383 | IMAGING DEVICE - First diffusion region constituting a photodiode in each pixel stores carriers generated according to incident light. Second diffusion region is formed at a surface of the first diffusion region to cover a peripheral part of the first diffusion region. In the peripheral part of the first diffusion region, crystal defects tend to occur by a process of forming an isolation region and a gate electrode, so that dark current noise tends to occur. The second diffusion region functioning as a protection layer prevents crystal defects in a manufacturing process. The second diffusion region isn't formed on a center of the surface of the first diffusion region where crystal defects don't tend to occur. In the first diffusion region where the second diffusion region isn't formed, the thickness of a depletion layer increases, which improves light detection sensitivity. This improves detection sensitivity of the photodiode without increasing the dark current noise. | 09-01-2011 |
20120262611 | METHOD FOR CALCULATING SHIFT AMOUNT OF IMAGE PICKUP ELEMENT AND IMAGE PICKUP ELEMENT - A method for calculating a shift amount of a microlens from a position of a light receiving element arranged in a pixel of an image pickup element is provided. The microlens collects incident light from an image pickup lens. The method comprises: acquiring an incident angle characteristic value indicating a relation between an arranged position of the pixel and an incident angle of the incident light to the pixel; calculating a sampled shift amount of the microlens from the position of the light receiving element corresponding the incident angle characteristic value based on light collection efficiency of the incident light; approximating the sampled shift amount by a second or higher order function to calculate a shift amount characteristic function indicating a relation between the arranged position and the shift amount; and calculating the shift amount of the pixel using the shift amount characteristic function. | 10-18-2012 |
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20110296147 | METHOD OF TESTING COMPUTER, COMPUTER TEST APPARATUS AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIUM - A method of testing a computer, the method has designating a register as an input-only register having a setting of a value which does not cause an exception interruption with an execution of a specific type of instruction, generating a test instruction array having a plurality of instructions for a test, by assigning a register excluding the input-only register as an output destination of an execution result of each of the plurality of instructions, executing the plurality of instructions included in the generated test instruction array, and evaluating the execution results by the computer. | 12-01-2011 |
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20150046688 | METHOD OF GENERATING PROCESSOR TEST INSTRUCTION SEQUENCE AND GENERATING APPARATUS - A test instruction sequence generating method for a processor includes classifying registers used for executing test instructions into two register groups, generating a test instruction executed by the processor, amending a register specified in a result value register field of the test instruction to a register of a first register group when a first instruction is specified in an arithmetic type field of the test instruction and a register of a second register group is specified in the result value register field of the test instruction, and further amending a register specified in a input value register field of the test instruction to a register of the second register group when a second instruction is specified in the arithmetic type field of the test instruction and a register of the first register group is specified in the input value register field of the test instruction. | 02-12-2015 |
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20100274907 | COMMUNICATION APPARATUS FOR TRANSMITTING DATA THROUGH A PLURALITY OF DATA-PATHS - A communication apparatus is configured to include first and second cards, and a card-to-card link connecting the cards. Each card is communicably connected to another communication apparatus through a route connected to the card. One of the cards is determined to be a primary card that controls data transmission between the communication apparatus and another communication apparatus, and the other card is determined to be a secondary card controlled by the primary card. The primary card establishes a primary data-path for transmitting primary data, using one of the first and second routes connected to the primary card. The primary card further establishes a secondary data-path for transmitting secondary data, using the card-to-card link, the secondary card, and the other one of the first and second routes connected to the secondary card. | 10-28-2010 |
20100296395 | PACKET TRANSMISSION SYSTEM, PACKET TRANSMISSION APPARATUS, AND PACKET TRANSMISSION METHOD - A first apparatus includes a sending unit which attaches a sequence number which is numbered for each priority of QoS set in a first packet, the sequence number is numbered for each priority of QoS set in the first packet, and sends the first packet with the sequence number. A second apparatus includes a storage unit which stores, for each priority, a history of sequence numbers attached to packets received, a determining unit which receives the first packet from the first apparatus, identifies the sequence number of the first packet, and determines whether the first packet has been previously received by comparing the identified sequence number with the history of sequence numbers according to the priority of QoS set in the first packet stored in the storage unit, and a unit which discards, when the determining unit determines the first packet has been previously received, the first packet. | 11-25-2010 |
20100303233 | PACKET TRANSMITTING AND RECEIVING APPARATUS AND PACKET TRANSMITTING AND RECEIVING METHOD - When being triggered by a call setting request that has been made, dummy information that is different from information to be transmitted and is information used for creating a path on which encrypted communication is to be performed is generated. The path on which the encrypted communication is to be performed is established by using the generated dummy information. A responding process of responding to the call setting request is performed after the path on which the encrypted communication is to be performed has been established. Thus, in the case where information that is obtained after the responding process of responding to the call setting request is encrypted and transmitted, it is possible to transmit the information while maintaining the real-time characteristics of the information to be transmitted. | 12-02-2010 |
20110299386 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR SWITCHING BETWEEN REDUNDANT COMMUNICATION DEVICES - A packet is transmitted from a transmitting device to an active communication device which transmits a reception history identifying the received packets to the transmitting device. The transmitting device transmits an active-mode request message to a standby communication device when having failed to receive the reception history from the active communication device within a predetermined time period. Then, the standby communication device becomes a new active communication device, and the active communication device becomes an old active communication device. The new active communication device transmits to the transmitting device a switching request message for switching a destination of the packet from the old active communication device to the new active communication device. The transmitting device retransmits packets that have been transmitted from the transmitting device to the old active communication device and have failed to be received by the old active communication device, to the new active communication device. | 12-08-2011 |