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20120294300 | FREQUENCY BAND ADJUSTING METHOD, COMMUNICATION APPARATUS AND FREQUENCY BAND ADJUSTING APPARATUS - A frequency band adjusting method, in a first communication system and a second communication system sharing usable frequency band with each other, for adjusting the frequency band used by a first communication apparatus in the first communication system, comprising: determining whether or not increase in the frequency band used by the first communication apparatus is necessary based on the frequency band used by the first communication apparatus and the number of access to the first communication apparatus; determining whether or not increase in the frequency band used by the first communication apparatus is to be approved, according as there is or there is not unused frequency band not used by a second communication apparatus in the second communication system having coverage overlapping with the first communication apparatus; and, if increase is approved, increasing the frequency band used by the first communication apparatus. | 11-22-2012 |
20130012257 | METHOD OF CONTROLLING BASE STATION APPARATUS AND BASE STATION APPARATUS CONTROLLED BY SAME - A control method for controlling base station apparatuses used in a communication system comprising a first base station apparatus, a second base station apparatus, and one or more mobile station apparatuses, including determining whether or not a first condition relating to the number of the mobile station apparatuses positioned in the overlapping area of the cover area of the first base station apparatus and the cover area of the second base station apparatus and to respective output power of the mobile station is satisfied, and outputting a radio signal from the second base station apparatus if the first condition is satisfied. | 01-10-2013 |
20130022025 | BASE STATION, COMMUNICATION METHOD AND WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A base station, to which a cell belongs and which communicates with a relay node to which a relay node cell belongs, including a control unit configured, at a time of handing over the relay node from another cell belonging to a first base station to the cell belonging to the base station, to request the relay node to measure wireless quality of neighbour cells of the cell belonging to the base station and report a measurement result of the wireless quality, and to update by adding or deleting, if the measurement result of the wireless quality of a first neighbour cell among the neighbour cells is higher or lower than a predetermined threshold for the cell existing at the handover destination of the relay node, the relay node cell to or from a first neighbour cell list of the first neighbour cell, respectively. | 01-24-2013 |
20130023272 | BASE STATION, COMMUNICATION METHOD AND WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A base station, to which a cell belongs and which communicates with a relay node to which a relay node cell belongs, includes a control unit configured, at a time of handing over the relay node from the cell of the base station to a first cell belonging to a first base station, to extract information indicative of a non-overlapping cell between a first handover destination neighbour cell list containing neighbour cell information of a first neighbour cell adjacent to the first cell at a handover destination and a first handover source neighbour cell list containing neighbour cell information of a neighbour cell adjacent to the cell at a handover source, and to update a neighbour cell list corresponding to the non-overlapping cell by deleting the relay node cell belonging to the relay node from the neighbour cell list based on the information indicative of the non-overlapping cell. | 01-24-2013 |
20130258945 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR MANAGING A SESSION ESTABLISHED USING A WIRELESS CHANNEL BETWEEN A BASE STATION AND A MOBILE DEVICE - A first maintenance signal is exchanged between a server coupled to a base station and a processing unit inside a mobile device, via a wireless channel between the base station and the mobile device, to confirm establishment of a session between the server and the processing unit. The base station sends, to the server, one of control signals according to a connection state of the wireless channel, without sending the received first maintenance signal to the mobile device via the wireless channel, where the control signals includes a second maintenance signal, a session disconnected signal, and a session established signal. The mobile device sends, to the processing unit, one of the control signals according to a connection state of the wireless channel, without sending the received first maintenance signal to the server via the wireless channel. | 10-03-2013 |
20130260762 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING SELECTION OF A HANDOVER DESTINATION - An apparatus acquires a parameter set including first and second parameter subsets. The first parameter subset stores first throughput and first power consumption that are measured, before a handover of a mobile station, by each base-station belonging to a measurement target group including a plurality of handover-candidate base-stations and a handover-source base-station. The second parameter subset stores second throughput and second power consumption that are estimated by each base-station belonging to the measurement target group, on the assumption that the mobile station is handed over to the each base-station. The apparatus calculates, before and after the handover, for each of the plurality of handover-candidate base-stations, a total energy efficiency of a pair of the handover-source base-station and the each of the plurality of handover-candidate base-stations, based on the parameter set, and selects, from among the plurality of handover-candidate base-stations, the handover-destination base-station based on the calculated total energy efficiencies. | 10-03-2013 |
20140051450 | WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A wireless communication system includes a first relay station that includes a first storage and performs wireless communication with a first base station coupled to an exchange by a wire, and a mobile device that performs wireless communication with the first relay station. The first relay station receives first data with a first sequence number from the first base station, and stores the first data with a second sequence number into the first storage, the first relay station selects a first node as a handover destination, and when the first node is a second base station coupled to the exchange by a wire, the first relay station receives second data with a third sequence number from the first base station, and transmits the first data with the second sequence number and the second data with a fourth sequence number continuous to the second sequence number to the second base station. | 02-20-2014 |
20150341928 | COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, TERMINAL, AND BASE STATION - A communication system including: a base station; and a terminal configured to: select a known signal from at least one first known signal included in a plurality of known signals that is divided into the at least one first known signal and at least one second known signal, each of the at least one first known signal indicating that the terminal transmits a following uplink signal including a specific data, each of the at least one second known signal indicating that the terminal transmits the following uplink signal not including the specific data, the following uplink signal being transmitted from the terminal to the base station in association with the selected known signal, and transmit the selected known signal to the base station. | 11-26-2015 |
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20130094560 | COMMUNICATION APPARATUS AND COMMUNICATION METHOD - A communication apparatus including: a receiver to receive signals including reference signals at each of a plurality of different reception intervals; and a processor to estimate phase differences between the signals based on the reference signals, to determine a plurality of phase difference candidates for each of the reception intervals based on the phase differences, to select, from among a plurality of combinations of the phase difference candidates for the reception intervals, a combination of the phase difference candidates between the signals, and to estimate a frequency deviation of the signals based on the phase difference candidates included in the combination. | 04-18-2013 |
20130188609 | COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, COMMUNICATION METHOD, AND CONTROL DEVICE - A communication system includes: a plurality of mobile stations each of which performs wireless communication with a base station; a plurality of base stations each of which selects, for each transmission timing, a mobile station which performs wireless communication for transmission of a radio signal with the base station, from mobile stations that are coupled to the base station among the plurality of mobile stations; and a control device that calculates, for each transmission timing, a parameter for each of a communication source in the transmission of the radio signal, the parameter being calculated so that a communication quality of each of the mobile stations selected for the transmission timing by each of the plurality of base stations satisfies a certain condition; wherein the each of the communication source transmits the radio signal at each transmission timing, using a parameter for the communication source calculated by the control device. | 07-25-2013 |
20130190034 | BASE STATION, COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, AND COMMUNICATION METHOD - A base station including: a transmitter configured to transmit a first radio signal to a first mobile station, a receiver configured to receive a second radio signal, a processor configured to detect a second mobile station communicates with a communication device differing from the base station, based on a third radio signal from the second mobile station which is contained in the second radio signal, the first radio signal interfering with a radio communication between the second mobile station and the communication device, and to decrease transmission power of the first radio signal, on detecting the second mobile station or failing to detect the second mobile station over a first given period or longer. | 07-25-2013 |
20130230001 | BASE STATION APPARATUS, COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, AND COMMUNICATION METHOD - A first base station apparatus that forms a first cell, the first base station apparatus includes an assigning unit that assigns a radio resource for a control channel between a mobile station apparatus and the first base station apparatus, and a first transmitting unit that transmits radio resource information indicating the radio resource assigned for the control channel to the second base station apparatus forming a second cell that is different from the first cell. | 09-05-2013 |
20140004888 | COMMUNICATION CONTROL APPARATUS, COMMUNICATION CONTROL SYSTEM AND COMMUNICATION CONTROL METHOD | 01-02-2014 |
20140057641 | COMMUNICATION CONTROL APPARATUS, COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, AND COMMUNICATION METHOD - A communication control apparatus including: a processor configured to set each of starting time candidates for each of data communications performed by each of wireless communication apparatuses respectively, to estimate each of finishing time candidates for each of the data communications which corresponds to each of the starting time candidates, and to set each of starting times when each of wireless communication apparatuses is to start each of the data communications to each of the starting time candidates, by performing an optimization of a final finishing time candidate which is the final one of the finishing time candidates. | 02-27-2014 |
20140120933 | WIRELESS COMMUNICATION APPARATUS, WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, AND WIRELESS COMMUNICATION METHOD - A wireless communication apparatus, includes: a processor configured to: perform a first detection to detect another wireless communication apparatus that shares given frequency bands with the wireless communication apparatus and that causes interference with the wireless communication apparatus, perform a second detection to detect a second wireless terminal that has communication quality lower than or equal to a given value from a first wireless terminal that communicates with the wireless communication apparatus, and select a frequency band from the given frequency bands for communication with the first wireless terminal based on a combination of detection result of the first detection and the second detection; and a transmitter coupled to the processor and configured to transmit a signal to the first wireless terminal using the selected frequency band. | 05-01-2014 |
20140287678 | TRANSMISSION POWER MANAGEMENT DEVICE AND TRANSMISSION POWER MANAGEMENT METHOD - A transmission power management device including: a memory, and a processor coupled to the memory and configured to: acquire a first path loss between a first relay station and a second relay station, the first relay station relaying a first signal, the second relay station relaying a second signal, and adjust a first transmission power of the first signal by the first relay station based on the first path loss. | 09-25-2014 |
20140364125 | BASE STATION AND HANDOVER CONTROL METHOD - A base station serving terminals, the base station including: a memory, and a processor coupled to the memory and configured to: select a terminal among the served terminals based on reception powers or reception qualities at the served terminals, when a number of the served terminals exceeds a threshold, determine an amount of change in transmission parameter so that a reception quality at the selected terminal from another base station satisfies a certain condition in case where a handover of the selected terminal to the other base station is performed, the other base station being selected based on the reception powers or the reception qualities, perform the handover of the selected terminal to the other base station, and change the transmission parameter by the determined amount of change. | 12-11-2014 |
20150030006 | RADIO BASE STATION AND CHANNEL ESTIMATION METHOD - A radio base station including: a processor configured to precode a first reference signal based on a first precoding matrix and a second reference signal based on a second precoding matrix, transmit the precoded first reference signal using a first radio resource and the precoded second reference signal using a second radio resource, to a radio terminal, receive first channel state information and second channel state information from the radio terminal, the first channel state information indicating a first channel estimated at the radio terminal based on the precoded first reference signal, the second channel state information indicating a second channel estimated at the radio terminal based on the precoded second reference signal, and estimate a downlink channel between the radio base station and the radio terminal based on the first channel state information, the second channel state information, the first precoding matrix, and the second precoding matrix. | 01-29-2015 |
20150131594 | BASE STATION APPARATUS, COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, COMMUNICATION METHOD - A base station apparatus is disclosed. The base station apparatus includes a classification unit configured to classify mobile station apparatuses connected to a first cell into a CoMP target mobile station apparatus and a CoMP non-target mobile station apparatus, a first allocation unit configured to allocate a wireless resource to the CoMP target mobile station apparatus connected to the first cell, and a second allocation unit configured to determine the wireless resource to be allocated to the CoMP non-target mobile station apparatus connected to the first cell so as to reduce interference with a wireless resource allocated to a CoMP target mobile station apparatus connected to a second cell different from the first cell. | 05-14-2015 |
20150140926 | CONTROL APPARATUS, CONTROL METHOD, AND WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A control apparatus in a wireless communication system including a base station, a plurality of relay stations, and a plurality of terminals, each of the plurality of relay stations being configured to relay wireless signals between the base station and the plurality of terminals, the control apparatus including: a memory, and a processor coupled to the memory and configured to determine relay schedules based on first information associated with first path losses between any pair of the plurality of relay stations, each of the relay schedules defining each of relay periods for each of the plurality of relay stations relaying the wireless signals, and transmit each of the relay schedules to each of the plurality of relay stations respectively. | 05-21-2015 |
20150146664 | WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, COMMUNICATION CONTROL METHOD, CONTROL DEVICE, CONTROL METHOD, CONTROL PROGRAM, AND WIRELESS TERMINAL - Connection destinations of a plurality of wireless terminals are selected from a plurality of connection destination candidates to maximize an evaluation value based on each of data rates in cases where each of the wireless terminals is connected to each of the connection destination candidates and each of resource allocation rates for each of the wireless terminals at each of the connection destination candidates. | 05-28-2015 |
20150181538 | WIRELESS BASE STATION APPARATUS AND COMMUNICATION METHOD - A wireless base station apparatus to establish a wireless connection with a terminal equipment detects an intensity of a signal transmitted from another terminal equipment; calculates, as transmission power for the terminal equipment, a sum of a first parameter adjusted at an interval of predetermined time and a second parameter taking a value between a predetermined first minimum value and a predetermined first maximum value; sets, as the second parameter, the larger value of a difference between first target power and the first parameter and the first minimum value when detecting that reception power of the signal transmitted from another terminal equipment is equal to or larger than a predetermined value, and further sets a difference between the first target power and the first minimum value as the first parameter and the first minimum value as the second parameter when the first parameter is adjusted. | 06-25-2015 |
20150201386 | RADIO BASE STATION AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING TRANSMISSION POWER IN RADIO BASE STATION - A radio base station measures a reception power of a downlink radio signal transmitted for a first radio area and controls a transmission power of a downlink radio signal to be transmitted for a second radio area according to the measured reception power. | 07-16-2015 |
20150244506 | WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, WIRELESS COMMUNICATION CONTROL METHOD AND ACCESS POINT - A wireless communication system includes a first access point that forms a first wireless area and a second access point that forms a second wireless area. The first access point controls the scheduling of a terminal located in the first wireless area based on the state of a communication channel between a terminal which is a candidate for scheduling by the second access point and the first access point. | 08-27-2015 |
20150282194 | COMMUNICATION CONTROL APPARATUS, BASE STATION APPARATUS, AND COMMUNICATION CONTROL METHOD - A communication control apparatus including a processor is provided. The processor is configured to calculate a first predicted communication quality of a mobile station apparatus in a state not including an interference signal from one or more cells among surrounding cells in accordance with measurement results of a quality of reception of a signal from a serving cell and strength of interference signals from the surrounding cells as measured by the mobile station apparatus, and judge permission for transmission of signals by the one or more cells in a radio resource of communication of the mobile station apparatus based on the first predicted communication quality. | 10-01-2015 |
20150319708 | BASE STATION APPARATUS, COMMUNICATIONS METHOD, AND TERMINAL DEVICE - A base station apparatus capable of simultaneously transmitting plural control channels by frequency division multiplexing includes a processor; a baseband processing unit configured to obtain under control of the processor, distance information indicating a distance between the base station apparatus and another base station apparatus, and to configure under the control of the processor and based on the distance indicated by the obtained distance information, an upper limit count for the control channels to be transmitted simultaneously to a terminal device connected to the base station apparatus; and a radio frequency unit configured to transmit under the control of the processor and based on the configured upper limit count, the control channels to the terminal device. | 11-05-2015 |
20150365958 | BASE STATION DEVICE AND BAND CONTROL METHOD - A HeNB includes a CQI acquiring unit and an SIR acquiring unit that measure communication qualities of transmission bands on an uplink side and a downlink side. The HeNB, upon detecting an interference difference between bands in a transmission band on each of the uplink side and the downlink side on the basis of a result of measurement of the communication qualities, sets allocation of a band in which the communication quality satisfies a predetermined condition in the transmission band in which the interference difference is detected. The HeNB includes a control unit that, upon detecting signal interference on the downlink side on the basis of the result of the measurement of the communication qualities, controls a band on the downlink side, and controls a band on the uplink side in the transmission band in cooperation with the control on the band on the downlink side. | 12-17-2015 |
20150372797 | BASE STATION AND TERMINAL - A base station including: a memory, and a processor coupled to the memory and configured to: transmit a radio signal using a plurality of antennas in a first period for transmission of the base station in a time division duplex (TDD) mode, at least a part of the first period overlapping with at least a part of a second period for reception of another base station in the TDD mode, receive a specific information from the another base station, the first information indicating a channel characteristic from the base station to the another base station, the channel characteristic being estimated in accordance with the transmitted radio signal, and determine at least one correction coefficient to compensate for a difference of specific characteristics among the plurality of antennas based on the received specific information. | 12-24-2015 |
20160072570 | WIRELESS COMMUNICATION DEVICE AND WIRELESS COMMUNICATION METHOD - A wireless communication device including: a plurality of phase shifters, each of the plurality of phase shifters adjusting each amplitude and each phase of each analog signal by each element of a transmission weight vector, each analog signal being generated by multiplexing a plurality of signals that are addressed to a plurality of terminals respectively, a plurality of antennas, each of the plurality of antennas transmitting each analog signal whose phase has been shifted by each of the plurality of phase shifter, and a processor configured to: obtain a plurality of steering vectors that correspond to the plurality of terminals respectively, and generate the transmission weight vector by combining the plurality of steering vectors. | 03-10-2016 |
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20150069010 | PATTERN FORMING METHOD, METHOD OF MANUFACTURING MAGNETIC RECORDING MEDIUM AND MAGNETIC RECORDING MEDIUM - A patterning method includes steps of forming a first copolymer layer comprising a first diblock copolymer which has portions which are phase incompatible. The first copolymer layer is annealed to form a first phase pattern including a first phase dispersed in a second surrounding phase. The first copolymer is then etched forming a first topographic pattern that corresponds to the first phase pattern. A second copolymer layer of a second diblock copolymer is then formed over the first topographic pattern, and then annealed to generate a second phase pattern offset from the first topographic pattern. Etching is used to form a second topographic pattern corresponding to the second phase pattern. The first and second topographic patterns are then transferred to the substrate. The patterning method can be used, for example, to form patterned recording layers for magnetic storage devices. | 03-12-2015 |
20150083211 | Photoelectric Conversion Layer and Applications Thereof to Solar Cell, Photodiode and Image Sensor - The present disclosure provides a photoelectric conversion layer containing a semiconductor and plural metal-containing minute structures dispersed therein. The minute structures are minute structures (A) comprising metal material (α) or otherwise minute structures (B) comprising metal material (α) and material (β) selected from the group consisting of oxide, nitride and oxynitride of substances and the semiconductor. In the minute structures (B), the material (β) is on the surface of the metal material (α). Each of the minute structures has an equivalent circle diameter of 1 nm to 10 nm inclusive on the basis of the projected area when observed from a particular direction. The closest distance between adjacent two of the minute structures is 3 nm to 50 nm inclusive. The present disclosure also provides applications of the photoelectric conversion layer to a solar cell, a photodiode and an image sensor. | 03-26-2015 |
20150162042 | PERPENDICULAR MAGNETIC RECORDING MEDIUM AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING THE SAME - According to one embodiment, a perpendicular magnetic recording medium includes a substrate, an underlayer formed on the substrate and a magnetic recording layer formed on the underlayer and having an easy axis in a direction perpendicular to a film surface. The underlayer includes a plurality of projecting portions arranged at a distance of 1 nm to 20 nm from one another. The magnetic recording layer is an amorphous magnetic recording layer including a plurality of magnetic grains each formed to expand towards a top end thereof from a surface of a respective projecting portion of the underlayer, at least those of the magnetic grains located on a respective projecting portion side being separated from each other. | 06-11-2015 |
20150310885 | PATTERN FORMING METHOD AND MANUFACTURING METHOD OF MAGNETIC RECORDING MEDIUM - According to one embodiment, disclosed is a pattern forming method including preparing a second dispersion by adding a second protective group and second solvent to fine particles including a first protective group whose surface polarity is close to that of the substrate, the fine particles containing, at least on the surface thereof, a material selected from Al, Ti, V, Cr, Mn, Fe, Co, Ni, Zn, Y, Zr, Sn, Mo, Ta, W, Au, Ag, Pd, Cu, Pt, and an oxide thereof, modifying the fine particles including the first protective group with the second protective group, adding a viscosity adjustment agent to the dispersion containing the fine particles to prepare a coating solution, and applying the coating solution on the substrate to form a fine particle layer thereon. | 10-29-2015 |
20160027462 | MAGNETIC RECORDING MEDIUM MANUFACTURING METHOD - According to one embodiment, there is provided a magnetic recording medium manufacturing method including forming a bonding layer on a substrate, forming a holding layer containing silicon on the bonding layer, forming a single-particle layer on the holding layer using particles containing metal fusible on the bonding layer, etching SiO | 01-28-2016 |
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20090002550 | IMAGE DISPLAY APPARATUS - An image display apparatus, which converts a video signal in a first video signal format into a video signal in a second video signal format causing an increase in dynamic range, and displays the video signal in the second video format, includes a video signal conversion circuit configured to receive the video signal in the first video signal format and to produce the video signal in the second video signal format, a drive circuit configured to drive an image display panel according to the video signal in the second video signal format, and a signal processing module including signal processing circuits configured to perform signal processing necessary to drive the drive circuit, wherein the video signal conversion circuit is situated inside the signal processing module. | 01-01-2009 |
20090148135 | Television Apparatus - The present invention provides a television apparatus that can reproduce and show a program when the program is stopped without a user performing troublesome operations even when the user is occupied with a sudden phone call or an unexpected visitor while he/she is watching television. A volume comparator starts recording of the program, which is currently being watched, by using a recording apparatus when a set volume value is lower than a threshold value or is set to a sound cancelling mode. Also, when a newly set volume value is higher than the threshold value or the sound cancelling is released, the volume comparator stops the display of the program that is currently being watched and starts reproducing display of the recorded program by returning to the recording start time point. | 06-11-2009 |
20090153442 | Plasma Display Apparatus - According to the invention, by forming at least every two frames having video contents corresponding to each frame of a video signal, for example, a frame rate of movie contents whose frame rate is equal to 24 Hz is converted into 48 Hz. A plurality of subfields (SFs) corresponding to each frame of the conversion signal are divided into first and second division SF groups. Each division SF group is further classified into an upper SF group on the large weight side and a lower SF group on the small weight side. The weights of the upper SF groups are made symmetrical between the first and second division SF groups. The weight of each SF belonging to the lower SF group in the first division SF is set to be larger than that in the second division SF. | 06-18-2009 |
20090244107 | VIDEO DISPLAY DEVICE AND COLOR TEMPERATURE CORRECTION METHOD FOR THE SAME - A video display device that allows the color temperature of the signals in white color attributes having high luminance and low chroma saturation to be corrected with high precision is provided with a color temperature correction method so as to visually obtain a desirable white color on display. In some embodiments, the signal processing circuit can include an A/D converter to convert video signals into digitalized signals, a matrix circuit to convert the digitalized signals into luminance signals and at least two color difference signals, a hue conversion circuit to obtain hue signals from the color difference signals, a hue correction circuit to correct hue signals, a chroma saturation conversion circuit to obtain chroma saturation signals from color difference signals, a chroma saturation correction circuit to correct chroma saturation signals and a color temperature correction circuit to perform the color temperature correction on the respective hue and chroma saturation signals. | 10-01-2009 |
20100060801 | Television Receiver - A TV receiver transmits video data from its tuner unit to its monitor unit via wireless transmission by using a channel shared with radar. When the tuner unit receives a program to be viewed, a recorder/player starts recording of the received program. When wireless transmission of the received program cannot be started on time at the program start time because of detecting an unused channel for wireless transmission, or when a radar wave in the shared channel is detected after starting wireless transmission and then wireless data transmission is interrupted, the recorder/player plays back on a time-shift basis the program recorded on the recording medium, and the program data played back is transmitted to the monitor unit. The TV receiver is capable of preventing the user from missing a program that he wants to view even when wireless data transmission is interrupted. | 03-11-2010 |
20100231807 | BROADCAST RECEIVING APPARATUS AND STARTING METHOD THEREOF - A display apparatus, including: a display portion to display an image based upon a digital broadcasting signal received by a receiving portion; a main control portion to control each portion within the display apparatus; and a sub-control portion to control a supply of electronic power within the display apparatus, responsive to a signal wherein a waiting condition of the display apparatus in which an image is not displayed after stopping a supply of the electronic power to the display portion, is controlled by the sub-control portion, to be placeable into either of a first or second waiting condition, the first waiting condition is smaller in consumption of electronic power and the sub-control portion and the main control portion are controlled not to be set in operation, under the first waiting condition, while both are controlled to be set in operation, under the second waiting condition. | 09-16-2010 |
20110255010 | BROADCAST RECEIVING APPARATUS AND STARTING METHOD THEREOF - Display embodiments including arrangements wherein a waiting condition of a display apparatus includes a first waiting condition, and a second waiting condition being shorter in a starting time, from time when the operation is made for turning a power source ON until time when the image is displayed on a display portion, and smaller in a power consumption, comparing to those of the first waiting condition. A controller portion changes the waiting condition of the display apparatus into the second waiting condition, when a sensor detects the presence of a human being while under the first waiting condition, and changes the waiting condition of the display apparatus into the first waiting condition, when no operation is made for turning a power source ON, for a predetermined time period, after changing the waiting condition into the second waiting condition. | 10-20-2011 |
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20090141254 | Projection Type Image Display Apparatus - A projection type image display apparatus comprising a light source, an optical integrator, by which light outgoing from the light source is changed in distribution of illumination, a color separation optical system, by which light outgoing from the optical integrator is separated into a plurality of light beams, and a relay optical system including a plurality of relay lenses, by which light beams separated by the color separation optical system are relayed, and a reflection mirror. The relay optical system includes a device that adjusts angles of inclination of at least one of the relay lenses with respect to an optical axis of illumination of light outgoing from the light source. | 06-04-2009 |
20090323034 | Optical Unit and Projection Type Display Apparatus for Displaying an Image - To suppress the reduction of contrast caused by reduction of contrast in the case where a projection type display apparatus for displaying an image is used in a dark place. In a projection type display apparatus for displaying an image which includes a liquid crystal display element unit that modulates and emits incident light, an illumination optical system that allows emission light emitting from a light source to enter the liquid crystal display element unit, and a projection optical system that projects the emission light emitting from the liquid crystal display element unit to a screen, an optical unit includes an iris unit in which light shielding plates shut the amount of light entering the liquid crystal display element unit to be narrowed down as the brightness level of image light projected from the projection optical system is lower, and an open/close angle of each light shielding plate is set at smaller than 90 degrees. | 12-31-2009 |
20100073640 | PROJECTION TYPE DISPLAY APPARATUS FOR DISPLAYING AN IMAGE - The present invention provides a projection type display apparatus for displaying an image by which reduction of contrast is suppressed, including: a light source; a first lens array and a second lens array having a plurality of lens cell areas; a collecting lens; a display element; a projection lens; and a light shielding unit which light-shields the light fluxes from the first lens array to the second lens array, wherein the light shielding unit light-shields at least parts of all the lens cell areas except for the lens cell area in contact with an optical axis among a plurality of rectangular lens cell areas of the second lens array, and a light shielding area in the lens cell area in contact with the optical axis is smaller than that in any of the lens cell areas except for the lens cell area in contact with the optical axis. | 03-25-2010 |
20100097583 | Light Source Unit and Projection Type Image Display Apparatus Having the Same - First and second reflectors are provided. The first reflector has a function of reflecting a light ray emitted from a light source and directing it toward an image display element and the second reflector has a function of changing the direction of a light ray so as to be reflected by the first reflector which light ray is emitted from the light source and not reflected by the first reflector. An outer periphery shape of the second reflector is changed correspondingly to an effective area of a first array lens | 04-22-2010 |
20100214500 | OPTICAL UNIT AND PROJECTION-TYPE LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY DEVICE USING THE SAME - An optical unit is provided which includes inorganic polarizing plates used as output polarizing plates. Even if a defect such as a flaw or a pinhole is present in the polarizing plate, the defect is not projected on the display screen. Instead of output polarizing plates for liquid crystal panels for R, G, and B, a common polarizing plate for R, G, and B is disposed on the output side of a photosynthesis prism. A color selective polarization rotator which rotates the polarization of light of a selected wavelength band is disposed between the photosynthesis prism and the common polarizing plate. Or, alternatively, instead of output polarizing plates for R and G to be individually disposed along with an output polarizing plate for B, a common output polarizing plate for R and G is disposed on the output side of the photosynthesis prism. | 08-26-2010 |
20110075100 | PROJECTION TYPE IMAGE DISPLAY DEVICE - A projection type image display device using, in a projection optical system thereof, a flat mirror, which is easy to design and manufacture, as a projection mirror is provided. The projection optical system is a diagonal projection optical system and includes plural lenses. Among the plural lenses, the one disposed closest to the flat mirror has an effective area, along the vertical direction of an image, through which a light beam passes and which is off the optical axis, among optical axes of the plural lenses, shared by the most lenses so as not to allow light reflected from the projection mirror to return to the projector body. A polarization converter using, for example, a quarter wavelength plate is provided at an output surface of a crossed prism to decrease reflectance differences between differently colored light and to thereby prevent the occurrence of color unevenness. | 03-31-2011 |
20110187998 | PROJECTION TYPE DISPLAY APPARATUS - A projection type display apparatus includes: an illumination optical system which has a first array lens and a second array lens each of which has a plurality of lens elements having a plurality of rectangular shape openings and arranged in a matrix form; an illumination light source device which has one or more light sources having a polarization degree not smaller than 50% and one or more polarizers for transmitting one type polarized light and reflecting other type polarized light. At least one set of the light sources are arranged so that the polarization directions of light fluxes having high polarization degrees may be perpendicular to each other, the light fluxes are combined by the polarizer, condensed to a single region by a light-flux condensing element, and then directed toward another illumination optical system located in a subsequent stage. | 08-04-2011 |
20110187999 | PROJECTION TYPE DISPLAY APPARATUS - A projection type display apparatus including a light source, a display element, an illumination optical system and a projection lens to project a magnified image of the optical image. The illumination optical system includes a first array lens and a second array lens, each includes a plurality of lens elements arranged in a matrix, each of the lens elements having a rectangular opening, and a polarization conversion element having polarization conversion function by use of a plurality of polarized beam splitters and a plurality of half-wave phase plates, arranged in an array and opposing to the lens elements of the second array lens, to emit predetermined polarized light. The light source includes a light emitting plane of a rectangle or an ellipse shape, a longitudinal direction of the light emitting plane being parallel to a longitudinal direction of each opening of the polarization conversion element. | 08-04-2011 |
20110194038 | PROJECTION-TYPE DISPLAY APPARATUS - A projection-type display apparatus, being suitable to be applied as a light source of a solid-state light source, in the place of a conventional lamp, comprises: a light source unit, which is configured to emit a white-color light therefrom; a light separation optic system, which is configured to separate the white color light from the light source unit into three primary color lights, R (red-color), G (green-color) and B (blue-color); R, G and B light modulating portions, each of which modulates each of R, G and B polarized lights separated, depending on a video signal, respectively; a light composing unit, which is configured to compose optical images, which are formed by the R, G and B light modulating portions; and a projecting portion, which is configure to project the optical image composed, enlargedly, wherein the light source unit emits a white color light emitting from a nearly point-like light source, including an excitation light from a solid-state light emitting element therein. | 08-11-2011 |
20110199580 | SOLID-STATE LIGHT SOURCE DEVICE - A solid-state light source device, enabling to build up with using solid-state elements, and having the structure suitable to be applied as a light source for a projection-type display apparatus, comprises a solid-state light source unit | 08-18-2011 |
20120019786 | PROJECTION TYPE IMAGE DISPLAY APPARATUS - A projection type image display apparatus using a light source where excitatory light makes fluorescent material to emit fluorescent light is provided with improved lifetime of a fluorescent material light source without increasing in the apparatus size, The apparatus comprises an excitatory light source cluster, a substrate on which fluorescent material is arranged, light intensity detectors measuring the intensities of the excitatory light and the fluorescent light, a control device which judges based on the measured values of the light intensity detectors whether or not to move the substrate, and a motion device which moves the substrate. The control device may issue an instruction to move the substrate when the ratio of the decrease in the fluorescent light intensity to that in the excitatory light intensity exceeds a prescribed value. Also, the substrate may be moved in a direction perpendicular to the direction of the excitatory light optical axis. | 01-26-2012 |
20120154767 | LIGHT SOURCE APPARATUS - A light source apparatus which emits light from phosphor by exciting light and in which an efficiency of brightness is improved is provided. The light source apparatus has a light source which emits exciting light; and a metal member to which the exciting light is input, wherein the metal member has a concave portion in a portion to which the exciting light is input, and phosphor to generate phosphor light from the exciting light is coated in the concave portion. The concave portion may have a taper shape. The phosphor may be coated on at least two surfaces of the concave portion. The phosphor may be coated on an area which is equal to or less than the half of a depth of the concave portion. A glass member having a taper shape may be formed at an opening portion of the concave portion. | 06-21-2012 |
20120212708 | PROJECTION TYPE DISPLAY APPARATUS FOR DISPLAYING AN IMAGE - The present invention provides a projection type display apparatus for displaying an image by which reduction of contrast is suppressed, including: a light source; a first lens array and a second lens array having a plurality of lens cell areas; a collecting lens; a display element; a projection lens; and a light shielding unit which light-shields the light fluxes from the first lens array to the second lens array, wherein the light shielding unit light-shields at least parts of all the lens cell areas except for the lens cell area in contact with an optical axis among a plurality of rectangular lens cell areas of the second lens array, and a light shielding area in the lens cell area in contact with the optical axis is smaller than that in any of the lens cell areas except for the lens cell area in contact with the optical axis. | 08-23-2012 |
20130242232 | PROJECTION-TYPE DISPLAY APPARATUS - A projection-type display apparatus, being suitable to be applied as a light source of a solid-state light source, in the place of a conventional lamp, comprises : a light source unit, which is configured to emit a white-color light therefrom; a light separation optic system, which is configured to separate the white color light from the light source unit into three primary color lights, red-color (R), green-color (G) and blue-color (B); R, G and B light modulating portions, each of which modulates each of R, G and B polarized lights separated, depending on a video signal, respectively; a light composing unit, which is configured to compose optical images, which are formed by the R, G and B light modulating portions; and a projecting portion, which is configure to project the optical image composed, enlargedly, wherein the light source unit emits a white color light emitting from a nearly point-like light source, including an excitation light from a solid-state light emitting element therein. | 09-19-2013 |
20130293848 | PROJECTION TYPE DISPLAY APPARATUS - A projection type display apparatus includes: an illumination optical system which has a first array lens and a second array lens each of which has a plurality of lens elements having a plurality of rectangular shape openings and arranged in a matrix form; an illumination light source device which has one or more light sources having a polarization degree not smaller than 50% and one or more polarizers for transmitting one type polarized light and reflecting other type polarized light. At least one set of the light sources are arranged so that the polarization directions of light fluxes having high polarization degrees may be perpendicular to each other, the light fluxes are combined by the polarizer, condensed to a single region by a light-flux condensing element, and then directed toward another illumination optical system located in a subsequent stage. | 11-07-2013 |
20140049698 | PROJECTION IMAGE DISPLAY DEVICE - The purpose of the present invention is to provide a projection image display device in which all of the multiple light sources to be used are positioned optimally, regardless of the mode of installation of the device. This projection image display device has two illumination optical systems ( | 02-20-2014 |
20140146293 | SOLID-STATE LIGHT SOURCE DEVICE - A solid-state light source device, enabling to build up with using solid-state elements, and having the structure suitable to be applied as a light source for a projection-type display apparatus, comprises a solid-state light source unit | 05-29-2014 |
20140152962 | PROJECTION TYPE DISPLAY APPARATUS WITH INCREASED LIFE OF OPTICAL CONSTITUENT COMPONENTS - A projection type display apparatus including a light source, a display element, an illumination optical system and a projection lens to project a magnified image of the optical image. The illumination optical system includes a first array lens and a second array lens, each includes a plurality of lens elements arranged in a matrix, each of the lens elements having a rectangular opening, and a polarization conversion element having polarization conversion function by use of a plurality of polarized beam splitters and a plurality of half-wave phase plates, arranged in an array and opposing to the lens elements of the second array lens, to emit predetermined polarized light. The light source includes a light emitting plane of a rectangle or an ellipse shape, a longitudinal direction of the light emitting plane being parallel to a longitudinal direction of each opening of the polarization conversion element. | 06-05-2014 |
20140333903 | PROJECTION TYPE DISPLAY APPARATUS FOR DISPLAYING AN IMAGE - The present invention provides a projection type display apparatus for displaying an image by which reduction of contrast is suppressed, including: a light source; a first lens array and a second lens array having a plurality of lens cell areas; a collecting lens; a display element; a projection lens; and a light shielding unit which light-shields the light fluxes from the first lens array to the second lens array, wherein the light shielding unit light-shields at least parts of all the lens cell areas except for the lens cell area in contact with an optical axis among a plurality of rectangular lens cell areas of the second lens array, and a light shielding area in the lens cell area in contact with the optical axis is smaller than that in any of the lens cell areas except for the lens cell area in contact with the optical axis. | 11-13-2014 |
20150160445 | LIGHTING APPARATUS, AND OPTICAL INSPECTION APPARATUS AND OPTICAL MICROSCOPE USING THE LIGHTING APPARATUS - Provided are a lighting apparatus, and an optical inspection apparatus and an optical microscope using the lighting apparatus. The lighting apparatus includes a light source that emits light, an optical device that outputs light that is more uniformly intense over a predetermined ray angle distribution than light input thereto; a multi-reflection device that reflects light multiple times, the multi-reflection device having a light incident surface receiving light and a light emission surface that emits multiply reflected light, and a light diffusion device that diffuses the light emitted from the light emission surface of the multi-reflection device. The light source, the optical device, the multi-reflection device, and light diffusion device share an optical path. | 06-11-2015 |
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20130149979 | AMPLIFIER - An amplifier includes a first amplification element configured to amplify a first signal in one of first and second operation classes, a second amplification element configured to amplify a second signal in one of first and second operation classes, a first transmission line through which the amplified first signal is transferred, and a coupler configured to couple the transferred first signal and the amplified second signal, wherein the first amplification element amplifies the first signal in the first operation class and the second amplification element amplifies the second signal in the second operation class, when the first signal and the second signal have a first frequency band, and wherein the first amplification element amplifies the first signal in the second operation class and the second amplification element amplifies the second signal in the first operation class, when the first signal and the second signal have a second frequency band. | 06-13-2013 |
20130222058 | AMPLIFIER - An amplifier includes an amplifying element that amplifies an input signal; an output terminal that outputs the signal amplified by the amplifying element; a matching circuit disposed in series between the amplifying element and the output terminal, and performing impedance matching; an impedance converter disposed in series between the amplifying element and the matching circuit or between the matching circuit and the output terminal; and a first resonator and a second resonator connected at the ends of the impedance converter. | 08-29-2013 |
20130249638 | AMPLIFYING APPARATUS - An amplifying apparatus includes a first amplifier that amplifies a first signal of a constant amplitude; a second amplifier that amplifies a second signal identical in amplitude and differing in phase with respect to the first signal; a first transmission line of which, a first end is connected to an output terminal of the first amplifier; a second transmission line differing in length with respect to the first transmission line and of which, a first end is connected to an output terminal of the second amplifier and a second end is connected to a second end of the first transmission line; and an amplitude balance adjusting element connected to the first or the second transmission line. The amplifying apparatus outputs from a connection node of the first and the second transmission lines, a signal that is a combination of output signals of the first amplifier and of the second amplifier. | 09-26-2013 |
20140055199 | POWER AMPLIFICATION DEVICE - A power amplification device, includes: an amplifier to amplify an input signal; a switched capacitor, provided at an output stage of the amplifier, to change capacitance based on a first control signal; a matching unit, provided at the output stage of the amplifier and including a varactor pair in which two varactor diodes are coupled in series or a varactor pair in which two varactor diodes are coupled in parallel, to change capacitance based on a second control signal; a detection circuit to detect power of the input signal; a quantization circuit to quantize a detected power value, form a quantized bit string having a high-order bit group and a low-order bit group, and output the high-order bit group as the first control signal to the switched capacitor; and a conversion circuit to convert the low-order bit group into an analog value and form the second control signal. | 02-27-2014 |
20140285262 | CONTROL DEVICE OF POWER AMPLIFIER AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING POWER AMPLIFIER - A control device of a power amplifier includes: a limiter configured to limit a level of an input signal to the power amplifier; and a control unit configured to, when the limiter operates, make an operation voltage of the power amplifier invariable and control load of an output matching circuit of the power amplifier based on an amplitude of the input signal, and, when the limiter does not operate, to make the load of the output matching circuit invariable and control the operation voltage of the power amplifier. | 09-25-2014 |
20140292405 | AMPLIFICATION DEVICE AND AMPLIFICATION METHOD - An amplification device includes: an amplitude adjustment circuit configured to adjust an amplitude level of an input signal so as to keep the amplitude level within a given range; an amplifier configured to amplify the adjusted signal; and a circuitry configured to change an amplitude level of the amplified signal, based on the amplitude level of the input signal and a first distortion compensation corresponding to the amplitude level of the input signal. | 10-02-2014 |
20140368274 | AMPLIFICATION APPARATUS - An outphasing amplification apparatus includes: a signal decomposition unit for decomposing an input signal into a first signal and a second signal having predetermined amplitude values, respectively; a first amplification element for amplifying the first signal, and output a first amplification signal; a second amplification element for amplifying the second signal, and output a second amplification signal; and a combiner for combining the first amplified signal and the second amplified signal, wherein the combiner includes a first input transmission line having an impedance converter, a second input transmission line not having an impedance converter, and a combination unit configured to combine a signal produced by the first amplification signal passing through the first input transmission line to have been subjected to impedance conversion by the impedance converter, and a signal produced by the second amplification signal passing through the second input transmission line not having been subjected to impedance conversion. | 12-18-2014 |
20150102859 | AMPLIFYING APPARATUS, COMMUNICATION APPARATUS AND AMPLIFICATION METHOD - An amplifying apparatus includes a decomposer, two amplifiers, a combiner, and a controller. The decomposer decomposes an input signal into two signals having different phases. The two amplifiers amplify the decomposed two signals, respectively. The combiner combines output of the amplifiers. The controller controls at least one of waveform information of at least one of the two signals and an operating state of the two amplifiers such that an output characteristic of the combiner matches a desired characteristic. | 04-16-2015 |
20150222233 | AMPLIFICATION DEVICE AND AMPLIFICATION METHOD - An amplification device includes: a first circuit configured to: split an input signal into a first signal and a second signal, and adjust the first signal so that an amplitude of the first signal is less than an amplitude of the second signal by a reduced value, a first amplifier configured to amplify the adjusted first signal, a second amplifier configured to amplify the second signal, and a second circuit configured to: determine a reflection coefficient in case where the amplified second signal is a travelling wave and the amplified first signal is a reflected wave, and determine the reduced value based on the reflection coefficient. | 08-06-2015 |
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20150076448 | SEMICONDUCTOR LIGHT EMITTING DEVICE AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING THE SAME - According to one embodiment, a semiconductor light emitting device includes first and second semiconductor layers, and a light emitting unit. The light emitting unit is provided between the first and second semiconductor layers and includes well layers and barrier layers. The barrier layers include p-side and n-side barrier layers, and a first intermediate barrier layer. The n-side barrier layer is provided between the p-side barrier layer and the first semiconductor layer. The first intermediate barrier layer is provided between the barrier layers. The well layers include p-side and n-side well layers, and a first intermediate well layer. The p-side well layer is provided between the p-side barrier layer and the second semiconductor layer. The n-side well layer is provided between the n-side barrier layer and the first intermediate barrier layer. The first intermediate well layer is provided between the first intermediate barrier layer and the p-side barrier layer. | 03-19-2015 |
20150236197 | SEMICONDUCTOR LIGHT EMITTING DEVICE AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING THE SAME - According to one embodiment, a semiconductor light emitting device includes first and second semiconductor layers, and a light emitting unit. The light emitting unit is provided between the first and second semiconductor layers and includes well layers and barrier layers. The barrier layers include p-side and n-side barrier layers, and a first intermediate barrier layer. The n-side barrier layer is provided between the p-side barrier layer and the first semiconductor layer. The first intermediate barrier layer is provided between the barrier layers. The well layers include p-side and n-side well layers, and a first intermediate well layer. The p-side well layer is provided between the p-side barrier layer and the second semiconductor layer. The n-side well layer is provided between the n-side barrier layer and the first intermediate barrier layer. The first intermediate well layer is provided between the first intermediate barrier layer and the p-side barrier layer. | 08-20-2015 |
20150255670 | NITRIDE SEMICONDUCTOR STACKED BODY AND SEMICONDUCTOR LIGHT EMITTING DEVICE - According to one embodiment, the n-side electron barrier layer is provided at a region close to an end of the active layer on the n-type cladding layer side. The region is located within a range of an electron diffusion length from the active layer. The n-side electron barrier layer prevents electrons having energy which is not more than predetermined energy from being injected into the active layer. | 09-10-2015 |
20150270440 | SEMICONDUCTOR LIGHT EMITTING ELEMENT AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING SAME - According to one embodiment, a semiconductor light emitting element includes a first semiconductor layer, a second semiconductor layer, and a light emitting unit. The first semiconductor layer includes an n-type impurity having a first concentration. The second semiconductor layer includes a p-type impurity. The light emitting unit is provided between the first and second semiconductor layers. The light emitting unit includes a first barrier layer, a second barrier layer provided between the first barrier layer and the second semiconductor layer, a third barrier layer provided between the second barrier layer and the second semiconductor layer, a first well layer provided between the first and second barrier layers, and a second well layer provided between the second and third barrier layers. A plane including a boundary between the first barrier layer and the first well layer intersects a plane including a (0001) plane of the first semiconductor layer. | 09-24-2015 |
20160005927 | SEMICONDUCTOR LIGHT EMITTING ELEMENT - A semiconductor light emitting element includes a metal layer, a first semiconductor layer of a first conductivity type, a light emitting layer, a second semiconductor layer of a second conductivity type, a first electrode, a second electrode, and an insulating layer. The first semiconductor layer is separated from the metal layer in a first direction. The first semiconductor layer includes a first region, a second region, and a third region. The light emitting layer has a first side surface intersecting a second direction. The second semiconductor layer has a second side surface intersecting the second direction. The first electrode is electrically connected to the first region and the metal layer. The second electrode includes a first portion, and a second portion being continuous with the first portion. The insulating layer includes a first insulating portion and a second insulating portion. | 01-07-2016 |
20160056329 | SEMICONDUCTOR LIGHT EMITTING ELEMENT AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING THE SAME - According to one embodiment, a semiconductor light emitting element includes a first semiconductor layer of a first conductivity type, a second semiconductor layer of a second conductivity type separated from the first semiconductor layer in a first direction, a light emitting layer provided between the first and second semiconductor layers, and a first intermediate unit provided between the first semiconductor layer and the light emitting layer. The light emitting layer includes a well layer including a nitride semiconductor including In. The first intermediate unit includes stacked bodies. The stacked bodies are arranged in the first direction. Each of the stacked bodies includes a first layer of In | 02-25-2016 |