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20110300415 | BATTERY SYSTEM - A battery system includes a battery pack configured to include at least a plurality of battery cells that are connected in series, a monitor that monitors a state of the plurality of battery cells, and a controller to which an output of the monitor is supplied, a battery pack module in which the battery pack in a first order to the battery pack in an Nth order are connected in series, and an integrated controller that is connected with the battery pack in the first order of the battery pack module. Isolators are respectively disposed among the battery pack in the first order to the battery pack in the Nth order, and a signal is transmitted from the battery pack in an order of n−1 (N≧n≧2) to the battery pack in an order of n via one of the isolators. | 12-08-2011 |
20120056595 | ELECTRIC CIRCUIT, CHARGE CONTROL DEVICE, CHARGE SYSTEM, AND CONTROL METHOD - There is provided an electric circuit including a semiconductor switch that is inserted in a positive side power line; and converting means for converting an input voltage input to an input side terminal to a predetermined output voltage and for outputting the output voltage from an output side terminal, wherein the output side negative terminal of the converting means is connected to the positive side power line, and the output side positive terminal of the converting means is connected to a terminal that controls an opening and closing of the semiconductor switch. | 03-08-2012 |
20120150375 | POWER STORAGE APPARATUS, CONNECTION APPARATUS, POWER STORAGE SYSTEM, ELECTRONIC DEVICE, MOTOR-DRIVEN VEHICLE, AND ELECTRIC POWER SYSTEM - A power storage apparatus having a battery unit housed in a case includes external terminals of positive and negative poles for providing, from outside the case, electrical connection to corresponding positive and negative poles of the battery unit; and electronic parts, wherein only when a connection with the battery unit is cut from at least one of the external terminals of both the poles, the electronic parts can be accessed. | 06-14-2012 |
20130002030 | BATTERY MONITOR CIRCUIT, STORAGE APPARATUS, ELECTRONIC APPARATUS, ELECTRIC-POWERED VEHICLE, AND POWER SYSTEM - A battery monitor circuit includes a first monitoring unit for detecting voltages of battery cells in a first group, a second monitoring unit for detecting voltages of battery cells in a second group, and a current cancellation unit for canceling a difference between first and second currents that flow through the first and second monitoring units, respectively. One terminal of a series connection of the battery cells in the first and second groups and one terminal of the first monitoring unit are connected, the other terminal of the first monitoring unit and one terminal of the second monitoring unit are connected, and the other terminal of the second monitoring unit and the other terminal of the series connection are connected. The current cancellation unit is disposed between a connection point between the first and second monitoring units and a middle connection point in the middle of the series connection. | 01-03-2013 |
20130202930 | STORAGE SYSTEM AND OUTPUT CONTROLLER - A connection mode of a plurality of arbitrarily connected storage units is detected and the plurality of storage units is controlled according to the detected connection mode. | 08-08-2013 |
20130249446 | STORAGE SYSTEM, ELECTRONIC DEVICE, ELECTRIC VEHICLE AND POWER SYSTEM - Discharge is stopped when a voltage of a battery becomes smaller than a defined value or a remaining capacity of the battery reaches 0, and further, when power to a system cannot be maintained, the system is automatically shut down to be put into a shutdown state. | 09-26-2013 |
20130264865 | ELECTRIC POWER SUPPLYING APPARATUS, ELECTRIC POWER SUPPLYING METHOD, INVERTER, AND ELECTRIC VEHICLE - The present disclosure provides an electric power supplying apparatus including: an electric storage device; and a control portion configured to control processing for mixing an output from the electric storage device, and an electric power of an external electric power system with each other in accordance with at least one of a peak shift command, a load electric power, and a remaining capacity of the electric storage device, wherein an alternating current electric power is formed in the mixing processing. When the electric power supplying apparatus further includes an electric power generating apparatus, processing for mixing an output from the electric power generating apparatus, an output from the electric storage device, and an electric power of the external electric power system with one another, is controlled. | 10-10-2013 |
20130320927 | POWER SUPPLY APPARATUS AND POWER SUPPLY SWITCHING METHOD - A power supply apparatus includes a plurality of power storage modules that are connected in parallel and a backup power storage module that is connected in parallel with the plurality of power storage modules. When charging or discharging of at least one of the power storage modules is disabled, charging of the other power storage modules is inhibited, discharging of the backup power storage module is permitted, states of charge of the backup power storage module and the other power storage modules are detected, and charging of the backup power storage module and the other power storage modules is permitted in accordance with the detected states of charge. | 12-05-2013 |
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20080211109 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE AND METHOD OF VISUAL INSPECTION AND APPARATUS FOR VISUAL INSPECTION - A semiconductor device having the structure, which is adopted for the highly precise visual inspection with a lower cost, is achieved. A semiconductor device is a semiconductor device having a region for forming an electric circuit, and includes seal rings provided in an interconnect layer and surrounding the region for forming an electric circuit, and a dummy metal via provided in the interconnect layer and located outside of the seal rings. In a cross section perpendicular to an elongating direction of the seal ring, the width of the dummy metal via is smaller than the width of the seal ring. | 09-04-2008 |
20100127357 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE - A semiconductor device includes a seal ring formed on an outer circumference of an element forming region when seen from the top in a multilayer interconnect structure formed on a silicon layer, and dummy metal structures formed on a further outer circumference of the seal ring. The more inner circumference side the dummy interconnect is formed on, the more upper layer the dummy interconnect is arranged on. | 05-27-2010 |
20110141268 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE AND METHOD OF VISUAL INSPECTION AND APPARATUS FOR VISUAL INSPECTION - A semiconductor device having the structure, which is adopted for the highly precise visual inspection with a lower cost, is achieved. A semiconductor device is a semiconductor device having a region for forming an electric circuit, and includes seal rings provided in an interconnect layer and surrounding the region for forming an electric circuit, and a dummy metal via provided in the interconnect layer and located outside of the seal rings. In a cross section perpendicular to an elongating direction of the seal ring, the width of the dummy metal via is smaller than the width of the seal ring. | 06-16-2011 |
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20090210819 | SYSTEM, METHOD, AND PROGRAM FOR EXECUTING APPLICATIONS - An application is executed which provides a grid display and which includes: a spreadsheet generator for generating a screen comprising a group of display elements; a scroll controller for accepting a scroll operation of a screen displayed on a display device and for controlling the scrolling of the screen. If a cell is excluded from and a cell is newly included in a visible region displayed on the display device as a result of a scrolling operation, the scroll controller causes the cell included in the visible region to be displayed on the display device by modifying a content of an attribute, including location information, of a display element used to display the cell excluded from the visible region to a content for displaying the cell included in the visible region. | 08-20-2009 |
20110078617 | METHOD, SYSTEM AND PROGRAM FOR SUPPORTING INPUT OF EXECUTION PARAMETER OF PREDETERMINED SOFTWARE TO INPUT FIELD - To provide a method, a program and a system for supporting the input of one or more execution parameters of predetermined software in an input field. The method includes: receiving input of a text character string including one or more execution parameters in the input field displayed on a display device; displaying one the display device one or more execution options of the predetermined software in such a manner that a user can select the options in response to selection of a part of the text character string by the user; and transforming the text character string so as to include at least one of the one or more execution options selected and displaying the transformed text character string on the display device. The one or more execution options displayed can vary with the type of selection of the part of the text character string. | 03-31-2011 |
20120162160 | Information Processing Apparatus, Display Processing Method, Program, and Storage Medium - An information processing apparatus to run software is provided. The software includes, as a user interface, a display screen having many objects arranged thereon. The information processing apparatus includes a calculation unit, an extraction unit, and a display control unit. | 06-28-2012 |
20130305183 | METHOD, SYSTEM AND PROGRAM FOR SUPPORTING INPUT OF EXECUTION PARAMETER OF PREDETERMINED SOFTWARE TO INPUT FIELD - To provide a method, a program and a system for supporting the input of one or more execution parameters of predetermined software in an input field. The method includes: receiving input of a text character string including one or more execution parameters in the input field displayed on a display device; displaying one the display device one or more execution options of the predetermined software in such a manner that a user can select the options in response to selection of a part of the text character string by the user; and transforming the text character string so as to include at least one of the one or more execution options selected and displaying the transformed text character string on the display device. The one or more execution options displayed can vary with the type of selection of the part of the text character string. | 11-14-2013 |
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20080212116 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM - An image processing apparatus includes plural output processing units one for each of different image output units and an input processing unit that processes image data input from an image input unit to output an image in an image format compatible with one of the image output units. | 09-04-2008 |
20090190164 | Method and apparatus for forming image - In an image forming apparatus, a setting management unit acquires at least one of first setting data and second setting data. The first setting data is information that specifies data to be included in the identification image from among the identification data and the second setting data is information that specifies a position of the identification image. An output control unit outputs (e.g., prints) output data including the identification image that is created based on at least one of the first setting data and the second setting data that is acquired by the setting management unit. | 07-30-2009 |
20090310182 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR FORMING IMAGE AND RECORDING MEDIUM - One or more among a PC document receive filter, a FAX document receive filter, a read filter, and a readout filter create a report on each of the corresponding functions in a format common to the functions. A report filter changes a format of the created report as desired by the user. Therefore, when a setting for a report output process is changed, it is not necessary to change the setting with respect to each of the functions. Thus, it is possible to reduce development man-hours for the report output process. | 12-17-2009 |
20110007353 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM - A disclosed image forming apparatus includes a filter detection part that detects the filter when the external medium is connected; a filter identification information obtaining part that obtains filter identification information that identifies a filter set by a user from filter setting information when print data subject to printing is received, wherein the filter setting information regarding the filter is added to the print data; a first output part that outputs the print data to the filter via the input/output interface, in accordance with the filter identification information; an input part that inputs the print data on which a predetermined process has been carried out by the filter via the input/output interface; and a second output part that outputs the print data on which the predetermined process has been carried out by the filter to a page description language module. | 01-13-2011 |
20110205573 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS FOR SHUTTING DOWN POWER SUPPLY IN SAFE - In an image processing apparatus, a power control part shuts down power supply after a power shutdown condition is established. A prescript safe state transition part performs a prescript safe state transition process to shift previously set prescript parts to a predetermined safe state. A priority safe state transition part performs a priority safe state transition process to shift previously set priority parts to the safe state. A transition process control part causes the prescript safe state transition process to be executed before execution of the priority safe transition process, and causes the priority safe state transition process to be executed when a predetermined transition change condition is established in the prescript safe state transition process. The power control part shuts down the power supply after the completion of the prescript safe state transition process. | 08-25-2011 |
20110222101 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS WITH POWER CONTROL UNIT - An image processing apparatus includes a platform and plugins installed in the platform to cause devices to perform functions, wherein the platform includes a power control unit to control supply of power to the devices and a first power control interface to transmit to the plugins an advanced notice of shutdown, wherein each of the plugins includes a second power control interface to receive the advanced notice of shutdown and a power processing control unit to make a preparation for shutdown in response to the advanced notice of shutdown received through the second power control interface, and to send information about the preparation to the power control unit through the second power control interface, wherein the power control unit controls supply of power to at least one of the devices based on the information about the preparation received from at least one of the plugins. | 09-15-2011 |
20120096348 | Workflow executing device, preview creating method - A workflow executing device includes a workflow executing unit; a first extracting unit that extracts a first preview property including a first element constituting a first data item and first position information; a second extracting unit that extracts a second preview property including a second element constituting a second data item and a second position information item, the second data item being obtained as a result of processing the first data item; a preview property managing unit that saves preview properties; a preview property generating unit that inserts the second element that is the processing result into the first preview property in place of the first element that is the processing target, and generates a new second preview property by associating the first position information with the second element; and a preview creating unit that creates preview images based on preview properties. | 04-19-2012 |
20120117570 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, WORKFLOW MANAGEMENT SYSTEM, AND WORKFLOW EXECUTION METHOD - An information processing apparatus sequentially executing one or more processes of a workflow on an input document includes: a workflow-information storage unit storing workflow information; a result storage unit storing a process result; a workflow control unit receiving workflow identification information for identifying the workflow and acquiring workflow information from the workflow-information storage unit on the basis of the workflow identification information; and a result acquiring unit acquiring the process result from the result storage unit based on the result identification information when the workflow information acquired by the workflow control unit includes the result identification information. The workflow control unit acquires the process result from the result acquiring unit and transmits the process result to an apparatus that executes a process subsequent to a process corresponding to the process result in the workflow in order to execute the workflow from a process in the middle of the workflow. | 05-10-2012 |
20120303709 | CONFERENCE ASSISTANCE SYSTEM, DATA PROCESSING APPARATUS AND RECORDING MEDIUM - A conference assistance system including one or more of a display terminal that displays data of a document; a display input device that displays added data input by a user; a positional information obtaining device that obtains positional information of the display terminal and the display input device; and a data processing apparatus that calculates the positional relationship of the display terminal and the display input device based on the positional information of the display terminal and the display input device, specifies the display terminal to which the added data is to be delivered based on the positional relationship of the display terminal and the display input device, and delivers the added data to the specified display terminal to have the display terminal display the added data, the display terminal, the display input device, which are capable of communicating via a network. | 11-29-2012 |
20130290422 | CONFERENCE SUPPORT SYSTEM, CONFERENCE SUPPORT APPARATUS, AND HANDOUT DISTRIBUTION METHOD - A conference support apparatus includes a first reception unit that receives position data from a position data transmission apparatus, an entire region determination unit that determines an entire region based on the position data, a transmission unit that transmits data of the entire region to a first terminal, a second reception unit that receives division data from the first terminal, a division unit that divides the entire region into a plurality of divisional regions, a third reception unit that receives terminal position data from a second terminal, a region determination unit that determines a target divisional region to which the second terminal belongs from the plurality of divisional regions based on the terminal position data, and a distribution unit that distributes handout data associated to the target divisional region to the second terminal. | 10-31-2013 |
20140223004 | NETWORK SYSTEM AND INFORMATION REPORTING METHOD - A network system including one or more information processing devices includes plural information processing program executing units to execute different processes, and an execution control unit to cause, when receiving via a predefined interface, designation of one or more of the different processes and a reporting destination of a completion report indicating that the different processes have been executed from an application installed on an external device connected to the network system via a network, the information processing program executing units to execute the different processes based on the designation, and to transmit to the reporting destination, when the different processes executed by the information processing program executing units have been completed, a completion report indicating that the different processes have been completed. | 08-07-2014 |
20140223150 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM, AND STOP METHOD - An information processing apparatus includes a first preservation unit configured to preserve execution request information for information processing; an execution unit configured to execute one or more types of the information processing; an execution control unit configured to have the execution unit being capable of executing one of the types of the information processing execute the information processing of the execution request information preserved by the first preservation unit; and a second preservation unit configured to preserve a stop command of the execution unit. If the execution unit does not execute the information processing, the execution control unit checks the second preservation unit if the second preservation unit preserves the stop command to have the execution unit execute a stop procedure. | 08-07-2014 |
20150156340 | INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM, INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, AND PROGRAM - An information processing system including at least one information processing apparatus includes a holding unit holding a processing request waiting for a processing; processing units monitoring the holding unit, acquiring the processing request and performing the processing corresponding to the processing request; and a memory unit storing information of a state of the processing request, wherein each processing unit includes a state acquiring unit acquiring information indicative of the state of the acquired processing request from the memory unit, and a state controlling unit checking the information indicative of the state of the acquired processing request, and controlling whether the processing corresponding to the acquired processing request is preformed based on a result of checking the information indicative of the state of the acquired processing request. | 06-04-2015 |
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20110300468 | FUEL CELL DEVICE - A housing contains a fuel cell, a lithium ion secondary cell, a wiring board on which a control circuit and the like are mounted, a light-emitting diode and the like. The bottom surface of the housing is covered with a bottom plate. A plurality of air-intake holes are formed in the bottom plate to supply air to the fuel cell. Two USB ports and are provided in the periphery of the housing. A plurality of air-discharge holes are formed in the upper portion of the periphery of the housing. Gas in the housing is discharged to the outside through the air-discharge holes. Furthermore, light from an LED provided in the housing works as an illumination for the fuel cartridge, which can facilitate checking of the fluid level of the fuel cartridge, thus, checking of the amount of remaining fuel. | 12-08-2011 |
20140361734 | POWER SUPPLY METHOD, CHARGING CONTROL DEVICE, AND POWER SUPPLY SYSTEM - There is provided a power supply method including an initial setting step of performing, by a charging control device, initial setting on a plurality of battery devices each including a secondary cell therein and a charging device performing contactless power transmission to transmit power to the battery devices that are provided in a stacked manner, a power transmission instruction step of providing, by the charging control device, an instruction to start the contactless power transmission from the charging device subjected to the initial setting in the initial setting step to the battery devices, a contactless power transmission step of performing the contactless power transmission from the charging device to the battery devices and a charging completion step of notifying, when charging of the battery devices is completed, the charging control device of completion of the charging by the battery devices. | 12-11-2014 |
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20100225792 | Solid-state imaging device, manufacturing method of solid-state imaging device and electronic apparatus - A solid-state imaging device, includes: plural unit pixels including a photoelectric conversion portion converting incident light into an electrical signal, and a waveguide having a quadratic curve surface at an inner surface and introducing the incident light to the photoelectric conversion portion. | 09-09-2010 |
20130341748 | SOLID-STATE IMAGING DEVICE, MANUFACTURING METHOD OF SOLID-STATE IMAGING DEVICE AND ELECTRONIC APPARATUS - A solid-state imaging device, includes: plural unit pixels including a photoelectric conversion portion converting incident light into an electrical signal, and a waveguide having a quadratic curve surface at an inner surface and introducing the incident light to the photoelectric conversion portion. | 12-26-2013 |
20150077612 | IMAGING APPARATUS, IMAGING METHOD, MANUFACTURING APPARATUS, MANUFACTURING METHOD, AND ELECTRONIC APPARATUS - There is provided an imaging apparatus that includes a photoelectric conversion section, a retention section, and first and second gates. The photoelectric conversion section is configured to convert a received light into charge. The retention section is configured to retain the charge provided by the photoelectric conversion section. The first and second gates are provided between the photoelectric conversion section and the retention section, the first and second gates being turned ON for transferring the charge from the photoelectric conversion section to the retention section, and the second gate being turned OFF after the first gate is turned OFF. | 03-19-2015 |