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20090043731 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, AND FUNCTION LIMITATION METHOD OF INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS - The present invention aims to limit, in case of causing plural devices to perform a process together, a use of a function of another device by reflecting function limitation information for individual user. In case of retrieving the function of the another device, a function retrieval request is issued to the another device with the set function limitation information for individual user added (S | 02-12-2009 |
20090059267 | IMAGE FORMING SYSTEM, MANAGEMENT APPARATUS, AND CONTROL METHODS THEREOF - An image forming system is provided which controls usage of a plurality of image forming apparatuses connected to a network for each user of the image forming system. Usage of the plurality of image forming apparatuses is permitted or prohibited based on information in a disable flag associated with each user. | 03-05-2009 |
20090087242 | PRINTING SYSTEM, JOB PROCESSING METHOD, STORAGE MEDIUM, AND PRINTING APPARATUS - In response to a predetermined user's instruction, predetermined post-processing is separated from a job adapted to cause a predetermined post-processor to perform the predetermined post-processing together with performance of print-processing. | 04-02-2009 |
20100053680 | PRINTING SYSTEM, CONTROL METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - A printing system that conveys sheets printed by a printing unit to a sheet processing unit connected to the printing unit and causes the sheet processing unit to perform post processing on the sheet. When an inline job is temporarily stopped in which sheets printed by the printing unit are conveyed to the post-processing unit, and post processing is caused to be executed on the sheets by the post-processing unit, if an offline job is executable in which sheets are fed from a predetermined sheet feed section without executing printing by the printing unit, and post processing is caused to be executed on the sheets by the post-processing unit, the offline job is permitted to be executed. | 03-04-2010 |
20110038006 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, CONTROL METHOD OF IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, AND PROGRAM - The invention enables a user to perform a process to image data stored in an image inputting apparatus even if the user does not leave the image inputting apparatus being close to an image processing apparatus. To achieve this, the image processing apparatus capable of performing wireless communication with the image inputting apparatus is controlled by: automatically obtaining all of printable image data stored in the image inputting apparatus, according to a status that the image processing apparatus comes to be able to communicate with the image inputting apparatus; accepting, from the user, an instruction of the process to the obtained image data; and performing the process to the obtained image data according to the accepted instruction. | 02-17-2011 |
20110085192 | INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR SECURELY SHARING PERSONALIZED INFORMATION - There is disclosed an apparatus capable of suitably deleting information of, e.g., an operation environment that is personalized in a given apparatus and handled in another apparatus and remains in it, thereby improving the operability and security. An information processing apparatus receives personalized information set in another information processing apparatus and stores the personalized information. A user who requests access to the stored personalized information is authenticated. A user who has passed authentication can obtain an operation environment based on the personalized information. Upon logout of the user or after the elapse of a predetermined time after access, the stored personalized information is erased. | 04-14-2011 |
20120084075 | CHARACTER INPUT APPARATUS EQUIPPED WITH AUTO-COMPLETE FUNCTION, METHOD OF CONTROLLING THE CHARACTER INPUT APPARATUS, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - A character input apparatus which makes it possible to suppress degradation of use-friendliness in a case where a visually disabled user inputs characters using an auto-complete function. In the character string input apparatus, a character string to be input as a portion following a character string input by a user is predicted based on the character string input by the user, and the character string input by the user is completed using the predicted character string as a portion complementary thereto. In a voice guidance mode, information associated with a key selected by the user is read aloud by voice. When the voice guidance mode is enabled, the character string input apparatus disables the auto-complete function and performs control such that a character string cannot be automatically completed. | 04-05-2012 |
20120182577 | DISPLAY CONTROL APPARATUS AND CONTROL METHOD THEREOF, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - A display control apparatus and a control method for controlling display of a display unit are provided. The display control apparatus detects an orientation of the display unit and controls a display of the display unit in accordance with the detected orientation of the display unit. The screen of the display unit is divided into a first display area, where a display layout is changed in accordance with the orientation of the display unit, and a second display area where a display layout is not changed in accordance with the orientation of the display unit. The display control unit makes the second display area display a first window which changes in accordance with a function to be executed, and makes the first display area display a second window which does not change in accordance with a function to be executed. | 07-19-2012 |
20120194543 | IMAGE DISPLAY APPARATUS, IMAGE DISPLAY METHOD AND STORAGE MEDIUM - The orientation of an image display apparatus is detected and units of display data are developed from prescribed addresses of a display memory and displayed on a display device in conformity with mode of operation and the detected orientation. In case of a mode of operation in which at least two operation screens are displayed on the display device, main and subordinate units of display data are each laid out and displayed on the screen of the display device. | 08-02-2012 |
20120274539 | DISPLAY APPARATUS, METHOD FOR CONTROLLING DISPLAY APPARATUS, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - It was necessary to prepare display data for the portrait and landscape display modes respectively, since the arrangement of the objects differs between the portrait and landscape display modes. | 11-01-2012 |
20130100750 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE - Disclosed is a semiconductor device which is intended to reduce the total number of storage element blocks that constitute a desired logic circuit. The semiconductor device includes N address lines (N is an integer equal to two or more), N data lines, and a plurality of storage sections. Each of the storage sections includes an address decoder for decoding an address supplied via the N address lines to output a word select signal to word lines; and a plurality of storage elements which are connected to the word lines and the data lines, each store data that constitute a truth table, and input or output the data via the data lines in accordance with the word select signal supplied via the word lines. The semiconductor device is adapted such that the N address lines for the storage sections are connected to the respective data lines of other N ones of the storage sections, while the N data lines for the storage sections are connected to the respective address lines of other N ones of the storage sections. | 04-25-2013 |
20130135644 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND CONTROL METHOD THEREOF - An image processing apparatus according to one aspect of this invention receives an instruction for using a first function, receives, from the user, a document orientation to be used for the first function, stores the received document orientation in a storage unit. The image processing apparatus further causes the storage unit to hold the document orientation stored in the storage unit even when the instruction for using the first function is canceled, and uses the document orientation for a second function different from the first function. | 05-30-2013 |
20140147133 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, METHOD FOR CONTROLLING THE SAME, AND STORAGE MEDIUM STORING PROGRAM - The image forming apparatus sequentially displays, based on the identification code stored in the storage unit, an image showing an operational procedure necessary to clear the maintenance event and then an image that prompts to close a cover corresponding to the maintenance event, on a display unit. The identification code stored in the storage unit is deleted in a case where the maintenance event is cleared. The image forming apparatus displays an image that prompts to close the cover, without displaying an image showing an operational procedure necessary to clear the maintenance event identified with the identification code, in a case where the identification code is stored in the storage unit at the time of start of the image forming apparatus. | 05-29-2014 |
20140213317 | STATION SIDE DEVICE, POWER-SAVING CONTROL SYSTEM, AND POWER-SAVING CONTROL METHOD - A station side device includes a first requesting unit that requests a counterpart communication device to perform a power saving operation of alternately performing execution and suspension of communication at preset time intervals; a phase specifying unit that specifies a first phase of the power saving operation performed by the counterpart communication device and a second phase corresponding to the first phase in the power saving operation of the station side device, based on communication performed with the counterpart communication device; a time-difference calculating unit that calculates a difference between the first phase and the second phase; and a second requesting unit that requests again the counterpart communication device to perform the power saving operation based on the calculated difference. | 07-31-2014 |
20140320926 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, CONTROL METHOD FOR THE INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, AND PROGRAM - To further improve an operability in a print instruction from an information processing apparatus provided with a touch panel to a print apparatus. | 10-30-2014 |
20150103612 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE - Disclosed is a semiconductor device which is intended to reduce the total number of storage element blocks that constitute a desired logic circuit. The semiconductor device includes N address lines (N is an integer equal to two or more), N data lines, and a plurality of storage sections. Each of the storage sections includes an address decoder for decoding an address supplied via the N address lines to output a word select signal to word lines; and a plurality of storage elements which are connected to the word lines and the data lines, each store data that constitute a truth table, and input or output the data via the data lines in accordance with the word select signal supplied via the word lines. The semiconductor device is adapted such that the N address lines for the storage sections are connected to the respective data lines of other N ones of the storage sections, while the N data lines for the storage sections are connected to the respective address lines of other N ones of the storage sections. | 04-16-2015 |
20150104211 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, WORK SUPPORT METHOD OF IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, STORAGE MEDIUM AND PROGRAM - An image forming apparatus capable of switching play pattern of a moving image for guidance of work, the pattern including a pattern for a toner bottle replacement work and pattern for a jam release work, is provided. When a toner bottle replacement work is detected, the work contents displayed on the operation unit are guided by the moving image which is continuously played. On the other hand, when a jam release work is to be performed, the work contents are guided by the moving image which is paused for each work unit to wait for a play instruction. | 04-16-2015 |
20150280717 | RECONFIGURABLE SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE - A reconfigurable semiconductor device includes a plurality of logic units connected to each other via address lines or data lines, each of the logic units including: a plurality of address lines; a plurality of data lines; a first address decoder that decodes addresses inputted from some of the address lines; a second address decoder that decodes addresses inputted from the other of the address lines; a first memory cell unit having a plurality of memory cells and selecting, among said plurality of memory cells, a predetermined number of memory cells in accordance with the address decoded by the first address decoder; and a second memory cell unit having a plurality of memory cells and selecting, among said plurality of memory cells, a predetermined number of memory cells in accordance with the address decoded by the second address decoder. | 10-01-2015 |
20150286762 | LOGIC CONFIGURATION METHOD FOR RECONFIGURABLE SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE - Provided is a logic configuration method for a semiconductor device having a plurality of memory units provided with a plurality of memory cells; each memory unit is configured to store truth table data in the memory cells thereof, the truth table data being for outputting a logic value in response to an address input, and to operate as a logic circuit; the memory units have n (where n is 2 or a higher integer) times two pairs of an input line and an output line; the n times two output lines from one memory unit among the memory units are connected to the n input lines of two other memory units; and the logic configuration method generates, on the basis of the circuit description describing the circuit configuration, a netlist having circuit connection information, extracts a logic cone from the netlist, and generates truth table data for the plurality of memory units, which constitute the logic cone, in the memory unit stage number corresponding to the number obtained by dividing the number of input lines to the logic cone by n/2. | 10-08-2015 |
20150294197 | PRINTING SYSTEM, CONTROL METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - A printing system that conveys sheets printed by a printing unit to a sheet processing unit connected to the printing unit and causes the sheet processing unit to perform post processing on the sheet. When an inline job is temporarily stopped in which sheets printed by the printing unit are conveyed to the post-processing unit, and post processing is caused to be executed on the sheets by the post-processing unit, if an offline job is executable in which sheets are fed from a predetermined sheet feed section without executing printing by the printing unit, and post processing is caused to be executed on the sheets by the post-processing unit, the offline job is permitted to be executed. | 10-15-2015 |
20160036447 | RECONFIGURABLE LOGIC DEVICE - [Problem] To be able to provide a reconfigurable logic device having a small area and enhanced reprogramming characteristics. | 02-04-2016 |
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20090169989 | STORAGE CELL AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING SAME - A storage cell includes a storage element including first and second electrodes which are opposite to each other in a predetermined direction, a first terminal bonded to the first electrode, a second terminal bonded to the second electrode, and an outer resin covering the storage element to expose an outer surface of the first terminal and an outer surface of the second terminal from the outer resin. The storage element has substantially a rectangular shape viewing from the predetermined direction. The outer resin has substantially a rectangular shape viewing from the predetermined direction. The outer resin has first and second surfaces opposite to each other, and has a third surface connected with the first surface and the second surface. The first terminal is exposed on the first surface of the outer resin. The second terminal has a shape extending beyond the storage element along the first and third surfaces, and is exposed on the first surface. This storage cell has a small size, a large capacitance, and high reliability. | 07-02-2009 |
20090176154 | COIN-SHAPED STORAGE CELL - A coin-shaped storage cell ( | 07-09-2009 |
20090181297 | STORAGE CELL - A storage cell includes a storage element, a first case having a first flat portion contacting an upper surface of the storage element and having a rectangular shape, a second case having a second flat portion contacting a lower surface of the storage element and having a rectangular shape, a gasket allowing the storage element to be accommodated between the first case and the second case, first and second terminal plates joined to the first and second cases, respectively, a first sealing resin for sealing the first case and the gasket, a second sealing resin for sealing the second case and the gasket, and a package resin covering the above components. The gasket has a rectangular frame shape, and has a cross section having substantially an H-shape. Edges of the first and second cases are inserted in recesses in the gasket and sealed with the first and second sealing resins, respectively. This storage cell has a high withstanding temperature and reduces an area having the cell mounted thereto. | 07-16-2009 |
20100188800 | ELECTRIC DOUBLE LAYER CAPACITOR - An electric double layer capacitor has an element, a first terminal, a second terminal, a resin-made case, and a resin-made lid. A pair of electrodes are led out of the element. Each of the electrodes is connected to each of the first terminal and the second terminal. The element and an electrolyte are accommodated in the case having an opening top surface, and the lid is bonded to the top surface of the case. The joints of the first and second terminals are disposed at positions higher than the inner bottom of the case, and are exposed upward. The rims of the joints and intermediate conductive sections continuing from them are buried in the case, and the terminal sections continuing from the intermediate conductive sections are led from the side surface of the case to the outside. | 07-29-2010 |
20100252314 | COIN TYPE ELECTRIC DOUBLE-LAYERED CAPACITOR, AND CAPACITOR-PACKAGED ELEMENT - A coin-type electric double-layered capacitor of the present invention includes: a capacitor element; a lower cover for housing the capacitor element impregnated with an electrolyte; an upper cover for sealing an opening of the lower cover through an insulating ring-shaped packing; an upper terminal plate having one end portion connected to an outer surface of the upper cover; and a lower terminal plate having a first end portion connected to an outer surface of the lower cover and a second end portion provided with a through hole, the capacitor being configured such that at least part of the through hole is opened without being covered by an outer surface located on a bottom of the lower cover. | 10-07-2010 |
20110019338 | CAPACITOR - A capacitor has a capacitor element, an open-topped case on which terminals joined to a pair of electrode lead sections of the capacitor element are disposed facing each other, and a cover combined with the open surface of the case. Each terminal has a pair of intermediate conductive sections and a pair of terminal sections. The joint has a joint surface to which one of the electrode lead sections of the capacitor element is joined. The intermediate conductive sections are L-shaped, and are extendedly disposed in directions opposite to each other from both ends of the joint. The terminal sections are disposed further extendedly from the intermediate conductive sections and placed symmetrically about the joint. | 01-27-2011 |
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20080247402 | COMMUNICATION RELAYING APPARATUS, COMMUNICATION RELAY, AND CONTROLLING METHOD - A wide area network is constructed by connecting a plurality of bases to a multipoint switching apparatus. Each base has a certain contracted communication band. If a packet is received from a first base having a higher contracted communication band and the packet is directed to a second base having a lower contracted communication band, the traffic from the first base is limited to the contracted communication band of the second base. | 10-09-2008 |
20090003351 | Path changeover method and device - Path changeover method and device are provide in which a communication interruption time caused by occurrence of a transmission failure is shortened. On a frame receiving side, address information of a frame received from a first physical port is stored in a table in association with the first physical port. When detecting that a frame stored with the same address information as the address information stored in the table is received at a second physical port, the frame received at the second physical port is captured and following frames received at the first physical port are discarded. | 01-01-2009 |
20090116395 | COMMUNICATION APPARATUS AND METHOD - A communication apparatus includes a setting information storage section for storing band information set on each port, a continuity test signal transmitting section for receiving a continuity test request for testing a connection state of a connected network, and transmitting a continuity test signal to a destination port on the transmission path, a setting information obtaining section for obtaining the band information set on a port receiving the continuity test signal from the setting information storage section, a continuity response signal transmitting section for responding a continuity response signal added the band information obtained from the setting information obtaining section to the continuity test signal, to the port having transmitted the continuity test signal, and a setting information notification section for notifying the band information added to the continuity response signal to a node for managing the network. | 05-07-2009 |
20090116485 | Packet relay method and device - A packet relay method and device in which even in the presence of a relay device between transmitting and receiving devices, a normality of a protection route can be surely confirmed is provided; A specific source address or destination address are registered, and when a route normality confirmation packet having the source address or destination address is received, the packet is transmitted to a protection route regardless of a hash operation; The registering can include link aggregation information in addition to the source address or destination address and the transmitting is made when the route normality confirmation packet consistent with both of the source address or destination address and the link aggregation information is received. | 05-07-2009 |
20100091792 | CONVERSION APPARATUS - A conversion apparatus, which mutually connects a layer | 04-15-2010 |
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 |
20100246110 | INFORMATION TERMINAL DEVICE - An information terminal device includes a first housing and a second housing slidably connected to each other with a connecting mechanism and that is changeable in state between a closed state in which the two housings overlap each other and an open state in which the two housings overlap each other by an area smaller than in the closed state. The information terminal device includes an elastic sheet component attached to a surface of the second housing that faces the first housing and having a protrusion protruding towards the first housing, and a biasing component that biases the protrusion towards the first housing so as to cause the biased protrusion to be elastically in contact with the first housing when the information terminal device is in the closed state. | 09-30-2010 |
20110157797 | CASING, ELECTRONIC APPARATUS, AND METHOD AND MACHINE FOR FORMING CASING - A casing includes a first casing and a second casing that sandwich an elastic member, wherein the first casing includes a pressed portion that is pressed by the elastic member, and an engaging portion adjacent to the pressed portion that has a flange protruding toward the pressed portion that engages with the second casing, and the pressed portion is flat in a region corresponding to at least the engaging portion. | 06-30-2011 |
20120040723 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND OUTER PANEL FOR ELECTRONIC DEVICE - An electronic device includes a display unit, a protective member disposed on the display unit to protect the display unit, a surface member disposed on the same plane as the protective member and a waterproof sheet covering at least a gap between the protective member and the surface member, the waterproof sheet is disposed between the display unit and the protective and surface members. | 02-16-2012 |
20140319730 | CASING, ELECTRONIC APPARATUS, AND METHOD AND MACHINE FOR FORMING CASING - A casing includes a first casing and a second casing that sandwich an elastic member, wherein the first casing includes a pressed portion that is pressed by the elastic member, and an engaging portion adjacent to the pressed portion that has a flange protruding toward the pressed portion that engages with the second casing, and the pressed portion is flat in a region corresponding to at least the engaging portion. | 10-30-2014 |
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20140125013 | PISTON RING - A high-thermal-conductivity piston ring having excellent scuffing resistance and wear resistance, which can be used in a high-heat-load environment in engines is provided. Also, to provide a piston ring with low friction for contributing to the improvement of fuel efficiency, a TiN coating as thick as 10-60 μm, in which the texture coefficient of a (111) plane is 1.2-1.65 in X-ray diffraction on the coating surface, with the texture coefficient of a (111) plane>the texture coefficient of a (220) plane>the texture coefficient of a (200) plane, is formed under the optimized ion plating conditions on a peripheral surface of the piston ring. Further, to obtain excellent sliding characteristics with low friction without losing excellent thermal conductivity of TiN, a hard amorphous carbon coating is formed on the TiN coating. | 05-08-2014 |
20140137733 | PISTON RING - To provide a high-thermal-conductivity piston ring having excellent scuffing resistance and wear resistance, which can be used in a high-heat-load environment in engines, a TiN coating as thick as 10-60 μm, in which the texture coefficient of a (220) plane is 1.1-1.8 in X-ray diffraction on the coating surface, larger than those of (111) and (200) planes, is formed under the optimized ion plating conditions on a peripheral surface of the piston ring. Also, to obtain excellent sliding characteristics with low friction without losing excellent thermal conductivity of TiN, a hard amorphous carbon coating is formed on the TiN coating. | 05-22-2014 |
20150308573 | PISTON RING - To provide a piston ring having a hard laminate coating for excellent scuffing resistance, wear resistance and peeling resistance, which can be used in an environment of high mechanical and thermal load in engines, the piston ring is provided with a hard laminate coating as thick as 10-60 μm on its outer peripheral surface, the laminate coating being formed by alternately laminating two types or more of layers made of different compounds, each of the compound layers being made of nitride of at least one metal selected from the group consisting of Ti, Cr, Zr, V, Hf and Al. | 10-29-2015 |