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20100085969 | COMMUNICATION NETWORK, INFORMATION PROCESSOR AND ADDRESS ASSIGNING METHOD - A communication network of the present invention includes: a plurality of superordinate nodes | 04-08-2010 |
20100121826 | DATA COLLECTION SYSTEM, DATA COLLECTION METHOD AND DATA COLLECTION PROGRAM - It is an object to provide a data collection system that is configured to reduce a communication amount, etc. at the time when data are collected from a plurality of devices, so as to reduce a communication amount attended by the collection of data without increasing processing loads imposed on devices. A symbol classifying unit of a data relay device classifies received data that have been already compressed. A data recompressing unit replaces codes contained in the classified already compressed data with other codes, so as to recompress the already compressed data. A symbol set clustering unit sends a transfer destination renewal device a communication speed at the time when the recompressed data are transferred to other devices, a processing speed at the recompressing time, etc. The transfer destination renewal device generates transfer destination information on the basis of the communication speed, the processing speed, etc. | 05-13-2010 |
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20120265739 | DATA COLLECTION SYSTEM, DATA COLLECTION METHOD AND DATA COLLECTION PROGRAM - It is an object to provide a data collection system that is configured to reduce a communication amount, etc. at the time when data are collected from devices, so as to reduce a communication amount attended by the collection of data without increasing processing loads imposed on devices. The data collecting device comprises a code operating means for deriving a frequency of the symbol for each symbol corresponding to the code being contained in the already compressed data based upon the data analysis result being contained in the received already compressed data, and a code operation developing means for adding the frequency of the description format, out of the frequencies obtained by the code operating means, to the frequency of the basic symbol corresponding to the above description format, and adding the frequency of the derivative symbol to the frequency of each basic symbol constituting the derivative symbol. | 10-18-2012 |
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20090079664 | PORTABLE TERMINAL - A portable terminal comprises a first body | 03-26-2009 |
20110134082 | INFORMATION INPUT SYSTEM, METHOD FOR INPUTTING INFORMATION AND INFORMATION INPUT PROGRAM - Provided is an information input system, wherein an operator can easily conduct information input actions to a small information device. The information input system is provided with a vibration element that applies a vibration to a forefinger of an operator, a vibration sensor that measures the vibration transmitted through the forefinger and the thumb, and a first input information specifying module that specifies the position on the thumb where another finger of the operator is in contact with the thumb based on a change in transmission property of the transmission system caused by the fact that the finger of the operator, which is in contact with the thumb, is in contact with the vibration transmission system formed by including the forefinger and the thumb. The information input system outputs the detected position of the contact of the finger as positional information. | 06-09-2011 |
20120242465 | INFORMATION PRESENTATION DEVICE USING TACTILE STIMULUS WITH VIBRATOR - An information presentation device transmits information of a car navigation system, installed in a vehicle, to a driver in form of tactile stimuli, wherein a controller controls a plurality of vibrators attached to a steering wheel. The vibrators are arranged in proximity to vibration transmitters, corresponding to holding parts of a steering wheel, so that they are controlled with desired vibration intensity and vibration start timing in response to drive signals from the controller. Two vibrators are arranged in the holding parts of a steering wheel which come in contact with driver's hands and are controlled to generate a virtual vibrating source, thus rendering a driver feeling a sensation as if a vibrating source is moving in upward-downward directions, left-right directions, and far-near directions in the front side of a driver. Thus, it is possible to present accurate information with a small amount of energy consumption in driving vibrators. | 09-27-2012 |
20130002544 | INPUT DEVICE, METHOD AND MEDIUM - An input device comprises: a detection unit that detects as detection data an oscillation generated by tapping a body of a user and transmitted via the body; and an input information identification unit that refers to the detection data, identifies a tap site based on a fact that the detection data varies depending on a physical property of a body tissue associated with the tap site, and outputs an operation command allocated to the identified tap site. | 01-03-2013 |
20130009870 | INPUT DEVICE, INPUT METHOD, AND PROGRAM - An input device comprises: a detection unit that detects a body movement generated by tapping a user body as detection data; and an input information determination unit that refers to the detection data, determines a tap position based on a fact that the detection data varies depending on the tap position, and outputs an operation command associated with the determined tap position. | 01-10-2013 |
20130013229 | INPUT DEVICE, INPUT METHOD AND MEDIUM - An input device comprises: a detection unit that detects as detection data a vibration that is generated by tapping on a body of a user and transmitted through the body of the user; and an input information identification unit that refers to the detection data and that identifies a tap position based on a fact that the detection data varies according to a length of a vibration transmission path from the tap position to the detection unit. | 01-10-2013 |
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20090058996 | IN-VIVO IMAGE ACQUIRING SYSTEM, IN-VIVO IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND BODY-INSERTABLE APPARATUS - The present invention has an object to provide an in-vivo image acquiring system, an in-vivo image processing method, and a body-insertable apparatus which can decrease a number of wasted images. According to the in-vivo image acquiring system of the present invention, the body-insertable apparatus attaches type information corresponding to optical information of the imaging unit of the body-insertable apparatus to image information of the inside of the subject, and transmits the image information. A processing apparatus | 03-05-2009 |
20090062613 | IN-VIVO INFORMATION ACQUIRING SYSTEM - An in-vivo information acquiring system previously sets synchronization signals for each imaging unit which captures an image. In the in-vivo information acquiring system, a capsule endoscope transmits scan-line data of an image to be transmitted using the synchronization signal corresponding to the imaging unit which captures the image to be transmitted, and a receiving apparatus identifies that the received scan-line data forms the image captured by the imaging unit corresponding to the detected synchronization signal by detecting the synchronization signal from received information. | 03-05-2009 |
20090076326 | IN-VIVO IMAGE ACQUIRING APPARATUS AND IN-VIVO IMAGE ACQUIRING SYSTEM - The in-vivo image acquiring apparatus includes an imaging unit which captures an inside of a subject, a transmission processing unit which wirelessly transmits the image information captured by the imaging unit, a power supply unit which supplies driving power for each unit of the apparatus, and a switching unit which detects an external input and switches a supply state of the driving power from the power supply unit. The apparatus also includes a mode setting unit which sets predetermined operation modes based on information of the external input which is input to the switching unit, and a control unit which controls the operation of each unit of the apparatus according to the operation mode set by the mode setting unit. | 03-19-2009 |
20090137873 | IN-VIVO INFORMATION ACQUIRING SYSTEM AND BODY-INSERTABLE APPARATUS - An in-vivo information acquiring system includes a body-insertable apparatus that transmits a wireless signal containing an in-vivo image, and a receiving apparatus that receives the wireless signal. The body-insertable apparatus includes an imaging unit, a selecting unit, and a transmitting unit. The imaging unit captures in-vivo images. The selecting unit selects an in-vivo image to be added with unique information from the in-vivo images. The transmitting unit additionally arranges an identification signal, which is written according to a signal sequence rule of synchronization signals added to scanning line information about the in-vivo image selected by the selecting unit, in a position corresponding to positions in which the synchronization signals are arranged, adds unique information corresponding to the identification information after the identification information, and transmits the in-vivo image added with the unique information. | 05-28-2009 |
20090149704 | IN-VIVO INFORMATION ACQUIRING SYSTEM AND BODY-INSERTABLE APPARATUS - A body-insertable apparatus includes an imaging unit that captures an in-vivo image of a subject; a signal processing unit that writes the in-vivo image in a memory, reads the in-vivo image from the memory on a pixel basis and converts the in-vivo image to serial information to transfer the serial information; and a rate converter that converts a transfer processing rate to a rate higher than a writing processing rate. The transfer processing rate is at which the signal processing unit reads the in-vivo image from the memory and converts the in-vivo image to the serial information to transfer the serial information. The writing processing rate is at which the signal processing unit writes the in-vivo image in the memory. The apparatus also includes a transmitting unit that wirelessly transmits the serial information transferred from the signal processing unit at a transmission rate corresponding to the transfer processing rate. | 06-11-2009 |
20090299138 | IMAGING APPARATUS AND IN-VIVO IMAGE OBTAINING APPARATUS - An imaging apparatus includes a noise reduction circuit which eliminates a random noise generated in an analogue signal processing by equalizing, via an averaging processing, image data of correlated multiple images within one frame period which is captured by an image sensor and to which the analogue signal processing is performed in an AFE block, and the imaging apparatus in itself deals with the image data of the correlated multiple images within the one frame period and outputs the data to a wireless module after eliminating the random noise generated in the analogue signal processing. | 12-03-2009 |
20130314518 | CAPSULE ENDOSCOPE - A capsule endoscope includes: a light emitting unit; an imaging unit; an image signal processing unit; and a setting unit that controls the light emitting unit and the imaging unit to perform pre-exposure, measures at least one of a light emission time and a light emission intensity, sets the measured time or intensity for a main exposure process when the measured time or intensity is within a predetermined acceptable range, and sets at least one of the preset light emission time and light emission intensity for the main exposure process when the measured time or intensity is out of the acceptable range, wherein an acquisition process of an image is performed in accordance with the set light emission time or the set light emission intensity. | 11-28-2013 |
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20120237419 | METHOD FOR PRODUCING LITHIUM CARBONATE - The present invention relates to a method for producing lithium carbonate, the method including: mixing ammonia and carbon dioxide gas (carbonate gas) with an aqueous solution containing lithium chloride to conduct a carbonation reaction; and thereafter, recovering a produced solid by solid-liquid separation, and also relates to a method for producing high purity lithium carbonate. | 09-20-2012 |
20130251610 | METHOD FOR PRODUCING LITHIUM CARBONATE - The present invention relates to a method for producing lithium carbonate, which is important as a raw material of a lithium ion battery and the like, from brine resources. More specifically, the invention relates to a method for producing lithium carbonate, in which carbon dioxide gas obtained by calcining limestone is introduced, in the presence of ammonia, into a concentrated brine, which is prepared from a lithium-containing brine as a raw material through an evaporative concentrating step, a desulfurizing step and an electrodialysis step, thereby depositing lithium carbonate crystals, and the crystals thus deposited are recovered through solid-liquid separation. | 09-26-2013 |
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20110228504 | FIXING STRUCTURE AND FIXING METHOD OF MULTI-SCREEN DISPLAY DEVICE - A multi-screen display device forms a large screen by adjacently arranging a plurality of display devices on a frame by engaging a monitor fixing provided on a back surface of a display device with a bracket that is provided on the frame; the monitor fitting that includes a plate-like body that is provided so as to project out from the back surface of the display device and a long hole that is formed in the plate-like body along with a lateral direction of the display device, is arranged at corner portions of the back surface of the display device; and the bracket includes a plate-like body that is perpendicularly provided at a position corresponding to the monitor fixing and a pin member that is provided in a standing manner in a vertical direction on the plate-like body, and is inserted in the long hole of the monitor fixing. | 09-22-2011 |
20110308979 | STRUCTURE AND METHOD FOR PACKING DISPLAY DEVICE - A cushioning material includes a recess forming member that includes a protecting member and an engaging member to form a recess that contains inside an edge portion of a thin display device, and moreover on a rear frame that is positioned on a back surface of the thin display device a handle is provided that forms a gap between a display screen of the thin display device and a protecting member of the cushioning material that is positioned in front of the display screen by engaging and holding the engaging member of the cushioning material in a state of the edge portion of the thin display device being contained in the recess of the cushioning material. | 12-22-2011 |
20110315837 | FIXING STRUCTURE AND FIXING METHOD OF MULTI-SCREEN DISPLAY UNIT - A fixing structure for a multi-screen display unit which forms a large screen by contiguously disposing a plurality of display units with respect to a mounting pedestal by making a first supporting member provided on the back surface of the display unit be engaged with a second supporting member provided at the mounting pedestal, wherein the first supporting member includes a monitor fitting which has a display-side supporting plate provided so as to protrude from the back surface and is disposed at a corner portion of the back surface of the display unit, the second supporting member includes a fixing-side supporting plate which is provided at a position corresponding to the display-side supporting plate to protrude toward the back surface and supports the display-side supporting plate, and a pin member is provided in an upright manner at the fixing-side supporting plate. | 12-29-2011 |
20130017054 | PACKAGE UNIT AND LOADING METHOD AND LOADING STRUCTURE THEREFORAANM Mitsuhashi; RenichiAACI TokyoAACO JPAAGP Mitsuhashi; Renichi Tokyo JP - A package unit includes: a thin packaged product in which a thin display device is packed; an individual packaging pallet formed in a substantially rectangular shape corresponding to a shape of the packaged product loaded, the individual packaging pallet including fork insertion openings in a side surface in a long side direction thereof; and a loading pallet formed in a substantially rectangular shape corresponding to a shape of a plurality of package bodies including the packaged product and the individual packaging pallet, the package bodies loaded side by side, the loading pallet including fork insertion openings in both of a side surface in a long side direction thereof and a side surface in a short side direction thereof. | 01-17-2013 |
20130182884 | SPEAKER FALL PREVENTION STRUCTURE - Provided is a speaker fall prevention structure, which includes a speaker device formed by housing a speaker unit in a housing independent of a main appliance, a speaker attaching part provided to the main appliance to allow the speaker device to be attached, an attached part facing the speaker attaching part in the speaker device, a fall prevention wire set between the speaker device and the main appliance, and a fastening member for attaching the attached part to the speaker attaching part. Using the fastening member, a first end of the fall prevention wire is fastened and fixed to the main appliance along with the attached part. | 07-18-2013 |
20130314864 | DISPLAY DEVICE - A display device includes: a display unit that displays an image; and a handle provided on a back surface of the display unit. The handle includes: a handle body that is manually grasped; and a fixing part that is detachably fixed to a back surface of the display unit. The fixing part includes: a first fixing mechanism that fixes the handle in a state in which the handle body protrudes outward in a depth direction from the back surface of the display unit, and a gap between the handle body and the display unit in the depth direction is enlarged; and a second fixing mechanism that fixes the handle in a state in which the gap between the handle body and the display unit in the depth direction is reduced relative to a state of the handle being fixed using the first fixing mechanism. | 11-28-2013 |
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20120100393 | METHOD FOR PRODUCING DECORATIVE METALLIC ARTICLE HAVING WOODGRAIN METAL PATTERN, AND DECORATIVE METALLIC ARTICLE HAVING WOODGRAIN METAL PATTERN - Provided are a method for producing a decorative metallic article having a wood grain metal pattern and the decorative metallic article having the wood grain metal pattern; the decorative metallic article comprising a sintered copper part produced by sintering a plastic copper containing clay compound, and a sintered silver part produced by sintering a plastic silver containing clay compound. The method comprises: a plate forming step of forming the plastic copper containing clay compound and the plastic silver containing clay compound into plate-like shapes respectively, so as to produce a copperplate and a silver plate; a multi layering and adhesion step of mutually laminating the copper and silver plates one another, and elongating the plates so that a thickness of the laminated plates decreases in 10% or more, thereby to adhesively paste the laminated plates together; a decorative object forming step of forming a multi layered decorative copper-silver object by using the multi layered plate; a multi layered decorative copper-silver object drying step of drying the multi layered decorative copper-silver object; a wood grain metal pattern forming step of cutting or polishing a surface of the dried multi layered decorative copper-silver object to form notches so that the wood grain metal pattern appears on the decorative object; and the sinter producing step of sintering the decorative object on which the notches are formed, thereby to obtain the decorative metallic article ( | 04-26-2012 |
20120107167 | METHOD FOR PRODUCING SINTERED COPPER ARTICLE FOR CRAFT OR DECORATIVE USE, AND PLASTIC COPPER CONTAINING CLAY COMPOUND - A method for producing a sintered copper article for craft or decorative use made of copper or a copper alloy which can be sintered in the air by using a general heating furnace, and a plastic copper containing clay compound are provided. The method for producing the sintered copper article for craft or decorative use of the present invention comprises the steps of forming a shaped copper object using the copper containing clay compound which includes at least one kind of a powder selected from a copper powder or a copper alloy powder that contains copper in 50 wt % or more together with an organic binder, and subsequently sintering the shaped copper object, thereby to obtain a shaped copper sinter. Herein, the mean particle diameter of the powder included in the copper containing clay compound is restricted to 10 μm or less, whereby the shaped copper sinter is obtained by sintering the shaped copper object in the air. | 05-03-2012 |
20120107561 | METHOD FOR PRODUCING DECORATIVE METALLIC ARTICLE WITH WOOD GRAIN METAL PATTERN, AND DECORATIVE METALLIC ARTICLE WITH WOOD GRAIN METAL PATTERN - Provided are a method for producing a decorative metallic article with a wood grain metal pattern and the decorative metallic article with the wood grain metal pattern; the decorative metallic article comprising a sintered copper part produced by sintering a plastic copper containing clay compound, and a sintered silver part produced by sintering a plastic silver containing clay compound. The method comprises: a plate forming step of forming a copper plate and a silver plate; a multi layering and adhesion step of mutually laminating the copper and silver plates one another by applying water to the surfaces of the plates, and elongating the laminated plates so that a thickness thereof decreases in 10% or more, thereby to adhesively paste together; a wood grain metal plate forming step of forming a wood grain pattern by carving the surface of the multi layered plate produced in the multi layering and adhesion step so as to expose at least a part of the plurality of plate layers, and elongating the surface of the multi layered plate to become flat; a decorative object forming step of forming a decorative object by using the prepared wood grain metal plate; a decorative object drying step of drying the decorative object; and a sinter producing step of sintering the decorative object produced in the decorative object drying step, thereby to obtain the decorative metallic article. | 05-03-2012 |
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20130157867 | CONNECTION STRUCTURE FOR SUPERCONDUCTING CABLES, METHOD FOR LAYING THE SAME, AND METHOD FOR VACUUMING CONNECTION STRUCTURE FOR SUPERCONDUCTING CABLES - A thermal insulation tube has a double-structure including a thermal insulation internal tube and a thermal insulation external tube, an intermediate connecting part has a double-structure including an outer container and an inner container, the internal tube and the external tube penetrate through a wall surface of the outer container and are introduced at least up to a wall surface of the inner container, a region between the internal tube and the external tube is sealed by joining an end to be introduced of the internal tube and an end to be introduced of the external tube, at an introduction portion of the external tube to be positioned on an inner side of a wall surface of the outer container, and a corrugated tubular part has a tube wall thinner than the external tube outside of the wall surface. | 06-20-2013 |
20140027141 | TERMINAL CONNECTING PART OF SUPERCONDUCTING CABLE - A terminal connecting part has: a low temperature container which is filled with a cooling medium; a conductor current lead which has one end immersed in the cooling medium and the other end led to a normal temperature part; and a conductor movable connecting terminal which electrically connects a superconductive conductor layer and the conductor current lead of a superconducting cable. The superconductive conductor layer of the superconducting cable which is stripped stepwise from a front end is connected to the conductor current lead through the conductor movable connecting terminal. The cable core of the superconducting cable is movable in a longitudinal direction and is rotatable in a circumferential direction while maintaining electrical connection between the superconductive conductor layer and the conductor current lead. The cable core is horizontally supported in the low temperature container. | 01-30-2014 |
20150031546 | CONNECTION STRUCTURE FOR SUPERCONDUCTING CABLES - A connection structure for superconducting cables includes: superconducting cables that are connected to each other and include cable cores containing formers and superconducting conductor layers, and each cable core is housed in a thermal insulation tube with a cooling medium, wherein the cable cores include electric insulating layers obtained by winding insulating sheets around the superconducting conductor layers, the electric insulating layers on both sides of a conductor connecting part, in which the formers and the superconducting conductor layers are connected to each other, include taper shape portions each having a diameter reducing towards the conductor connecting part, each taper shape portion is formed so as to have an inclination angle changing in a stepwise fashion by a plurality of tapered portions among which a tapered portion nearer the conductor connecting part has smaller inclination angle, and a reinforcing insulating layer is provided between the taper shape portions. | 01-29-2015 |
20150045229 | SUPERCONDUCTING WIRE CONNECTION STRUCTURE, SUPERCONDUCTING WIRE CONNECTION METHOD, AND SUPERCONDUCTING WIRE FOR CONNECTING - A superconducting wire connection structure comprises a first superconducting wire and a second superconducting wire, ends of which are arranged across from each other, and a third superconducting wire which spans and connects the first superconducting wire and the second superconducting wire along a longitudinal direction of the first superconducting wire and the second superconducting wire. Each of the first superconducting wire, the second superconducting wire and the third superconducting wire is a tape-shaped superconducting wire which includes a substrate laminated with at least a superconductive layer. The third wire is narrower in at least one portion than the first superconducting wire and the second superconducting wire. | 02-12-2015 |
20150080225 | INTERMEDIATE CONNECTION UNIT OF SUPERCONDUCTING CABLES - In an intermediate connecting unit | 03-19-2015 |