Patent application number | Description | Published |
20130027632 | LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY WITH NARROW ANGULAR RANGE OF INCIDENT LIGHT - A liquid crystal display includes a liquid crystal panel in the pixel electrode and common electrodes formed within a pixel comprise repeating structures. The angular range of light incident from the light source is narrower along a direction of the repeating structures than along an orthogonal direction. | 01-31-2013 |
20130028294 | ADAPTIVE PILOT STRUCTURE TO ASSIST CHANNEL ESTIMATION IN SPREAD SPECTRUM SYSTEMS - The present invention relates generally to methods for generating a dynamic pilot symbol structure in spread spectrum communication systems, and in particular to the use of pilot symbols by user equipment in channel estimation. In one form, the method includes, allocating basic pilot symbols at the beginning of each data chunk and spread over the plurality of sub-carrier frequencies; and selectively replacing data symbols in each data chunk with adaptive pilot symbols according to the speed of the user equipment. | 01-31-2013 |
20130058403 | MOVING PICTURE ENCODING METHOD, MOVING PICTURE DECODING METHOD, MOVING PICTURE ENCODING DEVICE, MOVING PICTURE DECODING DEVICE, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM - There is provided a moving picture encoding method based on hierarchical encoding. The method includes the step of encoding a time filtering lower hierarchical signal belonging to a lower hierarchy among signals of respective hierarchies which have been subjected to time-direction filtering and then to hierarchical division and an upper hierarchy time filtering signal obtained by performing time-direction filtering on a signal corresponding to the upper hierarchy of the aforementioned lower hierarchy signal. Thus, decoded signals of all the hierarchies can have image quality equivalent to the decoded image when encoding is performed with a single hierarchy. | 03-07-2013 |
20130060846 | MULTIMEDIA PROVIDING SERVICE - At one of the timings: during a period between the moment when one of terminals which performs transmission calls out a communication partner and the moment of response and at the timing after the communication between the terminals is complete; a server reads out content data from a database and transmits the read out content data to the terminal. At this timing, the terminal reproduces the content data transmitted from the server. | 03-07-2013 |
20130061052 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR AUTHENTICATION IN WIRELESS NETWORKS BY MEANS OF ONE-TIME PASSWORDS - The present invention is directed to perform high-reliable authentication using a one-way function that a communication is a communication which was performed with the same apparatus to be authenticated by storing a password only in an apparatus to be authenticated (it is unnecessary to store a password in both of an authentication apparatus and an apparatus to be authenticated) without transmitting a challenge code. When a setting is updated in a setting management server, authentication is performed by using a one-time password obtained last time. A sound communication terminal performs a process using a hash function once on a one-time password transmitted this time, and performs authentication by determining whether the processed one-time password matches a one-time password obtained last time or not. Whether the information at the time of the change in the setting is proper or not is determined by a sound terminal. | 03-07-2013 |
20130062705 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE AND MANUFACTURING PROCESS THEREFOR - In a semiconductor device, a gate electrode having a uniform composition prevents deviation in a work function. Controlling a V | 03-14-2013 |
20130064208 | RADIO COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, COMMUNICATION APPARATUS, RADIO COMMUNICATION NETWORK SYSTEM AND METHOD THEREFOR - A radio communication system provided with a communication device and a radio communication network system is characterized by comprising a transmission delay estimate information transmitting means for transmitting transmission delay estimate information to the radio communication network system when the transmission condition of the transmission delay estimate information is met. | 03-14-2013 |
20130067040 | MULTIMEDIA PROVIDING SERVICE - At one of the timings: during a period between the moment when one of terminals which performs transmission calls out a communication partner and the moment of response and at the timing after the communication between the terminals is complete; a server reads out content data from a database and transmits the read out content data to the terminal. At this timing, the terminal reproduces the content data transmitted from the server. | 03-14-2013 |
20130067241 | CONTENTS DATA UTILIZATION SYSTEM AND METHOD, AND MOBILE COMMUNICATION TERMINAL USED FOR THE SAME - The object of the present invention is to provide a contents data utilization system in which the contents data is shared between a plurality of mobile communication terminals while the copyright is protected. When the contents data downloaded via a communication network is stored into an external memory of a mobile communication terminal, an SIM data processing unit generates a cipher key, using an IMSI that is an identifier stored in an SIM card inserted into the terminal | 03-14-2013 |
20130070678 | ADAPTIVE PILOT STRUCTURE TO ASSIST CHANNEL ESTIMATION IN SPREAD SPECTRUM SYSTEMS - The present invention relates generally to methods for generating a dynamic pilot symbol structure in spread spectrum communication systems, and in particular to the use of pilot symbols by user equipment in channel estimation. In one form, the method includes, allocating basic pilot symbols at the beginning of each data chunk and spread over the plurality of sub-carrier frequencies; and selectively replacing data symbols in each data chunk with adaptive pilot symbols according to the speed of the user equipment. | 03-21-2013 |
20130070847 | VIDEO SIGNATURE EXTRACTION DEVICE - A video signature extraction device includes an each-picture feature extraction unit which extracts a feature of each picture, which is a frame or a field, as an each-picture visual feature from an input video; a time axial direction change region extraction unit which analyzes an image change in a time direction with respect to predetermined regions in a picture from the video, obtains a region having a large image change, and generates change region information which is information designating the region; an each-region feature extraction unit which extracts a feature of the region corresponding to the change region information as an each-region visual feature from the video; and a multiplexing unit which multiplexes the each-picture visual feature, the each-region visual feature, and the change region information, and generates a video signature. | 03-21-2013 |
20130072198 | COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEM - A method performed by a EUTRAN base station. The method includes generating a request for resource status information, sending the generated request to a neighboring EUTRAN base station, receiving one or more resource status update messages from the neighboring EUTRAN base station in response to the requested resource status information. The one or more status update messages include data identifying the physical resource block usage for real time traffic on the uplink. The method further including performing load balancing operations in dependence upon the received one or more resource status update messages. | 03-21-2013 |
20130072678 | SPIROOXAZINE RADICAL DERIVATIVES AND REVERSIBLE ISOMERIZATION REACTION - The present invention can provide new spirooxazine radical derivatives of the following general formula (1) which have chromic property enabling the distinction between the radical species and the cation species on the basis of absorption wavelength: | 03-21-2013 |
20130076764 | DISPLAY SCREEN SHARING SYSTEM, DISPLAY SCREEN SHARING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - Display screen sharing system that shares common screen among a plurality of terminals comprises transmission side terminal that has operation right for common screen; and reception side terminal that does not have operation right for common screen. Reception side terminal comprises display area detection unit that acquires display area information indicating area of common screen displayed at reception side terminal itself, and supplies display area information to transmission side terminal. Transmission side terminal comprises common display area frame control unit that determines common display area based on display area information supplied from reception side terminal, and displays common display area on screen at transmission side terminal itself. | 03-28-2013 |
20130077316 | DISPLAY DEVICE, TERMINAL DEVICE, LIGHT SOURCE DEVICE, AND OPTICAL MEMBER - A display device comprising a light source and having an optical waveguide, a louver, an anisotropic scattering sheet, and a transmissive liquid crystal panel disposed along the path of light emitted from the light source. The light-restricting direction of the louver is tilted at an angle α from the Y-axis direction. The value of the angle α is set so that the arrangement direction of moiré created between the louver and the liquid crystal panel approaches the X-axis direction. A plurality of belt-shaped convex portions extending in the Y-axis direction are formed on the surface of the anisotropic scattering sheet, and are configured so that the scattering direction of the light has anisotropy. Specifically, scattering in the X-axis direction is increased, and scattering in the Y-axis direction is reduced. Moiré can thereby be reduced in a display device having increased directivity of the display. | 03-28-2013 |
20130078507 | FILM-PACKAGED ELETRIC DEVICE - To provide a film-packaged battery | 03-28-2013 |
20130078764 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE - Provided is a semiconductor device including a flexible circuit board which includes a first external electrode provided on a first face and second and third external electrodes provided on a second face; a plurality of memory devices and passive components; a supporter which is provided with a groove on one face; and a computing processor device. The memory devices and the passive components are connected to the first external electrode, the one face of the supporter is bonded on the first face of the flexible circuit board so that the groove houses the memory devices and the passive components. The flexible circuit board is bent along a perimeter of the supporter to be wrapped around a side face and another face of the supporter. On the flexible circuit board, the second external electrode is provided on the second face which is opposite to the first external electrode, and the third external electrode is provided on the second face which is bent to the another face of the supporter. The computing processor device is connected to the second external electrode, and a bump is formed on the third external electrode. | 03-28-2013 |
20130080852 | ERROR CORRECTING METHOD, ERROR CORRECTING APPARATUS, SENDING DEVICE, RECEIVING DEVICE, AND ERROR CORRECTING PROGRAM - Disclosed is an error correcting method for correcting an error of digital data, which includes a plurality of sub-frames including a plurality of block code words, including: extracting and aligning a block code word, which is included in a past sub-frame; and generating a redundant data block code word by use of a block code word, which is included in a latest sub-frame, and the aligned block code word, and adding the redundant data block code word to the latest sub-frame, wherein the redundant data block code word is used for generating a redundant data block code word, which is added to a next sub-frame. | 03-28-2013 |
20130084080 | COHERENT OPTICAL RECEIVER AND COHERENT OPTICAL RECEIVING METHOD - A coherent optical receiver according to an exemplary aspect of the present invention includes a coherent optical receiving unit, a first waveform equalizing circuit compensating waveform distortion caused by characteristics of the coherent optical receiving unit and compensating chromatic dispersion in a predetermined range to an input signal, a second waveform equalizing circuit compensating chromatic dispersion of the input signal, and a controller monitoring a chromatic dispersion amount of the input signal and controlling a compensation coefficient regarding the chromatic dispersion compensation performed by each of the first waveform equalizing circuit and the second waveform equalizing circuit depending on the chromatic dispersion amount to be compensated. | 04-04-2013 |
20130084698 | NONVOLATILE STORAGE DEVICE AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING THE SAME - Provided is an excellent nonvolatile storage device having advantageous in miniaturization and less variation in initial threshold value, and exhibiting a high writing efficiency, without an erasing failure and a retention failure. The nonvolatile storage device is characterized by including a film stack extending from between a semiconductor substrate and a gate electrode onto at least a surface of the gate electrode lying on a first impurity diffusion region side, the film stack including a charge accumulating layer and a tunnel insulating film sequentially from a gate electrode side. | 04-04-2013 |
20130086319 | DISK ARRAY DEVICE, DISK ARRAY CONTROL METHOD, AND RECORDING MEDIUM - A disk array device includes a plurality of disk devices, and a computation portion generating a redundant code data denoting a redundant code able to recover an actual data sent from a higher-level device based on the actual data and operators, when at least part of the actual data is lost. The actual data is written by a predetermined device quantity of first disk devices in a first disk device group composed of disk devices as the first disk devices among the plurality of disk devices. The redundant code data is written by second disk devices of the same quantity as the predetermined device quantity of the first disk devices, in a second disk device group composed of disk devices as the second disk devices other than the first disk devices among the plurality of disk devices. The computation portion generates the redundant code data able to recover the actual data based on the data written into arbitrary disk devices of the device quantity among the plurality of disk devices, while the number of types of the operators used for generating the redundant code data is less than the device quantity by one or more. | 04-04-2013 |
20130087927 | MULTIMEDIA PROVIDING SERVICE - Provided is a semiconductor device of higher density, thin thickness and low cost not plagued with low reliability ascribable to concentration of internal stress in an ultimate product. The semiconductor device includes a semiconductor element, and a support substrate arranged on a surface of the semiconductor element opposite to its surface provided with a pad. The support substrate is wider in area than the semiconductor element. The semiconductor device also includes a burying insulating layer on the support substrate for burying the semiconductor element in it, and a fan-out interconnection led out from the pad to an area on the burying insulating layer lying more peripherally outwardly than the semiconductor element; and a reinforcement portion arranged in a preset area above the outer periphery of the semiconductor element for augmenting mechanical strength of the burying insulating layer and the fan-out interconnection (FIG. | 04-11-2013 |
20130089327 | Polarization Switching for Optical Fiber Communications - A method implemented in a transmission apparatus used in an optical fiber communications system for a polarization switched differential quaternary phase-shift keying (DQPSK) signal is disclosed. The method comprises splitting data into two or more data streams, inputting said two or more data streams to 1-bit DQPSK precoders to perform 1-bit DQPSK precoding, and multiplexing inphase outputs of the 1-bit DQPSK precoders to generate a first output; and multiplexing quadrature outputs of the 1-bit DQPSK precoders to generate a second output. Other methods, apparatuses, and systems also are disclosed. | 04-11-2013 |
20130089758 | BATTERY TEMPERATURE CONTROL APPARATUS AND BATTERY TEMPERATURE CONTROL METHOD - A battery temperature control apparatus capable of controlling the temperature of a battery to reach a suitable condition is provided. Thermal capacity determining unit | 04-11-2013 |
20130094851 | Optical Spectral Shaping for Nonlinearity Enhancement in High Speed Digital Coherent Optical Transmissions - A method includes evaluating an optical signal spectrum for estimated filtering parameters of an optical spectral filtering device for shaping optical signal spectrum, determining a feedback for fine tuning the optical spectral filtering device for nonlinearity tolerance enhancement in the optical transmission system, responsive to received optical signal quality in the optical signal spectrum; and using the feedback to adjust said optical spectral filtering device for predetermined shaping and predetermined fiber nonlinearity tolerance in the optical transmission system. | 04-18-2013 |
20130101895 | ELECTROLYTE SOLUTION FOR A SECONDARY BATTERY - There is provided a lithium secondary battery which has excellent characteristics such as energy density and electromotive force and is excellent in cycle life and storage stability. An electrolyte solution for secondary battery comprising at least an aprotic solvent having an electrolyte dissolved therein and a compound represented by the general formula (1). | 04-25-2013 |
20130115962 | BASE STATION, RADIO COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEM, BASE STATION CONTROL METHOD, RADIO COMMUNICATIONS METHOD AND BASE STATION CONTROL PROGRAM - [Problems] Because it is not possible to reduce sufficiently the number of base stations that starts uselessly in spite of being in low traffic state, it is not possible to lower interference between adjacent cells and power consumption sufficiently. | 05-09-2013 |
20130116000 | BASE STATION, RADIO COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEM, BASE STATION CONTROL METHOD, RADIO COMMUNICATIONS METHOD AND BASE STATION CONTROL PROGRAM - [Problems] Because it is not possible to reduce sufficiently the number of base stations that starts uselessly in spite of being in low traffic state, it is not possible to lower interference between adjacent cells and power consumption sufficiently. | 05-09-2013 |
20130117285 | SEARCH SUPPORT APPARATUS, SEARCH SUPPORT METHOD, AND SEARCH SUPPORT PROGRAM - Provided is a search support apparatus including: a search keyword reception unit that sequentially receives a part of search keywords input by a target user; a first ranking unit that ranks the search keywords for each user based on search history information and generates keyword ranking information; a user association degree calculation unit that calculates a degree of association of search trends between the target user and other users by using the keyword ranking information; a second ranking unit that ranks the other users based on the degree of association and generates other user ranking information; a score calculation unit that calculates a score of the search keywords matching a part of the search keywords; and an input candidate presenting unit that presents, to the target user, search keywords matching a part of the search keywords as input candidates of the search keywords in descending order of the score. | 05-09-2013 |
20130121305 | REFERENCE SIGNAL MULTIPLEXING AND RESOURCE ALLOCATION - A reference signal of a user equipment to which a resource (LB# | 05-16-2013 |
20130122419 | (METH)ACRYLATE DERIVATIVE, POLYMER AND PHOTORESIST COMPOSITION HAVING LACTONE STRUCTURE, AND METHOD FOR FORMING PATTERN BY USING IT - A photoresist material for lithography using a light of 220 nm or less which comprises at least a polymer represented by the following formula (2) and a photo-acid generator for generating an acid by exposure: | 05-16-2013 |
20130128789 | INTER BASE STATION HANDOVER METHOD, RADIO COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, DRX CONTROL METHOD, BASE STATION, AND COMMUNICATION TERMINAL - The present invention provides a DRX control method and system in which power consumption of a mobile station can be reduced and an increase in the load of a network can be suppressed. A source base station forwards Dormancy Context, which is information for controlling the activity level of a mobile station that performs inter base station handover, to a target base station and, immediately after the mobile station completes handover, the target base station performs DRX control of the mobile station using the Dormancy Context. | 05-23-2013 |
20130128790 | INTER BASE STATION HANDOVER METHOD, RADIO COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, DRX CONTROL METHOD, BASE STATION, AND COMMUNICATION TERMINAL - The present invention provides a DRX control method and system in which power consumption of a mobile station can be reduced and an increase in the load of a network can be suppressed. A source base station forwards Dormancy Context, which is information for controlling the activity level of a mobile station that performs inter base station handover, to a target base station and, immediately after the mobile station completes handover, the target base station performs DRX control of the mobile station using the Dormancy Context. | 05-23-2013 |
20130128791 | INTER BASE STATION HANDOVER METHOD, RADIO COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, DRX CONTROL METHOD, BASE STATION, AND COMMUNICATION TERMINAL - The present invention provides a DRX control method and system in which power consumption of a mobile station can be reduced and an increase in the load of a network can be suppressed. A source base station forwards Dormancy Context, which is information for controlling the activity level of a mobile station that performs inter base station handover, to a target base station and, immediately after the mobile station completes handover, the target base station performs DRX control of the mobile station using the Dormancy Context. | 05-23-2013 |
20130128848 | METHOD FOR DETECTING A DOWNLINK CONTROL STRUCTURE FOR CARRIER AGGREGATION - This invention relates with a method for detecting a downlink control structure for carrier aggregation in communication network in which data transmission is scheduled by a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH). An UE receives higher layer signaling enabling carrier aggregation for the UE. The UE reads the PDCCHs of component carriers (CCs), wherein the downlink control information (DCI) in the PDCCHs of each CC is read according to one of a plurality of predefined formats derived from the higher layer signaling. | 05-23-2013 |
20130136194 | AUDIOVISUAL CONTENT GENERATION METHOD FOR MULTISTAGE HIGH-SPEED REPRODUCTION - The present invention is to solve a problem that, at the time of high-speed reproduction using compressed video data, an audio distribution bandwidth increases simply in proportion to a high-speed reproduction rate. An encoding device includes: an audio encoding part configured to encode an audio signal; a video encoding part configured to encode a video signal; and a multiplexing part configured to multiplex audio data outputted by the audio encoding part and video data outputted by the video encoding part. The multiplexing part is configured to, at the time of high-speed reproduction, multiplex by locating audio data within a predetermined range into a picture configuring video data, the picture being distributed at a speed equal to or less than a predetermined reproduction speed but being not distributed at a speed more than the predetermined reproduction speed. | 05-30-2013 |
20130136324 | PATHOLOGICAL DIAGNOSIS ASSISTING APPARATUS, PATHOLOGICAL DIAGNOSIS ASSISTING METHOD AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM STORING PATHOLOGICAL DIAGNOSIS ASSISTING PROGRAM - A pathological diagnosis assisting apparatus according to the present invention includes an image classification unit configured to classify at least one type of a specific substance, a tissue area extraction unit configured to extract a tissue area in the image of the sample, an image dividing unit configured to divide the tissue area into a plurality of sections, a specific substance occupancy rate calculation unit configured to, calculate an occupancy rate of the at least one type of the specific substance in each of the plurality of sections, and a diagnosis assisting information providing unit configured to determine an intermediate value of the occupancy rate of the specific substance from the calculated occupancy rates of the plurality of sections and to provide the intermediate value as the diagnosis assisting information. | 05-30-2013 |
20130136325 | PATHOLOGICAL DIAGNOSIS ASSISTING APPARATUS, PATHOLOGICAL DIAGNOSIS ASSISTING METHOD AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM STORING PATHOLOGICAL DIAGNOSIS ASSISTING PROGRAM - A pathological diagnosis assisting apparatus according to the present invention provides the diagnosis assisting information for assisting diagnosis of tissue fibrosis from the image of the stained sample, and includes an image reading unit configured to read the image of the stained sample and an image processing unit configured to process the image. The image processing unit includes an image classification unit configured to classify the collagenous fiber and the elastic fiber, a tissue area extraction unit configured to extract a tissue area, an occupancy rate calculation unit configured to calculate the occupancy rates of the collagenous fiber and the elastic fiber in the tissue area, and a diagnosis assisting information providing unit configured to provide the diagnosis assisting information based on the calculated occupancy rates of the collagenous fiber and the elastic fiber. | 05-30-2013 |
20130137433 | COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEM - A method performed by a EUTRAN base station, the method including generating a request for resource status information. The request defines a periodicity when update messages including said resource status information should be sent. The method further including sending the generated request to a neighboring EUTRAN base station, receiving one or more resource status update messages from the neighboring base station in response to the requested resource status information in accordance with said defined periodicity, and performing load balancing operations in dependence upon the received one or more resource status update messages. | 05-30-2013 |
20130138594 | OPERATIONS MANAGEMENT APPARATUS, OPERATIONS MANAGEMENT SYSTEM, DATA PROCESSING METHOD, AND OPERATIONS MANAGEMENT PROGRAM - An operations management apparatus which acquires performance information for each of a plurality of performance items from a plurality of controlled units and manages operation of the controlled units includes
| 05-30-2013 |
20130142436 | Pose Estimation - In a pose estimation for estimating the pose of an object of pose estimation with respect to a reference surface that serves as a reference for estimating a pose, a data processing device: extracts pose parameters from a binarized image; identifies a combination of pose parameters for which the number of cross surfaces of parameter surfaces that accord with surface parameter formulas, which are numerical formulas for expressing a reference surface, is a maximum; finds a slope weighting for each of cross pixels, which are pixels on each candidate surface and which are pixels within a prescribed range, that is identified based on the angles of the tangent plane at the cross pixel and based on planes formed by each of the axes of parameter space; and identifies the significant candidate surface for which a number, which is the sum of slope weightings, is a maximum, as the actual surface that is the reference surface that actually exists in the image. | 06-06-2013 |
20130142437 | Pose Estimation - In a pose estimation for estimating the pose of an object of pose estimation with respect to a reference surface that serves as a reference for estimating a pose, a data processing device: extracts pose parameters from a binarized image; identifies a combination of pose parameters for which the number of cross surfaces of parameter surfaces that accord with surface parameter formulas, which are numerical formulas for expressing a reference surface, is a maximum; finds a slope weighting for each of cross pixels, which are pixels on each candidate surface and which are pixels within a prescribed range, that is identified based on the angles of the tangent plane at the cross pixel and based on planes formed by each of the axes of parameter space; and identifies the significant candidate surface for which a number, which is the sum of slope weightings, is a maximum, as the actual surface that is the reference surface that actually exists in the image. | 06-06-2013 |
20130143575 | COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEM - A method performed by a EUTRAN base station. The method includes generating a request for resource status information, sending the generated request to a neighboring EUTRAN base station, receiving one or more resource status update messages from the neighboring EUTRAN base station in response to the requested resource status information, performing load balancing operations in dependence upon the received one or more resource status update messages, and controlling handover of one or more associated mobile communication devices to another cell or base station in dependence upon the one or more received resource status update messages. | 06-06-2013 |
20130148598 | METHOD FOR DETECTING A DOWNLINK CONTROL STRUCTURE FOR CARRIER AGGREGATION - This invention relates with a method for detecting a downlink control structure for carrier aggregation in communication network in which data transmission is scheduled by a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH). An UE receives higher layer signaling enabling carrier aggregation for the UE. The UE reads the PDCCHs of component carriers (CCs), wherein the downlink control information (DCI) in the PDCCHs of each CC is read according to one of a plurality of predefined formats derived from the higher layer signaling. | 06-13-2013 |
20130148630 | MOBILE COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, NODE APPARATUS, AND INTER-NETWORK HANDOVER CONTROL METHOD - A mobile communication system includes at least one mobile terminal that can access a circuit switched network and a wireless broadband network, and a node apparatus. The node apparatus integrates, into one physical node, a first gateway node interconnecting the circuit switched network and an IP network and a second gateway node interconnecting a core network accommodating the wireless broadband network and an external packet data network. When the mobile terminal performs handover from one of the circuit switched network and the wireless broadband network to the other network, one of the first gateway node and the second gateway node, being a handover-destination node, allocates call connection path node identification information managed by the other gateway note being a handover-source node, as new call connection path node identification information of the handover-destination node. | 06-13-2013 |
20130148900 | Pose Estimation - In a pose estimation for estimating the pose of an object of pose estimation with respect to a reference surface that serves as a reference for estimating a pose, a data processing device: extracts pose parameters from a binarized image; identifies a combination of pose parameters for which the number of cross surfaces of parameter surfaces that accord with surface parameter formulas, which are numerical formulas for expressing a reference surface, is a maximum; finds a slope weighting for each of cross pixels, which are pixels on each candidate surface and which are pixels within a prescribed range, that is identified based on the angles of the tangent plane at the cross pixel and based on planes formed by each of the axes of parameter space; and identifies the significant candidate surface for which a number, which is the sum of slope weightings, is a maximum, as the actual surface that is the reference surface that actually exists in the image. | 06-13-2013 |
20130154377 | UNINTERRUPTIBLE POWER SYSTEM, METHOD OF CONTROLLING POWER SUPPLY, AND RECORDING MEDIUM HAVING POWER SUPPLY CONTROL PROGRAM STORED THEREIN - An uninterruptible power system includes a plurality of uninterruptible power units connected in parallel to input power. One uninterruptible power unit includes a rechargeable battery, a charging circuit that supplies a charging current to the rechargeable battery, and an output circuit that outputs power supplied from the rechargeable battery as output power. The uninterruptible power system includes a path switching unit in which switching of a path for power received among the charging circuit, the rechargeable battery and the output circuit in the plurality of uninterruptible power units is performed, and a control unit that controls the path switching unit so that switching of the path is performed according to states of the uninterruptible power units. | 06-20-2013 |
20130157725 | INFORMATION INPUT DEVICE, INFORMATION INPUT METHOD, INFORMATION INPUT CONTROL PROGRAM, AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE - The present invention provides an information input device, in which information is inputted by easy operations, even if a display unit size is limited. An information input device of the present invention has: a display unit displaying a plurality of figures; a detecting unit arranged in front of the display unit or behind the display unit, and detecting whether a physical contact from an outside exists or not and a contacted position at which the physical contact exists; and a control unit deciding a figure displayed on the display unit and a position at which the figure is displayed, and inputting information based on a signal from the detecting unit, and when the detecting unit detects the physical contact exists, the control unit determines a first figure displayed at a nearest position to the contacted position in the plurality of figures based on the contacted position and decides a second figure displayed at a position surrounding the contacted position based on a kind of the first figure. | 06-20-2013 |
20130158730 | ELECTRIC POWER CONTROL SYSTEM, ELECTRIC POWER CONTROL METHOD, AND CONTROL DEVICE, DATA STORAGE MEDIUM, AND SERVER DEVICE FOR THE SAME - A power control system comprises a power accumulating system including a storage cell charged with electric power supplied from a power generating system and supplying a vehicle with electric power, and a control device controlling a cumulative power amount that is an amount of electric power accumulated in the storage cell. The power control system accepts drive schedule data representing whether or not the vehicle is to be used during a predetermined period. The power control system charges the storage cell till the cumulative power stored in the storage cell reaches a first threshold when the drive schedule data represents the vehicle is to be used during the period, or otherwise, it charges the storage cell till the cumulative power stored in the storage cell reaches a second threshold smaller than the first threshold when the drive schedule data represents the vehicle is not to be used during the period. | 06-20-2013 |
20130162888 | IMAGING DEVICE, INFORMATION PROCESSING TERMINAL, MOBILE TELEPHONE, PROGRAM, AND LIGHT EMISSION CONTROL METHOD - A camera-mounted cellular phone ( | 06-27-2013 |
20130165135 | COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEM - A method performed by a EUTRAN base station, the method including generating a request for resource status information. The request defines a periodicity when update messages including said resource status information should be sent. The method further including sending the generated request to a neighboring EUTRAN base station, receiving one or more resource status update messages from the neighboring base station in response to the requested resource status information in accordance with said defined periodicity, and performing load balancing operations in dependence upon the received one or more resource status update messages. | 06-27-2013 |
20130165162 | PORTABLE TERMINAL WITH A POSITION AUTOMATIC INFORMING FUNCTION - In a portable terminal with a position automatic informing function capable of showing a position information of itself to the other portable terminals, characterized in that information included in a received mail is collated with previously registered information and that a possibility of showing the position information is controlled based on a result of the collation. The portable terminal with a position automatic informing function is, if necessary, capable of informing a position of itself without troublesome while protecting privacy for a position of the portable terminal. | 06-27-2013 |
20130166802 | TRANSPONDER, METHOD AND RECORDING MEDIUM CONTAINING INSTRUCTIONS FOR CONTROLLING THE SAME - A transponder connected to a master, a transmission module and a reception module, the transponder including: a memory which stores a table indicating whether or not a command from the master is executable, wherein the table including: type information indicating a type of the command; and first status information including at least one of: a transmission status indicating a communication status of the transmission module; and a reception status indicating a communication status of the reception module; an acquiring unit that acquires second status information including at least one of: a current transmission status indicating a current communication status of the transmission module; and a current reception status indicating a current communication status of the reception module; a judging unit that judges, in response to a received command received from the master, whether or not the received command is executable using the table and the second status information. | 06-27-2013 |
20130170807 | SPOT SIZE CONVERTER, OPTICAL TRANSMITTER, OPTICAL RECEIVER, OPTICAL TRANSCEIVER, AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING SPOT SIZE CONVERTER - The spot size converter includes a first cladding layer, a first core layer and a second core layer arranged side by side on the first cladding layer so as to extend from a first end which receives/outputs light along a direction from the first end toward a second end, a third core layer which is disposed on the first cladding layer between the first and second core layers, is a member different from the first and second core layers, and extends to the second end along the direction from the first end toward the second end, and a second cladding layer disposed on the first, second, and third core layers. | 07-04-2013 |
20130179725 | DISK ARRAY CONTROL APPARATUS, DISK ARRAY APPARATUS, AND DISK ARRAY CONTROL METHOD - To provide a disk array control apparatus which enables security of data from a host controller along with prevention of the degradation of process performance during rebuild processing. | 07-11-2013 |
20130185441 | MOBILE RADIO COMMUNICATION DEVICE AND METHOD OF MANAGING CONNECTIVITY STATUS FOR THE SAME - The present invention provides a method of managing connection status for a channel connecting a server device to a mobile radio communication device including a client/server pair ( | 07-18-2013 |
20130185763 | DISTRIBUTED PROCESSING SYSTEM, DISTRIBUTED PROCESSING METHOD AND COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM - A distributed processing system | 07-18-2013 |
20130189999 | RADIO COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, RADIO BASE STATION, RADIO COMMUNICATION TERMINAL, RADIO COMMUNICATION METHOD, AND A NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM EMBODYING INSTRUCTIONS FOR CONTROLLING A DEVICE TO IMPLEMENT A CONTROL METHOD - When one base station forms a plurality of cells that use different frequency bands, a handover caused by movement between cells can be successfully performed with a high probability. A radio base station adapted to communicate with a radio communication terminal, comprising: a communication unit which performs a first communication with the radio communication terminal by using a first frequency, wherein the communication unit performs a second communication with the communication terminal by using a second frequency that is different from the first frequency; and a controller which performs a control, of at least one of a first power of the first communication and a second power of the second communication, based on a first power-related quality of the first communication and a second power-related quality of the second communication. | 07-25-2013 |
20130190029 | WIRELESS TRANSMITTING/RECEIVING METHOD AND WIRELESS TRANSMITTING/RECEIVING APPARATUS - It is an object of the present invention to provide a wireless transmitting/receiving method for achieving both a high-speed data transfer and a power-saving operation by using wireless transmitting/receiving apparatus adaptable to a ubiquitous system, whereby a wireless transmitting/receiving method which performs wireless transmission/reception using no less than two carrier waves which belong to a different frequency band is used to transmit/receive a control signal for controlling the transmission/reception operation of the wireless transmitting/receiving apparatus by using a carrier wave which belongs to a lower frequency band (400 MHz band), and to transfer data by using a carrier wave which belongs to a higher frequency band (2.4 GHz band). | 07-25-2013 |
20130191410 | DOCUMENT SIMILARITY EVALUATION SYSTEM, DOCUMENT SIMILARITY EVALUATION METHOD, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM - Disclosed is a document similarity evaluation system or the like which can evaluate a degree of concentration and dispersion of parts with high similarity in at least two kinds of documents. The system includes a segment search unit which finds common segments (CS) in first and second segment strings, counts the number of CS, and identifies an appearance range (AR) within CS; and a similarity index (SI) calculation unit which calculates a first sum that is a sum of the numbers of characters of each segment (NCS) in AR and a second sum that is a sum of NCS of CS and calculates SI between the first and second segment strings by the following equation, SI=F(NTC)/G(NCC)×NS (where, NTC is the first sum, NCC is the second sum, NS is the number of the CS, functions F and G monotonically increase at larger than | 07-25-2013 |
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