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20090119602 | WEB-SCREEN SHARING SYSTEM, WEB-SCREEN SHARING TERMINALS, AND SHARING PROGRAM THEREOF - A Web-screen sharing system including a first and a second terminals, and a mediation server. The system includes: the terminals exchanging addresses through the mediation server; connecting the terminals using the addresses; when the first terminal is connected to any Web server, detecting whether a content in the Web server is security-protected; if protected, performing predetermined authentication processing with the Web server; when the authentication is successful, the Web server transmitting a content following the authentication processing to the first terminal; the first terminal displaying the content as a Web screen, and capturing the Web screen; transmitting an image file of the Web screen to the second terminal to display the screen on the second terminal, if not protected, the first terminal receiving the content from the Web server, and transmitting a URL at that time to the second terminal to display the Web screen. | 05-07-2009 |
20100272251 | ECHO REMOVING APPARATUS, ECHO REMOVING METHOD, AND COMMUNICATION APPARATUS - Disclosed herein is an echo removing apparatus including: a sound input terminal configured to input an external sound signal from external equipment; a first echo removing device configured to, after admitting as input signals the external sound signal coming from the external equipment and input through the sound input terminal and a receiver sound signal transmitted from a calling party, estimate a first pseudo echo component from the external sound signal in order to remove the first pseudo echo component from the receiver sound signal; and a second echo removing device configured to, after admitting as input signals the external sound signal coming from the external equipment and input through the sound input terminal and a transmitter sound signal input from a microphone, estimate a second pseudo echo component from the external sound signal in order to remove the second pseudo echo component from the transmitter sound signal. | 10-28-2010 |
20140184915 | INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - An information processing device includes an operation input unit which inputs a user operation, a U/I screen generation unit which generates a U/I screen where a row of a plurality of category options for selecting a category and a row of a plurality of icons which is an option belonging to what is selected among the plurality of category options are orthogonally disposed, and when a selection of the option in the row of the plurality of category options is changed by the input user operation, an icon rotator which changes the plurality of icons from icons corresponding to those before a change of the category to icons corresponding to those after the change of the category by an animation display which causes the icon to rotate around the rotation axis in the same direction as a direction of the row of icons. | 07-03-2014 |
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20110072184 | DATA PROCESSING DEVICE AND DATA PROCESSING SYSTEM - To provide a data processing device in which a plurality of CPUs can individually and independently communicate with different functions of a USB device using a single communication path. The data processing device is configured so that a USB host module to be coupled to a plurality of central processing units has a plurality of pipes to communicate with an arbitrary end point of a USB device coupled from the outside of the data processing device, the data processing device also includes an access control register to specify which central processing unit should have a right to control the pipe and specify to which extent a range of the content of setting of a function for the pipe should be allowed, and a USB host interface is controlled in accordance with the content of setting of the access control register. | 03-24-2011 |
20110208878 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE AND DATA PROCESSING SYSTEM - There is provided a semiconductor device having a reduced number of external terminals allocated for address input to receive access from outside, while realizing a high-speed response to an access from outside. | 08-25-2011 |
20130073831 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE AND DATA PROCESSING SYSTEM HAVING A REDUCED NUMBER OF TERMINALS ALLOCATED FOR EXTERNALLY ACCESSED ADDRESS - There is provided a semiconductor device having a reduced number of external terminals allocated for address input to receive access from outside, while realizing a high-speed response to an access from outside. The semiconductor device employs, in order to allow other external devices to directly access resources it possesses in its own address space, in an external interface circuit, external terminals which input a part of the address signal required for access from outside, a supplementary register which supplements the upper portion of address information that has been input from the external terminals, a mode register accessible from outside, and an address control circuit which generates an address signal to access the address space in a form based on information input from the external terminals, required supplementary information, and mode information of the mode register. | 03-21-2013 |
20130346634 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE AND DATA PROCESSING SYSTEM - There is provided a semiconductor device having a reduced number of external terminals allocated for address input to receive access from outside, while realizing a high-speed response to an access from outside. | 12-26-2013 |
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20090135523 | MICROACTUATOR, HEAD GIMBAL ASSEMBLY, AND DISK DRIVE DEVICE - Embodiments of the present invention relate to approaches to effectively let noise on a head slider bonded to a silicon substrate of a microactuator, escape to the ground. A head gimbal assembly (HGA) according to an embodiment of the present invention comprises a microactuator bonded to a gimbal tongue. The microactuator comprises a piezoelectric element and a movable part for moving in response to expansion or contraction of the piezoelectric element. The motion of the movable part causes a head slider to slightly move. The microactuator further comprises a conductive path including an impurity-containing silicon layer formed on the silicon substrate. The conductive path transmits electric charge of the head slider to a suspension. The conductivity of the impurity-containing silicon layer is lower than the one of the silicon substrate so that the noise charge of the head slider may escape to the suspension. | 05-28-2009 |
20100053812 | MAGNETIC HEAD FOR RECORDING MAGNETIC DATA BY CHANGING THE MAGNETIZATION DIRECTION OF A MAGNETIC RECORDING LAYER OF A MAGNETIC MEDIUM - According to one embodiment, a magnetic head for recording magnetic data by changing the magnetization direction of a magnetic recording layer of a magnetic medium comprises a magnetic pole for generating a magnetic field to change the magnetization direction of the magnetic recording layer, and a facing electrode pair for generating an electromagnetic field and applying energy to the magnetic recording layer to assist the change of the magnetization direction of the magnetic recording layer caused by the magnetic field from the magnetic pole. Other embodiments are also presented. | 03-04-2010 |
20110090602 | HEAD-GIMBAL ASSEMBLY INCLUDING A TRANSMISSION-LINE STRUCTURE FOR HIGH-DENSITY MAGNETIC RECORDING - A head-gimbal assembly. The head-gimbal assembly includes a suspension, a head-slider coupled to the suspension, a magnetic-recording assistance element on the head-slider for applying an electromagnetic wave to a magnetic-recording disk, and a transmission line on the suspension for transmitting signals to the magnetic-recording assistance element. The transmission line includes an electrically conductive line for transmitting the signals, an upper shield placed above the electrically conductive line along the electrically conductive line, a lower shield placed below the electrically conductive line along the electrically conductive line, and a plurality of columns arranged at each of a right side and a left side of the electrically conductive line along the electrically conductive line for connecting the upper shield and the lower shield. The plurality of columns arranged at the right and left sides includes, respectively, a right linear array of columns and a left linear array of columns. | 04-21-2011 |
20110102935 | HEAD-STACK ASSEMBLY INCLUDING HEAT-DISSIPATION AND IMPEDANCE-MATCHING STRUCTURE AND HARD-DISK DRIVE USING THE HEAD-STACK ASSEMBLY - A head-stack assembly. The head-stack assembly includes: a magnetic-recording head; a lead-suspension supporting the magnetic-recording head on an actuator arm; a metal plate coupled with the actuator arm; a resin layer disposed on the metal plate; a flexible-printed-circuit board disposed on the resin layer, and substantially perpendicularly connected to the lead-suspension; a arm-electronics module disposed on the flexible-printed-circuit board configured to shape a write-signal current waveform of a write signal to said magnetic-recording head; transmission lines disposed on the flexible-printed-circuit board configured to transmit the write signal to, and a read-back signal from, the lead-suspension; and, a single intermediate conductor layer that is disposed between the resin layer and the flexible-printed-circuit board, and having a planar shape substantially facing a bottom of the arm-electronics module and a bottom of the transmission lines. | 05-05-2011 |
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20090216537 | SPEECH SYNTHESIS APPARATUS AND METHOD THEREOF - A speech synthesis apparatus includes a text obtaining device that obtains text data for speech synthesis from the outside, a language processor that carries out morphological analysis/parsing to the text data, a prosodic processor that outputs, to a speech synthesizer, a synthesis unit string based on the prosodic and language related attributes of the text data such as accents and word classes, the speech synthesizer that generates synthesized speech from the synthesis unit string, and a speech waveform output device that reproduces a prescribed amount of output synthesized speech after it is accumulated or sequentially as it is output. | 08-27-2009 |
20110246199 | SPEECH SYNTHESIZER - According to one embodiment, a speech synthesizer generates a speech segment sequence and synthesizes speech by connecting speech segments of the generated speech segment sequence. If a speech segment of a synthesized first speech segment sequence is different from the speech segment of a synthesized second speech segment sequence having the same synthesis unit as the first speech segment sequence, the speech synthesizer disables the speech segment of the first speech segment sequence that is different from the speech segment of the second speech segment sequence. | 10-06-2011 |
20130030805 | TRANSCRIPTION SUPPORT SYSTEM AND TRANSCRIPTION SUPPORT METHOD - According to one embodiment, a transcription support system supports transcription work to convert voice data to text. The system includes a first storage unit configured to store therein the voice data; a playback unit configured to play back the voice data; a second storage unit configured to store therein voice indices, each of which associates a character string obtained from a voice recognition process with voice positional information, for which the voice positional information is indicative of a temporal position in the voice data and corresponds to the character string; a text creating unit that creates the text in response to an operation input of a user; and an estimation unit configured to estimate already-transcribed voice positional information indicative of a position at which the creation of the text is completed in the voice data based on the voice indices. | 01-31-2013 |
20130080163 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT - According to an embodiment, an information processing apparatus includes a storage unit, a detector, an acquisition unit, and a search unit. The storage unit configured to store therein voice indices, each of which associates a character string included in voice text data obtained from a voice recognition process with voice positional information, the voice positional information indicating a temporal position in the voice data and corresponding to the character string. The acquisition unit acquires reading information being at least a part of a character string representing a reading of a phrase to be transcribed from the voice data played back. The search unit specifies, as search targets, character strings whose associated voice positional information is included in the played-back section information among the character strings included in the voice indices, and retrieves a character string including the reading represented by the reading information from among the specified character strings. | 03-28-2013 |
20130080174 | RETRIEVING DEVICE, RETRIEVING METHOD, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT - In an embodiment, a retrieving device includes: a text input unit, a first extracting unit, a retrieving unit, a second extracting unit, an acquiring unit, and a selecting unit. The text input unit inputs a text including unknown word information representing a phrase that a user was unable to transcribe. The first extracting unit extracts related words representing a phrase related to the unknown word information among phrases other than the unknown word information included in the text. The retrieving unit retrieves a related document representing a document including the related words. The second extracting unit extracts candidate words representing candidates for the unknown word information from a plurality of phrases included in the related document. The acquiring unit acquires reading information representing estimated pronunciation of the unknown word information. The selecting unit selects at least one of candidate word of which pronunciation is similar to the reading information. | 03-28-2013 |
20130191125 | TRANSCRIPTION SUPPORTING SYSTEM AND TRANSCRIPTION SUPPORTING METHOD - A transcription supporting system for the conversion of voice data to text data includes a first storage module, a playing module, a voice recognition module, an index generating module, a second storage module, a text forming module, and an estimation module. The first storage module stores the voice data. The playing module plays the voice data. The voice recognition module executes the voice recognition processing on the voice data. The index generating module generates a voice index that makes the plural text strings generated in the voice recognition processing correspond to voice position data. The second storage module stores the voice index. The text forming module forms text corresponding to input of a user correcting or editing the generated text strings. The estimation module estimates the formed voice position indicating the last position in the voice data where the user corrected/confirmed the voice recognition. | 07-25-2013 |
20140046666 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT, AND INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD - According to an embodiment, an information processing apparatus includes a dividing unit, an assigning unit, and a generating unit. The dividing unit is configured to divide speech data into pieces of utterance data. The assigning unit is configured to assign speaker identification information to each piece of utterance data based on an acoustic feature of the each piece of utterance data. The generating unit is configured to generate a candidate list that indicates candidate speaker names so as to enable a user to determine a speaker name to be given to the piece of utterance data identified by instruction information, based on operation history information in which at least pieces of utterance identification information, pieces of the speaker identification information, and speaker names given by the user to the respective pieces of utterance data are associated with one another. | 02-13-2014 |
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20080318842 | Cyclic Isodityrosine Derivatives - [Problems] To provide a novel cyclic isodityrosine derivative having a physiological effect.
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20100019077 | REEL AND RECORDING TAPE CARTRIDGE - A reel comprising a hub formed in the shape of a cylindrical tube with a base, on an outer peripheral surface of which a recording tape is wound; a base side flange portion that projects-out to a radial direction outer side of a base portion side of the hub; a flange member configured in a disc shape or an annular plate shape of a material with an elastic modulus at least equal to a material that constitutes the hub, the flange member being coaxially joined to an opening end portion of the hub; a metal plate formed in a circular plate shape or an annular plate shape, which is fixed coaxially to the base portion of the hub; and plate retention portions that are formed integrally with the base portion of the hub and touch an outer peripheral surface of the metal plate at at least four locations, which are at equal intervals in a circumferential direction of the hub. | 01-28-2010 |
20100123036 | REEL AND RECORDING TAPE CARTRIDGE - A reel includes a hub formed in a cylindrical-tube-shape with a base portion, on an outer peripheral surface of which a recording tape is wound; a base side flange portion that projects-out to a radial direction outer side of a base portion side of the hub; a flange member configured in a disc-shape or an annular-plate-shape of a material with an elastic modulus at least equal to a material that constitutes the hub, the flange member being coaxially joined to an opening end portion of the hub; a metal plate formed in a circular-plate-shape or an annular-plate-shape, which is fixed coaxially to the base portion of the hub; and a groove wall that is formed integrally with the base portion of the hub and forms a groove portion which is continuous around the entire periphery between the groove wall and an outer peripheral surface of the metal plate. | 05-20-2010 |
20110213001 | PHARMACEUTICAL COMPOSITIONS - The object of the present invention is to provide a pharmaceutical composition that inhibits expression of iNOS and COX-2 without inhibiting NF-κB. The pharmaceutical composition that inhibits expression of iNOS and COX-2 without inhibiting NF-κB contains DTCM glutarimide of the Formula (I) as an effective ingredient, thereby being able to inhibit nitric oxide (NO) production and prostaglandin production. | 09-01-2011 |
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20080257083 | Driving device having suitable stationary member as material - A driving device includes an electro-mechanical transducer having first and second end portions opposite to each other in an expansion/contraction direction, a stationary member coupled to the first end portion of the electro-mechanical transducer, a vibration friction portion mounted to the second end portion of the electro-mechanical transducer, and a rod-shaped moving portion frictionally coupled to the vibration friction portion, whereby moving the moving portion in the expansion/contraction direction of the electro-mechanical transducer. The stationary member consists essentially of a base alloy which consists of, by weight, 88 to 97% tungsten, 2 to 11% nickel as a binder, and, as the balance, 0.1 to 2% at least one metal having an ionization tendency which is higher than that of tungsten. The stationary member has a surface without nickel plating. | 10-23-2008 |
20080258578 | Driving device capable of obtaining a stable frequency characteristic - A driving device includes an electro-mechanical transducer having first and second end portions opposite to each other in an expansion/contraction direction, a static member coupled to the first end portion of the electro-mechanical transducer, a vibration friction portion coupled to the second end portion of the electro-mechanical transducer, and a rod-shaped moving portion frictionally coupled to the vibration friction portion, whereby moving the moving portion in the expansion/contraction direction of the electro-mechanical transducer. The driving device is covered with a cabinet. An elastic member lies between the cabinet and the static member. | 10-23-2008 |
20080265806 | Method of driving a driving device - A driving device includes an electro-mechanical transducer having first and second end portions opposite to each other in an expansion/contraction direction, a stationary member coupled to the first end portion of the electro-mechanical transducer, a vibration friction portion mounted to the second end portion of the electro-mechanical transducer, and a moving portion frictionally coupled to the vibration friction portion, whereby moving the moving portion in the expansion/contraction direction of the electro-mechanical transducer. The moving portion is driven by equalizing a constant expanding speed of the electro-mechanical transducer with a constant contracting speed of the electro-mechanical transducer and by setting a constant rest time interval after one of contraction of the electro-mechanical transducer and expansion of the electro-mechanical transducer. | 10-30-2008 |
20080297000 | Driving device capable of improving a shock and vibration resistance thereof - A driving device includes an electro-mechanical transducer having first and second end portions opposite to each other in an expansion/contraction direction, a static member coupled to the first end portion of the electro-mechanical transducer, a vibration friction portion coupled to the second end portion of the electro-mechanical transducer, and a rod-shaped moving portion frictionally coupled to the vibration friction portion, whereby moving the moving portion in the expansion/contraction direction of the electro-mechanical transducer. An outer sheath is for covering the driving device. An attitude retaining arrangement retains an attitude of the driving device with respect to the outer sheath. | 12-04-2008 |
20080297004 | Driving device capable of transferring vibrations generated by an electro-mechanical transducer to a vibration friction portion with a high degree of efficiency - A driving device includes an electro-mechanical transducer having first and second end portions opposite to each other in an expansion/contraction direction, a stationary member coupled to the first end portion of the electro-mechanical transducer, a vibration friction portion coupled to the second end portion of the electro-mechanical transducer, and a rod-shaped moving portion frictionally coupled to the vibration friction portion, whereby moving the moving portion in the expansion/contraction direction of the electro-mechanical transducer. The vibration friction portion is made of a material having a vibration transfer rate of 4900 meters/second or more. The moving portion is made of a material which has a vibration transfer rate of 4900 meters/second or more and which is different from that of the vibration friction portion. | 12-04-2008 |
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20110316134 | SEMICONDUCTOR STORAGE DEVICE AND MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREOF - According to the embodiment, a semiconductor storage device includes an organic substrate, a semiconductor memory chip, a lead frame, and a resin mold section. The lead frame includes an adhering portion. The organic substrate is singulated to have a shape in which a portion in which the organic substrate does not overlap with the placing portion is larger than a portion in which the organic substrate overlaps with the placing portion, in plan view. The lead frame further includes a first extending portion in the adhering portion that extends to a surface different from a surface of the resin mold section on a side of an insertion direction. | 12-29-2011 |
20140070381 | SEMICONDUCTOR MEMORY CARD - A semiconductor memory card includes a lead frame having external connection terminals, a controller chip mounted on the lead frame and a memory chip mounted on the lead frame. The lead frame, the controller chip, and the memory chip are sealed with a sealing resin layer that has a surface at which the external connection terminals are exposed and a recess surrounding the external connection terminals. | 03-13-2014 |
20140252588 | SEMICONDUCTOR MODULE - According to one embodiment, a semiconductor module has a substrate, two nonvolatile memories disposed on a first surface of the substrate, a controller to control the nonvolatile memories, disposed on the first surface of the substrate and between the two nonvolatile memories, and a plurality of terminals that are electrically connected to the two nonvolatile memories and to the controller, disposed on a second surface of the substrate. | 09-11-2014 |
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20110205580 | DEVICE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM, MANAGED DEVICE, INFORMATION PROVIDING METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - A device management system includes a managed device and a device management apparatus. The device management apparatus includes an information acquisition unit requesting device information from the managed device. The managed device includes a storage unit, a first information source managing device information that is available via a communication protocol, a second information source managing device information that is not available via the communication protocol, and an information providing unit providing the requested device information to the information acquisition unit. The information providing unit determines whether an up-to-date version of the requested device information is stored in a storage area of the storage unit and obtains the up-to-date version of the requested device information from the first information source or the second information source if the up-to-date version of the requested device information is not stored in the storage area of the storage unit. | 08-25-2011 |
20120072587 | MANAGED DEVICE, DEVICE MANAGEMENT APPARATUS, AND DEVICE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM - A device management system includes a managed device and a device management apparatus. The managed device includes a detection unit detecting a status change indicating a power-on or a network setting change of the managed device, a generating unit generating alert information based on the detected status change, and a transmitting unit configured to transmit the generated alert information to the device management apparatus. The device management apparatus includes a registration/update determining unit comparing the alert information with device management information and determining, based on the comparison result, whether it is necessary to perform a registration process or an update process on the device management information, and a registration/updating unit registering information extracted from the alert information in the device management information or updating a corresponding information item in the device management information with the information extracted from the alert information according to the determination result. | 03-22-2012 |
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20140005805 | CPU OF PLC, SYSTEM PROGRAM FOR PLC, AND RECORDING MEDIUM STORING SYSTEM PROGRAM FOR PLC | 01-02-2014 |
20140005808 | CPU OF PLC, SYSTEM PROGRAM FOR PLC, AND RECORDING MEDIUM STORING SYSTEM PROGRAM FOR PLC | 01-02-2014 |
20140005835 | CPU OF PLC, SYSTEM PROGRAM FOR PLC, AND RECORDING MEDIUM STORING SYSTEM PROGRAM FOR PLC | 01-02-2014 |
20140012402 | CPU OF PLC, SYSTEM PROGRAM FOR PLC, AND RECORDING MEDIUM STORING SYSTEM PROGRAM FOR PLC - A scheduler causes a microprocessor to start execution of a first control program after a communication circuit transmits output data and receives input data in a control cycle following a control circle in which execution of the first control program has ended, and causes execution of an unexecuted portion of the first control program in a control cycle following a control cycle in which execution of the first control cycle has not ended. | 01-09-2014 |
20140136570 | CONTROLLER AND PROGRAM - The present invention provides a technique for improving the reliability of access to a database system in a controller, such as a PLC. A PLC accessible to a database accesses a DB server in response to an event in which a user program calls a DB access processing program. The DB access processing program stores status information indicating a status of accesses to the DB server in a nonvolatile memory, in accordance with an instruction of the user program. When a power interruption occurs, the PLC can obtain a status of accesses to the DB server at the timing of the occurrence of the power interruption by referring to the status information. Then, the PLC, for example, re-sends a SQL sentence, depending on the access status. | 05-15-2014 |
20150025656 | SUPPORT DEVICE, RECORDING MEDIUM HAVING SUPPORT PROGRAM RECORDED THEREON, AND METHOD FOR GENERATING EXECUTABLE PROGRAM - Provided is a support device that supports easier data exchange between PLCs without relying on a type of a PLC of the other communication party. The support device includes: a first input unit for receiving information defining, on a data-by-data basis, variables for data handled by the first programmable logic controller; a second input unit for receiving a source program expressing processing executed on the first programmable logic controller using the defined variables; a third input unit for receiving information that identifies a type of a second programmable logic controller in association with a first variable; and a generation unit that generates the executable program using the information defining the variables and the source program. The generation unit adapts a data structure of first data secured in the memory in correspondence with the first variable in accordance with the type of the second programmable logic controller. | 01-22-2015 |