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20090027988 | Memory device, memory controller and memory system - An image memory, image memory system, and memory controller that are capable of efficiently accessing a rectangular area of two-dimensionally arrayed data are provided. The memory device has: a memory cell array that has a plurality of memory unit areas, each of which is selected by addresses; a plurality of input/output terminals; and an input/output unit provided between the memory cell array and the plurality of input/output terminals. Each of the memory unit areas stores therein data of a plurality of bytes or bits corresponding to the plurality of input/output terminals respectively, and the memory cell array and the input/output unit access a plurality of bytes or bits stored in a first memory unit area corresponding to the input address and in a second memory unit area adjacent to the first memory unit on the basis of the input address and combination information of the bytes or bits in response to a first operation code, and then, from the plurality of bytes or bits within the accessed first and second memory unit areas, associate a combination of the plurality of bytes or bits based on the combination information, with the plurality of input/output terminals. | 01-29-2009 |
20100146201 | MEMORY DEVICE, MEMORY CONTROLLER AND MEMORY SYSTEM - Provided is a memory device in which the decrease of the effective bandwidth caused by the refresh operation of the memory device has been solved, a memory controller of the memory device, and a memory system thereof. A memory device that is operated in response to a command from a memory controller has a plurality of banks that respectively have memory cores including memory cell arrays and decoders and are selected by bank addresses; and a control circuit, which, in response to a background refresh command, causes the memory cores within refresh target banks set by the memory controller to successively execute refresh operation a number of times corresponding to refresh burst length that is set by the memory controller, and, in response to a normal operation command, further causes the memory cores within banks other than the refresh target banks and selected by the bank addresses to execute normal memory operation corresponding to the normal operation command, during the refresh operation executed by the memory cores within the refresh target banks. | 06-10-2010 |
20100172200 | MEMORY DEVICE, MEMORY CONTROLLER AND MEMORY SYSTEM - Provided is a memory device in which the decrease of the effective bandwidth caused by the refresh operation of the memory device has been solved, a memory controller of the memory device, and a memory system thereof. A memory device that is operated in response to a command from a memory controller has a plurality of banks that respectively have memory cores including memory cell arrays and decoders and are selected by bank addresses; and a control circuit, which, in response to a background refresh command, causes the memory cores within refresh target banks set by the memory controller to successively execute refresh operation a number of times corresponding to refresh burst length that is set by the memory controller, and, in response to a normal operation command, further causes the memory cores within banks other than the refresh target banks and selected by the bank addresses to execute normal memory operation corresponding to the normal operation command, during the refresh operation executed by the memory cores within the refresh target banks. | 07-08-2010 |
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20100146180 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR RECONFIGURING THE INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS - The method for reconfiguring an information processing apparatus includes: transmitting, by the system management unit, a register setting request to set a register included in the control unit to a predetermined value to all of the system boards within the information processing apparatus, when a system board is added to or removed from any of the partitions; setting, by the system board that receives the register setting request, a register of a control unit of the local system board to the predetermined value, if a partition to which the local system board belongs includes the system board to be added or removed; and ignoring, by the system board that receives the register setting request, the register setting request if the partition to which the local system board belongs does not include the system board to be added or removed. | 06-10-2010 |
20100153663 | MEMORY ACCESS SYSTEM AND METHOD - A memory access system has a first memory for storing data, a second memory for storing data, a processor for processing data, the processor including a first memory controller for reading out data from or writing data into the first memory, a second memory controller connected to the processor, for reading out data from or writing data into the first memory and the second memory, and a selector for selecting either the first memory controller or the second memory controller, and enabling either the first and the second memory controllers to read out data from or write data into the first memory. | 06-17-2010 |
20110145455 | Information processing apparatus and method for controlling information processing apparatus - According to an aspect of the embodiment, a system control apparatus includes a control signal transmitting unit which transmits a control signal to control circuits via first signal line. The control signal includes a command for performing a control setting on other control circuits other than own control circuit or to all control circuits. Each control circuit includes a signal receiving unit which receives the control signal transmitted from the control signal transmitting unit via the first signal line, a signal transfer unit which transfers the command included in the received control signal via second signal lines to the control circuit, and a control setting unit which performs the control setting on the own control circuit according to the command included in the received control signal or a command transferred from the other control circuits other than the own control circuit. | 06-16-2011 |
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20090233658 | MOBILE TERMINAL DEVICE - A mobile terminal device including a first housing, a second housing and a hinge foldably connecting the first housing and the second housing is provided. The mobile terminal device includes a hinge including a hinge mechanism which rotatably connects the first housing and the second housing. The device includes a flexible joint which liquid-tightly connects the first housing and the second housing and liquid-tightly contains the hinge mechanism. | 09-17-2009 |
20110115744 | PORTABLE DEVICE - A portable device including: a housing including a bottom wall section and a frame-shaped peripheral wall section provided on the bottom wall section; a pressure-sensitive touch panel including a bonding section and a contact section, the bonding section being bonded to the peripheral wall section and the contact section being surrounded by the housing and positioned inside from the bonding section; and a control board that is electrically connected to the touch panel through the contact section. | 05-19-2011 |
20120111713 | PORTABLE ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND PRINTED CIRCUIT BOARD MODULE - A portable electronic device includes a printed circuit board module including a printed circuit board, a contact switch disposed on the printed circuit board, and a sheet having a first portion attached to the contact switch and a surface of the printed circuit board on which the contact switch is disposed, a folded portion which is extended from the first sheet portion and folded back at an edge surface of the printed circuit board, and a second portion which is extended from the folded portion and attached to a back surface of the surface of the printed circuit board on which the contact switch is disposed, a key module including a key top provided on the sheet opposite to the contact switch, and a pusher which is provided between the key top and the contact switch, and a housing. | 05-10-2012 |
20120113574 | PORTABLE ELECTRONIC APPARATUS HAVING CASINGS - A portable electronic apparatus includes a first casing, a second casing movably connected to the first casing, a first elastic member provided on a surface of the second casing facing the first casing and a second elastic member provided on a surface of the first casing facing the second casing. The second elastic member includes a convex portion that elastically contacts with the first elastic member in a closed state in which the first casing and the second casing are superposed. | 05-10-2012 |
20120113604 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE - An electronic device includes a case including a fixing portion, a printed board fixed to the fixing portion, a key rubber provided with key tops and fixed to the printed board, and a flexible cable attached to the printed board and bent in a direction different from the surface of the fixing portion to which the printed board is fixed, wherein the key rubber includes a contact portion that is in contact with the folded portion of the flexible cable and subjected to reaction force of the flexible cable, and a locking portion pressed against the case by the reaction force. | 05-10-2012 |
20120113652 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE - An electronic device includes a case, a multi-directional input unit having an annular base and a flange that extends from an outer circumferential surface of the annular base and fits part of the case, the flange guiding light emitted from a light source and radiating the light; and a cover having a through-hole through which part of the multi-directional input unit passes, the cover abutting the flange and being secured to the case. | 05-10-2012 |
20140284191 | KEY STRUCTURE AND ELECTRONIC APPARATUS - A key structure in an electronic apparatus case includes a top portion that is exposed through a surface of the case, a shaft portion that extends from the top portion and includes a elastomer at a tip of the shaft portion, and a stopper portion that projects from a periphery of the top portion to engage and that is engaged so as to be in contact with the switch in the state where the elastomer is contracted. | 09-25-2014 |
20140345899 | WATER RESISTANT STRUCTURE AND ELECTRONIC APPARATUS - A water resistant structure includes a first member having a stepped portion at an opening thereof; a second member having a rib protruding from a back surface thereof; and a water-stop member having an elastically deformable water-stop portion at a tip of a second plate portion that extends upward from a first plate portion. The first plate portion is attached to a horizontal surface of the stepped portion by double-sided adhesive tape. The second plate portion faces a vertical surface of the stepped portion. The water-stop portion is spread along the vertical surface of the stepped portion. The rib is pressed into an inner side of the water-stop portion, and the water-stop portion is pushed against the vertical surface of the stepped portion and the rib. | 11-27-2014 |
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20080211689 | Illegal-parking-management portable terminal, illegal-parking management method and computer program product - An illegal-parking-management portable terminal includes a storage unit, an extracting unit, and a selecting unit. The storage unit stores therein facility information on a facility relevant to illegal parking and an illegal-parking application rule that defines illegal-parking condition for each penalty article. The extracting unit extracts, from the facility information, information on a facility within a predetermined range from a position specified as a vehicle parking position on a map displayed on a display unit. The selecting unit compares the extracted information with the illegal-parking application rule, and selects a penalty article to be applied to illegal parking of a vehicle. | 09-04-2008 |
20090060279 | VEHICLE DISCRIMINATION APPARATUS, METHOD, AND COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM STORING PROGRAM THEREOF - The pixels located at equal intervals in a shot image are converted into intensity components and applied with a differential filter. The number of the obtained variations that have values larger than or equal to a certain value among the obtained variations is counted. Then discrimination of a vehicle shot in the target image is executed on the basis of the counted value. The counted value varies depending on a size of a shot object in a shot image. The counted value is large when an occupied area of the object is large, and the counted value is small when the occupied area of the object is small. By so doing, it is advantageously possible to properly discriminate a vehicle. | 03-05-2009 |
20090074250 | Apparatus, method, and computer product for vehicle-type determination - A vehicle-type determination apparatus includes a vehicle-portion extracting unit, a hood recognizing unit, and a vehicle-type determining unit. The vehicle-portion extracting unit extracts a vehicle portion from an image of a recognition object. The hood recognizing unit recognizes an area corresponding to a hood in the vehicle portion extracted by the vehicle-portion extracting unit. The vehicle-type determining unit determines the vehicle type based on the degree of inclination of a side of the hood area recognized by the hood recognizing unit. | 03-19-2009 |
20090097746 | COLOR CLASSIFICATION METHOD, COLOR RECOGNITION METHOD, COLOR CLASSIFICATION APPARATUS, COLOR RECOGNITION APPARATUS, COLOR RECOGNITION SYSTEM, COMPUTER PROGRAM, AND RECORDING MEDIUM - A color classification method including: determining a plurality of predetermined process target regions from a plurality of pickup images taken by an imaging device; calculating a plurality of color distributions of pixels contained in the respective determined process target regions; and forming a plurality of clusters by executing a clustering process based on the calculated color distributions for the pickup images, the method being for classifying a plurality of colors with respect to the respective formed clusters, the forming step including: extracting predetermined number of the classified colors, whose calculated rates are highest in the calculated plurality of the rates, from among the predetermined classified colors; defining a plurality of color spaces, dimensions of each of which are selected from the predetermined number of the extracted classified colors. | 04-16-2009 |
20090204707 | BANDWIDTH CONTROL SERVER, COMPUTER READABLE RECORD MEDIUM ON WHICH BANDWIDTH CONTROL PROGRAM IS RECORDED, AND MONITORING SYSTEM - A bandwidth control server, a bandwidth control program recorded on a computer readable record medium, and a monitoring system that control the sending of image data obtained by cameras in accordance with priority corresponding to a situation. A setting information storage section stores setting information regarding a camera installed at each point. When disaster information is acquired, a disaster detection section extracts a disaster type and a disaster area from the disaster information. A priority determination section searches the setting information on the basis of the disaster type and the disaster area and extracts setting information corresponding to the disaster type. Then the priority determination section determines priority for sending image data obtained by cameras installed in the disaster area on the basis of the extracted setting information. A bandwidth control section ensures bandwidths which can be used for sending the image data in descending order of the priority on the basis of the priority and bandwidth information acquired by a network monitoring section. | 08-13-2009 |
20150154460 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD - An image processing apparatus includes a processor. The processor is configured to execute a process including creating an average image of difference images in moving picture data based on a difference between a first frame and a second frame adjacent to the first frame, the first frame and the second frame included in the moving picture data, calculating a sum total of luminance values arranged in a lateral direction of the average image for each point in a longitudinal direction of the average image, selecting a predetermined number of points that are higher in value of a secondary differential value of the sum total of luminance values, from among points located in a downward direction from a position of a vanishing point in the average image, and firstly specifying a point that is on a boundary between a hood and a road from among the predetermined number of selected points. | 06-04-2015 |
20150178577 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD - An image processing apparatus according to an embodiment has an identification unit, a detection unit, and a determination unit. The image processing apparatus according to the embodiment identifies moving image data taken by a camera in the night-time and detects a high-brightness region from frames of the identified moving image data. The image processing apparatus determines whether or not the high-brightness region is a subject to be detected, in a switchable manner depending on whether the moving image data has been taken during curve running or straight running. | 06-25-2015 |
20150220794 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD - An image processing apparatus includes a calculating unit and a detecting unit. The calculating unit calculates an additional value of a luminance values for each coordinate value in a first direction. The calculating unit calculates an additional value of the luminance values for each coordinate value in a second direction. The detecting unit detects a region of the image in which additional values of the luminance values for each coordinate value in the first direction are equal or a region in which additional values of the luminance values for each coordinate value in the second direction are equal. | 08-06-2015 |
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20080204921 | RECORD MEDIUM BEARING COMMUNICATION APPARATUS CONTROL PROGRAM, AND COMMUNICATION APPARATUS - A computer performs a control including (1) receiving a request for monitoring a station to-be-handled which is a communication apparatus different from a pertinent station including the computer, (2) transmitting a request for a response based on the station to-be-handled, to the station to-be-handled at a predetermined time interval, on the basis of the monitoring request, and (3) transmitting a message expressing that the station to-be-handled will be detached from a network, to the network if the response to the response request was not received within a predetermined wait time. | 08-28-2008 |
20080209003 | MONITORING DEVICE AND MONITORING METHOD - A computer executes a monitoring control by receiving a first notification which has been transmitted from another communication apparatus to a network, and acquiring first identification information which is identification information of the communication apparatus at a predetermined first layer, from the first notification. The computer acquires second identification information which is identification information of the communication apparatus at a second layer being lower in hierarchy than the first layer. The computer associates the first identification information and the second identification information, and acquires a connection state between the network and the communication apparatus at the second layer. | 08-28-2008 |
20130317658 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, METHOD FOR PROCESSING INFORMATION, AND INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM - An information processing apparatus includes a memory; and a processor coupled to the memory and configured to perform control, when it has been detected that there is a device among a plurality of devices each including a battery for which a state of an external power supply has changed from on to off, such that the battery for which the state of the external power supply has changed from on to off is not charged, obtain a plurality of pieces of information regarding operation states, in each of which information regarding the state of the external power supply and a power receiving state, from the plurality of devices, obtain information including a total value of power consumption of the plurality of devices corresponding to the plurality of pieces of information regarding the operation states, and calculate the power consumption of each of the plurality of devices in each operation state. | 11-28-2013 |
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20090086418 | DISPLAY MODULE - A display module includes: a display unit having a display screen for displaying information; a display unit housing including a transparent front cover covering a display screen of the display unit, and a pair of side covers covering both sides of the display unit, wherein the display unit is attached to the display unit housing so as to be detachable; and shafts projecting outwards from the pair of side covers and supported so as to be freely rotatable when fitted in a pair of supporting holes made in a housing provided for an apparatus. | 04-02-2009 |
20120075815 | ELECTRONIC APPARATUS - An electronic apparatus includes a housing having a first connector; a Plug In Unit (PIU) having a second connecter, coupled to the first connector, and inserted into the housing; a first guide mechanism (1st GM) provided on the housing and/or the PIU; a second guide mechanism (2nd GM) provided on another housing and/or the PIU and guides insertion of the PIU in cooperation with the 1st GM so that the first connector is coupled to the second connector. The 1st GM, for example, includes a guide cylinder, and the 2nd GM, for example, includes a pin inserted into the guide cylinder; a fixed cylinder surrounding the pin; and a movable member, which has a hole that passes through the fixed cylinder, and the movable member is held by the fixed cylinder to be movable in the axial direction. The guide cylinder pushes the movable member when the pin is inserted. | 03-29-2012 |
20120108093 | ELECTRONIC APPARATUS ON WHICH PLUG-IN UNIT CAN BE MOUNTED - An electronic apparatus including a housing that includes a first connector, and a printed circuit board unit that includes a printed circuit board, a second connector that is connected to the first connector at the completion of insertion of the printed circuit board into the housing, a lever that is rotatably provided for the printed circuit board, and a lock mechanism that locks the lever in a predetermined position. Wherein when the printed circuit board is inserted into the housing, the lever in a first position comes into contact with the housing, when the printed circuit board is further inserted into the housing, the lever rotates in one direction while being in contact with the housing, and when the insertion of the printed circuit board into the housing is completed, the lever is in a second position, and the lock mechanism locks the lever in the second position. | 05-03-2012 |
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20110053591 | MOBILE COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, PAGING-AREA DETERMINATION METHOD AND CALL-PROCESSING CONTROL APPARATUS IN MOBILE COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - In order to narrow down base stations within the tracking-area-based paging area to ones within a smaller area where the mobile unit may exist in a mobile communication system performing the paging on the tracking-area basis, the mobile communication system has a location registration information database memorizing tracking area information, a last location registration information and a N-th (N is an integer of one or more) location registration information from the last for each mobile unit, calculates statistical data on a movement distance for each mobile unit based on the location registration information memorized in the location registration information database, and performs the paging via base stations included both within an area whose radius is equal to the calculated statistical data on the movement distance and within the tracking area. | 03-03-2011 |
20110124341 | LOCATION REGISTRATION AREA ASSIGNING METHOD AND WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A call processing control apparatus automatically detects that a lot of handover and location registration simultaneously occur, and notifies a monitor control server. The monitor control server receiving the notification from the call processing control apparatus transmits a TAI change request to a base station so that a tracking area identity (TAI) of a movement destination cell where congestion occurs and a tracking area identity of a movement origin cell have the same value. The base station receiving the TAI change request message from the monitor control server changes its own TAI value. After that, all mobile devices perform only handover when they move between the cells where the TAI values are changed, and does not perform location registration. | 05-26-2011 |
20110280215 | COMMUNICATION SYSTEM AND METHOD, AND GATEWAY - To realize a handover in which a gateway connecting to the access networks using different protocols is an anchor. | 11-17-2011 |
20140029513 | WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, WIRELESS COMMUNICATION METHOD, AND MOBILE TERMINAL - A mobile terminal includes: an LTE wireless processing unit having an LTE communication function; a wireless LAN processing unit having a wireless LAN communication function; and a terminal control unit that determines whether to use the LTE wireless processing unit or the wireless LAN processing unit and controls a function as a wireless terminal. The mobile terminal includes a base station functional unit having a communication protocol processing function of an LTE base station. Based on control of the terminal control unit, a signal generated at the base station functional unit, the signal being based on the communication protocol of the LTE base station, is stored in a wireless LAN frame, and the signal is sent to a device in the LTE core network via a wireless LAN base station. | 01-30-2014 |