Patent application number | Description | Published |
20080219657 | Portable Electronic Apparatus - A portable electronic apparatus includes an exterior member which has an opening and houses a main body. A part of the main body is exposed through the opening. The apparatus also includes a lid which is attached to the exterior member so as to cover or uncover the opening; and a strap attaching part provided on an area of the part of the main body. The area is covered with the lid, and a strap with a small loop is attachable to the strap attaching part. | 09-11-2008 |
20080268286 | Two package type clear coating composition and method for making multilayer coating film - A two package type clear coating composition which can form cured coating film excelling in all aspects of scratch resistance, acid resistance, stain resistance and finished appearance such as coated surface smoothness, comprising a hydroxyl-containing acrylic resin (A) having a hydroxyl value of 100-200 mgKOH/g and a number-average molecular weight of 5,000-10,000, which is obtained by copolymerization of a monomeric mixture comprising an aromatic vinyl monomer and a monomer having cyclohexyl ring; a trifunctional HMDI isocyanurate compound (B); and a polyester polyol (C) having a hydroxyl value of 250-350 mgKOH/g and a number-average molecular weight of 350-550, which is obtained by esterification reaction of C | 10-30-2008 |
20090101237 | Compressed Wood Product and Electronic Device Exterior Material - A compressed wood product includes a wood whose shape is taken while a volume decreased by compression is previously added, wherein a direction intersecting a fiber direction of the wood is set to a compression direction, and the wood is formed by being subjected to compressive force. | 04-23-2009 |
20090126829 | Method of Processing Wooden Piece - A method of processing a wooden piece into a predetermined shape by compressing the wooden piece, includes bending a raw-material piece which is a wooden piece to be processed and is placed in a humid condition of high temperature, cutting out a blank-material piece from the raw-material piece bent in the bending so that the blank-material piece includes at least a part of a bent portion of the raw-material piece, and compressing the blank-material piece cut out in the cutting out in a water vapor atmosphere of a temperature and a pressure higher than those of an atmospheric air. | 05-21-2009 |
20090130241 | Metal Mold for Forming Wooden Piece - A metal mold for forming a wooden piece by applying a compressive force to the wooden piece includes a discharge passage for discharging air present between the wooden piece and the metal mold to outside at a time of forming of the wooden piece. | 05-21-2009 |
20090139635 | Method of Processing Wooden Piece - A method is of processing a wooden piece into a predetermined three dimensional shape by compressing the wooden piece. The method includes compressing a first wooden piece and a second wooden piece in a water vapor atmosphere of a temperature and a pressure higher than a temperature and a pressure of an atmospheric air, by placing the first and the second wooden pieces one on another, the first wooden piece having a shape including a curved surface, and the second wooden piece having a flat board-like shape in which a large part of fiber components run in a direction substantially parallel to a surface. | 06-04-2009 |
20090185071 | Portable Electronic Apparatus - A portable electronic apparatus includes an exterior member which houses a main body of the apparatus and has an opening, a part of the main body being exposed through the opening; a lid which is attached to the exterior member so as to cover or uncover the opening; a hook which is provided in an area of the main body to be covered with the lid and on which a small loop for attachment of a strap is hooked; and a projection which projects from the lid and which comes in contact with a head part of the hook with the lid closed. A boundary surface of the covered area, the hook, and the projection forms a closed planar area with the lid closed. | 07-23-2009 |
20090208766 | Method of Processing Wood and Compressed Wood Product - A desired property is readily granted to a wooden piece ( | 08-20-2009 |
20090297138 | Sliding Mechanism of Lens Barrier, Lens Barrier, and Camera - A sliding mechanism of a lens barrier, a lens barrier, and a camera have a simplified structure and can be readily downsized. An imaging apparatus has an imaging lens which focuses light to form an image. The lens barrier serves to cover the imaging lens from outside and is mounted on a main body of the imaging apparatus. The sliding mechanism of the lens barrier includes plural cam grooves and plural engaging members. The plural cam grooves are formed on a surface, which faces the main body of the imaging apparatus, of the lens barrier. The plural cam grooves have substantially parallel trajectories. The plural engaging members are arranged in the main body of the imaging apparatus and contact with the bottom portions of the plural cam grooves at least at three positions. The plural engaging members guide the lens barrier along the sliding direction. The lens barrier further includes an inner barrier and an outer barrier. The inner barrier is attached to the main body of the imaging apparatus and is slidable along a predetermined direction. The outer barrier is detachably attached to a surface, which is different from the surface attached to the main body of the imaging apparatus, of the inner barrier. The outer barrier has a surface area at least larger than the imaging lens. | 12-03-2009 |
20100046978 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND POWER CONTROL METHOD THEREFOR - An image forming capable of operating with reliability and shortening the down time. An operation unit forms an image. A power source unit supplies electric power supplied from an external power source to the operation unit. A storing unit stores successful data which shows that the image forming apparatus has started successfully. A mode selection unit selects a first mode in which regular electric power is supplied to the operation unit at a start-up when the storing unit stores the successful data, and a second mode in which electric power smaller than the regular electric power is supplied to the operation unit at the start-up when the storing unit does not store the successful data. A power control unit controls the electric power supplied from the power source unit to the operation unit according to the mode selected by the mode selection unit. | 02-25-2010 |
20100129139 | Joining Member and Joining Structure - There is provided a joining member to which wooden pieces can be attached and from which they can be detached, and a joining structure including the joining member without causing deterioration in an appearance of the wooden pieces. The joining member is placed between the plural wooden pieces ( | 05-27-2010 |
20100216550 | GAME DEVICE, GAME CONTROL METHOD, AND GAME CONTROL PROGRAM - A game device includes a shape data storage which stores data of an object disposed in a three-dimensional space, a first rendering unit which sets a point of view and a line of sight and renders the object by referencing data stored in the shape data storage, a viewpoint changing unit which receives a change instruction indicating a change of the point of view or line of sight and changes the point of view or line of sight. The viewpoint changing unit changes the point of view or line of sight to outside a predetermined range when the point of view or line of sight enters within the predetermined range. | 08-26-2010 |
20100240457 | GAME DEVICE, GAME CONTROL METHOD, AND GAME CONTROL PROGRAM - A game device includes a shape data storage which stores data of an object disposed in a three-dimensional space, a first rendering unit which sets a point of view and a line of sight and renders the object, a viewpoint changing unit which receives a change instruction indicating a change of the point of view or line of sight and changes the point of view or line of sight, and a character controller which moves a character along the outer surface of the object. The character controller allows the character to move between two-dimensional planes of objects rendered in such a manner that the objects are adjacent to each other in the two-dimensional planes generated by the first rendering unit, and the game device further includes a search unit which searches a set of objects lying within a predetermined range of distance in the two-dimensional plane, and changes the point of view or line of sight so that the searched objects can be rendered adjacently to each other in the two-dimensional plane. | 09-23-2010 |
20110220245 | METHOD OF MANUFACTURING COMPRESSED WOOD PRODUCT - A method of manufacturing a compressed wood product includes cutting out a blank piece from raw wood, the blank piece having a shape in which a circularly closed marginal part makes a first plane, only one space of two spaces divided by the first plane has an undulation that includes a plurality of convex vertices, a vertex of which height from the first plane is higher is located at a position closer to a geometrical center of the circularly closed marginal part among arbitrary two vertices of the plurality of convex vertices when being viewed on a second plane that passes the two vertices and is perpendicular to the first plane, the blank piece having a volume obtained by adding an amount by which a volume of the blank piece is decreased by compression; softening the blank piece cut out; and compressing the softened blank piece in a water-vapor atmosphere having temperature and pressure higher than those of atmospheric air to deform the blank piece into a shape substantially like a bowl. | 09-15-2011 |
20110220246 | METHOD OF MANUFACTURING COMPRESSED WOOD PRODUCT - A method of manufacturing a compressed wood product includes applying a compressive force to a wooden piece in a water-vapor atmosphere having temperature and pressure higher than those of atmospheric air to deform the wooden piece into a three-dimensional shape having a curved surface; placing an attachment for forming a pattern at a desired position on a surface of the wooden piece after applying the compressive force; and applying a pressure to the attachment and the wooden piece while heating the attachment and the wooden piece in the atmospheric air to shape the wooden piece into substantially the same shape as the three-dimensional shape and to firmly fix the attachment to the wooden piece. | 09-15-2011 |
20110319527 | MICROPARTICLE/POLYROTAXANE-CONTAINING COATING, MICROPARTICLE/POLYROTAXANE-CONTAINING COATING FILM AND COATED ARTICLE - There is provided a microparticle/polyrotaxane-containing coating with high abrasion resistance and chemical resistance. There are also provided a microparticle/polyrotaxane-containing coating film and a coated article. The microparticle/polyrotaxane-containing coating includes a solvent-based coating material, a modified polyrotaxane having a caprolactone modification group (—CO(CH | 12-29-2011 |
20120014658 | PROGRAM, INFORMATION STORAGE MEDIUM, IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND DATA STRUCTURE - To provide a program, an information storage medium, an image processing device, an image processing method, and a data structure capable of collaboration between replay data and a motion picture produced by an image capturing unit during a period corresponding to the replay data. A replay data obtaining unit obtains replay data for reproducing the status of execution of a program. A captured motion picture obtaining unit obtains a captured motion picture that is produced by the image capturing unit during an image capturing period including at least a part of a reproduction period in which the status of execution of the program is reproduced based on replay data. A data holding unit holds replay data and a captured motion picture so as to be correlated to each other. | 01-19-2012 |
20120018046 | METHOD OF MANUFACTURING COMPRESSED WOOD PRODUCT - A method of manufacturing a compressed wood product that is obtained by compressing and forming a wooden piece, includes applying a compressive force to a blank piece that is cut out from raw wood and has a predetermined shape while sandwiching the blank piece between a pair of metal molds; and dividing the compressed blank piece into a plurality of portions by cutting. A compression rate, at the compressing, of an area of the blank piece corresponding to a boundary of the portions divided at the dividing is higher than compression rates, at the compressing, of other areas of the blank piece. A width of the boundary is larger than a cut width that is obtained when the blank piece is cut at the dividing. | 01-26-2012 |
20120018047 | METHOD OF FORMING WOODEN PIECE - A method of forming a wooden piece forms the wooden piece into a predetermined three-dimensional shape by compressing the wooden piece. The method includes attaching an elastic reinforcing member to an area of an inner surface of a wooden piece that is cut out to be substantially bowl-shaped, the area including a point where a change in curvature before and after compression is largest and separation of grain is largest; softening the wooden piece to which the reinforcing member is attached in a water-vapor atmosphere at a higher temperature and pressure than those in an atmospheric air; and compressing the softened wooden piece in the water-vapor atmosphere so as to deform the wooden piece into a predetermined three-dimensional shape. | 01-26-2012 |
20120022677 | SIMULATION METHOD, SIMULATION APPARATUS, AND COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM - A simulation apparatus includes a storing unit that stores therein information about a shape of a blank piece to be cut out from raw wood, information about a final shape of a wooden piece obtained by compressing the blank piece, and image data of a surface of the blank piece. The apparatus also includes detecting unit that detects a knot appearing on the surface of the blank piece by image recognition using the image data; a shape estimating unit that estimates a shape of the detected knot using shape information on the blank piece; and a determining unit that determines, in accordance with the shape of the estimated knot, a cutting location and a cutting shape of the blank piece in such a manner that the cutting location and shape include a part and a thickness of the knot is substantially the same as that of the compressed blank piece. | 01-26-2012 |
20130058674 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND POWER CONTROL METHOD THEREFOR - An image forming capable of operating with reliability and shortening the down time. An operation unit forms an image. A power source unit supplies electric power supplied from an external power source to the operation unit. A storing unit stores successful data which shows that the image forming apparatus has started successfully. A mode selection unit selects a first mode in which regular electric power is supplied to the operation unit at a start-up when the storing unit stores the successful data, and a second mode in which electric power smaller than the regular electric power is supplied to the operation unit at the start-up when the storing unit does not store the successful data. A power control unit controls the electric power supplied from the power source unit to the operation unit according to the mode selected by the mode selection unit. | 03-07-2013 |
20130069869 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, APPLICATION PROVISION SYSTEM, APPLICATION PROVISION SERVER, AND INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD - In an information processing apparatus, a motion vector acquisition unit acquires the movement of a cursor of a pointing device as a motion vector. A display unit displays an execution screen for an application. The display unit displays an operation area for operating an operation target in the application in an area of a display screen different from an area for displaying the execution screen. A conversion unit obtains the moving direction and the amount of displacement of the display position of the operation target based on the motion vector, acquired by the motion vector acquisition unit, of the cursor of the pointing device in the operation area. | 03-21-2013 |
20130072302 | GAME DEVICE, GAME CONTROL METHOD, AND GAME CONTROL PROGRAM CONFIGURED TO CONTROL A GAME IN WHICH A CHARACTER IS MOVED ALONG A SHADOW - A game device includes a light control unit configured to change, in a game field in which an object is located, a position of a light source or a direction of radiation by light emitted from the light source based on a control command of a player, a shadow rendering unit configured to render a shadow of the object projected by light emitted from the light source onto a plane of projection defined in the game field; and a character control unit configured to move a character along the shadow of the object. | 03-21-2013 |
20130229666 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS AND INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD - A projection pattern that includes a measurement pattern for measuring a distance to a target object, and a code pattern for identifying the measurement pattern is projected onto the target object. The target object onto which the projection pattern was projected is sensed. On the basis of a relationship between the measurement pattern and the code pattern in the sensed image, the projection pattern that is to be projected onto the target object after the projection pattern are changed, the code pattern is read out in the sensed image of the target object onto which the changed projection pattern was projected, and the measurement pattern is associated with it. Using the associated measurement pattern, a distance from the projection unit or the sensing unit to the target object is acquired. | 09-05-2013 |
20140181675 | CLOUD COMPUTING SYSTEM AND APPLICATION PROVISION METHOD - In a cloud computing system having a plurality of computational resources that are connected via a network, a table display section | 06-26-2014 |
20140267246 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, CONTROL METHOD THEREOF AND STORAGE MEDIUM - An information processing apparatus for generating a projection pattern used in three-dimensional measurement of a target object, comprising: determination means for determining a projection code string for generating the projection pattern based on distance information of the target object which is obtained in advance; and generation means for generating a pattern image of the projection pattern based on a projection code string determined by the determination means. | 09-18-2014 |
20140309039 | INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, PROGRAM, AND INFORMATION STORAGE MEDIUM - A front end server receives a request to start executing a game on at least one game server, the at least one game server being capable of executing at least one game, having an upper limit set to a total of amounts of resources that can be secured in executing at least one game, and executing a game as an object of execution when an amount of resources associated with the game as the object of execution can be secured. A management server starts a new game server when an amount of resources associated with the game according to the execution start request exceeds an amount of remaining resources that can be secured in each game server already started or being started at a time of receiving the execution start request. The management server makes one of the game servers execute the game according to the execution start request. | 10-16-2014 |
20140370983 | APPLICATION PROVISION SERVER AND APPLICATION PROVISION METHOD - Disclosed herein is an application provision method in a client-server type system providing a game application to a plurality of users via a network. The method causes a computational resource of a server to perform the steps of: providing, to a first user using a client terminal connected to the server, a game application selected by the first user; providing, to a second user specified by the first user, the game application provided to the first user after the game application is ended by the first user; and notifying achievement levels of the first and second users to the client terminals of the first and second users after the game application is ended by the second user. | 12-18-2014 |