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20090190444 | Electronic Timepiece And Time Adjustment Method For An Electronic Timepiece - An electronic timepiece includes a reception unit that receives satellite signals transmitted from positioning information satellites and acquires time information and positioning information, a time zone information storage unit that stores region data dividing geographical information containing time difference information into a plurality of regions, and time difference information contained in each region, a time difference information acquisition unit that extracts the region containing the positioning information acquired by the reception unit from the region data, and acquires the time difference information contained in that region, and a time calculation unit that calculates the current time based on the time difference information acquired by the time difference information acquisition unit and the time information acquired by the reception unit. The region data stored in the time zone information storage unit including region data dividing the geographical information into a plurality of regions, and region data further dividing each region that contains a plurality of time difference values into a plurality of regions. | 07-30-2009 |
20110084875 | EXECUTION METHOD OF POSITION CALCULATING CIRCUIT, POSITION CALCULATING CIRCUIT, OPERATION CONTROL METHOD OF POSITION CALCULATING CIRCUIT, HOST DEVICE, AND ELECTRONIC APPARATUS - An execution method of a position calculating circuit that calculates a position by receiving a satellite signal transmitted from a positioning satellite and that has an externally readable storage section includes: receiving a selection signal for selecting acquired information, which is information acquired from information obtained from the satellite signal, from the outside; selecting the acquired information on the basis of the selection signal; and storing the acquired information in the storage section and outputting a notice signal, which indicates that the acquired information has been obtained, when the acquired information selected from the satellite signal being received is obtained. | 04-14-2011 |
20140097983 | EXECUTION METHOD OF POSITION CALCULATING CIRCUIT, POSITION CALCULATING CIRCUIT, OPERATION CONTROL METHOD OF POSITION CALCULATING CIRCUIT, HOST DEVICE, AND ELECTRONIC APPARATUS - An execution method of a position calculating circuit that calculates a position by receiving a satellite signal transmitted from a positioning satellite and that has an externally readable storage section includes: receiving a selection signal for selecting acquired information, which is information acquired from information obtained from the satellite signal, from the outside; selecting the acquired information on the basis of the selection signal; and storing the acquired information in the storage section and outputting a notice signal, which indicates that the acquired information has been obtained, when the acquired information selected from the satellite signal being received is obtained. | 04-10-2014 |
20150071040 | Electronic Timepiece And Method For Controlling Display Operation Of Electronic Timepiece - An electronic timepiece includes a display section, a display control section, a reception section, a clock section, a timing section, a leap second acquisition section, a time correction section that corrects internal time information by using time information acquired by the timing section, and a leap second correction section that corrects the internal time information by using leap second information acquired by the leap second acquisition section. In a case where the operation of the timing section is followed by the operation of the leap second acquisition section, the time correction section corrects the internal time information by using the time information acquired by the timing section, and the display control section causes the display section to display, before the leap second acquisition section acquires the leap second information, time based on the internal time information corrected by the time correction section. | 03-12-2015 |
20150071041 | Electronic Timepiece And Satellite Signal Receiving Method Of Electronic Timepiece - A reception control unit of an electronic timepiece includes a satellite-capturing control unit configured to search for a preferential search satellite more preferentially than the other position information satellites, the preferential search satellite being the position information satellite having a stored satellite number, a reception-state determining unit configured to determine, at timing of an end of the search for the preferential search satellite, whether a number of the captured position information satellites is equal to or larger than a predetermined number; a reception-stop control unit configured to stop a reception processing when the reception-state determining unit determines that the number of the position information satellites is smaller than the predetermined number; and a storage control unit configured to store the satellite number of the captured position information satellite in the satellite-number storing unit. | 03-12-2015 |
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20090033554 | Time Adjustment Device, Timekeeping Device with a Time Adjustment Device, and a Time Adjustment Method - A time adjustment device has a satellite signal reception unit that receives satellite signals transmitted segmented into segments from a positioning information satellite; a time information acquisition unit that acquires time information from the satellite signal; a segment identifier acquisition unit that acquires a segment identifier for the segment containing the time information; a corresponding identifier calculation unit that calculates a corresponding segment identifier that corresponds to the segment identifier based on the time information; and a segment identifier evaluation unit that determines if the segment identifier is correct based on the segment identifier and the corresponding segment identifier. | 02-05-2009 |
20090135675 | Electronic Timepiece, Time Adjustment Method for an Electronic Timepiece, and Control Program for an Electronic Timepiece - An electronic timepiece has a reception unit that can receive satellite signals transmitted from positioning information satellites and acquire time information and positioning information; a time zone data storage component that stores region data dividing geographical information for which time zone information is set into a plurality of regions, and time zone information for each region; a time zone information acquisition component that extracts a region containing positioning information acquired by the reception unit from the region data, and acquires the time zone information for that region; a time zone information display that displays the time zone information acquired by the time zone information acquisition component as a time zone candidate; an input device; a time zone information selection component that selects time zone information from the time zone candidates displayed on the display based on operation of the input device; a time calculation component that calculates the current time based on the time information acquired by the reception unit and the time zone information selected by the time zone information selection component; and a time display that displays the current time. | 05-28-2009 |
20100057349 | Electronic Timepiece and Time Difference Correction Method for an Electronic Timepiece - An electronic timepiece has a function for receiving satellite signals transmitted from positioning information satellites, and includes a reception unit that receives the satellite signal and acquires satellite information from the received satellite signal, a satellite search unit that executes a process of searching for a capturable positioning information satellite based on the received satellite signal and capturing the found satellite signal, a positioning calculation unit that selects a specific number of positioning information satellites from among the positioning information satellites captured by the satellite search unit, executes a positioning calculation based on the satellite information contained in the satellite signals sent from the selected positioning information satellites, and generates positioning information, a time information adjustment unit that corrects internal time information based on the satellite information, a time information display unit that displays the internal time information, a storage unit that stores time difference information defining the time difference in each of a plurality of areas into which geographical information is divided, and a time difference evaluation unit that calculates an assumed positioning region based on the positioning information, and determines based on the time difference information if the assumed positioning region contains a time difference boundary. The time information adjustment unit correcting the internal time information based on the time difference in the assumed positioning region when the time difference evaluation unit determines that the assumed positioning region does not contain a time difference boundary, The positioning calculation unit reselecting the specific number of positioning information satellites and continuing the positioning calculation when the time difference evaluation unit determines that the assumed positioning region contains a time difference boundary. The reception unit terminates satellite signal reception when the time difference evaluation unit determines that the assumed positioning region does not contain a time difference boundary. | 03-04-2010 |
20120201101 | Electronic Timepiece and Reception Control Method for an Electronic Timepiece - An electronic timepiece can easily acquire a leap second information reception time with minimal processor load. A first table groups leap second information reception times expressed by hour, minute, second, and day values into plural minute-second patterns of minute-second combinations that are common to plural hours, and relates numbers identifying these minute-second patterns to the day and hour values. The minute-second combinations are grouped by number in a second table. The number corresponding to the day and hour of the internal time is found from the first table (S | 08-09-2012 |
20130051187 | Electronic Timepiece - An electronic timepiece can improve the frequency of satellite signal reception and reduce power consumption. Such timepiece, e.g., a wristwatch has a GPS device that executes a reception process that locks onto a GPS satellite and receives satellite signals; a reception control unit that controls the reception process; and a solar panel that detects illuminance. The reception control unit includes an illuminance-based reception control unit that runs a reception process based on the detected illuminance, and a scheduled reception control unit that runs a reception process when a preset scheduled time is reached. The illuminance-based reception control unit stops reception when a satellite is not locked onto within a first locking time, and the scheduled reception control unit stops reception when a satellite is not locked onto in a second locking time that is shorter than the first locking time. | 02-28-2013 |
20130051188 | Electronic Timepiece - An electronic timepiece can determine the reception state in detail, and can display the reception state with high precision. A GPS wristwatch 1 has a reception unit that receives a satellite signal transmitted from a positioning information satellite; a reception level calculating unit 47 that calculates a reception level from the signal strength of the satellite signal; and a reception level display unit 48 that displays the reception level calculated by the reception level calculating unit 47. The reception level calculating unit 47 selects a specific number of satellite signals received from the positioning information satellites in order of greatest signal strength, and calculates the reception level from the signal strengths of the selected satellite signals. | 02-28-2013 |
20130052977 | Satellite Signal Receiving Device and Electronic Device - A satellite signal reception device can reliably execute a satellite signal reception process. The satellite signal reception device has a reception time setting unit | 02-28-2013 |
20140293756 | Electronic Timepiece and Reception Control Method of an Electronic Timepiece - An electronic timepiece has a receiver device that receives at least a first satellite signal containing a first leap second value and a second satellite signal containing a second leap second value; a timekeeping device that keeps time according to the current leap second; an evaluation condition setting unit that sets an evaluation condition of the correctness of the first leap second value and the second leap second value based on the timing of first satellite signal and second satellite signal reception; and a leap second correction unit that corrects the current leap second based on the first leap second value or the second leap second value when the first leap second value and the second leap second value satisfy the set evaluation condition. | 10-02-2014 |
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20110183940 | CHEMICAL COMPOUNDS - The present invention features compounds that are prodrugs of HIV integrase inhibitors and therefore are useful in the delivery of compounds for the inhibition of HIV replication, the prevention and/or treatment of infection by HIV, and in the treatment of AIDS and/or ARC. | 07-28-2011 |
20110190236 | CHEMICAL COMPOUNDS - The present invention features compounds that are prodrugs of HIIV integrase inhibitors and therefore are useful in the inhibition of HIV replication, the prevention and/or treatment of infection by HIV, and in the treatment of AIDS and/or ARC. | 08-04-2011 |
20140031555 | CHEMICAL COMPOUNDS - The present invention features compounds that are prodrugs of HIV integrase inhibitors and therefore are useful in the delivery of compounds for the inhibition of HIV replication, the prevention and/or treatment of infection by HIV, and in the treatment of AIDS and/or ARC. | 01-30-2014 |
20140039207 | CHEMICAL COMPOUNDS - The present invention features compounds that are prodrugs of HIV integrase inhibitors and therefore are useful in the delivery of compounds for the inhibition of HIV replication, the prevention and/or treatment of infection by HIV, and in the treatment of AIDS and/or ARC. | 02-06-2014 |
20140256679 | CHEMICAL COMPOUNDS - The present invention features compounds that are prodrugs of HIV integrase inhibitors and therefore are useful in the delivery of compounds for the inhibition of HIV replication, the prevention and/or treatment of infection by HIV, and in the treatment of AIDS and/or ARC. | 09-11-2014 |
20140256961 | CHEMICAL COMPOUNDS - The present invention features compounds that are prodrugs of HIV integrase inhibitors and therefore are useful in the delivery of compounds for the inhibition of HIV replication, the prevention and/or treatment of infection by HIV, and in the treatment of AIDS and/or ARC. | 09-11-2014 |
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20080232736 | Optical Functional Circuit - The present invention provides an optical functional circuit where a holographic wave propagation medium is applied and a circuit property is excellent such as small transmission loss and crosstalk. The optical functional circuit where a plurality of circuit elements are formed on a substrate includes the wave propagation medium for converting an optical path of a leakage light so that the leakage light that is not emitted from a predetermined output port of the circuit element is not coupled to a different circuit element. This wave propagation medium is constituted by an optical waveguide that is provided with a clad layer formed on the substrate and a core embedded in the clad layer, and a part of the optical waveguide is formed in accordance with a refractive index distribution which is multiple scattered. | 09-25-2008 |
20100274541 | Planer Lightwave Circuit, Design Method for Wave Propagation Circuit, and Computer Program - A planar lightwave circuit is provided which can be easily fabricated by an existing planar-lightwave-circuit fabrication process, which can lower the propagation loss of signal light and which can convert inputted signal light so as to derive desired signal light. A planar lightwave circuit having a core and a clad which are formed on a substrate, has input optical waveguide(s) ( | 10-28-2010 |
20120304143 | Planar Lightwave Circuit, Design Method for Wave Propagation Circuit, and Computer Program - A planar lightwave circuit is provided which can be easily fabricated by an existing planar-lightwave-circuit fabrication process, which can lower the propagation loss of signal light and which can convert inputted signal light so as to derive desired signal light. A planar lightwave circuit having a core and a clad which are formed on a substrate, has input optical waveguide(s) ( | 11-29-2012 |
20120311516 | Planar Lightwave Circuit, Design Method for Wave Propagation Circuit, and Computer Program - A planar lightwave circuit is provided which can be easily fabricated by an existing planar-lightwave-circuit fabrication process, which can lower the propagation loss of signal light and which can convert inputted signal light so as to derive desired signal light. A planar lightwave circuit having a core and a clad which are formed on a substrate, has input optical waveguide(s) ( | 12-06-2012 |
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20100099384 | E-MAIL TRANSMISSION METHOD AND MOBILE TERMINAL - According to an aspect of the embodiment, a cellular phone displays an e-mail creation screen, and when a one-touch key included in the cellular phone is pressed, an e-mail destination corresponding to the one-touch key is acquired from a one-touch key DB, and set to the e-mail. When a numeric key is pressed, the cellular phone acquires an e-mail text corresponding to the numeric key from an example sentence DB, and sets the text to the e-mail to transmit the e-mail to the e-mail destination. | 04-22-2010 |
20100150334 | COMMUNICATION TERMINAL, AND DIAL REGISTRATION METHOD AND DIAL REGISTRATION PROGRAM THEREFOR - A communication terminal having one or more one-touch-dial buttons simplifies operations needed for registration of destination data such as phone numbers or mail addresses. A communication terminal (e.g., a cellular phone) having one or more one-touch-dial buttons includes a destination-data registration unit (e.g., a phone-directory database) that allows destination data such as phone numbers or mail addresses to be registered therein, a one-touch-dial registration unit that allows destination data to be registered therein so as to be associated with the one or more one-touch-dial buttons, and a control unit that, in response to an operation of the one or more one-touch-dial buttons, determines whether destination data has been registered in the one-touch-dial registration unit or the destination-data registration unit, and that outputs a result of the determination and a query message regarding registration of the destination data. | 06-17-2010 |
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20110230593 | TIRE RUBBER COMPOSITION AND PNEUMATIC TIRE - The present invention aims to provide a tire rubber composition that achieves a good balance of grip performance (especially, wet grip performance), abrasion resistance, cut and chip resistance, low rolling resistance, and kneadability, and a pneumatic tire using the same. The composition comprise: a rubber component including a styrene-butadiene rubber modified by a compound of formula (1): | 09-22-2011 |
20120149806 | RUBBER COMPOSITION AND PNEUMATIC TIRE - A rubber composition that can improve in good balance the fuel economy, wet-grip performance, and abrasion resistance, and a pneumatic tire that uses this rubber composition are provided. This rubber composition contains a rubber component, and carbon black and/or silica, wherein based on 100% by mass of the rubber component, the rubber component contains 5 to 50% by mass of natural rubber, 0.3 to 10% by mass of an epoxidized natural rubber, and at least 5% by mass of a conjugated diene polymer that has a constituent unit based on a conjugated diene and a constituent unit represented by formula (I) below, at least one terminal of the polymer being modified, and wherein a total content of the carbon black and the silica is 3 to 100 parts by mass per 100 parts by mass of the rubber component. | 06-14-2012 |
20140011944 | RUBBER COMPOSITION FOR TREAD, AND PNEUMATIC TIRE - The present invention provides a rubber composition for a tread which enables not only to improve handling stability, abrasion resistance, and fuel economy in a balanced manner, but also to improve wet grip performance and processability in a balanced manner, and a pneumatic tire formed from the rubber composition. The present invention relates to a rubber composition for a tread, comprising a terminally-modified solution-polymerized styrene-butadiene rubber, a butadiene rubber synthesized in the presence of a rare earth catalyst, and a reinforcing agent. | 01-09-2014 |
20140027029 | PNEUMATIC TIRE - Provided is a pneumatic tire capable of improving fuel efficiency, handling stability, and durability in a balanced manner. The present invention relates to a pneumatic tire, comprising a tread that includes a cap layer and a base layer, the cap layer and the base layer satisfying relationships represented by the following formulas (1) to (3): | 01-30-2014 |
20140135425 | RUBBER COMPOSITION FOR TREAD, AND PNEUMATIC TIRE - Provided are a rubber composition for a tread, capable of improving the fuel economy and abrasion resistance in a balanced manner while achieving a good appearance and a good cure rate; and a pneumatic tire containing the rubber composition. The present invention relates to a rubber composition for a tread, including: a solution-polymerized styrene-butadiene rubber, carbon black, silica, and polyethylene glycol, wherein a rubber component of the rubber composition contains 60 mass % or more of the solution-polymerized styrene-butadiene rubber based on 100 mass % of the rubber component, and the rubber composition includes, per 100 parts by mass of the rubber component, 10 parts by mass or less of the carbon black, 50 parts by mass or more of the silica, and 0.1 to 3.5 parts by mass of the polyethylene glycol. | 05-15-2014 |
20140275331 | RUBBER COMPOSITION FOR BASE TREAD, AND PNEUMATIC TIRE - Provided are a rubber composition for a base tread capable of improving fuel efficiency, handling stability, and durability (flex crack growth resistance) in a balanced manner, and a pneumatic tire formed from the rubber composition. The present invention relates to a rubber composition for a base tread, including: a rubber component and a reinforcing agent, the rubber component including natural rubber, a butadiene rubber (1) containing 1,2-syndiotactic polybutadiene crystals, a butadiene rubber (2) synthesized in the presence of a rare earth catalyst, and a modified butadiene rubber (3) having a cis content of not more than 50% by mass. | 09-18-2014 |
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20100213460 | THIN FILM TRANSISTOR, METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING THE SAME, AND SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE - In a thin film transistor, an increase in off current or negative shift of the threshold voltage is prevented. In the thin film transistor, a buffer layer is provided between an oxide semiconductor layer and each of a source electrode layer and a drain electrode layer. The buffer layer includes a metal oxide layer which is an insulator or a semiconductor over a middle portion of the oxide semiconductor layer. The metal oxide layer functions as a protective layer for suppressing incorporation of impurities into the oxide semiconductor layer. Therefore, in the thin film transistor, an increase in off current or negative shift of the threshold voltage can be prevented. | 08-26-2010 |
20110063339 | DRIVING METHOD OF DISPLAY DEVICE AND DISPLAY DEVICE - It is an object to reduce power consumption of a display device which can perform multi-gray scale display and to suppress deterioration of an element included in the display device. The usage of a display device includes a first initialization period in which the gray scale level of an entire pixel portion is converted into a first gray scale level and a second initialization period in which the gray scale level of an entire pixel portion is converted into a second gray scale level. In the first initialization period, scanning of a plurality of signals and weighting of a holding period of each signal are performed. Therefore, the small number of scanning of signals can realize voltage application for an appropriate time with respect to each of a plurality of gray scale storage display elements included in the display device. | 03-17-2011 |
20110210327 | LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY DEVICE - An object is to reduce parasitic capacitance of a signal line included in a liquid crystal display device. A transistor including an oxide semiconductor layer is used as a transistor provided in each pixel. Note that the oxide semiconductor layer is an oxide semiconductor layer which is highly purified by thoroughly removing impurities (hydrogen, water, or the like) which become electron suppliers (donors). Thus, the amount of leakage current (off-state current) can be reduced when the transistor is off. Therefore, a voltage applied to a liquid crystal element can be held without providing a capacitor in each pixel. In addition, a capacitor wiring extending to a pixel portion of the liquid crystal display device can be eliminated. Therefore, parasitic capacitance in a region where the signal line and the capacitor wiring intersect with each other can be eliminated. | 09-01-2011 |
20110241011 | FIELD-SEQUENTIAL DISPLAY DEVICE - A first transistor in which an image signal is input to one of a first source and a first drain through an image signal line and a first scan signal is input to the first gate through a first scan signal line; a capacitor whose one of two electrodes is electrically connected to the other of the first source and the first drain of the first transistor; a second transistor in which one of a second source and a second drain is electrically connected to the other of the first source and the first drain of the first transistor and a second scan signal is input to a second gate through a second scan signal line; and a liquid crystal element whose first electrode is electrically connected to the other of the second source and the second drain of the second transistor. | 10-06-2011 |
20120286278 | THIN FILM TRANSISTOR, METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING THE SAME, AND SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE - In a thin film transistor, an increase in off current or negative shift of the threshold voltage is prevented. In the thin film transistor, a buffer layer is provided between an oxide semiconductor layer and each of a source electrode layer and a drain electrode layer. The buffer layer includes a metal oxide layer which is an insulator or a semiconductor over a middle portion of the oxide semiconductor layer. The metal oxide layer functions as a protective layer for suppressing incorporation of impurities into the oxide semiconductor layer. Therefore, in the thin film transistor, an increase in off current or negative shift of the threshold voltage can be prevented. | 11-15-2012 |
20130122667 | THIN FILM TRANSISTOR, METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING THE SAME, AND SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE - In a thin film transistor, an increase in off current or negative shift of the threshold voltage is prevented. In the thin film transistor, a buffer layer is provided between an oxide semiconductor layer and each of a source electrode layer and a drain electrode layer. The buffer layer includes a metal oxide layer which is an insulator or a semiconductor over a middle portion of the oxide semiconductor layer. The metal oxide layer functions as a protective layer for suppressing incorporation of impurities into the oxide semiconductor layer. Therefore, in the thin film transistor, an increase in off current or negative shift of the threshold voltage can be prevented. | 05-16-2013 |
20130299825 | DISPLAY DEVICE HAVING AN OXIDE SEMICONDUCTOR TRANSISTOR - An object is to reduce parasitic capacitance of a signal line included in a liquid crystal display device. A transistor including an oxide semiconductor layer is used as a transistor provided in each pixel. Note that the oxide semiconductor layer is an oxide semiconductor layer which is highly purified by thoroughly removing impurities (hydrogen, water, or the like) which become electron suppliers (donors). Thus, the amount of leakage current (off-state current) can be reduced when the transistor is off. Therefore, a voltage applied to a liquid crystal element can be held without providing a capacitor in each pixel. In addition, a capacitor wiring extending to a pixel portion of the liquid crystal display device can be eliminated. Therefore, parasitic capacitance in a region where the signal line and the capacitor wiring intersect with each other can be eliminated. | 11-14-2013 |
20130315021 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE AND METHOD FOR DRIVING SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE - A semiconductor device capable of simply performing power gating and a driving method thereof are provided. Power gating is started passively (automatically in the case of satisfying predetermined conditions). Specifically, the semiconductor device includes a transistor for selecting whether a power source voltage is supplied or not to a functional circuit. The power gating is started by turning off the transistor in the case where a voltage between a source and a drain is less than or equal to a predetermined voltage. Therefore, complicated operation is not needed at the time of starting power gating. Specifically, it is possible to start power gating without a process for predicting the timing at which an arithmetic operation performed in the functional circuit is terminated. As a result, it is possible to start power gating easily. | 11-28-2013 |
20130326151 | MEMORY MANAGEMENT SYSTEM AND PROGRAM - To reduce power consumption of a computer or the like, a nonvolatile memory divided into a plurality of segments is applied to main memory used for virtual storage management. Thus, power supply even to a segment having a physical address that is being used can be stopped. As a result, power consumption of the computer or the like performing virtual storage management can be reduced. | 12-05-2013 |
20140117352 | THIN FILM TRANSISTOR, METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING THE SAME, AND SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE - In a thin film transistor, an increase in off current or negative shift of the threshold voltage is prevented. In the thin film transistor, a buffer layer is provided between an oxide semiconductor layer and each of a source electrode layer and a drain electrode layer. The buffer layer includes a metal oxide layer which is an insulator or a semiconductor over a middle portion of the oxide semiconductor layer. The metal oxide layer functions as a protective layer for suppressing incorporation of impurities into the oxide semiconductor layer. Therefore, in the thin film transistor, an increase in off current or negative shift of the threshold voltage can be prevented. | 05-01-2014 |
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20090067535 | TRANSFER DEVICE - A transfer device for receiving packets that were transmitted by a device in a home network onto a transmission path, and transfers the received packet to another device. The stream to be transferred is classified into three types: (i) a type where each of packets constituting the stream is not attached with a time stamp; (ii) a type where each packet is attached with a valid time stamp; and (iii) a type where each packet is attached with an invalid time stamp. The transfer device determines, from among the three types, the type of the stream to be transferred, based on a transfer source device, transfer destination device, and provider of the stream. The transfer device then selects a transmission method by which to transfer the stream, among the time stamp attachment transmission method and the PCR reference transmission method. | 03-12-2009 |
20120229733 | LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY DEVICE - On a liquid crystal panel, plural areas whose number is larger than that of temperature sensors are defined. In a memory, temperature relation information representing a relation between an output value of a temperature sensor and a temperature of each of the plural areas is stored. A controller acquires the output value of the temperature sensor and estimates, based on the temperature relation information and the acquired output value, the temperature of each of the plural areas. According to this configuration, the temperature of each of the plural areas defined on the liquid crystal panel can be obtained with a small number of temperature sensors. | 09-13-2012 |
20130195141 | DISPLAY DEVICE WITH TEMPERATURE SENSOR - A display device includes a temperature sensor which is arranged in the inside of a housing, and a control unit which calculates a temperature of a display panel based on an output value of the temperature sensor. The control unit calculates the temperature of the display panel based on a current output value of the temperature sensor and an output value of the temperature sensor received prior to the receiving of the current output value. With such a display device, the temperature of the display panel can be calculated with high accuracy even when a temperature of a device which constitutes a heat source is changed. | 08-01-2013 |
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20100253815 | Information processing apparatus, information processing system, image input apparatus, image input system and information exchange method - An information processing apparatus includes, an input device that inputs image data output from an electronic camera, a storage device that stores the input image data; and a control device. The image-processing device is capable of modifying the contents of a look-up table in the electronic camera by using a plurality of control points. The information processing apparatus is capable of exchanging the control points and the contents of the look-up table with the electronic camera and the camera is able to store the control points. | 10-07-2010 |
20120229661 | PHOTOGRAPHY LENS, PHOTOGRAPHING APPARATUS, PHOTOGRAPHING SYSTEM, IMAGE CAPTURING APPARATUS, AND PERSONAL APPARATUS - Conventional apparatuses did not pay enough attention to assisting operations when the user is in a state differing from the normal, state. Therefore, provided is a photography lens that comprises a first biometric detection apparatus that is capable of detecting change in biometric information of a photographer, or a photographing apparatus that captures an image and comprises a holding section, an operating section for performing an image capturing operation, and a second biometric detection apparatus that is capable of detecting change in biometric information of a photographer and that is disposed in at least one of the holding section and the operating section. | 09-13-2012 |
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20080265714 | ELECTROMECHANICAL CONVERSION ELEMENT, VIBRATION ACTUATOR, VIBRATION ACTUATOR DRIVING DEVICE, LENS BARREL AND CAMERA - To provide an electromechanical conversion element, a vibration actuator, a vibration actuator driving device, a lens barrel and a camera, which facilitate the achievement of the desired drive characteristics. An electromechanical conversion element comprising: a piezoelectric body having a polarization part polarized in a certain direction; and a plurality of separately formed electrodes on a continuous region of the polarization part. | 10-30-2008 |
20090207512 | VIBRATION ACTUATOR, LENS BARREL AND CAMERA - To provide a vibration actuator having-good driving performance even when miniaturized, and a lens barrel and camera provided with the same. A first aspect of the present invention is to provide a vibration actuator comprising, an electromechanical conversion element, having a first joining face, and which is subject to excitation, an elastic body having a second joining face which is joined to the first joining face, and a driving face which gives rise to vibration waves as a result of said excitation, and a relative moving member, having a contact face which is in pressure contact with the driving face, which is driven by the vibration waves, and which moves relative to the elastic body, wherein an outer shape of said first joining face has a shape which differs from an outer shape of said contact face. | 08-20-2009 |
20100201225 | VIBRATION ACTUATOR DRIVING DEVICE, LENS BARREL, CAMERA, METHOD OF MANUFACTURING ELECTROMECHANICAL CONVERSION ELEMENT, METHOD OF MANUFACTURING VIBRATION ACTUATOR, AND METHOD OF DRIVING VIBRATION ACTUATOR - A vibration actuator driving device includes a plurality of wiring sections and a supply controller. The plurality of wiring sections are disposed correspondingly to a plurality of electrically independent electrodes of an electromechanical conversion element. The wiring sections input driving signals to drive the electromechanical conversion element. The supply controller is capable of independently supplying a driving signal for each respective wiring section. | 08-12-2010 |
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20090129427 | OPTICAL MODULE - An optical module | 05-21-2009 |
20120020379 | SEMICONDUCTOR LASER MODULE AND SUPPRESSION MEMBER - Above a Peltier element disposed on a bottom of a case, bases that are platy members of two or more layers and have different expansion coefficients from each other are stacked. At least on a partial region of the base serving as an uppermost layer, a suppression member having an expansion coefficient different from that of the base serving as the uppermost layer is further provided. An optical element is disposed on the base and/or the suppression member. Even when a warp is likely to occur in the Peltier element, a stacked-plate structure of the base, the base, and the suppression member suppresses an occurrence of such a warp, whereby warps hardly occur in the base and the suppression member, and a shift hardly occurs in an optical axis between a beam splitter and an etalon. | 01-26-2012 |
20120128375 | INTEGRATED SEMICONDUCTOR LASER ELEMENT, SEMICONDUCTOR LASER MODULE, AND OPTICAL TRANSMISSION SYSTEM - An integrated semiconductor laser element includes: semiconductor lasers that oscillate at different oscillation wavelengths from one another, each laser oscillating in a single mode; an optical coupler; and a semiconductor optical amplifier. At least one of active layers of the semiconductor lasers and an active layer of the semiconductor optical amplifier have a same thickness and a same composition that is set to have a gain peak wavelength near a center of a wavelength band formed by the oscillation wavelengths. The semiconductor optical amplifier includes: an equal width portion formed on a side of the optical coupler to guide light in a single mode; and an expanded width portion formed on a light output side. The width of the expanded width portion is set according to a total thickness of well layers of the active layer of the semiconductor optical amplifier. | 05-24-2012 |
20130315273 | INTEGRATED SEMICONDUCTOR LASER ELEMENT - Integrated are: semiconductor lasers of distributed feedback type that oscillate in single mode at emission wavelengths different from one another; a coupler that has as many input ports as the semiconductor lasers, the input ports to which output light from the semiconductor lasers are input, the coupler guiding and outputting the output light; and an amplifier that amplifies the output light from the coupler, and a predetermined relation holds true, where “N” is the number of the semiconductor lasers, “Ldfb” is a cavity length of each of the semiconductor lasers, “Δν | 11-28-2013 |
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20090059049 | IMAGE PICKUP APPARATUS - An image pickup apparatus includes a plurality of pixels and increasing portions increasing charges stored in the pixels, wherein the frequency of increasing the charges is controlled every group of at least one pixel in response to luminance of light incident upon the pixels by the increasing portions. | 03-05-2009 |
20090073281 | IMAGE SENSOR - An image sensor includes a plurality of pixels having a plurality of color sensitivity characteristics and a mixing portion for mixing charges stored in a plurality of the pixels having the same color sensitivity characteristic provided adjacent to a plurality of the pixels having the same color sensitivity characteristic. | 03-19-2009 |
20090152605 | IMAGE SENSOR AND CMOS IMAGE SENSOR - An image sensor includes a carrier generating portion having a photoelectric conversion function, a voltage conversion portion for converting signal charges to a voltage, a charge increasing portion for increasing carriers generated by the carrier generating portion and a light shielding film formed to cover at least one part of the charge increasing portion. | 06-18-2009 |
20100289935 | IMAGE SENSOR - An image sensor according to the present invention includes a charge forming portion forming charges by photoelectric conversion and a charge transfer region including a charge increasing region for increasing the amount of charges. The image sensor is so formed as to increase dark current generated in at least part of the charge forming portion and the charge transfer region in the charge increasing region for calculating an increasing ratio for the charges on the basis of an output value resulting from a charge signal of the increased dark current. | 11-18-2010 |
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20100194317 | ALTERNATING-CURRENT MOTOR CONTROL APPARATUS - A control apparatus for an alternating-current motor that is driven by an inverter includes a rectangular wave voltage control portion that generates a control command of the inverter such that rectangular wave voltage that has been phase-controlled to make the alternating-current motor operate according to a torque command value is applied to the alternating-current motor; and a phase change control portion that controls a change in the phase to maintain the center of a flux linkage vector locus indicative of a change in a flux linkage of the alternating-current motor before and after a change in the phase of the rectangular wave voltage. | 08-05-2010 |
20110133744 | INTERNAL RESISTANCE ESTIMATION APPARATUS FOR POWER STORAGE DEVICE, DEGRADATION DETERMINATION APPARATUS FOR POWER STORAGE DEVICE, POWER SUPPLY SYSTEM, AND INTERNAL RESISTANCE ESTIMATION METHOD FOR POWER STORAGE DEVICE - A converter control unit responds to a command from a start determining unit to control a converter such that a ripple current is generated at a secondary battery. A storage unit stores a map defining a correlative relationship between the temperature and current of the secondary battery and internal resistance. An estimating unit estimates a value of internal resistance of the secondary battery based on each detection value of the temperature and current, and the map stored in the storage unit. | 06-09-2011 |
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20110273125 | CONTROLLER FOR AC ELECTRIC MOTOR AND ELECTRIC POWERED VEHICLE - An AC electric motor, an inverter and a controller are mounted on an electric powered vehicle. The controller includes a voltage deviation calculating unit, a modulation factor calculating unit, and a mode switching determination unit. The voltage deviation calculating unit calculates a voltage deviation between a first voltage command when the rectangular wave voltage control is executed and a second voltage command when pulse width modulation control is executed, by inputting a current deviation to a voltage equation of the AC electric motor. Modulation factor calculating unit calculates the modulation factor based on the first voltage command and the voltage deviation. The mode switching determination unit determines whether or not control mode of the AC electric motor from the rectangular wave voltage control to the pulse width modulation control is necessary, based on the modulation factor. | 11-10-2011 |
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20090130605 | RESIST COMPOSITION - A resist composition which is stable relative to solvents used in immersion lithography processes and displays excellent sensitivity and resist pattern profile, and a method of forming a resist pattern that uses such a resist composition are provided. The resist composition is in accordance with predetermined parameters, or is a positive resist composition comprising a resin component (A) which contains an acid dissociable, dissolution inhibiting group and displays increased alkali solubility under the action of acid, an acid generator component (B), and an organic solvent (C), wherein the component (A) contains a structural unit (a1) derived from a (meth)acrylate ester containing an acid dissociable, dissolution inhibiting group, but contains no structural units (a0), including structural units (a0-1) containing an anhydride of a dicarboxylic acid and structural units (a0-2) containing a phenolic hydroxyl group. | 05-21-2009 |
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20090291653 | Radio Transmission Apparatus - A radio transmission apparatus performs peak suppression processing in the two stages of pre-peak suppression processing and post-peak suppression processing. The gain adjustment processing of transmission power is performed in the two stages of coarse gain adjustment processing, prior to the pre-peak suppression processing, and fine gain adjustment processing prior to the post-peak suppression processing. The fine gain adjustment processing has a smaller adjustment step width than the coarse gain adjustment processing, and can adjust the transmission power in response to a small variation of the transmission power. In the pre-peak suppression processing, a peak suppression value corresponding to the gain set by the coarse gain adjustment processing is set on the basis of each value being preset in a table for each transmission power value. In the post-peak suppression processing, the peak suppression value corresponding to the gain modified by the fine gain adjustment processing is obtained by calculation. | 11-26-2009 |
20100304694 | WIRELESS COMMUNICATION APPARATUS - A wireless communication apparatus configured to amplify a transmission signal at an amplifier and transmit the amplified transmission signal, the wireless communication apparatus includes a memory configured to store a distortion compensation coefficient for compensating a distortion characteristic of the amplifier, and an electrical-power measuring unit configured to measure electrical power of the transmission signal. The wireless communication apparatus includes a gain control unit configured to calculate a gain adjustment value for correcting the distortion compensation coefficient stored in the memory based on a power value measured by the electrical-power measuring unit, and a distortion-compensation processing unit configured to perform distortion compensation on the transmission signal based on the distortion compensation coefficient stored in the memory and the gain adjustment value. | 12-02-2010 |
20110124304 | TRANSMISSION APPARATUS AND ADJUSTMENT VALUE MEASUREMENT METHOD - A transmission apparatus performs distortion compensation on a power amplifier using a distortion compensator that includes an adaptive equalizer. The transmission apparatus includes a filter coefficient storage unit that stores filter coefficients that are each set in a digital filter of the adaptive equalizer; a filter coefficient setting unit that selects a filter coefficient from the filter coefficient storage unit according to a feedback signal from the power amplifier; an adjustment value storage unit that stores adjustment values in association with transmission frequencies, the adjustment values each being used by the filter coefficient setting unit to select the filter coefficient; and an initial value setting unit that reads an adjustment value corresponding to a transmission frequency, which is set in the transmission apparatus, from the adjustment value storage unit and sets the read adjustment value as an initial value of the adjustment value used for selecting the filter coefficient. | 05-26-2011 |
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20100123931 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - The image forming apparatus includes a video controller unit that receives image information to convert the image information into an image signal for image formation, an engine controller unit that controls image formation, a laser driver unit that emits a laser beam, and a plurality of signal lines that connect the video controller unit, the engine controller unit, and the laser driver unit to each other, wherein the laser driver unit detects the laser beam emitted from the illumination element and generates a horizontal synchronization signal which is electrically transmitted via any one of the plurality of signal lines and used as the reference of an image writing timing in response to the detection. Among the signal lines, a signal line for transmitting the image signal or a control signal electrically and a signal line for electrically transmitting the horizontal synchronization signal are used as a common signal line. | 05-20-2010 |
20100272485 | DRIVING CONTROL APPARATUS FOR STEPPING MOTOR AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - A driving control apparatus for a stepping motor is provided by which the productivity is improved while keeping the driving performance of the motor at a required level. To accomplish this, a driving control apparatus of the present invention drives a stepping motor by switching an excitation current supplied to a coil of a predetermined phase between a first excitation current value, a second excitation current value greater than the first excitation current value, and a third excitation current value still greater than the second excitation current value. In a first mode for generating a first driving force by the stepping motor, the first through third excitation current values are sequentially switched, whereas in a second mode for generating a second driving force smaller than the first driving force, the first and second excitation current values are sequentially switched. | 10-28-2010 |
20120148271 | TONER CONTAINER, DEVELOPING DEVICE, PROCESS CARTRIDGE AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - A toner container includes a toner accommodating portion: a rotatable toner stirring member; a sensor for detecting a remaining amount of the toner; wherein the sensor includes a first flexible sheet portion, a second sheet portion, a first opening, a first electroconductive portion, a second electroconductive portion, wherein the first sheet portion flexes by a stirring operation of the stirring member, and the first electroconductive portion is contacted to the second electroconductive portion, by which the remaining toner amount is detectable, and wherein the toner accommodating portion is provided with a second opening for communicating the first opening and an outside of the toner accommodating portion with each other. | 06-14-2012 |
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20110122163 | DISPLAY DEVICE AND DISPLAY DEVICE DRIVING METHOD, AND DISPLAY DRIVING CONTROL METHOD - A display device of at least one embodiment of the present invention includes at least one correcting device for, in a case where a first data signal is to be written to a first pixel during a unique horizontal period, (i) carrying out a first gray scale correction with respect to display data corresponding to the first data signal to be written to the first pixel during the unique horizontal period, and (ii) supplying the display data to a display driver, the unique horizontal period being a first horizontal period for one of the driving signals supplied to respective storage capacitor bus lines which first horizontal period occurs a first number of horizontal periods after an initial horizontal period included in a given cyclic term for either or both of a binary level, the given cyclic term being a second cyclic term for the driving signals which second cyclic term occurs a second number of cyclic terms after a first cyclic term including a horizontal period during which the data signals start to be written to the pixels, the first number being different from a corresponding number for any other of the driving signals. | 05-26-2011 |
20110149165 | DATA PROCESSING DEVICE, LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY DEVICE, TELEVISION RECEIVER, AND DATA PROCESSING METHOD - The present invention has as an object to reduce display unevenness that occurs under the influence of a coupling between a first pixel in which a green component is displayed and a data signal line by which second pixel is driven. The present invention includes a correction process section ( | 06-23-2011 |
20110261266 | DATA PROCESSING APPARATUS, LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY DEVICE, TELEVISION RECEIVER, AND DATA PROCESSING METHOD - Provided is a data processing apparatus including a correction circuit. In at least one embodiment, the data correction circuit acquires pixel data of a first pixel for display of a first color component and pixel data of a second pixel for display of a second color component, the second pixel being driven by a scanning signal line which drives the first pixel and being driven by a data signal line which is adjacent to the first pixel, and corrects the pixel data of the second pixel in accordance with a relationship between a value of the pixel data of the first pixel and a value of the pixel data of the second pixel. Thus, it is possible to cause a liquid crystal driving panel to perform uniform display without causing display unevenness even in a case where a halftone of a specific color component is uniformly displayed. | 10-27-2011 |
20130321384 | METHOD OF DRIVING DISPLAY DEVICE, PROGRAM, AND DISPLAY DEVICE - A display device includes first and second display pixels connected to a first source line, third and fourth display pixels connected to the second source line. The device further includes a receiver receiving display voltage for each display pixel, a calculator calculating first difference voltage between the display voltages of the first and second display pixels, and calculating a second difference voltage between the display voltages of the third and fourth display pixels. A parasitic capacitance is generated between the first display pixel and each source line and between the third display pixel and each source line. The display device further includes a generator correcting the first display voltage based on the first and second difference voltages and generating first write voltage for the first display pixel, and correcting the third display voltage based on the second difference voltage and generating third write voltage for the third display pixel. | 12-05-2013 |
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20110221970 | LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY DEVICE, METHOD FOR DRIVING LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY DEVICE, AND TELEVESION RECEIVER - At least one embodiment of a liquid crystal display device including: scanning signal lines provided in a display area; and a dummy scanning signal line provided in a non-display area, the scanning signal lines being divided into groups each of which includes a plurality of scanning signal lines, the groups being sequentially selected, signal electric potentials of an identical polarity being sequentially supplied to a data signal line while scanning signal lines belonging to a selected group are sequentially scanned horizontally, the polarity of the signal electric potentials being inverted when the selected group is changed from a preceding group to a succeeding group which is selected immediately after the preceding group, a dummy scanning period being inserted between a horizontal scanning period corresponding to last horizontal scanning in the preceding group and a horizontal scanning period corresponding to first horizontal scanning in the succeeding group, and the dummy scanning signal line being subjected to dummy scanning during the dummy scanning period. With the arrangement, it is possible to suppress horizontal-shaped unevenness that occurs in a case where block inversion driving is carried out. | 09-15-2011 |
20140132842 | DATA PROCESSING APPARATUS, LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY DEVICE, TELEVISION RECEIVER, AND DATA PROCESSING METHOD - Provided is a data processing apparatus including a correction circuit. In at least one embodiment, the data correction circuit acquires pixel data of a first pixel for display of a first color component and pixel data of a second pixel for display of a second color component, the second pixel being driven by a scanning signal line which drives the first pixel and being driven by a data signal line which is adjacent to the first pixel, and corrects the pixel data of the second pixel in accordance with a relationship between a value of the pixel data of the first pixel and a value of the pixel data of the second pixel. Thus, it is possible to cause a liquid crystal driving panel to perform uniform display without causing display unevenness even in a case where a halftone of a specific color component is uniformly displayed. | 05-15-2014 |
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20080222881 | Method of producing active material for lithium secondary battery, method of producing electrode for lithium secondary battery, method of producing lithium secondary battery, and method of monitoring quality of active material for lithium secondary battery - A method of producing an active material for a lithium secondary battery, by which impurities causing problems in synthesizing an active material for a lithium secondary battery, including a lithium transition metal oxyanion compound are removed efficiently and enhancement of an energy density is realized, is provided. By cleaning the active material for a lithium secondary battery, including a lithium transition metal oxyanion compound, with a pH buffer solution, for example, it is possible to efficiently remove just only impurities such as Li | 09-18-2008 |
20090008237 | Device for producing active material for lithium secondary battery and method for producing active material for lithium secondary battery, method for manufacturing electrode for lithium secondary battery, and method for manufacturing lithium secondary battery - Provided is a method for producing an active material for a lithium secondary battery to enable efficient removal of iron impurities, which would become a problem in production of an active material for a lithium secondary battery, and attain a high quality. The method includes removing iron impurities in an active material for a lithium secondary battery by means of magnetic force. With this method, use of a magnetic force-generating device within a recess portion, which composes at least one part of the recess portion, enables efficient removal of only iron impurities. Thus, it is expected that a voltage drop caused by dissolution of iron compounds, i.e. impurities in a positive electrode, and their migration to a negative electrode in a battery, and decreases in charge and discharge efficiencies and a voltage drop owing to precipitation of lithium can be suppressed. | 01-08-2009 |
20120079712 | METHOD OF PRODUCING AN ELECTRODE FOR A LITHIUM SECONDARY BATTERY, AND METHOD OF PRODUCING A LITHIUM SECONDARY BATTERY - A method of producing an active material for a lithium secondary battery, by which impurities causing problems in synthesizing an active material for a lithium secondary battery, including a lithium transition metal oxyanion compound are removed efficiently and enhancement of an energy density is realized, is provided. By cleaning the active material for a lithium secondary battery, including a lithium transition metal oxyanion compound, with a pH buffer solution, for example, it is possible to efficiently remove just only impurities such as Li | 04-05-2012 |