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20150131476 | MOBILE COMMUNICATION METHOD - Setting of transmission of “UE assistance information” is conducted suitably. A mobile communication method according to the present invention includes the steps of, when an attach process of a mobile station UE is conducted, causing a radio base station eNB or a mobility management node MME to transmit an information element indicating whether it is suitable to transmit “UE assistance information” that urges a change of parameters for the mobile station UE used in the radio base station eNB, to the mobile station UE, and causing the mobile station UE to determine whether it is suitable to transmit “UE assistance information” to the radio base station eNB, on the basis of the information element. | 05-14-2015 |
20150156625 | MOBILE COMMUNICATION METHOD AND MOBILE STATION - An objective is to prohibit retransmission of “UE assistance information”. A mobile communication method according to the present invention includes the steps of: transmitting “UE assistance information” to a radio base station (eNB) by a mobile station (UE), the “UE assistance information” prompting the radio base station (eNB) to change a parameter for the mobile station UE used in the radio base station; notifying, by the radio base station (eNB), the mobile station (UE) of a transmission-prohibited period of the “UE assistance information”; and stopping, by the mobile station (UE), retransmission of the “UE assistance information” on the basis of the transmission-prohibited period. | 06-04-2015 |
20150163727 | MOBILE STATION - To transmit a “CELL UPDATE message” in a radio access network not supporting “Additional Dynamic Transport Format Information for CCCH,” a mobile station UE according to the present invention includes a transmitting unit | 06-11-2015 |
20150230092 | MOBILE STATION, NETWORKING APPARATUS, AND MOBILE COMMUNICATION METHOD - A mobile station, a networking apparatus, and a mobile communication method with which access restriction according to SSAC can be achieved with greater reliability even when the mobile station is in an RRC CONNECTED state. A UE | 08-13-2015 |
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20150368832 | GaN SUBSTRATE, AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING GaN SUBSTRATE - Provided is a technology capable of simply manufacturing a GaN substrate, which is constituted by a GaN crystal having a substantially uniform dislocation density distribution, without using a complicated process, at low cost and at a high yield ratio. | 12-24-2015 |
20160007479 | CHIP SPACING MAINTAINING APPARATUS - A chip spacing maintaining apparatus for maintaining the spacing between any adjacent ones of a plurality of chips obtained by dividing a workpiece attached to an expand sheet, the expand sheet being supported at its peripheral portion to an annular frame is provided. The chip spacing maintaining apparatus includes a far-infrared radiation applying unit for applying far-infrared radiation toward the expand sheet expanded in a target area between the outer circumference of the workpiece and the inner circumference of the annular frame, thereby shrinking the expand sheet in the target area, and an air layer forming unit provided adjacent to the far-infrared radiation applying unit, the air layer forming unit having a nozzle hole for discharging a gas toward the workpiece in applying the far-infrared radiation from the far-infrared radiation applying unit toward the expand sheet, thereby forming an air layer above the workpiece. | 01-07-2016 |
20160088672 | MOBILE COMMUNICATION TERMINAL AND RADIO ACCESS NETWORK DEVICE - A mobile communication terminal or radio access network that shortens a time of an out-of-service state while suppressing an increase of power consumption. The mobile communication terminal includes a communication control unit configured to make a cell selection using a parameter X notified by a network, if the terminal has failed to transmit an RRC connection request to a currently-visited cell #A N successive times. | 03-24-2016 |
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20090014887 | METHOD OF PRODUCING MULTILAYER INTERCONNECTION AND MULTILAYER INTERCONNECTION STRUCTURE - In an insulating film structure having a barrier insulating film, a via interlayer insulating film, a wiring interlayer insulating film, and a hard mask film stacked in this order on an underlayer wiring, a via hole pattern is formed in the insulating film structure, then a groove pattern is formed in the hard mask film, and a grove is formed in the insulating film structure using this as a mask. According to the prior art, the via side wall is oxidized equally severely in the both processes. The trench side wall is oxidized severely in the via first process according to the prior art, whereas, according to the present invention, the oxidation thereof is suppressed to such an extent that an almost non-oxidized state can be created. | 01-15-2009 |
20090203208 | COPPER ALLOY FOR WIRING, SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE, METHOD FOR FORMING WIRING, AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE - A wiring metal contains a polycrystal of copper (Cu) as a primary element and an additional element other than Cu, and concentration of the additional element is, at crystal grain boundaries composing the Cu polycrystal and in vicinities of the crystal grain boundaries, higher than that of the inside of the crystal grains. The additional element is preferably at least one element selected from a group consisting of Ti, Zr, Hf, Cr, Co, Al, Sn, Ni, Mg, and Ag. This Cu wiring is formed by forming a Cu polycrystalline film, forming an additional element layer on this Cu film, and diffusing this additional element from the additional element layer into the Cu film. This copper alloy for wiring is preferred as metal wiring formed for a semiconductor device. | 08-13-2009 |
20090278178 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE AND METHOD FOR FABRICATING THE SAME - Disclosed is a semiconductor device which includes a MIS FET on a surface of a substrate, an insulating film on the substrate to cover the MIS FET, an opening that gets to an impurity diffusing region formed in the insulating film, another opening that gets to a gate electrode or to an extension part of the gate electrode formed in the insulating film, and an electrically conductive member including mainly copper filled in each of the openings. The insulating film includes a layer including, as main components, silicon, oxygen, carbon and hydrogen (FIG. | 11-12-2009 |
20100025852 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING THE SAME - To suppress deterioration in reliability of wiring and to reduce effective dielectric constant of wiring. In a semiconductor device, copper-containing wirings are covered by barrier insulating films, and the barrier insulating films contain a component of an organic silica containing unsaturated hydrocarbon and amorphous carbon. The copper-containing wirings are covered by the barrier insulating films that contain a component that is in an organic silica structure containing unsaturated hydrocarbon and amorphous carbon. Accordingly, inter-wiring capacitance is reduced without deteriorating reliability of the copper-containing wiring, thereby realizing a high-speed LSI with low power consumption. | 02-04-2010 |
20100096756 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING THE SAME - A semiconductor device has a multilayer interconnection including a copper interconnection film formed in a predetermined area within an insulating film, a liner film, and a high-melting-point metal film. The copper interconnection film is polycrystalline, and crystal grains occupying 40% or more of an area of a unit interconnection surface among crystal grains forming the polycrystal are oriented to (111) in a substrate thickness direction. The copper interconnection film has crystal conformity with the noble metal liner film. In a case where the high-melting-point metal film is formed of Ti and the noble metal liner film is a Ru film, the high-melting-point metal of Ti dissolves into Ru in a solid state to form the noble metal liner. Thus, a copper interconnection is formed with both of Cu diffusion barrier characteristics and Cu crystal conformity. | 04-22-2010 |
20120061844 | COPPER ALLOY FOR WIRING, SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE, METHOD FOR FORMING WIRING, AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE - A wiring metal contains a polycrystal of copper (Cu) as a primary element and an additional element other than Cu, and concentration of the additional element is, at crystal grain boundaries composing the Cu polycrystal and in vicinities of the crystal grain boundaries, higher than that of the inside of the crystal grains. The additional element is preferably at least one element selected from a group consisting of Ti, Zr, Hf, Cr, Co, Al, Sn, Ni, Mg, and Ag. This Cu wiring is formed by forming a Cu polycrystalline film, forming an additional element layer on this Cu film, and diffusing this additional element from the additional element layer into the Cu film. This copper alloy for wiring is preferred as metal wiring formed for a semiconductor device. | 03-15-2012 |
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20120320166 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - An image processing apparatus that outputs, if three-dimensional stereoscopically viewable left-eye and right-eye images are not alternately supplied at accurate timings, only one of the three-dimensional stereoscopically viewable left-eye or right-eye image when the three-dimensional stereoscopically viewable left-eye and right-eye images are supplied. | 12-20-2012 |
20130063424 | IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND IMAGE PROCESSING PROGRAM - Provided is an image processing device including a congruence degree detecting unit which detects a degree of congruence of each of multiple scenes with respect to an input image made of a two-dimensional image, a depth image generating unit which generates, with respect to the input image, depth images each obtained by a technique corresponding to each of the scenes, a blending unit which blends the depth images, which are generated by the depth image generating unit and each generated by a technique corresponding to each of the scenes, at a blending ratio based on the degree of congruence of each of the scenes, to generate a blended depth image, and a three-dimensional image generating unit which generates a three-dimensional image, which can be viewed three-dimensionally, made of a left-eye image and a right-eye image generated by shifting each pixel of the input image using the blended depth image. | 03-14-2013 |
20140071237 | IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE AND METHOD THEREOF, AND PROGRAM - An apparatus may include a hardware processor and a storage medium. The storage medium may be coupled to the processor, and may store instructions. When executed by the processor, the instructions may cause the apparatus to determine a number of viewers. The instructions may also cause the apparatus to calculate a number of viewpoints based on the number of viewers. Additionally, the instructions may cause the apparatus to generate a plurality of images corresponding to the viewpoints. | 03-13-2014 |
20150256839 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, IMAGE ENCODING APPARATUS AND IMAGE ENCODING METHOD, AND IMAGE DECODING APPARATUS AND IMAGE DECODING METHOD - Provided is an image processing apparatus including: an encoder configured to scalably encode image data; a write unit configured to cause storage via a predetermined bus to store encoded data that is the image data scalably encoded by the encoder; a read unit configured to read a desired layer of the encoded data from the storage via the bus; and a decoder configured to scalably decode the encoded data read from the storage by the read unit. | 09-10-2015 |
20150281539 | IMAGE PICKUP ELEMENT, IMAGING DEVICE, AND IMAGING METHOD - In order to improve imaging performance, an imaging apparatus is provided to include an image capturing unit configured to detect incident light and generate a raw image data, a compression unit configured to compress the raw image data to generate a coded data having a data amount smaller than that of the raw image data, and an output unit configured to output the coded data to a processing unit for processing the coded data. Furthermore, the image capturing unit, the compression unit, and the output unit are configured to be within a same semiconductor package. | 10-01-2015 |
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20080267324 | Impulse Radio Communication Device - An impulse radio communication device includes a wave detector for generating a detected signal, a switching section for selecting either a received signal or the detected signal in accordance with an external control signal and outputting it as a demodulation target signal, a reference waveform generating section synchronized with the demodulation target signal and generating a reference waveform signal having a different waveform in accordance with the external control signal, a demodulator for generating a demodulated signal from the demodulation target signal in accordance with the reference waveform signal, and a decoding section for decoding received data from the demodulated signal. This impulse radio communication device switches the demodulation target signal and the reference waveform signal simultaneously in accordance with a receiving and synchronizing state. This makes it difficult that synchronization is pulled in a correlation position having low electric power, and can reduce a acquisition time. | 10-30-2008 |
20080292037 | Master Side Communication Apparatus and Slave Side Communication Apparatus - A master side communication apparatus and a slave side communication apparatus wherein the structure of a receiving part of the slave side communication apparatus is simplified to achieve a reduced size, a reduced power consumption and a reduced cost. The master side communication apparatus performs a communication in synchronism with the slave side communication apparatus having no synchronization timing adjusting function. A transport signal generating timing adjusting part of the master side communication apparatus acquires, from the slave side communication apparatus, synchronization signal generation timing information used when the slave side communication apparatus receives the transport signal from the master side communication apparatus. The transport signal generating timing adjusting part varies and adjusts, based on the acquired information, the transmission timing of the signal to be transmitted to the slave side communication apparatus. A transmitting part transmits the transport signal at the adjust transmission timing. The occurrence timing of the transport signal is varied and adjusted until the slave side communication apparatus becomes able to receive the transport signal from the master side communication apparatus. | 11-27-2008 |
20090041169 | PULSE MODULATION TYPE TRANSMITTER APPARATUS AND PULSE MODULATION TYPE RECEIVER APPARATUS - A pulse modulation type transmitter apparatus and a pulse modulation type receiver apparatus wherein both a fast synchronization establishment and a low power consumption of a synchronizing part can be achieved at the same time and wherein the data transmission/reception can be performed soon after a commencement of communication, and further a fast data transmission and a low power consumption can be achieved. A first template signal ( | 02-12-2009 |
20100040168 | TRANSMITTING APPARATUS, RECEIVING APPARATUS AND COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A transmitting apparatus, receiving apparatus and communication system are disclosed, and great improvement in an S/N ratio, preventing an actual throughput from decreasing, and preventing the number of circuits for synchronizing spread spectrum signals from increasing can be expected at the receiving apparatus side. The transmitting apparatus includes a pulse generating circuit, pulse repetition cycle determining circuit, peak power determining circuit, and modulator. The pulse generating circuit generates pulse strings, pulse repetition cycle determining circuit determines, based on a clock signal, a pulse repetition cycle of the pulse string generated by the pulse generating circuit. The peak power determining circuit determines a pulse peak power of the pulse string. The modulator modulates the pulse string with transmission data, and then generates a transmission signal. | 02-18-2010 |
20120281740 | TRANSMITTING APPARATUS, RECEIVING APPARATUS AND COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A transmitting apparatus, receiving apparatus and communication system are disclosed, and great improvement in an S/N ratio, preventing an actual throughput from decreasing, and preventing the number of circuits for synchronizing spread spectrum signals from increasing can be expected at the receiving apparatus side. The transmitting apparatus includes a pulse generating circuit, pulse repetition cycle determining circuit, peak power determining circuit, and modulator. The pulse generating circuit generates pulse strings, pulse repetition cycle determining circuit determines, based on a clock signal, a pulse repetition cycle of the pulse string generated by the pulse generating circuit. The peak power determining circuit determines a pulse peak power of the pulse string. The modulator modulates the pulse string with transmission data, and then generates a transmission signal. | 11-08-2012 |
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20110282153 | INSERTION INSTRUMENT ENDOSCOPE - An insertion instrument and an endoscope are provided that include: a bending portion provided in an insertion portion; a flexible tube portion connected in series to a proximal end side of the bending portion; an inside guide pipe provided inside the insertion portion, and inside which a wire is inserted to freely advance and retract; and an outside guide pipe provided inside the insertion portion, and inside which the inside guide pipe is inserted to freely advance and retract. Inside the insertion portion, a distal end of the inside guide pipe is fixed to a midway position of the bending portion, and a proximal end of the inside guide pipe is configured to be switchable between a fixed state and a non-fixed state. Further, inside the insertion portion, a distal end of the outside guide pipe is fixed to a distal end of a flexible tube portion, and a proximal end thereof is fixed at a more rearward position than the flexible tube portion. | 11-17-2011 |
20130217963 | ENDOSCOPE AUXILIARY INSTRUMENT AND ENDOSCOPE - An endoscope auxiliary instrument includes a hood, a hood cover that is provided at a distal end portion of an insertion portion of an endoscope and that movably holds the hood along an axial direction of the insertion portion, and a wire fixing portion. The wire fixing portion causes the hood to protrude/retract at the distal end portion in a direction parallel to an axis of the hood that is a direction along an axial direction of the insertion portion, and fixes a wire that, when the hood receives a force in a proximal end direction in a state in which the hood protrudes in a distal end direction of the distal end portion, generates a return force that causes the hood to returns to the protruding state. | 08-22-2013 |
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20090032447 | Ballast water treatment apparatus - The present invention provides a ballast water treatment system including a reaction tank in which raw water and ozone are imported and made to react each other for a predetermined period of time to kill microorganisms existing in raw water, an ozone decomposer in which water containing residual ozone discharged from the reaction tank is imported and the residual ozone is decomposed, and a circulation pump installed between the reaction tank and ozone decomposer, forming a circulation system which removes the residual ozone by means of circulating the water containing the residual ozone between the reaction tank and ozone decomposer. | 02-05-2009 |
20090032473 | Method of removing ozone remaining in water - The present invention provides a method of removing ozone remaining in water by separating residual ozone which remains in water after ozone is melted in the water and kills microorganisms in the water including the steps of storing water containing the residual ozone in a pressure tank, supplying the pressure tank with compressed air, generating coarse bubbles larger than the residual ozone existing in water in the form of micro bubbles in pressurized condition, making the residual ozone in the form of micro bubbles adhere to the coarse bubbles, separating the residual ozone from water as the coarse bubbles go up, and discharging the micro bubbles from the pressure tank. | 02-05-2009 |
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20110240533 | BALLAST WATER TREATMENT APPARATUS - The present invention provides a ballast water treatment system including a reaction tank in which raw water and ozone are imported and made to react each other for a predetermined period of time to kill microorganisms existing in raw water, an ozone decomposer in which water containing residual ozone discharged from the reaction tank is imported and the residual ozone is decomposed, and a circulation pump installed between the reaction tank and ozone decomposer, forming a circulation system which removes the residual ozone by means of circulating the water containing the residual ozone between the reaction tank and ozone decomposer. Accordingly, this system dispenses with a deaeration tank which would require a wide space for installation, small cost and is able to be applied to existing ships easily. | 10-06-2011 |
20110240534 | BALLAST WATER TREATMENT APPARATUS - The present invention provides a ballast water treatment system including a reaction tank in which raw water and ozone are imported and made to react each other for a predetermined period of time to kill microorganisms existing in raw water, an ozone decomposer in which water containing residual ozone discharged from the reaction tank is imported and the residual ozone is decomposed, and a circulation pump installed between the reaction tank and ozone decomposer, forming a circulation system which removes the residual ozone by means of circulating the water containing the residual ozone between the reaction tank and ozone decomposer. Accordingly, this system dispenses with a deaeration tank which would require a wide space for installation, small cost and is able to be applied to existing ships easily. | 10-06-2011 |
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20140202965 | Method for Killing Aquatic Organisms in Liquid and Method and Apparatus for Killing Aquatic Organisms in Ballast Water - It is an object to provide a method for killing aquatic organisms in liquid by which aquatic organisms in liquid can be killed at low cost, and the object is attained by a method including a first step of generating microbubbles in a range of 4 to 100 μm from bubbles containing ozone discharged into liquid in a pipe, a second step of forcibly crushing the microbubbles in the pipe generated at the first step to generate OH radicals as a result of crushing of the microbubbles themselves due to the forcible crushing, and a third step of generating OH radicals as a result of dissolution and decomposition of the ozone contained in the microbubbles in the liquid due to the forcible crushing of the microbubbles, wherein the OH radicals generated at the second and third steps, OH radicals generated as a result of self-crushing of the microbubbles themselves in the liquid in the pipe, and OH radicals generated as a result of dissolution and decomposition of the ozone contained in the microbubbles in the liquid due to the self-crushing are brought into contact with aquatic organisms in the liquid in the pipe. | 07-24-2014 |
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20120107913 | MICROORGANISM CULTURE SHEET AND MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREFOR - A microorganism culture sheet is provided which can limit the use of a costly cultivation material to a necessary portion, which has simple production at the time of manufacture, and can be simply and stably used by a user. The microorganism culture sheet of the present invention is a microorganism culture sheet comprising a base sheet, a culture layer formed on top of the base sheet, and a cover sheet that covers the culture layer, and the culture layer is pattern-formed with an application liquid comprising a polyvinylpyrrolidone and at least on selected from the group consisting of a gelling agent, a nutrient component, a color indicator, a selective agent and a substrate. | 05-03-2012 |
20130084624 | MICROORGANISM CULTURE SHEET - Provided is a microorganism culture sheet having an excellent efficiency for collection of environmental microorganisms and a method for measuring the environmental microorganisms with an excellent collection efficiency. Provided is a microorganism culture sheet including a base sheet, a dry culture layer formed on the base sheet, and a cover sheet covering the dry culture layer, wherein an adhesive layer and a release film are laminated on the inner surface of the cover sheet. Because the environmental microorganisms are collected using the adhesive layer, an excellent collection efficiency is provided. | 04-04-2013 |
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20090305080 | Perpendicular magnetic recording medium - A perpendicular magnetic recording medium, which includes a nonmagnetic substrate, and a first underlayer in the form of a soft magnetic under-layer (SUL), a second underlayer, an intermediate layer, a magnetic recording layer, a protective layer, and a lubricant layer sequentially laminated on the nonmagnetic substrate. The SUL has a plurality of SUL layers including a type-A SUL layer, a plurality of type-B SUL layers including at least two adjacent type-B SUL layers, and a nonmagnetic metal spacer layer disposed between the two adjacent type-B SUL layers. The type-A SUL layer may include a material selected from Co, Fe and Ni, a material selected from Cr, V and Ti, and a material selected from W, Zr, Ta and Nb. Each of the type-B SUL layers is in antiferromagnetic coupling, and may include a material selected from Co, Fe and Ni, a material selected from Cr, V and Ti, and a material selected from W, Zr, Ta and Nb. | 12-10-2009 |