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20090130974 | INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - An information processing device that includes processing devices and a relay device. Each processing device has at least one processing function associated with a unique function information item, a function determination portion, and a device information item notification portion. The function determination portion determines whether the processing device includes a processing function that corresponds to a function information item received from the relay device. If the processing device has the processing function, the device information item notification portion transmits a device information item to the relay device. The relay device includes a storage portion that stores the device information items, a function information item transmission portion, and a device information item recording portion. | 05-21-2009 |
20090132898 | IC CARD, INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, COMMUNICATION TYPE IDENTIFICATION METHOD, AND PROGRAM - An IC card is provided that is capable of identifying a communication type of incoming data received by non-contact communication. The IC card includes: an error detection portion that, for each of a plurality of communication types, performs error detection of incoming data based on an encoding format defined by each of the communication types; and a type identification portion that identifies, among the plurality of communication types, a communication type in which error information is not detected by the error detection portion as a communication type of the incoming data. | 05-21-2009 |
20090168807 | INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, COMMUNICATION METHOD, AND PROGRAM PRODUCT - An information processing device includes a transmission portion that transmits repeatedly, at a specified time interval, one combination packet that is created such that it includes, within a packet that is compatible with one format, a packet that is compatible with another format. It is therefore possible for the information processing device to perform non-contact communication in a plurality of formats without repeatedly transmitting in succession a plurality of copies of the same packet, each copy being compatible with a different format. | 07-02-2009 |
20120040661 | INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - An information processing device that includes processing devices and a relay device. Each processing device has at least one processing function associated with a unique function information item, a function determination portion, and a device information item notification portion. The function determination portion determines whether the processing device includes a processing function that corresponds to a function information item received from the relay device. If the processing device has the processing function, the device information item notification portion transmits a device information item to the relay device. The relay device includes a storage portion that stores the device information items, a function information item transmission portion, and a device information item recording portion. | 02-16-2012 |
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20100072647 | PATTERNING METHOD - A patterning method according to an embodiment of the present invention comprises: acquiring information about a surface state of an underlying film formed on a substrate; determining, based on the surface state, whether irregularity/foreign matter is present in each shot region in which a pattern is to be formed; and solidifying a resist agent while a first template, when it is determined that no irregularity/foreign matter is present in the shot region, or a second template that is different from the first template, when it is determined that irregularity/foreign matter is present in the shot region, is brought close to the underlying film on the shot region at a certain distance with the resist agent therebetween. | 03-25-2010 |
20100075443 | TEMPLATE INSPECTION METHOD AND MANUFACTURING METHOD FOR SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE - A template inspection method for performing defect inspection of a template, by bringing a pattern formation surface of a template used to form a pattern close to a first fluid coated on a flat substrate, filling the first fluid into a pattern of the template, and by performing optical observation of the template in a state that the first fluid is sandwiched between the template and the substrate, wherein a difference between an optical constant of the first fluid and an optical constant of the template is larger than a difference between an optical constant of air and the optical constant of the template. | 03-25-2010 |
20120075368 | DROPLET DISPENSING CONTROL METHOD, DROPLET DISPENSING CONTROL DEVICE, AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICES - According to one embodiment, a droplet dispensing control method includes detecting an amount of positional deviation between a stage on which a substrate is mounted and a template as a template positional deviation amount and detecting an amount of positional deviation between a movement direction of the stage and a nozzle array direction as a nozzle positional deviation amount. The method further includes calculating a stage movement direction correction value and an ejection timing correction value of the imprint material as correction values for eliminating the positional deviation of the landing position of the imprint material. The method further includes controlling the movement direction of the stage using the stage movement direction correction value and controlling the ejection timing of the imprint material using the ejection timing correction value. | 03-29-2012 |
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20090135516 | Disk drive device and servo control method thereof - Embodiments of the present invention help to perform appropriate servo control in response to detected vibration in a disk drive device having a vibration sensor. In an embodiment of the present invention, an HDD switches a correction servo mode to perform vibration correction in head positioning and a normal servo mode not to perform the vibration correction. The HDD performs servo positioning in either one of the serve modes and determines servo positioning accuracy in the servo mode from the measured positional error signal. The HDD obtains data indicating the servo positioning accuracy in the other servo mode from a table. The HDD compares the accuracy in the two servo modes and selects the servo mode with higher accuracy. The table contains previous measurements on servo positioning accuracy in the servo modes. | 05-28-2009 |
20100142082 | DISK DRIVE AND METHOD FOR HEAD SERVO CONTROL OF THE DISK DRIVE - A disk drive. The disk drive includes a head, a moving mechanism, a first peak filter, an adaptive peak filter, and a filter controller. The head is configured to read servo data on a disk at sampling frequency. The moving mechanism is configured to move the head in proximity with a recording surface of the disk. The first peak filter has a fixed peak frequency and a variable gain, and is configured to be inserted into a servo loop. The servo loop is configured to position the head with position error signals between servo data read by the head and a target position. The adaptive peak filter has a variable peak frequency and a variable gain, and is configured to be inserted into the servo loop. The filter controller is configured to control the gain of the adaptive peak filter according to the gain of the first peak filter. | 06-10-2010 |
20100328810 | DISK DRIVE AND SERVO-CONTROL METHOD THEREFOR - A disk drive. The disk drive includes a head, an actuator, and a controller. The head accesses a disk. The actuator is configured to support the head and to move the head by action of a voice-coil motor in a substantially radial direction of the disk. The controller is also configured to perform servo control of the actuator by using servo data read out by the head. The controller includes at least one of a plurality of notch filters having a fixed center frequency inserted in a servo-control loop. The controller is configured to increase an attenuation rate by at least one of the plurality of notch filters having the fixed center frequency at a designated frequency, when a target position of the head is at a position selected from the group consisting of a position outside of a specified region and a position within the specified region. | 12-30-2010 |
20110058276 | SERVO CONTROL OF A DISK DRIVE - A disk drive comprising a head for accessing a disk, an actuator for moving the head in the radial direction of the disk and a controller. The controller for servo control of the actuator based on servo data read out from the disk by the head. The controller is configured for maintaining a width of the adaptive chasing notch filter below a specified value in servo system control and estimating an oscillation frequency of the actuator. | 03-10-2011 |
20110069411 | HEAD SERVO CONTROL SYSTEM AND HEAD SERVO CONTROL METHOD - A servo control system configured to position a head in accordance with position error signals between servo data on a disk read by the head in a servo sampling cycle and a target position. The system includes a plurality of adaptive peak filters connected in parallel configured to filter the position error signals and configured to change filter coefficients adaptively, and an estimator configured to estimate head vibration caused by disturbances using the servo data read by the head. The system further includes a selector configured to select a portion of the plurality of adaptive peak filters at preset occasions, and a setter configured to update coefficient settings of the portion of the adaptive peak filters selected by the selector in accordance with an estimation by the estimator. | 03-24-2011 |
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20100238773 | CONTENT REPRODUCTION SYSTEM, CONTENT REPRODUCTION APPARATUS, AND CONTENT REPRODUCTION METHOD - The present invention provides a content reproduction system that can continue reproduction of a plurality of content even if a part of content is unreproducible. The content reproduction system includes a content storage apparatus including a content storage section that stores a plurality of content whose reproduction order has previously been specified based on reproduction order information, and a content reproduction apparatus including a communication section that communicates with the content storage apparatus, a request section that requests the content storage apparatus to transmit content stored in the content storage section in the order according to the reproduction order information, and a reproduction section that reproduces the content, wherein when content that the request section has requested from the content storage apparatus is unreproducible, the request section requests the content storage apparatus to transmit content which is listed as content to be reproduced subsequent to the unreproducible content in the reproduction order information. | 09-23-2010 |
20100316226 | SIGNAL PROCESSING APPARATUS AND SIGNAL PROCESSING METHOD - A signal processing apparatus includes: one or more detection means for detecting movement of a diaphragm of a speaker in correspondence with feedback methods that are different feedback methods; analog-to-digital conversion means for converting one or more detection signals acquired by the detection means into a digital form; feedback signal generating means for generating feedback signals corresponding to the feedback methods using the digital detection signals; synthesis means for combining an audio signal to be output as a driving signal of the speaker with the feedback signals; correction equalizer means for setting an equalizing characteristic to allow a sound reproduced by the speaker to have a target frequency characteristic by changing the digital audio signal; feedback operation setting means for setting feedback methods in which a feedback operation up to combining the audio signal with the feedback signal is performed and the feedback operation is not performed equalizing characteristic changing and setting means for changing the equalizing characteristic to be set by the correction equalizer means in accordance with a combination of the feedback methods. | 12-16-2010 |
20100318205 | SIGNAL PROCESSING APPARATUS AND SIGNAL PROCESSING METHOD - A signal processing apparatus includes: analog-to-digital conversion means that receives an analog detection signal acquired by detecting a movement of a diaphragm of a speaker, converts it into a digital signal by performing a first delta sigma modulation process, and outputs the digital signal; signal processing means that receives the digital detection signal output, generates a digital feedback signal, and outputs the digital feedback signal; synthesis means that converts an input digital audio signal to have a same sampling frequency as the feedback signal and then combines the input digital audio signal with the feedback signal as negative feedback; and digital-to-analog conversion means having a portion for a second delta sigma modulation process in which the digital audio signal after combination with the feedback signal is input, and the digital audio signal is converted into a digital signal and performing conversion of the digital audio signal into an analog signal. | 12-16-2010 |
20110144782 | CONTENT REPRODUCTION SYSTEM, CONTENT REPRODUCTION APPARATUS, AND CONTENT REPRODUCTION METHOD - The present invention provides a content reproduction system that can continue reproduction of a plurality of content even if a part of content is unreproducible. The content reproduction system includes a content storage apparatus including a content storage section that stores a plurality of content whose reproduction order has previously been specified based on reproduction order information, and a content reproduction apparatus including a communication section that communicates with the content storage apparatus, a request section that requests the content storage apparatus to transmit content stored in the content storage section in the order according to the reproduction order information, and a reproduction section that reproduces the content, wherein when content that the request section has requested from the content storage apparatus is unreproducible, the request section requests the content storage apparatus to transmit content which is listed as content to be reproduced subsequent to the unreproducible content in the reproduction order information. | 06-16-2011 |
20110182154 | INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE AND METHOD, INFORMATION PROVIDING SYSTEM, INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM, AND PROGRAM STORING MEDIUM - A recording apparatus records music on a recording medium. The recording apparatus may access a music piece purchasing data base and select music to be recorded on the recording medium from the music piece purchasing data base. A total playing time of the selected music is calculated. Further, a remaining recording time of the recording medium is calculated, the remaining recording time being the recording capacity of the recording media before the selected music is recorded on the recording medium. Then, it is judged whether or not the total playing time of the selected music is greater than the remaining recording time. A warning is issued when it is judged that the total playing time is greater than the remaining recording time. | 07-28-2011 |
20120230513 | SIGNAL PROCESSING DEVICE AND SIGNAL PROCESSING METHOD - A signal processing device includes: a combining section combining a digital feedback signal associated with a movement of a diaphragm of a speaker unit and a digital audio signal; and a control section controlling the level of the digital feedback signal according to a difference between the level of the digital feedback signal and the level of the digital audio signal. | 09-13-2012 |
20120230514 | SIGNAL PROCESSING DEVICE AND SIGNAL PROCESSING METHOD - A signal processing device includes: a detection unit generating a digital detection signal corresponding to motion of a diaphragm of a speaker to output the digital detection signal; a gain adjustment unit generating a digital feedback signal by multiplying the outputted digital detection signal by again coefficient to output the generated digital feedback signal; a combining unit combining the outputted digital feedback signal with a digital audio signal; a storage unit storing plural gain coefficients; and a control unit performing control so that a given gain coefficient is selected from the plural gain coefficients and that the selected gain coefficient is used for the multiplication. | 09-13-2012 |
20150263689 | AUDIO SIGNAL PROCESSING DEVICE AND AUDIO SIGNAL PROCESSING METHOD - An audio signal processing device includes a volume setting unit that changes a volume of an audio signal according to a control for changing the volume, and a level control unit that controls a level of a predetermined band of the audio signal according to the control. | 09-17-2015 |
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20150254039 | INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIUM - An information processing system includes a display-information specification information acquiring unit, a request signal generating unit, a second-display-file acquiring unit, and a print data output unit. The display-information specification information acquiring unit acquires display-information specification information for specifying display information displayed on a terminal transmitting a print instruction. On a basis of the display-information specification information, the request signal generating unit generates a request signal for requesting a second display file which is different from a first display file used for the display on the terminal and which corresponds to the display information. The second-display-file acquiring unit acquires the second display file on a basis of the request signal. The print data output unit outputs print data generated from the second display file to a printer. | 09-10-2015 |
20160026368 | INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - An information processing device includes a first region extracting unit that extracts a first region from a background image, the first region which should not be hidden in the background image; a second region extracting unit that extracts a second region from a form to be composed with the background image, a position of the second region being fixed in the form; and a controller that, when a form is selected and when a background image and a form are composed, if the composite meets a condition relating to overlap of the first region in the background image and the second region in the form, provides control so that a form including the second region is not allowed to be selected. | 01-28-2016 |
20160062714 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM - An information processing apparatus includes a type generating unit and a to-be-distributed material generating unit. The type generating unit generates a type of material to be distributed, according to a rule predetermined for each of forms of the to-be-distributed material. The type is a type in which a position at which content is described in the to-be-distributed material is determined. The to-be-distributed material generating unit generates the to-be-distributed material by applying priority to the generated type of the to-be-distributed material and by disposing the content in the to-be-distributed material. The priority is obtained in accordance with the distance between a first location and a second location. The first location is related to the content described in the to-be-distributed material. The second location is a distribution location for the to-be-distributed material. | 03-03-2016 |