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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 20120131408 | COMPUTER READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM STORING ERROR CORRECTION PROGRAM AND COMMUNICATION APPARATUS A computer-readable medium storing a program causing a computer to execute a process includes, acquiring a plurality of data units that belong to a first block in a certain hierarchy among hierarchical blocks defined by a plurality of hierarchies; generating error corre... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120131237 | EXTENSION DEVICE AND COMMUNICATION CHECK METHOD An extension device that extends a communication path between a host device and an input/output (IO) device, the extension device including a determination unit configured to determine whether a first logical path exists between the host device and the IO device, a logi... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120131214 | RELAY APPARATUS, RELAY APPARATUS CONTROLLING METHOD, AND DEVICE CONTROLLER A relay apparatus includes a storing unit configured to store information related to a connection state between the relay apparatus and a device connected thereto, a determining unit configured to determine whether a change is a temporary change, based on a change facto... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120129582 | MOBILE TERMINAL APPARATUS The mobile terminal apparatus of the present invention includes a housing having an opening section in which an accommodated object is fitted; a lid covering the opening section, the lid having a protrusion which surrounds the opening section and shields the accommodate... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120129567 | MOBILE COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, MOBILE STATION APPARATUS, BASE STATION APPARATUS, AND RADIOWAVE INTERFERENCE REDUCING METHOD A mobile communication system includes: a first base station apparatus having a first communication coverage area; at least one second base station apparatus having a second communication coverage area smaller than the first communication coverage area and capable of ad... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120129528 | BASE STATION, MOBILE STATION, COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, AND COMMUNICATION METHOD A base station includes a receiver which receives a piece of state information indicating whether or not a mobile station passes through a location on a fixed route, and a processor which performs processing which determines that the mobile station is moving on the fixe... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120129455 | INTERMITTENT COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, BASE STATION APPARATUS AND MOBILE STATION APPARATUS A method for an intermittent communication system where an intermittent communication can be made between a base station apparatus and a mobile station apparatus, that includes the mobile station apparatus's transmitting information based on a result of measuring a rece... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120129447 | BASE STATION APPARATUS, DATA PROCESSING APPARATUS AND MOBILE COMMUNICATION SYSTEM A base station apparatus includes a relay unit that relays communication data transmitted and received between a user terminal wirelessly connected to the base station apparatus itself, and a server apparatus connected to the base station apparatus itself through a publ... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120129361 | SOCKET AND DEVICE HAVING THE SOCKET A socket for providing an electric connection between a package and an electronic circuit board, the socket includes a package mounting area in which the package is mounted and an isotropic elastic body provided on the package mounting area and having a continuous shape... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120128377 | OPTICAL DIGITAL COHERENT RECEIVER An ALC processing unit to adjust the signal level of outputs from an adaptive equalizer to a target value is provided in a stage later than the adaptive equalizer and earlier than a frequency offset estimation/compensation unit in an optical digital coherent receiver. T... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120128100 | FREQUENCY SHIFT CIRCUIT AND COMMUNICATION DEVICE A frequency shift circuit that shifts the frequency of an input signal using a rotor corresponding to a predetermined phase rotation amount, the frequency shift circuit includes a table look-up unit that includes a plurality of tables that store complex data and outputs... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120128089 | WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, TRANSMITTING APPARATUS, WIRELESS COMMUNICATION METHOD, AND CONTROL METHOD FOR TRANSMITTING APPARATUS A wireless communication system includes a transmitting apparatus, and a plurality of receiving apparatuses. A first receiving apparatus among the plurality of receiving apparatuses includes, a first receiver that receives wireless signals transmitted from a plurality o... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120128085 | SIGNAL PROCESSING METHOD AND RECEIVER A receiver selects, regarding each of signals corresponding to component elements of a transmission column vector, a number of transmission signal candidates equal to a number according to a predetermined parameter based on inter-signal point distances between a plurali... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120128046 | RADIO COMMUNICATION TERMINAL DEVICE AND RADIO COMMUNICATION METHOD A radio communication terminal device includes a storage unit that stores group information indicating a group of frequencies belonging to the same communication carrier, a communication-carrier searching unit that selects one of to-be-selected frequencies, the to-be-se... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120127876 | Cell Edge Coverage Hole Detection in Cellular Wireless Networks A cell edge coverage hole detection method for a cellular wireless communication system such as an LTE system. A coverage hole in a cell edge region will cause radio link failures, RLF, which are difficult to distinguish from those caused by handover issues. The method ... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120127385 | LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY DEVICE AND LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY APPARATUS A liquid crystal display device includes a first liquid crystal layer where first liquid crystal regions and second liquid crystal regions are alternately arranged, and a second liquid crystal layer stacked on the first liquid crystal layer where third liquid crystal re... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120127055 | ANTENNA DEVICE AND WIRELESS COMMUNICATION APPARATUS An antenna device includes a feed element being of a length that allows resonance in a specified frequency band, a distributed constant feed line grounded at one end and coupled at another end to the feed element to form a feeding point, a reactive element grounded at o... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120127007 | COMPARISON CIRCUIT AND ANALOG-TO-DIGITAL CONVERSION DEVICE A comparison circuit includes: an input circuit includes a first transistor for receiving a first signal, and a second transistor for receiving a second signal; a first current route of which the electric current is controlled by the first transistor; a second current r... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120126907 | OSCILLATION CIRCUIT An oscillation circuit has a first inverter connected to an external piezoelectric resonator, a first feedback resistor disposed between input/output terminals of the first inverter, first/second variable capacitive elements connected to input/output of the first invert... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120126898 | AMPLIFYING APPARATUS An amplifying apparatus includes a first amplifier that amplifies an input signal on the basis of a value of a drain voltage and outputs a transmission signal, a distortion compensator that corrects a power amplitude of the input signal on the basis of a difference in p... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120126636 | PHASE DIFFERENCE DETECTION METHOD, PHASE DIFFERENCE DETECTION CIRCUIT, AND WIRELESS POWER TRANSMISSION DEVICE A method used by a phase difference detection circuit for detecting a phase difference between two signals includes shifting a detected phase difference between the two signals by an offset value, outputting the detected phase difference, and controlling the offset valu... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120126372 | RESIST PATTERN THICKENING MATERIAL AND PROCESS FOR FORMING RESIST PATTERN, AND SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING THE SAME A resist pattern thickening material is disclosed that can utilize ArF excimer laser light; which, when applied over a resist pattern such as an ArF resist having a line pattern or the like, can thicken the resist pattern regardless of the size of the resist pattern; wh... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120110527 | CONNECTION VERIFICATION METHOD, RECORDING MEDIUM THEREOF, AND CONNECTION VERIFICATION APPARATUS A connection verification method is disclosed. A computer verifies a connection between a first node and a second node by starting from the first node in a designed integrated circuit, based on connection information stored in a storage part. The computer detects whethe... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120110422 | TRANSMISSION DEVICE A transmission device in a communication system where a systematic code obtained by systematic encoding of information bits into which dummy bits are inserted and by deletion of the dummy bits from the results of the systematic encoding is transmitted. The transmission ... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120110257 | VIRTUAL TAPE DEVICE AND METHOD FOR SELECTING PHYSICAL TAPE A virtual tape device being located between a host and a tape library and storing data as a virtual logical volume in a storage, has a calculator that calculates a time period in which a robot moves, from a cell to a drive device, the physical tape in accordance with an... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120108290 | MOBILE ELECTRONIC APPARATUS, METHOD FOR IMAGE MANAGEMENT AND RECORDING MEDIUM A mobile electronic apparatus includes a storage unit which stores an image shot by an image shooting unit, a region information obtaining unit which obtains region information indicating in which one of a plurality of regions the mobile electronic apparatus is located,... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120108289 | RADIO COMMUNICATION APPARATUS A radio communication apparatus that includes a receiver that accomplishes intermittent reception of information in a first mode, the information indicating a transmitting format used for a shared channel via which data is received and a transmitter that accomplishes in... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120108280 | WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, BASE STATION, MOBILE STATION, AND WIRELESS COMMUNICATION METHOD A wireless communication system includes a mobile station, which has a selector that from among prepared signal sequences, selects one or more arbitrary signal sequences and from among intervals included in a given period, selects one or more arbitrary intervals, and fu... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120108231 | BASE STATION, DETECTION DEVICE, COMMUNICATION SYSTEM AND DETECTION METHOD A base station includes: an interface that transfers user data; a processor that controls the base station in accordance with a process including: obtaining a period of time from when a transfer unit receives the user data to when the interface transmits the user data; ... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120108165 | WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, BASE STATION, RELAY STATION, AND WIRELESS COMMUNICATION METHOD A wireless communication system includes a calculator that calculates the number of mobile stations for which amplification is to be performed or the rate of mobile stations for which amplification is to be performed among all mobile stations; an allocator that based on... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120108093 | ELECTRONIC APPARATUS ON WHICH PLUG-IN UNIT CAN BE MOUNTED An electronic apparatus including a housing that includes a first connector, and a printed circuit board unit that includes a printed circuit board, a second connector that is connected to the first connector at the completion of insertion of the printed circuit board i... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120106971 | OPTICAL TRANSMISSION DEVICE AND OPTICAL TRANSMISSION SYSTEM An optical transmission device includes: an optical signal generator to generate and transmit an optical signal that transmits data; a detector to detect a number of active clients; and a processor to determine transmission rate of the optical signal according to the nu... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120106968 | OPTICAL TRANSMISSION APPARATUS There is provided an optical transmission apparatus including: a transmitter to output an optical signal to be transferred to other optical transmission apparatus; a first dummy light source to generate first dummy light having a wavelength which is not included in an o... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120106662 | WIRELESS COMMUNICATION APPARATUS, DECODING PROCESSING METHOD AND WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM A wireless communication apparatus includes a demodulator that demodulates data on which coding processing is performed for each first block unit and channel coding processing included in the coding processing is performed for each second block unit smaller than the fir... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120106556 | COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE IN NETWORK INCLUDING LAYERED RELAY APPARATUSES This method includes: obtaining first data including identifiers of selected computers for invocation of parallel processes among plural computers connected to lowest-layer relay apparatuses in a network including relay apparatuses in plural layers, wherein the network ... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120106486 | WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEMS A method of requesting a plurality of different characteristic indicators from a second communications apparatus in a wireless communications network including a first communications apparatus and a plurality of such second communications apparatuses which communicate w... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120106453 | WIRELESS NETWORK DEVICE, WIRELESS NETWORK SYSTEM AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING SELECTION OF ROUTINGS Embodiments of the present invention disclose a wireless network device, a wireless network system and a method of controlling selection of routings. The wireless network device includes: a memory configured to store routing latency information for routing from the wire... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120106105 | WIRING BOARD HAVING A PLURALITY OF VIAS A wiring board unit includes a connector having a plurality of terminals; and a wiring board on which the connector is mounted. The wiring board includes a first wiring pattern provided on a first wiring layer, a second wiring pattern provided on a second wiring layer a... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120105936 | MICROMIRROR UNIT AND METHOD OF MAKING THE SAME A method is provided for making a micromirror unit which includes a frame, a mirror forming base, and bridges connecting the frame to the mirror forming base. The method includes the following steps. First, a first mask pattern is formed on a substrate for masking porti... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120103676 | CONNECTOR AND INTERPOSER USING CONNECTOR A connector conducting electricity between external electrodes while the connector is being compressed, the connector including: a columnar main body made of an elastic dielectric; a first contact terminal made of an inelastic conductor including first and second electr... | 05/03/2012 |
