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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 20120131418 | MEMORY DEVICE According to one embodiment, a memory device comprises a writing device that writes data bits, check bits for error corrections, and overhead bit(s) into a memory, each bit of the overhead bit(s) corresponding to each group of bit group(s) including at least one bit of ... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120050589 | SOLID-STATE IMAGING DEVICE According to an embodiment, a solid-state imaging device includes: an imaging element formed on a semiconductor substrate; a first optical system configured to focus an image of a subject on an imaging plane; a second optical system including a microlens array including... | 03/01/2012 |
| 20120029861 | SEMICONDUCTOR CIRCUIT, SEMICONDUCTOR CIRCUIT TEST METHOD, AND SEMICONDUCTOR CIRCUIT TEST SYSTEM In general, according to one embodiment, a semiconductor circuit test method is disclosed. The method can generate a basic format of a test pattern and store the basic format in a test device. The basic format includes at least one parameter and a test program for testi... | 02/02/2012 |
| 20120022690 | ROBOT CONTROL APPARATUS In an embodiment of the present invention, with the purpose of more accurately calculating a disturbance torque generated by an external force acting on a robot, friction parameters contained in algorithms, such as a friction coefficient and a dead-zone threshold value,... | 01/26/2012 |
| 20110312142 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE AND SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE MANUFACTURING METHOD A silicon-germanium non-formation region not formed with a silicon germanium layer and a silicon-germanium formation region formed with a silicon germanium layer are provided in a silicon chip, an internal circuit and an input/output buffer are arranged in the silicon-g... | 12/22/2011 |
| 20110297969 | SEMICONDUCTOR LIGHT EMITTING DEVICE According to one embodiment, a semiconductor light emitting device includes a semiconductor layer, a first electrode, a second electrode, a transparent layer, and a fluorescent material layer. The transparent layer is provided on the first major surface of the semicondu... | 12/08/2011 |
| 20110284910 | SEMICONDUCTOR LIGHT EMITTING DEVICE According to one embodiment, a semiconductor light emitting device includes a semiconductor layer, a first electrode, a second electrode, a first insulating layer, a first interconnect layer, a second interconnect layer, a first metal pillar, a second metal pillar, and ... | 11/24/2011 |
| 20110234276 | VOLTAGE-CURRENT CONVERTER CIRCUIT AND PLL CIRCUIT HAVING THE SAME According to an embodiment, a voltage-current converter circuit includes a first current mirror circuit, a first transistor, a variable resistor, a second transistor and a first current output unit. The first current mirror circuit includes a first conductivity type tra... | 09/29/2011 |
| 20110204396 | SEMICONDUCTOR LIGHT EMITTING DEVICE AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING SAME According to one embodiment, a semiconductor light emitting device includes a semiconductor stack, a first electrode, a second electrode, a first interconnect, an insulating film, and a second interconnect. The semiconductor stack includes a first major surface, a secon... | 08/25/2011 |
| 20110186901 | LED PACKAGE According to one embodiment, an LED package includes a first lead frame, a second lead frame, an LED chip, a wire, and a resin body. The first lead frame and the second lead frame are arranged with a space between each other. The LED chip is provided above the first lea... | 08/04/2011 |
| 20110114986 | SEMICONDUCTOR LIGHT-EMITTING DEVICE AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING SAME A semiconductor light-emitting device includes: a first semiconductor layer having a first major surface and a second major surface which is an opposite side to the first major surface; a second semiconductor layer provided on the second major surface of the first semic... | 05/19/2011 |
| 20110050323 | SEMICONDUCTOR SWITCH A semiconductor switch includes: a switch section, provided on a substrate, switching connection states among a plurality of terminals; a positive voltage generator generating a positive potential higher than a supply potential supplied from a power-supply line; a drive... | 03/03/2011 |
| 20110050288 | SEMICONDUCTOR SWITCH A semiconductor switch includes: a first terminal; a second terminal; a switch section including a through FET connected between the first terminal and the second terminal and a shunt FET connected between the second terminal and a first ground terminal; a first control... | 03/03/2011 |
| 20110033012 | CHANNEL ESTIMATOR A channel estimator includes: a delay time estimation section configured to estimate a delay time of a received signal; an FFT parameter determination section configured to determine an FFT window position and an FFT size according to the estimated delay time; a first a... | 02/10/2011 |
| 20110010684 | SEMICONDUCTOR INTEGRATED CIRCUIT AND METHOD OF DESIGNING THE SAME A semiconductor integrated circuit comprising: a clock gating cell to which an enable signal and a clock signal are input, so as to output a gated clock signal generated by output-controlling said clock signal according to said enable signal; a first flip-flop circuit t... | 01/13/2011 |
| 20110009171 | POWER SUPPLY CIRCUIT AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE According to one embodiment, a power supply circuit includes a power switch section, an error amplifier, a wiring and a reset switch section. The error amplifier has one input portion connected to the output terminal, the other input portion and an output portion. The e... | 01/13/2011 |
| 20100316335 | OPTOELECTRONIC INTERCONNECTION FILM, AND OPTOELECTRONIC INTERCONNECTION MODULE According to an aspect of the present invention, there is provided an optoelectronic interconnection film: including an interconnection portion including: an optical waveguide core having at least two optical input/output portions; an optical waveguide cladding formed a... | 12/16/2010 |
| 20100246905 | PERSON IDENTIFYING APPARATUS, PROGRAM THEREFOR, AND METHOD THEREOF A person identifying apparatus calculates suitability as a reference for improving a face identification rate of an identical person appeared in frames of a moving image on the frame-to-frame basis, selects a frame from the moving image using the suitability, calculates... | 09/30/2010 |
| 20100218147 | CIRCUIT SPECIFICATION DESCRIPTION VISUALIZING DEVICE, CIRCUIT SPECIFICATION DESCRIPTION VISUALIZING METHOD AND STORAGE MEDIUM A design analyzing device includes a circuit specification description analyzing section configured to create structure data about an assertion description, a pass pattern creating section configured to create data about a plurality of pass patterns for which the assert... | 08/26/2010 |
| 20100200734 | POWER SUPPLY CIRCUIT AND OPTICAL RECEIVING CIRCUIT A power supply circuit includes: a start-up circuit provided on a semiconductor substrate and configured to convert an optical signal to an electrical signal; and a bias circuit provided on the semiconductor substrate and being in a non-start-up state at power-on, the s... | 08/12/2010 |
| 20100177863 | X-RAY CT SCANNER According to an aspect of the present invention, there is provided an X-ray CT scanner including: a gantry; a revolving body provided inside the gantry; an X-ray tube assembly provided in the revolving body; a heat radiator provided inside the revolving body so as to be... | 07/15/2010 |
| 20100169760 | APPARATUS FOR DISPLAYING INSTANCE DATA, METHOD, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT An information editing supporting apparatus receives an operation performed by a user. In a case where the operation related to editing of property values or referencing of property values, the apparatus generates operation information related to the operation while ass... | 07/01/2010 |
| 20100169094 | SPEAKER ADAPTATION APPARATUS AND PROGRAM THEREOF A speaker adaptation apparatus includes an acquiring unit configured to acquire an acoustic model including HMMs and decision trees for estimating what type of the phoneme or the word is included in a feature value used for speech recognition, the HMMs having a pluralit... | 07/01/2010 |
| 20100164564 | STARTING APPARATUS AND STARTING METHOD A starting apparatus includes: a storage unit storing an identifier; a rectifying unit rectifying a reception signal; a generating unit comparing the reception signal rectified in the rectifying unit to a reference signal and generating a digital signal from the recepti... | 07/01/2010 |
| 20100125892 | SWITCHING APPARATUS, AUTHENTICATION SERVER, AUTHENTICATION SYSTEM, AUTHENTICATION METHOD, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT A switching apparatus includes an authentication client unit that requests user authentication to a user authentication server that performs user authentication of the switching apparatus, and, when the requested user authentication is successfully performed, receives f... | 05/20/2010 |
| 20100118692 | WIRELESS COMMUNICATION APPARATUS A wireless transmission apparatus is a wireless communication apparatus constituting a base station capable of communicating with one or more terminals, via a wireless LAN, the wireless communication apparatus including: an inverse fast Fourier transform processing sect... | 05/13/2010 |
| 20100073773 | DISPLAY SYSTEM FOR VEHICLE AND DISPLAY METHOD A display system for vehicle includes an outside information-obtaining section configured to obtain outside information of a moving object; a position-detecting section configured to detect a position of one eye of an image viewer getting on the moving object; and an im... | 03/25/2010 |
| 20100065813 | LIGHT EMITTING DEVICE A light emitting device includes a stacked body including at least a light emitting layer made of Inx(AlyGa1-y)1-xP (0≦x≦1, 0≦y≦1), a p-type cladding layer made of Inx(AlyGa1-y)1-x... | 03/18/2010 |
| 20100060378 | FILTER CIRCUIT AND RADIO COMMUNICATION DEVICE The present invention provides a filter circuit that can achieve both sharp bandpass characteristics and high power handling capability. The filter circuit includes: an input terminal that has a signal input; a four-port device that divides input signals; a band stop fi... | 03/11/2010 |
| 20100058775 | MAGNETICALLY REFRIGERATING MAGNETIC MATERIAL, MAGNETIC REFRIGERATION APPARATUS, AND MAGNETIC REFRIGERATION SYSTEM There are provided a magnetic material for magnetic refrigeration improving a magnetic refrigeration efficiency by including a wide operation temperature range and a magnetic refrigeration apparatus and a magnetic refrigeration system using the magnetic material. The ma... | 03/11/2010 |
| 20100054606 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT An image processing apparatus includes an operating unit that calculates a tangent-line direction of an edge and a normal-line direction of the edge by using a vertical-direction derivative value and a horizontal-direction derivative value of a pixel value of a pixel in... | 03/04/2010 |
| 20100052785 | DIFFERENTIAL AMPLIFIER, SAMPLE-AND-HOLD CIRCUIT, AND AMPLIFIER CIRCUIT To provide a common-mode feedback circuit that feeds back signal corresponding to common-mode components of output terminal voltage of first and second amplifiers to input terminals of the first and second amplifiers via first and second passive elements connected to a ... | 03/04/2010 |
| 20100039974 | WIRELESS APPARATUS A wireless apparatus that periodically sends notification signals, including: a determining module that determines, before sending the notification signal, whether a wireless channel is being used by a wireless device; a sending module that sends the notification signal... | 02/18/2010 |
| 20100034459 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR CALCULATING FEATURES OF IMAGE DATA A feature extraction apparatus includes a pixel feature calculator configured to calculate a plurality of pixel features for each of pixels included in a plurality of pieces of image data; a co-occurrence frequency calculator configured to calculate co-occurrence freque... | 02/11/2010 |
| 20100034439 | MEDICAL IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND MEDICAL IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD A projected image generating unit generates a projected image of a two-dimensional image that expresses three-dimensional information, based on three-dimensional data stored in an original image storing unit. A position information storage unit records therein three-dim... | 02/11/2010 |
| 20100027032 | EDGE DETECTION METHOD An edge detection method includes preparing a transparent substrate which includes a first main face having a first main region and a first peripheral region and a second main face having a second main region and a second peripheral region, the first peripheral region h... | 02/04/2010 |
| 20090327655 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE AND DATA PROCESSING METHOD PERFORMED BY SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE The semiconductor device includes a controller and a plurality of dynamically reconfigurable circuits connected to one another in series below the controller to perform operations in the manner of a pipeline. The controller inputs data and reconfiguration information to... | 12/31/2009 |
| 20090295341 | DC-DC CONVERTER A DC-DC converter includes a high side transistor and a low side transistor connected in series between an input potential and a grounding potential, and an LC filter connected between a connection point of the both transistors and an output terminal. A control unit con... | 12/03/2009 |
| 20090279800 | IMAGE COMPRESSION APPARATUS, IMAGE EXPANSION APPARATUS, AND IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS An input pixel valid-bit-number setting unit sets an input pixel valid-bit-number which is the number of gradations of input pixel data. A predictive pixel value generating unit refers to the higher-order bits of earlier already-input pixel data to generate a predictive... | 11/12/2009 |
| 20090271139 | TEST CASE GENERATION APPARATUS, GENERATION METHOD THEREFOR, AND PROGRAM STORAGE MEDIUM A method of the present invention includes: inputting a state transition diagram that represents first transitions between a plurality of states; inputting a mapping function that maps a given state to a value within a certain range; mapping each of the states with the ... | 10/29/2009 |
