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"The wireless music box has no imaginable commercial value. Who would pay for a message sent to nobody in particular?"
David Sarnoff, American radio pioneer ; 1921
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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 20120131536 | VERIFICATION APPARATUS FOR SEMICONDUCTOR INTEGRATED CIRCUIT AND VERIFICATION METHOD FOR SEMICONDUCTOR INTEGRATED CIRCUIT A verification apparatus for a semiconductor integrated circuit according to an embodiment includes a setting file storing unit having stored therein a list in which a scenario and a parameter used for verification are described and a transfer data generating unit confi... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120131092 | SERVER DEVICE AND PROGRAM PRODUCT According to one embodiment, a server device connected to a client device by way of a network includes a receiving unit, a first detecting unit, a cycle changing unit, a second detecting unit, and a transmitting unit. The receiving unit receives operation data through t... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120129471 | WIRELESS COMMUNICATION APPARATUS According to one embodiment, a wireless communication apparatus includes a wireless unit and a control unit. The wireless unit is configured to set, for each period, a transmit state including a first period for transmitting a connection request to establish connection ... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120129470 | WIRELESS COMMUNICATION APPARATUS According to one embodiment, a wireless communication apparatus includes a first timer, a generation unit, a transmitter, a receiver and a control unit. The first timer is configured to periodically measure a first time interval. The generation unit is configured to gen... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120129463 | WIRELESS COMMUNICATION APPARATUS AND METHOD According to one embodiment, a wireless communication apparatus includes following units. The first timer measures first time intervals. The second timer measures second time intervals. The time interval selection unit selects a second time interval among second time in... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120129449 | COMMUNICATION APPARATUS AND COMMUNICATION SYSTEM According to an embodiment, the first signal line is provided on the substrate and has one end connected to the communication unit. The coaxial line is provided by a surface side of the substrate and includes second and third signal lines. The third signal line is provi... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120129083 | METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING REFLECTIVE MASK AND APPARATUS FOR MANUFACTURING REFLECTIVE MASK According to one embodiment, a method is disclosed for manufacturing a reflective mask. The method can include forming a reflection layer on a major surface of a substrate. The method can include forming an absorption layer on the reflection layer. The method can includ... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120129008 | MAGNETO-RESISTANCE EFFECT ELEMENT, MAGNETO-RESISTANCE EFFECT HEAD, MAGNETIC STORAGE AND MAGNETIC MEMORY A magneto-resistance effect element, a magneto-resistance effect head, a magnetic storage and a magnetic memory, in which noise caused by a spin-transfer torque is reduced, are provided. In a fixed magnetization layer or a free magnetization layer of a magneto-resistanc... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120128325 | AUTHORING DEVICE AND AUTHORING METHOD According to one embodiment, an authoring apparatus configured to generate writing data to be stored in an optical disc from a video content data, includes an indexing processor configured to generate face image indexing information includes face images extracted from t... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120128265 | METHOD AND SYSTEM UTILIZING ITERATIVE RECONSTRUCTION WITH ADAPTIVE PARAMETERS FOR COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY (CT) IMAGES The CT imaging system optimizes its image generation by adaptively weighting certain parameters during the iterations in an iterative reconstruction algorithm. The projection data is grouped into N subsets, and after each of the N subsets is processed by the ordered sub... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120128253 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROCESSING IMAGE According to one embodiment, an image processing apparatus includes an image block generator, a pixel extractor, a correction parameter calculator and a corrector. The image block generator enlarges an image block including a plurality of pixels to generate an enlarged ... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120127904 | WIRELESS RECEIVING APPARATUS AND TRANSMITTING APPARATUS According to one embodiment, a wireless receiving apparatus includes a receiving unit, a buffer, a prediction unit, a sleep control unit, an access control unit, a generation unit and a transmitting unit. The receiving unit is configured to receive data to extract a pay... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120127811 | TIMING GENERATION CIRCUIT, SEMICONDUCTOR STORAGE DEVICE AND TIMING GENERATION METHOD According to an embodiment, a semiconductor storage device includes a memory cell array, a plurality of sense amplifiers and a timing generation circuit. The memory cell array includes a plurality of word lines, a plurality of bit lines crossing the plurality of word li... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120127784 | SEMICONDUCTOR STORAGE DEVICE According to one embodiment, a dummy cell simulates an operation of a memory cell. A main dummy bit line transmits a signal read out from the dummy cell. An inverter makes a sense amplifier circuit to operate based on a potential of the main dummy bit line. n (n is a po... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120127640 | ELECTRONIC APPARATUS According to one embodiment, an electronic apparatus includes a display panel, a first member, a second member, a pair of elastic bodies and a heating element. The first member includes a thermally expandable first main body surrounding a first face of the display panel... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120127604 | MAGNETIC RECORDING APPARATUS AND DATA READING METHOD A magnetic recording apparatus includes: a magnetic disk; a drive device; a magnetic disk control device; a buffer; and a flag management table. The buffer reads data of a specific block unit from a designated read range on the magnetic disk. The flag management table s... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120127125 | TOUCH PANEL APPARATUS, CONTROL APPARATUS AND CONTROL METHOD According to an embodiment, a control apparatus controls a touch panel includes a first resistive film includes a first terminal and a second terminal and a second resistive film includes a third terminal and a fourth terminal, the first and second resistive films being... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120126944 | HUMAN BODY COMMUNICATION APPARATUS AND AUTHENTICATION METHOD OF THE SAME In one embodiment, a human body communication apparatus includes a first human body communication terminal carried by a person, a second human body communication terminal and an authentication unit included in the first or second human body communication terminal. The f... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120126910 | NONRECIPROCAL DEVICE According to one embodiment, a nonreciprocal device includes a first component portion serving a circulator and a second component portion serving a circulator. The first component portion includes: a first carrier; a first Y junction-shaped line including three branch ... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120126875 | SEMICONDUCTOR SWITCH According to one embodiment, a semiconductor switch includes a power supply section, a driver, and a switch section. The power supply section is configured to generate a first potential higher than a positive power supply potential, and a negative second potential. The ... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120126812 | MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING APPARATUS AND MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING METHOD First magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) three-dimensional heart image data includes a plurality of two-dimensional heart image data superimposed and having a resolution in at least one direction that is different from that in two other directions. A first axis is detecte... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120126306 | NONVOLATILE SEMICONDUCTOR MEMORY DEVICE AND MANUFACTURING METHOD OF NONVOLATILE SEMICONDUCTOR MEMORY DEVICE According to one embodiment, a memory cell includes a charge storage layer. A first air gap is provided between charge storage layers adjacent in a word line direction. A second air gap is provided between charge storage layers adjacent in a bit line direction.... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120126303 | NONVOLATILE SEMICONDUCTOR MEMORY DEVICE AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING NONVOLATILE SEMICONDUCTOR MEMORY DEVICE According to one embodiment, a part of a buried insulating film buried in a trench is removed; accordingly, an air gap is formed between adjacent floating gate electrodes in a word line direction, and the air gap is formed continuously along the trench in a manner of si... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120126299 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING THE SAME A semiconductor device is disclosed. The semiconductor device includes a semiconductor substrate; a gate insulating film formed above the semiconductor substrate; a charge storage layer formed above the gate insulating film; a multilayered interelectrode insulating film... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120126266 | ILLUMINATION APPARATUS According to one embodiment, an illumination apparatus includes an LED (Light Emitting Diode) module, a light guide plate, and a support body. The support body supports the LED module and the light guide plate. A reflective surface of the support body is provided betwee... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120126256 | LED PACKAGE According to one embodiment, an LED package includes a first and a second lead frame separated from each other, an LED chip, a wire and a resin body. The LED chip is provided above the first and second lead frames, and has a pair of terminals provided on an upper surfac... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120126246 | PACKAGE AND HIGH FREQUENCY TERMINAL STRUCTURE FOR THE SAME According to one embodiment, provided is a package and high frequency terminal structure for the same including: a conductive base plate; a semiconductor device disposed on the conductive base plate; a metal wall disposed on the conductive base plate to house the semico... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120126096 | SOLID-STATE IMAGING DEVICE AND MANUFACTURING METHOD OF SOLID-STATE IMAGING DEVICE According to one embodiment, a semiconductor layer in which a photoelectric conversion unit is formed for each pixel, a readout circuit that is formed on a front side of the semiconductor layer and reads out a signal from the photoelectric conversion unit, a light incid... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120125665 | HIGH-FREQUENCY DEVICE A high-frequency device according to one embodiment includes: a plate-like first dielectric substrate; a plurality of surface electrodes for capacitors which are formed on a surface of the first dielectric substrate; a rear face electrode for the capacitors which is for... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120110646 | ACCESS AUTHORIZING APPARATUS An access authorizing apparatus includes a receiving unit, a first transmitting/receiving unit, a token issuer and a transmitting unit. A receiving unit receives first approval information indicating that access to the resource in the device has been approved by an acce... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120110603 | INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT According to an embodiment, an information processing device offering various APIs stores, for every application program, a WSDL file which indicates definition information of an API which is permitted to be used by an application program, and developer information whic... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120110416 | DATA STORAGE APPARATUS WITH ENCODER AND DECODER According to one embodiment, an encoder/decoder apparatus includes an encoder module, a decoder module, and a transposing module. The encoder module is configured to generate a Hamming code from the input data, in accordance with a check matrix having a specific regular... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120110405 | COMMUNICATION DEVICE According to one exemplary embodiment, a communication device includes: a receiver which receives a frame including data, a first error detection code for detecting an error of the data, a sequence number of the data, and a second error detection code for detecting an e... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120110219 | DATA PROCESSING CIRCUIT AND DATA PROCESSING APPARATUS According to one embodiment, a data processing circuit included in a data processing apparatus together with plural peripheral circuits including a peripheral circuit configured to output first data includes a processing unit and a stop unit. The processing unit subject... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120110078 | APPLICATION EXECUTION CONTROL APPARATUS AND APPLICATION EXECUTION CONTROL METHOD According to one embodiment, an application execution control apparatus includes a memory, a wireless communication module, and a controller. The memory is configured to store a relationship between a first application and a first wireless communication device, and a re... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120109651 | DATA RETRIEVAL AND INDEXING METHOD AND APPARATUS A method of searching a plurality of data files, wherein each data file includes a plurality of features. The method: determines a plurality of feature groups, wherein each feature group includes n features and n is an integer of 2 or more; expresses each data file as a... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120109632 | PORTABLE ELECTRONIC DEVICE According to one embodiment, a portable electronic device includes a touch-screen display. The electronic device executes a function which is associated with a display object corresponding to a tap position on the touch-screen display. The electronic device includes at ... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120108973 | ULTRASONIC DIAGNOSTIC APPARATUS AND ULTRASONIC IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS According to one embodiment, an edge information calculation unit calculates edge information based on a generated ultrasonic image. An edge filter unit generates a filtered image from the ultrasonic image by applying a filter having filter characteristics corresponding... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120108016 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE AND MANUFACTURING METHODS WITH USING NON-PLANAR TYPE OF TRANSISTORS Static random access memory cells and methods of making static random access memory cells are provided. The static random access memory cells contain two non-planar pass-gate transistors, two non-planar pull-up transistors, two non-planar pull-down transistors. A portio... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120107990 | METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING SEMICONDUCTOR LIGHT EMITTING DEVICE AND SEMICONDUCTOR CRYSTAL GROWTH APPARATUS According to one embodiment, a method is disclosed for manufacturing a semiconductor light emitting device. The method can include a crystal growth process. The crystal growth process is configured to grow a stacked structure of compound semiconductor composed of a grou... | 05/03/2012 |
