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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 20120037787 | IMAGE SENSOR An image sensor comprises, a substrate, a plurality of photoelectric converters mounted on the substrate, for each of which a photoelectric conversion layer is formed of an organic compound layer and is sandwiched between an anode and a cathode so as to perform photoele... | 02/16/2012 |
| 20110243361 | SPEAKER SYSTEM A loudspeaker device includes an enclosure, a loudspeaker unit and a passive radiator both mounted to the enclosure. The passive radiator includes an edge sandwiched and bonded between a first diaphragm and a second diaphragm. This structure allows increasing the bondin... | 10/06/2011 |
| 20110228757 | RADIO COMMUNICATION BASE STATION APPARATUS AND RADIO COMMUNICATION METHOD Provided is a base station capable of performing cell search of all mobile stations having different communicable frequency band widths in a scalable band width communication system to which a multi-carrier communication method such as the OFDM method is applied. The ba... | 09/22/2011 |
| 20110218998 | NAVIGATING MEDIA CONTENT BY GROUPS Grouping media files via playlists on a computer-readable medium. One or more media files are selected according to a grouping criterion to define one or more playlists from the media files. A container group is associated with the playlists and stores values identifyin... | 09/08/2011 |
| 20110181174 | PLASMA DISPLAY PANEL A Plasma Display Panel includes a front panel and a rear panel. The front panel includes a display electrode and a dielectric layer on a glass substrate. The rear panel includes a barrier rib and a phosphor layer on a substrate. The front panel and the rear panel are ar... | 07/28/2011 |
| 20110173163 | OPTIMIZING MEDIA PLAYER MEMORY DURING RENDERING Optimizing operation of a media player during rendering of media files. The invention includes authoring software to create a data structure and to populate the created data structure with obtained metadata. The invention also includes rendering software to retrieve the... | 07/14/2011 |
| 20110090842 | Network mobility management method and corresponding apparatus The present invention discloses a technique for realizing more secure communication and more efficient communication. According this technique, mobile router 111 informs correspondent node 130 of network prefix of a mobile network which mobile router inclu... | 04/21/2011 |
| 20110090772 | DRIVE APPARATUS FOR PERFORMING A SEQUENTIAL RECORDING AND REPRODUCTION ON A WRITE-ONCE RECORDING MEDIUM, AND METHOD OF REPRODUCING SAME The drive apparatus of the present invention includes a recording/reproduction section and a drive control section. The drive control section determines a physical address indicating a location at which data can be recorded next in the determined track of a write-once r... | 04/21/2011 |
| 20110010533 | System and Method for Component Trust Model in Peer-to-Peer Service Composition A system is provided for composition trust binding in a peer-to-peer network environment. The system includes: a service requestor (21) residing on a peer (22) in the network and able to invoke a service (23) residing on another peer (24) in ... | 01/13/2011 |
| 20100322050 | WRITE-ONCE RECORDING MEDIUM, A RECORDING APPARATUS AND A REPRODUCING APPARATUS FOR A WRITE-ONCE RECORDING MEDIUM A drive apparatus of the present invention includes a recording/reproduction section and a drive control section. The drive control section performs a process including: determining whether or not replacement management information including a replacement physical addre... | 12/23/2010 |
| 20100295401 | MOTOR AND DEVICE USING THE SAME A motor includes a stator which includes: a stator core having an annular stator yoke, a plurality of outer teeth projecting outward from the stator yoke, and a plurality of inner teeth having the same number of teeth as the outer teeth and projecting inward from the st... | 11/25/2010 |
| 20100291885 | MULTIMODE-COMPAIBLE POLAR MODULATION TRANSMISSION DEVICE AND MULTIMODE RADIO COMMUNICATION METHOD An object of the invention is to provide a multimode polar modulation device and a multimode radio communication method for making it possible to decrease the distortion compensation processing data capacity while maintaining the distortion compensation accuracy and als... | 11/18/2010 |
| 20100290543 | RADIO TRANSMITTING APPARATUS, RADIO RECEIVING APPARATUS, AND DATA PLACING METHOD A radio transmitting apparatus wherein when both a first data and a second data, which has a greater importance than the first data, are placed in a single block, the BER characteristic of the second data can be well maintained. In this apparatus, a modulating part (... | 11/18/2010 |
| 20100289968 | SPEAKER DEVICE AND TELEVISION RECEIVER USING THE SPEAKER DEVICE A loudspeaker device includes a loudspeaker box having a space therein, a loudspeaker unit, and a passive radiator. The loudspeaker unit and the passive radiator are attached to the loudspeaker box. The space of the loudspeaker box has a depth smaller on the passive rad... | 11/18/2010 |
| 20100285840 | MOBILE TERMINAL DEVICE In a mobile terminal device that executes a function setting by using a memory card, when insertion/removal of the same memory card are repeated, an original function setting can be restored automatically to omit a resetting and also the user's operational burden can be... | 11/11/2010 |
| 20100279603 | RADIO COMMUNICATION APPARATUS AND RELAY TRANSMISSION METHOD A relay transmission method for communication between a base station and a mobile station via a relay station while producing a diversity effect even if the relay station detects an error in the relay signal. A decoding section (104) of the relay station used in ... | 11/04/2010 |
| 20100267352 | LOCAL OSCILLATOR, RECEIVER, AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE A broad oscillation frequency range and good phase noise characteristic are achievable simultaneously by an oscillation circuit and a resonance circuit connected to the oscillation circuit. The resonance circuit includes an inductor element connected to the oscillation ... | 10/21/2010 |
| 20100267252 | ELECTRONIC COMPONENT AND ELECTRONIC CONTROL DEVICE USING THE SAME An electronic component includes an electronic component body having lead wires led out therefrom and compliant pins. Compliant pins include connections to be connected to lead wires and are in contact, at end surfaces on the other side thereof, with a lead-wire lead-ou... | 10/21/2010 |
| 20100262039 | BLOOD TEST APPARATUS AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING THE SAME A blood test apparatus having a simple constitution whereby stable measurement can be conducted by surely sampling the blood in an amount being small but sufficient for the test without placing too much burden on a patient. When a first ski... | 10/14/2010 |
| 20100260295 | FILTER CIRCUIT, AND RECEIVER AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE USING THE SAME FILTER CIRCUIT Filter circuit includes Nth-order active filters switching circuit which switches shorting or non-shorting of active filter, and power-supply control circuit which controls such that a power supply of active filter is turned off when switching circuit shorts active filt... | 10/14/2010 |
| 20100258438 | BIOSENSOR In a biosensor that detects introduction of a sample liquid into a specimen supply path using a detecting electrode, a means of improving accuracy of detection is provided. The biosensor has: an electrode system including measuring electrode, counter electrode, and dete... | 10/14/2010 |
| 20100239039 | WIRELESS TRANSMISSION SYSTEM, AND WIRELESS STATION AND METHOD USED FOR SAME A wireless transmission system capable of performing multi-station simultaneous transmission of data by wireless is provided. The wireless transmission system includes a plurality of wireless stations for transmitting and receiving data. Transmitter-side wireless statio... | 09/23/2010 |
| 20100238777 | OPTICAL DISK DEVICE, METHOD OF CONTROLLING OPTICAL HEAD, AND CONTROL DEVICE FOR OPTICAL HEAD An optical disk device includes a DPDTE signal generating section that detects misalignment between a light spot and a mark or a pit, an FE signal generating section, an optical crosstalk correcting section which corrects a signal output by the FE signal generating sect... | 09/23/2010 |
| 20100235426 | SERVER FOR PROVIDING PRESENTITY STATUS AND METHOD THEREOF A server for providing presentity status is adapted to provide the latest status of a presentity to a watcher. The presentity and the watcher are respectively connected to a connection server through a network. The presentity belongs to at least one group, and the watch... | 09/16/2010 |
| 20100234835 | LASER PERFORATION DEVICE AND LASER PERFORATION METHOD A laser perforation device that has a simple structure and with which pain to a person in skin perforation is reduced. In the device, a laser beam emitted from a laser emitting device (33) is branched into laser beam paths by splitters (170a, 170... | 09/16/2010 |
| 20100234768 | BLOOD TEST APPARATUS It is intended to provide a means of easily removing a portion of blood bleeding from pierced skin, which has not been taken into a blood sensor but remained on the skin, in a blood test with the use of a blood test apparatus. By using this means, it becomes unnecessary... | 09/16/2010 |
| 20100232542 | RADIO TRANSMITTING APPARATUS AND MULTICARRIER SIGNAL GENERATING METHOD A base station allowing mobile stations to efficiently remove interference signals. In this base station (100), an encoding part (101) performs an error correction encoding of transport data to generate a bit sequence comprising systematic bits and parity ... | 09/16/2010 |
| 20100231713 | MONITORING CAMERA DEVICE The present invention provides a monitoring camera apparatus which can measure camera installation height easily with a simple configuration. The monitoring camera apparatus includes a distance detecting unit and direction detecting unit. The distance detecting unit det... | 09/16/2010 |
| 20100230401 | INDUCTION HEATING APPARATUS An induction heating device includes the following elements: a resonance circuit; a power factor improvement circuit for boosting rectified output, supplying the output to an inverter, and improving the power factor of a commercial alternating current; and a load materi... | 09/16/2010 |
| 20100229645 | INERTIA FORCE SENSOR Inertial force sensor includes detecting element that detects inertial force. Detecting element includes: two first orthogonal arms each having first arm and second arm that are connected to each other in a substantially orthogonal direction; support portion that suppor... | 09/16/2010 |
| 20100229378 | ELECTRONIC COMPONENT MOUNTING APPARATUS AND ELECTRONIC COMPONENT MOUNTING METHOD A challenge to be met by the present invention is to provide an electronic component mounting apparatus and an electronic component mounting method that enable a reduction in the frequency of operation required with switching of a component type, to thus enhance product... | 09/16/2010 |
| 20100228541 | SUBBAND CODING APPARATUS AND METHOD OF CODING SUBBAND A subband coding apparatus carries out subband coding which prevents deterioration in coding performance and improves audio quality of decoded signals. The subband coding apparatus includes a low-band coding section (103) to code a low-band spectrum (S13).... | 09/09/2010 |
| 20100227587 | PORTABLE TERMINAL APPARATUS AND USE RESTRICTING METHOD It is an object to provide a portable terminal apparatus capable of improving a usability while maintaining a security, and a use restricting method thereof. A portable terminal apparatus 1 carries out a radio authentication together... | 09/09/2010 |
| 20100225543 | PORTABLE TERMINAL APPARATUS The present invention has an object to provide a portable terminal apparatus capable of reducing that antenna characteristics of respective antenna elements are deteriorated due to antenna coupling phenomena even when a plurality of wireless communication functions are ... | 09/09/2010 |
| 20100224612 | SHEET HEATING ELEMENT An object of the invention is to provide a highly durable sheet-heating element that has flexibility for making a seat more comfortable, that alleviates load stress for a heater wire while being seated, and that prevents the heater wire from being disconnected. | 09/09/2010 |
| 20100223636 | SLOT-IN TYPE DISK APPARATUS It is an object of the present invention to provide a slot-in type disk apparatus which can be reduced in thickness without deteriorating strength of a lever and a rear base. In a slot-in type disk apparatus, a base body 10 and a lid 20 constitute a chassi... | 09/02/2010 |
| 20100223635 | SLOT-IN TYPE DISK APPARATUS It is an object of the present invention to provide a slot-in type disk apparatus in which a moving position of a disk is precisely guided when the disk is inserted or discharged, thereby preventing the disk from coming into contact with an objective lens and further re... | 09/02/2010 |
| 20100223381 | IDENTIFICATION MANAGING SYSTEM FOR AUTHENTICATION OF ELECTRONIC DEVICE In operation of a conventional vertical integration system a primary user cannot provide services to a secondary user belonging to other service group. An identification managing server is proposed to carry out the retrieval of a master-slave relation information by usi... | 09/02/2010 |
| 20100222023 | RADIO COMMUNICATION BASE STATION DEVICE AND CALL CONNECTION METHOD Disclosed are a base station device and a call connection method for reducing a call connection delay. According to the device and the method; in ST301, a terminal acquires an identifier managed in a base station (100); in ST302, radio resource info... | 09/02/2010 |
| 20100222015 | POLAR MODULATION TRANSMITTER, ADAPTIVE DISTORTION COMPENSATION PROCESSING SYSTEM, POLAR MODULATION TRANSMISSION METHOD, AND ADAPTIVE DISTORTION COMPENSATION PROCESSING METHOD An object of the invention is to provide a polar modulation transmitter that can perform adaptive distortion compensation processing without the need for a synchronization adjustment circuit for synchronizing an input baseband signal and an output signal of a power ampl... | 09/02/2010 |
