Did You Know...
...that Charles Goodyear performed some of his experiments on rubber while in debtor's prison? He was there so often he referred to it as his "hotel". Chronically in debt because of poor business sense and ill health, Goodyear depended on the generosity of friends and family. Even after he unlocked the secret to vulcanizing rubber, he was unable to improve his financial situation. When he died, his estate was $200,000 in debt.
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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 20120045073 | SPEAKER DEVICE A flat speaker device capable of emitting loud reproduced sound with a relatively simple configuration is provided. The speaker device includes a diaphragm, a frame supporting the diaphragm vibratably in the vibration direction, a magnetic circuit disposed in the frame,... | 02/23/2012 |
| 20110268285 | SOUND IMAGE LOCALIZATION ESTIMATING DEVICE, SOUND IMAGE LOCALIZATION CONTROL SYSTEM, SOUND IMAGE LOCALIZATION ESTIMATION METHOD, AND SOUND IMAGE LOCALIZATION CONTROL METHOD Sound pressure acquisition element integrate by time and convert into logarithms a plurality of inputted sound signals to acquire each sound pressure corresponding to the plurality of sound signals. Normalizing element normalizes each sound pressure acquired by the soun... | 11/03/2011 |
| 20120001891 | ACTIVE MATRIX TYPE DISPLAY APPARATUS A display apparatus includes a capacitor which is provided on each of the pixels and stores the data signal while a first terminal of the capacitor is connected to a control electrode of the driving transistor, an application voltage generating unit which generates an a... | 01/05/2012 |
| 20110312334 | SATELLITE POSITIONING DEVICE AND ACQUISITION METHOD A signal generating unit generates a signal in which the satellite signal from each satellite is squared. A time-frequency transforming unit performs time-frequency transformation on the signal thus generated. An acquisition unit identifies an outstanding type of freque... | 12/22/2011 |
| 20110288766 | NAVIGATION DEVICE, NAVIGATION METHOD, NAVIGATION PROGRAM, AND RECORDING MEDIUM A navigation apparatus that provides guidance along a route to a destination using a guidance image on which a plurality of guidance signs, respectively indicative of a guidance direction at a guidance point, are arranged in order of proximity to a current point, includ... | 11/24/2011 |
| 20110249030 | MAP DISPLAY DEVICE, MAP DISPLAY METHOD, MAP DISPLAY PROGRAM, AND COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM A map display apparatus includes a display that displays a map viewed at a given angle for bird's eye view with respect to the ground; a touch panel that is disposed on the display; a determining unit that determines strength of touch of an object on the touch panel; a ... | 10/13/2011 |
| 20110242324 | IMAGE DISPLAY DEVICE, IMAGE DISPLAY METHOD, IMAGE DISPLAY PROGRAM, AND RECORDING MEDIUM An image display apparatus includes an acquiring unit that acquires traffic information concerning a specified region; a displaying unit that displays a photographic image of the specified region; and a display controlling unit that, when a congestion state depicted in ... | 10/06/2011 |
| 20110232990 | VIBRATING BODY FOR SPEAKER AND SPEAKER DEVICE A speaker vibrating body vibrated by a driving part includes a plurality of diaphragms vibratably supported by a static part supporting said driving part and a diaphragm connecting part, provided between a first diaphragm and a second diaphragm among said plurality of d... | 09/29/2011 |
| 20110231762 | PLAY LIST GENERATING APPARATUS, PLAYLIST GENERATING METHOD, PLAYLIST GENERATING PROGRAM, AND RECORDING MEDIUM A playlist generation apparatus extracts given content items from a content group, generates a playlist, and includes an application information acquiring unit that acquires information related to an application running on an information processing terminal possessed by... | 09/22/2011 |
| 20110229110 | MOTION PICTURE EDITING APPARATUS AND METHOD, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM A moving image editing device (100) includes a moving image analysis element (200) for analyzing a moving image to obtain the feature of the moving image, a specifying element (310) capable of specifying the feature of a scene to be identified as an... | 09/22/2011 |
| 20110228949 | SPEAKER DEVICE, AND AUTOMOBILE A speaker device prevents “squeaking” based on the difference between propagation speed of a vibration propagated through a center cap and propagation speed of a vibration propagated through a diaphragm. The speaker device includes a vibrating body (VB), a driving p... | 09/22/2011 |
| 20110216382 | HOLOGRAM RECORDING MEDIUM, HOLOGRAM RECORDING APPARATUS AND METHOD, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM A hologram recording apparatus (300) is provided with: a recording device (100) for recording record information into a hologram recording medium (1); a measuring device (325) for measuring a time elapsed from when the recording of the record... | 09/08/2011 |
| 20110200204 | SPEAKER DEVICE To provide a thin speaker device capable of emitting a loud reproduced sound with a comparatively simple structure, and to input the audio signal to the voice coil not to have an adverse effect on the vibration of the voice coil is executed. A speaker device includes a ... | 08/18/2011 |
| 20110199356 | PIXEL CIRCUIT AND DISPLAY PANEL A pixel circuit includes a first power line that supplies a first power, a single control line, an emission control variable resistance element having one end connected to the first power line and the other end connected to the control line, a second power line that sup... | 08/18/2011 |
| 20110194724 | VIBRATING BODY FOR ACOUSTIC TRANSDUCER AND SPEAKER DEVICE A vibrating body for an acoustic transducer is provided, in which the high resonance frequency associated with inverse resonance can be outside the audible range and which can improve the acoustic characteristic of a speaker device. The vibrating body 1 for an ac... | 08/11/2011 |
| 20110188361 | RECORDING DEVICE AND METHOD, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM A recording apparatus includes: a recording device for recording data onto a recording medium by applying a laser beam whose power can be adjusted; a first controlling device controlling the recording device to record calibration data while adjusting power; a first dete... | 08/04/2011 |
| 20110176703 | SPEAKER DEVICE A speaker device includes a speaker unit and a cabinet on or in which the speaker unit is mounted. The speaker unit includes a diaphragm, a static part supporting the diaphragm vibratably in a vibration direction, and a driving part provided at the static part to vibrat... | 07/21/2011 |
| 20110164786 | CLOSE-UP SHOT DETECTING APPARATUS AND METHOD, ELECTRONIC APPARATUS AND COMPUTER PROGRAM A close-up shot detection device includes motion detection element that calculates the amount of motion between at least two frames or fields constituting a video image every predetermined unit which is composed of one pixel or a plurality of adjacent pixels constitutin... | 07/07/2011 |
| 20110164781 | MAGNETIC CIRCUIT FOR SPEAKER DEVICE AND SPEAKER DEVICE A speaker device includes a diaphragm (2), frame (3) vibratably supporting the diaphragm (2) in the vibration direction, and a driving part (4) provided at the frame (3), applying vibration to the diaphragm (2) in response to an... | 07/07/2011 |
| 20110158462 | SPEAKER DEVICE A speaker device including a diaphragm, a static part vibratably supporting the diaphragm, and a driving part provided at the static part and vibrating the diaphragm upon an audio signal. The driving part includes a voice coil vibrating in a direction different from the... | 06/30/2011 |
| 20110150264 | SPEAKER MAGNETIC CIRCUIT, SPEAKER DEVICE, AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING SPEAKER MAGNETIC CIRCUIT The present invention is to provide a speaker magnetic circuit which, even if small in its thickness, can reduce an occurrence of magnetic flux leakage so as to obtain a sufficient magnetic flux density in a magnetic gap, particularly in a position where a voice coil is... | 06/23/2011 |
| 20110141866 | TRACKING SIGNAL GENERATION DEVICE AND METHOD, REPRODUCTION DEVICE AND METHOD, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM A tracking signal generating apparatus is provided with: a reading device for reading reflected light of a laser beam applied onto a recording medium, thereby obtaining a resulting read signal; an amplitude-limiting device for limiting an amplitude level of the read sig... | 06/16/2011 |
| 20110135111 | SPEAKER DEVICE AND AUTOMOBILE A speaker device is provided, in which the rolling of a voice coil and the contact of the voice coil with a magnetic circuit are reduced. The speaker device includes a vibrating body 4, a magnetic circuit 3, and a frame 2 that supports the vibrating... | 06/09/2011 |
| 20110128830 | RECORDING DEVICE AND METHOD, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM A recording apparatus includes: a recording device for recording content data onto a recordable recording medium with a first recording layer including a first data area and a second recording layer including a second data area; a first reading device reading the addres... | 06/02/2011 |
| 20110116662 | SPEAKER DEVICE A speaker device includes a vibrating body including a diaphragm and a voice coil supported by a part of the diaphragm and a magnetic circuit including a first magnetic pole part having a magnet and a second magnetic pole part different from the first magnetic pole part... | 05/19/2011 |
| 20110116650 | SPEAKER DEVICE A speaker device includes a diaphragm, a frame supporting the diaphragm vibratably along a vibration direction, and a driving part disposed in proximity of the frame and vibrating the diaphragm corresponding to an audio signal. The driving part includes a magnetic circu... | 05/19/2011 |
| 20110112658 | CONTROL APPARATUS AND CONTROL METHOD, NETWORK SYSTEM, PROGRAM FOR CONTROL APPARATUS, AND INFORMATION RECORDING MEDIUM The present invention provides a control apparatus and the like capable of performing exclusive control in a network without adding a new configuration to an existing apparatus to be controlled and, even in the case where the apparatus to be controlled or the like drops... | 05/12/2011 |
| 20110103203 | Actuator for pickup, pickup device, recording medium drive device, and method of manufacturing actuator for pickup Provided is an actuator for a pickup, in which end parts of a plurality of suspensions (550A to 550F) of five or more are positioned on a virtual circle (X) formed on a plane by being projected onto the plane including both a focusing direction and a track... | 05/05/2011 |
| 20110102680 | Picture Quality Control Apparatus, Method Therefor, Picture Quality Processing Apparatus, Programs For Them, and Recording Medium Recording That Program Therein A request recognition section (373) recognizes an input operation for a source switching request to switch broadcast program contents extracted from broadcast waves to contents recorded in a recording and reproducing apparatus to display the contents on a display... | 05/05/2011 |
| 20110095677 | ORGANIC ELECTROLUMINESCENCE DISPLAY PANEL AND PROCESS FOR PRODUCING THE SAME To attain not only reforming of a film moistureproof substrate but also inhibiting of penetration of moisture or water transportation from edge portions thereof. [MEANS FOR SOLVING PROBLEMS] Film moistureproof substrate (7) is fixed to base plane (3a | 04/28/2011 |
| 20110051988 | SPEAKER DEVICE A speaker device includes a pair of diaphragms disposed opposite each other, a frame configured to vibratably support an outer periphery of the diaphragms in the vibration direction, and a plurality of driving parts configured to support a rear surface of each of the di... | 03/03/2011 |
| 20110037682 | IMAGE DISPLAY DEVICE An image display device main roughly includes a floating image display unit 1 and a floating image recognizing unit 2. The floating image displaying unit 1 includes a display unit 10 having an image screen 11 for displaying a two-dimen... | 02/17/2011 |
| 20110026757 | ACOUSTIC CONVERTER DIAPHRAGM, AND ACOUSTIC CONVERTER A diaphragm for acoustic converter includes a base and a damping layer formed on one surface or both surfaces of the base. The damping layer includes a particle having a heat dissipating function, and has detachability with respect to the base.... | 02/03/2011 |
| 20110013783 | OVERTONE PRODUCTION DEVICE, ACOUSTIC DEVICE, AND OVERTONE PRODUCTION METHOD When boosting treble, first a signal X(T) of a fundamental tone component which is to be a subject of overtone production is extracted by a fundamental tone extraction filter section 210 from the signal which is to be the subject for being boosted. Next, a clip l... | 01/20/2011 |
| 20110012517 | ORGANIC ELECTROLUMINESCENT DEVICE The present invention provides a display device which includes photoelectric elements (E1 to E4) outputting an electromotive force according to an illuminance of external light, a self-luminous display panel (1) disposed with at least one self-lumin... | 01/20/2011 |
| 20110011247 | MUSICAL COMPOSITION DISCRIMINATION APPARATUS, MUSICAL COMPOSITION DISCRIMINATION METHOD, MUSICAL COMPOSITION DISCRIMINATION PROGRAM AND RECORDING MEDIUM A musical composition discrimination apparatus, a musical composition discrimination method, a musical composition discrimination program and a recording medium, provide a musical composition and information thereon as desired by a user. In the musical composition discr... | 01/20/2011 |
| 20110007905 | ACOUSTIC SIGNAL PROCESSING DEVICE AND ACOUSTIC SIGNAL PROCESSING METHOD In a processing control unit 119, a correction measurement unit measures an aspect of sound field correction processing executed upon an acoustic signal UAS received from a sound source device 9200, that is a particular external device. And if a... | 01/13/2011 |
| 20110007904 | ACOUSTIC SIGNAL PROCESSING DEVICE AND ACOUSTIC SIGNAL PROCESSING METHOD A corrective measurement part of a processing control part 119A measures an aspect of specific sound field correction processing performed on an acoustic signal received from a specific external device. Based on this measurement result, settings for cancellation ... | 01/13/2011 |
| 20110007614 | RECORDING DEVICE AND METHOD, COMPUTER PROGRAM, AND RECORDING MEDIUM A recording apparatus is provided with: a recording device for recording a data pattern onto a recording medium provided with a user data area; a first controlling device for controlling the recording device to record the data pattern for adjusting the recording conditi... | 01/13/2011 |
| 20110000359 | MUSIC COMPOSITION DATA ANALYZING DEVICE, MUSICAL INSTRUMENT TYPE DETECTION DEVICE, MUSIC COMPOSITION DATA ANALYZING METHOD, MUSICAL INSTRUMENT TYPE DETECTION DEVICE, MUSIC COMPOSITION DATA ANALYZING PROGRAM, AND MUSICAL INSTRUMENT TYPE DETECTION PROGRAM There is provided a musical instrument kind detection apparatus, etc., permitting improvement of detection rate of musical instrument based on the instrument sound in comparison with the conventional prior art. A musical composition analysis section AN1 analyzes ... | 01/06/2011 |
