Did You Know...
...that the inventor of the electric motor was a blacksmith named Thomas Davenport? Described as "a brilliantly unsuccessful inventor", Davenport invented the first rotary electric motor. In 1836 he headed out -- on foot -- from his Vermont home to file a patent application at the Patent Office in Washington, D.C. By the time he got there, he had squandered away his money and couldn't afford the $30 filing fee so he turned around and went home. When he later mailed in his application with money he'd raised, the Patent office was destroyed in a fire. He did finally get credit for his invention on Feb. 5, 1837.
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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 20110159368 | LITHIUM-ION SECONDARY BATTERY, ANODE FOR LITHIUM-ION SECONDARY BATTERY, POWER TOOL, ELECTRIC VEHICLE AND ENERGY STORAGE SYSTEM A lithium-ion secondary battery allowed to improve cycle characteristics and initial charge-discharge characteristics is provided. The lithium-ion secondary battery includes a cathode; an anode; and an electrolytic solution. The anode includes an anode active material l... | 06/30/2011 |
| 20110157163 | IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD An image processing device includes a reproduction unit configured to reproduce a 3D image data including image data of an image for right eye and an image for left eye set with predetermined parallax, a category specification unit configured to specify a category of th... | 06/30/2011 |
| 20110157118 | DRIVE CIRCUIT AND DISPLAY DEVICE A drive circuit includes an input-side inverter circuit and an output-side inverter circuit connected to each other in series and inserted between a high voltage line and a low voltage line. The output-side inverter circuit includes a first transistor of a dual-gate fir... | 06/30/2011 |
| 20110157117 | DRIVE CIRCUIT AND DISPLAY DEVICE A drive circuit includes: an input-side inverter circuit and an output-side inverter circuit connected to each other in series and inserted between a high voltage line and a low voltage line. The output-side inverter circuit includes a CMOS transistor having a first gat... | 06/30/2011 |
| 20110157087 | SENSOR APPARATUS AND INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS A sensor apparatus and an information processing apparatus having excellent operability are provided. A sensor apparatus includes a touch panel, a casing, and a pressure-sensitive sensor. The touch panel includes an input operation surface and detects a position at whic... | 06/30/2011 |
| 20110157040 | TOUCHPANEL DEVICE, AND CONTROL METHOD AND PROGRAM FOR THE DEVICE A touchpanel device includes an approach determining unit configured to determine whether an object has approached to a touchscreen; an area presuming unit, if it is determined that the object has approached to the touchscreen, configured to presume an area of contact o... | 06/30/2011 |
| 20110157004 | Information processing apparatus,information processing method, program, control target device, and information processing system There is provided a remote commander including an acquisition section which acquires layout information having one or a plurality of pieces of object information from a control target device via a communication section, the object information being formed by associating... | 06/30/2011 |
| 20110156966 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS Provided is an information processing apparatus including a keyboard portion, a first antenna module, and a connection portion. The keyboard portion includes a base plate to support a plurality of key portions, and a reinforcing member having an electric conductivity to... | 06/30/2011 |
| 20110156852 | ELECTRONIC APPARATUS AND COMMUNICATION DEVICE An electronic apparatus includes: an electric field reinforcing member as a plate-like metal provided in a predetermined position within an outer casing set in response to a specified position of a coupler for generating electric field coupling between a communication d... | 06/30/2011 |
| 20110156416 | GRASPING APPARATUS A grasping apparatus includes a base unit, left and right parallel links, and a driving unit that is housed in the base unit and drives the first link of the right parallel link and the first link of the left parallel link in the open/close direction. Each of the left a... | 06/30/2011 |
| 20110156224 | Circuit-substrate laminated module and electronic apparatus A device that comprises a plurality of circuit elements on a substrate; a shielding element between at least two of the plurality of circuit elements; and a bonding element that electrically connects the shielding element to a grounding circuit of a semiconductor chip t... | 06/30/2011 |
| 20110156136 | SEMICONDUCTOR COMPONENT AND MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREOF A semiconductor component includes: a semiconductor substrate; and a semiconductor device provided thereon, the device being a field-effect transistor that includes: a gate insulating film provided on the substrate; a gate electrode provided via the film; and a pair of ... | 06/30/2011 |
| 20110156111 | Solid-state image pickup device, electronic apparatus using such solid-state image pickup device and method of manufacturing solid-state image pickup device A back-illuminated type solid-state image pickup device (1041) includes read circuits (Tr1, Tr2) formed on one surface of a semiconductor substrate (1042) to read a signal from a photo-electric conversion element (PD) formed on the semiconduc... | 06/30/2011 |
| 20110156104 | SOLID-STATE IMAGING DEVICE, METHOD OF MANUFACTURING THE SAME, AND ELECTRONIC APPARATUS A solid-state imaging device including a semiconductor substrate, a photoelectric conversion portion interposed between a lower electrode and an upper electrode, a contact plug formed so as to connect the lower electrode and the semiconductor substrate in order to read ... | 06/30/2011 |
| 20110156012 | DOUBLE LAYER HARDMASK FOR ORGANIC DEVICES Method of manufacturing a substrate comprising an active organic layer, the method comprising providing a substrate comprising a first layer of an organic material, depositing a second layer on the first layer of organic material, depositing a third layer on the second ... | 06/30/2011 |
| 20110155988 | MEMORY ELEMENT AND MEMORY DEVICE Provided are a memory element and a memory device. A memory layer is provided with an ion source layer. The ion source layer includes Zr (zirconium), Cu (copper), and Al (aluminum) as a metal element together with an ion conductive material such as S (sulfur), Se (selen... | 06/30/2011 |
| 20110155987 | MEMORY ELEMENT AND MEMORY DEVICE A memory element capable of simultaneously satisfying the number of repeating operation times and a low-voltage operation characteristic which are in a tradeoff relation is provided. The memory element has a high-resistivity layer and an ion source layer between a botto... | 06/30/2011 |
| 20110155891 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE AND ELECTRONIC APPARATUS A semiconductor device includes: a photoelectric conversion layer; a continuous or discontinuous cylindrical metal microstructure embedded in the photoelectric conversion layer; and a dielectric film with which an inner side surface and an outer side surface of the meta... | 06/30/2011 |
| 20110155410 | Waterproof case for electronic device A waterproof case for an electronic device includes a case portion configured to house an electronic device including a touch panel display, and an operation mechanism provided to the case portion and configured to operate the touch panel display of the electronic devic... | 06/30/2011 |
| 20110155223 | DYE-SENSITIZED SOLAR CELL AND A METHOD OF MANUFACTURING THE SAME The present invention provides a dye-sensitized solar cell which can obtain a high photoelectric conversion efficiency, which can be manufactured at a low cost, and which is superior in a design property, and a method of manufacturing the same. Dye supporting porous tit... | 06/30/2011 |
| 20110143225 | FUEL CELL AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING THE SAME, ELECTRONIC APPARATUS, ENZYME-IMMOBILIZED ELECTRODE AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING THE SAME, WATER-REPELLENT AGENT, AND ENZYME-IMMOBILIZING MATERIAL A fuel cell is provided having a structure in which a cathode and an anode face each other with an electrolyte layer therebetween. The cathode includes an electrode on which an oxygen reductase and the like are immobilized, and the electrode has pores therein, water rep... | 06/16/2011 |
| 20110143223 | FUEL CELL A fuel cell is provided. The fuel cell includes at least one of a plant essential oil and a plant essential oil ingredient in an effective amount so as to function as a biological repellent.... | 06/16/2011 |
| 20110143201 | BATTERY A battery with more superior reliability is provided. The battery includes: a battery element in which a cathode having a cathode active material layer on a strip-shaped cathode current collector and an anode having an anode active material layer on a strip-shaped anode... | 06/16/2011 |
| 20110142946 | DRUG SUSTAINED-RELEASE AGENT, ADSORBENT, FUNCTIONAL FOOD, MASK AND ADSORPTION SHEET Provided is a drug sustained-release agent including a carbon material (porous carbon material) which has an inverse opal structure. The drug sustained-release agent includes a porous carbon material which has spherical pores having an average diameter of 1×10−9... | 06/16/2011 |
| 20110142416 | ENHANCEMENT OF MAIN ITEMS VIDEO DATA WITH SUPPLEMENTAL AUDIO OR VIDEO Apparatus and methods are provided to implement a technique for an interactive video system that allows a user to place supplemental items such as images on a main image being displayed. In one implementation, a user causes images of flying food to be displayed on top o... | 06/16/2011 |
| 20110142365 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, PROGRAM, AND IMAGING APPARATUS INCLUDING OPTICAL MICROSCOPE An information processing apparatus includes an acquisition section and a correction section. The acquisition section acquires information of lightness distribution of a first image captured by an imaging section capable of capturing an image of an observed area provide... | 06/16/2011 |
| 20110142356 | IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD AND IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS Provided is an image processing apparatus including: a prediction portion to perform an inter-magnification-ratio blur-compensation prediction with respect to a reduced-size reference focus face image, to thereby generate an inter-magnification-ratio blur-compensation p... | 06/16/2011 |
| 20110142349 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS AND INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD Methods and apparatuses for detecting a plurality of pixels of interest within an image and identifying luminance values corresponding to a predetermined object. The apparatus for detecting includes a memory configured to store first and second images captured using lig... | 06/16/2011 |
| 20110142287 | ALGORITHMS FOR ESTIMATING PRECISE AND RELATIVE OBJECT DISTANCES IN A SCENE A two picture matching curve information is able to be used to determine precise object distance or relative object distance in a scene. Acquiring two images with different blur information in addition to the curve information enables a device to determine distance info... | 06/16/2011 |
| 20110141130 | DISPLAY DEVICE Disclosed herein is a display device, including: a display panel having a display area having a plurality of pixels each composed of one or more sub-pixels, a first image and a second image being alternately displayed adjacent to each other in the sub-pixels, the first ... | 06/16/2011 |
| 20110140855 | SIGNAL PROCESSING DEVICE AND METHOD Disclosed herein is a signal processing device including: a correlation signal output unit configured to, about a received signal transmitted from another device, calculate a correlation value between the received signal and a pattern of a waveform of a known signal and... | 06/16/2011 |
| 20110140720 | ELECTROSTATIC CAPACITANCE-TYPE INPUT DEVICE, METHOD OF TESTING ELECTROSTATIC CAPACITANCE-TYPE INPUT DEVICE, AND DRIVING DEVICE FOR ELECTROSTATIC CAPACITANCE-TYPE INPUT DEVICE An electrostatic capacitance-type input device includes: a plurality of first electrodes, which detect an input position, extending in a first direction in an input area on a substrate; a plurality of second electrodes, which detect an input POSITION, extending in a sec... | 06/16/2011 |
| 20110140266 | ELECTROSTATIC CAPACITANCE-TYPE INPUT DEVICE AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING THEREOF An electrostatic capacitance-type input device includes: a first translucent conductive film that configures a first electrode that extends in a first direction in an input area on a substrate and second electrodes that extend in a second direction intersecting the firs... | 06/16/2011 |
| 20110140116 | THIN FILM TRANSISTOR, DISPLAY DEVICE, AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE The present invention provides a thin film transistor using an oxide semiconductor as a channel, controlling threshold voltage to a positive direction, and realizing improved reliability. The thin film transistor includes: a gate electrode; a pair of source/drain electr... | 06/16/2011 |
| 20110139966 | SOLID-STATE IMAGING ELEMENT AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING THE SAME A solid-state imaging element includes a light-receiving element portion disposed in a semiconductor layer, an insulating layer made of a material having a refractive index n0, disposed over the semiconductor layer, and an antenna structure disposed over the ... | 06/16/2011 |
| 20110138890 | CELL FOR TESTING MICROBEADS AND METHOD OF ANALYZING MICROBEADS Disclosed herein is a cell for testing microbeads, used for testing microbeads each formed in a cylindrical shape having an upper surface and a lower surface opposite to and substantially parallel to each other and a side surface continuous with the upper and lower surf... | 06/16/2011 |
| 20110135275 | RECORDING-AND-REPRODUCING APPARATUS AND CONTENT-MANAGING METHOD A recording-and-reproducing apparatus for managing content data recorded on a removable recording medium includes: a device configured to acquire reproduction information required for reproducing the content data; a device configured to generate a first management file ... | 06/09/2011 |
| 20110135270 | Information processing apparatus, information processing method, program, and information processing system There is provided an information processing apparatus including a search information notification section which notifies a search device of search information via a communication section, a search result acquisition section which acquires a plurality of search result pa... | 06/09/2011 |
| 20110135210 | EMBEDDED GRAPHICS CODING: REORDERED BITSTREAM FOR PARALLEL DECODING Reordering of a bitstream is able to be used to speed up the decoding in embedded graphics coding. In the reordering, the signaling bits of all of the groups are sent and then the refinement bits of each group follow. With this reordering, the decoder can decode the hea... | 06/09/2011 |
| 20110135003 | UNI-MODAL BASED FAST HALF-PEL AND FAST QUARTER-PEL REFINEMENT FOR VIDEO ENCODING A method of half-pixel interpolation and quarter-pixel interpolation are adapted for reducing the impact of aliasing within motion estimation. To estimate a motion vector with quarter-pixel accuracy more efficiently, the improved method is able to skip checking certain ... | 06/09/2011 |
