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...that it was melting ice cream that inspired the invention of the outboard motor? It was a lovely August day and Ole Evinrude was rowing his boat to his favorite island picnic spot. As he rowed, he watched his ice cream melt and wished he had a faster way to get to the island. At that moment the idea for the outboard motor was born!
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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 20120131422 | TRANSMITTING DEVICE, TRANSMITTING METHOD, RECEIVING DEVICE, RECEIVING METHOD, PROGRAM, AND TRANSMISSION SYSTEM A transmitting device includes a setting unit that sets the data length of an error correcting code whose data length is variable, an error correcting code calculator that calculates the error correcting code having the data length set by the setting unit for transmissi... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120131412 | TRANSMISSION APPARATUS, TRANSMISSION METHOD, RECEPTION APPARATUS, RECEPTION METHOD, PROGRAM AND TRANSMISSION SYSTEM Disclosed herein is a transmission apparatus, including: an error correction code calculation section adapted to calculate an error correction code from data of a transmission object as an information word; a division section adapted to allocate coded data which configu... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120130530 | 3D MODELING APPARATUS, 3D MODELING METHOD, AND MODELED OBJECT A 3D modeling apparatus includes: a support body which supports a modeled object formed by laminating a resin material that is cured by energy of an energy ray; an illumination mechanism which illuminates the resin material with the energy ray, on the basis of image dat... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120129077 | ION-CONDUCTING COMPOSITE ELECTROLYTE MEMBRANE AND FUEL CELL USING THE SAME An ion-conducting composite electrolyte membrane with strength improved without impairing ionic conductivity, and a fuel cell using the same are provided. The proton conductive composite electrolyte membrane includes an electrolyte which includes an ion-dissociating fun... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120128917 | MANUFACTURING METHOD OF MASTER DISC FOR OPTICAL DISC, AND MASTER DISC FOR OPTICAL DISC An inorganic resist layer made of an incomplete oxide of a transition metal is formed as a film onto a substrate by a sputtering method. A single element or alloy of the transition metal, or an oxide of them is used as a target material. Oxygen or nitrogen is used as a ... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120128916 | MOLDED OBJECT, METHOD OF PRODUCING THE SAME, SEALED MOLDED OBJECT, POLYMER, AND OPTICAL INFORMATION RECORDING MEDIUM There are provided a molded object, a method of producing the same, a sealed molded object, a polymer, and an optical information recording medium, in each of which curing may be achieved at around room temperature in a short time without addition of an accelerator, and... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120128324 | 3D AUTHORING TOOL ENSURING NO BUFFER UNDERRUN UPON JUMPS Systems and methods are provided to implement a technique for providing 3D content, such as on optical media like Blu-ray® discs. In one implementation, a 3D authoring tool executing on a computer system manages how to construct an image for replication where the image... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120128307 | OPTICAL FIBER ADAPTOR AND LASER SYSTEM An optical fiber adaptor includes: an optical fiber adaptor body including an insertion hole in which to insert a ferrule of an optical fiber plug, and a mounting section to which to mount a lock nut of the optical fiber plug having the ferrule inserted in the insertion... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120128255 | PART DETECTION APPARATUS, PART DETECTION METHOD, AND PROGRAM The present disclosure provides a part detection apparatus including, a part detection block configured to detect a location of a plurality of parts making up a subject from an input image, and a part-in-attention estimation block configured, if a location of a part in ... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120128076 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR REDUCING BLOCKING ARTIFACTS The present invention relates to an apparatus for reducing blocking artifacts in a coded video signal comprising a plurality of video frames. An apparatus is proposed comprising a wavelet decomposition unit that decomposes an input video frame by use of wavelet decompos... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120127848 | RECORDING MEDIUM, METHOD OF INITIALIZING THE SAME, INITIALIZING DEVICE, AND REPRODUCING METHOD There is provided a method of initializing a recording medium having a first surface and a second surface which face to each other with a recording layer in between. The method includes forming interference patterns to have a pitch wider than λr/2N by applying initiali... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120127778 | MEMORY DEVICE A memory device includes: a transistor array having transistors; and memory elements provided, one for each of the transistors. The transistor array includes a substrate having diffusion layers on a surface thereof, parallel word lines on the substrate, parallel first b... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120127572 | STEREOSCOPIC DISPLAY APPARATUS AND METHOD A stereoscopic display apparatus includes a display mode control unit configured to switch the display unit between a first stereoscopic display mode configured for a viewer to view images with stereoscopic viewing glasses and a second stereoscopic display mode configur... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120127546 | HOLOGRAM LAMINATE AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING HOLOGRAM LAMINATE A hologram laminate is provided with a hologram recording layer in which holograms are recorded, a first bonding layer, a pattern layer having a first region and a second region, and a second bonding layer. The hologram recording layer, the first bonding layer, the patt... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120127404 | LIQUID CRYSTAL APPARATUS, COLOR FILTER SUBSTRATE, AND ARRAY SUBSTRATE Disclosed is a liquid crystal apparatus including a plurality of dot regions. The liquid crystal apparatus includes a pair of transparent substrates disposed with a gap, a liquid crystal layer sandwiched by the pair of transparent substrates, and a polarizer formed by d... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120127286 | 3D DISPLAY DEVICE AND 3D DISPLAY METHOD A display device includes: an optical barrier unit which includes a plurality of gate groups each including a plurality of gates, and in which gates in different groups perform a gating operation individually at different timings; a combined image generator which genera... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120127197 | TRANSMISSION CONTROL DEVICE, RECEPTION CONTROL DEVICE, AND CONTENT TRANSCEIVING SYSTEM A transmission control device may include an acquiring unit to acquire information indicating an orientation of a transmission apparatus. In addition, the device may include a control unit to control the transmission apparatus to transmit to a reception apparatus conten... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120127123 | TOUCH PANEL APPARATUS AND TOUCH PANEL DETECTION METHOD A touch panel apparatus includes a detector configured to detect contact or approach of an object to a panel within a detection range of the panel, a controller configured to execute the detection on the entire panel and control the detection range in accordance with a ... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120126938 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR GENERATING AN ACCESS CODE Methods and apparatus are provided for generating an access code. In one embodiment, a method may include detecting user activation of a directional input of a device, wherein the user activation relates to a plurality of directional input commands, and determining an a... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120126744 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE, METHOD OF CHARGING ELECTRONIC DEVICE, PROGRAM, CHARGING CONTROL APPARATUS, AND CHARGING CONTROL METHOD Provided is an electronic device including a secondary battery, a charging section which charges the secondary battery with power supplied from an external power supply section with a set charging current, a measurement section which measures an amount of charge accumul... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120126291 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE A semiconductor device including at least a p-channel field-effect transistor region formed above a compound semiconductor substrate. The p-channel field-effect transistor region includes an undoped buffer layer; a p-type channel layer formed in contact with the buffer ... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120110679 | SERVICE PROVIDING SYSTEM, SERVICE PROVIDING METHOD, PORTABLE COMMUNICATION TERMINAL AND SERVER A service providing system includes a portable communication terminal operated by a user; a service providing apparatus providing a service to the user, and a server managing the service providing apparatus, wherein the service providing apparatus calculates a response ... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120110587 | Methods and apparatuses for accumulating and distributing processing power Calculating and distributing resources of at least one electronic device over a network.... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120110457 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR AUTOMATICALLY UPDATING A PRIMARY DISPLAY AREA Receiving commands from a remote controller and automatically activating display areas for cursor navigation. Content display areas within a display frame respectively correspond to a variety of content items and include a primary display area wherein cursor navigation ... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120110415 | DECODING APPARATUS, METHOD, AND PROGRAM The present disclosure provides a decoding apparatus including, a storage section configured to store a reception value, a detection section configured to detect an error in the reception value, an error correction section configured to correct an error detected by the ... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120110407 | DECODING DEVICE AND METHOD, AND PROGRAM Disclosed herein is a decoding device including: an extracting section, a storing section, an allocating section, and a decoding section. The extracting section acquires data containing plural code words and information other than the plural code words in one frame, and... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120110122 | INFORMATION COMMUNICATION TERMINAL, INFORMATION DISTRIBUTION APPARATUS, INFORMATION DISTRIBUTION SYSTEM, CONTENT MANAGEMENT METHOD, BROADCAST RECEPTION METHOD, INFORMATION DISTRIBUTION METHOD, PROGRAMS AND STORAGE MEDIUM An information distribution apparatus and an information communication terminal, in which contents are managed by using content identifiers (content IDs) managed as IDs conforming to a rule of uniformity. In the information communication terminal, a content ripped from ... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120110081 | INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE AND METHOD, RECORDING MEDIUM, AND PROGRAM An information processing apparatus, an information processing method, a recording medium, and a program for allowing communicating parties at remote locations to view the same displayed content and to point to desired positions on the displayed image of the content. A ... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120110070 | INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM, INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM An information processing system is disclosed. The system includes: a client that executes information display processing; and a server that creates a display structure description file applied in the information display processing, wherein the client acquires image dat... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120108181 | WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, WIRELESS COMMUNICATION DEVICE, WIRELESS COMMUNICATION METHOD AND PROGRAM A first communication unit performs a non-contact communication with an external device and receives setting data from the external device. A second communication unit performs a wireless communication with the external device. A control unit establishes the wireless co... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120107972 | LASER DIODE AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING THE SAME A laser diode capable of independently driving each ridge section, and inhibiting rotation of a polarization angle resulting from a stress applied to the ridge section without lowering reliability and a method of manufacturing the same are provided. A laser diode includ... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120107651 | ASSEMBLED BATTERY AND POWER CONSUMPTION APPARATUS An assembled battery includes a plurality of secondary battery cell series modules each having a plurality of secondary battery cells connected in series, wherein in each secondary battery cell series module, the secondary battery cells are connected in series by a firs... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120107586 | BARRIER FILM AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING THE SAME A barrier film includes a base which is formed of a plastic film having a first surface and a second surface opposed to the first surface, a first barrier layer which is formed on the first surface by an atomic layer deposition method and is made of an inorganic materia... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120106869 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM There is disclosed an image processing apparatus including an image input unit that inputs frame image data; and a composition processing unit that generates motion transition image data expressing a motion transition of a moving subject in such a manner that a pluralit... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120106862 | IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE, METHOD, AND PROGRAM The present invention relates to an image processing device, method, and program, enabling processing efficiency to be improved. In the event that a block B1 of a sub macro block SMB0 is a block which is the object of predicti... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120106789 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND METHOD AND PROGRAM An image processing apparatus includes an image input configured to receive image data, a target extraction device configured to extract an object from the image data as a target object based on recognizing a first movement by the object, and a gesture recognition devic... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120106773 | SPEAKER DEVICE AND METHOD FOR FORMING SPEAKER DEVICE A speaker device which can form an ideal cylindrical wave as sound traveling nondirectionally in a horizontal direction toward a listener. A vibration transmitting member is supported at one end thereof to the vertex of a conical diaphragm, and vibration generated by a ... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120106660 | RECEPTION APPARATUS, RECEPTION METHOD, DEMODULATION APPARATUS, DEMODULATION METHOD, AND PROGRAM Disclosed herein is a reception apparatus including: a reception section configured to receive a signal modulated by a predetermined system defined by a predetermined standard; a decoding section configured to decode transmission parameters included in the received sign... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120106619 | SIGNAL PROCESSING APPARATUS, SIGNAL PROCESSING METHOD AND PROGRAM A signal processing apparatus includes a signal processing unit configured to carry out signal processing on a single-carrier signal and a multi-carrier signal by making use of a plurality of common filters shared by the single-carrier signal and the multi-carrier signa... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120106608 | SIGNAL PROCESSING APPARATUS, SIGNAL PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM A signal processing apparatus is disclosed which includes: a detection section configured such that based on a result of the error correction of a signal generated by a single carrier system, the detection section detects the presence or absence of spectrum inversion in... | 05/03/2012 |
