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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7975291 | Network node machine and information network system In the global information sharing and distributing service system, the public use of idle resources can be propelled and sufficient security can be guaranteed on the resources for private use. A node machine configuring an information network includes resources loca... | 07/05/2011 |
| 7975289 | Program, client authentication requesting method, server authentication request processing method, client and server The client requests authentication by transmitting the authentication information entered by the user, the MAC address of the network adapter, and the address change information as to whether or not the MAC address has been changed. When the authentication informati... | 07/05/2011 |
| 7975253 | Power supply noise analysis model generating method and power supply noise analysis model generating apparatus An object is to simplify a power supply noise analysis model of a circuit board. CAD data of the circuit board is obtained from a CAD apparatus, and overlapping power supply islands among power supply islands existing in different layers of the circuit board are ext... | 07/05/2011 |
| 7975251 | Method, recording medium, and design support system for designing an electronics device A design method includes creating power supply planes in each layer of a circuit board, from CAD data of the circuit boards whereby the power supply planes form one power supply conductor interconnect and supply power or connect to ground, expanding the shape of the... | 07/05/2011 |
| 7975167 | Information system An information system includes a housing with a plurality of units mounted thereon, a communication path built in the housing to take charge of information communication between a plurality of the units mounted on the housing, an information unit mounted on the hous... | 07/05/2011 |
| 7975152 | Apparatus for controlling a supply of power to a second apparatus including an instant television function that operates independently of a first apparatus A control apparatus controls a supply of power to a second apparatus that operates independently of a first apparatus, and includes a notifying part to make a notification that notifies a need to control the power supplied to the second apparatus if needed, based on... | 07/05/2011 |
| 7975112 | Switch apparatus A method for controlling a switch apparatus connected to a first and a second storage apparatus, and a host, the switch apparatus managing a virtual storage area maintained by the first and second storage apparatuses, the host accessible to the virtual storage area ... | 07/05/2011 |
| 7975038 | Application management program, application management method, and application management apparatus An application management program, application management method, and application management apparatus, which are capable of controlling the start of server computers with taking relations between multilevel applications into consideration. When receiving a request ... | 07/05/2011 |
| 7974936 | Structural formula display system, method, and program storage medium storing program thereof Character string divider divides a targeted character string into a plurality of groups at each bonding sites on a main chain. In the character string dividing process, the character string divider adds starting/ending symbols to the targeted character string, inser... | 07/05/2011 |
| 7974846 | Data embedding device and data extraction device A data embedding device for embedding data in a speech code obtained by encoding a speech in accordance with a speech encoding method based on a voice generation process of a human being, includes an embedding judgment unit, every speech code, judging whether or not... | 07/05/2011 |
| 7974799 | Backboard transmission method, backboard transmission apparatus, and substrate unit A substrate unit and other substrate unit are mounted with integrated circuits and are connected to a backboard via respective connectors. The substrate unit monitors a signal wave passed between the substrate unit and other substrate unit and detects a delay time a... | 07/05/2011 |
| 7974743 | Temperature controlling apparatus, information processing apparatus, and recording medium A temperature controlling apparatus determines a fan rotation speed from a surrounding noise and a fan noise, measures a temperature of a large scale integration (LSI) device or the like that is a controlled object, determines, in a cooling capacity range of the det... | 07/05/2011 |
| 7974668 | Electronic apparatus Guiding pieces on a bracket cover is engaged with attachment claws on a bracket body. This engagement serves to hold the bracket cover on the bracket body when the bracket cover is set at a first position. When the bracket cover is set at a second position, the enga... | 07/05/2011 |
| 7971029 | Barrier synchronization method, device, and multi-core processor A barrier synchronization device for realizing barrier synchronization of at least 2 processor cores belonging to a same synchronization group among a plurality of processor cores is included in a multi-core processor having a plurality of processor cores, and when ... | 06/28/2011 |
| 7970651 | System for presenting information for commercial articles put in a basket using electronic tag A commercial article information presenting system includes a shopping basket device and a shopping server communicating with the shopping basket device. The shopping basket device acquires a tag ID from an electronic tag attached to a commercial article put in a sh... | 06/28/2011 |
| 7970584 | Performance abnormality analysis apparatus, method, and program, and analysis result display method for performance abnormality analysis apparatus In determining a condition of a case under which the occurrence rate of the performance abnormality is high based on information related to a resource utilization situation acquired in a resource utilization situation acquisition step and an occurrence frequency of ... | 06/28/2011 |
| 7970569 | Apparatus and method for connection test on printed circuit board A connection test apparatus includes a controlling section, controlling each connection test device to switch the operation mode between the first and the second modes such that a first connection test device among the connection test devices is in the first mode an... | 06/28/2011 |
| 7970459 | Sleepiness level detection method and apparatus A sleepiness level detection method of determining a sleepiness level of a subject, includes: detecting a heart beat signal indicating a signal of heart beats from the subject and storing the heart beat signal in a storage device; detecting amplitude peaks of the he... | 06/28/2011 |
| 7970447 | High frequency filter having a solid circular shape resonance pattern with multiple input/output ports and an inter-port waveguide connecting corresponding output and input ports A resonance pattern (21) made of conductive material and having a circular plan shape is formed over the principal surface of a dielectric substrate. First and second virtual straight lines mutually crossing at a right angle are defined. A first input port ( | 06/28/2011 |
| 7970432 | Portable terminal devices The stationary body 12 comprises a plurality of operation keys 18 and two or more microphones 22 and 24. The movable body 16 comprises a receiver 34 and a liquid crystal image displaying surface 32, and is connected t... | 06/28/2011 |
| 7970347 | Communication systems A transmission method for use in a multi-hop wireless communication system is provided. Furthermore, the system has access to a time-frequency format for use in assigning available transmission frequency bandwidth during a discrete transmission interval. The format ... | 06/28/2011 |
| 7970291 | Optical-receiving apparatus and bias-voltage-control method used for the optical-receiving apparatus According to an optical-receiving apparatus including an APD converting input light into an electric signal and a bias-voltage-control method used for the optical-receiving apparatus, a multiplication factor appropriate for the APD is predetermined and a multiplicat... | 06/28/2011 |
| 7970290 | Digital phase estimator, digital phase locked loop and optical coherent receiver The present invention provides a digital phase estimator, a digital phase locked loop and an optical coherent receiver. The optical coherent receiver comprises a local oscillator laser, for supplying a local oscillator optical signal; an optical 90 degree frequency ... | 06/28/2011 |
| 7970286 | Optical transmission device In a wavelength-division multiplexing communications system including a plurality of optical transmission devices having an optical amplifier, downstream optical transmission devices transmit gain wavelength characteristic information of an optical amplifier in each... | 06/28/2011 |
| 7970281 | System and method for managing different transmission architectures in a passive optical network In accordance with the teachings of the present invention, a system and method for managing different transmission architectures in a passive optical network (PON) is provided. In a particular embodiment, a method for managing different transmission architectures in... | 06/28/2011 |
| 7970278 | Flexible open ring optical network and method A flexible open ring optical network includes a plurality of nodes connected by twin or other suitable optical rings. Each node is operable to passively add and passively drop traffic from the rings. The nodes may include a transport element for each ring. The trans... | 06/28/2011 |
| 7970238 | Method and apparatus for acquiring image of internal structure, and computer product An apparatus for acquiring an internal-structure image of an object from a plurality of images of the object photographed by a photographing unit includes a control unit that controls the photographing unit to obtain the images under different photographing conditio... | 06/28/2011 |
| 7970131 | Elliptic curve cryptosystem apparatus, storage medium storing elliptic curve cryptosystem program, and elliptic curve cryptosystem arithmetic method A scalar multiplication can be performed on an elliptic curve cryptosystem at a high speed. P is set as an initial value of Q[0], and 2×P is set as an initial value of Q[1]. An elliptic curve doubling ECDBL of Q[d[i]] is performed, and an arithmetic result is store... | 06/28/2011 |
| 7969897 | Relay device, computer readable medium storing test program and a method for testing relay device A relay device for relaying transfer data to be transmitted between the devices has a plurality of testers. Each of the testers determines whether received transfer data is normal or not, and discards the transfer data that is determined abnormal. The relay device a... | 06/28/2011 |
| 7969871 | Communication control apparatus, communication control method, recording medium storing communication control program A communication control apparatus has a setting unit for setting a receiving filter for discarding a broadcast frame received continuously not less than a predetermined threshold during a predetermined N number of time slots. The apparatus has a storage unit ... | 06/28/2011 |
| 7969870 | Line accommodating device A line accommodating device for accommodating lines of a first communication network and a second communication network, the line accommodating device includes an interface connecting to the first communication network; a connecting block for connecting to the inter... | 06/28/2011 |
| 7969739 | Heat diffusing structure of a portable electronic apparatus A portable electronic apparatus includes a first unit, a second unit, and a hinge unit. The first unit includes a first housing, a heat generating component inside the first housing, a first heat diffusing member disposed inside the first housing and diffusing heat ... | 06/28/2011 |
| 7969649 | Controller which controls a variable optical attenuator to control the power level of a wavelength-multiplexed optical signal when the number of channels are varied An optical amplifying apparatus which includes an optical amplifier, an optical attenuator and a controller. The optical amplifier amplifies a light signal having a variable number of channels. The optical attenuator passes the amplified light signal and has a varia... | 06/28/2011 |
| 7969648 | Gain and signal level adjustments of cascaded optical amplifiers An optical amplification device which includes first and second optical amplifiers, and a controller. The first optical amplifier receives a light and amplifies the received light. The second optical amplifier receives the light amplified by the first optical amplif... | 06/28/2011 |
| 7969505 | Electronic device including a camera unit with an image capturing function and an operations-unit illuminating function An electronic device is disclosed that includes an operations unit disposed in a device main body for input operations, and a camera unit including a camera for image capturing and a light source that emits light for image capturing. A light irradiation position of ... | 06/28/2011 |
| 7969427 | Control device for display panel and display apparatus having same A display panel control device comprises a first buffer, to which a current-frame data, is written in synchronization with a sync signal, and from which the written current-frame data is read in synchronization with a fast sync signal faster than the sync signal to ... | 06/28/2011 |
| 7969381 | Patch antenna A wireless device has a housing, a patch antenna, and an open/shut sensing unit which senses the open/shut state of the housing and forms an open/shut signal indicating the open/shut state. The patch antenna has a first element which corresponds to a first polarized... | 06/28/2011 |
| 7969343 | Successive approximation analog-digital converter circuit using capacitance array An analog-to-digital converter circuit includes: a capacitor array including a plurality of first capacitors, each having a first terminal connecting to a common node and having a capacitance represented by the nth power of 2 (2n) on the basis of the smal... | 06/28/2011 |
| 7969336 | Sample-hold circuit having spreading switch and analog-digital converter using same A sample-hold circuit includes a voltage-current converter, having a first input terminal pair to which an input differential signal is input and a first output terminal pair which outputs current according to the voltage of the input differential signal, a spreadin... | 06/28/2011 |
| 7969205 | Peak power reduction method A technique wherein when signals, the modulation schemes of which are different, are to be combined, performing the peak suppression using amounts of the respective modulation schemes can effectively reduce the PAPR of a resulting combined signal. A peak suppressing... | 06/28/2011 |
