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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7035433 | Image recognition method and apparatus An image recognition apparatus has an image capture section for capturing a range image, an image deformation section for deforming the range image captured by the image capture section, and a recognition section for recognizing the presence/absence of three-dimensi... | 04/25/2006 |
| 6907186 | Information storage system capable of recording and playing back a plurality of still pictures An information storage medium capable of recording and playing back still picture information is provided with a first information unit having one still picture information, and a first group unit which is composed of a set of first information units, and has a plur... | 06/14/2005 |
| 6636399 | Magnetoresistance effect device, magnetic head therewith, magnetic recording/reproducing head, and magnetic storing apparatus A magnetoresistance effect device comprises a magnetic multi-layer film having at least an antiferromagnetic film, a first ferromagnetic film, a non-magnetic film, and a second ferromagnetic film formed in the order on the front surface portion of the sub... | 10/21/2003 |
| 6577005 | Fine protuberance structure and method of production thereof A fine particle of metal is disposed on a semiconductor substrate. With the exception of a position of disposition of the fine particle of metal, a covering layer is formed on a surface of the semiconductor substrate. Thereafter, heat treatment is impleme... | 06/10/2003 |
| 6426553 | Test socket of semiconductor device A test socket for a semiconductor device is provided having a contact member 30, which lies between the external terminals 25, projected from the package 24 of the IC 22 and the contact pads 26 of the test board 23 for making them in conductive with each ... | 07/30/2002 |
| 6263061 | Digital button telephone system and extension terminal for the same According to this invention, a digital key telephone system connected to an analog public network NW having a function of transmitting a ringing signal including identification information of a calling line through a subscriber line (CO line), accommodati... | 07/17/2001 |
| 6259493 | Active matrix LCD with pixels alternately overlapped with data lines Not only a signal line (27a) but also an adjacent signal line (27b) partly oppose a reflection pixel electrode (50a) through an insulating film to be capacitively coupled to the electrode. The area of that portion (27a1) of the signal line (27a) which opp... | 07/10/2001 |
| 6167049 | Non-zero minimum cell rate for available bit rate ATM service A scheduler in accord with the invention schedules available bit rate (ABR) traffic over an asynchronous transfer mode (ATM) link in such a manner as to provide circuits having the ABR traffic service a minimum cell rate (MCR) that may be greater than zer... | 12/26/2000 |
| 6126274 | Image recording apparatus having an intermediate image receiving means for a variable electric field to eject toner particles This invention provides a new and improved image-forming apparatus which is of relatively easy manufacture and which provides a clear, sharp image. This apparatus is an "ink jet" printer which utilizes a liquid dispersion of toner as the image-forming mat... | 10/03/2000 |
| 6075659 | Optical pickup apparatus and method of manufacture thereof, optical disk apparatus and method of manufacture thereof, and injection molding die An injection molding die comprising a lower die and an upper die for manufacturing an objective lens drive unit, comprises a plurality of gates formed on the lower die in position perpendiculars to the direction of opening and closing the lower die and th... | 06/13/2000 |
| 6055188 | Nonvolatile semiconductor memory device having a data circuit for erasing and writing operations A memory cell array includes first and second memory cell groups which are simultaneously selected at the time of erasing. A first bit line is connected to the first memory cell group and a second bit line is connected to the second memory cell group. The... | 04/25/2000 |
| 5937267 | System, device and method for quantification of polychlorobiphenyls The present invention is to clear the difficulty in determining the progress of the decomposition reaction of PCBs carried out by a conventional device for decomposing PCBs, and to provide a system for treating PCBs to render them harmless, capable of con... | 08/10/1999 |
| 5926089 | Electric power system protection and control system and distributed control system An electric power system protection and control system including a plurality of protection controllers, each for executing protection and control of an electric power system by inputting a status quantity of the electric power system and for converting th... | 07/20/1999 |
| 5923290 | Array antenna apparatus Array antenna apparatus can form a beam in plural directions by changing the electrical supply track length between antenna elements of array antennas so that a beam of the same form but a different inclination angle is formed by each array antenna. Each ... | 07/13/1999 |
| 5905253 | Memory card A memory card is to be inserted into an electronic device so as to add a memory function. The memory card comprises a parent card and a child card, the child card including a semiconductor memory element and a lead as an external terminal of the memory el... | 05/18/1999 |
| 5892213 | Memory card A memory card is to be inserted into an electronic device so as to add a memory function. The memory card comprises a parent card and a child card, the child card including a semiconductor memory element and a lead as an external terminal of the memory el... | 04/06/1999 |
| 5875475 | Continuous data server apparatus and method for controlling continuous data server A continuous data server capable of reducing a cost for issuing control commands from a central control device to data memory control devices and communication control devices. The central control device issues a control command for each data memory contr... | 02/23/1999 |
| 5869850 | Lateral insulated gate bipolar transistor A lateral insulated gate bipolar transistor has an emitter region that is displaced from a main path for passing carriers from a collector region to a base region through a first semiconductor layer. This arrangement suppresses the operation of a parasiti... | 02/09/1999 |
| 5867337 | Disk drive of a sector servo system for positioning and controlling a head at a target position on a disk In a self-servo writing mode, parameters such as a moving amount of a head, a time delay and the like are measured and detected by using preservo information recorded beforehand on, for instance, an outermost periphery of a disk. In accordance with the de... | 02/02/1999 |
| 5862429 | Image forming apparatus method for manufacturing the same and method for maintaining the same An image forming apparatus includes a subunit. The subunit includes a non-volatile RAM which previously stores data items corresponding to ID information used in the manufacturing process of parts constructing the image forming apparatus, ID information o... | 01/19/1999 |
| 5802430 | Image forming apparatus having means for adsorbing impurities contained in the toner returned by the recycling mechanism An image forming apparatus of the present invention includes a developing device for forming a developed image by transferring a developing agent to an electrostatic latent image formed on a photosensitive drum, a developing agent recycling mechanism for ... | 09/01/1998 |
| 5778136 | Multi-scene recording medium wherein related data segments of simultaneously proceeding scenes are recorded alternatingly and continuously thereon A multi-scene recording disk and a data reproducing apparatus, which enable a user to select and enjoy one of simultaneously proceeding scenes, and also enables a program editor to edit programs using a new concept and novel fashion. Related program movem... | 07/07/1998 |
| 5696756 | Optical disk having an evaluation pattern for evaluating the optical disk Pits and lands which have a pit length of 3T, a land length of *6T, a pit length of 7T, a land length of *3T, a pit length of 6T and a land length of *7T are alternately formed in a lead-in area in an inner track area on an optical disk as a test pattern ... | 12/09/1997 |
| 5670772 | Non-contact data recording medium An IC card having two coupling coils, two rectifier circuits, internal circuits, a voltage-adjusting circuit, a reset-signal generating circuit, and a wave-selecting circuit. The coils receives two carrier waves which are shifted in phase by 90°. The rec... | 09/23/1997 |
| 5670790 | Electronic device An electronic device which includes, a couple of first conduction regions which are capable of confining carriers, a second conduction region having a higher energy level than those of the first conduction regions, and a first electrode for impressing a v... | 09/23/1997 |
| 5622768 | Magnetic core A magnetic core is obtained by winding or laminating at least one alloy ribbon and has excellent squareness characteristic and magnetic saturation characteristic in a high frequency region wherein the squareness ratio of the magnetic core is improved by r... | 04/22/1997 |
| 5564093 | Frequency modulation receiving apparatus having two intermediate-frequency band pass filters A frequency modulation receiving apparatus comprises a signal-converting circuit for converting a signal received by an antenna into a signal consisting of wave clusters having various frequencies, first limiting circuit for limiting those of the wave clu... | 10/08/1996 |
| 5528644 | X-ray CT scanner and method of collecting image data in the same In an X-ray CT scanner, a first field of view corresponding to a reconstructed area of an image to be displayed is set. An original image data are reconstructed on the basis of a plurality of projection data in a patient in response to the first field of ... | 06/18/1996 |
| 5446562 | Liquid crystal display device with transparent conductive film between pixel electrodes and signal or scanning lines A liquid crystal display device includes an array substrate, an opposing substrate, and a liquid crystal layer sealed between the substrates. The array substrate has signal and scanning lines arranged in a matrix manner, and a plurality of pixel electrode... | 08/29/1995 |
| 5248622 | Finely controlled semiconductor device and method of manufacturing the same A semiconductor device includes a substrate of a first conductivity type. A first layer of a second conductivity type is formed on one surface of the substrate of the first conductivity type. A second layer of the first conductivity type is formed on the ... | 09/28/1993 |
| 5234373 | Air conditioner An air conditioner is provided with a room unit which comprises a suction grille member mounted to the front panel of the room unit and a blow-off grille member mounted to the lower portion of the front panel. The blow-off grille member comprises two louv... | 08/10/1993 |
| 5179443 | Multiplexed signal transmitting and receiving apparatus A wide aspect signal is band-width limited in the vertical spatial frequency by a V-LPF. The wide aspect signal is band-width limited along the temporal spatial frequency and in the vertical and horizontal spatial frequency by a 1/60-sec delay unit, an ad... | 01/12/1993 |
| 5157474 | Static memory A static memory in which polysilicon thin film transistors serve as load elements in a memory cell, and the gate electrodes of the polysilicon thin film transistors are formed of diffusion regions. In the static memory, high quality uniform TFTS are forme... | 10/20/1992 |
| 5136542 | Semiconductor memory device A semiconductor memory device having an internal circuit which is powered from a first power source terminal and outputs an output drive signal corresponding to a stored data in a selected memory cell of a memory cell array; and output buffer unit which i... | 08/04/1992 |
| 5111159 | Amplifier circuit with open-loop gain that can be varied with respect to closed-loop gain An operational amplifier circuit has an inverting and a noninverting input terminal and an output terminal and a current source circuit. A signal output from the output terminal is fed back to the inverting input terminal via a resistor for setting a clos... | 05/05/1992 |
| 4968635 | Method of forming emitter of a bipolar transistor in monocrystallized film An emitter of a bipolar transistor is formed by depositing a polycrystalline or amorphous film on a substrate and monocrystallizing the deposited film. Further, the base region of the bipolar transistor is formed by ion implantation through the emitter re... | 11/06/1990 |
| 4962056 | Method of manufacturing from a semiconductor wafer a dielectric substrate including mutually insulated and separated island regions, and a method of manufacturing semiconductor elements from the dielectric substrate According to the method of the present invention of manufacturing, from a semiconductor wafer, a dielectric substrate including insulated and separated island regions, a silicon oxide film is formed on a surface of a monocrystalline semiconductor wafer, a... | 10/09/1990 |
| 4935917 | Memory disk having some capacity recording areas on a spiral track An optical disk apparatus has an optical head for recording information on or reproducing information from an optical disk. The optical disk has a number of spiral or concentric tracks and a number of sectors formed along the circumferential direction of ... | 06/19/1990 |
| 4921466 | Output processing circuit for radio frequency receiver An output processing circuit comprises a level detector for detecting a level of a signal corresponding to an intensity of a reception electric field, a gradient controller for controlling a gradient of a signal level detected by the level detector so as ... | 05/01/1990 |
| 4907274 | Intelligent work station In an intelligent work station of this invention, map information for a target is stored in a database. Word speech data input through a telephone line is recognized and analyzed, and the database is retrieved accordingly, so that map information specifie... | 03/06/1990 |
