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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8185645 | Content delivery system using wireless portable terminal and delivery method therefor To reduce time to point a directional wireless portable terminal (WPT) to an access point (AP) when data is downloaded from the AP to the WPT, a user points the WPT to the AP, performs a first operation and transmits a request of authentication and download to the A... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8184989 | Communication system and timing control method A communication system and a timing control method are proposed that optimize timing in a sender and thereby enable information to be stably transmitted at the right timing. Under instructions from a timing controller in a receiver, the timing of driving a phase mod... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8184871 | Biometrical feature inputting system, image synthesizing apparatus, and image synthesizing method A biometrical feature inputting system including: an imager placed in front of a finger, for imaging an image of a front face of the finger, and an image of either one of lateral faces of the finger; a reflector placed on at least one side of lateral faces of the fi... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8184740 | Signal processing circuit Test signal generator (3) generates test signals represented, by four points, which comprise two sets of two points positioned in point symmetry with respect to the origin of an I/Q orthogonal coordinate system. Envelope detector (8) detects the amplit... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8184738 | Clock reproducing apparatus and method A common mode of a waveform of a duobinary transmission signal (IN) is set to 0 and the size of a data eye is set to Veye; and reference potentials Vref_H and Vref_L are set to the following values: Veye/√{square root over (3)}≦Vrefâ... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8184672 | Frequency hopping A cellular communications system includes a base station and a plurality of user devices, wherein each user device is operable to communicate with the base station over a communication channel having a plurality of frequency resources, wherein the base station is op... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8183656 | Photodiode A photodiode includes: an upper spacer layer including a semiconductor transparent to incident light; a metal periodic structure provided on the upper spacer layer and arranged to induce surface plasmon, the metal periodic structure including first and second electr... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8181235 | Authentication device, server system, and method of authenticating server between a plurality of cells and authentication program thereof Intended is to realize, in a server system operating on at least one BMC board mounted on each of a plurality of cell boxes, single sign-on with respect to an access from system management software or a client terminal. An authentication device of a server system | 05/15/2012 |
| 8181063 | Computer device, continuing operation method for computer device, and program A computer device that includes a plurality of processor boards each provided with a processor, a memory, and a chipset, includes a first processor board that makes data in a cache, which have become unfixed as a result of an uncorrectable failure, invalid when the ... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8180930 | Information processing device, and device initialization method in the information processing device The information processing device of the present invention includes: an initialization unit that is realized by the execution of firmware for carrying out a first initialization process for enabling access from the firmware to devices that are connected to the infor... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8180413 | Hinge structure and folding mobile terminal using the same An upper case of the display section includes a first connecting portion having a cylindrical hole, into which an inner cylinder of a dummy hinge composed of two cylindrical portions having the same axis and different diameters is inserted rotatably, wherein the fir... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8180325 | Terminal unit, device unit, illicit use prevention system, method and program To provide the safety of preventing the illicit use of others by using a state as to whether or not the essential function of the device is not in use in locking the terminal to prohibit the use. A user terminal 10 makes a determination whether or not a devic... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8180054 | Authenticating system, authenticating method, and authenticating program An authenticating system is provided including a client and a receiver. The client creates a first hash value using a first hash algorithm, and creates a second hash value from the first hash value. The receiver receives a first hash algorithm identifier from a serv... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8179951 | Transmission output control apparatus, multicarrier transmission system, transmission output control method and transmission output control program in computer-readable storage medium It is an object of the present invention to provide a multicarrier transmission system for enabling degradation of a transmission speed in an adjacent line adjacent to a communication line, to be avoided. For this purpose, a multicarrier transmission system in the p... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8179880 | Wireless communication method and wireless communication system A time synchronizing signal for synchronizing the times of wireless nodes capable of wireless communication is transmitted to the wireless nodes by multihop. Optional information is transferred by multihop from a predetermined wireless node to an optional node along... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8179868 | Site diversity operating method and program In a site diversity operating method in which a channel is divided into a plurality of slots by time division multiple access, and voice and data are transmitted between controlling stations and controlled stations via a plurality of sites through the slots whereby ... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8179830 | Transmission control method and transmission control device A transmission control device determines cells, each of which has the number of reception users larger than a predetermined value, as a first group and sends data to the first group cells in the point-to-multipoint transmission mode. The transmission control device ... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8179829 | Delivery of multicast and uni-cast services in an OFDMA system A method of operating a radio telecommunications network including, a plurality of base transceiver stations (BTSs) each transmitting on a respective transmission bandwidth, and one or more mobile terminals (MTs) each having a respective maximum reception bandwidth,... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8179806 | Device, method, and program for estimating quality-degraded location of communication network, and communication network system Estimation is carried out with high accuracy based on flow quality information in a situation where, although a set of links that may have a flow passing through is known, which of such links the flow passed through cannot be identified, such as multi-paths routing,... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8179777 | Transmitter and receiver for a wireless access system, transmission method and reception method of the wireless access system, and a program for same An arithmetic process of a quadratic formula that is contained in an exponent of a CAZAC sequence-defining expression is converted to an arithmetic process of a recursion formula to find the above-described exponent, the above-described exponent that was found is us... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8179753 | Positioning control unit and optical disk drive A position-error-signal calculation circuit (105) calculates a relative position error between a laser-focused-beam spot (103) and an information recording layer (102), and generates a focus error signal (106). A filter (108) ampli... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8179523 | Photomask mounting/housing device and resist inspection method and resist inspection apparatus using same A resist inspection apparatus is provided which has a configuration in which a reticle is separated from a pellicle. A reticle cassette is made up of two pieces of plate members. A hollowed portion with a shape allowing the reticle to be inserted into the plate memb... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8179301 | Image processor and image processing method for synthetic aperture radar An image processor and an image processing method for a synthetic aperture radar searching for a target are provided. A high resolution processing unit performs high resolution processing up to an area equivalent to a small target or smaller to thereby acquire infor... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8178974 | Microstrip structure including a signal line with a plurality of slit holes A semiconductor device comprising a signal transmission line of a microstrip structure, capable of increasing the characteristic impedance of the signal transmission line and reducing coupling between a plurality of signal lines. In a signal transmission line of a m... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8178628 | Aliphatic polyester resin composition and method for production thereof The present invention relates to an aliphatic polyester resin composition having excellent hydrolysis resistance, added to an aliphatic polyester resin (A), a reactive monomer (B) (e.g. a monocarbodiimide compound) and a reactive polymer (C) (e.g. a polycarbodiimide... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8178226 | Film-covered electric device and method of manufacturing same Battery element 2 is sandwiched between and surrounded by casing films 4, 5 each having a thermo-fusing resin layer, and is sealed by thermally fused region 6 formed by thermally fusing around the overall periphery. Cross-link structure portion ... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8177357 | Method and device for adjusting luminance of light transmitted through glasses An adjustment device adapted to glasses each including two polarization filters having adjustable transmission axes varying an angle therebetween in a front view is constituted of a physical parameter receiving unit for receiving at least one physical parameter whic... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8176451 | Behavioral synthesis apparatus, behavioral synthesis method, and computer readable recording medium A behavioral synthesis apparatus includes a acquisition unit, a scheduling unit and a generation unit. The acquisition unit acquires a behavioral level description describing an operation of a semiconductor integrated circuit. The scheduling unit separates the acqui... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8175868 | Voice judging system, voice judging method and program for voice judgment A voice judging system including feature value extraction means that analyzes a sound signal input from a sound signal input device, and extracts a time series of the feature values, sub-word boundary score calculating means that calculates a time series of sub-word... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8175551 | Distortion compensation device for use in high-frequency power amplifier A non-linear distortion signal contained in output signal components from a high-frequency power amplifier is detected, while a non-linear distortion signal is generated from a high-frequency signal to be amplified. Correlation between this non-linear distortion sig... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8175455 | Optical transmission system and optical transmission control method The present invention is intended to provide an optical transmission system which is applicable not only to a known signal but also to an unknown signal, and has a high reliability at a low cost. A branching device branches an optical transmission output of a transm... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8175392 | Time segment representative feature vector generation device The time segment representative feature vector generation device includes an intra-time segment feature vector group selection means for selecting, for each time segment and from a feature vector series for respective frames, feature vectors of a plurality of frames... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8174998 | Network connecting apparatus and connection setup method In a network connecting apparatus, relations of targets and attributions of the targets are registered in a attribution table and relations of the attributions and available connection settings are registered in a connection setting table. An attribution determining... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8174935 | Adaptive array control device, method and program, and adaptive array processing device, method and program using the same [Object] To provide an adaptive array control method, device, and program, and an adaptive array processing method, device, and program, capable of performing accurate coefficient update control independent of frequency characteristics and incoming directions of sig... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8174873 | Magnetic random access memory and initializing method for the same A domain wall motion type MRAM has: a magnetic recording layer 10 having perpendicular magnetic anisotropy; and a pair of terminals 51 and 52 used for supplying a current to the magnetic recording layer 10. The magnetic recording layer | 05/08/2012 |
| 8174872 | Nonvolatile latch circuit A nonvolatile latch circuit includes: first and second inverters cross-coupled to hold 1-bit data; first and second magnetoresistive elements each having first to third terminals; and a current supply circuitry configured to supply a magnetization reversal current f... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8174122 | Semiconductor device A trench is formed in an insulation film formed on top of a semiconductor substrate, and a barrier metal film is formed on the surface of the trench. After a copper or copper alloy film is formed on the barrier metal film, an oxygen absorption film in which a standa... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8174116 | Spacer, and its manufacturing method Provided are a spacer capable of avoiding a poor connection due to the suction of solder when the clearance width between a soldered semiconductor device and a printed circuit board is made constant, and a manufacturing method for the spacer. The spacer includes an ... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8174086 | Magnetoresistive element, and magnetic random access memory A magnetoresistive element is provided with a first magnetization free layer; a second magnetization free layer; a non-magnetic layer disposed adjacent to the second magnetization free layer; and a first magnetization fixed layer disposed adjacent to the second magn... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8172467 | Optical backplane connector, photoelectric conversion module and optical backplane An optical backplane connector with a board removable (being possible to insert and remove) therein in the direction perpendicular to the backplane plate surface is arranged on a backplane having optical transmission paths. The optical backplane connector accommodat... | 05/08/2012 |
