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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8185961 | Network system, method for controlling access to storage device, management server, storage device, log-in control method, network boot system, and method of accessing individual storage unit A network boot system including one or more client terminals, a DHCP (Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol) server, a PXE (Preboot Execution Environment) server, a TFTP (Trivial File Transfer Protocol) server, a database administration server (hereinafter, DB server)... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8181487 | Optical fiber preform manufacturing method An optical fiber preform manufacturing method includes: supporting a drilling jig in a radial direction of a preform that is cylinder-shaped; moving the drilling jig in a longitudinal direction of the preform; and forming a plurality of slits each extending in the l... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8179995 | Reception device, transmission device, radio transmission/reception system, and radio reception method Orthogonal converters perform orthogonal conversion on the N time-series data extracted from a received radio signal. Multi-user detectors extract transmitted signals from respective transmission devices, from the time-series data which has been subjected to the ort... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8160870 | Method, apparatus, program, and recording medium for long-term prediction coding and long-term prediction decoding A method and apparatus multiplies a past sample a time lag τ older than a current sample by a quantized multiplier ρ′ on a frame by frame basis, subtracts the multiplication result from the current sample, codes the subtraction result, and codes the time lag usi... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8159307 | Logical element In a logical element, supporting portions, and a beam supported by them at two ends are formed. The beam has a back side surface spaced apart from the top side surface of a substrate, creating a space between the facing surfaces of the beam and substrate. An excitat... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8157454 | Releasable locking mechanism for optical connector A receptacle (20) detachably accommodating a connector plug (34) connected to optical fibers (32) is rotatably supported by a shaft (14) provided in an installation table (10). The receptacle (20) is biased by a leaf spring ... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8154602 | Video quality estimation apparatus, method, and program In estimating subjective video quality corresponding to main parameters which are input as an input frame rate representing the number of frames per unit time, an input coding bit rate representing the number of coding bits per unit time, and an input packet loss ra... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8150219 | Waveguide-type optical interferometer In an optical interferometer, polarization dependence attributable to the optical path difference has conventionally been eliminated by inserting a half-wave plate at the center of the interferometer. However, light induced by polarization coupling produced in direc... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8149978 | Clock/data recovery circuit A clock/data recovery circuit includes a data duty correction circuit which outputs corrected data by correcting the duty of input data in accordance with the level of a correction signal, a clock recovery circuit which generates a recovered clock in synchronism wit... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8149490 | Optical switch, optical switch control method and communication system When a light intensity upon a perturbation is detected, an error calculation/correction unit (85) in a control unit (8) corrects and updates the above-described initial manipulated variables based on perturbation manipulated variables and manipulated v... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8149489 | Mirror device, mirror array, optical switch, mirror device manufacturing method, and mirror substrate manufacturing method A mirror device includes a mirror (153) which is supported to be pivotable with respect to a mirror substrate (151), a driving electrode (103-1-103-4) which is formed on an electrode substrate (101) facing the mirror ... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8149419 | Optical reflectometry and optical reflectometer An object of the invention is to provide an optical reflectometry and an optical reflectometer, in which accurate measurement can be performed irrespective of a measurement distance. In the optical reflectometry and optical reflectometer according to the invention, ... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8148994 | Device and method for determining replacement of storage battery A control unit (16) of a replacement determination device charges one or more battery modules (10) as determination targets, and measures the voltage change value of the battery module (10) in a predetermined period of time from the time of stop... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8134920 | Device and method for correcting a path trouble in a communication network In a disclosed backup path bandwidth keeping method for keeping bandwidth of a backup path to which an active path is switched when the active path becomes unavailable in nodes of a communication network, each node is connected to the same destination, and the metho... | 03/13/2012 |
| 8130274 | Video quality objective assessment device, assessment method, and program A video quality objective assessment device includes a temporal/spatial feature amount derivation unit (12) which derives a temporal/spatial feature amount (PC) which is the feature amount of deterioration which has occurred in a deteriorated video signal (PI... | 03/06/2012 |
| 8126202 | Digital watermark padding method, digital watermark padding device, digital watermark detecting method, digital watermark detecting device, and program A digital watermark embedding method of the present invention includes: a step of sequentially obtaining each frame image of the moving image data and frame display time; a step of generating a watermark pattern using watermark information, the frame display time an... | 02/28/2012 |
| 8125701 | Optical switch A detection means (52) detects optimum driving voltages of a mirror device. A correction means (53) corrects driving voltage values in a table (54b) based on the optimum driving voltages. This makes it possible to drive the mirror to an o... | 02/28/2012 |
| 8121724 | Transfer system, and transfer method In response to a transfer request, for which a loading time at a transfer source and a loading time at a transfer target are designated by a production controller, there is created a transfer scenario, which contains a basic transfer (From) from the transfer source ... | 02/21/2012 |
| 8094692 | Modulation method, modulation program, recording medium, modulation device, and optical transmitter A modulation method according to the invention is applied to a modulation device in which a light source is driven by a differential signal while a modulation circuit and the light source are capacitively coupled. In the modulation method of the invention, when an a... | 01/10/2012 |
| 8094357 | Mirror control device A mirror control device includes a pivotally supported mirror (230), electrodes (340a-340d) spaced apart from the mirror (230), a driving voltage generation means (401) for generating a driving voltage corresponding t... | 01/10/2012 |
| 8094196 | Video matching device, method, and program A matched state detection unit (33) of a video matching device (100) detects a reference video frame, of the respective video frames of a reference video (1) and degraded video (2B), which is in a matched state in which it is spatially an... | 01/10/2012 |
| 8088644 | Bistable resistance value acquisition device, manufacturing method thereof, metal oxide thin film, and manufacturing method thereof A ferroelectric layer (104) is sandwiched between a lower electrode layer (103) and an upper electrode (105). When a predetermined voltage (DC or pulse) is applied between the lower electrode layer (103) and the upper electrode (105 | 01/03/2012 |
| 8084003 | Ozone detecting device A vessel (102) containing a detector solution (101) is prepared. The detector solution (101) is an aqueous solution prepared by dissolving a detector component containing a dye which changes its color when reacting with ozone gas, a humectant, a... | 12/27/2011 |
| 8081881 | Optical node device, network control device, maintenance-staff device, optical network, and 3R relay implementation node decision method An economical optical network is constituted by effectively using network resources by using the minimum number of, or minimum capacity of 3R repeaters. 3R section information corresponding to topology information on the optical network to which an optical node devi... | 12/20/2011 |
| 8078113 | Adaptive antenna control method and adaptive antenna transmission/reception characteristic control method An adaptive antenna control method is used for a radio communication system built by a plurality of radio base stations and a plurality of terminal stations capable of communicating with the radio base stations. Each radio base station includes an adaptive antenna h... | 12/13/2011 |
| 8068042 | Coding method, decoding method, and apparatuses, programs and recording media therefor An object of the present invention is to achieve high coding efficiency for a companded signal sequence and reduce the amount of codes. A coding method according to the present invention includes an analysis step and a signal sequence transformation step. The analys... | 11/29/2011 |
| 8050334 | Signal encoder, signal decoder, signal encoding method, signal decoding method, program, recording medium and signal codec method According to the present invention, a shift amount Sj−1 of the previous frame is held in a shift amount buffer of an integer signal coder. At least as many last sample values in the previous frame as the number of an order P used in linear predictive an... | 11/01/2011 |
| 8037478 | Object state transfer method, object state transfer device, object state transfer program, and recording medium for the program When the states of a large number of objects must be transferred to another device, the overhead can be greatly reduced and the object states can be synchronized in a short period of time. At the time of creating an object, an object creation function arranges the i... | 10/11/2011 |
| 8036100 | Digital signal demultiplexing apparatus and digital signal multiplexing apparatus A digital signal demultiplexing apparatus that can demultiplex and a digital signal multiplexing apparatus that can multiplex signals of channels having arbitrary frequency intervals and bandwidths are provided. The digital signal demultiplexing apparatus performs d... | 10/11/2011 |
| 8032034 | Optical code communication system An optical code communication system comprises an optical transmitter, an optical receiver, and an optical transmission line. The optical receiver has an optical mixing decoder for mixing a coded light and a local light, dividing the mixed light into an object optic... | 10/04/2011 |
| 8031984 | Semiconductor optical modulator The present invention can provide an npin-type optical modulator that has a high withstand voltage and is easily fabricated. A semiconductor optical amplifier (10) according to an embodiment of the present invention is an npin-type semiconductor optical modul... | 10/04/2011 |
| 8030375 | Fiber-reinforced composite material and process for producing the same Disclosed is a highly transparent fiber-reinforced composite material including an assembly of cellulose fibers of 4 to 200 nm average fiber diameter impregnated with a matrix material so as to not only remedy the moisture absorbency attributed to cellulose fibers b... | 10/04/2011 |
| 8026047 | Resist pattern forming method, supercritical processing solution for lithography process, and antireflection film forming method A fine and high-accuracy pattern, which is also excellent in either or both of high sensitivity and etching resistance can be provided. Disclosed is a resist pattern forming method in which a single- or multi-layered film 2 is formed on a substrate 1 a... | 09/27/2011 |
| 8019468 | Transport system and transport method A transport scenario composed of a basic transport (From) from a transport starting point to, e.g., a buffer near the transport destination point and a basic transport (To) from the buffer to the transport destination point is created in response to a transport requ... | 09/13/2011 |
| 8018636 | Laminated holographic medium, recording apparatus/method, reproduction apparatus/method for the same and design method of laminated hologram medium A medium 1, that is a laminated holographic medium of the present invention is composed of two or more core layers 2; 3 or more cladding layers 3 set so as to bind the core layers 2; one or more diffraction grating layers 4 storing... | 09/13/2011 |
| 8014672 | Optical wavelength multiplexing access system According to the present invention, a star-type wavelength multiplexed communication network using optical TX/RX devices capable of assigning the wavelengths can be provided without using the monitoring light. In an embodiment of the present invention, an optical TX... | 09/06/2011 |
| 8014645 | Dispersion shifted optical fiber A 1.55 μm band dispersion shifted optical fiber is provided which has a low loss and low dispersion slope. A core region “a” is heavily doped with GeO2 . A core region “b” is composed of pure SiO2 glass. A cladding section is arranged ... | 09/06/2011 |
| 8014061 | Variable-focal length lens To provide a variable-focal length lens capable of altering its focal length at high speed. The variable-focal length lens has an electrooptic material and electrodes formed on an incident surface of light and on an exit surface of the light of the electrooptic mate... | 09/06/2011 |
| 8009994 | Optical node device, network control device, maintenance-staff device, optical network, and 3R relay implementation node decision method An economical optical network is constituted by effectively using network resources by using the minimum number of, or minimum capacity of 3R repeaters. 3R section information corresponding to topology information on the optical network to which an optical node devi... | 08/30/2011 |
| 8005374 | Optical transmission system, optical transmitter for optical transmission system, and optical receiver for optical transmission system An optical transmission system is provided in which the optimum operating point of a Mach-Zehnder interferometer, matched to the optical frequency of the light source on the transmitting side, can be set. The optical receiver (2) has an infinitesimal-modulate... | 08/23/2011 |
