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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8184954 | Information recording medium in which one land pre-pit is formed in each group unit of wobbles formed by each “N” cycles of wobbles An optical disc (100) is provided with a recording region where prescribed clock information (WBL) is preformatted for recording. The clock information is (i) included in a first frequency band that is definable by a first reference frequency (Fstd) (that is ... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8180468 | Computer program, information reproduction device, and method A computer program makes a computer perform: a measuring process of measuring a beat candidate value, which is the number of beats of content per unit time; a reference setting process of setting a beat reference value according to a user's input; and a determining ... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8179766 | Recording device and method, and computer program A recording device comprises a recording means (213, 214) for recording content data on a recordable recording medium (100) having a first recording layer (110) including a first data area (112) and a second recording layer (120) i... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8179340 | Two-dimensional code pattern, two-dimensional code pattern display device, and its reading device A two-dimensional code pattern includes: a boundary pattern in which each of pixels in a group are set into a turn-on state or a turn-off state; a rotation detection pattern in which each pixel belonging to a group in each block is set into the turn-on state or the ... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8178215 | Organic compound containing at least two carbazolyl-substituted phenyl structures; charge-transporting material and organic el element containing the compound An organic compound and a charge-transporting material which are excellent in both a hole-transporting property and an electron-transporting property and have excellent electrical oxidation/reduction durability and a high triplet excitation level are provided, and a... | 05/15/2012 |
| RE43379 | Music selecting apparatus and method A music selecting apparatus and method, which are capable to indicate a music piece matching with the sensitivities of the user. A degree of chord change is stored as data for each of a plurality of music pieces, a sensitivity word for music selection is set in acco... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8176197 | Server device in contents transmitting system and contents transmitting method When the content data recorded in the server device 100 is reproduced in the client device 200 through communication, the contents transmitting system shorten the time to reproduction of content data in reply to a reproduction request from the client d... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8170284 | Apparatus and method for displaying image of view in front of vehicle An apparatus and a method for displaying an image of a view in front of a vehicle, each of which detects edges in a monochrome image obtained by a camera, which is mounted on the vehicle and photographs a view in front of the vehicle, to generate an edge image indic... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8169864 | Actuator for pickup, pickup device, recording medium drive device, and method of manufacturing actuator for pickup Provided is an actuator for a pickup, in which end parts of a plurality of suspensions (550A to 550F) of five or more are positioned on a virtual circle (X) formed on a plane by being projected onto the plane including both a focusing direction and a t... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8168307 | Organic compound, charge transport material and organic electroluminescent device An organic compound is represented by following Formula (I): wherein Cz1 and Cz2 may be the same as or different from each other and each represent a carbazolyl group; Q1 ... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8165335 | Speaker and speaker unit The present invention is to provide a speaker having desirable sound characteristics with a smaller size, and a speaker unit having the speaker. The speaker unit has the speaker and an attachment unit. The speaker has a case, a magnetic circuit, a diaphragm, and a p... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8164352 | Capacitance detecting apparatus A capacitance detecting apparatus which can detect the change in minute capacitance of a measuring object with high sensitivity comprises a signal generator, a differential amplifying circuit, and a detecting unit. The signal generator generates a probe signal w(t) ... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8160772 | Drive control apparatus, drive control method, drive control program, and recording medium A drive control apparatus (100) uses a calculating unit (103) to calculate a danger index indicative of the possibility of occurrence of a dangerous event for a mobile body based on information of the mobile body acquired by an information acquiring un... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8155881 | Selection item display device, selection item display method, selection item display program, and recording medium in which selection item display program is recorded A selection item display device allows the user to select a desired selection item in the case where a surrounding situation changes, with improved operability. The device includes: storage element for storing a selection item; retrieval element for retrieving a sel... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8154966 | Apparatus, method and program for waveform equalization on a read signal obtained by reading the record data recorded on a recording medium An information reproducing apparatus (1) is provided with: an offset adding device (19-1, 19-2) for adding an offset value (OFS) which can be set to be variable, to a read signal (RRF) read from a recording medium (100);... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8154958 | Recording apparatus using control information and virtual reference information An information recording apparatus includes a first acquiring element that acquires both control information for controlling the order of recording or reproducing recorded information and virtual reference information that can be determined by the control informatio... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8151287 | Optical pickup feed device for sliding optical pickup The present invention is to provide a pickup feed device to accurately position an optical pickup in place with miniaturization. The pickup device includes a lead screw attached to a movable chassis, a pickup portion, a rack member, a torsion coil spring, a projecti... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8149656 | Switch device, information processing device, and reproduction device A reproduction system 100 includes a rotating body on which a rotary operation is conducted by a user, a rotary movement detector 810 that detects the rotation of the rotating body and outputs a detection signal in accordance with a rotary condition th... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8149655 | Information recording medium, information recording apparatus and method, information reproducing apparatus and method, and computer program An information recording medium (100), provided with: a first recording layer (L0 layer) and a second recording layer (L1 layer) in each of which record information can be alternately recorded, at least one of the first recording layer and the s... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8145425 | Navigation device and navigation method The present invention is to provide a navigation device having a function of starting a route re-searching early by predicting a route change of a vehicle from a recommended route. A navigation device is formed such that when guidi... | 03/27/2012 |
| 8144762 | Band extending apparatus and method A band extending apparatus (1) is provided with: first generating device (111, 112) for generating a baseband signal (XB(n)) by up-sampling an input signal (X(n)) and then transmitting it through a low-pass filter; a second generating device (21... | 03/27/2012 |
| 8144568 | Information recording medium, information recording apparatus and method, and information reproducing apparatus and method An information recording medium (100) is provided with (i) a read only area (ROA1 and the like) whereupon read only information is previously recorded by forming embossed pits; (ii) a data area (102) wherein recording information can be recorded... | 03/27/2012 |
| 8144556 | Optical disc recording apparatus and method, and computer program An information recording apparatus (1) is provided with: a recording device (102) for recording information onto an information recording medium (100) by irradiating the information recording medium with a recording laser beam (L); a controlling... | 03/27/2012 |
| 8142601 | Method for manufacturing low resistance substrate A low resistance substrate is manufactured by a mounting step in which a linear article made of a resin-covered metal is mounted on a substrate; a fixing step in which the resin by which the metal is covered is melted by heating the linear article, and the metal is ... | 03/27/2012 |
| 8139917 | Information recording medium, information recording device and method, information reproduction device and method, information recording/reproduction device and method, recording or reproduction control computer program, and data structure containing control signal An information record medium comprises video information for indicating a main-video, sub-video information for indicating a sub-video which can be displayed at least partially over the main-video, and sub-video control information including (i) a plurality of types... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8139877 | Image processing apparatus, image processing method, and computer-readable recording medium including shot generation An image processing apparatus includes a shot splitting unit that splits a moving image into a plurality of shots each including a plurality of sequential frames; a shot detecting unit that detects, among the shots, a second shot similar to a first shot that is to b... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8139813 | Speaker device A flat speaker device capable of emitting loud reproduced sound with a relatively simple configuration is provided. The speaker device includes a diaphragm, a frame supporting the diaphragm vibratably in the vibration direction, a magnetic circuit disposed in the fr... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8139811 | Speaker A speaker 1 includes: a frame 4; a magnetic circuit 2; and a vibrating unit 3. The magnetic circuit 2 is attached to the frame 4. The vibrating unit 3 is received in the frame 4, and includes a drive cone 14... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8139465 | Optical disc recording device, method, and computer program An information recording apparatus (1) is provided with: a recording device (102) for recording information onto an information recording medium (100) by irradiating the information recording medium with a recording laser beam (L); a controlling... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8138746 | Physical properties detection device and physical properties detection method A physical properties detection device comprising a probe to be placed near or touching a surface of a ferroelectric; an oscillation loop including the probe and capacitance within the ferroelectric; and detection means for detecting a physical properties of the fer... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8135733 | Information retrieval apparatus, information retrieval method and information retrieval processing program A system quickly accesses suitable represented information, in view of a lapse time from retrieval result display to user move. A system control section (SCS) of a retrieval system server accesses a retrieval database registering retrieval priorities to be associate... | 03/13/2012 |
| 8135160 | Speaker device and mobile phone A speaker device includes: a magnetic circuit which includes two magnetic gaps; a diaphragm which is arranged at a position passing through at least the two magnetic gaps and includes a recessed part extending in a direction substantially orthogonal with respect to ... | 03/13/2012 |
| 8134063 | Music piece production apparatus, music piece reproduction method, and music piece reproduction program A music reproduction apparatus selects some music pieces from a number of music pieces stored in, for example, a storage medium and reproduces them. First, a plurality of music piece selection periods (episode) are set on the basis of user specific information input... | 03/13/2012 |
| 8131457 | Navigation terminal device and navigation method A navigation terminal device includes a map information display unit 771, a destination display unit 773, a route line drawing unit 774 for holding retrieved location information or destination information or both of them and drawing a route fro... | 03/06/2012 |
| 8131004 | Speaker apparatus According to an aspect of the invention, there is provided a speaker apparatus including: a speaker frame; and a connection terminal for electrically connecting to an outside of a speaker, an axis line of the connection terminal being arranged along a tangential lin... | 03/06/2012 |
| 8130002 | Device and method for detecting direction of polarization of ferroelectric material A device for detecting polarization direction of a ferroelectric is provided. From a measurement signal provided through a probe disposed in contact with or near the surface of a ferroelectric, a demodulation means generates a detection signal having a signal level ... | 03/06/2012 |
| 8126644 | Travel support system, method thereof, program thereof, and recording medium containing the program A PC of a travel support system displays running video of a predetermined route, and if a predetermined intersection is set as a warning point by a user, sends warning point setting information to a server. If the server acquires the warning point setting informatio... | 02/28/2012 |
| 8126055 | Telop detecting method, telop detecting program, and telop detecting device A telop detecting device includes an MPEG input source, a parameter acquiring unit, a switch, a DCT coefficient evaluating unit, and a result output unit. The MPEG input source acquires an MPEG stream. The parameter acquiring unit acquires parameters necessary for d... | 02/28/2012 |
| 8125880 | Information recording apparatus and method, computer program An information recording apparatus (200) is provided with: a recording device (353) for recording data onto an information recording medium (100) being provided with a first recording layer (L0) and a second recording layer (L1); a... | 02/28/2012 |
| 8125872 | Recording medium and recording system Disclosed herein is a recording medium on or from which the recording or reproduction of data is stably performed. On the recording medium, data are recorded three-dimensionally by the irradiation of a recording laser beam. The recording medium includes a reflection... | 02/28/2012 |
