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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8002415 | Projection-type image display device with cooling mechanism A projection-type image display device generates projection light by modulating light beams of at least three primary colors in accordance with image information and synthesizing the modulated light beams. The display device includes a light source unit constituted ... | 08/23/2011 |
| 8000558 | Thumbnail generating apparatus and image shooting apparatus Based on, for example, the image at the start of a movie, a thumbnail image is tentatively generated and is stored in a header file. If a predetermined triggering condition is fulfilled during movie shooting, a thumbnail image is generated from the frame image at th... | 08/16/2011 |
| 8000188 | Optical pickup apparatus and optical disc apparatus including the same An optical pickup apparatus comprising at least: a diffraction grating configured to split first wavelength light into at least a first main beam and first sub-beam, and to split second wavelength light into at least a second main beam and second sub-beam, the diffr... | 08/16/2011 |
| 8000185 | Drive signal generation circuit A drive signal generation circuit comprising: a tracking signal output circuit to output a tracking signal based on an error signal indicating a track deviation of laser light output from the optical pickup relative to a track, the tracking signal being a signal for... | 08/16/2011 |
| 8000182 | Integrated circuit for optical disc An integrated circuit for optical disc comprising for each of light-receiving surfaces: an operational amplifier including inverting and noninverting input terminals receiving first and second input voltages, and output terminal receiving output voltage; a feedback ... | 08/16/2011 |
| 8000181 | Beam irradiation device and laser radar A beam irradiation device includes a light source for emitting laser light, an actuator for displacing a propagation direction of the laser light in accordance with a control signal, and a scan expansion lens for increasing a swing width of the laser light to be gen... | 08/16/2011 |
| 7999859 | Digital camera for recording a still image while shooting a moving image In a digital camera, when snapshot shooting is instructed during recording of a moving image, a shot still image is temporarily pushed aside in a memory area for use in pushing aside (7a) in a frame buffer (7). A currently shooting motion image ... | 08/16/2011 |
| 7999517 | Charging control apparatus and charging apparatus A charging control apparatus comprising: a voltage control unit in a charging apparatus configured to control generation of an output voltage and a power supply voltage, the charging apparatus being an apparatus configured to generate, from a voltage of an input pow... | 08/16/2011 |
| 7999434 | Electrostatic actuator and power generator This electrostatic actuator includes an electret film and a conductor layer formed on the electret film, and the conductor layer is so formed as to have a sectional shape reduced in width upward from the side closer to the electret film. ... | 08/16/2011 |
| 7999333 | Semiconductor device In a conventional semiconductor device, there has been a problem that, in a region where a wiring layer to which a high electric potential is applied traverses a top surface of an isolation region, the withstand voltage is deteriorated. In a semiconductor device of ... | 08/16/2011 |
| 7998760 | Manufacture method for photovoltaic module including inspection and repair After overlaying a conductive adhesive film and the wiring material on an electrode of a solar cell and temporarily fixing the wiring material to the solar cell by pressure bonding under first temperature/pressurizing condition, the quality of the temporarily fixed ... | 08/16/2011 |
| 7998610 | Electric power source providing a battery case with an intermediary duct An electric power source containing a plurality of batteries stacked in two or more tiers in a battery case, which is provided with an intermediary duct between a first sub holder case and a second sub holder case. A first outer duct is located outside the first sub... | 08/16/2011 |
| 7998595 | Organic electroluminescent device, luminescent material and organic compound In an organic EL device, a hole injection electrode is formed on a glass substrate, and a hole injection layer, a hole transport layer and a luminescent layer are formed in turn on the hole injection electrode. An electron injection electrode is formed on the lumine... | 08/16/2011 |
| 7995532 | Method for reducing deterioration in receiving performance and a radio apparatus using the method To allocate a terminal apparatus to a time slot to which a plurality of subcarriers are assigned, a base station apparatus first acquires the strength of signals between the base station apparatus and the terminal apparatus. Then the base station apparatus specifies... | 08/09/2011 |
| 7995342 | Display device A display device according to the present invention comprises a display panel, a housing sealing around the display panel and making a display screen of the display panel viewable from outside, and a heat exchanger collecting heat, which is arranged on a rear surfac... | 08/09/2011 |
| 7994532 | LED indicator casing, LED indicator, and LED indicator joint member comprising hanger members An LED indicator casing (1R) has: a casing (1a) including a bottom face (S1), a front face (S2) having an aperture (2a) for light emission, and paired side faces (S3 and S4) adjoining the front face (S | 08/09/2011 |
| 7993783 | Non-aqueous electrolyte secondary battery having positive electrode with high potential The storage characteristics in a charged state are improved in a non-aqueous electrolyte secondary battery containing a lithium cobalt oxide as a positive electrode active material. The non-aqueous electrolyte secondary battery includes a positive electrode containi... | 08/09/2011 |
| 7993009 | Projector There is disclosed a projector capable of efficiently cooling an optical element while decreasing the generation of noise as much as possible. A projector P includes a main body 1 provided with a light source 2, an optical element 4 (liquid crys... | 08/09/2011 |
| 7990836 | Optical pickup apparatus, focal-point adjusting method, and optical disc apparatus An optical pickup apparatus is provided with an angle adjusting element. The angle adjusting element changes a propagation direction of luminous fluxes of four luminous flux regions set about an optical axis of the laser light, out of laser light reflected by a disc... | 08/02/2011 |
| 7990835 | Optical pickup apparatus, focal-point adjusting method, and optical disc apparatus An optical pickup apparatus is provided with an angle adjusting element. The angle adjusting element changes a propagation direction of luminous fluxes of four luminous flux regions set about an optical axis of the laser light, out of laser light reflected by a disc... | 08/02/2011 |
| 7990434 | Digital camera for recording a still image while shooting a moving image In a digital camera, when snapshot shooting is instructed during recording of a moving image, a shot still image is temporarily pushed aside in a memory area for use in pushing aside (7a) in a frame buffer (7). A currently shooting motion image ... | 08/02/2011 |
| 7989359 | Semiconductor module manufacturing method, semiconductor module, and mobile device A semiconductor substrate having on its surface an electrode of a semiconductor device and a pattern unit is prepared. A copper plate is formed provided with a first principle surface having a bump and a second principle surface, opposite to the first principle surf... | 08/02/2011 |
| 7986478 | Lens drive device A lens drive device includes a lens holder for holding a lens; a cabinet to which the lens holder is attached so as to be capable of being displaced in a direction of an optical axis of the lens; and a drive part that uses a magnetic driving force to displace the ho... | 07/26/2011 |
| 7974796 | Fully-charged battery capacity detection method A fully-charged battery capacity detection method detects first and second no-load voltages (VOCV1, VOCV2) of a battery at first no-load timing and second no-load timing, respectively. Further, first and second remaining capacities (SOC1 [%], SO... | 07/05/2011 |
| 7974444 | Image processor and vehicle surrounding visual field support device One camera having a horizontally wide view angle is installed at each of the left and right rear ends of a tractor. The visual field of the left camera includes the road surface located to the left side of the tractor and a trailer, and the like. The visual field of... | 07/05/2011 |
| 7974441 | Object detection apparatus for detecting a specific object in an input image An object detection apparatus for detecting a specific object in an input image includes a specific object detection module for performing a specific object detecting process of setting the input image or a reduced image of the input image as a target image, and of ... | 07/05/2011 |
| 7974172 | Optical pickup apparatus An optical-pickup apparatus comprising: a laser-light source; a diffraction grating including first-and-second regions of periodic structures different in phase from each other and a third region whose periodic structure is different in phase from the first-and-seco... | 07/05/2011 |
| 7970254 | PLL control circuit of optical disc apparatus, and recording medium having recorded thereon program for controlling the optical disc apparatus A PLL control circuit of an optical disc apparatus comprising: a voltage frequency conversion circuit that adjusts an oscillating frequency based on a control voltage to generate a first frequency signal; a phase comparison circuit that compares the phase of the fir... | 06/28/2011 |
| 7969853 | Optical pickup device A servo objective lens and a recording/reproducing objective lens are commonly held on a holder. The servo objective lens and the recording/reproducing objective lens are integrally displaced, thereby pulling servo light onto a servo layer. Upon the pulling, focus p... | 06/28/2011 |
| 7969851 | Laser converging apparatus, optical pickup device, and optical disc recording/reproducing apparatus A laser converging apparatus comprising: a nonpolarizing hologram element having a first area defined by a numerical aperture corresponding to a thickness of a first protective layer of a first disk medium and a second area inside the first area, the second area def... | 06/28/2011 |
| 7969847 | Disc apparatus A disc apparatus comprising: a jitter-value detection unit configured to detect a jitter value based on a signal to be read from a medium; a defocus-value setting unit configured to set a defocus value for focusing an objective lens in the medium based on the jitter... | 06/28/2011 |
| 7969492 | Image pickup apparatus An image pickup apparatus includes a plurality of pixels and increasing portions increasing charges stored in the pixels, wherein the frequency of increasing the charges is controlled every group of at least one pixel in response to luminance of light incident upon ... | 06/28/2011 |
| 7969481 | Camera performing photographing in accordance with photographing mode depending on object scene A camera includes a CPU. The CPU individually detects a ratio of an object which exceeds a threshold value in a moving amount to a center area of an object scene and a ratio of an object which exceeds the threshold value in the moving amount to a peripheral area of ... | 06/28/2011 |
| 7969401 | Liquid crystal driving apparatus with masked latch pulse generating circuit A liquid crystal driving apparatus comprising: a latch circuit including latch-areas each in n-bit unit, configured to sequentially latch into a designated latch-area, pieces of n-bit display-data obtained by dividing m-bit display-data for driving column-electrodes... | 06/28/2011 |
| 7969005 | Packaging board, rewiring, roughened conductor for semiconductor module of a portable device, and manufacturing method therefor A method for manufacturing a semiconductor module includes: a first process of forming a conductor on one face of an insulating layer; a second process of exposing the conductor from the other face of the insulating layer; a third process of providing a first wiring... | 06/28/2011 |
| 7968983 | Semiconductor device Provided is a semiconductor device in which a plurality of chips are packaged without increasing the thickness of the package. A plurality of semiconductor elements (a first and a second semiconductor elements) that are packaged in the semiconductor device are overl... | 06/28/2011 |
| 7968941 | Semiconductor device A semiconductor device includes: an epitaxial layer; a body layer, formed in the epitaxial layer, which includes a channel region; a source layer disposed in superposition on the body layer; a gate insulator, formed on the epitaxial layer, which is in a ring shape s... | 06/28/2011 |
| 7968897 | Light-emitting device having a support substrate and inclined sides A light-emitting device capable of improving light extraction efficiency is provided. This light-emitting device comprises a support substrate set on a side opposite to a light emission surface and a semiconductor element layer, bonded to the support substrate, havi... | 06/28/2011 |
| 7968229 | Positive electrode for non-aqueous electrolyte battery and non-aqueous electrolyte battery A positive electrode for a non-aqueous electrolyte battery includes a positive electrode active material layer containing at least a positive electrode active material and a binder and a coating layer containing a polymer provided on the positive electrode active ma... | 06/28/2011 |
| 7965784 | Control method and radio apparatus utilizing the same A processing unit transmits, from at least one of a plurality of antennas, data corresponding respectively to the plurality of antennas. A control unit generates a request signal with which to have a second radio apparatus provide information on rates at the second ... | 06/21/2011 |
