Did You Know...
...that one person who claimed to be the inventor of the television is Russian emigre Vladimir Zworykin? In 1929 David Sarnoff, founder of RCA, asked Zworykin what it would take to develop TV for commercial use. He said: a year and a half and $100,000. In reality, it took 20 years and $50 million! Before his death in 1982 at the age of 92, Zworykin said of his invention: "The technique is wonderful. It is beyond my expectations. But the programs! I would never let my children even come close to this thing."
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8185924 | Information processing device, information processing method, and information processing program Request information 3 is transmitted from a transmission means 1a of a communication device 1 to a server 2. Then, related information 4a corresponding to the request information 3 and an identification code | 05/22/2012 |
| 8185921 | Parental control of displayed content using closed captioning According to one embodiment, a method for blocking scenes with objectionable content comprises receiving incoming content, namely a scene of a program. Thereafter, using closed captioning information, a determination is made if the scene of the program includes obje... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8185858 | Apparatus, method, and program for predicting layout wiring congestion A layout-wiring-congestion prediction apparatus. The layout-wiring-congestion prediction apparatus includes: a circuit-data providing section providing circuit data; a conversion processing section converting the provided circuit data into directed graph data; a nod... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8185856 | Manufacturing method, manufacturing program and manufacturing system for adjusting signal delay in a semiconductor device The present of the invention provides a method of manufacturing a semiconductor device, including the steps of: acquiring information on a graphic composing a physical layout of a semiconductor integrated circuit; carrying out calculation for a transferred image in ... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8185821 | Table generating method, information processing apparatus, and recording medium having recorded table generating program thereon A method of generating a table in which data having time or period information is laid out at corresponding positions along a chronological axis includes the steps of displaying a table generating screen including a table generating area; displaying the chronologica... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8185755 | Wireless communication apparatus, wireless communication system, wireless communication method, and program A wireless communication apparatus according to the present invention includes a user terminal information acquiring unit that acquires user terminal information related to user terminals, which are connected through a wireless communication network to enable commun... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8185732 | Selecting and executing a content code corresponding to an information processing apparatus based on apparatus check information at the time of processing using the content code An information processing apparatus includes: a data processing unit that acquires content codes including a data processing program recorded in an information recording medium and executes data processing according to the content codes; and a memory that stores an ... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8185683 | Bridge, information processing system, and access control method Transparency of resources is provided and ordering in an access is guaranteed between nodes on a computer network. In an information processing system in which a plurality of processor units are connected to each other by a switch, a global address space is introduc... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8185577 | Content management apparatus, web server, network system, content management method, content information management method, and program A content management apparatus includes a content storage section configured to store a piece of content together with a content unique identifier; a content transmitter configured to transmit the piece of content together with the content unique identifier to a Web... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8185541 | Information processing apparatus, information processing method, information processing program, reproduction device, and information processing system that identifies content using a similarity calculation An information processing apparatus includes a communication unit configured to receive, from a reproduction device that reproduces content recorded on a loaded recording medium, content forming information regarding the structure of the content; a degree-of-similar... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8185267 | On-vehicle apparatus and content providing method The present invention is applied to, for example, a multimedia terminal having a function of navigation equipment and a function of playing back video and switches a display from a map display to a source display also with source switching operators 13P, 1... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8185265 | Path planning device, path planning method, and computer program A path planning device includes: an initial position and posture path acquiring unit which acquires an initial position and posture path including a plurality of nodes connecting present position and posture of a control target to target position and posture and whi... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8185076 | Radio receiver Disclosed herein is a radio receiver including: an oscillator circuit including a phase-locked circuit and a voltage-controlled oscillator circuit; a first frequency divider circuit; a frequency converter circuit; a signal adding circuit; a test signal generating ci... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8185074 | Receiving apparatus, receiving method and wireless communication system There is provided a receiving apparatus including a plurality of antennas, a phase difference detection unit to detect a phase difference of each of a plurality of received signals received by the plurality of antennas, a phase adjustment unit to align phase of the ... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8185071 | Tuner module A tuner module includes a filter that reduces the signal level outside the frequency band of a selected channel in an input RF signal of terrestrial television broadcasting, a local oscillation circuit that oscillates a local oscillation signal, a mixing circuit tha... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8185054 | Information processing apparatus, information processing method, and recording medium There is provided an information processing apparatus according to the present invention performing a bidirectional communication with another information processing apparatus through a plurality of channels in a predetermined frequency band, and including a selecti... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8185053 | Information processing apparatus and information processing method having communication function The present invention is an information processing apparatus which obtains identification information of an electronic device and makes communication with the electronic device via a network based on the identification information. When a portable telephone (11 | 05/22/2012 |
| 8185047 | Near field communication apparatus for automated assigning of various functions There is provided a communication apparatus including a plurality of communication units for making communication through electric field coupling or magnetic field coupling, a detecting unit for detecting an approach between a communication party capable of communic... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8184823 | Headphone device, sound reproduction system, and sound reproduction method Disclosed herein is a headphone device, including: a sound pickup section configured to pick up an external sound; a directivity setting section configured to generate a directional pickup audio signal, which is an audio signal obtained by picking up the external so... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8184711 | Image processing device and image processing method To stop the decline of the quality of image associated with encoding. The present invention multiplies a decoding rescaling factor (RFr) possibly used in the decoding process by only a transformation matrix (D), which is scale change, to calculate a rescaling factor... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8184699 | Method of reducing computations in intra-prediction and mode decision processes in a digital video encoder A method of improving the computation speed of the sum of absolute transformed distances (SATD) for different intra-prediction modes is described. Determining the SATD quicker provides the benefits of better coding performance without suffering the drawbacks of long... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8184690 | Image processing apparatus and image processing method An image processing apparatus able to encode and decode images by a low cost, small sized circuit configuration, having a temporary storage portion for temporarily storing data, an encoding/decoding processing portion for reading and writing data successively with r... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8184657 | Reliable audio-video transmission system using multi-media diversity A system and method for switching data packet traffic distribution across diverse transmission medium according to detected quality of service characteristics for a given data packet rate from server to client. It should be recognized that diverse medium are not int... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8184636 | Information processing device and method, and computer readable medium for packetizing and depacketizing data The present invention relates to an information processing device and method, and program, whereby unnecessary standby time can be reduced in depacketizing processing, and processing can be performed easily and at high speed. A common header creating unit 203... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8184224 | Display apparatus and method of laying out pixel circuits Herein disclosed a display apparatus including: a pixel array having a matrix of pixel circuits each including respective electrooptical elements for determining a display brightness level and respective drive circuits for driving the electrooptical elements; wherei... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8184209 | Smart slate Techniques used for movie, video, or television production, including: generating production information about recorded data of one of: (1) audio sequence; (2) video sequence; and (3) audio and video sequences; tagging the generated production information with timin... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8184179 | Image processing apparatus, image processing method, and program for combining still images An image processing apparatus includes the following elements. An obtaining unit obtains a first still image, a first difficulty level indicating a complexity of the first still image, a second still image, and a second difficulty level indicating a complexity of th... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8184170 | Imaging apparatus, information processing apparatus and method, and computer program therefor An imaging apparatus includes an imaging unit that captures an image; a recording unit that records the image on a recording medium; a first position estimating unit that estimates a position of the imaging apparatus using a first position estimation technique to ge... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8184124 | Automatic color adjustment of a template design The present invention generates a color template design to format a presentation. According to one aspect, a plurality of template designs are provided on a visual display. A selection of one of the plurality of template designs is received from a user. A plurality ... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8184099 | Information processing apparatus and processing program in information processing apparatus The present invention provides an information processing apparatus including: a keyboard that has a plurality of operating keys and is foldable via a hinge part, the keyboard being set in a closed state in which the operating keys are closed and in an opened state i... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8184075 | Active matrix display device An active matrix display device includes a driving section provided on a substrate, an insulating film stacked on the substrate, and light-emitting elements arranged in a matrix on the insulating film, and each of the light-emitting elements includes an light-emitti... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8184053 | Position estimating system, radio communication apparatus, program, position estimating method and information server A radio communication apparatus has a storage section for correlating and storing positional information and identification information of the base station, a receiving section for receiving radio signals transmitted from the base station and containing the identifi... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8183609 | Solid-state imaging device and camera Disclosed is a solid-state imaging device which includes a plurality of pixels in an arrangement, each of the pixels including a photoelectric conversion element, pixel transistors including a transfer transistor, and a floating diffusion region, in which the channe... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8183603 | Solid-state imaging device for inhibiting dark current A solid-state imaging device includes a substrate having a first surface and a second surface, light being incident on the second surface side; a wiring layer disposed on the first surface side; a photodetector formed in the substrate and including a first region of... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8183074 | Light emitting element, method for manufacturing light emitting element, light emitting element assembly, and method for manufacturing light emitting element assembly A method for manufacturing a light emitting element includes the steps of (A) forming sequentially a first compound semiconductor layer having a first conduction type, an active layer, and a second compound semiconductor layer having a second conduction type on a su... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8182899 | Anti-glare film, method of manufacturing the same, and display apparatus using the same An anti-glare film is provided and includes a substrate and an anti-glare layer which is formed on the substrate and contains fine particles. The anti-glare layer has micro concave/convex shapes on the surface. The micro concave/convex shapes of the anti-glare layer... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8182722 | Methods for manufacturing zinc oxide base sputtering target and transparent electrically conductive film A method for manufacturing a zinc oxide based sputtering target includes the step of producing a zinc oxide based sputtering target by using γ-Al2O3 as a dopant material. ... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8182067 | Droplet discharge head and droplet discharging unit incorporating the same A droplet discharge head includes: a liquid reservoir which holds a liquid; a channel through which the liquid is guided to the liquid reservoir; and a driving element which changes the pressure in the liquid reservoir so as to discharge droplets of the liquid conta... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8181873 | Information reading apparatus and information reading method A portable information reading apparatus includes: a first antenna which has a loop or spiral like shape and is provided in a plate-like manner on one surface of an outer shape; a second antenna which is provided in a plate-like manner on a side face of the one surf... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8181216 | Data processing apparatus, data processing method, and data processing system A data processing apparatus that appropriately adjusts the image quality of an image. At a plurality of user terminals, image data transmitted from a broadcasting station is processed based on parameters input by users, and user information including the image data ... | 05/15/2012 |
