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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8438359 | Memory management method, information processing device, program creation method, and program Provided is a method for managing a memory storage region used by a processor. The processor is connected to the memory that stores data accessed while a task is being executed. The memory management method including the steps of: dividing the memory area of the mem... | 05/07/2013 |
| 8422694 | Source sound separator with spectrum analysis through linear combination and method therefor In a source sound separator, first and second target sound predominant spectra are generated respectively by first and second processing operations for linear combination for emphasizing the target sound, using received sound signals of two microphones arrayed at a ... | 04/16/2013 |
| 8414782 | Process for producing fluorocarbon microstructure, fluorocarbon microstructure, and microsystem A process for producing a fluorocarbon microstructure capable of easily fabricating a three-dimensional fluorocarbon microstructure. The process for producing a fluorocarbon microstructure comprises a first processing step for forming, on a substrate (2), a f... | 04/09/2013 |
| 8338643 | Reagent for introduction of protein or gene The present invention provides a reagent for introducing a protein or gene into a cell. The reagent of the present invention is, for example, a reagent for introducing a protein or gene into a cell, which comprises a composition comprising a cationic amino acid type... | 12/25/2012 |
| 8262796 | β-GaOsingle crystal growing method, thin-film single crystal growing method, GaOlight-emitting device, and its manufacturing method A thin-film single crystal growing method includes preparing a substrate, irradiating an excitation beam on a metallic target made of a pure metal or an alloy in a predetermined atmosphere, and combining chemical species including any of atoms, molecules, and ions r... | 09/11/2012 |
| 8250548 | Method for controlling heterogeneous multiprocessor and multigrain parallelizing compiler A heterogeneous multiprocessor system including a plurality of processor elements having mutually different instruction sets and structures avoids a specific processor element from being short of resources to improve throughput. An executable task is extracted based... | 08/21/2012 |
| 8244474 | Feature pattern recognition system, method, and program A feature pattern recognition system, method, and program capable of recognizing feature pattern with a high accuracy are provided. Discrete symbols (nucleotide symbols or the like) constituting a to-be-recognized sequence (a DNA sequence or the like) are converted ... | 08/14/2012 |
| 8241647 | Amphiphilic molecule, molecular assembly comprising the amphiphilic molecule, and use of the molecular assembly The present invention provides an amphiphilic molecule having a plurality of zwitterionic functional groups in its hydrophilic moiety and a molecular assembly comprising the amphiphilic molecule as a constituent lipid. The molecular assembly of the present invention... | 08/14/2012 |
| 8213633 | Sound source separation system, sound source separation method, and acoustic signal acquisition device The invention provides a sound source separation system, a sound source separation method, and an acoustic signal acquisition device which can precisely separate a target sound and a disturbance sound coming from an arbitrary direction, and which ensures miniaturiza... | 07/03/2012 |
| 8200934 | Data transfer unit in multi-core processor To reduce overhead of data transfer between processor cores and improve a processing capability of a processor, there is provided a processor including: a CPU for performing computing processing; an internal memory for storing data; and a data transfer unit for perf... | 06/12/2012 |
| 8167824 | Sensation detection presentation apparatus and walking rehabilitation supporting apparatus It is intended to feed back any somatic sensation information on given body surface portion in easily understandable form without the use of special sensations, such as visual and auditory sensations. Walking rehabilitation supporting apparatus (10) comprises... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8161737 | Apparatus for and method of purifying exhaust gas An exhaust gas pressure P, exhaust gas temperatures TU and TD on upstream and downstream of a DPF, a rotation speed Ne, a load Q, and an intake flow rate F as various operating conditions are read, and an amount of PM generated for short time Î... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8155451 | Matching apparatus, image search system, and histogram approximate restoring unit, and matching method, image search method, and histogram approximate restoring method A matching apparatus and method compares a set of feature points of two objects projected to an N-dimensional space and determines the similarity between the objects and includes mapping the set to a one-dimensional space, creating a set of pairs of a feature point ... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8148160 | Electrode for molecular sensing and method for molecular sensing Molecular sensing of target molecules is performed by using an electrode for molecular sensing in which detecting molecules which can shift a surface potential of the electrode by an interaction with the target molecules are bound directly or via coupling molecules ... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8108660 | Multiprocessor system and method of synchronization for multiprocessor system Each of processors has a barrier write register and a barrier read register. Each barrier write register is wired to each barrier read register by a dedicated wiring block. For example, a 1-bit barrier write register of a processor is connected, via the wiring block... | 01/31/2012 |
| 8051412 | Global compiler for controlling heterogeneous multiprocessor Performance of a heterogeneous multiprocessor is reduced as much as possible within a short time without any awareness of parallelization matched with a configuration of the heterogeneous multiprocessor. In a heterogeneous multiprocessor system, tasks having paralle... | 11/01/2011 |
| 8043854 | Method of decellularizing tissues In the transplant of a living organism tissue, such as a heart valve, taken from an animal, etc. into a human body, a cell removing solution for removing original cells from the living organism tissue is provided with flow approximately equal to the bloodstream of t... | 10/25/2011 |
| 7983482 | Matching apparatus, image search system, and histogram approximate restoring unit, and matching method, image search method, and histogram approximate restoring method A matching technology for determining the similarity between two objects at high velocity with high precision. The matching method for comparing a set of feature points of two objects projected to an N-dimensional space and determining the similarity between the two... | 07/19/2011 |
| 7974670 | Method of measuring superficial chemical species and apparatus for measuring the same A method of processing skin surface observation measuring data which is able to address various sicknesses and reduce an error in sickness detection, and a measuring apparatus requiring no filter. The measuring apparatus an irradiator applying a white light to a bio... | 07/05/2011 |
| 7895453 | Multiprocessor system and multigrain parallelizing compiler Provided is a multiprocessor system and a compiler used in the system for automatically extracting tasks having parallelism from an input program to be processed, performing scheduling to efficiently operate processor units by arranging the tasks according to charac... | 02/22/2011 |
| 7876596 | Memory element and method for manufacturing same A novel nonvolatile memory element, which can be manufactured by a simple and high yield process by using an organic material and has a high on/off ratio, and a method for manufacturing such nonvolatile memory element. A switching layer (14) made of an electr... | 01/25/2011 |
| 7844058 | Hearing processing method and hearing aid using the same A hearing aid device for processing an input sound signal via a microphone so as to output a sound signal from an earphone comprises a signal processing element, a couple of acoustic nerve excitation pattern calculation elements, a couple of acoustic filter shape me... | 11/30/2010 |
| 7838912 | Semiconductor sensing field effect transistor, semiconductor sensing device, semiconductor sensor chip and semiconductor sensing device A semiconductor sensing field effect transistor uses an organic unimolecular film formed on a gate insulating layer. In the semiconductor sensing field effect transistor and a semiconductor sensing device, the gate insulating layer has a stack structure wherein a se... | 11/23/2010 |
| 7836567 | Thin film capacitor, high-density packaging substrate incorporating thin film capacitor, and method for manufacturing thin-film capacitor A capacitor capable of being incorporated into a packaging substrate, which capacitor includes a high-dielectric-constant layer, and an upper electrode layer and a lower electrode layer sandwiching the high-dielectric-constant layer from the upper side and the lower... | 11/23/2010 |
| 7816041 | Fuel cell A fuel cell includes a substrate having a pair of grooves, an electrolyte membrane lying on the substrate so as to define a pair of flow channels, and catalyst-bearing current collector layer sections disposed on the inner wall of the grooves or the inside surface o... | 10/19/2010 |
| 7800105 | GaOsemiconductor device To provide a Ga2O3 compound semiconductor device in which a Ga2O3 system compound is used as a semiconductor, which has an electrode having ohmic characteristics adapted to the Ga2O3 system compound, ... | 09/21/2010 |
| 7727865 | Method for controlling conductivity of GaOsingle crystal To provide a method of controlling a conductivity of a Ga2O3 system single crystal with which a conductive property of a β-Ga2O3 system single crystal can be efficiently controlled. The light emitting element inclu... | 06/01/2010 |
| 7713353 | β-GaOsingle crystal growing method, thin-film single crystal growing method, GaOlight-emitting device, and its manufacturing method A method for growing a β-Ga2O3 single includes preparing a β-Ga2O3 seed crystal and growing the β-Ga2O3 single crystal from the β-Ga2O3 seed crystal in a predetermined direct... | 05/11/2010 |
| 7713197 | Pressure measuring method, pressure measuring device, and tonometer A tonometry device includes a contact device for contacting the object, means for vibrating the contact device and the object, means for applying a voltage to the vibration means, means for measuring a current flowing through the vibration means, and an information ... | 05/11/2010 |
| 7649075 | Process for preparing polyphenylene ether A process for preparing polyphenylene ether by oxidizing phenols using water as a solvent, enabling polyphenylene ether to be prepared with only a small amount of oxidizer, while making it possible to reuse a solvent after reaction repeatedly. Water is used as the s... | 01/19/2010 |
| 7591911 | Plated film of gold-cobalt amorphous alloy, electroplating bath, and method for electroplating A gold-cobalt based amorphous alloy plated film consisting of a homogeneous amorphous phase not having microcrystals is formed by electroplating conducted by use of an electroplating bath containing a gold cyanide salt in a concentration of 0.01 to 0.1 mol/dm3 ... | 09/22/2009 |
| 7547972 | Laminated structure, very-large-scale integrated circuit wiring board, and method of formation thereof The laminated structure includes a substrate of low dielectric constant material of silicon compound and an electroless copper plating layer laminated thereon with a barrier layer. The barrier layer is interposed between the substrate and the copper layer, and the b... | 06/16/2009 |
| 7517678 | Method for protein production Provided is a novel comprising culturing host cells into which a foreign gene has been introduced for producing a protein in a soluble form encoded by the foreign gene, recombinant cells are cultured in the temperature range lower than or equal to the upper temperat... | 04/14/2009 |
| 7498520 | Semiconductor multilayer wiring board and method of forming the same A silica-based interlayer insulating layer having a low dielectric constant is formed with SOG material on a substrate, in which a wiring-layer forming space is then formed. If necessary, a UV ray irradiation is performed under an oxidizing atmosphere. A Si—OH bon... | 03/03/2009 |
| 7438855 | Apparatus for measuring glucose concentration An apparatus for measuring a glucose concentration is noninvasive, accurate, and compact. The apparatus includes a detection unit (10) and a principal component analysis (PCA) unit (20). The detection unit includes a light source (11) to emit mi... | 10/21/2008 |
| 7395107 | Magnetocardiograph In magnetocardiography, an assisting technique for a doctor diagnosing a heart disease will be provided. In the magnetocardiography, magnetism to be generated from a subject's heart is measured by a magnetic sensor, and from this measured data, a position of center ... | 07/01/2008 |
| 7393411 | β-GaOsingle crystal growing method, thin-film single crystal growing method, GaOlight-emitting device, and its manufacturing method A method for growing a β-Ga2O3 single crystal hardly cracking and having a weakened twinning tendency and an improved crystallinity, a method for growing a thin-film single crystal with high quality, a GazO3 light-emittin... | 07/01/2008 |
| 7352845 | Energy dispersion type X-ray diffraction/spectral device A white X-ray generating means and an X-ray detecting means are respectively moved to a first position and a second position that are separated, X-ray intensities, for each energy, detected at respective positions by the X-ray detecting means are obtained as first d... | 04/01/2008 |
| 7196898 | Thin film capacitor, high-density packaging substrate incorporating thin film capacitor, and method for manufacturing thin-film capacitor A capacitor capable of being incorporated into a packaging substrate, which capacitor includes a high-dielectric-constant layer, and an upper electrode layer and a lower electrode layer sandwiching the high-dielectric-constant layer from the upper side and the lower... | 03/27/2007 |
| 7135103 | Preparation of soft magnetic thin film A soft magnetic thin film of CoFe alloy having a high Br and low Hc is prepared by furnishing a plating tank including cathode and anode compartments which are separated by a diaphragm or salt bridge so as to permit charge transfer, but inhibit penetration of Fe ion... | 11/14/2006 |
