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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 20110016385 | EDITING APPARATUS, EDITING METHOD AND EDITING PROGRAM The invention provides an editing apparatus for generating a layout, comprising: a first storage means for storing materials which are the objects of a layout; a second storage means for storing attribute information as to whether the materials which are the objects of ... | 01/20/2011 |
| 20110016140 | SEARCH APPARATUS, CONTROL METHOD FOR SEARCH APPARATUS, AND PROGRAM Provided are a dividing unit for dividing a search job into a first division job for performing search processing on an internal memory table and a second division job for performing search processing on an external memory table, a searching unit for executing the searc... | 01/20/2011 |
| 20110014869 | COMMUNICATION APPARATUS, CONTROL METHOD OF COMMUNICATION APPARATUS, AND STORAGE MEDIUM To enable a user to easily approximate a portable information device to a position where the portable information device should be approximated so as to cause the portable information device and a communication apparatus to communicate with each other by wireless commun... | 01/20/2011 |
| 20110014619 | REACTION TREATMENT APPARATUS AND REACTION TREATMENT METHOD Provided is a reaction treatment apparatus in which, in a case of mixing a plurality of solutions in a microchip used in a biochemical reaction system, an electric field generation area for changing solute concentration distribution in the solutions is provided in a sol... | 01/20/2011 |
| 20110014312 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR FORMING CONTOURED EDIBLE PIECES A method for forming thin edible pieces uses two continuous belts that cooperate to form a fill cavity. An edible mass, such as chocolate, is flowed into the fill cavity where it forms an edible blank which is transported on a belt path with the two belts moving in tand... | 01/20/2011 |
| 20110014086 | METHOD OF PRODUCING MICROFLUIDIC DEVICE There is provided a method of producing a microfluidic device including a substrate having a depressed portion and a cover member, whereby to reduce the dispersion of a geometric individual difference and the possibility that a non-joint area can occur in a joint portio... | 01/20/2011 |
| 20110013963 | DOOR OPENING OR CLOSING DETECTING APPARATUS AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS A door opening or closing detecting device and an image forming apparatus including a shaft member which is provided to a housing slidably along one end of a door, and urged to be brought into pressure contact with a pressing member through a pressure contact member, th... | 01/20/2011 |
| 20110013937 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS An image forming apparatus is constituted by a rotatable image bearing member; a charging member for electrically charging the image bearing member in contact with the image bearing member; developing member, containing polishing particles, for collecting toner from the... | 01/20/2011 |
| 20110013933 | PROCESS CARTRIDGE AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS A process cartridge that is provided with an image bearing member and a development device and is detachably attached to an apparatus body includes a developer carrying member that carries a developer, a magnetic member housed inside, an interval defining member that de... | 01/20/2011 |
| 20110013932 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS An image forming apparatus includes a main assembly; a cartridge, detachably mountable to the main assembly, for being operated so as to form a toner image on a sheet material in a state in which the cartridge is mounted in the main assembly; a fixing unit, detachably m... | 01/20/2011 |
| 20110013926 | LIGHT-EMITTING UNIT A light-emitting unit having an arrayed light source comprises a substrate; an arrayed light source group containing the arrayed light source arranged in a first direction; a lens array for focusing the light emitted from light emitting elements constituting the arrayed... | 01/20/2011 |
| 20110013848 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING THE SAME An image processing apparatus that generates image data having a high dynamic range by combining a plurality of image data having different exposure amounts includes: an input unit configured to input a plurality of M-bit image data; a determining unit configured to det... | 01/20/2011 |
| 20110013827 | METHOD FOR OBTAINING A POSITION MATCH OF 3D DATA SETS IN A DENTAL CAD/CAM SYSTEM Disclosed is a method for designing tooth surfaces of a digital dental prosthetic item existing as a 3D data set using a first 3D model of a preparation site and/or of a dental prosthetic item and a second 3D model, which second model comprises regions which match some ... | 01/20/2011 |
| 20110013701 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR RECONSTRUCTING A SEQUENCE OF VIDEO DATA AFTER TRANSMISSION OVER A NETWORK A method of reconstructing a sequence of video data in a receiving device after the video sequence has been transmitted in encoded form over a network, the encoded video sequence comprising containers of encoded video data, wherein the method includes the following step... | 01/20/2011 |
| 20110013538 | Methods and Devices for Estimating a Level of Use of a Communication Network and for Adapting a Level of Subscription to Multicast Sessions The invention in particular concerns a method and a device for estimating a level of use of a communication network linking a server and at least one client, said communication network being used to transmit a data stream at a transmission rate corresponding to the temp... | 01/20/2011 |
| 20110013281 | TRIANGULAR PYRAMID TYPE CUBE CORNER RETROREFLECTION ARTICLE, AND ITS MANUFACTURING METHOD The present invention relates to a triangular pyramidal cube corner retroreflective article and a producing method thereof. In the triangular pyramidal cube corner retroreflective article, a triangular pyramidal cube corner retroreflective element pair group is disposed... | 01/20/2011 |
| 20110013227 | PRINTING USING MULTIPLE PAPER SOURCES Management of multiple paper sources during printing is provided. A setting screen allows setting a page layout indicating a number of pages to be arranged on a single face of a sheet of paper. An additional setting screen having different setting items allows setting o... | 01/20/2011 |
| 20110013205 | IMAGE-PROCESSING APPARATUS AND IMAGE-PROCESSING METHOD The present invention provides an image-processing apparatus, including: a corrected value calculating unit configured to calculate corrected values by adding error values diffused from a pixel neighboring a pixel currently being processed respectively to a plurality of... | 01/20/2011 |
| 20110013067 | PHOTOELECTRIC CONVERSION APPARATUS AND IMAGING SYSTEM USING THE SAME A photoelectric conversion apparatus includes: a first semiconductor region forming a part of a photoelectric conversion element; a second semiconductor region stacked on the first semiconductor region, and forming a part of the photoelectric conversion element; a third... | 01/20/2011 |
| 20110013065 | SOLID-STATE IMAGING APPARATUS AND DRIVING METHOD THEREFOR For inhibiting blooming, a solid-state imaging apparatus comprises a photoelectric conversion unit for generating and accumulating an electric charge according to an incident light; a floating diffusion for accumulating electric charges; a transfer transistor for transf... | 01/20/2011 |
| 20110013062 | SOLID-STATE IMAGING APPARATUS In the solid-state imaging apparatus, the carrier holding portion is arranged at a position in a first direction from a photoelectric conversion portion, a floating diffusion region is arranged at a position in a second direction perpendicular to the first direction fro... | 01/20/2011 |
| 20110013061 | IMAGE SENSING APPARATUS An image sensing apparatus comprises an image sensing unit including an image sensor having a plurality of image sensing pixels and a plurality of focus detection pixels discretely arranged between the plurality of image sensing pixels, a shift detection unit that detec... | 01/20/2011 |
| 20110013046 | SOLID-STATE IMAGING APPARATUS AND IMAGING SYSTEM A solid-state imaging apparatus includes a reference signal generating circuit for supplying, commonly to the plurality of A/D conversion circuits, at least two reference signals of which signal levels change toward different directions of electric potential, and the A/... | 01/20/2011 |
| 20110013042 | SOLID-STATE IMAGE SENSOR AND IMAGING SYSTEM Each pixel includes a photo-electric converter, transfer switch, charge-voltage conversion node, amplifier, and control switch. A solid-state image sensor includes a voltage controller which controls the voltage of the charge-voltage conversion node of each pixel via th... | 01/20/2011 |
| 20110012950 | ELEMENT BOARD FOR PRINTHEAD, AND PRINTHEAD HAVING THE SAME In a printhead element board including a plurality of printing elements which align in a predetermined direction, driving circuits which drive the printing elements, and an element selection circuit which selects printing elements within each group for each group having... | 01/20/2011 |
| 20110012504 | ORGANIC LIGHT EMITTING DEVICE Provided is an organic light emitting device which, in a case where a donor dopant having excellent electron injecting property is used, prevents a change in light emitting efficiency caused by passage of time and gives high light emitting efficiency at low voltage. An ... | 01/20/2011 |
| 20110012301 | SHEET FEEDING DEVICE, AND IMAGE FORMING DEVICE There is provided a sheet feeding device in which a sheet is discriminated at preliminary loosening before feeding, and is set to be controlled according to the type of the sheet by a simple configuration without requiring a special configuration. In the sheet feeding d... | 01/20/2011 |
| 20110012136 | DISPLAY APPARATUS Provided is a display apparatus whose light extraction efficiency is not reduced even when a film thickness error of an image display device is caused. The display apparatus includes a plurality of image display devices. Each of the image display devices includes at lea... | 01/20/2011 |
| 20110012107 | FIELD EFFECT TRANSISTOR A novel field-effect transistor is provided which employs an amorphous oxide. In an embodiment of the present invention, the transistor comprises an amorphous oxide layer containing electron carrier at a concentration less than 1×10−18/cm3, and ... | 01/20/2011 |
| 20110012050 | PIEZOELECTRIC MATERIAL Provided is a piezoelectric material including a lead-free perovskite-type composite oxide which is excellent in piezoelectric characteristics and temperature characteristics and is represented by the general formula (1): | 01/20/2011 |
| 20110010614 | OPTIMIZED METHODS AND DEVICES FOR THE ANALYSIS, PROCESSING AND EVALUATION OF EXPRESSIONS OF THE XPATH TYPE ON DATA OF THE BINARY XML TYPE An object of the invention is in particular methods and devices for analyzing, processing and evaluating expressions of the XPath type on data of the XML type with which coding or decoding tables are associated. After generating a list comprising a set of targets from t... | 01/13/2011 |
| 20110010004 | PROCESSING METHOD FOR A WORKPIECE Provided is a processing method capable of accurately grasping a removal rate and coping with processing of an optical device or an optical device molding die, for which high shape accuracy is required. An ion beam as a tool is caused to scan a workpiece as a dummy work... | 01/13/2011 |
| 20110009379 | INDOLINONE COMPOUND [Problems] A compound, which is useful as an active ingredient for a pharmaceutical composition, for example a pharmaceutical composition for treating constipation-type irritable bowel syndrome, atonic constipation and/or functional gastrointestinal disorder, is provide... | 01/13/2011 |
| 20110009259 | CELLULOSE POWDER AND PROCESSES FOR ITS PRODUCTION The invention relates to a process for producing spherical, non-fibrillar cellulose particles with a particle size in the range of from about 1 μm to about 400 μm from a solution of cellulose in which the solution is cooled down to below its solidification temperature... | 01/13/2011 |
| 20110009025 | METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING IMAGE DISPLAY APPARATUS A spacer having bending portions in the vicinity of end portions is used, and grip portions provided between the end portions and the bending portions are held by holding units. Tension is applied to the spacer in a longitudinal direction, and the grip portions are rota... | 01/13/2011 |
| 20110008726 | PROCESS FOR PRODUCING TONER Provided is a process for producing a toner comprising steps of: dispersing a polymerizable monomer composition containing a polymerizable monomer, a polar resin, a colorant, and a wax component in a aqueous dispersion medium to granulate the polymerizable monomer compo... | 01/13/2011 |
| 20110008584 | FLUORESCENT MATERIAL, FLUORESCENT SUBSTANCE, DISPLAY, AND PROCESS FOR PREPARING FLUORESCENT SUBSTANCE The present invention aims at providing a novel oxide fluorescent material. The novel oxide fluorescent material is a fluorescent material including: as constituent elements, at least one or more elements selected from the group consisting of Mg, Ca, Sr and Ba; at least... | 01/13/2011 |
| 20110008553 | INK JET RECORDING MEDIUM AND PRODUCTION PROCESS THEREOF, AND FINE PARTICLE DISPERSION The invention relates to an ink jet recording medium, in which at least one of a substrate and an ink receiving layer contains a compound of the general formula (1): wherein R1 and R2 ar... | 01/13/2011 |
| 20110008265 | In Situ Polymerization For Hair Treatment Hair care products represent a world-wide multi-billion dollar industry. Pre-formed polymers are commonly used in a variety of hair care products including shampoos, conditioners, gels, and hair sprays. The present invention provides technology for polymerizing monomers... | 01/13/2011 |
| 20110008089 | SHEET PROCESSING APPARATUS AND IMAGE FORMING SYSTEM The present invention provides a sheet processing apparatus which includes a punch portion punching a hole at an end part of a sheet, and a push-out member discharging the sheet by pushing the end part of the sheet where the punch process is performed by the punch porti... | 01/13/2011 |
