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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 20110046951 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR BUILDING OPTIMAL STATE-DEPENDENT STATISTICAL UTTERANCE CLASSIFIERS IN SPOKEN DIALOG SYSTEMS A system and a method to generate statistical utterance classifiers optimized for the individual states of a spoken dialog system is disclosed. The system and method make use of large databases of transcribed and annotated utterances from calls collected in a dialog sys... | 02/24/2011 |
| 20110046370 | 1,3,6-SUBSTITUTED INDOLE DERIVATIVES HAVING INHIBITORY ACTIVITY FOR PROTEIN KINASE Disclosed are a 1,3,6-substituted indole compound having inhibitory activity for protein kinases, a pharmaceutically acceptable thereof, and a pharmaceutical composition for prevention and treatment of diseases caused by abnormal cell growth including the compound as an... | 02/24/2011 |
| 20110046305 | Novel urethane-containing silylated prepolymers and process for preparation thereof Novel urethane- and silyl-containing prepolymers and compositions obtained as reaction products from alkoxysilyl-bearing compounds and isocyanate-bearing compounds, and a process for preparation thereof.... | 02/24/2011 |
| 20110046063 | READY-TO-USE BIVALIRUDIN COMPOSITIONS Ready-to-use bivalirudin compositions, methods of using the ready-to-use bivalirudin compositions, and methods of preparing the ready-to-use bivalirudin compositions. The ready-to-use bivalirudin compositions comprise bivalirudin and one or more stabilizing agents. The ... | 02/24/2011 |
| 20110045769 | COMMUNICATION DEVICE, COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, AND METHOD FOR COMMUNICATION A communication device includes the following elements. A transmission and reception processing unit processes a transmission signal and a reception signal. A transmission amplifier is supplied with a binary transmission signal switching between a high level and a low l... | 02/24/2011 |
| 20110045330 | METHOD FOR PREVENTING ERRONEOUS LOADING OF COMPONENT-TO-BE-LOADED ON MAIN BODY SIDE APPARATUS, COMPONENT-TO-BE-LOADED AND BATTERY PACK In case a similar component-to-be-loaded is erroneously loaded on a main body side apparatus, contact of terminals are avoided. To this end, a video camera (main body side apparatus) 1 has a main body side terminal 30, and a battery pack (component-to-be-l... | 02/24/2011 |
| 20110044140 | Manual Device for Adjusting and/or Controlling a Function of a Timepiece Manual device for adjusting and/or controlling a function of a timepiece comprising a case 2 housing a horological movement, said manual device comprising a rod 3 and a retractable crown 4 mounted in said case, and such that the crown comprises a cy... | 02/24/2011 |
| 20110043671 | SIGNAL PROCESSING DEVICE, IMAGING DEVICE, AND SIGNAL PROCESSING METHOD A signal processing device includes a preprocessing unit interpolating a G color component to positions of a pixel of interest and a pixel having the same color component as the pixel of interest so as to produce a first G interpolation signal; a proximity G pixel G col... | 02/24/2011 |
| 20110043305 | COUPLER AND COMMUNICATION SYSTEM A coupler includes a first conductive pattern provided on a substrate having insulating property, a second conductive pattern provided on the substrate and placed in opposition to the first conductive pattern, a third conductive pattern provided on the substrate, a four... | 02/24/2011 |
| 20110042888 | AUTOMATIC PAPER FEED DEVICE, IMAGE READING APPARATUS, AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS An automatic paper feed device is provided, including a cover member that has a paper insertion opening in a nearly rectangular shape, the paper insertion opening having a longitudinal direction perpendicular to both a transport direction of the paper and a thickness di... | 02/24/2011 |
| 20110042146 | Drill Bit Head for Percussion Drilling Apparatus This invention relates to a percussion drill bit head for a percussion drilling apparatus, the drill bit head comprising a working surface and a plurality of super-hard buttons protruding from the working surface, the working surface having a hard area that is free of b... | 02/24/2011 |
| 20110042028 | BINDER COMPOSITION AMD METHOD OF FORMING FOUNDRY SAND CORES AND MOLDS A cost-effective starch/water-based binder composition and related method for forming silica sand cores and molds for foundries, wherein the sand grains are pre-coated with starch having additives making the coated sand effective for blowing said cores and molds. One or... | 02/24/2011 |
| 20110040931 | MEMORY CONTROL METHOD AND DEVICE, MEMORY ACCESS CONTROL METHOD, COMPUTER PROGRAM, AND RECORDING MEDIUM To dramatically increase the number of times data can be written into a flash memory. A flash memory 6 is provided with a real data block 223 having multiple data blocks each having multiple data write cells. A memory control ... | 02/17/2011 |
| 20110040553 | NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING A method and system for computational interpretation of natural language, wherein in an input string is received from input means. The input string is first tokenizde for providing a list of words. Then the list of words is stemmed for providing the words in the root fo... | 02/17/2011 |
| 20110039696 | 2-[(1H-PYRAZOL-4-YLMETHYL) -SULFONYL] -OXAZOL-DERIVATIVE, 2-[(1H-PYRAZOL-4-YLMETHYL) -SULFANYL] -OXAZOL-DERIVATIVES, AND CHIRAL 2-[(1H-PYRAZOL-4-YMETHYL)SULFINYL]OXAZOLE DERIVATIVES, METHODS FOR THE PRODUCTION THEREOF AS HERBICIDES AND PLANT GROWTH REGULATORS The invention relates to 2-[(1H-pyrazol-4-ylmethyl)-sulfonyl]-oxazole derivatives, chiral 2-[(1H-pyrazol-4-ylmethyl)-sulfinyl]-oxazole derivatives, and 2-[(1H-pyrazol-4-ylmethyl)-sulfanyl]-oxazole derivatives of general formula (I) and the salts thereof, methods for the... | 02/17/2011 |
| 20110038444 | RECEIVING APPARATUS AND RECEIVING METHOD Disclosed herein is a receiving apparatus including a first correlation value computation section, an operation section, a second correlation value computation section, a decoding section, and a determination section.... | 02/17/2011 |
| 20110038385 | SIGNAL PROCESSING APPARATUS, SIGNAL PROCESSING METHOD, AND RECEPTION SYSTEM Disclosed herein is a signal processing apparatus including a first detection block; a second detection block; a duration detection block; a duration information output block; and a demodulation block.... | 02/17/2011 |
| 20110037904 | RECEIVING APPARATUS AND METHOD, PROGRAM, AND RECEIVING SYSTEM Disclosing herein is a receiving apparatus including, a buffer configured to store packets of a first packet sequence made up of packets extracted from one transport stream that are common to packets of another transport stream and packets of a second packet sequence ma... | 02/17/2011 |
| 20110036996 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR HIGH SPATIAL RESOLUTION IMAGING OF A STRUCTURE OF A SAMPLE Apparatus and method for high spatial resolution imaging of a sample's structure, including a diffraction-limited resolution volume with a plurality of dye molecules which can be switched between different states and have a distribution density which is greater than the... | 02/17/2011 |
| 20110035465 | INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM, INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS AND METHOD The present invention relates to an information processing apparatus by which image data can be downloaded simply. A video camera 11 receives thumbnail images corresponding to one or more images included in an album from a video camera image station 41 and... | 02/10/2011 |
| 20110034576 | THE INVENTION RELATES TO THE USE OF FOAM STABILIZERS, PRODUCED ON THE BASIS OF SUSTAINABLE RAW MATERIALS, FOR PRRODUCING POLYURETHANE FOAMS Preparation and use of polyurethane foams with the use of foam stabilizers of the general formula (I) ... | 02/10/2011 |
| 20110033232 | SURFACE MOUNT VEHICLE ANTI-RAM SECURITY SYSTEMS Anti-ram systems according to embodiments of the invention comprise at least one bollard section comprising a base of limited height and a plurality of spaced bollards extending upwardly from the base. An anti-ram system according to embodiments of the invention may be ... | 02/10/2011 |
| 20110032981 | TRANSITIONING TO SECURE IP COMMUNICATIONS FOR ENCODING, ENCAPSULATING, AND ENCRYPTING DATA An apparatus, system, and method is directed to transcoding broadcast content, such as in a DVB, ATSC, and MPEG based network, to secure content suitable for an Internet Protocol (IP) based network. In one embodiment, a single multifunctional convergence appliance is em... | 02/10/2011 |
| 20110032281 | CORRECTION CIRCUIT AND DISPLAY DEVICE A correction circuit includes a memory that stores a mobility correction value or a threshold voltage correction value for correcting luminance non-uniformity for every pixel, a memory read-out unit that reads out the mobility correction value or the threshold voltage c... | 02/10/2011 |
| 20110032264 | CORRECTION CIRCUIT AND DISPLAY DEVICE A correction circuit includes a memory that stores a mobility correction value or a threshold voltage correction value for correcting luminance non-uniformity for every pixel, a memory read-out unit that reads out the mobility correction value or the threshold voltage c... | 02/10/2011 |
| 20110032101 | SEQUENCED ANTENNA ARRAY FOR DETERMINING WHERE GAMING CHIPS WITH EMBEDDED RFID TAGS ARE LOCATED ON A BLACKJACK, POKER OR OTHER GAMING TABLE & FOR MYRIAD OF OTHER RFID APPLICATIONS An improved antenna system, method and apparatus for interrogating and locating RFID (Radio Frequency Identification) tags and other RF (Radio Frequency) devices, and various applications therefore and thereof, are disclosed. One embodiment is for reading and locating t... | 02/10/2011 |
| 20110031720 | BOARD FOR GLIDING WITH DECORATIVE COMPONENT A protective top surface (6) for a board for gliding, which comprises at least one decorative component (10; 10′) passing through at least one slot or hole (7; 7′) in the protective top surface (6), comprising at least one lower part (... | 02/10/2011 |
| 20110031414 | DEVICE FOR MICROSCOPY HAVING SELECTIVE ILLUMINATION OF A PLANE A microscopy device, particularly for use in an imaging fluorescence lifetime microscopy method is provided. The microscopy device comprises an illumination means for generating an illumination beam, an imaging detector for spatially resolved acquisition of an emission ... | 02/10/2011 |
| 20110030191 | Method of Manufacturing a Disposable Ejection Device Method of manufacturing a device for ejecting a liquid or pasty product, characterized in that it comprises the following steps: drawing a product (11) to be ejected within a volume (10) of a container holder (2a) of the ejection device by me... | 02/10/2011 |
| 20110028578 | SILOXANE COMPOSITIONS The invention relates to siloxane compositions containing a mixing component that is based on cashew nut shell liquid—CNSL.... | 02/03/2011 |
| 20110028574 | Method and Apparatus for the Continuous Separation and Discharge of Solid Catalysts and Products for Fischer-Tropsch Synthesis Reactions The present invention relates to a continuous separation and discharge apparatus and method of solid catalysts and liquid products for Fischer-Tropsch synthesis reactions, and more particularly, to a continuous separation and discharge apparatus and method of solid cata... | 02/03/2011 |
| 20110028092 | COMMUNICATION DEVICE AND COMMUNICATION METHOD A communication device includes a proximity wireless communication antenna for contactless proximity wireless communication with a counterpart instrument antenna in proximity, a first wireless communication processing unit to conduct contactless proximity wireless commu... | 02/03/2011 |
| 20110027001 | WRITING INSTRUMENT FITTED WITH A FILING SLEEVE, WHICH ACTS AS A PLUNGING MECHANISM AND HAS AN ABRASIVE SURFACE TO BE USED FOR NAIL FILING A writing instrument is provided comprising a filing sleeve on which is an abrasive surface used for nail filing. The filing sleeve, when installed, acts as a plunging mechanism for the pen and provides the writing instrument with a nail shaping surface along the length... | 02/03/2011 |
| 20110025874 | IMAGE CAPTURE DEVICE, IMAGE CAPTURE APPARATUS, SIGNAL PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM An image capture device includes: a digital processing unit that performs predetermined processing on pixel data containing first, second, and third digital signals obtained from pixel units having a valid pixel area for generating the first digital signals through phot... | 02/03/2011 |
| 20110025175 | LOCK FOR A VENDING MACHINE, CABINET, OR THE LIKE A closure for a vending machine, cabinet, or the like including a housing, an elongated rod supported in the housing so as to be rotatable and axially displaceable via a handle. The rod can be received in a rod receptacle, so that the rod can be freely slid axially in a... | 02/03/2011 |
| 20110023291 | MODULAR PROTOTYPING OF A CIRCUIT FOR MANUFACTURING An integrated method of prototyping and manufacturing electronic circuit boards where a new circuit design can move between virtual, prototype, partially merged and fully merged forms in a relatively automated fashion. A scaleable high density matrix of solderless elect... | 02/03/2011 |
| 20110021693 | NOVEL SILICONE POLYETHER COPOLYMERS AND PROCESS FOR PREPARATION THEREOF Novel silicone polyether copolymers of inverse structure of the formula 1, characterized in that no unsaturated functional groups caused by side reactions or conversion products thereof are present in the copolymer, and a process for preparation thereof, in which a poly... | 01/27/2011 |
| 20110021586 | PHENYL-SULFAMATES AS AROMATASE INHIBITORS There is provided a compound of Formula I wherein X, Y and Z are each independently of each other an optional linker group; R1 is a ring system; R2 is selected from hydrocarbyl groups, o... | 01/27/2011 |
| 20110020407 | TRANSDERMAL THERAPEUTIC SYSTEM WITH HIGH RATE OF UTILIZATION OF ACTIVE SUBSTANCE AND DOSING ACCURACY Transdermal therapeutic system with which at least one pharmaceutical active substance that is non-volatile at room temperature can be administered at a daily dose of at most 30 mg, comprising a rear surface directed away from the skin and impermeable to the active subs... | 01/27/2011 |
| 20110020163 | Super-Hard Enhanced Hard Metals The present invention relates to a super-hard enhanced hard-metal comprising particulate hard material and a binder and at least one formation, the formation comprising a core cluster and a plurality of satellite clusters, spaced from, surrounding and smaller than the c... | 01/27/2011 |
