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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 20110038236 | Near-Field Light Transducer Comprising Propagation Edge With Predetermined Curvature Radius Provided is a near-field light transducer with a propagation edge in which the generation of defects is suppressed. The transducer is formed of a Ag alloy and comprises an edge, the edge comprising a portion to be coupled with a light in a surface plasmon mode, the edge... | 02/17/2011 |
| 20110026377 | Thermally-Assisted Magnetic Recording Head Comprising Light Source with Photonic-Band Layer A thermally-assisted magnetic recording head is provided, in which a light source having sufficiently high output power for performing thermal-assist is disposed in the element-integration surface of the substrate to achieve improved mass-productivity. The head includes... | 02/03/2011 |
| 20110015874 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR DETECTING COMPONENTS OF MIXED GAS The present invention provides an apparatus and method for detecting components of a mixed gas which increases the detection efficiency using a sensor array in which various types of nanomaterials such as carbon nanotubes (CNT), zinc oxide (ZnO), titanium dioxide (TiO 01/20/2011 | |
| 20110015395 | PYRAZOLE COMPOUNDS WITH INHIBITORY ACTIVITY AGAINST ROS KINASE Disclosed herein are novel pyrazole compounds, pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof, a method for preparing the same, and uses thereof as anticancer agents.... | 01/20/2011 |
| 20110005315 | ANGLE-MEASURING METHOD AND ANGLE-MEASURING GYROSCOPE SYSTEM FOR IMPLEMENTING THE SAME An angle-measuring method includes: configuring a state observer to calculate a set of estimated signals based on a set of previously calculated estimated parameters; configuring the state observer to calculate a gain thereof using a dynamic equation associated with a g... | 01/13/2011 |
| 20110002199 | Near-Field Light Generator Comprising Waveguide With Inclined End Surface Provided is a near-field light generator capable of avoiding a noise to the generated near-field light. The generator comprises a waveguide and a plasmon antenna comprising a propagation surface or edge, for propagating surface plasmon, extending to a near-field light g... | 01/06/2011 |
| 20100329357 | DECODING APPARATUS, DECODING CONTROL APPARATUS, DECODING METHOD, AND PROGRAM A decoding apparatus is disclosed which includes: a decoding information acquisition block acquiring decoding information necessary for decoding in units of a macro block from coded data; a decoding block decoding the coded data into decoded data based on the decoding i... | 12/30/2010 |
| 20100327587 | FUEL GAS GENERATOR A fuel gas generator includes: a combustion chamber generating thermal energy through combustion of air and fuel gas therein, and supplying the thermal energy to a thermal engine such that the thermal engine is driven to generate kinetic energy that is converted into el... | 12/30/2010 |
| 20100325638 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, AND RESOURCE MANAGING METHOD AND PROGRAM An information processing apparatus includes: a resource manager that allocates a resource in response to a codec processing request from an application, wherein the resource manager has first information indicating the relationship between codec processing functions an... | 12/23/2010 |
| 20100321822 | MANUFACTURING METHOD OF THIN-FILM MAGNETIC HEAD, WAFER FOR THIN-FILM MAGNETIC HEAD AND THIN-FILM MAGNETIC HEAD A manufacturing method of a thin-film magnetic head, includes a step of forming many thin-film magnetic heads arranged along row and column directions on a wafer, each of the thin-film magnetic heads having a read head element, a write head element, and pairs of probe-u... | 12/23/2010 |
| 20100315736 | Multilayered Waveguide Having Protruded Light-Emitting End A waveguide is provided, in which the optical coupling efficiency to a light source is sufficiently high, and the light-emitting spot center is stably provided at the intended position. The waveguide comprises a multilayered structure in which refractive indexes of laye... | 12/16/2010 |
| 20100315550 | IMAGE FRAME INTERPOLATION DEVICE, IMAGE FRAME INTERPOLATION METHOD, AND IMAGE FRAME INTERPOLATION PROGRAM Disclosed herein is an image frame interpolation device including: a decider configured to decide an interpolation area having a predetermined size for an interpolation frame to be interpolated between adjacent image frames; an acquirer configured to acquire at least tw... | 12/16/2010 |
| 20100310013 | SIGNAL RECEIVING APPARATUS, METHOD, PROGRAM AND SYSTEM A signal receiving apparatus includes: an acquisition section configured to acquire an Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing signal resulting from combination of a plurality of signals transmitted by a plurality of signal transmitting apparatus by adoption of an Or... | 12/09/2010 |
| 20100309972 | RECEIVING APPARATUS, RECEIVING METHOD AND PROGRAM, AND RECEIVING SYSTEM Disclosed herein is a receiving apparatus including a correlation value computer configured, for a digital signal, transmitted on a frame basis, having a correlation between a first section and a second section occupying predetermined intervals at a start part of each f... | 12/09/2010 |
| 20100304700 | SIGNAL PROCESSING DEVICE AND METHOD AND RECEPTION SYSTEM Disclosed herein is a signal processing device including an adjustment section configured to adjust the power of each of subinterval signals by multiplying the subinterval signals by a gain adapted to bring the power to a given level, the subinterval signals being input... | 12/02/2010 |
| 20100304248 | MOBILE TERMINAL AND METHOD FOR CONFIRMING REMAINING CAPACITY OF FUEL CELL A mobile terminal includes a fuel accommodation section that accommodates a fuel within a body, at least one face of the fuel accommodation section being formed by a transparent or translucent member, a fuel cell section that generates electricity on the basis of the fu... | 12/02/2010 |
| 20100303369 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS AND METHOD An information processing apparatus includes: an analysis means for analyzing a code stream in which picture data is encoded during transmission; a dividing position determination means for determining a dividing position of the code stream in accordance with a picture ... | 12/02/2010 |
| 20100302445 | INFORMATION DISPLAY DEVICE, INFORMATION DISPLAY METHOD, AND INFORMATION DISPLAY PROGRAM PRODUCT An information display device includes a video display section displaying video information, an audio information acquisition section acquiring audio information synchronized with the video information, a color determination section determining a color in response to a ... | 12/02/2010 |
| 20100302416 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGING APPARATUS, AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD An image processing apparatus includes: a first interpolating portion calculating a first interpolation value for a pixel value of a pixel of interest using pixel values of the pixel of interest and pixels neighboring the pixel of interest; a second interpolating portio... | 12/02/2010 |
| 20100302413 | FILTER CIRCUIT, IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM A filter circuit includes: a first weight-coefficient calculating unit calculating first weight coefficients concerning pixel levels in a first pixel and second pixels surrounding the first pixel; a first weight-coefficient adjusting unit replacing, when the first weigh... | 12/02/2010 |
| 20100302167 | TERMINAL DEVICE A terminal device includes a first housing, a key attached to a cut portion in a corner of the first housing, a key support portion configured to support the key, the key support portion including a shaft portion having a rotation axis on a side of a side face of the co... | 12/02/2010 |
| 20100302055 | HANDHELD TERMINAL AND CONTROL METHOD AND CONTROL PROGRAM THEREFOR A control method for a handheld terminal, including the steps of: reproducing and outputting a piece of music in accordance with a reproduction list; detecting motion of the terminal in real space and determining whether or not the detected motion corresponds to a motio... | 12/02/2010 |
| 20100301873 | CIRCUIT FOR DETECTING MALFUNCTION GENERATION ATTACK AND INTEGRATED CIRCUIT USING THE SAME An embodiment of the invention provides a circuit for detecting a malfunction generation attack, including: at least one sensor circuit adapted to detect a radiation of a light; and a detection circuit for detecting an intermediate voltage between a voltage correspondin... | 12/02/2010 |
| 20100301276 | METHOD OF PREPARING BUNDLE TYPE SILICON NANOROD COMPOSITE THROUGH ELECTROLESS ETCHING PROCESS USING METAL IONS AND ANODE ACTIVE MATERIAL FOR LITHIUM SECONDARY CELLS COMPRISING THE SAME The present invention relates to a method of preparing a porous silicon nanorod structure composed of columnar bundles having a diameter of 50-100 nm and a length of 2-5 μm, and a lithium secondary cell using the porous silicon nanorod structure as an anode active mate... | 12/02/2010 |
| 20100298478 | FIRE-RETARDANT POLYARYLATE RESIN CONTAINING DIHYDROXYPHENYLACETYLENE AND COMPOSITIONS THEREOF Provided is a flame-retardant polyarylate resin and a composition thereof, and more particularly, a polyarylate resin prepared by co-polymerizing 4,4′-dihydroxyphenylacetylene (DHPA), phthaloyl chloride (PC) and bishydroxyphenol (BHP) and a composition of the polyaryl... | 11/25/2010 |
| 20100296743 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD AND PROGRAM An image processing apparatus is provided which includes a characteristic quantity calculation unit that calculates a characteristic quantity for each pixel of image data from the image data, a tightness determination unit that determines tightness indicating a degree o... | 11/25/2010 |
| 20100296585 | DECODE PROCESSING APPARATUS, DECODE PROCESSING METHOD, DATA DISTRIBUTION PROGRAM, AND DECODE PROCESSING PROGRAM Disclosed herein is a decode processing apparatus including, a plurality of decode processing section configured to decode moving picture data in units of a predetermined processing block, a distribution section configured such that when supplied with encoded moving pic... | 11/25/2010 |
| 20100290672 | MOVING OBJECT DETECTING DEVICE, MOVING OBJECT DETECTING METHOD, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM An apparatus for detecting movement of an object captured by an imaging device, the apparatus includes a moving object detection unit, that is (1) operable to detect movement of an object based on a first moving object detecting process, and (2) operable to detect movem... | 11/18/2010 |
| 20100287332 | DATA STORING SYSTEM, DATA STORING METHOD, EXECUTING DEVICE, CONTROL METHOD THEREOF, CONTROL DEVICE, AND CONTROL METHOD THEREOF A data storing system including: a non-volatile memory configured to have a plurality of memory blocks each capable of independently operating and allow random access to each of addresses; a controller configured to control writing of data to the non-volatile memory; an... | 11/11/2010 |
| 20100281232 | MEMORY CONTROLLING DEVICE AND MEMORY CONTROLLING METHOD Disclosed herein is a memory controlling device including: an address converting section configured to convert a logical address included in a request issued from a plurality of clients into a physical address of a memory; a request dividing section configured to divide... | 11/04/2010 |
| 20100277631 | SOLID-STATE IMAGING DEVICE, DRIVING METHOD THEREOF, AND IMAGING APPARATUS A solid-state imaging device includes: a pixel array unit in which unit pixels are two-dimensionally disposed; a vertical scanning unit selecting the unit pixels, which read out the signal electric charges, for each line; signal processing units separately disposed for ... | 11/04/2010 |
| 20100272181 | IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD AND IMAGE INFORMATION CODING APPARATUS USING THE SAME Disclosed herein is an image information coding method for performing a motion vector search based on hierarchical search in an image compression information device adapted to output image compression information, the image information coding method including the steps ... | 10/28/2010 |
| 20100271356 | DISPLAY DEVICE, DISPLAY METHOD, AND PROGRAM A display device includes a display unit, a display control unit, and a control unit. The display unit includes a first and second glass plates, each formed with an electrode connected to a power supply and configured to transmit a light, and a light dispersing element ... | 10/28/2010 |
| 20100267290 | SPRING CONNECTOR AND TERMINAL DEVICE A spring connector includes an inner conductor and an outer conductor. The inner conductor is formed of a conductive material, and has a small-diameter portion, a large-diameter portion, and a resilient portion axially disposed so as to be integrally and continuously fo... | 10/21/2010 |
| 20100266230 | ROTATING DEVICE INCLUDING A ROTATING SHAFT AND A SELF-LUBRICATING BEARING A rotating device includes a rotating shaft rotatable in a rotational direction, and a self-lubricating bearing having an inner peripheral surface formed with a plurality of inclined ditches. Each of the inclined ditches has top and bottom ends, and extends downwardly f... | 10/21/2010 |
| 20100266047 | IMAGE CODING APPARATUS AND IMAGE CODING METHOD An image coding apparatus includes a first coding unit that discretely selects quantization parameters of a first range to perform calculation of generated code amounts corresponding to the selected quantization parameters, a second coding unit that performs calculation... | 10/21/2010 |
| 20100261847 | MOLECULAR WEIGHT CONTROLLABLE, HIGH 1,4-TRANS POLYBUTADIENE CATALYST SYSTEM Provided are a molecular weight controllable, high 1,4-trans polybutadiene catalyst system, and more particularly, a four-component catalyst for preparing 1,4-trans polybutadiene with high yield, the catalyst comprising a cobalt compound, an organoaluminum compound, a p... | 10/14/2010 |
| 20100260244 | TRANSMISSION DEVICE, IMAGING DEVICE, TRANSMISSION SYSTEM, RECEIVING DEVICE, AND TRANSMISSION METHOD A transmission method including the steps of: dividing an input video signal into a plurality of packets which comply with a predetermined transmission standard and preferentially selecting, as a transmission path for each of the plurality of packets, a transmission cha... | 10/14/2010 |
| 20100259654 | IMAGE-DATA PROCESSING APPARATUS AND IMAGE PICKUP APPARATUS An image-data processing apparatus includes an operation unit; a correcting unit multiplying image data generated by an image pickup device by a correction gain; a totalizing unit sequentially calculating a total pixel level for every frame from the image data; a histor... | 10/14/2010 |
| 20100259600 | THREE-DIMENSIONAL IMAGING APPARATUS A three-dimensional imaging apparatus includes: a front-side optical member formed of a non-afocal optical system, the front-side optical member forming an image of a subject; a plurality of rear-side optical members not only disposed downstream of the plane where the f... | 10/14/2010 |
