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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 20100159881 | ELECTRONIC APPARATUS AND CONTROLLING METHOD A method for controlling a stop and a recovery of a communication function for performing external communication, the method includes acquiring an operation condition of a main body of the computer while the communication function is stopped, determining whether the com... | 06/24/2010 |
| 20100158540 | OPTICAL MODULE, MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREOF, AND OPTICAL TRANSMITTER An optical module including a first optical coupler; a second optical coupler; a first optical waveguide; a second optical waveguide; a first electrode provided on the first optical waveguide; a second electrode provided on the second optical waveguide; a short electrod... | 06/24/2010 |
| 20100158539 | AMPLIFICATION CIRCUIT, DIFFERENTIAL AMPLIFICATION CIRCUIT, AND OPTICAL TRANSMITTER A plurality of inductors are connected in series between a load resistor and a first transistor, and a plurality of second transistors provided in parallel are connected to the plurality of inductors.... | 06/24/2010 |
| 20100158537 | PROPAGATION APPARATUS AND DISPERSION VALUE SETTING METHOD A propagation apparatus includes a plurality of dispersion compensation execution units which accept a signal of a single wavelength from a wavelength-multiplexed signal which is received and execute dispersion compensation on the signal by inputting the accepted signal... | 06/24/2010 |
| 20100158514 | NETWORK APPARATUS A network apparatus includes: an input interface unit; a first and second line switching units cross-connecting output signals from the input interface unit; an output interface unit including a selection unit selecting outputs from the first or second line switching un... | 06/24/2010 |
| 20100158025 | BRIDGE APPARATUS AND VIRTUAL NETWORK SWITCHING METHOD A bridge apparatus creates, transmits and circulates pass checking frames having virtual network identifiers in a ring network, and collects a passing/non-passing state of each virtual network identifier. The bridge apparatus creates, transmits and circulates a usage st... | 06/24/2010 |
| 20100158019 | FRAME TRANSFER APPARATUS AND FRAME TRANSFER METHOD A frame transfer apparatus includes a plurality of ports for transmitting and receiving frames which include transmitting source information and transmitting destination information. The apparatus further includes a processing unit to store information which relates the... | 06/24/2010 |
| 20100157956 | RADIO NETWORK CONTROLLER AND TRANSMITTING POWER CONTROL METHOD Radio network controller includes a propagation delay acquisition part for acquiring a measurement value of a round-trip time between the base station device and the radio terminal, an offset acquisition part for acquiring an offset value indicating a delay at which the... | 06/24/2010 |
| 20100156745 | ANTENNA DEVICE, PRINTED CIRCUIT BOARD INCLUDING ANTENNA DEVICE, AND WIRELESS COMMUNICATION DEVICE INCLUDING ANTENNA DEVICE An antenna device includes a substrate, a pair of antenna elements formed on a face of the substrate and which is arranged so as to be axisymmetrical with respect to a symmetrical axis, and a ground section formed on the face of the substrate on which the pair of antenn... | 06/24/2010 |
| 20100156503 | ELECTRONIC CIRCUIT DEVICE An electric circuit device operable under a power supply includes: a circuit; a first switch connected between the power supply and the circuit; a capacitor tending to produce a first leakage current; a second switch connected between the power supply and the capacitor,... | 06/24/2010 |
| 20100155741 | COMPOUND SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE AND MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREOF A compound semiconductor device includes a carrier transit layer including GaN formed over a substrate; a carrier supply layer including GaN formed over the carrier transit layer; a source electrode and a drain electrode formed over the carrier supply layer; a first com... | 06/24/2010 |
| 20100153571 | RECORDING MEDIUM STORING TRANSACTION MODEL GENERATION SUPPORT PROGRAM, TRANSACTION MODEL GENERATION SUPPORT COMPUTER, AND TRANSACTION MODEL GENERATION SUPPORT METHOD A computer supports generating a model of transactions in which services are processed in multiple layers. The computer refers to start times and end times of processings, which are invoked and generated from another processing in the services, of the same server to cal... | 06/17/2010 |
| 20100151632 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE AND MANUFACTURING METHOD OF A SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE A semiconductor device includes a multi-layer substrate and a semiconductor element mounted on the multi-layer substrate. The multi-layer substrate contains a plurality of circuit-formation layers joined by a first resin material. The semiconductor element is mounted on... | 06/17/2010 |
| 20100150563 | WAVELENGTH DIVISION MULTIPLEXING TRANSMISSION DEVICE AND WAVELENGTH DIVISION MULTIPLEXING TRANSMISSION METHOD The power level of a wavelength division multiplexed optical signal is detected by a detection unit. When the power level of the optical signal detected by the detection unit is equal to or lower than a first threshold, the coupling direction of an attenuation unit for ... | 06/17/2010 |
| 20100150550 | TRANSMISSION METHOD OF WDM LIGHT AND WDM OPTICAL TRANSMISSION SYSTEM According to the WDM optical transmission system, for optical signals of respective wavelength in a WDM light propagated through a transmission path, a spectrum component at a center wavelength of each optical signal and a spectrum component in the vicinity of the cente... | 06/17/2010 |
| 20100150071 | RADIO NETWORK SYSTEM The radio network system includes a plurality of mobile stations, a radio network controller operable to receive first location registration information for a location registration request from the mobile station, operable to transmit second location registration inform... | 06/17/2010 |
| 20100144117 | Semiconductor device having device characteristics improved by straining surface of active region and its manufacture method A trench is formed in a surface layer of a semiconductor substrate, the trench surrounding an active region. A lower insulating film made of insulating material is deposited over the semiconductor device, the lower insulating film filling a lower region of the trench an... | 06/10/2010 |
| 20100142727 | SOUND PROCESSING METHODS AND APPARATUS A sound processing method includes transforming an input signal from a time domain to a frequency domain to produce a spectrum, detecting a peak of the spectrum, calculating a target attenuation amount based on one of the input signal and the spectrum, calculating atten... | 06/10/2010 |
| 20100142145 | COOLING JACKET, COOLING UNIT, AND ELECTRONIC APPARATUS A cooling jacket includes: a flow channel member through which a cooling medium flows, at least a part of which is in contact with an object to be cooled, and which includes a region having a channel cross-sectional area larger than that of any other region; and a proje... | 06/10/2010 |
| 20100138655 | TERMINAL APPARATUS AND OPERATION INFORMATION COLLECTING SYSTEM A terminal apparatus includes a receiving unit for receiving content data having definition information containing information regarding collection of operation information and information limiting a destination of the operation information; a playback processing unit f... | 06/03/2010 |
| 20100138625 | RECORDING MEDIUM STORING UPDATE PROCESSING PROGRAM FOR STORAGE SYSTEM, UPDATE PROCESSING METHOD, AND STORAGE SYSTEM A reading and writing control unit has a synchronous mode for directly writing write data in storage devices and an asynchronous mode for accumulating the write data in a cache memory and writing the accumulated write data in the storage devices. A synchronization and a... | 06/03/2010 |
| 20100138622 | BACKUP APPARATUS, BACKUP METHOD AND BACKUP PROGRAM A backup apparatus has an address conversion table for storing, in correspondence with each other, a logical address and a physical address. The backup apparatus has a sequential data count setting unit, a sequential data information acquisition unit, and a reading unit... | 06/03/2010 |
| 20100138220 | COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIUM FOR RECORDING AUDIO SIGNAL PROCESSING ESTIMATING PROGRAM AND AUDIO SIGNAL PROCESSING ESTIMATING DEVICE A computer-readable medium recording a program allowing a computer to execute: setting a plurality of frames on a common time axis between a first waveform of an input to the audio processing and a second waveform of an output from the audio processing, detecting a voic... | 06/03/2010 |
| 20100136811 | BUTTON DEVICE AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE A button device includes a button operations part; a button base part connected to a mechanism part, the mechanism part being operated by operating the button operations part; and a connecting part configured to connect the button base part and the button operations par... | 06/03/2010 |
| 20100135233 | METHOD OF CONTROLLING ALLOCATION OF A RADIO RESOURCE FOR TRANSMITTING A RADIO RESOURCE ALLOCATION REQUEST Provided is a allocation controlling method of a radio resource for a radio resource allocation request in a base station which allocates, to a terminal, in response to the radio resource allocation request received from the terminal, a radio resource for transmitting r... | 06/03/2010 |
| 20100133589 | ANALOG CIRCUIT CELL ARRAY AND ANALOG INTEGRATED CIRCUIT An analog circuit cell array includes a plurality of transistor cell arranged in an array. Each of the transistor cells includes a first source region, a first channel region, a common drain region, a second channel region, and a second source region arranged in sequenc... | 06/03/2010 |
| 20100131728 | COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM STORING DATA MIGRATION PROGRAM, DATA MIGRATION METHOD, AND DATA MIGRATION APPARATUS A data migration apparatus migrating data from a first storage to a second storage includes a switching unit for switching a destination of an I/O request issued by a business application from a device node of the first storage to a device node of the second storage; a ... | 05/27/2010 |
| 20100131251 | SHORTEST PATH SEARCH METHOD AND DEVICE A shortest path search method executed by a computer includes steps of: storing data on vertices and data an interpolation points provided on each edge of each triangle of a triangular mesh in association with data of corresponding triangles and sides; accepting a speci... | 05/27/2010 |
| 20100129971 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE AND PRODUCTION METHOD THEREOF A method of fabricating a semiconductor device is disclosed that is able to suppress a short channel effect and improve carrier mobility. In the method, trenches are formed in a silicon substrate corresponding to a source region and a drain region. When epitaxially grow... | 05/27/2010 |
| 20100129089 | DEMODULATOR AND RECEIVING DEVICE A demodulator includes: a splitter that branches a differential phase shift keying optical signal into a first branched optical signal passing through a first optical path and a second branched optical signal passing through a second optical path; a multiplexer that mul... | 05/27/2010 |
| 20100129081 | DISTRIBUTED RAMAN AMPLIFIER AND OPTICAL COMMUNICATION SYSTEM The distributed Raman amplifier monitors an OSNR of each channel in a WDM light which has been propagated through a transmission path to be Raman amplified, and thereafter, is amplified by an optical amplifier in an optical repeating node; judges whether a monitor value... | 05/27/2010 |
| 20100129079 | OPTICAL WDM TRANSMISSION APPARATUS AND OPTICAL WDM TRANSMISSION METHOD An optical WDM transmission apparatus includes plural optical attenuators that respectively attenuate the power of optical signals separated according to wavelength; plural first optical receivers that respectively detect the power of the attenuated optical signals; a m... | 05/27/2010 |
| 20100129075 | TRANSMISSION SYSTEM, TRANSMISSION APPARATUS, AND CONTROL METHOD OF TRANSMISSION SYSTEM A transmission system includes: a sending apparatus; a receiving apparatus; and an intermediate apparatus, the sending apparatus, the receiving apparatus and the intermediate apparatus being connected in a ring shape via a first transmission line used to transmit a firs... | 05/27/2010 |
| 20100129041 | ATTACHMENT PART AND ELECTRONIC APPARATUS An attachment part includes: a base portion that has a through hole through which a lead of an optical component passes; and a plurality of holding portions that are provided in the base portion, that face each other, and that hold a chassis of the optical component.... | 05/27/2010 |
| 20100128989 | CORRELATION PROCESSING APPARATUS AND MEDIUM READABLE BY CORRELATION PROCESSING APPARATUS A correlation processing apparatus that obtains a correlation value between an image and a subimage, the apparatus including: N arithmetic circuits, each of the N arithmetic circuits performing an arithmetic operation on a first image pixel value of a first image pixel ... | 05/27/2010 |
| 20100128707 | CALL CONTROL DEVICE, RELAY DEVICE, CALL CONTROL METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM A call control device, which controls call connections between a plurality of terminals, includes a device information storage unit that stores device information on call-connectable terminals; a call request accepting unit that accepts a call request from one terminal ... | 05/27/2010 |
| 20100128611 | TRANSMITTING APPARATUS, ALARM CONTROL METHOD, AND COMPUTER PRODUCT Upon detecting the occurrence of a fault in a path that includes the transmitting apparatus, a transmitting apparatus transmits fault information including information about the fault to an initial node in the path corresponding to the fault. Upon receipt of the fault i... | 05/27/2010 |
| 20100127906 | DATA RECOVERY CIRCUIT, DATA RECOVERY METHOD AND DATA RECEIVING APPARATUS A data recovery circuit includes an analog-digital converter creating a digital code sequence, a phase detector calculating a position of a crossing point from the digital code sequence, a phase estimator acquiring a presumed position of a data center point of a data se... | 05/27/2010 |
| 20100125847 | JOB MANAGING DEVICE, JOB MANAGING METHOD AND JOB MANAGING PROGRAM A job managing device distributes jobs to be processed to a plurality calculation devices. The job managing device includes an information obtaining unit that obtains at least one of characteristic information or load information of the plurality of calculation devices,... | 05/20/2010 |
| 20100125711 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR OPERATING DATA, SUCH AS TOTALING DATA, ETC. A totaling device includes a first specification unit comprising a first storage unit for storing first dividing information and first interpolation value information, a second storage unit for storing second dividing information and second interpolation value dividing ... | 05/20/2010 |
