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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 20090316893 | Address Generating Method and Broadcast Receiving Apparatus A broadcast receiving apparatus comprises a broadcast receiving unit (1, 4˜13) for receiving a digital broadcast; a communication unit (1˜3) for performing two-way communication through a network; an operation unit 15 for performing an acquisition... | 12/24/2009 |
| 20090316812 | OFDM Communication Device and Guard Interval Length Determining Method An OFDM communication device (10) includes: an REF/IF/BR unit (11) for receiving a series of symbols; a frequency fluctuation amount information acquisition unit (21) for acquiring frequency fluctuation amount information that indicates a frequency ... | 12/24/2009 |
| 20090316808 | RADIO RECEPTION DEVICE, RADIO TRANSMISSION DEVICE, RADIO BASE STATION, RECEPTION METHOD, AND TRANSMISSION METHOD An OFDM radio reception device 100 with multiple antennas 110-1 to 110-K removes a guard interval CP from each received signal, and performs S/P conversion, FFT, and channel estimation, on each received signal. The OFDM radio reception device... | 12/24/2009 |
| 20090316634 | Frame Synchronization Method of OFDM Communication System and Receiver Therefor Provided are a new frame synchronization method, which is capable of shortening the time necessary for frame synchronization between a receiver and a base station of PHS based on an OFDM communication system, and the receiver therefor. A fr... | 12/24/2009 |
| 20090316607 | Group Call Notification Method and Mobile Station A group call notification method according to the present invention includes the steps of: managing information on a member participating in the group call among the specified members when a plurality of members are specified and the group call is started; and when rece... | 12/24/2009 |
| 20090316018 | Image Signal Processing Method and Image Signal Processing Device It is possible to improve a response of a dynamic range expansion processing. The present image signal processing method includes a first step (ST2) of extracting distribution parameters from a distribution of pixel signal levels composing an image signal of one ... | 12/24/2009 |
| 20090315907 | Tint Block Image Generation Program and Tint Block Image Generation Device A tint block image generation program generates tint block image data which forms a tint block image including a latent image portion, which is reproduced during copying, and a background portion, of which output density drops during copying, on a print medium. The prog... | 12/24/2009 |
| 20090314988 | LIQUID CRYSTAL COMPOSITION AND LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY DEVICE A liquid crystal composition having a nematic phase that includes two components, wherein the first component is a specific five-membered ring compound having a large maximum temperature and a large dielectric anisotropy and the second component is a specific compound h... | 12/24/2009 |
| 20090314872 | Tension Control System For Fiber Bundles in Filament Winding Apparatus A filament winding apparatus detects that a fiber bundle is likely to break and prevents generation of defective products. The filament winding apparatus applies a prescribed winding tension to the fiber bundle unwound from a fiber bundle feeding package and winds the t... | 12/24/2009 |
| 20090314526 | Resin Film, Adhesive Sheet, Circuit Board, and Electronic Apparatus The invention relates to a resin film having a high adhesiveness to other materials, an adhesive sheet, a circuit board and an electronic apparatus in which an adhesive layer and the resin film are firmly adhered. A resin film (1) includes a plurality of projecte... | 12/24/2009 |
| 20090314418 | Filament Winding Apparatus and Method Thereof A filament winding apparatus includes a control unit, a rotation mechanism that rotates a mandrel, a hoop winding head that performs hoop-winding, and a helical winding head that performs helical-winding. The hoop winding head includes bobbins that feed fiber bundles to... | 12/24/2009 |
| 20090314062 | Fluid Actuator, and Heat Generating Device and Analysis Device Using the Same A fluid actuator includes a piezoelectric body (31), a fluid channel (2) having the piezoelectric body (31) on a part of the inner wall thereof and enabling a fluid to move inside, and a surface acoustic wave generation portion (101) for driv... | 12/24/2009 |
| 20090310904 | Optical Transmission Substrate, Method for Fabricating the Same, and Optoelectronic Hybrid Substrate An optical transmission substrate includes an optical transmission body provided in a through hole which has excellent and uniform propagation characteristics. The optical transmission substrate includes: a substrate 1 formed by laminating a plurality of dielectr... | 12/17/2009 |
| 20090310311 | Electronic Device An electronic device able to stably disperse heat generated by an electronic component is provided. By providing a heat dissipating metal plate 31 having a high heat conductivity between a TV tuner 21 and a battery 4, heat generated by the TV tuner ... | 12/17/2009 |
| 20090310275 | Variable Capacitance Capacitor Array, Variable Capacitance Capacitor Array Device and Circuit Module The invention relates to a variable capacitor array which has excellent controllability on a capacitance value and has variable and high tunability. The variable capacitor array includes a first variable capacitor (C1) having a capacitance which is varied accordi... | 12/17/2009 |
| 20090310157 | Color Conversion Method, Color Conversion Table Created by the Color Conversion Method, Image Processing Apparatus, and Color Conversion Program There is provided a color conversion method. The method includes: a black correction step of converting the first black corresponding to the first color data having a tone value of 0 to the second black corresponding to the second color data having a tone value of 0 so ... | 12/17/2009 |
| 20090309897 | Communication Terminal and Communication System and Display Method of Communication Terminal A communication terminal and a communication system able to adaptively update sizes and positions of screens in accordance with the situation without operation by a user, and a display method of the communication terminal, which perform processing of individual packets ... | 12/17/2009 |
| 20090309766 | Mobile Electronic Apparatus Mobile electronic apparatus has a housing having an opening portion 13a, an operation key 16 arranged on an exterior face of the housing to be faced with the opening portion 13a, and a key detection unit 17 provided within the h... | 12/17/2009 |
| 20090305750 | Electronic Device, Cradle Device, and Audio System An electronic device able to provide audio the same as that in a case where the electronic device is not placed in an audio output region of a speaker even in a case where the electronic device is placed in that region is provided. A cradle device 3 is provided w... | 12/10/2009 |
| 20090305714 | Wireless Communication System, Wireless Communication Terminal, Base Station and Wireless Communication Method Provided is a wireless communication system in which a plurality of channels are shared and one of the channels is adaptively allocated to a wireless communication terminal by a base station. The wireless communication terminal is provided with a channel requesting unit... | 12/10/2009 |
| 20090305713 | Base Station Device and Channel Allocation Method Upon receipt of a new channel allocation request from a mobile communication terminal, a suitable channel is allocated. A base station device performs communication with communication terminals by implementing an adaptive process using a plurality of antennas, and inclu... | 12/10/2009 |
| 20090305706 | COMMUNICATION TERMINAL, BASE STATION CONTROLLER AND MOBILE COMMUNICATION METHOD A communication terminal according to the present invention includes a determination unit configured to determine whether or not each channel should be set as a handoff candidate on the basis of receiving quality of a pilot signal, and a channel information report trans... | 12/10/2009 |
| 20090305645 | Radio Communication Device A radio communication terminal 200A according to the present invention, when an operation requiring transmission of non-delivery information is performed while a BCMCS processor 207 is receiving delivery information via a radio communication unit 201 | 12/10/2009 |
| 20090304237 | Biometric Authentication Apparatus A biometric authentication apparatus having a simple configuration, able to easily focus on a fingerprint or a vein or other blood vessel pattern and able to clearly capture an image of the same, able to prevent forgery, and in addition able to realize high precision au... | 12/10/2009 |
| 20090304126 | OFDM Communication Device and Guard Interval Length Decision Method Even if background noise is present, it is possible to control a guard interval length so that a minimum required SINR can be obtained. An OFDM communication device (10) includes: a correlation calculation unit (14) for calculating a correlation between a ... | 12/10/2009 |
| 20090303949 | OFDMA Communication System and Communication Method There is provided an OFDMA communication system capable of suppressing the communication resource reduction and reducing the processing load on a base station. The system includes a downlink frame generation unit (14) that generates a downlink frame for a downlin... | 12/10/2009 |
| 20090303948 | Communication System, Base Station, and Communication Method In a communication system of the OFDMA communication method, even when transmission data is decreased temporarily and then increased again while communication by a user terminal is in progress, the communication can be continued without lowering the communication throug... | 12/10/2009 |
| 20090303945 | Mobile Communication System, Base Station Device, Mobile Station Device, and Mobile Communication Method A base station device (10) performs communications with multiple mobile station devices (20) by the OFDMA scheme. The base station device (10) includes an intra-frame region specifying unit (16) configured to specify a region in a downlink fr... | 12/10/2009 |
| 20090303917 | COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, COMMUNICATION APPARATUS, AND LINK USE STOPPING METHOD Resources for maintaining links are conserved by not using links that substantially cannot relay data. In a mobile communication system (10) for multilink communication in which a mobile station apparatus (20) carries out comm... | 12/10/2009 |
| 20090303791 | Semiconductor Memory Device for Storing Multivalued Data Data storage circuits are connected to the bit lines in a one-to-one correspondence. A write circuit writes the data on a first page into a plurality of first memory cells selected simultaneously by a word line. Thereafter, the write circuit writes the data on a second ... | 12/10/2009 |
| 20090303515 | PRINTER DRIVER PROGRAM, AND PRINTING INSTRUCTION DEVICE A printer driver program is disclosed that allows a host device to perform a printing instruction process for a plurality of models of printers. The printer driver program includes a program part that allows the host device to perform a process of holding product specif... | 12/10/2009 |
| 20090303355 | Imaging Device and Image Processing Method An imaging device able to simplify an optical system, able to reduce costs, and in addition capable of giving a restored image having a suitable quality in accordance with stop control and having a small influence of noise, and an image processing method of same, includ... | 12/10/2009 |
| 20090303194 | Touch Panel Control Device, Picture-Drawing Device, Display Function-Equipped Coordinate Input Device, and Touch Position Acquisition Device In order to restrict a decrease in processing speed due to an increase in bit length of a digital signal, a mobile telephone (1001) receives an input of a digital signal having a predetermined bit length indicating a coordinate of a user-specified position on an ... | 12/10/2009 |
| 20090302271 | Process for Producing Gel with Liquid Crystal Structure, and Gel with Liquid Crystal Structure Produced by the Process A water-insoluble liquid crystalline gel composed mainly of a water-soluble polymer, itself having a gelation function together with a liquid crystal formation function and having an optical property is produced. First, the water-soluble po... | 12/10/2009 |
| 20090301654 | Pressure Sensitive Adhesive Sheet and Method of Edging Operation In an adhesive sheet, a first coating layer as an adhesive layer is provided to a portion of the adhesive sheet that faces a lens surface. Since the adhesive layer is formed of an adhesive composition containing a (meth)acrylic ester-based polymer, a tackifier resin, an... | 12/10/2009 |
| 20090300928 | Mobile Electronic Apparatus and Bearing Display Method of Same A mobile electronic apparatus capable of effectively preventing erroneous recognition of a bearing (azimuth or compass direction) by a user, as a correct display of the bearing is correct when the reliability of the display of the bearing is lowered by a change of the u... | 12/10/2009 |
| 20090298531 | BROADCAST RECEIVER There is provided a control section 82 having a first function of commencing receipt of broadcast contents data in accordance with an open/closed state of the housing that is a result of detection performed by the housing status detection section or completing re... | 12/03/2009 |
| 20090298477 | Communication Apparatus, Communication System, and Communication Method Suitable processing is performed considering a case where a confirmation notification of participation in group communication or other data communication was sent, but the notification is delayed and data communication has already ended when the notification arrives at ... | 12/03/2009 |
| 20090298444 | Communication Apparatus, Server Apparatus, and Communication Control Method A communication apparatus capable of reporting that there is group communication for which start notice has been received, but no response has been sent and facilitating checking of whether the group communication is in progress and its communication control method are ... | 12/03/2009 |
| 20090298188 | MEASUREMENT OF A DICARBOXYLATE IN URINE SAMPLES AS A NOVEL BIOMARKER OF KIDNEY DAMAGE The present invention relates in general to the discovery of urinary succinate as a novel biomarker of kidney disease. More specifically, the invention provides for the measurement of succinate in urine samples that has great potential for the easy and early diagnosis o... | 12/03/2009 |
