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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 20110044149 | MULTI-LAYER OPTICAL DISC AND OPTICAL DISC APPARATUS In a conventional multilayer optical disc, management information needs to be retrieved from the control area of its reference layer to find how many information layers there are in the optical disc. A multilayer optical disc according to t... | 02/24/2011 |
| 20110044143 | OPTICAL RECORDING METHOD, OPTICAL RECORDING DEVICE, MASTER MEDIUM EXPOSURE DEVICE, OPTICAL INFORMATION RECORDING MEDIUM, AND REPRODUCING METHOD An optical recording method for recording information by irradiating an optical disc medium with a modulated write pulse train of laser light variable over a plurality of power levels such that a plurality of marks are formed on the optical disc medium, edge positions o... | 02/24/2011 |
| 20110043670 | IMAGING PROCESSOR An imaging and processing device includes: an optical element; a single imager with a color filter array of a plurality of colors attached thereto for outputting a value according to an amount of light which has been guided by the optical element and transmitted through... | 02/24/2011 |
| 20110041036 | SEMICONDUCTOR RECORDING DEVICE An error correction code of (N+M) words is configured by adding an ECC parity of M word (M is a natural number) to N words extracted at an interval of A words with respect to data of (A*N) words (A and N are natural numbers) inputted via an interface 1. A data di... | 02/17/2011 |
| 20110038596 | VIDEO PROCESSING APPARATUS Color difference signals of demodulated video are vertically filtered to be converted into 4:2:2 signals before subjected to OSD synthesis, after which those signals are once again vertically filtered as a sort of scaling to obtain the output resolution. As filtering is... | 02/17/2011 |
| 20110038237 | OPTICAL DISC AND PHYSICAL ADDRESS FORMAT An optical disc medium comprises a track groove, along which main information is recorded. The track groove is divided into a plurality of blocks. The plurality of blocks each include a plurality of frames. The plurality of frames each include one shape of wobbles indic... | 02/17/2011 |
| 20110038050 | DIFFRACTIVE OPTICAL ELEMENT A diffractive optical element according to the present invention includes: a body 1 being composed of a first optical material containing a first resin, and having a diffraction grating 2 on a surface thereof; and an optical adjustment layer 3 being... | 02/17/2011 |
| 20110037964 | DISTANCE MEASURING APPARATUS AND DISTANCE MEASURING METHOD A distance measuring apparatus according to the present invention for measuring a distance to an object based on a parallax of images obtained with a plurality of optical systems includes: a reference object (12); a plurality of optical systems (14a, | 02/17/2011 |
| 20110037869 | IMAGE CAPTURE DEVICE A color representation technique to be effectively applicable to a pixel shifted arrangement to realize high sensitivity and high resolution is provided by using a dipersive prism or diffraction. A dispersive element is provided for an imag... | 02/17/2011 |
| 20110037322 | WIRELESS POWER TRANSMISSION UNIT AND POWER GENERATOR AND POWER GENERATION SYSTEM WITH THE WIRELESS POWER UNIT A wireless power transmission unit that can increase the low output voltage of a power generating section effectively is provided. The wireless power transmission unit includes:
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| 20110037089 | NITRIDE-BASED SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE AND METHOD FOR FABRICATING THE SAME A nitride-based semiconductor light-emitting device 100 includes: a GaN substrate 10 with an m-plane surface 12; a semiconductor multilayer structure 20 provided on the m-plane surface 12 of the GaN substrate 10; and an electrod... | 02/17/2011 |
| 20110037088 | NITRIDE-BASED SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE AND METHOD FOR FABRICATING THE SAME A nitride-based semiconductor light-emitting device 100 includes: a GaN substrate 10 with an m-plane surface 12; a semiconductor multilayer structure 20 provided on the m-plane surface 12 of the GaN substrate 10; and an electrod... | 02/17/2011 |
| 20110032809 | INFORMATION RECORDING MEDIUM EVALUATION METHOD, INFORMATION RECORDING MEDIUM, METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING INFORMATION RECORDING MEDIUM, SIGNAL PROCESSING METHOD AND ACCESS CONTROL APPARATUS A method for rating an information recording medium according to the present invention includes the steps of: receiving a digital read signal, which has been generated based on an analog read signal representing information that has been read from the information record... | 02/10/2011 |
| 20110032805 | INFORMATION RECORDING MEDIUM, REPRODUCING DEVICE AND REPRODUCING METHOD An information recording medium according to the present invention includes at least three information recording layers. If the readout power of a laser beam in reading information from an information recording layer L(n) is identified by Pw(n), and if the readout power... | 02/10/2011 |
| 20110032272 | VIDEO PROCESSING APPARATUS Even when an OSD video signal is superimposed on a video signal, deterioration in the frequency characteristic or in gradation of the video or OSD video signal superimposed on it is minimized. A graphic image is represented by a video signal that provides color informat... | 02/10/2011 |
| 20110031522 | NITRIDE-BASED SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE AND METHOD FOR FABRICATING THE SAME A nitride-based semiconductor light-emitting device 100 includes a GaN substrate 10, of which the principal surface is an m-plane 12, a semiconductor multilayer structure 20 that has been formed on the m-plane 12 of the GaN-based subst... | 02/10/2011 |
| 20110029583 | NONVOLATILE STORAGE MODULE, ACCESS MODULE, MUSICAL SOUND DATA FILE GENERATION MODULE AND MUSICAL SOUND GENERATION SYSTEM Musical sound data groups are recorded in nonvolatile memory banks by multiplexing the data without being compressed. A data reader reads the musical sound data in parallel from the plurality of nonvolatile memory banks according to reading instructions from an access m... | 02/03/2011 |
| 20110026391 | WRITE-ONCE INFORMATION RECORDING MEDIUM, INFORMATION RECORDING APPARATUS, INFORMATION RECORDING METHOD, INFORMATION REPRODUCING APPARATUS AND INFORMATION REPRODUCING METHOD According to the present invention, multiple space bitmaps (SBMs #0 and #1 30) are provided for the user data area of each recording layer. A disc management structure update unit including one of those space bitmaps and a disc definition structure (TDDS 32 | 02/03/2011 |
| 20110026146 | LENS BARREL AND IMAGING DEVICE The lens barrel of the present invention includes: a lens; and a light blocking member provided in the vicinity of the lens for blocking part of light traveling toward the lens, a main constituent of the light blocking member being a thermoplastic elastomer resin.... | 02/03/2011 |
| 20110026119 | METHOD FOR PRODUCING DIFFRACTIVE OPTICAL ELEMENT, AND DIFFRACTIVE OPTICAL ELEMENT According to a method for producing a diffraction optical element of the present invention, the center of a molding face 2 and the center of a substrate 4 are positionally aligned to each other based on a marker 3 of a prescribed shape which is form... | 02/03/2011 |
| 20110022928 | CONTROLLER WITH ERROR CORRECTION FUNCTION, STORAGE DEVICE WITH ERROR CORRECTION FUNCTION, AND SYSTEM WITH ERROR CORRECTION FUNCTION The invention is intended to curtail the circuit scale of the error correction circuit of a flash memory. The invention relates to a controller with error correction function capable of controlling writing and reading of data in a plurality of memories, including a buff... | 01/27/2011 |
| 20110022645 | ACCESS DEVICE, INFORMATION RECORDING DEVICE, INFORMATION RECORDING SYSTEM, FILE MANAGEMENT METHOD, AND PROGRAM An information recording device, which includes a nonvolatile memory whose areas are managed using an FAT file system and enhances the reliability of directory entries using a cyclic shift checksum, recalculates the cyclic shift checksum efficiently and performs seeking... | 01/27/2011 |
| 20110019291 | LENS BARREL AND IMAGING DEVICE The lens barrel of the present invention includes: a lens; and a light blocking member provided in the vicinity of the lens for blocking part of light traveling toward the lens, a main constituent of the light blocking member being a polymer alloy resin.... | 01/27/2011 |
| 20110018990 | APPARATUS FOR DETECTING DIRECTION OF IMAGE PICKUP DEVICE AND MOVING BODY COMPRISING SAME A polarization camera that can capture polarization images and a color image at the same time is used. Specifically, a clear sky polarization image, which provides information about the polarization of a part of the sky, is captured by a clear sky polarization image cap... | 01/27/2011 |
| 20110018394 | VIBRATORY ACTUATOR An ultrasonic actuator includes an actuator body; and driver elements for outputting drive force, which are provided to the actuator body. The ultrasonic actuator further includes a holder which is provided to the actuator body, and which protrudes outwardly beyond prin... | 01/27/2011 |
| 20110015524 | ULTRASONOGRAPH An ultrasonic diagnostic apparatus includes: a transmitting section for driving a probe to send out ultrasonic waves toward a subject one after another; a receiving section for getting an echo, produced as a result of reflection of each ultrasonic wave from the subject,... | 01/20/2011 |
| 20110013849 | IMAGE ENCODING DEVICE AND IMAGE DECODING DEVICE An image encoding device includes: an image division section for dividing one frame of image into a plurality of image fragments, grouping the plurality of image fragments into N sets (N: an integer of 2 or more), and outputting the N sets of image fragments as N partia... | 01/20/2011 |
| 20110007179 | IMAGE CAPTURE DEVICE The solid state image sensor of this invention includes multiple units, each of which includes first and second photosensitive cells 2a, 2b and a dispersive element 1a facing the first cell 2a. The element 1... | 01/13/2011 |
| 20110002684 | BARRIER UNIT A barrier unit, of which the cap edge is not easily deformed even under some external force, is provided. The barrier unit includes: a base, which defines a first window; a cap, which defines a second window and which is arranged so that th... | 01/06/2011 |
| 20110002217 | OBJECTIVE LENS AND OPTICAL PICKUP DEVICE In order that thickness reduction, weight reduction, and mass productivity improvement should be achieved in an objective lens even in the case where NA is high, an objective lens according to the present invention is a bi-convex single lens having at least one aspheric... | 01/06/2011 |
| 20110002216 | OPTICAL PICKUP DEVICE AND OPTICAL DISC DEVICE Regarding optical pickup devices usable for performing recording on and reproduction from a plurality of types of optical discs, there is a problem that because of the structure of locating many optical elements in a height direction of an optical system, the height of ... | 01/06/2011 |
| 20110002201 | OPTICAL DISC, OPTICAL DISC DRIVE, OPTICAL DISC RECORDING/REPRODUCING METHOD, AND INTEGRATED CIRCUIT An address format for appropriately controlling the recording linear density and the number of information recording layers is provided in order to increase the recording capacity of an information recording medium such as an optical disc or the like in a range in which... | 01/06/2011 |
| 20110002117 | OPTICAL DISC DRIVE An optical disc drive includes: at least one light source; an objective lens configured to focus the light that has been emitted from the at least one light source; a chromatic aberration compensation element, which is arranged on an optical path between the at least on... | 01/06/2011 |
| 20110001391 | DRIVE UNIT A drive unit includes an ultrasonic actuator having an actuator body generating vibration, and diver elements attached to the actuator body to output drive force by generating orbit motion in response to the vibration of the actuator body; and a movable body contacting ... | 01/06/2011 |
| 20100332926 | APPARATUS FOR FORMATTING INFORMATION STORAGE MEDIUM An apparatus according to the present invention is designed to perform formatting processing on an information storage medium. The storage medium has a data storage area including a user data area and a spare area. The user data area is provided to write user data on, w... | 12/30/2010 |
| 20100332717 | ACCESS DEVICE, INFORMATION RECORDING DEVICE, CONTROLLER, AND INFORMATION RECORDING SYSTEM Provided is a method that, in the case of managing areas of a non-volatile memory of an information recording module by a file system, increases the speed of processing for writing file data and file system management information, and furthermore prevents a decrease in ... | 12/30/2010 |
| 20100329663 | BARRIER UNIT The present invention provides a barrier unit structure that can avoid not only ruining the appearance of a barrier unit due to a vertical misfit of blades that contact with each other at their edges when closed but also interfering with smooth movement of the blades du... | 12/30/2010 |
| 20100329105 | OPTICAL DISC, OPTICAL DISC DRIVE, OPTICAL DISC RECORDING/ REPRODUCING METHOD, AND INTEGRATED CIRCUIT A big pattern for a run-in area which allows data reproduction to be performed stably even when the recording density of an optical disc is increased is provided. An optical disc according to the present invention includes tracks, each of which divided into a plurality ... | 12/30/2010 |
| 20100329100 | INFORMATION RECORDING MEDIUM AND INFORMATION RECORDING DEVICE An information storage medium according to the present invention has n information storage layers (where n is an integer and n≧3), on which data can be written with a laser beam and which are stacked one upon the other. Each of the n storage layers has a test write zo... | 12/30/2010 |
| 20100329098 | WRITE-ONCE INFORMATION RECORDING MEDIUM, INFORMATION RECORDING APPARATUS, INFORMATION RECORDING METHOD, INFORMATION REPRODUCING APPARATUS AND INFORMATION REPRODUCING METHOD According to the present invention, multiple space bitmaps (SBMs #0 and #1 30) are provided for the user data area of each recording layer. A disc management structure update unit including one of those space bitmaps and a disc definition structure (TDDS <... | 12/30/2010 |
