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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 20110047255 | MULTIMEDIA PROCESSING CONTROL APPARATUS AND MULTIMEDIA PROCESSING CONTROL METHOD A multimedia processing control apparatus according to embodiments has a holding section which holds groups of information for management of a plurality of components generated in a first address space, and a plurality of groups of first address information, and also ho... | 02/24/2011 |
| 20110047204 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR FACILITATING SECURE INTEGRATION AND COMMUNICATION OF CLOUD SERVICES AND ENTERPRISE APPLICATIONS Methods, apparatuses, and computer program products are disclosed for facilitating integration and communication of cloud services and enterprise applications. The disclosed aspects include identifying a port opened by an integration device within an on-premise system t... | 02/24/2011 |
| 20110047020 | SALES DATA PROCESSING APPARATUS AND SALES DATA PROCESSING METHOD A sales data processing apparatus includes a member rank accepting unit, a point accepting unit, an extraction unit, and a calculation unit. The member rank accepting unit accepts an input of a member rank of a customer as of when a point voucher is used. The point acce... | 02/24/2011 |
| 20110046967 | DATA CONVERTING APPARATUS AND DATA CONVERTING METHOD An input frame data producing unit 26 produces from data stored in an input buffer 25 input frames 27 each including a predetermined number of sub-frames of a first hopsize determined based on the first frame size and the overlapping rate. A frame p... | 02/24/2011 |
| 20110046386 | PLATINUM COMPLEX COMPOUND AND UTILIZATION OF THE SAME The present invention provides a novel dinuclear platinum(II) complex compound that can bind to DNA by a mode different from that of cisplatin-type drugs, a method of producing this compound and an anticancer agent comprising this compound as an effective component. Thi... | 02/24/2011 |
| 20110044715 | IMAGE FORMING DEVICE, OPERATING DEVICE FOR SETTING THE IMAGE FORMING DEVICE AND METHOD OF SETTING THE IMAGE FORMING DEVICE According to one embodiment, an image forming device has an image forming unit, a plurality of discharge units, a display unit, a discharge unit button, a discharge setting unit, and a control unit. The plurality of discharge units discharge the image forming medium on ... | 02/24/2011 |
| 20110044712 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS Certain embodiments provide an image forming apparatus including: an image processing unit; a printer; a memory configured to store an adjustment value; an operation panel configured to receive a change for the adjustment value according to a user input; an adjuster con... | 02/24/2011 |
| 20110044703 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS FOR MANAGING REPLACEMENT COMPONENTS According to one embodiment, an image forming apparatus includes: a code storing section configured to store a valid authentication code; a history storing section configured to store peculiar information of a used replacement component; a code determining section confi... | 02/24/2011 |
| 20110044302 | RADIO COMMUNICATION APPARATUS, COMPUTER READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM, AND RADIO COMMUNICATION SYSTEM In a radio communication system that simultaneously uses plural radio channels (STA1), a radio communication apparatus (11-15; 20-25) can quickly secure plural radio channels simultaneously used for radio communication while preventing collis... | 02/24/2011 |
| 20110044257 | WIRELESS COMMUNICATION APPARATUS, WIRELESS COMMUNICATION APPARATUS CONTROL METHOD AND COMPUTER READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM By using multiple channels at the same time to realize broadbanding of the frequency channels and suppressing increase in the waiting time before starting transmission of wireless signals, improvement of the practical throughput can be realized. A wireless communication... | 02/24/2011 |
| 20110043960 | PROGRAMMABLE ACTUATOR AND PROGRAMMING METHOD THEREOF According to one embodiment, a programmable actuator includes a moving part with a first drive electrode, a second electrode which is placed opposite to the first electrode and which has first part and a second part, a first drive circuit which is available to operate t... | 02/24/2011 |
| 20110043875 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD According to one embodiment, an image processing apparatus which reads an original document and generates a monochrome image, includes a scanner configured to output a color signal from a color sensor which reads the original document and a monochrome signal from a mono... | 02/24/2011 |
| 20110043839 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS When one or both of color conversion data for chromatic colors and color conversion data for achromatic colors are rewritten, attribute information of the color conversion data for chromatic colors or the color conversion data for achromatic colors is updated and this a... | 02/24/2011 |
| 20110043837 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND CALIBRATION METHOD FOR IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS According to an embodiment, in an image forming apparatus and a calibration method for an image forming apparatus, whether a sheet is housed in a sheet cassette or not is determined, and when it is determined that no sheet is housed, a display to instruct manual paper f... | 02/24/2011 |
| 20110043562 | INKJET RECORDING APPARATUS According to one embodiment, an inkjet recording apparatus includes a sensor, a first controller and a second controller. The sensor is provided upstream of an inkjet head in a paper transport direction and detects a state of an image forming surface of a paper. The fir... | 02/24/2011 |
| 20110042680 | LIGHT EMITTING DEVICE AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING SAME A light emitting device includes: a conductive substrate; a metal film provided above the conductive substrate; a light emitting layer provided above the metal film; an electrode provided partly above the light emitting layer; and a current suppression layer being in co... | 02/24/2011 |
| 20110041091 | DEVICE MANAGING APPARATUS, DEVICE MANAGING METHOD, AND ICON DISPLAY CONTROL METHOD According to an embodiment, a device managing apparatus includes: a display unit configured to display plural icons for starting setting screens respectively corresponding to plural kinds of processing functions of a target device set as a control target; a state-inform... | 02/17/2011 |
| 20110040813 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS According to one embodiment, an image forming apparatus includes an importing unit, a setting unit, a display, an input unit, a replacement unit, and a transmitter. The importing unit is configured to import a metadata format file having described process information on... | 02/17/2011 |
| 20110039356 | METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE AND APPARATUS FOR MANUFACTURING SAME A method for manufacturing a semiconductor device includes: irradiating a growth substrate with laser light to focus the laser light into a prescribed position inside a crystal for a semiconductor device or inside the growth substrate, the crystal for the semiconductor ... | 02/17/2011 |
| 20110038644 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND IMAGE FORMING METHOD A control unit separately drives an image carrier driving unit that drives an image carrier motor, a developing roller driving unit that drives a developing roller motor, a developer stirring member driving unit that drives a developer stirring member motor, and a fan d... | 02/17/2011 |
| 20110038643 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR ACQUIRING MAINTENANCE INFORMATION OF THE SAME Certain embodiments provide an image forming apparatus including: a print processing unit; a fixing unit; a first storage unit to store use frequency information of respective parts forming the print processing unit and the fixing unit and failure information; a wireles... | 02/17/2011 |
| 20110038506 | EMISSION ANALYSIS DEVICE, METHOD AND SYSTEM An emission analysis device has an image obtaining module configured to obtain a plurality of first images and a plurality of second images by changing multiple times an end test pattern address, the first images being obtained by integrating an emission from a nondefec... | 02/17/2011 |
| 20110038262 | WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, WIRELESS COMMUNICATION METHOD, WIRELESS COMMUNICATION APPARATUS AND PROGRAM STORAGE MEDIUM A wireless communication system includes a first wireless communication apparatus and a second wireless communication apparatus which communicate with each other. The first wireless communication apparatus simultaneously transmits frames to the second wireless communica... | 02/17/2011 |
| 20110038191 | RECTIFIER CIRCUIT AND RADIO COMMUNICATION DEVICE USING THE SAME A rectifier circuit includes an input terminal that receives an alternating-current signal, a first rectifier circuit that generates a first direct-current voltage from the alternating-current signal, a bias-voltage generating circuit that generates a bias voltage from ... | 02/17/2011 |
| 20110038016 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS According to one embodiment, an image processing apparatus includes: an image processing section including plural image processing groups and including a DR (dynamic reconfigurable) circuit at least in one of the image processing groups and configured to process image d... | 02/17/2011 |
| 20110038003 | PRINTING APPARATUS FOR PRINTING RECEIVED PRINT DATA A printing apparatus includes a communication unit configured to receive print data including first information regarding printing setting information set in advance and second information regarding inhibition information with printing settings inhibited from being chan... | 02/17/2011 |
| 20110038001 | PRINTING CONTROL METHOD, A COMPUTER READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM STORING INSTRUCTIONS OF A COMPUTER PROGRAM THEREOF, AND AN IMAGE FORMATION DEVICE A printing control method for a processing device transmitting a first and second document data to an image formation device, the first and second document data including first and second print parameters respectively, each of the first and second print parameters being... | 02/17/2011 |
| 20110037994 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND IMAGE FORMING METHOD According to one embodiment, an image forming apparatus includes a data collecting unit configured to collect, every time each kind of processing of the apparatus is executed by a task, information related to the processing and store the information in a volatile memory... | 02/17/2011 |
| 20110037992 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, IMAGE FORMING METHOD, AND SYSTEM According to one embodiment, an image forming apparatus having, in addition to a printing function, at least one of a copying function, a scanner function, and a facsimile function includes a setting-file generating unit configured to collect data concerning setting ite... | 02/17/2011 |
| 20110037670 | RADIO COMMUNICATION SYSTEM AND METHOD OF SETTING THE SAME According to one embodiment, a radio communication system includes at least two leaky transmission lines provided in parallel to each other and configured to radiate a part of electric signal energy to a space as radio waves and receive incidence of radio waves from the... | 02/17/2011 |
| 20110037218 | METHOD FOR LOADING A FOLDED SHEET BUNDLE A method for loading a folded sheet bundle provided from a sheet bundle provider with a folded edge of the folded sheet bundle in the lead, including: supporting an undersurface of the folded sheet bundle so that the folded edge is lower than a trailing edge of the fold... | 02/17/2011 |
| 20110035207 | TEXT DISPLAY APPARATUS AND RECORDING MEDIUM RECORDING TEXT DISPLAY PROGRAM Disclosed is a text display apparatus including: a display section; a dictionary storage section to store dictionary information composed of a headword of a first language corresponded to description information of a second language; a text storage section to store text... | 02/10/2011 |
| 20110034155 | MOBILE TERMINAL, SETTLEMENT APPARATUS AND DISPLAY METHOD A mobile terminal of an embodiment includes a communication section, a display section and a display unit. The communication section receives accounting information from a settlement apparatus to transmit the accounting information relating to a transaction. The display... | 02/10/2011 |
| 20110034015 | HEAT TREATMENT APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE According to one embodiment, a heat treatment apparatus includes a light emitting unit to emit light to irradiate a wafer, a processing unit with a stage section and a control unit. The control unit implements a first irradiation to irradiate the light onto the wafer. A... | 02/10/2011 |
| 20110033365 | PROCESS AND APPARATUS FOR PRODUCING CARBONACEOUS FILM This invention provides a process and apparatus for producing a carbonaceous film such as a DLC film using a solid raw material without the need to supply a high energy radiation such as a laser beam. The process comprises providing a solid organic material as a raw mat... | 02/10/2011 |
| 20110033198 | INTERNAL WARMING-UP METHOD AND SHEET POST-PROCESSING APPARATUS INCLUDING WARMING-UP DEVICE A sheet post-processing apparatus includes a warming-up device including a first duct connected to a fan to lead warm exhaust air sucked from an image forming apparatus into an apparatus, a second duct provided to lead the warm exhaust air discharged by a fan or ambient... | 02/10/2011 |
| 20110033012 | CHANNEL ESTIMATOR A channel estimator includes: a delay time estimation section configured to estimate a delay time of a received signal; an FFT parameter determination section configured to determine an FFT window position and an FFT size according to the estimated delay time; a first a... | 02/10/2011 |
| 20110032778 | SEMICONDUCTOR MEMORY DEVICE A sense amplifier circuit senses and amplifies a signal read from memory cells arranged at intersections of word-lines and bit-lines. A write circuit reads first data held in a first memory cell of the memory cells, and writes second data corresponding to the first data... | 02/10/2011 |
| 20110032414 | IMAGE PICKUP DEVICE AND CONTROL APPARATUS FOR THE SAME A digital camera that is an image pickup device includes: a sensor; a background portion movement speed calculating unit configured to calculate a movement speed of a background portion of a subject from a plurality of images picked up by the sensor; and a shutter speed... | 02/10/2011 |
| 20110032262 | SEMICONDUCTOR INTEGRATED CIRCUIT FOR DISPLAYING IMAGE A normal bus and an extension bus having the same bit width as the normal bus are provided. A line buffer has a plurality of line regions to store pixel data of input image data. A line buffer writing control portion controls a direction in which the pixel data is to be... | 02/10/2011 |
