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Number of applications: 1747
Last date: February 24, 2011

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Application No.Application TitleIssue Date
20110047394ELECTRICAL POWER SAVING SYSTEM
An electrical power saving system that achieves efficient electricity consumption of apparatuses connected via a communication network includes at least first and second apparatuses connected via the communication network. The first and second apparatuses each include: ...
02/24/2011
20110047291RELAY DEVICE, CONTROL METHOD, AND PROGRAM
A relay node (203) is a relay node in relay nodes mutually connected through links to compose a communication network, the communication network including paths for transmitting communication data through the relay node (203), including a link status recei...
02/24/2011
20110044489LOUDSPEAKER, VIDEO DEVICE, AND PORTABLE INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS
A loudspeaker according to the present invention includes: a diaphragm that vibrates back and forth to emit a sound; a magnetic circuit that is provided on a rear side of the diaphragm and has a magnetic gap on a diaphragm side; a voice coil that is directly or indirect...
02/24/2011
20110044088VARIABLE RESISTANCE NONVOLATILE STORAGE DEVICE AND METHOD OF FORMING MEMORY CELL
A variable resistance nonvolatile storage device which includes (i) a semiconductor substrate (301), (ii) a variable resistance element (309) having: lower and upper electrodes (309a, 309c); and a variable resistance layer (3...
02/24/2011
20110043822SHAPE MEASURING APPARATUS AND METHOD THEREOF
Light emitted from a light source is formed into parallel light beams, the parallel light beams are divided into two light beams, and one of the divided light beams is converted by a conical lens to light (beam) having an energy density on an optical axis maximized over...
02/24/2011
20110043768IMAGE DISPLAY APPARATUS
An image display apparatus (10) includes: a laser light source (12) for outputting a laser beam (11); a diffusion optical element (13) for diffusing the laser beam (11); a drive unit (14) for oscillating the diffusion optical el...
02/24/2011
20110043766INFORMATION PROCESSOR WITH PROJECTOR
There is disclosed an information processor including a housing, a projector attached to the housing, and a screen attached to the housing, wherein the projector projects light onto the screen....
02/24/2011
20110043693SYNCHRONOUS CONTROL CIRCUIT AND VIDEO DISPLAY DEVICE
A synchronization control circuit is provided with a first sampling means for sampling the envelope signal of the modulation signal at a first sampling timing, a second sampling means for sampling the envelope signal at a second sampling timing, a third sampling means f...
02/24/2011
20110043428ANTENNA DUPLEXER AND COMMUNICATION DEVICE USING THE SAME
An antenna duplexer includes a transmission filter and a reception filter both coupled with an antenna terminal. A pass band of the transmission filter is lower than a pass band of the reception filter. The transmission filter includes a first series resonator coupled w...
02/24/2011
20110043423HIGH FREQUENCY WAVEGUIDE, ANTENNA DEVICE, AND ELECTRONIC APPARATUS WITH ANTENNA DEVICE
In a waveguide structure (8), a movable waveguide component (10) and an immovable waveguide component (12) are opposed at a predetermined interval. Further, at least either the movable waveguide component (10) or the immovable waveguide compo...
02/24/2011
20110042677FLEXIBLE SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING THE SAME
There is provided a flexible semiconductor device. The flexible semiconductor device of the present invention comprises a metal layer comprising a gate electrode, a source electrode and a drain electrode; a metal oxide film made from a metal which constitutes the metal ...
02/24/2011
20110040800METADATA GENERATION MANAGEMENT DEVICE, METADATA GENERATION SYSTEM, INTEGRATED CIRCUIT FOR MANAGING GENERATION OF METADATA, METADATA GENERATION MANAGEMENT METHOD, AND PROGRAM
A metadata generation management device according to the present invention comprises: a count unit operable to measure a playback amount of content, which is an amount of content that has been played back; and a control unit operable to control whether to output an inst...
02/17/2011
20110040210LANCET-INTEGRATED SENSOR
A sensor and a lancet are integrated with each other. A thin strip-shaped sensor and a lancet are integrated so that the lancet moves in parallel, along a longitudinal direction of the sensor. A measuring device to which an integrated lancet and sensor is attached is pr...
02/17/2011
20110038447RECEPTION DEVICE, INTEGRATED CIRCUIT, AND RECEPTION METHOD
An OFDM demodulation unit 13 transforms transmission signals in the time domain into demodulation vectors Y in the frequency domain; an equalization unit 14 estimates channel response vectors H′ based on the demodulation vectors Y, and calculates equaliz...
02/17/2011
20110038338UNIQUE IDENTIFIER ASSIGNMENT METHOD FOR USE IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM
A CEC controller of a wireless node device determines a destination logical address of a polling message received through a wired interface circuit based on an address list table in an address list memory when the polling message is received from a wired interface circu...
02/17/2011
20110037835VIDEO SIGNAL PROCESSING DEVICE
The video signal processing device has a parallax detection unit for detecting the parallax between a right-eye video signal and a left-eye video signal and outputting the detected parallax as a parallax detection signal. The video signal processing device has an encodi...
02/17/2011
20110037773DISPLAY CONTROL DEVICE AND DISPLAY CONTROL METHOD
A display control device (1) comprises: a plurality of display devices (16a) and (16b); a display output section (18) which supplies image data to the display devices (16a) and (16b); a frame buffer (...
02/17/2011
20110037755DRIVING METHOD OF PLASMA DISPLAY PANEL
A driving method of an alternating-current surface discharge type PDP is provided. In the initializing period. an operation that applies a predetermined voltage for causing discharge regardless of the presence or absence of the former discharge to a scan electrode and c...
02/17/2011
20110037377ORGANIC EL DEVICE WITH FILTER AND METHOD OF REPAIRING SAME
There are provided an organic electro-luminescence device with filters and a method for repairing the same which are capable of reducing variations in conditions for leak-light transmission during leak-light detection and conditions for transmission of laser light used ...
02/17/2011
20110036713BIOSENSOR
A biosensor can supply a sample solution accurately and easily, and includes a capillary for collecting a sample solution and analyzes a specific substance in the sample solution, an air hole, and at least two supply ports, i.e., a sample supply port and an auxiliary sa...
02/17/2011
20110036188ROBOT ARM
A robot arm has: a drive gear that has a shaft; a gear frame being capable of turning about the shaft of the drive gear; a first follower gear being capable of turning, in synchronization with the drive gear, about a shaft fixed to the gear frame, in a direction opposit...
02/17/2011
20110036182ROTARY TORQUE DETECTING DEVICE
There is provided a rotary torque detecting device in which a first magnetic body and a second magnetic body are formed in substantially band shapes and third magnetic bodies are formed in substantially rectangular shapes, respectively, by forming the first magnetic bod...
02/17/2011
20110035559MEMORY CONTROLLER, MEMORY SYSTEM, SEMICONDUCTOR INTEGRATED CIRCUIT, AND MEMORY CONTROL METHOD
A memory controller (101) according to this invention includes: a command generation unit (102) which generates access commands each including a physical address, based on an access request including a logical address indicating a rectangular area in image...
02/10/2011
20110035539STORAGE DEVICE, AND MEMORY CONTROLLER
The memory controller of a storage device includes a scramble pattern generator, a scramble processor, a logical and physical address conversion table, a memory interface, and a controller, in which the physical page is managed by dividing to a data section and a manage...
02/10/2011
20110033832ADMINISTRATION INSTRUMENT FOR MEDICAL USE
The present invention relates to an administration instrument for medical use that can perform injection of a drug solution with stability and with great reliability. For example, at the administration, it is possible to prevent a force that presses the injection button...
02/10/2011
20110033170Recording medium, playback device, integrated circuit
A base-view video stream and a dependent-view video stream are recorded on a BD-ROM. The base-view video stream includes picture data constituting a base view of a stereoscopic image. The dependent-view video stream includes offset metadata and picture data constituting...
02/10/2011
20110033132IMAGE CORRECTION APPARATUS AND IMAGE CORRECTION METHOD
An input image containing multiple kinds of blur is corrected without using multiple images, resulting in a target image with less blur than the input image. An image correction apparatus (100) for correcting an input image to generate a target image with less bl...
02/10/2011
20110033073HEARING AID SYSTEM
This hearing aid system comprises a first hearing aid (1) and the second hearing aid (2) mounted on the right ear. These each have a microphone (101) for inputting ambient sound, a hearing aid processor (102) for subjecting sound inputted fro...
02/10/2011
20110033072HEARING AID
A hearing aid (10) comprises a main body (11) that can be latched to the upper part of the base of the user's auricle, and is continuous to the rear of said base, the main body (11) having two main faces (12, 13) that are opposite the user's ...
02/10/2011
20110033046ENCRYPTION DEVICE AND ENCRYPTION SYSTEM
The present invention provides an encryption apparatus that prevents plaintext data from leaking even if accumulated data is analyzed, while preventing the size of encrypted data from increasing. An encryption apparatus for encrypting a data piece that is smaller than a...
02/10/2011
20110032993IMAGE DECODING DEVICE, IMAGE DECODING METHOD, INTEGRATED CIRCUIT, AND RECEIVING DEVICE
An image memory access control unit (502) judges whether or not an additional pixel required for motion compensation is necessary, the additional pixel not being included in a plurality of pixels forming an image shown by a reference block. When the additional pi...
02/10/2011
20110032989MOVING PICTURE CODING DEVICE AND MOVING PICTURE CODING METHOD
Provided is a moving picture coding device which makes it possible to suppress deterioration in coding efficiency caused by flickers occurring at a time of high-speed capturing under fluorescent lamp lighting or the like.

A moving picture c...

02/10/2011
20110032988TRANSCODER, METHOD OF TRANSCODING, AND DIGITAL RECORDER
A transcoder reducing processing amount when a coded stream to which at least intra prediction is applied is transcoded into a coded stream to which intra prediction and inter prediction are applied. The transcoder (100) converts a first coded stream to at least ...
02/10/2011
20110032818PATH CONTROL DEVICE, PATH CONTROL METHOD, AND PATH CONTROL PROGRAM
A path control device included in a terminal device (300), which includes a path information generating unit (302) which generates path information indicating paths from a terminal (300) to a terminal (400), a path malfunction predicting unit...
02/10/2011
20110032598WAVELENGTH CONVERSION LASER LIGHT SOURCE AND IMAGE DISPLAY DEVICE
A wavelength conversion laser light source includes a fundamental wave laser light source (1) to generate a fundamental wave; a first mirror and a second mirror (4, 5), arranged so as to oppose each other; a wavelength conversion element (3) which i...
02/10/2011
20110032489IMAGE DISPLAY DEVICE
Comprising a casing containing a heat insulating part, a projector as an image display unit, a screen for displaying an image issued from the projector, and cooling part (heat exchanger, compressor) for cooling the inside of the casing, the heat insulating part includes...
02/10/2011
20110032327PLAYBACK DEVICE, INTEGRATED CIRCUIT, RECORDING MEDIUM
Playback device for playing back graphics stream according to stream selection table recorded on recording medium. Stream number register stores, as current stream number, one of a plurality of stream numbers written in the stream selection table. Capability register in...
02/10/2011
20110032244LIGHT-EMITTING ELEMENT DRIVE DEVICE AND LIGHT-EMITTING DEVICE
Power loss and heat output are reduced in a current drive circuit unit of a light-emitting element. A light-emitting element drive device drives N (where N is an integer of 1 or more) light-emitting element groups, and includes a drive voltage generating circuit used as...
02/10/2011
20110030138BED
A movable bed of the present invention, which includes a mat portion of a bed to lie thereon, and is composed of a fixed portion and a moving portion, is designed as a wheel chair in such a manner that the moving portion can be separated from or joined to the fixed port...
02/10/2011
20110029534COMMUNICATION ASSISTANCE DEVICE, COMMUNICATION ASSISTANCE METHOD, AND COMMUNICATION ASSISTANCE PROGRAM
A communication assistance device (100) enables smooth and active communication between users, and includes a topic node generation unit (103) that calculates a topic appropriateness value based on the number of pieces of content from which meta informatio...
02/03/2011
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