"I watched his countenance closely, to see if he was not deranged ... and I was assured by other senators after he left the room that they had no confidence in it."
U.S. Senator Smith of Indiana ; After seeing Samuel Morse demonstrate the telegraph.
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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 20110047394 | ELECTRICAL 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 |
| 20110047291 | RELAY 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 |
| 20110044489 | LOUDSPEAKER, 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 |
| 20110044088 | VARIABLE 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 |
| 20110043822 | SHAPE 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 |
| 20110043768 | IMAGE 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 |
| 20110043766 | INFORMATION 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 |
| 20110043693 | SYNCHRONOUS 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 |
| 20110043428 | ANTENNA 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 |
| 20110043423 | HIGH 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 |
| 20110042677 | FLEXIBLE 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 |
| 20110040800 | METADATA 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 |
| 20110040210 | LANCET-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 |
| 20110038447 | RECEPTION 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 |
| 20110038338 | UNIQUE 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 |
| 20110037835 | VIDEO 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 |
| 20110037773 | DISPLAY 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 |
| 20110037755 | DRIVING 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 |
| 20110037377 | ORGANIC 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 |
| 20110036713 | BIOSENSOR 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 |
| 20110036188 | ROBOT 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 |
| 20110036182 | ROTARY 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 |
| 20110035559 | MEMORY 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 |
| 20110035539 | STORAGE 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 |
| 20110033832 | ADMINISTRATION 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 |
| 20110033170 | Recording 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 |
| 20110033132 | IMAGE 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 |
| 20110033073 | HEARING 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 |
| 20110033072 | HEARING 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 |
| 20110033046 | ENCRYPTION 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 |
| 20110032993 | IMAGE 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 |
| 20110032989 | MOVING 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 |
| 20110032988 | TRANSCODER, 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 |
| 20110032818 | PATH 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 |
| 20110032598 | WAVELENGTH 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 |
| 20110032489 | IMAGE 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 |
| 20110032327 | PLAYBACK 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 |
| 20110032244 | LIGHT-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 |
| 20110030138 | BED 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 |
| 20110029534 | COMMUNICATION 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 |