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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7983921 | Information processing apparatus for speech recognition with user guidance, method and program An information processing apparatus whereby advice having appropriate content can be given at an appropriate timing with regard to a method of user utterance, thereby making it possible to reduce the probability of misrecognition due to the method of utterance. An e... | 07/19/2011 |
| 7978229 | Image pickup apparatus and method for controlling the same An image pickup apparatus including a photoelectric conversion element, first, a shutter speed for still-image pickup is set. Next, an image-pickup frame rate is set on the basis of the shutter speed for still-image pickup. Then, an operation of the photoelectric co... | 07/12/2011 |
| 7944546 | Exposure apparatus and device manufacturing method An exposure apparatus comprises a component configured to project a pattern of an original onto a substrate, a structure configured to support the component, a support configured to support the structure, a gas spring which is located between the structure and the s... | 05/17/2011 |
| 7907193 | Image capturing apparatus According to this invention, even when an image capturing apparatus has a plurality of read modes, the frame rate can be prevented from decreasing in a high-resolution video photographing mode. The image capturing apparatus includes an image sensor and drive unit. T... | 03/15/2011 |
| 7839412 | Image display apparatus and image display method The system control section 50 displays the entire original image as a display image, or scrolls a display image with a part of the original image being the display image, depending on relationship between the aspect ratios of the original image and the displa... | 11/23/2010 |
| 7795686 | Semiconductor device using semiconductor nanowire and display apparatus and image pick-up apparatus using the same A semiconductor device, comprising a semiconductor nanowire having a first region with one of a PN junction and a PIN junction and a second region with a field effect transistor structure, a pair of electrodes connected to both ends of the semiconductor nanowire, an... | 09/14/2010 |
| 7710626 | Optical element driving apparatus At least one exemplary embodiment is directed to an optical element driving apparatus which includes a first actuator configured to drive an optical element in accordance with a deformation target value, a sensor arranged to measure a position and an orientation of ... | 05/04/2010 |
| 7672374 | Image processing apparatus An image processing apparatus includes an inputting unit for inputting moving image data that is composed of frames each including first and second fields and that is encoded by intra-frame and inter-frame encoding; an instructing unit for submitting a request for o... | 03/02/2010 |
| 7578570 | Ink-jet recording apparatus and control method of said apparatus An ink-jet recording apparatus applicable for two-side recording, which permits reliable reduction of smears caused by contact of the recording medium or secondary smears staining the following recording media by the ink adhering in the conveyance path, and obtainin... | 08/25/2009 |
| 7551304 | Information processing apparatus, image forming apparatus, method therefor, and system An image forming method that is capable of interpreting a plurality of image forming processes includes a setting step of setting an image forming process that is activated by the image forming method, and an issuing step of issuing a manufacturer identifier and mac... | 06/23/2009 |
| 7542573 | Providing apparatus, communication device, method, and program A providing apparatus provides information required for secure communication to first and second devices. The providing apparatus includes a receiving unit that receives a first parameter used by the first device for the secure communication and a second parameter u... | 06/02/2009 |
| 7443601 | Zoom optical system At least one exemplary embodiment is directed to a zoom optical system which includes a plurality of variable power optical units of which optical power varies accompanied by variable power, a fixed optical unit of which optical power does not vary accompanied by va... | 10/28/2008 |
| 7439707 | Battery, charging device, and image capture system with battery identification means The present invention relates to a charging technique used in a battery, a charging device, and an information-processing system. According to the present invention, for charging a secondary cell of a battery, charging the secondary cell is controlled based on ident... | 10/21/2008 |
| 7436135 | Method for controlling stage apparatus At least one exemplary embodiment is directed to a control method for controlling a stage apparatus including a base and a stage, the base including first and second coil phases, the stage including a plurality of magnets. The control method includes a first energiz... | 10/14/2008 |
| 7434233 | Inter-program communication apparatus, inter-program communication method, computer-readable recording medium, and program An inter-program communication method and apparatus for performing inter-program communication between an image correction program and an image print program. During an initialization phase, a communication path is established between the programs and the image corr... | 10/07/2008 |
| 7426080 | Zoom lens and image projection apparatus having the same At least one exemplary embodiment is directed to a zoom lens comprising a plurality of lens units, where the plurality of lens units have at least one negative lens including a first negative lens Gn1 arranged at a position where an effective diameter is minimized a... | 09/16/2008 |
| 7424213 | Camera system, image capturing apparatus, and a method of an image capturing apparatus A camera system includes a plurality of interchangeable lenses, each of which has an optical image stabilization unit for correcting image blurring, and a camera body. The camera body provides a shooting mode in which a set exposure time period is divided into a plu... | 09/09/2008 |
| 7419270 | Display apparatus and its lamp-lighting mechanism At least one exemplary embodiment is directed to a projection-type image display apparatus in which a wrong operation caused by noise occurring during lighting a light source lamp is reduced by prohibiting a read and/or write operation for at least a part of a perio... | 09/02/2008 |
| 7400775 | Edge enhancement system and method and imaging system A plurality of bandpass filters extract high frequency components of a digital image signal sampled every predetermined unit, thus generating a plurality of high frequency signals. The high frequency signals are added to produce a resultant high frequency signal. On... | 07/15/2008 |
| 7397465 | Coordinate input control method A coordinate input control method is used in a display-integrated coordinate input apparatus which includes a display having thereon a first area and a second area, and a single coordinate-input unit, and in which the coordinate input means inputs coordinates on the... | 07/08/2008 |
| 7395957 | Image processing apparatus An image processing apparatus comprises a read unit for reading a data file stored in a storage medium which is removably loaded into an apparatus body, a determining unit for determining a file type of the data file read out of the storage medium, and a processing ... | 07/08/2008 |
| 7398135 | Method for simulating conveyance of medium A method for simulating the behavior of a flexible medium which is conveyed along a conveying path constructed of a pair of conveyor rollers includes the steps of dividing the surfaces of the conveyor rollers into a contact region and a non-contact region and settin... | 07/08/2008 |
| 7394601 | Optical system and optical apparatus including the same An optical system includes an optical member made of a solid material being a mixture prepared by dispersing inorganic particles in a transparent medium. The transparent medium and the inorganic particles of the solid material, and the volume ratio of the inorganic ... | 07/01/2008 |
| 7382493 | Image processing for optimal color density decomposition based on calculated graininess and equiluminance contours Graininess and calorimetric values of color patches formed by an image generating system using dark and light colored recording agents are input to calculate equiluminance contours. Color density decomposition is then performed based on the calculated graininess and... | 06/03/2008 |
| 7378764 | Positioning apparatus, exposure apparatus using thereof and device manufacturing method A positioning apparatus including a movable member having a plurality of magnets, and a plurality of coils arranged in X- and Y-axial directions, for displacing the movable member in the X- and Y-axial directions, and in a rotational direction around the Z-axis.... | 05/27/2008 |
| 7376637 | Image transmission apparatus which transmits image data as an image file or a plurality of image files A data transmission apparatus capable of transmitting input image data of a plurality of pages as one or more image files is disclosed. It is designated which page or pages are to be put into each image file. Such designation may be specified by a user. One or more ... | 05/20/2008 |
| 7375833 | Information processing device, page description language generating method, program, and storage medium An information processing device determines whether or not drawing commands received from an application are logical drawing commands, and in the event that the received drawing commands are determined to be logical drawing commands, the received drawing commands ar... | 05/20/2008 |
| 7374291 | Projection optical system and image display apparatus using same An image display apparatus is provided, which includes a first image display element corresponding to a first color light, a second display element corresponding to a second color light different from the first color light, and a projection optical system having at ... | 05/20/2008 |
| 7369186 | Polarizing beam splitter featuring stacked grating layers and display including the same A polarizing beam splitter includes a polarization splitting layer which includes stacked one-dimensional grating layers. The grating layers can include alternating layers of at least one H layer having an effective refractive index nH for p-polarized lig... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7360869 | Image processing and ink-jet recording apparatus for carrying out processing for reducing amount of ink delivered from recording apparatus to recording medium When image data output to an ink-jet recording apparatus for performing color recording using inks of a plurality of colors is to be processed, input image data is converted into data corresponding to colors of inks and gamma correction is applied to the data corres... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7358865 | Optical encoder and apparatus using optical encoder An optical encoder includes a cylindrical reflective scale, a point light source for irradiating the reflective scale, and light-receiving elements for receiving the light beams reflected by the reflective scale. The pitch of the reflective scale is set to an approp... | 04/15/2008 |
