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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8083676 | Apparatus and system for collection and storage of vital signs medical information and methods related thereto Featured is an apparatus for the collection and storage of patient vital sign information as well as systems and methods related thereto. Such a collection and storage apparatus of the present invention forms a workstation that is configured and arranged so as to be... | 12/27/2011 |
| 8080560 | Immune response modifier formulations containing oleic acid and methods Pharmaceutical formulations and methods including an immune response modifier (IRM) compound and an oleic acid component are provided where stability is improved by using oleic acid have low polar impurities such as peroxides. ... | 12/20/2011 |
| 8077189 | Drive circuit A drive circuit of the present invention is a drive circuit for driving a display element in accordance with grayscale information, which circuit outputs a drive waveform controlled through (i) plural-stepped voltage amplitude modulation and (ii) a pulse width modul... | 12/13/2011 |
| 8076225 | Solid-state image capturing device, manufacturing method for the same and electronic information device A method for manufacturing a solid-state image capturing device according to the present invention, in which from a plurality of light receiving sections for photoelectrically converting incident light into signal electric charge, the signal electric charge is read ... | 12/13/2011 |
| 8072849 | Optical integrated module and optical pickup device An optical integrated unit according to the present invention is an optical integrated unit, including: a semiconductor laser acting as a light source; at least one light-receiving element; a light-separating section for separating light emitted by the semiconductor... | 12/06/2011 |
| 8060195 | Devices, systems and methods for bioimpedance measurement of cervical tissue and methods for diagnosis and treatment of human cervix Featured are apparatuses for measuring bioimpendence of tissues of the cervix, more specifically the mammalian cervix. Also featured are methods for examining the tissues of the cervix for clinical or diagnostic purposes such as during routine gynecological examinat... | 11/15/2011 |
| 8054075 | Method for magnetic resonance imaging using inversion recovery with on-resonant water suppression including MRI systems and software embodying same Featured are methods for magnetic resonance imaging of a volume, such a volume having susceptibility-generating objects or interfaces having susceptibility mismatches therein. Such a method includes selectively visualizing one of susceptibility-generating objects or... | 11/08/2011 |
| 8021401 | Systems, methods, devices and device kits for fixation of bones and spinal vertebrae Featured are methods for fixing adjacent vertebrate of a spine that utilize an implant member, which preferably is arcuate. Preferred methods of the invention for stabilizing adjacent vertebrae of the spine, include forming an aperture in each of the adjacent verteb... | 09/20/2011 |
| 8004281 | Optimized MRI strip array detectors and apparatus, systems and methods related thereto Featured is a device for NMR or MRI signals from excited nuclei as well as related apparatus, systems and methods. The device includes a strip array antenna including one or more conductor and N reactive tuning components, where N is an integer ≧1 at least one of ... | 08/23/2011 |
| 7990834 | Optical pickup device recording and/or reproducing information on and/or from a plurality of kinds of recording media An optical pickup device has a semiconductor laser emitting light which is in turn branched via a diffraction grating into at least three beams of light including a main beam and two sub beams which are in turn condensed via an objective lens on an optical disk at a... | 08/02/2011 |
| 7984025 | Method for reencryption of a database The present invention relates to a method for encryption of the content in a database, for accomplishing increased protection against unauthorised access to the data. The method assures that every row and item is re-encrypted with a valid key. More specifically this... | 07/19/2011 |
| 7983074 | Ferromagnetic nanorings, mediums embodying same including devices and methods related thereto Featured is a magnetic ring structure including at least a vortex magnetic state such as symmetrically and asymmetrically shaped nanorings (FIG. 7C), having small diameters (e.g., on the order of 100 run). In particular embodiments, the width and thickness of... | 07/19/2011 |
| 7974158 | Optical disk and optical recording/reproducing device A small-sized, large-capacity optical disk is provided which is superior in portability. The optical disk has a diameter less than 64 mm and a thickness less than 0.8 mm. Tracks are formed with a pitch less than 0.6 μm, and the record area is divided into a plurali... | 07/05/2011 |
| 7967439 | Wireless scleral search coil including systems for measuring eye movement and methods related thereto Featured is a wireless scleral search coil that includes one or more passive, resonant coils and in a particular embodiment two orthogonal, passive, resonant coils, where each coil resonates at a different frequency. Each resonant coil includes a coil-capacitor circ... | 06/28/2011 |
| 7924276 | Display device, method of driving same and electronic device mounting same A liquid crystal panel (2) includes scanning signal lines (31) for supplying scanning signals to gate electrodes (20) of TFTs (14), and data signal lines (32) for supplying data signals to data electrodes (24) of TFTs. The l... | 04/12/2011 |
| 7884884 | Dynamic image search information recording apparatus and dynamic image searching devices A motion picture retrieval information storage apparatus (40) storing retrieval information for retrieving a motion picture, expressed by motion picture data, and constituted of one or more partial motion pictures (140, 142, 144, 146, 160) on the time ... | 02/08/2011 |
| 7847965 | Image forming apparatus and confidential data transmitting method The calling image forming apparatus includes an image processing unit that encodes read image data, a communication controlling unit and modem that performs facsimile transmission for each page of encoded data that has been encoded, and an image memory that stores c... | 12/07/2010 |
| 7865119 | Color registration method and image forming apparatus A color registration method in a color image forming apparatus including a plurality of drum-type photoconductors for driving some or all of the photoconductors having the same diameter to match pitch fluctuations which correspond to a rotational cycle of the photoc... | 01/04/2011 |
| 7859983 | Optical disk and optical disk recording and reproducing device An optical disk includes a plurality of disk sheets which are laminated, and each of which has a recording face on one of the surfaces and a flat back surface, wherein the plurality of disk sheets are laminated by adhesive layers in such a manner that between adjace... | 12/28/2010 |
| 7816918 | Optimized MRI strip array detectors and apparatus, systems and methods related thereto Featured is a device for NMR or MRI signals from excited nuclei as well as related apparatus, systems and methods. The device includes a strip array antenna including one or more conductor and N reactive tuning components, where N is an integer ≧1 at least one of ... | 10/19/2010 |
| 7782737 | Optical integrated unit and optical pickup apparatus including the same An optical integrated unit of the present invention includes: a semiconductor laser that is a light source; at least one light receiving element; a light dividing section which divides outgoing light from the semiconductor laser and returning light from an optical d... | 08/24/2010 |
| 7716718 | Electronic device network system and data receiver search method using electronic device network system A printing system in one implementation of an electronic device network system of the present invention includes a plurality of hosts, a plurality of storages, and a plurality of printers, wherein the hosts, storages, and printers are connected to one another on the... | 05/11/2010 |
| 7714956 | Front illuminating device and a reflection-type liquid crystal display using such a device A front-illuminating device of the present invention, which is placed over the entire surface of an object to be illuminated such as a reflection-type liquid crystal display device when it is used, is provided with a light source and a light-directing body. The ligh... | 05/11/2010 |
| 7686462 | Methods for reflection reductions System and method for limiting reflections off of surfaces, such as optical lens and field goggles. A set of vanes are mounted next to the surface, with one end near the surface and the other end away from the surface. The vanes are mounted closer together at their ... | 03/30/2010 |
| 7668368 | Image processing apparatus, camera apparatus, image output apparatus, image processing method, color correction processing program and computer readable recording medium A correction processing section 1 performs a color correction such that a movement amount indicating how much input values of image signals should be moved for the purpose of color correction becomes smaller as the distance between the input values and the co... | 02/23/2010 |
| 7664316 | Image processing apparatus, imaging apparatus, image processing method, image processing program and recording medium The data interpolation section 6 includes: a direction data calculation section 61 for calculating a plurality of direction data, each of the plurality of direction date indicating a directional amount along a plurality of directions including at least... | 02/16/2010 |
| 7618768 | Method of forming micropattern, method of manufacturing optical recording medium master copy, optical recording medium master copy, optical recording medium stamper, and optical recording medium By using an existing, relatively inexpensive manufacturing device, micropatterns (e.g. guiding grooves, prepits) having such track pitch and pit pitch that are smaller than the diameter of a light spot are formed more finely. There are provided at least two layers, ... | 11/17/2009 |
| 7617461 | Information processing device, information processing method, program, and storage medium A host device includes: a basic screen display processing section which selects either a main setting screen or a list display setting screen as a setting screen in accordance with user's input and then causing the selected setting screen to show; a scroll processin... | 11/10/2009 |
| 7612750 | Liquid crystal display device A liquid crystal display device includes: scanning wires, provided so as to correspond to a plurality of pixels disposed in a matrix manner, to which scanning signals are applied; and signal wires to which data signals are applied, wherein the scanning wires and the... | 11/03/2009 |
| 7584084 | Method of manufacturing fluttering robot using a fluid-structure interactive numerical model for developing controls for wing driving apparatus A numerical model related to fluttering of an insect, when an equivalent model of actual structure of a wing of the insect is moved in the air in accordance with a model of fluttering motion of the wing of the insect is calculated by fluid-structure interactive anal... | 09/01/2009 |
| 7525530 | Display device and scanning circuit testing method Each of a gate driver and a source driver periodically receives a clock signal and a start pulse, where the start pulse has a certain width and is shifted as shift data in the gate driver or source driver in synchronism with the clock signal. A logic circuit compose... | 04/28/2009 |
| 7523335 | Job processing apparatus with power sequence responsive to detecting external job data signal A job processing apparatus has a signal detecting section, a signal analyzing section, a job processing section, a main power supply portion, a first auxiliary power supply portion, a second auxiliary power supply portion, and a power control section. The main power... | 04/21/2009 |
| 7507964 | Method for providing color images from a monochromatic electro-optical device using two optical channels and systems, apparatuses and devices related thereto An apparatus and methods for converting a monochrome night vision or other electro-optical device into one that provides a sensation of full color, including from red to blue with white and black. The method provides color images from an electro-optical device in wh... | 03/24/2009 |
| 7495811 | Image reading apparatus, image forming apparatus using same, and image reading method An image reading apparatus includes a display section for displaying image information by being subjected to a voltage and/or an electric field, a writing section for writing the image information into the display section, and a reading section for optically reading... | 02/24/2009 |
| 7490248 | Method for reencryption of a database A method for encryption of the content in a database, the method including the steps of detecting that a predetermined time period has elapsed, generating an unexpired encryption key, associating the unexpired encryption key with expiration information, scanning the... | 02/10/2009 |
| 7477442 | Display apparatus and method for producing the same A large number of holes are formed in a two-layered porous film sandwiched between a lower substrate and an upper substrate and filled with a light transmitting liquid and fine particles. When a voltage is applied between an upper electrode and a lower electrode, mi... | 01/13/2009 |
| 7474598 | Optical reproducing device that controls the strength of the light beam during reproduction An optical reproducing device is provided with predetermined length mark signal measurement means which measures amplitude values of a 2T mark and an 8T mark, which are a short reproducing power control mark and a long reproducing power control marks, respectively, ... | 01/06/2009 |
| 7460268 | Image processing device, image forming device, image processing method, image processing program, and recording medium containing the image processing program recorded thereon The present invention provides an image processing device which can reduce a storage capacity and perform color correction in accordance with the types of image. The image processing device of the present invention has an input correction section 6 including:... | 12/02/2008 |
| 7456483 | Semiconductor device, manufacturing method of semiconductor device and module for optical device A bond portion for bonding the principal plane of a solid-state imaging element with a transparent covering portion and configuring a hollow portion therebetween is provided with: a first opening end portion on the hollow portion side; a second opening end portion o... | 11/25/2008 |
| 7437068 | Optical communication link An optical communication link has a plurality of light emitting elements and a plurality of light receiving elements associated with the respective light emitting elements, and a plurality of optical fibers each for conveying an optical signal emitted from one light... | 10/14/2008 |
