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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7943540 | Optical glass for precision molding having high refractive index An optical glass for precision molding having a high refractive index (nd) and a low yield temperature (At). The optical glass comprises, as glass components in wt %, 64 to 83% of Bi2O3; 4 to 17% of B2O3; 0 to 12% of GeO | 05/17/2011 |
| 7941319 | Audio decoding apparatus and decoding method and program An energy corrector (105) for correcting a target energy for high-frequency components and a corrective coefficient calculator (106) for calculating an energy corrective coefficient from low-frequency subband signals are newly provided. These processor... | 05/10/2011 |
| 7941183 | Telephone and incoming call notification method for telephone A telephone and an incoming call notification method for the telephone in which telephone book data can be used to sound an incoming call sound of a specified date such as a birthday for a specific caller. When an incoming call to the mobile telephone of the present... | 05/10/2011 |
| 7941087 | Image-bearing member protecting agent, protective layer forming device, image forming method, image forming apparatus and process cartridge To provide an image-bearing member protecting agent used in an image forming method which includes applying or attaching the agent onto a surface of an image bearing member, the agent including: a fatty acid metal salt (A), and an inorganic lubricant (B), wherein th... | 05/10/2011 |
| 7941056 | Optical interconnect in high-speed memory systems A optical link for achieving electrical isolation between a controller and a memory device is disclosed. The optical link increases the noise immunity of electrical interconnections, and allows the memory device to be placed a greater distance from the processor tha... | 05/10/2011 |
| 7940956 | Tracking apparatus that tracks a face position in a dynamic picture image using ambient information excluding the face A tracking apparatus and method in which the possible position of a current face is estimated based on the face positions previously determined as well as plural pieces of ambient information corresponding to the possible positions obtained. The current face positio... | 05/10/2011 |
| 7940825 | Surface-emission laser diode and surface-emission laser array, optical interconnection system, optical communication system, electrophotographic system, and optical disk system A surface-emission laser diode includes an active layer, a pair of cavity spacer layers formed at both sides of the active layer, a current confinement structure defining a current injection region into the active layer, and a pair of distributed Bragg reflectors op... | 05/10/2011 |
| 7940628 | Multilayer optical information recording medium, optical head, and optical drive A disclosed optical recording medium includes multiple recording layer units in each of which one or more recording layers and one or more middle layers are stacked alternately; and one or more spacer layers. In the disclosed optical recording medium, the recording ... | 05/10/2011 |
| 7940556 | Resistance variable memory device with sputtered metal-chalcogenide region and method of fabrication A chalcogenide-based programmable conductor memory device and method of forming the device, wherein a chalcogenide glass region is provided with a plurality of alternating tin chalcogenide and metal layers proximate thereto. The method of forming the device comprise... | 05/10/2011 |
| 7939946 | Chip with a vertical contact structure A chip with a chip plane includes a functional area, a contact structure vertical with respect to the chip plane for connecting the functional area, which includes a conductive material, which has a predetermined length, and a vertical dummy-contact structure, which... | 05/10/2011 |
| 7939374 | Supply mechanism for the chuck of an integrated circuit dicing device A system for dicing substrates to singulate integrated circuit units within in them includes a dicing machine (Z) which operates with a chuck table (4). A lifting assembly (Ax,Ay) deposits substrates to be singulated onto the chuck table (4) at substan... | 05/10/2011 |
| 7939064 | Phospholipase(s) and use(s) thereof The invention relates to phospholipase(s), isoforms, derivatives, mutants and/or fragments thereof, for the preparation of a medicament for the treatment and/or prevention of ischemia. Preferred is the use of secretory phospholipase, particularly phospholipase A | 05/10/2011 |
| D637580 | Subwoofer | 05/10/2011 |
| 7937639 | Device and method for reading out a data word and device and method for storing a data block A device for reading out a predetermined data word from a memory in which a data block is divided into a plurality of data words including the predetermined data word, an error identification value associated with the respective data word per data word of the plural... | 05/03/2011 |
| 7937594 | Apparatus and method for a programmable security processor A digital logic circuit comprises a programmable logic device and a programmable security circuit. The programmable security circuit stores a set of authorized configuration security keys. The programmable security circuit compares the authorized configuration secur... | 05/03/2011 |
| 7937306 | Architecture for anonymous trading system An anonymous trading system comprises a network of broker nodes, each of which have an equal status and can match orders, initiate deals and distribute prices. Trading agents are connected to some or all of the broker nodes. The network is arranged to conform to a s... | 05/03/2011 |
| 7936989 | Image capturing apparatus An image capturing apparatus includes an optical unit for forming an image of a subject, a first light extinction unit present on an optical axis of the optical unit and configured to adjust an amount of light by changing a dimension of a aperture stop thereof, a se... | 05/03/2011 |
| 7936902 | Face feature point detection apparatus and feature point detection apparatus Plural nodes are arranged at predetermined initial positions, and feature values at plural sampling points around each node are obtained as a node feature value of each corresponding node. An error estimator indicating displacement between the current position of ea... | 05/03/2011 |
| 7936465 | Print data processing apparatus, printing apparatus, printing system, print data processing method, and computer program product A print data processing apparatus performs combined printing of a plurality of pages including a page on which an image is oriented in a different direction from images on other pages. In the print data processing apparatus, the layout unit lays out, in a memory, pr... | 05/03/2011 |
| 7936367 | Image forming apparatus controlling the output level of the light source An image forming apparatus includes an optical scanning device that scans a scan area on an image carrier with light flux containing image information and writes the image information onto an image area in the scan area. In the optical scanning device, a first light... | 05/03/2011 |
| 7936000 | Vertical wrap-around-gate field-effect-transistor for high density, low voltage logic and memory array A vertical transistor having a wrap-around-gate and a method of fabricating such a transistor. The wrap-around-gate (WAG) vertical transistors are fabricated by a process in which source, drain and channel regions of the transistor are automatically defined and alig... | 05/03/2011 |
| 7935119 | Method for performing an open wedge, high tibial osteotomy Method for performing an open wedge, high tibial osteotomy, utilizing an apparatus comprising a wedge-shaped implant for disposition in a wedge-shaped opening created in the tibia, wherein the wedge-shaped implant comprises at least one key for disposition in at lea... | 05/03/2011 |
| 7932938 | Method, apparatus and system providing adjustment of pixel defect map A method, apparatus and system that allows for the identification of defective pixels, for example, defective pixel clusters, in an imager device. The method, apparatus and system determine, during use of the imager device, that a pixel defect, e.g., cluster defect,... | 04/26/2011 |
| 7932486 | Mass spectrometer system During the structural analysis of a protein or peptide by tandem mass spectroscopy, a peptide ion derived from a protein that has already been measured and that is expressed in great quantities is avoided as a tandem mass spectroscopy target. A peptide derived from ... | 04/26/2011 |
| 7932449 | Neck joint structure for stringed musical instrument A neck joint structure which has an opening on the main face of a body in the thickness direction, which has openings on the side faces of the body extending in the thickness direction, and into which at least a part of the base-end portion of a neck is inserted is ... | 04/26/2011 |
| 7932092 | Computerized method and apparatus for analyzing amino acids A method for analyzing a plurality of amino acids in a fluid sample by a user is provided comprising the steps of introducing the sample into a buffer solution, passing the sample in the buffer solution through a separation column and setting a lithium ion concentra... | 04/26/2011 |
| 7931937 | System and method for depositing a material on a substrate A method and apparatus for depositing a film on a substrate includes introducing a material and a carrier gas into a heated chamber. The material may be a semiconductor material, such as a cadmium chalcogenide. A resulting mixture of vapor and carrier gas containing... | 04/26/2011 |
| 7931534 | Control program for action game A control program for an action game according to the present invention in which one of a plurality of characters moving in a game space is selected to be an attack target, in response to an operation of a game player, comprises: a selectable candidate object judgin... | 04/26/2011 |
| D636813 | End cap of powder container | 04/26/2011 |
| D636600 | Garment carrier | 04/26/2011 |
| 7930658 | Semiconductor integrated circuit device and fabrication method thereof A semiconductor integrated circuit device and a fabrication method thereof are disclosed, for effective suppression of a temperature increase therein that is caused by heat generation of a semiconductor element. The semiconductor integrated circuit device includes a... | 04/19/2011 |
| 7930461 | Interface circuit An interface circuit is disclosed. When a USB-BUS power source voltage VBUS is not normally supplied to the substrate gates of PMOS transistors of switches of a first switching circuit which controls connecting a terminal D+/RXD to a terminal D−/TXD in an H... | 04/19/2011 |
| 7930388 | Blade server management system The present invention discloses a blade server management system comprising a plurality of management subsystems provided on each blade in a blade server and connected to each other via a local area network, each of which implements remote control and self-managemen... | 04/19/2011 |
| 7930133 | Magnetic-sensor controller, magnetism measurement apparatus, offset setting method, and computer-readable medium on which offset setting program is recorded A magnetic-sensor controller includes an input section, a perpendicular-bisector calculation section, a storage section, and a setting section. The input section successively inputs a plurality of magnetic data sets successively output from a three-dimensional magne... | 04/19/2011 |
| 7929849 | Image blur correction device and imaging apparatus equipped therewith An image blur correction device includes: a movable frame which is equipped with a lens or an imaging element and has a guide part; a fixed frame having a guide supporting part which movably supports the movable frame by coming into contact with the guide part; and ... | 04/19/2011 |
| 7929798 | Method and apparatus providing noise reduction while preserving edges for imagers A method of reducing noise in an image including steps for obtaining a first value for a target pixel, obtaining a respective second value for each neighboring pixel surrounding the target pixel and having the same color as the target pixel, for each neighboring pix... | 04/19/2011 |
| 7929398 | Optical pickup and optical data processing device using the same An optical pickup including a light source, two light focus devices, a light reception device, a polarization selective light path splitting device, a polarization switching device, a first diffraction element including a periodic structure including two kinds of su... | 04/19/2011 |
| 7929396 | Electron beam applying apparatus and drawing apparatus An electron beam applying apparatus includes: a thermal field emission type electron source emitting an electron beam; an electrostatic lens disposed immediately below the electron source and acting as a condensing electrode for condensing the electron beam in a fir... | 04/19/2011 |
| 7928897 | Target detection method for use in radar and radar device using the target detection method A radar device includes a transmission antenna and a reception antenna having a plurality of antenna elements. The radar device switches the antenna elements in synchronization with a modulation cycle, thereby obtaining a reception signal. At this time, the radar de... | 04/19/2011 |
| 7928687 | Charging circuit, method of controlling operation of charging circuit, and power supply unit A charging current for a secondary battery is reduced when the secondary battery voltage gets close to a previously set constant voltage. When the charging current has become less than a charging completion current value as a reference for determining whether the ch... | 04/19/2011 |
