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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7943459 | Semiconductor device and method of manufacturing the semiconductor device A semiconductor device is provided with a conductor wire and a fuse wire formed in an insulating film over a semiconductor substrate, a first under-pad-wire insulating film formed above the insulating film, a second under-pad-wire insulating film formed on the first... | 05/17/2011 |
| 7943333 | Diagnostic method for identifying carriers of the Marburg I variant of factor VII-activating protease (FSAP) on the basis of differential modulation of FSAP activity The present invention relates to a diagnostic method for identifying persons with genetically related hetero- or homozygous expression of the MR I variant of factor VII-activating protease (FSAP). The heterozygous or homozygous presence of an MR I polymorphism can b... | 05/17/2011 |
| 7941948 | Pressure sealed point of sale card package A point of sale card package, and method for manufacturing same, include an intermediate in the form of a sheet of paper material which is sequentially V-folded twice about a first and a second fold line, extending orthogonally to one another, to form four stacked p... | 05/17/2011 |
| 7941782 | Pattern layout of integrated circuit In a pattern layout which includes a first device pattern having a uniformly repeated pattern group having first lines and first spaces formed parallel to one anther and uniformly arranged with constant width at a constant pitch and a non-uniformly repeated pattern ... | 05/10/2011 |
| 7941767 | Photomask management method and photomask wash limit generating method A photomask is washed and at least one physical amount of transmittance and phase difference of the photomask, dimension of a pattern, height of the pattern and a sidewall shape of the pattern is measured. After this, the two-dimensional shape of a borderline patter... | 05/10/2011 |
| 7941753 | Communicating appointment and/or mapping information among a calendar application and a navigation application According to one general aspect, a method for providing directions to an appointment location appearing in a calendar application includes identifying an appointment in a calendar application, determining a geographic location of the appointment, identifying another... | 05/10/2011 |
| 7941601 | Storage device using nonvolatile cache memory and control method thereof A data process can be performed without lowering the data processing efficiency even when the sector length of the host device side is different from the sector length of the hard disk side. Partial data or whole data of a second data block which is based on a long ... | 05/10/2011 |
| 7941154 | Method and system for resource management in communication networks, related network and computer program product therefor A method for providing, in a communication network including at least a first and a second set of resources, a service to users of at least a first and a second type. The users of the first type are in a condition to be provided said service only by means of said fi... | 05/10/2011 |
| 7940779 | Method and system for controlling mobility in a communication network, related network and computer program product therefor A communication network, such as a mobile IP network, includes at least one mobile terminal and a plurality of home agents adapted to provide, within working sessions, communication services to the above mobile terminal. In the network, there is an authentication, a... | 05/10/2011 |
| 7940761 | Communication connection method, authentication method, server computer, client computer and program Communication connection method for connecting server computer to client computer via network, comprises storing group identification information items for identifying groups, in relation to information indicating number of connection request packets uniquely and se... | 05/10/2011 |
| 7940421 | Color image forming apparatus A tandem type color image forming apparatus, which can continuously form color images each containing two or more colors, including: a signal creating section having, for each color, two or more image area setting counters for generating an image valid area signal t... | 05/10/2011 |
| 7940216 | Method and system for mobile network aided positioning A method for fixing a position of a user apparatus includes the step of starting a fixing session and, within the fixing session, determining a size of a snapshot of a signal of a positioning system depending on the receiving conditions of the signal at the user app... | 05/10/2011 |
| 7940104 | Signal generating apparatus, filter apparatus, signal generating method and filtering method There is provided a signal generating apparatus including: a multiphase oscillating portion for generating a number of base signals having the same frequency and a predetermined phase difference of which the signal level transitions between a first level and a secon... | 05/10/2011 |
| 7939891 | Semiconductor device having MISFETs and manufacturing method thereof A semiconductor device includes a dielectric film and gate electrode that are stacked on a substrate, sidewalls formed to cover the side surfaces of the electrode and dielectric film, and SiGe films formed to sandwich the sidewalls, electrode and dielectric film, fi... | 05/10/2011 |
| 7939288 | Method for differentiating between factor XIII deficiency states and fibrinogen deficiency states by means of thrombelastographic techniques The invention relates to a method for determining a factor XIII deficiency, a method for determining a fibrinogen deficiency, and a method for differentiating between a factor XIII deficiency and a fibrinogen deficiency by means of thrombelastographic techniques. On... | 05/10/2011 |
| 7939171 | Metal-containing resin particle, metal-containing resin layer, method of forming metal-containing resin layer, and substrate for electronic circuit Provided is metal-containing resin particle for forming a conductor pattern in which the metal particles are dispersed in a resin matrix, and the content of the metal particles is 70 wt % or less. ... | 05/10/2011 |
| 7939002 | Retardation film, method for producing the same, polarizing plate and liquid crystal display A method of producing a long roll retardation film comprising the sequential steps of: (a) casting a film forming material on an endless support to form a long roll film; (b) stretching the long roll film in a lateral direction of the long roll film while both edges... | 05/10/2011 |
| 7938346 | Grinding method for inorganic particulate material A method of preparing a steep particle size inorganic particulate material includes grinding an aqueous suspension of an inorganic particulate material having a solids content of less than 35% and including a sub-effective amount of a dispersant for the inorganic pa... | 05/10/2011 |
| 7937712 | Systems and methods for providing a generic audit trail service Systems, methods, and computer readable media are disclosed for providing a generic audit trail service for a plurality of business objects, at least two of the plurality of business objects being of different business object types. In one implementation, a computer... | 05/03/2011 |
| 7937650 | Maximum likelihood decoder and decoding method therefor According to one embodiment, a maximum likelihood decoder includes a branch metric calculator, a processor configured to perform addition, comparison, and selection of an output from the branch metric calculator and a path metric memory, and outputs a selection sign... | 05/03/2011 |
| 7937648 | Decoding device, control method, and program A decoding device for decoding LDPC (Low Density Parity Check) codes includes a message calculation unit for performing a variable node calculation for decoding the LPDC codes using a message to be supplied, or performing a check node calculation, and outputting the... | 05/03/2011 |
| 7937262 | Method, apparatus, and computer program product for machine translation A first recognizing unit recognizes a first-language speech as a first-language character string, and outputs a first recognition result. A second recognizing unit recognizes the first-language speech as a most probable first-language example from among first-langua... | 05/03/2011 |
| 7936877 | Data transfer system, data transfer device, data recording device and data transfer method It is an object to provide an efficient transfer of content data. In a case of transferring the content data from a data transfer device on a primary recording medium side to a data recording device to record the content data in a secondary recording medium, a data ... | 05/03/2011 |
| 7936827 | Information processing apparatus having receiving device that receives video data An information processing apparatus includes a receiving device and a control unit. The receiving device includes a plurality of processing unit containing an interface unit. The control unit includes an input source detection module, a transfer instruction detectio... | 05/03/2011 |
| 7936385 | Image pickup apparatus and imaging method for automatic monitoring of an image An embodiment of the invention provides an image pickup apparatus to which a zoom lens having a variable imaging angle of view is mounted, including: a dynamic body detecting portion for detecting a dynamic body from an image signal obtained by capturing an image; a... | 05/03/2011 |
| 7936376 | Image pickup device, integrated circuit of image pickup element, and image pickup result processing method The present invention is applied to for example video cameras recording an image pickup result by moving picture, electronic still cameras, monitoring devices and the like. Image pickup means 3 and image compressing means 6 are connected to each other ... | 05/03/2011 |
| 7936004 | Nonvolatile semiconductor memory device and manufacturing method thereof A nonvolatile semiconductor memory device includes a plurality of the memory strings, in which a plurality of electrically programmable memory cells is connected in series. The memory strings comprise a pillar shaped semiconductor; a first insulation film formed aro... | 05/03/2011 |
| 7934528 | Elastomeric composition including at least one salt or oxide of a transition metal and tyre and tread band including the composition An elastomeric composition includes at least one diene elastomeric polymer, at least one salt or oxide of a transition metal belonging to groups IIIA, IVA, VA, VIA, VIIA, or VIIIA of the Periodic Table, at least one vulcanization accelerator, sulphur or derivatives ... | 05/03/2011 |
| 7934175 | Parameter adjustment method, semiconductor device manufacturing method, and recording medium A parameter adjustment method for a plurality of manufacturing devices to form a pattern of a semiconductor device on a substrate using the manufacturing devices includes: adjusting a parameter adjustable for a manufacturing device serving as a reference manufacturi... | 04/26/2011 |
| 7933988 | Method and system for monitoring performance of a client-server architecture An arrangement which jointly exploits an agent component installed in a server-side portion of client-server architecture for emulating requests of actual clients of the client-server architecture and measuring a server execution time indicative of a time elapsed be... | 04/26/2011 |
| 7933459 | Data processing apparatus, the method and coding apparatus From an MPEG image data (S11), an MPEG2 encoder circuit (51) extracts a quantum scale (Qm) of each macro block (MB) which has been used for quantization of the MPEG2 in the encoding process. An activity calculation circuit (53) calculates an act... | 04/26/2011 |
| 7933340 | Communications system, receiver apparatus, transmission mode proposal method, and program A communications system has a transmission apparatus for transmitting a signal and a reception apparatus for receiving the signal. The reception apparatus includes: a transmission mode table; a propagation path condition detecting block; a transmission mode extracti... | 04/26/2011 |
| 7932954 | Cross color and dot disturbance elimination apparatus and method According to one embodiment, an apparatus includes an average calculation portion which performs a average calculating process between frames by use of an input signal and one-frame delay signal and acquires an output signal having cross color and dot disturbance co... | 04/26/2011 |
| 7932939 | Apparatus and method for correcting blurred images In an image processing apparatus that performs image processing on an image supplied from an imaging apparatus that captured an original image and that performed gamma processing on the original image to generate the image to be supplied to the image processing appa... | 04/26/2011 |
| 7932773 | Charge domain filter circuit A charge domain filter circuit includes a first signal output portion, at least one second signal output, portion, a third signal output portion, and an adder portion. The first signal output portion outputs a first signal that is sampled at a specified time interva... | 04/26/2011 |
| 7932605 | Semiconductor device and manufacturing method therefor There is disclosed a semiconductor device comprising at least one semiconductor element, one chip mounting base being provided at least one first interconnection on one major surface thereof and at least one second interconnection on the other major surface thereof,... | 04/26/2011 |
| 7932315 | Inner part of hard disk drive A hard disk drive inner part formed of a resin which exhibits well-balanced low outgassing properties, ultrasonic cleaning resistance, low ionic contamination properties, low particulate contamination properties, repeated removability, heat resistance, specific grav... | 04/26/2011 |
| 7932276 | Agent for curing chronic obstructive pulmonary disease The present invention provides a useful and highly safe agent for the treatment of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, which contains, as the effective ingredient, at least one compound selected from the group consisting of thiazole derivatives and salts thereof ... | 04/26/2011 |
| 7932002 | Reflection-type mask and method of making the reflection-type mask To provide a reflection-type mask having a reduced shadowing effect, capable of phase shift exposure and having a shading frame of sufficient shading performance. The mask includes a substrate 11, a multilayer reflective film 12 which is formed above t... | 04/26/2011 |
| 7931767 | Process for manufacturing elastomeric components of a tyre for vehicle wheels A process for manufacturing elastomeric components of a tire for a vehicle wheel includes feeding a continuous elongated element from a delivery member by exerting a feeding pressure inside the delivery member, rotating a building support around a geometrical rotati... | 04/26/2011 |
