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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 6215842 | Reduction of temporal variations in X-ray radiation An x-ray radiation stabilization system is provided including an x-ray tube (20) which emits x-ray radiation (22). The x-ray tube (20) has an anode (52), a cathode (50), and a vacuum envelope (54) which houses the anode (52) and the cathode (50). A high-v... | 04/10/2001 |
| 6006304 | Apparatus and method for calculating an erasure time for data stored in a flash memory A system includes a microcomputer. The microcomputer includes a clock signal circuit, a measuring circuit, a central processing unit, and a flash memory. A user sets a frequency of a clock signal provided by the clock signal circuit. The measuring unit co... | 12/21/1999 |
| 6002694 | Interactive chargeable communication system with billing system therefor A billing system for use in a chargeable program broadcasting is capable of reliably billing a subscriber for program reception while preventing unauthorized reception thereof. A receiving terminal includes a primary terminal 100 and a secondary terminal ... | 12/14/1999 |
| 5978816 | Method of making cursor form for linking parts of a displayed image with corresponding entries in a table A cursor form is created for linking parts of a displayed image with corresponding entries of a table. When setting a link by designating a cursor on the display screen, a cursor for designating the location where a link is to be set surely and quickly is... | 11/02/1999 |
| 5909205 | Liquid crystal display control device There is provided a liquid crystal display control device which can display pictures in a magnification mode by using only a memory having low-speed access and a low storage capacity. When a video signal has intermediate resolution or less, the enlargemen... | 06/01/1999 |
| 5907488 | Method of evaluating easiness of works and processings performed on articles and evaluation apparatus A method of evaluating quantitatively in a design stage degrees of difficulty of works and processings to be performed on an article or parts at various stage of life thereof such as manufacturing, sale, use, maintenance/inspection/repair, recovery, disma... | 05/25/1999 |
| 5907372 | Decoding/displaying device for decoding/displaying coded picture data generated by high efficiency coding for interlace scanning picture format In a decoding/displaying device, the memory capacity or mapping to B pictures is set in consideration of a decoding waiting period, thereby avoiding the competition between a write-in operation and a read-out operation for a memory. Therefore, the decodin... | 05/25/1999 |
| 5900008 | Semiconductor integrated circuit device A semiconductor integrated circuit device comprising a one-chip microcomputer having a nonvolatile memory circuit to and from which write and read operations are carried out at high speed in keeping with the cycle time of the processor. Part of the memory... | 05/04/1999 |
| 5893143 | Parallel processing unit with cache memories storing NO-OP mask bits for instructions Each processing unit 110a to 110d has an individual cache memory 100a to 100d. When the cache memories read an instruction from a main storage 5, an instruction field is distributed to the cache memories. Each cache memory is controlled by a common contro... | 04/06/1999 |
| 5889971 | Bus system for use with information processing apparatus A processor bus linked with at least a processor, a memory bus linked with a main memory, and a system bus linked with at least an input/output device are connected to a three-way connection control system. The control system includes a bus-memory connect... | 03/30/1999 |
| 5889501 | Plasma display apparatus and method of driving the same A plasma display apparatus is disclosed, in which a plurality of pixels are arranged in dot matrix, at least one first electrode specifies the addresses of the pixels, a set of electrodes including a second electrode and a third electrode are arranged in ... | 03/30/1999 |
| 5886409 | Electrode structure of wiring substrate of semiconductor device having expanded pitch An electrode structure as well as the fabrication method thereof is disclosed which may enable successful pad layout conversion of interconnection electrode pads on the periphery of an associated IC chip to a grid array of rows and columns of terminal sol... | 03/23/1999 |
| 5884249 | Input device, inputting method, information processing system, and input information managing method An input device which includes plural inputting units, each accepting external information, including a unit for recognizing an input time of input information accepted via each of the plural inputting means; a unit for dividing or merging the input infor... | 03/16/1999 |
| 5881255 | Bus control system incorporating the coupling of two split-transaction busses of different hierarchy In a data processing system, a plurality of modules connected to a system bus thereof are assigned with identifiers. When a source module initiates a split read access to another module, the source module sends an address of the access destination module ... | 03/09/1999 |
| 5875279 | Subscriber terminal of an interactive communication system and control device thereof An input terminal (240) for assigning at least one information to be requested and a control circuit (100) for controlling a recording operation, a tape stopping operation and a detecting operation of a head of recorded information of a recording and repr... | 02/23/1999 |
| 5873455 | Nonpropagation casing Detonator packaging comprising a casing, a carton for retaining a plurality of casings and spacers for separating and organizing the casing within the carton is disclosed. The casing is formed from a plurality of connected sections of relatively dense mat... | 02/23/1999 |
| 5870618 | Processor and data processor An object of the present invention is to provide a processor which can execute calculation between data of a data length larger than the data length of the register file at high speed without the cost of the hardware being increased so much and the first ... | 02/09/1999 |
| 5870730 | Decision making method When an intention is decided by a computer, the conclusion part of a rule is expressed by using an intention level such as an auxiliary verb of intention and an intention is decided on the basis of the expression. A rule for a certain action is described ... | 02/09/1999 |
| 5867656 | Method for interprocessor communication In a computer system in which nodes are connected to each other via a network, transmission and reception buffers of sender and receiver processes are prepared as resident areas in a main storage. A node of a receiver side notifies, prior to initiation of... | 02/02/1999 |
| 5867824 | Workflow method and system therefor A workflow system comprising a plurality of workflow subsystems connected to a LAN (Local Area Network), these workflow subsystems being composed of servers and clients, and provides a workflow system which permits an integrated management of the definiti... | 02/02/1999 |
| 5854636 | Semiconductor IC with a plurality of processing circuits which receive parallel data via a parallel data transfer circuit A semiconductor integrated circuit having a two-dimensional array (MAR) and a parallel data transfer circuit (TRC) for transferring from the array data read out in parallel through data lines, in parallel to a processing circuit group (PE) by selecting th... | 12/29/1998 |
| 5839683 | Apparatus for controlling tape speed On the occasion of stopping the tape being run at a high speed, a winding radius of the tape supply reel is detected, and a tape deceleration rate is set in response to the detected winding radius. After the tape running speed is decelerated in the decele... | 11/24/1998 |
| 5841977 | Computer-based conferencing system with local operation function A joint work support system includes a plurality of terminals mutually connected to one another through a network. Each terminal includes a first data communication means and an operation means. The operation means performs operations to support joint wor... | 11/24/1998 |
| 5838059 | Multichip IC card and IC card system using it The object of the present invention is to provide a multichip IC card which seems to be a single chip IC card constituted by one chip and in which plural function chips are built. The multichip IC card is provided with a connector 3 for connecting to an i... | 11/17/1998 |
| 5833662 | Hemostasis cannula system A hemostasis cannula system includes a cannula, a vessel dilator, an elongate hollow percutaneous needle with clear reservoir, and an obturator. The hemostasis cannula comprises a body having a passage therethrough adapted to receive a catheter as well as... | 11/10/1998 |
| 5828417 | Television receiver with on screen display for reserving programs to be recorded or viewed A television receiver includes a unit for controlling program reserve, a storage unit for storing previously remocon codes of an external picture recording apparatus in a memory of the control unit, an output terminal for outputting the remocon code corre... | 10/27/1998 |
| 5818168 | Gas discharge display panel having communicable main and auxiliary discharge spaces and manufacturing method therefor A gas discharge display panel which provides sufficient contrast and good accuracy and is high in yield. When a voltage is applied to auxiliary discharge electrodes, auxiliary discharge occurs in an auxiliary discharge space and excited charged particles ... | 10/06/1998 |
| 5819246 | Non-linear model automatic generating method The present invention is intended to automatically select least required input items for a non-linear model and improve an efficiency of building up the non-linear model. For building up, for example, a neural network as the non-linear model, a group-by r... | 10/06/1998 |
| 5815711 | Apparatus and method for program generation A program is generated by combining program modules by displaying programs for guiding the combination of program modules and selecting one of the programs. Program modules stored in a memory are displayed on a display device by a command inputted from th... | 09/29/1998 |
| 5812946 | Cordless telephone system capable of transmitting abbreviated number information between base station and personal station and method therefor A cordless telephone system includes one base station and at least one personal station. Each station includes an abbreviated dial memory for storing abbreviated dial data, a control unit for controlling the telecommunication device, an abbreviated dial t... | 09/22/1998 |
| 5801965 | Method and system for manufacturing semiconductor devices, and method and system for inspecting semiconductor devices The present invention relates to a method and system of inspecting a product, including extracting defects from the product, classifying the defects on the basis of information about the extracted defects representing the analogy of the defects, extractin... | 09/01/1998 |
| 5786822 | Method and apparatus for mapping texture on an object displayed at a varying view angle from an observer A plurality of texture data of a surface of an object to be displayed as viewed from a plurality of assumed directions are stored in a texture memory. When a CPU sends to a graphic processor information specifying a shape of the surface, a direction to vi... | 07/28/1998 |
| 5787261 | Data transfer system, computer system and active-line inserted/withdrawn functional circuit board It is an object of the present invention to provide an active-line inserted/withdrawn functional circuit board, a data transfer system and a computer system which systems allow the functional circuit board to be inserted and withdrawn with signal lines re... | 07/28/1998 |
| 5781294 | Method and apparatus for detecting photoacoustic signal to detect surface and subsurface information of the specimen A method and an apparatus for detecting a photoacoustic signal are provided which irradiate an excitation light beam, modulated by a desired frequency, simultaneously to a plurality of points being measured on a surface of a sample, irradiate the excitati... | 07/14/1998 |
| 5768451 | Character recognition method and apparatus A character recognition method is arranged to supplement an erroneously recognized character with a linguistic knowledge. In this method, the extraction of a candidate based on the search of a word dictionary occupies a large part of the operation. To spe... | 06/16/1998 |
| 5764975 | Data mining method and apparatus using rate of common records as a measure of similarity The present invention generates a plurality of rules comprising a consequence including records having the characteristics of the target attribute and record items and a precedence including at least one record item in an attribute appearance area decided... | 06/09/1998 |
| 5765005 | Method for preparing form With employment of a computer, table format data is arranged to produce a desirable form in accordance with the following sequential operation. The designated data table is displayed on a relational table display window, and a base record is set with resp... | 06/09/1998 |
| 5757353 | Display control device CPU writes display character codes corresponding to a liquid crystal display position to display RAM to cause any desired character to be read from character generator ROM and to be displayed. There are provided a scroll display line designation register ... | 05/26/1998 |
| 5754654 | Electronic ticket vending system and method thereof A system comprises an electronic ticket vending and refunding device retained by a ticket publisher, a terminal device having a data input device, a data display device, and a data transmission and reception device, etc. which are operated by a purchaser,... | 05/19/1998 |
| 5754364 | Magnetic disk apparatus An apparatus having a magnetic head assembly including a plurality of arms each arm having a magnetic head fixed to a nose portion thereof and a magnetic disk unit having a plurality of magnetic disks mounted on a rotating shaft. The spacing between adjac... | 05/19/1998 |
