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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8185855 | Capacitor-cell, integrated circuit, and designing and manufacturing methods A capacitor-cell is in an integrated circuit that is configured by disposing a plurality of cells on a site that is on a chip and that is provided between a power line and a grounding line in a direction of the power line and grounding line. The capacitor cell is di... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8185753 | Storage medium for storing power consumption monitor program, power consumption monitor apparatus and power consumption monitor method A power consumption monitor device monitors power consumption of one or more devices through a network. The monitor device includes a storage unit, a load information collecting unit and a power consumption estimation unit. The storage unit stores power consumption ... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8185699 | Cache memory controller and cache memory controlling method In a separating device that separates a processor configured to perform process by using data recorded in a cache memory connected to the processor, a stopping unit, upon receiving a processor separation request, stops the processor from performing a new process; an... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8184859 | Road marking recognition apparatus and method An object of this invention is to provide a technique to correctly recognize road markings by a simple processing. This road marking recognition method: obtaining image data of a road, and storing the image data into an image data storage; detecting a first road mar... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8184665 | Network device A disclosed network device includes a plurality of interface cards that receive clock signals and clock signal quality information from other devices via communication lines, respectively being predetermined communication line types corresponding to the plurality of... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8184442 | Case of an electronic device A case for an electronic device includes a printed circuit board; a frame capable of storing the printed circuit board; a back board equipped on a back side of the frame, and including a connector for connecting the printed circuit board; rail holders equipped in pr... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8184236 | Lighting device and liquid crystal display device LEDs (light sources) are disposed in a row in the width direction of a light-guiding plate near the edge surface of the light-guiding plate. In the edge surface of the light-guiding plate, diffractive optical elements (DOEs) are disposed to face the LEDs, respective... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8184024 | Data encoding process, data decoding process, computer-readable recording medium storing data encoding program, and computer-readable recording medium storing data decoding program In a data encoding process: data is encoded by using unit bit series obtained from an encoding bit series; the encoding bit series is searched for a first bit series identical to a portion of the encoded data; the portion is substituted with a second bit series whic... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8183943 | Oscillator and phase synchronizing circuit When a direct-current voltage is applied from a power supply, a signal line generates a standing wave having the ¾ wavelength where a starting end of the signal line connected to the power supply is used as a node and a terminating end is used as an antinode. Strip... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8183934 | PLL circuit and voltage-controlled oscillator In a PLL circuit, a threshold discriminator generates a control signal indicating a relative level of a control voltage. A controller outputs a controlling value based on the control signal. If the control signal indicates a high level when the controlling value spe... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8181774 | Package There is provided a package of which package objective article is transferred to an up-and-down lift easily even if the package objective article is heavy. A package includes a base portion. The base portion includes a top face opening type of an outer box an... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8180985 | Storage switch, storage system, and data copying method using bitmaps representing different sized regions A storage switch includes a first bitmap generator for generating a first bitmap, a controller for controlling copying of data, a first modifier, a second bitmap generator for generating a second bitmap, a second modifier, a merging controller for controlling to gen... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8180842 | Communication device management program A communication device management program that enables efficient use of memory space in receiving data using remote direct memory access (RDMA) techniques. The receiving node transmits a virtual ID corresponding to a receiving process to a remote sending node. A sen... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8180415 | Water-shielding type mobile terminal apparatus The mobile terminal apparatus of the present invention includes a housing having an opening section in which an accommodated object is fitted; a lid covering the opening section, the lid having a protrusion which surrounds the opening section and shields the accommo... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8180403 | Recovery method and radio network controller in radio communication system When a first MS control signalling device that controls a mobile station fails, a second MS control signalling device takes over the processing of the first MS control signalling device. The second MS control signalling device requests a RLC parameter necessary for ... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8179624 | Method and apparatus for evaluating a magnetic recording medium A method of evaluating a magnetic recording medium using a magnetic head having a reproduction element is disclosed The method includes the steps of (a) recording a signal in a predetermined area of the magnetic recording medium; (b) determining a first value of a r... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8179280 | Intelligent transport (IT) system using wireless communication between a roadside device and an in-vehicle device In order to realize road-road communications, a roadside device is provided with an MS function unit and a BS function unit that have a termination function of a signal. In a case of performing road-road communications, any of plural roadside devices can function as... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8178932 | Semiconductor device having transistors A semiconductor device includes a first transistor having a threshold voltage (Vth) adjusted to a first Vth by a first dopant having a first peak of concentration at a first depth; and a second transistor having the same channel-type as that of the first transistor ... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8178791 | Wiring substrate including conductive core substrate, and manufacturing method thereof A wiring substrate includes a core substrate having a first main surface and a mutually opposing second main surface, the second main surface having a conductive property. A first through hole penetrates a core substrate. A first conductive layer extends from the fi... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8176365 | Computer apparatus and processor diagnostic method A computer apparatus includes a first processor, a second processor, and a main memory. The computer apparatus further includes a memory-diagnostic unit, a diagnostic-program loading unit, and a defective-function identifying unit. The memory-diagnostic unit causes ... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8176261 | Information processing apparatus and data transfer method One aspect of the embodiments utilizes an information processing apparatus having a plurality of system boards connected via a bus, each system board including a CPU having a cache memory, a main memory that forms a shared memory, and a system controller that manage... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8176260 | Recording controller including snoop unit issuing invalidation request and response unit outputting notification indicating identification information for indentifying recording request and recording control method thereof In a recording controller, an invalidation-request issuing unit, when a second data is recorded on a recording location for a first data that is to be recorded in a memory and a third data corresponding to the second data is recorded in the cache, issues an invalida... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8176050 | Method and apparatus of supporting creation of classification rules This invention is to appropriately support creation of a classification rule for a new data item. This method includes: storing a new data item and a category of the new data item into a storage; extracting feature patterns each including a condition including a fea... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8174963 | Data relay apparatus and failure recovery method A data relay apparatus that recovers a failure in a network that shares a part of a plurality of rings and avoids occurrence of a loop path by providing a block in each of the rings includes a failure-notification-packet transmitting unit that transmits, when a fail... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8174310 | Quadrature modulation demodulation circuit A quadrature demodulation circuit includes: first to fourth mixers to receive a modulation signal; a phase shifter to supply to the first and third mixers a first local frequency signal, to supply to the second mixer a second local frequency signal having a designat... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8174282 | Leak current detection circuit, body bias control circuit, semiconductor device, and semiconductor device testing method A leak current detection circuit that improves the accuracy for detecting a leak current in a MOS transistor without enlarging the circuit scale. The leak current detection circuit includes at least one P-channel MOS transistor which is coupled to a high potential p... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8174151 | Power supply control apparatus A power supply control apparatus includes a plurality of power supply units for supplying electric power to a plurality of electric circuits respectively. The power supply control apparatus receives pulse signals from the exterior. Each of the plurality of power sup... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8173069 | Ion analyzing apparatus and ion analyzing method An ion analyzing apparatus includes a sensor; a counter electrode having openings, the counter electrode being positioned so as to substantially surround the sensor; and a bias generating circuit coupled to the sensor, wherein the sensor includes quartz crystal and ... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8171519 | Video broadcasting method, apparatus, and system A video broadcasting method includes assigning channels to a video content based on a total number of channels usable for broadcasting the video contents and a playback time of the video content, calculating a broadcast start time interval of the channels assigned t... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8171484 | Resource management apparatus and radio network controller A resource management apparatus includes a resource management part to manage an amount of resources used and an amount of virtual resources of each of a plurality of processing units, a selection and control part to select a processing unit having a smallest sum of... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8171465 | Applicable patch selection device and applicable patch selection method An applicable patch selection device comprises a first extraction unit for extracting, on the basis of information on an application target system, information on all the patches unapplied to the application target system from among information on released patches, ... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8171446 | Method for designing a semiconductor device by computing a number of vias, program therefor, and semiconductor device A method for designing a semiconductor device includes computing a contact resistance value based on an allowable power supply voltage drop set for a second position corresponding to a given region of a second power supply line on a second wiring layer different fro... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8171444 | Layout design method, apparatus and storage medium A layout design support apparatus divides a first module obtained by dividing a semiconductor integrated circuit into a plurality of second modules in order to support a layout design for determining the disposition of each cell constituting the semiconductor integr... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8171355 | Data transferring method, and communication system and program applied with the method Disclosed is a communication system that transmits data through a transmission path between a transmission side apparatus and a reception side apparatus, wherein the transmission side apparatus comprises a coding apparatus that creates redundantly-coded data from or... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8171259 | Multi-cluster dynamic reconfigurable circuit for context valid processing of data by clearing received data with added context change indicative signal A dynamic reconfigurable circuit includes multiple clusters each including a group of reconfigurable processing elements. The dynamic reconfigurable circuit is capable of dynamically changing a configuration of the clusters according to a context including a descrip... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8171248 | Storage system controlling method, switch device and storage system A method for controlling a storage system having first and second switches and a storage device connected to the switches via a network in response to a request from a host, the storage device having first and second areas, each of the first and second switch access... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8171183 | Information processing apparatus and program and method for setting identification information An information processing apparatus communicates within a system by using identification information for identifying a device includes, a first device in which a first identifier is uniquely set, a holding part that holds a second identifier settable arbitrarily for... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8170416 | Optical switching device An optical switching device the size and costs of which are reduced by decreasing the number of switching elements and which can flexibly accommodate the expansion of the number of ports. An optical demultiplexing section has 2n (n=1, 2, 3, . . . ) input ... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8170149 | OFDM receiver apparatus An OFDM receiver apparatus receives an OFDM signal including a plurality of DBPSK signals transmitting identical information. An extraction unit extracts the plurality of DBPSK signals from the OFDM signal. A phase difference calculation unit calculates a phase diff... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8170057 | Communication-processing apparatus and its method A transmitter and a receiver each have an apparatus for carrying out retransmission processing at a TCP layer and an apparatus for carrying out encrypted-data communication at an IPSec layer. The apparatus operating at the IPSec layer has a buffer for storing encryp... | 05/01/2012 |
