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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8180856 | Testing a network There are disclosed processes and systems relating to optimized traffic generation and reception for testing a network. A TCP/IP protocol stack and an HTTP program are operative in kernel space. The HTTP program may receive a test request from an application operati... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8180070 | Howling suppressing apparatus A howling suppressing apparatus includes: a detecting unit configured to detect howling of input audio signals; a plurality of filters configured to apply a filter process sequentially to the audio signals to be output; and a setting unit configured to set a filter ... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8179107 | Power supply circuit and electronic equipment A power supply circuit comprising: a voltage generating circuit configured to generate an output voltage of a target level from an input voltage; an overcurrent protection circuit configured to control the voltage generating circuit so as to stop an output current, ... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8179075 | Motor driving integrated circuit A motor driving integrated circuit comprising: a speed control circuit configured to control a rotation speed of a motor according to a speed control signal; a detecting circuit configured to detect whether the speed control signal indicates stop of rotation of the ... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8171193 | Master communication circuit, slave communication circuit, and data communicating method A master communication circuit communicatively connected to a slave communication circuit, comprises a timer circuit that can detect a first time; a first output circuit that outputs a first output signal of one logical level for starting a detecting operation of th... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8170517 | Receiving apparatus A receiving apparatus comprising: a first mixing unit to output first and second mixed signals each having a first frequency that is a frequency difference between a received signal and a first local oscillator signal, the first and second mixed signals having phase... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8170413 | Single seat-kill camera system There is disclosed a single seat-kill camera system and method. The single seat-kill camera may include a camera head and an elevator configured to position the camera head in one of a down position and an up position. An obstruction detector may determine whether o... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8170412 | Platform for stereoscopic image acquisition There is disclosed a method and apparatus for acquiring stereoscopic images. A first camera may be mounted to a first convergence plate, the first convergence plate coupled to a first plate via a first XY slide and a first pivot displaced from the first XY slide. A ... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8156966 | Animal resistant tubing system There is disclosed an animal-resistant tubing system. The animal resistant tubing system may include a flexible tube disposed within a coil shield, the coil shield having an uncompressed length longer than a length of the flexible tube. The coil shield may have an i... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8149444 | Printing control system A print system in which a printer and a client personal computer are connected to a network. The printer may include a storage unit configured to store a residual quantity information of sheets of paper in a paper feed cassette, a communication unit configured to tr... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8139935 | 3D camera with foreground object distance sensing There is disclosed a stereographic camera system and a method of operating a stereographic camera system. The stereoscopic camera system may include a left camera and a right camera having respective left and right lenses and an IOD mechanism to set an interocular d... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8134522 | LED driving circuit An LED driving circuit includes: a current generating circuit configured to generate a drive current corresponding to a voltage level of a drive voltage applied to anodes of the first to fourth LEDs so as to alternately drive the first and second LEDs and the third ... | 03/13/2012 |
| 8127534 | Pellet loaded attitude control rocket motor There is disclosed a solid fuel rocket motor which may include a case and a nozzle coupled to the case. A plurality of fuel pellets may be disposed within the case. An igniter may be disposed to ignite at least a portion of the fuel pellets. A pellet retainer may be... | 03/06/2012 |
| 8126151 | Audio signal processing circuit An audio signal processing circuit comprising: a holding circuit configured to receive a clock signal and set data corresponding to the clock signal, and to hold the set data; a processing circuit configured to process at least one of a first audio signal and a seco... | 02/28/2012 |
| 8121497 | Image forming apparatus, MFP and method of displaying jam removal guidance An image forming apparatus may include an image forming device to form and fix an image on a paper, a paper conveyer to convey the paper from a sheet feeder through the image forming device to a finisher, at least one door configured to uncover and cover a part of t... | 02/21/2012 |
| 8109146 | Measurement of bowed string dynamics There are disclosed systems and methods for measuring the bowing parameters and the bowed string dynamics of a player playing a bowed string instrument. A system for measuring the bowing parameters and the bowed string dynamics may comprise a computer, a bow system ... | 02/07/2012 |
| 8102158 | Phase synchronization circuit A phase synchronization circuit comprising: a charging/discharging-circuit to charge/discharge a capacitor in accordance with a drive-signal, charging and/or discharging current-values of the capacitor being settable; an oscillation-circuit to output an oscillation-... | 01/24/2012 |
| 8098847 | Muting circuit A muting circuit comprising: a DC offset eliminating unit including an HPF (High Pass Filter) constituted by a first operational amplifier to eliminate a DC offset component of an AC input signal, the DC offset eliminating unit being configured to output an output s... | 01/17/2012 |
| 8098033 | Motor drive circuit A motor drive circuit comprising: a triangle wave generation circuit configured to charge/discharge a capacitor with a charging/discharging current having a current amount corresponding to an amplitude control voltage for controlling an amplitude of an oscillation v... | 01/17/2012 |
| 8090318 | Digital data processing circuit A digital data processing circuit includes: an output unit configured to output to an audio signal processing circuit change data for changing a receiving frequency of a FM receiving device as a first frequency to a second frequency in response to an instruction sig... | 01/03/2012 |
| 8090251 | Frame linked 2D/3D camera system A method of operating a 3D camera and a frame-linked 2D/3D camera system. The 3D camera may receive data conveying operating parameters of at least one 2D camera. Operating parameters of the 3D camera including a pan angle Φ3D, a tilt angle T3D | 01/03/2012 |
| 8082146 | Noise canceller using forward and backward linear prediction with a temporally nonlinear linear weighting A noise canceller is constituted by a forward linear prediction processor that performs forward linear prediction for a reception signal in a noisy section where the reception signal includes noise, and a backward linear prediction processor that performs backward l... | 12/20/2011 |
| 8081927 | Digital data processing circuit A digital data processing circuit comprising: a setting unit configured to set setting data on an audio signal processing circuit configured to generate an FM modulated signal based on the setting data, the FM modulated signal being a signal to be transmitted wirele... | 12/20/2011 |
| 8081557 | Optical pickup apparatus An optical pickup apparatus comprising: a laser light source; an objective lens; a reflection mirror; a photodetector; and a beam splitter, the beam splitter including a first reflective film configured to generate a first phase difference corresponding to a predete... | 12/20/2011 |
| 8081556 | Optical pickup apparatus An optical-pickup apparatus comprising: a laser-light source including first-and-second-light-emitting points for laser lights with first-and-second wavelengths which points are disposed at positions deviating in a direction optically corresponding to an optical-dis... | 12/20/2011 |
| 8081115 | Combining multiple-port patch antenna An exemplary apparatus providing an antenna for radiating electromagnetic energy is disclosed as having: a first dielectric substrate having opposite first and second surfaces, a patch of conducting material disposed on the first surface, a ground plane of conductin... | 12/20/2011 |
| 8081095 | Data output circuit A data output circuit includes: a data generating circuit configured to generate output data; and a serial output circuit configured to receive an address corresponding to the data generating circuit, hold a parallel data input during a time period over which the ad... | 12/20/2011 |
| 8081046 | Ortho-mode transducer with opposing branch waveguides There is disclosed an ortho-mode transducer fabricated as a single piece. The ortho-mode transducer may include a first surface having an aperture defining a common port, a second surface having an aperture defining a vertical port, and a third surface having an ape... | 12/20/2011 |
| 8073854 | Determining the similarity of music using cultural and acoustic information There is disclosed a method and storage media for determining the similarity between a first music collection and a second music collection. The similarity may be determined by comparing metadata associated with the first music collection and metadata associated wit... | 12/06/2011 |
| 8068429 | Transmit scheduling There are disclosed apparatus and methods for scheduling packet transmission. At least one scheduled traffic queue holds a plurality of scheduled packets, each scheduled packet having an associated scheduled transmit time. At least one unscheduled traffic queue hold... | 11/29/2011 |
| 8060573 | Matching social network users Systems and methods are disclosed for matching of individuals to one another using a matching model. The matching model matches social network users based on ratings given by users one to another, as well as, as appropriate and available, explicit attributes indicat... | 11/15/2011 |
| 8058946 | Circuit module with non-contacting microwave interlayer interconnect A circuit module may include a first substrate having a first side and a second side, a second substrate having a third side and a fourth side, the third side facing the second side, and a resilient bond layer coupling the second side to the third side. The first su... | 11/15/2011 |
| 8056858 | Device and method for providing radiation occlusion and aero-thermal protection An extendable device for providing radiation occlusion and/or aero-thermal protection is disclosed. In various representative aspects, the present invention generally includes an extendable collar and a flexure configured to provide elastic properties (e.g., to faci... | 11/15/2011 |
| 8050603 | Image forming apparatus, image forming method and image forming program An image forming apparatus includes an image forming unit that forms multicolor toner images superposed on a transfer belt. A sensor is disposed in an image formation region and detects a pattern on the transfer belt. A controller determines, when image data is rece... | 11/01/2011 |
| 8050586 | Image forming apparatus and display unit of an image forming apparatus In a case where a display unit displays a setting screen having a first display area to display a draft graphical image in accordance with draft setting and a second display area to display a finished graphical image in accordance with sheet setting, and a user desi... | 11/01/2011 |
| 8050175 | Distributed packet group identification for network testing There is disclosed a method, an apparatus, a computing device, and a storage medium for testing a network. A plurality of packets may be received. A packet group identification number for each packet may be determined by extracting two or more packet group identific... | 11/01/2011 |
| 8049663 | Hardware compensating pulse compression filter system and method A method to improve a system's signal performance may comprise: generating a first signal, transmitting the first signal, receiving the first signal, and generating a second signal. The method may further comprise: identifying signal distortions generated by at leas... | 11/01/2011 |
| 8049173 | Dual use RF directed energy weapon and imager There is disclosed an dual use RF directed energy weapon and imager. A generator may provide a first beam of RF electromagnetic energy which may be directed to an object by a beam director. An imager may form an image of the object. The imager may share an aperture ... | 11/01/2011 |
| 8047070 | Fast response projectile roll estimator An apparatus and method for estimating a roll angle of a projectile may include a measurement unit outputting roll rate, yaw rate, and pitch rate signals indicative of rotation rates about substantially orthogonal roll, yaw, and pitch axes, the roll axis substantial... | 11/01/2011 |
| 8045443 | Optical pickup apparatus An optical pickup apparatus comprising: a laser-light source that selectively emits first and second laser lights parallel with each other; a diffraction grating that includes a plurality of periodic structures joined to be different in phase from each other in a di... | 10/25/2011 |
