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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7464030 | Vector search method Each of the M basic vectors in a noise code book 260 is multiplied by a factor ±1 in a sign adder 270 and combined in an adder 280 to create 2M noise signed vectors. The characteristic of the binary Gray code is utilized as follows. ... | 12/09/2008 |
| 7454330 | Method and apparatus for speech encoding and decoding by sinusoidal analysis and waveform encoding with phase reproducibility A speech encoding method and apparatus in which an input speech signal is divided in terms of blocks or frames as encoding units and encoded in terms of the encoding units, whereby explosive and fricative consonants can be impeccably reproduced, while there is an at... | 11/18/2008 |
| 7394898 | Echo removing apparatus An echo removing apparatus for reducing the echo caused by sound returning from a speaker to a microphone of a small-sized communication terminal, such as a portable telephone. The echo removing apparatus includes a filter unit for outputting a pseudo echo signal es... | 07/01/2008 |
| 7239666 | Communication system A communication system that can satisfactorily communicate with a mobile station by a transmitter and receiver of a simple arrangement wherein a plurality of carriers having different frequencies are transmitted simultaneously and data is transmitted on the basis of... | 07/03/2007 |
| 7202901 | Video camera with stowable monitor having display facing inwardly or outwardly A video camera has a video camera body having a storage region in a side surface thereof, an imaging unit housed in the video camera body for imaging an object and generating a video signal, and an electronic viewfinder for monitoring the video signal generated by t... | 04/10/2007 |
| 7127306 | Recording and/or reproducing apparatus and recording apparatus A recording and/or reproducing apparatus includes a microphone, a semiconductor memory, an operating section and a controller. An output signal from the microphone is written in the semiconductor memory and the written signals are read out from the semiconductor mem... | 10/24/2006 |
| 7109930 | Antenna coupling apparatus, external antenna connecting apparatus, and onboard external-antenna connecting apparatus An antenna coupling apparatus, an external-antenna connecting apparatus, and an onboard external-antenna connecting apparatus which inhibits unnecessary power emissions, reduces transmission loss, and offers high durability and high ease of operation. has an electro... | 09/19/2006 |
| RE39231 | Communication terminal equipment and call incoming control method In a communication terminal equipment and in a method of controlling call incoming, unnecessary noises in a period from the start of an alert sound to carrying out of the next operation can be reduced. When a predetermined operation is effected under the condition t... | 08/08/2006 |
| 7068196 | Digital signal processing device and digital signal processing method An apparatus for processing a digital signal that generates a one-bit output signal using a delta-sigma modulation apparatus, which includes a quantizer for quantizing an integrated output of a sixth integrator to generate a one-bit output signal that is send to res... | 06/27/2006 |
| 7065023 | Light spot advancing direction judging device and method, optical head device control device and method, and optical disk recording/reproducing device A device and a method for judging the radial moving direction of light spots formed on the signal recording surface of an optical disc having grooves of two types, which are different from each other in terms of depth and which are arranged along a recording track t... | 06/20/2006 |
| 7057886 | Display unit A display device includes a cabinet that has a liquid crystal display; a connection section that is rotatably provided relative to the cabinet about a first rotating shaft and parallel to the liquid crystal display; a cover body that is rotatably provided relative t... | 06/06/2006 |
| 7035198 | Optical recording medium, recording apparatus and method for optical recording medium, and reproducing apparatus and method for optical recording medium Audio data of 20 bits is separated into first data of upper 16 bits and second data of lower 4 bits. EFM modulation data is formed from the first data. A laser beam is on/off controlled in correspondence to the logic level of channel data obtained by NRZI modulating... | 04/25/2006 |
| 7029122 | Projector A projector for projecting an image to an external screen in which an optical unit, includes rectangular liquid crystal panels disposed such that the short sides thereof are substantially parallel with a plane including principal light beams of the respective color ... | 04/18/2006 |
| 7030938 | Tuner and receiver apparatus A tuner and receiver apparatus that can output first transport stream data and second transport stream data having excellent bit error rate characteristics for two systems even when a first tuner portion and a second tuner portion are provided on one board. A first ... | 04/18/2006 |
| 7028203 | Information processing system and information processing apparatus Battery information is transmitted from a recording and playback apparatus to a host computer. In the host computer, based on the time for which operation can be continued, corresponding to the current operating status and the remaining battery level that is include... | 04/11/2006 |
| 7028152 | Digital front end processor and audio decoder sharing a single external memory A data processing device for taking out necessary packet data from a sector in which a plurality of packet data exist in a mixed manner includes an audio decoder unit that has, in parallel, an audio packet extraction unit for extracting an audio packet made up of au... | 04/11/2006 |
| 7027739 | Receiving apparatus, transmitting apparatus, and communication system A receiving apparatus and transmitting apparatus capable of transmitting and receiving a high speed optical signal and a communication system using the same, including a transmitting apparatus having a conversion circuit for converting serially input data to a plura... | 04/11/2006 |
| 7027738 | Receiving apparatus, transmitting apparatus, and communication system A receiving apparatus and transmitting apparatus capable of transmitting and receiving a high speed optical signal and a communication system using the same, including a transmitting apparatus having a conversion circuit for converting serially input data to a plura... | 04/11/2006 |
| 7027428 | Wireless transmitting method and wireless transmitter A wireless transmitting method and a wireless transmitter capable of performing efficient wireless transmission depending on the length of asynchronous information involves forming a wireless network using a plurality of communicating devices to carry out asynchrono... | 04/11/2006 |
| 7027366 | Recording method that records an identifier indicating that two kinds of audio data are recorded A recording method of the present invention includes a first process for recording audio data consecutively in a first recording area of a recording medium and a second process for recording audio data, which have a file format having the same file contents as audio... | 04/11/2006 |
| 7027100 | Video signal transmission device, video signal output device, video signal reception device, video signal duplication control system, information superimposing/extraction device, and image recording medium This invention provides an image transmission method, image anti-duplication method, image anti-duplication device, and image recording medium in which the information for anti-duplication control is superimposed on the video signal without deterioration of the resu... | 04/11/2006 |
| 7019780 | Stereoscopic zoom lens with shutter arranged between first and second lens groups A lens unit and a camera capable of achieving stereoscopic television function and zoom function at the same time. More specifically, a lens unit (2) and a camera (1) each including at least a zoom lens (4), light quantity adjusting device (6... | 03/28/2006 |
| 7016279 | Method for recording and/or reproducing data on/from recording/recorded medium, reproducing apparatus, recording medium, method for recogizing recording/recorded medium, and method for recording and/or reproducing data for apparatus using recording/recorded medium A recording and/or reproducing method for a record medium, comprising the steps of reading address information from a record medium, the record medium having at least a first area and a second area, data being recordable to the first area, the second area being foll... | 03/21/2006 |
| 7013942 | Apparatus and method for producing print A print producing apparatus of a print producing system is provided with a recording medium conveying section which intermittently conveys a strip-like hologram recording medium, a cutting out section which cuts out, as a piece of hologram recording medium, a predet... | 03/21/2006 |
| 7016515 | Speaker apparatus In an electromagnetic induction type speaker apparatus, individual constants are set in such a manner that the following formula is satisfied N×(R1×R2)1/2/(2π×L1×(1−k | 03/21/2006 |
| 7012193 | Electronic device and information reproduction system An electronic device according to the present invention comprises: a cabinet containing an electronic circuit; a covering member containing wire rods connected to the electronic circuit and led to the outside through an opening of the cabinet; a pivoting convex port... | 03/14/2006 |
| 7010551 | File conversion method, file converter, and file display system A file conversion method, a data converter, and a file display system for extracting data handled by a limited capability display device from a plurality of pieces of data displayable on a standard display unit with a start and an end of each piece of data indicated... | 03/07/2006 |
| 7010687 | Transmission apparatus, reception apparatus, transmission method, reception method and recording medium A transmission apparatus, a reception apparatus, a transmission method, and a reception method, which are used for transmission and reception of encrypted digital data protected against illegal decryption of the encrypted digital data by a third party capable of inf... | 03/07/2006 |
| 7006018 | Encoding apparatus and method, recording medium and program A code sequence is encoded using a code conversion table in which the parity of the code sequence varies until the code states become equal to each other. The code word assignment used in this code conversion table is such that the decoded code word constraint lengt... | 02/28/2006 |
| 7006017 | Encoding apparatus and method, recording medium and program A code sequence is encoded using a code conversion table in which the parity of the code sequence varies until the code states become equal to each other. The code word assignment used in this code conversion table is such that the decoded code word constraint lengt... | 02/28/2006 |
| 7007287 | Attaching and detaching mechanism Coupling between a unit main body and a front panel is detachably carried out by catching means and coupling means. The coupling means comprise slide means 33 provided with a slide plate 24 which slides with respect to a bracket hardware 24 embe... | 02/28/2006 |
| 7003786 | Recording medium driving device A driving device includes a holder (16) movably carried by a chassis (5) and adapted for transporting a disc cartridge the holder holds between an insertion/ejection position and a loading position, and an ejection lever (39) for ejecting the di... | 02/21/2006 |
| 7003785 | Recording medium driving device A recording medium driving device includes a loading unit with a disc loaded on it, a head movement mechanism for moving the recording head toward and away from the disc, an ejection mechanism for ejecting a loaded disc, a driving gear rotated by a drive motor, a jo... | 02/21/2006 |
| 7003717 | Decoding apparatus, decoding method, data-receiving apparatus and data-receiving method A decoding apparatus, decoding method, data-receiving apparatus, and a data-receiving method for performing a maximum-likelihood decoding process based on a Viterbi algorithm on a data train completing a convolution-encoding process. The apparatus includes a computa... | 02/21/2006 |
| 7003664 | Signal recording medium, content signal generation apparatus, content signal reproduction method, and content signal reproduction apparatus A content signal having a control signal added thereto indicating whether a playback restricting function for restricting reproduction is activated is recorded on a disk. When an encryption key generation section determines at the time of reproduction that the conte... | 02/21/2006 |
| 7003496 | Terminal apparatus, information service center, transmitting system, and transmitting method A transmitting system is provided in which a data once downloaded in a memory means of a terminal apparatus from an information service center is returned to the information service center while the returned data is deleted from the memory means of the terminal appa... | 02/21/2006 |
| 7003328 | Display system of a mobile terminal apparatus, a display control program for such display system, and a display control program storage medium A mobile telephone includes an expansion slot to which an expansion display unit is attached by insertion in a way as to be capable of being taken out and put in freely. The expansion display unit is provided with an expansion display section having a display surfac... | 02/21/2006 |
| 7003277 | Portable communication terminal, communication method of the portable communication terminal, program, and recording medium having the program recorded thereon A communication control processor controls communication of a portable communication terminal with external units, in which a data processing control processor performs communication with the communication control processor and controls a ROM, a RAM, an operating un... | 02/21/2006 |
| 7003042 | Communication system transmitting encoded signal using block lengths with multiple integral relationship A communication system for performing transmission and reception of a signal over a communication channel assesses a state of the communication channel and produces channel state information accordingly. A block length selector selects block lengths that are depende... | 02/21/2006 |
| 6999786 | Switch device and portable communication terminal A small-sized switch apparatus for switching between signal paths of at least first, second and third frequency bands is capable of handling high-powered high-frequency signals with a relatively low control voltage and is useful in a mobile terminal apparatus. A fir... | 02/14/2006 |
