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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8184241 | Liquid crystal display device The present invention mechanically protects a surface of a miniaturized liquid crystal display device for mobile phone or the like without deteriorating image quality and without increasing a thickness of a whole display device. To achieve such an object, in the pre... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8184087 | Display method for LCD device with reduced color break-up The present invention provides a display method for an LCD device with reduced color break-up, comprising the following steps: generating a control signal for each sub-frame, and displaying the sub-frames successively. The present invention generates, according to b... | 05/22/2012 |
| D660110 | Wrench | 05/22/2012 |
| 8179904 | Packet transfer device and transfer control method thereof A first issue is to provide a packet transfer device for identifying a connection such as a TCP connection linked to a bandwidth control means, and provide a proxy acknowledgment for each identified connection such as TCP. A second issue is to provide a packet trans... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8175159 | Moving picture signal coding method, decoding method, coding apparatus, and decoding apparatus Moving picture motion compensation coding/decoding predicts a motion vector in a coding block from a motion vector of the adjacent position and codes a differential motion vector calculated from the motion vector to be coded and its prediction motion vector. The cod... | 05/08/2012 |
| D659254 | Sample collector | 05/08/2012 |
| 8169393 | Display device A display device includes a display panel having (m×n) pieces of pixels wherein m and n are integers of 2 or more, n pieces of video lines, and m pieces of scanning lines, a video line address circuit, a scanning line address circuit, n pieces of video line vector ... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8167806 | Ultrasonograph An ultrasonograph capable of generating a transmission beam having a uniform width over a wide range in an ultrasonic wave propagation direction is provided. A weighted mean value of a plurality of transmission delay time values corresponding to focal lengths of tra... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8162538 | Temperature-measuring member, temperature-measuring device, and method for measuring temperature The surface density of projections formed on a thin metal film of a temperature-measuring member having the metal film having been subjected to a temperature profile is calculated with a number-calculating section according to image data fed into an arithmetic proce... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8161211 | Storage system and data processing method for the same The present invention aims for efficient use of storage capacity in a storage system by reducing the amount of time taken for processing including removing redundancy and data compression executed with respect to transferred data. Focusing on data patterns in... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8159945 | Sensor network system and data processing method for sensor network An overload on a communication path in a sensor network system is prevented while transferring information from a sensor node as close to real time as possible. When the transfer rate of events transferred from a boundary node (DR) toward a gateway (GW) exceeds a li... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8159923 | Optical information recording apparatus, optical information recording method, optical information reproducing apparatus and optical information reproducing method An optical information recording/reproducing apparatus and an optical information recording/reproducing method that record information using holography, wherein the optical information recording/reproducing apparatus includes a signal generation unit that generates ... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8159486 | Level converter circuit and a liquid crystal display device employing the same A display device includes a pixel driver circuit. Each of level converter circuits in the pixel driver circuit has an input terminal supplied with a signal swinging between a first voltage and a second voltage lower than the first voltage; a first first-conductivity... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8156076 | Terminal and data distribution system Disclosed herewith is a terminal for receiving data distributed from a host computer. The terminal includes a database for storing data distributed from the host computer and a schedule manager for managing the schedule of the terminal. Upon receiving an update requ... | 04/10/2012 |
| D657473 | Reagent container | 04/10/2012 |
| 8149973 | Clock recovery circuit A clock recovery circuit capable of simultaneously satisfying all of a bit synchronization period, a clock wander tracking performance, and a high high-frequency jitter tolerance. The clock recovery circuit includes: a phase difference detecting circuit that detects... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8149705 | Packet communications unit To analyze traffic at an application level, a stream according to TCP or SCTP is required to be reconstructed and to be analyzed. When a packet is transferred to analyzing equipment using a port mirroring function with which a router and a switch are provided, trans... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8149371 | Liquid crystal display device with grounded by thermocompression bonding tape A liquid crystal display device which can be manufactured at a low cost is provided. The liquid crystal display device includes a TFT substrate, a CF substrate of a size smaller than a size of the TFT substrate, and a liquid crystal layer sandwiched between the TFT ... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8149367 | Liquid crystal display device An IPS-method liquid crystal display device which exhibits small directivity of a viewing angle and high brightness is realized. A planar common electrode is arranged below a pixel electrode which includes comb-teeth-shaped electrodes and slits. When a video signal ... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8148896 | Organic electroluminescent display device and method of repairing a defective pixel of the device The present invention provides an organic electroluminescent display device and a method of repairing a defective pixel of an organic electroluminescent display device which can realize the repairing a defective pixel to a light emitting pixel by electrically separa... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8145828 | Flash memory-mounted storage apparatus In a data center, there is a limit in power capacity supplied to a storage apparatus, and the rated power consumption of the storage apparatus may exceed the power supply capacity by addition of storage capacity. A storage apparatus according to the invention includ... | 03/27/2012 |
| 8145602 | Storage apparatus, data restoration method and computer system An LU management table 61 that associates and stores the LU# of the P-Vol 10p and the LU# of the S-Vol 10s is provided. The CPU 53 specifies the LU# of the S-Vol 10s constituting the save source of the data wit... | 03/27/2012 |
| 8145432 | System of binding structure for polymer molecule A simulation system that increases a polymer molecule binding prediction speed on a parallel and distributed computer system is provided. The simulation system determines a decomposition width that decomposes a search region of polymer molecule by means of translati... | 03/27/2012 |
| 8144131 | Display device with touch panel Provided is a display device with a touch panel having the cost thereof reduced without a decrease in the transmittance ratio of light. A substrate has a planar transparent conductive film formed on an observer side thereof. The transparent conductive film is used a... | 03/27/2012 |
| 8144096 | Liquid crystal display device Provided is a drive circuit low in power consumption and high in display quality for a liquid crystal display device that is used in a small-sized portable device. The liquid crystal display device includes liquid crystal display elements and a liquid crystal drivin... | 03/27/2012 |
| 8143770 | LED bulb structure having insertion end, and/or heat dissipation element, and/or heat-and-electricity separated element An LED bulb structure having an insertion end includes a first electrically conducting pin, a second electrically conducting pin having a die pad at an end thereof, and an LED unit electrically connected to the first electrically conducting pin and the second electr... | 03/27/2012 |
| 8140720 | Method of setting communication path in storage system, and management apparatus therefor In a storage system having a plurality of storage apparatuses, each of the storage apparatuses stores therein a coupling mode that is information indicative of whether or not to permit setting of a communication path between each of the storage apparatuses and a plu... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8140075 | Wireless communication system, server and mobile station therefor This invention provides a wireless communication system wherein a network to which a mobile station should be handed over can be selected, using parametric data collected from network components other than the mobile station. Time taken for a handover between differ... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8139324 | Magnetic read head having a non-magnetic electrode layer and a magnetic read write system To provide a magnetic head that is suited for high recording density magnetic read and write, and has little noise. A magnetic pinned layer is formed on a non-magnetic electrode layer via a first insulating layer, and a magnetic free layer is formed on a medium-side... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8139173 | Liquid crystal display A liquid crystal display, having an improved application of electric field to the molecules of liquid crystal, includes a substrate and a pixel array bonded to the surface of this substrate, and the pixel array includes at least a thin-film transistor and a pixel el... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8138945 | Sensor node There is disclosed a sensor node capable of transmitting and receiving a large amount of data or data desired to be reliable without missing data, while preventing battery exhaustion and unnecessary compression of the transmission bandwidth. A name-tag type sensor n... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8135882 | Apparatus and managing method using a preset policy based on an invalidated I/O path by using configuration information acquired from storage system In order to appropriately manage configuration information acquired from a storage system for the purpose of performance management, etc., an information processing apparatus managing the configuration information, i.e., information indicative of a configuration of ... | 03/13/2012 |
| 8134658 | Liquid crystal display module To provide a liquid crystal display module that eliminates the loss of light emitted from a light source. The present invention provides a liquid crystal display module including: a liquid crystal display panel; and a backlight, wherein the liquid crystal display pa... | 03/13/2012 |
| 8131783 | Storage system, volume management method, and management computer A storage system for optimizing volume capacity among file management computers of sharing a storage apparatus is provided. A capacity management computer acquires statistical information such as access history information from the file management computers and the ... | 03/06/2012 |
| 8131679 | Exclusive control method for database and program A technology capable of preventing a problem which occurs when log writing of a preceding transaction fails while reducing waiting time of a subsequent transaction is provided. A database control method for releasing locking of data held by a transaction upon recept... | 03/06/2012 |
| 8130581 | Semiconductor memory device The present invention provides a semiconductor memory device in which the number of write amplifiers is decreased by increasing the number of bit line pairs connected to one pair of common write data lines. Further, by decreasing the number of bit line pairs connect... | 03/06/2012 |
| 8128796 | Analyzer It is an object of this invention to measure small amounts of a plurality of sample solutions at the same time. The small amounts of sample solutions are respectively placed on measuring electrodes, a medium is placed across the plurality of sample solutions, a liqu... | 03/06/2012 |
| 8127047 | Storage system and its multiple extent exclusive control method Proposed is technology for shortening the time required for analyzing and processing commands issued from multiple hosts and speeding up the processing. When a controller receives a command including random IO processing and the reception of commands is complete, it... | 02/28/2012 |
| 8125017 | Semiconductor integrated circuit device with reduced leakage current The gate tunnel leakage current is increased in the up-to-date process, so that it is necessary to reduce the gate tunnel leakage current in the LSI which is driven by a battery for use in a cellular phone and which needs to be in a standby mode at a low leakage cur... | 02/28/2012 |
| D654935 | Inkjet coater | 02/28/2012 |
