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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7689002 | Method of detecting bends on a road and system implementing same The invention concerns a method of detecting from a vehicle a bend in a road comprising a surface and road edges, comprising the following operations: taking an image of a road scene unfolding in front of the vehicle and at least p... | 03/30/2010 |
| D611220 | Forklift truck | 03/02/2010 |
| D597419 | Set of two containers | 08/04/2009 |
| 7562984 | Polarizing beam splitter and projection apparatus having the same A polarizing beam splitter comprising a multilayer film formed by alternately laminating a plurality of H layers and a plurality of L layers having a relatively lower refractive index than a refractive index of the H layers, wherein transmittance of s-polarized ligh... | 07/21/2009 |
| 7122330 | High-throughput screening of expressed DNA libraries in filamentous fungi The invention provides a method for the expression of exogenous DNA libraries in filamentous fungi. The fungi are capable of processing intron-containing eukaryotic genes, and also can carry out post-translational processing steps such as glyclosylation and protein ... | 10/17/2006 |
| 7081567 | Transgenic dunaliella salina as a bioreactor Disclosed is a method for making a bioreactor comprising a foreign target gene, special selectable markers and Dunaliella Salina as host. It is prepared by the genetic transformation techniques that include introducing a foreign target gene into the cells of Dunalie... | 07/25/2006 |
| 6926154 | Flotation machine The invention relates to a flotation machine which at least contains a flotation cell having a means for feeding slurry in the flotation cell, a means for feeding air into the slurry and producing froth, a means for removing froth from the flotation cell and a means... | 08/09/2005 |
| 6746848 | Protein quantitation with cell imaging densitometry A method for quantitating cellular proteins in tissue, by means of a cell imaging densitometer in conjunction with immunohistological staining and a reference standard, is provided. Unlike prior art methods, which provide ordinal measures of relative amounts of prot... | 06/08/2004 |
| D593030 | DC to AC power inverter for a vehicle electrical system | 05/26/2009 |
| D585624 | Forklift truck | 01/27/2009 |
| 7483073 | Image sensing apparatus cleaning operation and control method of said cleaning operation Image sensing apparatus having an image sensing element for sensing an object of shooting is provided. According to one aspect of the invention, when a cleaning mode is designated and executed to remove a foreign substance in the neighborhood of and on the image sen... | 01/27/2009 |
| 7484086 | Data processing apparatus, and method of reconfiguring reconfigurable processing circuit Information relating to heat-release value of a processing circuit or amount of input data applied to the processing circuit is detected and the processing circuit is reconfigured in accordance with result of detection. ... | 01/27/2009 |
| 7478909 | Opthalmologic apparatus In an ophthalmologic apparatus, the coordinates of three illuminated spots on a cornea-reflected image calculated from a front eye part image picked up by a two-dimension image pickup element and a pupil diameter are calculated, and the position of the centroid of t... | 01/20/2009 |
| 7477432 | Image sensor and image reading apparatus An object of this invention is to provide a structure which meets a high-quality reading requirement and realize high-speed color reading when the reading section of a color image forming apparatus adopts a color contact image sensor using CCDs as reading elements. ... | 01/13/2009 |
| 7475753 | Drive control apparatus for forklift When a determination result of a limitation determining section during a driving of a forklift is positive, a control section limits a vehicle speed and adjusts an engine speed. If a limitation canceling condition is met while the vehicle speed is limited, a control... | 01/13/2009 |
| 7478282 | Log acquisition method and its control program and storage medium A log acquisition method which can easily acquire processing logs of software, and can reduce the number of processes required to analyze bugs is provided. More specifically, a log acquisition method for a program having functions, includes a step of identifying a d... | 01/13/2009 |
| 7477313 | Light-quantity adjusting apparatus, optical apparatus, and camera A light-quantity adjusting apparatus which can temporarily suppress an MTF (contrast) from being deteriorated by small-aperture diffraction is disclosed. The light-quantity adjusting apparatus comprises a main body in which an opening is formed, a light-blocking mem... | 01/13/2009 |
| 7474437 | Image processing method and apparatus An image processing apparatus for processing image data, obtained from an image sensing unit in which plural sensor chips each having plural pixels are arrayed with an interval of a multiple of a pixel width therebetween, and interpolating image data for the interva... | 01/06/2009 |
| 7474349 | Image-taking apparatus An image-taking apparatus is disclosed that includes an image-pickup portion having a plurality of image-pickup regions, and a plurality of image-forming portions respectively corresponding to the plurality of image-pickup regions. The plurality of image-forming por... | 01/06/2009 |
| 7472995 | Wavelength-selective polarization conversion element, projection displaying optical system and image projection apparatus A wavelength-selective polarization conversion element is disclosed, which is capable of reducing the number of optical elements in an optical system and simplifying the configuration thereof. The polarization conversion element comprises a beam splitting film which... | 01/06/2009 |
| 7472994 | Ophthalmologic image pickup system With respect to image data generated by plural kinds of eye fundus cameras, device information used for image pickup is added to picked-up-image information, and different image processings such as image reverse and aperture synthesization are performed based on the... | 01/06/2009 |
| 7472958 | Seat swiveling device of a vehicle A seat swiveling device of a vehicle comprises a stationary base, a movable base, a vehicle seat assembly and a swing lever. The movable base has a second pivot shaft for supporting the swing lever so that the swing lever is pivoted. The stationary base has a guide ... | 01/06/2009 |
| 7472945 | Overhead guard of industrial vehicle An overhead guard of an industrial vehicle has a top and a plurality of pillars. The top is disposed above and covers an operator's seat. The top includes a dam body and a slope portion. The dam body is formed at its front edge and/or rear edge by bending upward a p... | 01/06/2009 |
| 7474352 | Focus detection based on an opening pupil ratio It is an object of this invention to efficiently correct, with a small calculation amount, the unbalance caused between the first and second image signals when limitation is imposed by vignetting in a photographing optical system. In order to achieve this object, th... | 01/06/2009 |
| 7470610 | Method of fabricating organic electroluminescent devices A method of fabricating an organic EL device by which sealing films can be patterned, without using any wet process. The method has the steps of: preparing a substrate 1 on which a first electrode 2 has been formed an... | 12/30/2008 |
| 7471406 | Printing control apparatus and method, and printing system The present invention ascertains delimiting boundaries of print jobs quickly and accurately in a printing apparatus. The printing apparatus determines the type of PDL that describes print data received from a host computer. If a session is completed, data cannot be ... | 12/30/2008 |
| 7472135 | Method and system for recalling details regarding past events Techniques for recalling details regarding past events include identifying information from encountered remote devices, and storing the received identifying information in a proximity log database. An entry (e.g., a phonebook or calendar entry) stored by a personal ... | 12/30/2008 |
| 7471808 | Image sensing device, image processing apparatus and method, and memory medium An image sensing device of this invention corrects sensitivity nonuniformity of an image sensing element. This image sensing device has an image sensing element (5) having a two-dimensional matrix of pixels, a first multiplier circuit (18) for multiply... | 12/30/2008 |
| 7469277 | Information output apparatus, information output method, information output program, information transmitting apparatus, information transmitting method, information transmitting program, and information output system An information output apparatus which is capable of limiting a range for outputting information based on a position. A position information acquiring section acquires first position information, a message receiving section receives information including second posit... | 12/23/2008 |
| 7469271 | System, method, program and storage medium for providing service The present invention is to perform authentication to enable linkage among a plurality of different applications providing a service. For example, an authentication server of an embodiment of the present invention is an authentication sever shared among a plurality ... | 12/23/2008 |
| 7468781 | Exposure apparatus An exposure apparatus includes an illumination optical system that includes an optical integrator for forming a secondary light source from the light, and a variable stop arranged at or near a position where the secondary light source is formed, the diameter variabl... | 12/23/2008 |
| 7469397 | Automatic trace determination method and apparatus for automatically determining optimal trace positions on substrate using computation An automatic trace determination apparatus for automatically determining optimal positions of traces from pads to corresponding vias on a substrate using computation comprises: tentative determination means for tentatively determining a tentative target line with wh... | 12/23/2008 |
| 7464778 | Cargo handling apparatus of cargo handling industrial vehicle Provided are an engine 111, a generator-motor 113, a clutch 112 connecting/disconnecting power therebetween, a battery 115, and a loading pump 117 for driving a fork 118. The generator-motor 113 is set either in a gen... | 12/16/2008 |
| 7466351 | Information processing method, apparatus, program and storage medium storing said program for digital image data generated from an image sensing device An information processing method for processing a file containing reversibly compressed or non-compressed digital image data obtained by digitally converting a signal that has been output from an image sensing device makes it possible to execute selectively signal p... | 12/16/2008 |
| 6712972 | Method for the synthesis and evaluation of porphyrins, calix (4) pyrroles and allied macrocycles The present invention provides an innovative method based on reaction cum separation on single plate concept for efficient evaluation of porphyrins, calix(4)pyrroles and allied macrocycles by in-situ synthesis from pyrrole with aromatic aldehydes and ketones over ze... | 03/30/2004 |
| 6670459 | Process for the isolation of novel oligospirostanoside The present invention relates to a process for the isolation of a novel oligospirostanoside structurally constructed as 3-0-[-L-rhamnopyranosyl-(1.fwdarw.2)--L-rhamnopyranosyl-(1.f wdarw.4)-0-ଲ-D-glucopyranosyl]-25(S)-5ଲ spirostan... | 12/30/2003 |
| 6577036 | Design for frameless cartridge motors A system and method is disclosed for the construction of a frameless cartridge motor. In accordance with one embodiment of the present invention a frameless cartridge motor is provided such that the motor's rotor is aligned with the motor's stator, a feed... | 06/10/2003 |
| 6255007 | Laminate system, a process for the production thereof and use thereof In a system based on aluminum, zirconium and nitrogen at least one layer has covalent bonds of aluminum nitride or at least one layer has bonds of the aluminum nitride and zirconium nitride type. In a process for producing such a system an electrical gas ... | 07/03/2001 |
