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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7536010 | Exchange system, button telephone set and exchange According to one embodiment, a button telephone set, comprising function keys equipped with light emitting devices, respectively, display device which displays character information, failure information receiving unit which receives data notified from the exchange, ... | 05/19/2009 |
| 7535811 | Disk device and disk reproduction method that prevents a wrong reproducing operation when a defect on the disk is determined A disk device includes a reading section which reads reflected light and outputs a read signal according to the read reflected light, a processing section which calculates an adjustment value from the read signal, performs predetermined processing on the read signal... | 05/19/2009 |
| 7535384 | Encoding apparatus, decoding apparatus, encoding method, decoding method, and information recording and playback apparatus There is provided an apparatus which obtains a circumstance where LDPC codes are interleaved without damaging modulation rules and thereby a correction ability of LDPC encoding and decoding method is fully exhibited. The apparatus includes an RLL rule applying secti... | 05/19/2009 |
| 7533807 | Identification card issuing apparatus and identification card issuing method Private information, such as a face image, to specify an applicant is input through input terminal devices. An ID number is read from an identification medium, using an IC reader/writers contained in printers. The private information is printed on a printing surface... | 05/19/2009 |
| 7505228 | Head slider having a leading pad inlet edge with inlet recesses, head suspension assembly, and disk device provided with the same A slider of a head has a negative-pressure cavity which is formed in the facing surface and generates a negative pressure, a leading step portion which protrudes from the facing surface and is situated on an upstream side of the air current with respect to the negat... | 03/17/2009 |
| 7493013 | Information storage medium having a program chain command table structure An information recording method of recording object information (VOB) and reproducing control information (PGC) is provided. In this method, while the object information is recorded, the reproducing control information (PGC) defining a method of reproducing the obje... | 02/17/2009 |
| 7491661 | Device manufacturing method, top coat material and substrate In immersion lithography, to avoid internal reflections in the final element of the projection system, immersion fluid and topcoat, the thicknesses, dl, dtc and dr, and refractive indices, nl, ntc and nr | 02/17/2009 |
| 7491951 | Lithographic apparatus, system and device manufacturing method The invention relates to a lithographic apparatus that includes a system configured to condition a radiation beam or project a patterned radiation beam onto a target portion of a substrate. The system includes an optically active device configured to direct the radi... | 02/17/2009 |
| 7492380 | Apparatus and method for processing video signal An apparatus for processing a video signal comprises receiving units for receiving video signals, filter units for repeating filtering processing in two or more times of generating a new pixel at a position at which adjacent pixels of the received video signal are m... | 02/17/2009 |
| 7489468 | Method and apparatus for head positioning control in a disk drive According to one embodiment, a disk drive is provided which corrects already existing offset information according to a variation of a disk runout amount caused by an occurrence of a disk shift. The disk drive effects a head position adjustment at a head positioning... | 02/10/2009 |
| 7489770 | Receiving device, method for incoming call notification, and program An incoming call notification is performed based on a caller number extracted from a call-in signal and a user status stored in a user status storage unit, and thereby, the incoming call is notified adequately in accordance with the user status and a caller. For exa... | 02/10/2009 |
| 7489800 | Image processing method Sub-information is embedded in main image information having undergone thinning-out processing and rotation processing. The resultant composite image information in which the sub-information is embedded is recorded on a recording medium after performing transformati... | 02/10/2009 |
| 7489975 | Power supply device, information processing apparatus, and power control method A power supply apparatus includes a power converting unit for switching DC power on the basis of a pulse signal having a predetermined ON-pulse time and a predetermined pulse period, as pulse elements, thereafter smoothing the switched power, and outputting a predet... | 02/10/2009 |
| 7489385 | Lithographic projection apparatus with collector including concave and convex mirrors An optical system includes a radiation source and at least one collector located in the vicinity of the radiation source. The collector is arranged to collect the radiation to provide a beam of radiation. The at least one collector includes a first reflector on a co... | 02/10/2009 |
