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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7941044 | Image capturing device This image capturing device includes a fitting member, a lens attached by adhesive to the fitting member, and a light reception element. The light reception element is disposed so as to face the lens attached to the fitting member, and an image of a photographic sub... | 05/10/2011 |
| 7940621 | Disk recording device The disk recording device of the present invention includes a recording means and a file system recording means. The recording means performs recording of an image signal upon a recordable type optical disk. The file system recording means includes an address inform... | 05/10/2011 |
| 7940619 | Optical disk apparatus and optical disk recording method with format warning information According to one embodiment, there is provided an optical disk apparatus including a recording unit which irradiates an optical disk with a laser beam to record information in a first format and a second format, a generation unit which generates warning information ... | 05/10/2011 |
| 7939441 | P-type silicon wafer and method for heat-treating the same This p-type silicon wafer was subjected to heat treatment to have a resistivity of 10 Ω·cm or more, a BMD density of 5×107 defects/cm3 or more, and an n-type impurity concentration of 1×1014 atoms/cm3 or less at a dept... | 05/10/2011 |
| 7938274 | Paper sheet processing apparatus A paper sheet processing apparatus has a take-in device which takes in notes set in a setting unit, a judgment device which judges the quality and condition of a note taken in by the take-in device, a stacking box which stacks the note judged the quality and conditi... | 05/10/2011 |
| 7933449 | Pattern recognition method According to one embodiment of the present invention, there is provided a pattern recognition method of approximating distribution of a set of vectors and a class boundary in a vector space based on basis functions. The method includes defining directional basis fun... | 04/26/2011 |
| 7930271 | Method and apparatus for data processing The invention relates to data processing methods and systems including: a method of database replication in which information strings are assigned to serialization groups for processing; a method of memory management in which data is read from a storage space area w... | 04/19/2011 |
| 7927467 | Method of manufacturing discrete track recording medium and discrete track recording medium According to one embodiment, a method of manufacturing a discrete track recording medium includes forming protruded magnetic patterns on a substrate, and repeating processes of depositing a nonmagnetic material so as to be filled in recesses between the magnetic pat... | 04/19/2011 |
| 7926115 | Information recording and reproducing apparatus and method According to one embodiment of the invention, there is provided an information recording and reproducing apparatus which records information in a recording medium and reproduces information recorded in the recording medium, the information recording and reproducing ... | 04/12/2011 |
| 7923879 | Permanent magnet motor and washing machine provided therewith A permanent magnet motor includes a rotor and a plurality of permanent magnets located inside a rotor core. One or more of the permanent magnets having relatively smaller coercive forces have a first magnetic characteristic that when a magnetizing magnetic field is ... | 04/12/2011 |
| 7922095 | Information storage medium and medium processing system An information storage medium includes storage unit for storing first, second, and third data composed of a data structure including identification information which identifies process target data, length information indicating data length of the process target data... | 04/12/2011 |
| 7921978 | Processing data transfer method in sheet processing apparatus This invention is to prevent a MAC of a correct answer from being calculated by use of an IC card even if count data in the database of a PC is falsified since the MAC calculated by the IC card is made invisible from the exterior of the IC card. Thus, falsification ... | 04/12/2011 |
| 7920355 | Method and apparatus for reproducing servo data from a discrete track media in a disk drive According to one embodiment, disclosed herein is a disk drive that has a disk of discrete-track media (DTM) type. The DTM disk has servo regions. Each servo region has dividing grooves and non-servo data parts. Each dividing grooves extends along the centerline of a... | 04/05/2011 |
| 7913281 | Digital broadcast recording device This digital broadcast recording device includes a tuner unit, a channel table recording unit, an image output unit, an OSD generation unit, an actuation unit, and a channel presetting unit. The channel table recording unit records a channel table. An auto presettin... | 03/22/2011 |
| 7913029 | Information recording apparatus and control method thereof According to one embodiment, an information recording apparatus has a control unit configured to control mutual transfer of information between each of a disc-shaped recording medium, a cache memory, and a non-volatile memory and the outside, control mutual transfer... | 03/22/2011 |
| 7910892 | Method for manufacturing X-ray detector and X-ray detector A first protective layer is formed on the surface of a photoelectric conversion substrate on which photoelectric transducers have been provided, and then, a scintillator layer is formed thereon, whereby degradation of the photoelectric transducers due to the contact... | 03/22/2011 |
| 7907221 | Television device A television device includes a reception device, a first decision unit, and a second decision unit. The reception device receives, from a broadcast signal of a system set, a channel which is tuned. The second decision unit, when it has been decided by the first deci... | 03/15/2011 |
| 7905899 | Nose protect A nose protect, which is mounted in each of nostrils to thereby reshape the nose, includes a first nostril abutting portion having a first curved surface, coming in surface contact with the inside region of a nasal tip in a preset range; a second nostril abutting po... | 03/15/2011 |
| 7905412 | Bar code processing apparatus An image processing apparatus according to one embodiment of the invention includes a first image reading unit configured to read an image from an object to be read by visible light, a second image reading unit configured to read an image from the object to be read ... | 03/15/2011 |
| 7904632 | Connection device for selecting an optimum receiver A connection device for selecting an optimum receiver includes a single first port, in which a transmitter is connected via a bidirectional type cable, and a plurality of second ports, in which a plurality of receivers are connected via respective bidirectional type... | 03/08/2011 |
| 7903327 | Fluorescence microscope apparatus A clear fluorescence image is obtained by preventing external light from mixing with weak fluorescence emitted from a specimen, while reducing the size of the overall apparatus. The invention provides a fluorescence microscope apparatus including a stage for mountin... | 03/08/2011 |
| 7901801 | Perpendicular magnetic recording medium and magnetic recording apparatus According to one embodiment, a perpendicular magnetic recording medium includes a substrate, and a first magnetic layer and a second magnetic layer formed on the substrate, in which supposing that, for the first and second magnetic layers, respectively, uniaxial mag... | 03/08/2011 |
| 7901615 | Moulding device and production process A production process includes providing an envelope and a mould, introducing the material to be moulded in the mould, placing the mould in the envelope, creating a low pressure in the envelope, and deforming the mould. ... | 03/08/2011 |
| 7901504 | Concrete compositions A concrete which includes in parts by weight: 100 Portland cement; 50 to 200 of a sand having a single grading with a D10 to D90 between 0.063 and 5 mm, or a mixture of sands, the finest sand having a D10 to D90 between 0.063 and 1 mm and the coarsest sand having a ... | 03/08/2011 |
| 7898580 | Camera apparatus with magnified playback features An embodiment of a camera apparatus includes transferring a compressed playback streaming signal output from a recording medium to a map defined in a memory circuit, decoding the transferred playback streaming signal by a decoder, converting the decoded signal to a ... | 03/01/2011 |
| D633441 | Inverter | 03/01/2011 |
| 7894155 | Magnetic recording medium, method of fabricating the same, and magnetic recording apparatus According to one embodiment, there is provided a magnetic recording medium having a data region in which a plurality of recording tracks, each including magnetic dots arrayed in a down-track direction with a pitch p, are formed in a cross-track direction, and a serv... | 02/22/2011 |
| 7893578 | Electric motor with discrete circuit board and sensor case An electric motor includes a rotor having a field permanent magnet, a board housing member fixed to a stator, and a magnetism detecting circuit that detects the magnetism of the field permanent magnet. The magnetism detecting circuit includes a circuit board that is... | 02/22/2011 |
| 7890121 | Position measurement system and portable terminal A first portable terminal receives a GPS signal transmitted from a satellite via radio waves with a signal reception means, and a short distance wireless communication means transfers this received signal to a second portable terminal. Furthermore, upon receipt of t... | 02/15/2011 |
| 7889428 | External laser light introducing device An external laser light introducing device is constructed to introduce laser light from outside of an optical apparatus into inside so that the laser light is condensed on a target by a condenser lens located inside the optical apparatus. In this case, the external ... | 02/15/2011 |
| 7889282 | Digital television A digital television combination integrated circuit is employed which includes a video signal D/A converter which converts a digital video signal to an analog video signal, and an audio signal D/A converter which converts a digital audio signal to an analog audio si... | 02/15/2011 |
| 7886100 | Information processing apparatus and SMI processing method thereof An information processing apparatus includes: a CPU; a controller including a signal transmission unit configured to supply an SMI (system management interrupt) signal to the CPU; a multifunctional device having a plurality of functions each potentially causing an S... | 02/08/2011 |
| 7884196 | Vaccine composition comprising methylated DNA and immunomodulatory motifs The present invention relates generally to compositions and methods using mammalian, dsDNA (Double Stranded Deoxyribonucleic Acid) vaccination for the induction and maintenance of regulator suppressor T cells resulting in suppression of non infectious, and post infe... | 02/08/2011 |
| 7882367 | Information recording and reproducing apparatus and method According to one embodiment of the invention, there is provided an information recording and reproducing apparatus which records information in a recording medium and reproduces information recorded in the recording medium, the information recording and reproducing ... | 02/01/2011 |
| 7881162 | Information processing apparatus and reading control method According to one embodiment, an information processing apparatus, has a reading unit which, if a transfer delay address is found, stores data in the transfer delay address, in a memory, and stores data in a range from the transfer delay address to an additional addr... | 02/01/2011 |
| 7848191 | Optical disk apparatus An optical disk apparatus is provided with a recording/reading unit that records data and reads recorded data with respect to an optical disk. Further, the optical disk apparatus is provided with a control unit that judges whether an account name recorded on the opt... | 12/07/2010 |
| 7848063 | Yoke-type magnetic head and magnetic disk apparatus According to one embodiment, a yoke-type magnetic head for reading out magnetic information from a medium in which information is magnetically recorded in a track direction, the head includes a magnetic pole which is provided on a plane perpendicular to a linear rec... | 12/07/2010 |
| 7848046 | Magnetic disk apparatus According to one embodiment, there is provided a magnetic disk apparatus having a magnetic disk having magnetic dot lines each including magnetic dots arrayed at equal intervals in a down track direction, and a read/write head which uses a plurality of adjacent magn... | 12/07/2010 |
| 7848041 | Method and apparatus for correcting data errors in a disk drive According to one embodiment, a disk drive that includes a disk and a disk controller is provided which effectively correct data errors that are generated at the time of reproducing data. The disk has a data-recording area constituted by a set of magnetic dots that a... | 12/07/2010 |
| 7847610 | Semiconductor device, information processing apparatus and power supply voltage variation suppressing method According to one embodiment, a semiconductor device includes an internal circuit which is driven by a power supply voltage and is set in one of a first state and a second state in which an amount of current consumed by the internal circuit is greater than in the fir... | 12/07/2010 |
