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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8184703 | Interpolated frame generating method and interpolated frame generating apparatus According to one embodiment, an interpolated frame generator comprises first detector detects potential motion vector by block matching between input frame images, using first block of fixed size, second detector detects motion vector by block matching between the i... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8181958 | Stiffness detector, stiffness detection method, and paper sheet processor including stiffness detector A stiffness detector includes a bending portion configured to bend a paper sheet to be carried. The stiffness detector transmits acoustic waves to an incidence point on an inner surface of the paper sheet which is bent by the bending portion and is carried, thereby ... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8181954 | Mail feeding device A feeding device for feeding each of accumulated mail items P onto a conveyance path includes a pickup belt which runs along a pickup position, and a negative-pressure chamber opposing the pickup position with the pickup belt interposed therebetween. When each mail ... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8180687 | Method for selectively verifying or blocking remote purchase requests A method for partially verifying the legitimacy of a remote purchase request based on a card number from a card issuing financial institution. The method includes receiving and storing a first purchase request information set including an origin and a card number. F... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8180113 | Stain determination apparatus, sheet processing apparatus and stain determination method In a stain determination apparatus or sheet processing apparatus, an input processing unit inputs image information containing an inherent variation that is not related to a stain, a feature extracting unit extracts a plurality of feature information items from the ... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8177930 | Process of production and structural element A process for the production of a structural element in which at least two units of concrete are assembled by gluing, the compressive strength of the concrete being greater than 80 MPa. A structural element includes at least two glued units of concrete, the compress... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8177903 | Hydraulic binder with a base of sulfoaluminate clinker and portland clinker The present invention relates to a composition including at least a Portland clinker and a Belite-Calcium-Sulphoaluminate-Ferrite clinker (BCSAF). ... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8175323 | Image processing method and image processing apparatus In an image processing apparatus for creating synthetic image information by embedding sub-information in an invisible state in main image information in a visible state, attention pixels in the main image information are set, a specific pixel block is created by as... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8174803 | System for creating a magnetic field via a superconducting magnet The present invention relates to a system (100) for creating a magnetic field via a superconducting magnet (102) intended to produce said magnetic field. The system (100) according to the invention comprises a first branch including the supercon... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8174550 | Printer A printer includes a feeding unit, a conveying unit, a print unit to print information on an intermediate transfer film or a print medium, a transfer unit to transfer the information printed on the intermediate transfer film to a transferred article, a winding unit,... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8169741 | Perpendicular magnetic recording head with side shield and magnetic disk apparatus According to one embodiment, a perpendicular magnetic recording head includes a main pole which generates a recording magnetic field, a return pole which forms a closed magnetic circuit for the recording magnetic field, and a side shield magnetically spaced from the... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8165965 | Transaction method with a mobile apparatus A transaction method between a client and a terminal (2) connected to a telecommunication network comprises the transmission of at least one client identification (IDUI), a terminal identification (POSID), and transaction-specific data to a financial server c... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8165457 | Recording method, reproducing method, recording apparatus, and reproducing apparatus of digital stream According to one embodiment, this invention allows to acquire attribute information of a stream object and to generate it as management information upon recording a digital stream when an MPEG-TS that uses H.264 as a moving picture encoding format is to be recorded.... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8164693 | Line memory packaging apparatus and television receiver According to one embodiment, using several random access memory components, these several RAM components are integrally driven to form a logical line memory. The number of using RAM components is reduced to the minimum, and thereby, hardware cost is reduced. A line ... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8163863 | Polysilane and polysilane-containing resin composition A polysilane having excellent functionalities (e.g., solubility in a solvent and reactivity) is obtained by introducing a structural unit of the following formula (1) to a polysilane through a reaction of a dihalosilane having a Si—H bond and adding a hydrosilylat... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8163339 | Edge densification for film boiling process A method and apparatus are disclosed for improving densification of porous substrate using a film boiling process. In particular, the disclosed method and apparatus permit more complete densification of a substrate (i.e., densification closer to the surface of the s... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8161943 | Non-contact ignition control device of internal combustion engine A no-contact ignition control device includes a stop switch which maintains a second switching element at the OFF state so that an induced voltage of a trigger coil triggers a first switching element and shortcircuit a generation coil. A surge absorption element is ... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8161346 | Data refresh apparatus and data refresh method According to one embodiment, a data refresh apparatus which refreshes data stored in a storage device having storage areas, comprises an error detector configured to detect a number of errors of data stored in a storage area of the storage device, an error correctio... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8160419 | Optical disk device An optical disk device includes a read means which reads an image signal from an optical disk, and a conversion means which converts this image signal to one designated resolution. Furthermore, this optical disk device is connected to a display device which displays... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8159728 | Image reading apparatus, image reading method, and sheet processing apparatus An image reading apparatus, in which sheets being transported are illuminated by an illuminating unit, one after another, and a sensor having an imaging elements arranged in a line photographs the sheets, one after another. A white-reference part is provided in a pa... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8159026 | Lateral high-voltage semiconductor devices with majorities of both types for conduction This invention provides a lateral high-voltage semiconductor device, which is a three-terminal one with two types of carriers for conduction and consists of a highest voltage region and a lowest voltage region referring to the substrate and a surface voltage-sustain... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8158949 | Radiation detector and method for manufacturing the same A radiation detector characterized by includes a photoelectric conversion element, a scintillation layer which converts radioactive rays to fluorescence, the scintillation layer being formed on the photoelectric conversion element, and a reflective film formed on th... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8157256 | Sheet handling apparatus and sheet handling method A sheet handling apparatus is provided that includes a take-out member to take out a sheet from a take-out position by rotating the sheet in a state in which negative pressure is applied to the sheet and the sheet is adsorbed to the take-out member. A conveyor porti... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8156808 | Stiffness detector, stiffness detection method, and paper sheet processor including stiffness detector A stiffness detector transmits acoustic waves to a paper sheet at a predetermined angle to excite Lamb waves. The stiffness detector receives leaky waves of the Lamb waves propagated through the paper sheet at different angles with respect to the paper sheet by a pl... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8155292 | Telephone system and server apparatus According to one embodiment, a telephone system includes a plurality of telephone exchange apparatuses generate call information events specifying a plurality of telephone terminals to which call connections are made, a server apparatus which is connected to the plu... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8155198 | Interpolated frame generating method and interpolated frame generating apparatus According to one embodiment, interpolated frame generating method of generating a new interpolated frame inserted between sequential frames, by using a plurality of input frame images, comprises first detecting of detecting at least one potential motion vector by bl... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8154654 | Frame interpolation device, frame interpolation method and image display device According to one embodiment, a frame interpolation device includes a detecting section which receives a frame signal of 60 Hz and outputs a pull-down detection signal when determining that the frame signal is a pull-down signal, a generation section which generates ... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8152157 | Sheet processing apparatus, sheet take-out apparatus, and sheet take-out method thereof A sheet processing apparatus and a sheet take-out apparatus that prevents a sheet conveyed by a take-out portion from hanging-down and falling, when the take-out portion is stopped due to an emergency. If a take-out emergency process state occurs during the take-out... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8151531 | Thermal barrier A thermal barrier includes a thermal insulating block, a layer of ultra-high performance fibered concrete integrated with the block, reinforcements embedded in the layer of ultra-high performance fibered concrete, the reinforcements protruding from the ultra-high pe... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8145461 | Method of functional control of an inertial platform of a moving craft A method for verifying an inertial unit for a moving body, the unit being mounted on a movement simulator, and the method includes: theoretical modeling of the inertial unit on the movement simulator, supplying theoretical inertial data representing measurement iner... | 03/27/2012 |
| 8145028 | Optical disk device This optical disk device includes a video recording means, a replay means, and an actuation means. The video recording means performs video recording of contents data upon an optical disk cell by cell. The replay means performs replay of the contents data, and perfo... | 03/27/2012 |
| 8144252 | Noise reduction apparatus and noise reduction method According to one embodiment, an input image signal is passed through a plurality of first high pass filters having different passing frequency band to generate level histograms. High frequency component noise reduction processing is applied to the output of one of t... | 03/27/2012 |
| 8142883 | Porous carbon sheet and process for production thereof A porous carbon sheet obtained by binding separate carbon short fibers with a carbonization product of a resin, wherein the pore mode diameter of the sheet is 45 to 90 μm and the mean fiber diameter of the carbon short fibers is 5 to 20 μm. The sheet can be produc... | 03/27/2012 |
| 8142564 | Process to reduce the amount of Cr (VI) in a cement-containing composition and a composition comprising cement and coated metallic sulphate particles A method for producing a cement-containing material having a low content of soluble Cr (VI), the method including providing a cement-containing material with metallic sulphate particles coated with at least one product of the hydrolysis of a collagen material. ... | 03/27/2012 |
| 8138650 | Rotor core having bridges connection magnetic pole and method of manufacturing the same A rotor core of a rotating electrical machine formed by stacking a plurality of blanks blanked from a steel sheet, the blank having a yoke, a magnetic pole portion confronting the yoke, and a magnet insertion hole positioned between the yoke and the magnetic pole po... | 03/20/2012 |
| D655925 | Child safety seat | 03/20/2012 |
| 8136117 | Information processor and information processing system An information processing apparatus is disclosed in which software resources are divided into first through N-th groups each of which has an operating system, a program operating on the operating system, and data, includes an execution section configured to simultan... | 03/13/2012 |
| 8134646 | Video signal processing device and video signal processing method According to one embodiment, a video signal processing device includes an input unit to which a brightness signal is input, a high band emphasis unit that extracts a first high band component from the brightness signal and outputs an output signal by adding the firs... | 03/13/2012 |
| 8133532 | Method of densifying porous articles The present invention describes a method of CVI densification in which particular arrangements and mixtures of undensified porous substrates and partially densified porous substrates are arranged in particular ways in order to use the thermal characteristics of the ... | 03/13/2012 |
| 8131499 | Electronic apparatus and disk protection method An electronic apparatus includes a body, a triaxial acceleration sensor which is built in the body and includes a long axis and a short axis, a disk device built in the body, a calculation unit that calculates a value on a basis of an acceleration value which is det... | 03/06/2012 |
