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| 7899492 | Methods, systems and apparatus for displaying the multimedia information from wireless communication networks Video signals for a mobile terminal are converted to accommodate reproduction by an alternative display terminal. The video signal from a wireless communication network is processed to provide a converted video signal appropriate for an alternative display terminal.... | 03/01/2011 |
| 7764575 | Tracking error detecting method, tracking error detecting apparatus and optical recording and reproducing apparatus A tracking error detecting method comprises the steps of causing intensity distributions of single light introduced into an objective lens to have symmetry with respect to the track direction of an optical recording medium and the direction oblique to the direction ... | 07/27/2010 |
| 7729400 | External cavity type semiconductor laser An external cavity type semiconductor laser that has a larger output and a more excellent single mode characteristic than a conventional external cavity type semiconductor laser is provided. The external cavity type semiconductor laser has a laser diode 11, a... | 06/01/2010 |
| 7696917 | Encode circuit and analog-digital converter comprising a digital average unit and a logical boundary detection unit An encode circuit includes a digital average unit that receives cyclic thermometer codes or standard thermometer codes, and that reduces a bubble error in the received thermometer codes by a majority vote rule, a logical boundary detection unit that detects a logica... | 04/13/2010 |
| 7645067 | Homogenizer A homogenizer is disclosed, which can produce an emulsion with a grain diameter as extremely fine as approximately 1 μm without using large-scale equipment such as a high-pressure pump, and in which a grain diameter distribution of the produced emulsion exhibits sh... | 01/12/2010 |
| 7638005 | Track bushing and method and apparatus for producing the same Quenched layers are formed without irregularities on the inner circumferential surface of a track bushing having a small inside diameter or on the inner circumferential surfaces of two or more track bushings which are subjected to quenching in an overlapped conditio... | 12/29/2009 |
| 7635248 | Truck bed assembly with integral partial sliding deck with pivoting inclined towers for raising and lowering a sliding deck A sliding deck for carrying loads in transit and both lifting or lowering the loads includes a spaced pair of pivoting outer tubular tower members having hydraulically operated cylinders interior to a pair of telescoping tubular inner members located interior to the... | 12/22/2009 |
| 7610262 | File management device The present invention relates to a file management technique using indexes, wherein retrieval results and conditions for retrieval are recorded and stored on an entry for a virtual folder on the index for efficient later use. By this feature, objects for retrieval c... | 10/27/2009 |
| 7590157 | Laser noise elimination circuit and optical disc device A laser noise elimination circuit raises the gain of a first TIA and at the same time reflected light from an optical disc of a laser beam is subjected to photoelectric conversion by means of a photo detector and a second TIA to obtain an RF signal. Then, the direct... | 09/15/2009 |
| 7589776 | Solid-state image sensing device When a signal output by a solid-state image sensing device is clamped to a predetermined reference potential, a high voltage generated in a transfer suspension period after the clamping as generally supplied to an A/D converter is generated. A sample/hold output Va ... | 09/15/2009 |
| 7587545 | Shared memory device A shared memory device able to simplify interconnects up to memories, able to prevent a reduction of performance due to an increase of area and longer interconnects, and able to speed up memory access, wherein an input/output port of a processing module, memory inte... | 09/08/2009 |
| 7587123 | Method of processing data, system of the same and video recording system An edit device performs editing based on image data L_IM, generates an edit decision list L_EDL indicating that content and transmits this to a video recording system. In the edit decision list L_EDL, as an instance number of UMID, “FF FF FF” is stored. The vide... | 09/08/2009 |
| 7586816 | Playback apparatus and layer jump method A playback apparatus that plays back a recording medium having recording layers includes an optical head irradiating the recording layers with laser light using an objective lens and reading information recorded in the recording layers; an actuator holding the objec... | 09/08/2009 |
| 7584847 | Replaceable cooler tops with sport logo Interchangeable portions of a cooler or container, having a sports logo thereon, allows a single cooler body or container body to have a first logo at one particular time, and a second logo at another time, upon replacement of interchangeable the portions. Preferabl... | 09/08/2009 |
| 7583270 | Image processing apparatus An image processing apparatus capable of performing flexible, high speed processing, wherein a memory region emptied due to a change of display resolution can be used as a texture memory, increase of an overhead such as switching pages can be prevented, and a declin... | 09/01/2009 |
| 7575433 | Sports skill evaluation system A sports skill evaluation system is provided which can perform a detailed skill analysis based on the level, match experience, age, sex and so forth of a user, careful advice based on a result of the skill analysis, rearing diagnosis in the future, estimation evalua... | 08/18/2009 |
| 7573521 | Solid-state image sensing device When a signal output by a solid-state image sensing device is clamped to a predetermined reference potential, a high voltage generated in a transfer suspension period after the clamping as generally supplied to an A/D converter is generated. A sample/hold output Va ... | 08/11/2009 |
| 7572992 | Lever switch A lever witch comprises first and second rotary levers arranged in outer and inner peripheries of the non-rotary lever, a base mounted in a tip end side of the non-rotary lever and a rotary knob supported by a tip end side of the second rotary lever and rotating tog... | 08/11/2009 |
| 7571282 | Computer system having a flash memory storage device A computer system is provided, wherein a storage device having a flash memory as the main medium is given a cache memory with a high hit rate even in a small capacity and less access overheads, high-speed writing to the flash memory is attained, and the number of re... | 08/04/2009 |
| 7569282 | Electromagnetic shielding copper foil, method of production thereof and electromagnetic shield An electromagnetic shielding copper foil superior in electromagnetic shielding ability, high in transmittance, and free from particle shedding comprising a copper foil on at least one surface of which a fine roughening particle layer of copper or an alloy is provide... | 08/04/2009 |
| D597296 | Sock | 08/04/2009 |
| 7568037 | Apparatus and method for using storage domains for controlling data in storage area networks Storage domains respectively have associated configurable storage management properties that are separate from individual physical capabilities of physical storage resources available through a SAN. Logical volumes are created and allocated to hosts in the context o... | 07/28/2009 |
| 7567392 | Image capture lens and image capture apparatus An image capture lens includes, in following order from an object side, a first lens made of glass which has a meniscus shape with a convex surface facing the object side and has positive refractive power, an aperture stop, a second lens made of glass which has a me... | 07/28/2009 |
| 7565588 | Semiconductor device and data storage apparatus A semiconductor device and a data storage apparatus are provided. A semiconductor device includes: a cell array configured to have cells for data storage arranged in an array; at least one buffer configured to latch read data of the cell array in units of pages; an ... | 07/21/2009 |
| 7565058 | File recording apparatus and editing method for video effect The present invention is directed to a video Effect editing method of automatically preparing/editing Movie Atom having Effect track by an instruction such that user pushes down a button for a time period during which he desires to implement Effect during Movie reco... | 07/21/2009 |
| 7564766 | Laser drive device, laser light emitting device and laser driving method A laser drive device, a laser light emitting device and a laser driving method capable of preventing deterioration or failure of a laser element due to returned lights by defining a control limitation value taking into account an affection of the returned lights to ... | 07/21/2009 |
| 7564752 | Disc signal evaluation apparatus and disc signal evaluation method By decoding a formatted 1-77PP signal 22 outputted from a BD-ROM formatter 20 at a high speed, comparing it with original data 34 in a comparator unit 30 and checking authenticity of data from the BD-ROM formatter 20 in real time, ... | 07/21/2009 |
| 7564079 | Solid state imager device with leakage current inhibiting region In a case when a structure of forming a p+ layer on a substrate rear surface side is employed in order to prevent dark current generation from the silicon boundary surface, various problems occur. According to this invention, an insulation film 39 is provided... | 07/21/2009 |
| 7563242 | Ultrasonic surgery apparatus An ultrasonic surgery apparatus capable of setting surgical conditions properly in accordance with hardness of a nucleus lentis and performing surgery with efficiency is disclosed. The ultrasonic surgery apparatus includes an ultrasonic vibration inducing unit, havi... | 07/21/2009 |
| 7561363 | Recording apparatus, server apparatus, recording method, program, and storage medium A data recording apparatus recording data of a CD on an HDD in a manner such that the content of record in the CD is faithfully accounted for and shortening an operation time for a synchronized ripping operation. When the data recording apparatus reads, from the CD,... | 07/14/2009 |
| 7559260 | Rotational angle detecting device Supply and interruption of power source to the first angle sensor 2 and the second angle sensor 4 are alternately performed, by comparing the signal Vo1 or Vo2 which is outputted from the first angle sensor 2 or the second angle se... | 07/14/2009 |
| 7558756 | Method and system for evaluating loan workout scenarios A computer system for evaluating multiple loan workout options. Each loan workout option includes at least one scenario. The computer system includes a collection component and a processing component. The collection component collects information relating to a loan ... | 07/07/2009 |
| 7558134 | Semiconductor memory device and its operation method A semiconductor memory device includes a memory-cell array, a read bit line, a write bit line, a sense amplifier, a first sense line, a second sense line, a first bit line switch, and a second bit line switch. The memory-cell array is laid out to form an array. The ... | 07/07/2009 |
| 7558003 | Zoom lens and imaging apparatus An electrode for an extra-high pressure discharge lamp, comprises large diameter portion which is symmetrical with respect to an axis of the electrode, a small diameter portion connected to the large diameter portion, wherein the large diameter portion is connected ... | 07/07/2009 |
| 7558000 | Optical device An optical device includes: a sealed container having edge walls facing each other in a thickness direction of the container and a side wall connecting both of the edge walls; a first liquid with polarity or electrical conductivity and sealed within the container; a... | 07/07/2009 |
| 7555041 | Code quantity control apparatus, code quantity control method and picture information transformation method Code quantity control based on a virtual buffer is executed by using information extracted from picture compressed information conforming to a predetermined system. Thus, a reference quantization scale can be held at a fixed value throughout a frame. As a result, it... | 06/30/2009 |
| 7554749 | Variable power optical system and image-recording device A variable power optical system composed of a first optical part (G1) for refraction, a second optical part (G2) for reflection or transmission, and a third optical part (G3) for refraction, with the first optical part being movable with respect... | 06/30/2009 |
| 7554744 | Zoom lens system and image-pickup apparatus A zoom lens system includes, in order from the object side, a first lens unit having positive refractive power, a second lens unit having negative refractive power, a third lens unit having positive refractive power, a fourth lens unit having positive refractive pow... | 06/30/2009 |
| 7554075 | Imaging apparatus There is disclosed an imaging apparatus having: (a) a drive mechanism for moving an imaging device subunit having an imaging device in mutually perpendicular first and second directions; (b) a first actuator for moving the imaging device subunit in the first directi... | 06/30/2009 |
| 7554069 | Solid state imaging device and imaging apparatus having a first well region forming an overflow barrier interposed between a photoelectric conversion area and a second well region A solid state imaging device having an image area in which a plurality of light receiving pixels is arranged on a semiconductor substrate of a first conductive type is disclosed. The device includes: a plurality of photosensor parts formed by providing on the semico... | 06/30/2009 |
