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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8167276 | Fence system with insect barrier A fence system including a fence post and a rail inserted into and supported by the fence post. The rail being an elongated member having a channel or U-shaped cross section defined by a web member and parallel leg members attached to the web member. The rail is ins... | 05/01/2012 |
| D656538 | Linear color changer component | 03/27/2012 |
| 8086098 | Imaging apparatus An imaging apparatus is disclosed. The apparatus includes: (a) an imaging device subunit having an imaging device for creating an image signal associated with a subject and a light-transmitting member mounted ahead of a photosensitive surface of the imaging device; ... | 12/27/2011 |
| 8085827 | Vertical cavity surface emitting laser and method of manufacturing the same A Vertical Cavity Surface Emitting Laser capable of decreasing the lowering of the yield due to displacement and separation of a pedestal without enormous increase of the threshold value and more difficult manufacturing process is provided. A base of a mesa spreads ... | 12/27/2011 |
| 8085335 | Image pickup apparatus with a fixed aperture stop having an aperture with different, repetitive first and second wave patterns An image pickup apparatus includes an image-pickup optical system, three color separation prisms separating incident light guided by the image-pickup optical system into three-primary-color light components and emitting the light components, and three image pickup e... | 12/27/2011 |
| 8085258 | Organic electroluminescence display apparatus, driving circuit for driving organic electroluminescence light emitting portion, and driving method for organic electroluminescence light emitting portion A driving circuit for driving an organic electroluminescence light emitting portion includes: a driving transistor of the n channel type having source/drain regions, a channel formation region and a gate electrode; an image signal writing transistor having source/dr... | 12/27/2011 |
| 8085251 | Display-and-image-pickup apparatus, object detection program and method of detecting an object A display-and-image-pickup apparatus includes: a display-and-image-pickup panel having an image display function and an image pickup function; an image producing means for producing a predetermined processed image on the basis of a picked-up image of a proximity obj... | 12/27/2011 |
| 8081255 | Image converting apparatus, image signal processing apparatus, camera system and image signal processing method An image converting apparatus includes a memory which can store frame information of an image to be played, and an image processing section which can read frame information from the memory and convert the frame rate to a predetermined frame rate in response to a pre... | 12/20/2011 |
| 8028651 | Dosing system for a coating plant A metering system for a coating installation for coating components such as vehicle body parts contains an applicator which applies the coating material supplied to it with a volumetric flow metered on-demand, a regulated first metering device which adjusts the pres... | 10/04/2011 |
| 8020784 | Coating material supply installation and associated operating procedure A coating material supply device is disclosed, such as for a paint facility. An exemplary coating material supply device may include a coating material reservoir and a coating material meter. During application of coating material, the coating material reservoir may... | 09/20/2011 |
| 8016689 | Golf ball aiming device A golf ball aiming device is provided that allows a golfer to accurately position a ball relative to its intended target. The device includes a laser for aiming and pointing the device along with an alignment feature for aligning the ball relative to the device.... | 09/13/2011 |
| 7995022 | Digital-to-analog converter and image display device Disclosed herein are a digital-to-analog converter and a video display device. The digital-to-analog converter includes a converting section. The converting section has a code converting section, a reference voltage generating section, a plurality of transistors, an... | 08/09/2011 |
| 7983544 | Shake correction unit and imaging apparatus A shake correction unit includes: a base member; a first movable member that moves relative to the base member in a first direction; a second movable member to which an imaging device is fixed, the second movable member moving relative to the first movable member in... | 07/19/2011 |
| 7981722 | Semiconductor device and fabrication method thereof A semiconductor device and a fabrication method thereof are provided. A semiconductor device which is packaged as it includes a semiconductor in which an electronic circuit is disposed, the semiconductor device including: a substrate; a semiconductor chip which has ... | 07/19/2011 |
| 7532654 | Laser diode A laser diode capable of effectively inhibiting effects of return light is provided. A laser diode includes a substrate, and a laminated structure including a first conductive semiconductor layer, an active layer having a light emitting region, and a second conducti... | 05/12/2009 |
| 7532240 | Imaging apparatus and imaging methods A signal detection circuit and a controller receive signals from an imaging device, determine pixels having signal levels that exceed a predetermined defect determination level as defective pixels, and store the addresses of the defective pixels corresponding to rea... | 05/12/2009 |
| 7532188 | Clocked inverter circuit, latch circuit, shift register circuit, drive circuit for display apparatus, and display apparatus The present invention is applied to flat display apparatuses using organic EL devices. Switching circuits implemented by a set of transistors TR1 and TR2 that perform on/off operations in a complementary manner form a series circuit, an output of the c... | 05/12/2009 |
| 7529405 | Image processing apparatus and image processing method as well as computer program An image processing apparatus and an image processing method are disclosed by which an image correction process for a false color such as a purple fringe can be executed efficiently while excessive reduction of the saturation is prevented to produce image data of a ... | 05/05/2009 |
| 7529324 | Decoder, decoding method, and disk playback device A decoder including a Viterbi decoding section for Viterbi-decoding data and a fixed delay tree search decoding section for fixed-delay-tree-search-decoding the data includes a metric calculation circuit used by both the Viterbi decoding section and the fixed delay ... | 05/05/2009 |
| 7528841 | Image transformation apparatus, image transformation circuit and image transformation method An image transformation apparatus is provided, which includes a modeling unit 5 that calculates the coordinates of vertices of each polygon and calculates a pre-filter coefficient corresponding to a reduction ratio at the position of a vertex of each polygon,... | 05/05/2009 |
| 7528828 | Power supply voltage converting circuit, control method thereof, display apparatus, and portable terminal In a power supply voltage converting circuit using a charge pump circuit having a switch device (Nch MOS transistor Qn(12) and Pch MOS transistor Qp(12)) in an output unit, a first clamp circuit (13) diode-clamps a switching pulse voltage (contr... | 05/05/2009 |
| 7527431 | Bearing unit and rotating apparatus using the bearing unit A bearing unit and a rotating apparatus which prevent leakage of lubricating oil to the utmost and which are superior in reliability are disclosed. A radial bearing and a thrust bearing support a shaft for rotation, and a path forming member and a path forming membe... | 05/05/2009 |
| 7526275 | Mobile terminal apparatus A mobile terminal apparatus checks if a user is a proper user based on the operation of the user and, if the result of authentication is negative, uploads predetermined data, which is part of data stored in a memory, to a predetermined server. After the transmission... | 04/28/2009 |
| 7525774 | Magneto-resistance effect type magnetic head and magnetic tape apparatus A laser diode capable of being easily mounted and a laser diode device in which the laser diode is mounted are provided. A hole is disposed in a semiconductor layer, and a p-type electrode and an n-type semiconductor layer are electrically connected to each other by... | 04/28/2009 |
| 7525729 | Zoom lens and imaging apparatus There is provided a zoom lens having, in an order of an object-to-image direction, a first lens group having a positive refractive power and fixed with respect to an image plane; a second lens group having a negative refractive power; a third lens group having a pos... | 04/28/2009 |
| 7525334 | Liquid-crystal display device, defective pixel examination method, defective pixel examination program, and storage medium A defective pixel examination method includes the steps of applying different voltages to a capacitive element of a first pixel section and a capacitive element of a second pixel section among the plurality of pixel sections; turning on a switch provided between an ... | 04/28/2009 |
| 7524063 | Ophthalmic apparatus An ophthalmic apparatus capable of performing smooth examination. The apparatus includes a chin rest on which a chin of an examinee is placed, a chin rest moving unit which puts the chin rest into up/down movement, an examination unit which has an examination optica... | 04/28/2009 |
| 7522887 | Wireless signal switching circuit and wireless communication apparatus A wireless signal switching circuit for switching a plurality of wireless transmitter signals or a plurality of wireless receiver signals with low loss in a dual mode compatible mobile phone (cellular phone) or other mobile wireless communication apparatus having fo... | 04/21/2009 |
| 7522691 | Phase-locked circuit A phase-locked circuit comprises a complex signal processor and a feedback portion wherein the complex signal processor: receives as an input a first complex signal composed of a real part component and an imaginary part component; generates a second complex signal ... | 04/21/2009 |
| 7522483 | Disc drive unit and disc recording and/or reproducing apparatus Disc drive units out of the tolerance for assembling errors are rejected by narrowing the skew regulation range for them. Such a disc drive unit comprises a base plate, an optical pickup for writing a signal on and/or reading a signal from the optical disc, a pair o... | 04/21/2009 |
| 7520096 | Sound insulating floor structure A sound insulating floor structure comprises an underlying floor layer of a raised floor constructed by supporting a plurality of underlying floor panels at a predetermined height by means of a group of supporting legs installed on a foundation floor via elastic ped... | 04/21/2009 |
| 7519612 | Information processing system, information processing method, and computer program used therewith An information processing system uses data processing for content. The system includes a preference-data manager for managing user's preferences concerning types of the data processing which are used for said content, a content generator for generating content by us... | 04/14/2009 |
| 7518423 | Digital DLL circuit for an interface circuit in a semiconductor memory A digital DLL circuit includes: a register configured to hold a delay target value; an oscillator; a first counter configured to count an external reference clock or an oscillation output from the oscillator; a second counter configured to count the oscillation outp... | 04/14/2009 |
| 7515636 | Image information conversion apparatus and image information conversion method An image information conversion apparatus and method by which picture quality deterioration caused by conversion from inputted MPEG2 image compression information into MPEG4 image compression information to be outputted is prevented. When an I picture of an MPEG2 bi... | 04/07/2009 |
| 7515321 | Ophthalmic apparatus A multifunction ophthalmic apparatus, capable of efficiently measuring and examining eye characteristics respectively, has an measurement part including a unit blowing fluid to a cornea via a nozzle for measuring intraocular pressure of an examinee's eye, a reflecti... | 04/07/2009 |
| 7515177 | Imaging device An image pickup apparatus is able to shoot an image of a wide range by a plurality of image pickup units, it is able to obtain excellent image quality and it can be miniaturized. An image pickup apparatus 20 comprises a plurality of image pickup units 1 | 04/07/2009 |
| 7512051 | Information processing apparatus An information processing apparatus capable of reducing propagation delay differences and error factors, capable of realizing high precision binarization control, and accordingly capable of realizing high precision reproduction, including a comparator for converting... | 03/31/2009 |
| 7511750 | Photo-electric converting device and its driving method, and its manufacturing method, solid-state image pickup device and its driving method and its manufacturing method A photo-electric converting apparatus 100 has an arrangement in which a photo-electric converting apparatus 3 is formed on the surface of a substrate 1, an insulating film 11 is formed on the substrate 1, an uneven portion 18 | 03/31/2009 |
| 7511555 | Level conversion circuit and input-output device using same A level conversion circuit includes a controlling section supplied with a first power supply voltage and a second power supply voltage different from each other, the controlling section outputting a bias voltage, detecting rising of the first power supply voltage an... | 03/31/2009 |
| 7511544 | Digital DLL circuit for an interface circuit in a semiconductor memory A digital DLL circuit includes: a first register configured to hold a delay specifying value to specify a delay; a second register configured to specify a correction value for a gate delay inside an LSI; a digitally-controlled variable delay circuit; and a control c... | 03/31/2009 |
