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...that two musicians were responsible for the invention of color print film? Fascinated by photography, Leopold Godowsky and Leopold Mannes worked together to produce an easy-to-use, practical color film. They worked full time as music teachers and gave concerts while experimenting during their off hours in Mannes' kitchen. Their success earned them full-time, well-paying jobs at Kodak and their efforts resulted in Kodachrome film, which was introduced in 1935.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7512637 | Storage system and undo processing method A storage system and an undo processing method that can facilitate undo processing for configuration change operations that have been performed for storage apparatuses by different administrators. A management server manages the history of configuration change opera... | 03/31/2009 |
| 7512418 | Sensor node, base station, and sensor network system This invention achieves lower electric power consumption of a sensor node for carrying out an intermittent operation, in a sensor net system. A time when the sensor node transmits a signal to a base station is estimated. Then, in accordance with the estimation, a ta... | 03/31/2009 |
| 7512344 | Variable dispersion compensator A dispersion compensator is applicable to a WDM optical transmission system and features low loss, wideband usage, and minimum ripple. The dispersion compensator is constructed so that the light emitted from a collimator will be reflected from an etalon of a 100% si... | 03/31/2009 |
| 7511911 | Storage system having a power source state detection unit A storage system capable of reducing the start-up time of disk drives is provided. If a power source monitor circuit itself is normal (S93), the power source monitor circuit reads a detection signal from a detection circuit, and checks power sources (S94 | 03/31/2009 |
| 7511891 | Miniaturized optically imaging system with high lateral and axial resolution The invention is directed to a miniaturized optically imaging system with high lateral and axial resolution for endomicroscopic applications. To provide a miniaturized optical head which permits an appreciable increase in photon efficiency with high lateral and axia... | 03/31/2009 |
| 7511558 | Semiconductor devices utilizing double gated fully depleted silicon on insulator MOS transistors A CMOS circuit in low-voltage implementation, low power-consumption implementation, high-speed implementation, or small-size implementation. In a circuit which uses a FD-SOI MOST where a back gate is controlled by a well, voltage amplitude at the well is made larger... | 03/31/2009 |
| 7511338 | Semiconductor device and manufacturing method of the same An object of the present invention is to simplify manufacturing process of an n channel MIS transistor and a p channel MIS transistor with gate electrodes formed of a metal material. For its achievement, gate electrodes of each of the n channel MIS transistor and th... | 03/31/2009 |
| 7510789 | Perpendicular magnetic recording media A perpendicular magnetic recording medium includes an intermediate film formed of a plurality of layers between a soft magnetic film and a perpendicular magnetization film. The intermediate film includes at least two layers, i.e., an oxygen-containing layer, or a no... | 03/31/2009 |
| D589470 | Light-emitting module | 03/31/2009 |
| 7509467 | Storage controller and data management method Upon receiving a primary/secondary switching command from a secondary host system, a secondary storage control device interrogates a primary storage control device as to whether or not yet to be transferred data that has not been remote copied from the primary stora... | 03/24/2009 |
| 7508625 | Magnetic recording device A magnetic recording device which can write magnetic information with high density. The device uses, for a magnetic recording layer of a magnetic recording medium, a magnetic material whose anisotropy energy varies with an applied electric field. The head has an ele... | 03/24/2009 |
| 7508337 | Radar apparatus and signal processing method The radar apparatus of the present invention can obtain distance to a target and speed with higher accuracy even when multiple targets are running within a detecting field of a radar. The radar apparatus can transmit a radio wave by alternately switching a section h... | 03/24/2009 |
| 7507632 | Semiconductor device and manufacturing method thereof In a MIS transistor of which gate length is 10 nm or less, a gate insulator comprising a silicon oxide film formed on a silicon substrate and a high-k film formed on the silicon oxide film has a nitrided region including more nitrogen at the lateral side than at the... | 03/24/2009 |
| 7507507 | Liquid crystal display device The invention provides a liquid crystal display device in which incorporation of an organic compound into liquid crystal due to a display defect can be reduced to a great extent. In the liquid crystal display device, a film containing a hydrocarbon represented by th... | 03/24/2009 |
| 7506409 | Handle/grip and method for designing the like The present invention provides a design method and apparatus for a handle or grip providing a shape and structure that fills various regions of the hand except a region in an area over the underlying carpal tunnel. Such design method and apparatus provides for vario... | 03/24/2009 |
| 7506375 | File server, file server log management system and file server log management method A log management system is devised to easily discover improper handling log information by managers. Virtual operation systems (OS) are respectively installed for respective users in a file server constructed as an NAS device. These virtual OS function as virtual NA... | 03/17/2009 |
| 7506101 | Data migration method and system The present invention provides a data migration technique enabling a required performance to be satisfied as closely as possible. A server obtains an IOPS measurement value of a plurality of business APs and an IOPS measurement value of a plurality of logical volume... | 03/17/2009 |
| 7505696 | Optical receiver with increased dynamic range An optical receiver with increased dynamic range includes a photodetector, a photodetector biasing network, an amplifier and a post-distortion network. The post-distortion network compensates for gain error in the amplifier, such that a composite output voltage is r... | 03/17/2009 |
| 7505299 | Semiconductor memory device A semiconductor memory device that can achieve high-speed operation or that is highly integrated and simultaneously can achieve high-speed operation is provided. Transistors are disposed on both sides of diffusion layer regions to which capacitor for storing informa... | 03/17/2009 |
| 7504264 | Method for characterizing a highly parallelized liquid handling technique using microplates and test kit for carrying out the method A method for characterizing highly parallelized liquid handling technology using microplates and test kit for carrying out the method. Possibilities for characterizing a multi-channel or many-channel handling technology are known in principle. However, especially wi... | 03/17/2009 |
| 7486544 | Semiconductor integrated circuit device The present invention provides a semiconductor integrated circuit device having an SRAM in which leak current is reduced. In an SRAM comprising a plurality of memory cells each constructed by a storage in which input and output terminals of two inverter circuits are... | 02/03/2009 |
| 7486363 | Liquid crystal display device having first and second pixel electrodes overlapped to a counter electrode and connected to separate switching elements The present invention provides a liquid crystal display device which includes a pixel electrode and a counter electrode in a pixel formed on a surface of a substrate which faces liquid crystal, the counter electrode is formed below an insulation film, and the pixel ... | 02/03/2009 |
| 7486348 | Liquid crystal display device Light-emitting elements can be accurately directly opposed to the entrance surface of a light guide at an accurate distance therefrom, and can be mounted on a single side of a printed circuit board together with other electronic components, whereby the number of man... | 02/03/2009 |
| 7463344 | Arrangement for the optical detection of light radiation which is excited and/or backscattered in a specimen with a double-objective arrangement Arrangement and method for the optical detection of light radiation which is excited and/or backscattered in a specimen, wherein the illumination of the specimen and/or the detection of the specimen light is carried out by at least two objectives arranged on differe... | 12/09/2008 |
| 7464236 | Storage system and storage management method The storage system of the present invention has a simple configuration and ensures redundancy of the system. The primary storage control device and the first secondary storage control device are connected by a synchronous read method, and the primary storage control... | 12/09/2008 |
| 7463182 | Radar apparatus An inexpensive surveillance radar apparatus capable of identifying the kind of an object by using a monopulse radar that performs wide-angle two-dimensional surveillance. The radar apparatus receives reflected waves from a plurality of points on a moving object with... | 12/09/2008 |
| D582341 | Rechargeable battery | 12/09/2008 |
| 7464233 | Data input/output method in information processing system, and information processing system An input/output method is provided which assures data consistency of a file spreading over a plurality of logically significant volumes or files distributed among a plurality of volumes. A storage subsystem at a main site handles as one group those input/output requ... | 12/09/2008 |
| 7463662 | Optical semiconductor device, manufacturing method therefor, and optical semiconductor apparatus A highly reliable optical semiconductor device insusceptible to degradation in the characteristics thereof. An n-type buffer layer, n-type first cladding layer, active layer, a p-type first layer of the second cladding layer, p-type etch-stop layer, p-type second la... | 12/09/2008 |
| 7463663 | Semiconductor laser diode and integrated semiconductor optical waveguide device A conventional semiconductor laser diode is small in optical power at a constant operating current and limited in ridge width when integrated with an optical device, which forces the integration to be performed by lowering the original characteristic and makes it di... | 12/09/2008 |
| 7464232 | Data migration and copying in a storage system with dynamically expansible volumes When migrating data stored in a storage region assigned to a volume to another storage region, the connection status of the host computer and volume is confirmed. When the host computer and volume are connected, the maximum capacity of the volume requested by the ho... | 12/09/2008 |
| 7463325 | Liquid crystal display device The present invention aims at the miniaturization and the reduction of thickness of a liquid crystal display device. In a liquid crystal display device which includes: a liquid crystal display panel; a backlight which is arranged on a back-surface side of the liquid... | 12/09/2008 |
| 7464204 | Disk-array device having storage-device recognition and identification of a storage area network link environment A disk-array device includes an information managing database for acquiring link information among a server device, a switch device, and a storage device via the switch device so as to manage the link information in a combined manner, and a collection analysis unit ... | 12/09/2008 |
| 7464210 | Data processing system having a data transfer unit for converting an integer into a floating-point number when tranferring data from a peripheral circuit to a memory This invention provides a data processing system capable of performing an interrupt exception handling routine as many times as the number of times of occurrence of a request event for the same interrupt exception handling routine if the request event occurs a plura... | 12/09/2008 |
| 7464235 | Storage system and control method thereof, and computer program product Provided is a storage system having a host system, a first storage controller and a second storage controller. The first storage controller has a primary logical volume formed from an actual volume, and a secondary logical volume formed from a virtual volume capable... | 12/09/2008 |
| 7461293 | Apparatus and storage system for controlling acquisition of snapshot A DBMS performs a checkpoint process for maintaining consistency of data. A snapshot acquisition control program detects the checkpoint process externally to the DBMS and creates a snapshot in an external storage according to the timing of the checkpoint. Correspond... | 12/02/2008 |
| 7461201 | Storage control method and system for performing backup and/or restoration A second storage system (SS2) comprises a plurality of tapes, a first storage device capable of performing random access at a rate higher than the tapes, and a virtual storage device emulating the first storage device. A first storage system (SS1) comprises a second... | 12/02/2008 |
| 7460189 | Manufacturing method of a display device using a two-layered resist The present invention realizes the two-layered resist structure for obtaining a half exposure pattern of high sensitivity and high accuracy and a manufacturing method of a display device which includes thin film transistors which are formed using the two-layered res... | 12/02/2008 |
| 7459347 | Manufacturing method of a semiconductor device A non-leaded resin-sealed semiconductor device is manufactured by the steps of providing a conductive flat substrate (metal plate) of copper plate or the like, fixing semiconductor elements respectively to predetermined positions on the principal surface of the subs... | 12/02/2008 |
| 7459345 | Packaging method for an electronic element A packaging method for an electronic element has: etching portions of a top surface of a metal board to form recesses between raised unetched segments and filling the recesses with a dielectric material of high density polymer; forming multiple solder balls respecti... | 12/02/2008 |
