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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8178433 | Methods for the formation of fully silicided metal gates An advanced gate structure that includes a fully silicided metal gate and silicided source and drain regions in which the fully silicided metal gate has a thickness that is greater than the thickness of the silicided source/drain regions is provided. Methods of form... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8169189 | Mobile terminal with a temperature sensor and method of charging battery mounted in mobile terminal In order to shorten a period of time necessary for charging a battery, and further, to prevent a temperature of a mobile terminal from raising, the mobile terminal 100 is comprised of a case 102 in which electronic parts are arranged, a battery 104 | 05/01/2012 |
| 8163750 | Fluorene derivatives, compositions containing the same and use thereof as inhibitors of the protein chaperone HSP 90 The present invention relates to compounds of formula (I): wherein R1, R2, R2′, L, Het, p and p′ are as defined herein, compositions containing them, and their use as medicinal products. ... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8161489 | Resource sharing and allocation between a plurality of different raid policies on groups of disks Disclosed is a resource allocation system including a provisional allocation execution unit that executes provisional allocation for policies other than a policy corresponding to an accepted source request, a shared resource extraction unit that extracts a resource ... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8154130 | Self-aligned metal to form contacts to Ge containing substrates and structure formed thereby A method for forming germano-silicide contacts atop a Ge-containing layer that is more resistant to etching than are conventional silicide contacts that are formed from a pure metal is provided. The method of the present invention includes first providing a structur... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8153514 | Method of forming metal/high-κ gate stacks with high mobility The present invention provides a gate stack structure that has high mobilities and low interfacial charges as well as semiconductor devices, i.e., metal oxide semiconductor field effect transistors (MOSFETs) that include the same. In the semiconductor devices, the g... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8138606 | Wiring conductor, method for fabricating same, terminal connecting assembly, and Pb-free solder alloy A Pb-free Sn-based material part of a wiring conductor is provided at least at a part of its surface, and the Sn-based material part includes a base metal doped with an oxidation control element. The oxidation control element is at least one element selected from a ... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8138029 | Structure and method having asymmetrical junction or reverse halo profile for semiconductor on insulator (SOI) metal oxide semiconductor field effect transistor (MOSFET) A device and method is provided that in one embodiment provides a first semiconductor device including a first gate structure on a first channel region, in which a first source region and a first drain region are present on opposing sides of the first channel region... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8134744 | Method for setting color conversion condition for use in image forming device, and image forming device A method for setting a color conversion condition for use in an image forming device. The image forming device includes: a first color conversion unit that converts input image data into first output image data by using a first three-dimensional LUT; and second-firs... | 03/13/2012 |
| 8072444 | Display device and electronic apparatus using the same A light-detecting element, an analog-to-digital converter circuit, and a parallel-serial converter circuit are mounted on a substrate, using a thin film transistor, of an active matrix-type display device, and when a circuit is selected by an external chip-select si... | 12/06/2011 |
| 7959559 | Endoscope insertion assisting device, endoscope apparatus, medical treatment device and endoscope insertion method The present invention includes a first balloon member having a first hollow portion that allows an insertion portion of the endoscope to pass therethrough; a first transmission member that transmits an advance/retreat action performed by an operator to the first bal... | 06/14/2011 |
| 7959470 | Connector with a connecting memer with a screw portion penetrating the insulators and terminals of two mating terminal housings A connector includes a first terminal housing with a plurality of first connecting terminals aligned and accommodated therein, a second terminal housing with a plurality of second connecting terminals aligned and accommodated therein, a plurality of insulation membe... | 06/14/2011 |
| 7898049 | Touching microlens structure for a pixel sensor and method of fabrication A structure and method for increasing the sensitivity of pixel sensors by eliminating a gap space formed between adjacent microlens structures in a pixel sensor array. Advantageously, exposure and flowing conditions are such that adjacent microlens structures touch ... | 03/01/2011 |
| 7897468 | Device having self-aligned double gate formed by backside engineering, and device having super-steep retrograded island A method of forming a dual gate semiconductor device is provided that includes providing a substrate having a first semiconductor layer and a second semiconductor layer, in which a first gate structure is formed on the second semiconductor layer. The second semicond... | 03/01/2011 |
| 7543105 | Memory access control based on hit prediction A memory access control system is provided which includes a memory master to make a request for access to memory, a memory control section to produce control signals of memories based on access information and a high predicting section to predict whether the next ac... | 06/02/2009 |
| 7536534 | Processor capable of being switched among a plurality of operating modes, and method of designing said processor A processor has an instruction set A and an instruction set B. A system instruction decoder decodes a system instruction that specifies the operating mode of the processor, the system instruction not being included in either the instruction set A or the instruction ... | 05/19/2009 |
| 7526318 | Mobile station intermittently receiving a radio signal A mobile station has a subscriber identity card (IC card 18) and operates for periodical detection of the IC card (18). The IC card detection is effected at the timing when a transceiver receives a signal from the base station for detecting an incoming... | 04/28/2009 |
| 7500139 | Securing time for identifying cause of asynchronism in fault-tolerant computer A fault-tolerant computer has a pair of duplex systems having respective CPU subsystems that are operable identically in lock-step synchronism. Each of the duplex systems has a CPU, a main storage unit, a CPU bus controller, and a DMA controller. The CPU and the mai... | 03/03/2009 |
| 7482975 | Multi-beam transmitting/receiving apparatus and transmitting/receiving method A multibeam transmitting/receiving apparatus is provided that is capable of increasing the accuracy of a direction in which a transmission beam is to be transmitted, with a simple arrangement. Signal power measuring units (8-1 through 8-L) of si... | 01/27/2009 |
| 7484186 | Method for designing a system LSI A method for designing a system LSI includes the step of defining, for each of instructions of the processor, a behavior function description and an instruction description specifying the behavior function description, and the step of synthesizing the instructions b... | 01/27/2009 |
| 7454354 | Hierarchical lossless encoding/decoding method, hierarchical lossless encoding method, hierarchical lossless decoding method, its apparatus and program A hierarchical lossless encoding and decoding technology for digital signals such as of music data, audio data, or the like. A lossless reproduced signal is made identical to an input signal even when the processing accuracy in an encoding apparatus and the processi... | 11/18/2008 |
| 7440314 | Toggle-type magnetoresistive random access memory A MRAM includes: first wirings, second wirings, memory cells, a second sense amplifier and a first sense amplifier. The first wirings and second wirings are extended in a first and a second direction. The memory cells are placed correspondingly to positions where th... | 10/21/2008 |
| 7436524 | Apparatus and method for three-dimensional measurement and program for allowing computer to execute method for three-dimensional measurement The present invention has a three-dimensional apparatus including a lattice pattern placed in an optical path and having a slit-like light transmitting portion formed of pitches set at fixed intervals, and a projecting optical system that projects a lattice pattern ... | 10/14/2008 |
| 7399971 | Single-point measurement of high-Z additives in sheets An apparatus, method and computer program product for determining a concentration of a high-Z material in a material sample. The method comprises steps of: receiving a material sample and subjecting the material sample to a first sensor device that is substantially ... | 07/15/2008 |
| 7387080 | Pneumatic actuator movement indicator Disclosed is a pneumatic actuator movement indicator comprising a housing adapted to be connected in series between a pneumatic actuator and a source of pressurized fluid for the actuator, and an indicator located in, and having an equilibrium position in, the housi... | 06/17/2008 |
| 7382456 | Spectroscopic sensor for measuring sheet properties A spectroscopic sensor for measuring flat sheet product is disclosed. The disclosed sensor uses a combination of spectrometers and single-channel detectors and filters together with a broadband source of illumination to optimally measure multiple properties of a fla... | 06/03/2008 |
| 7376215 | Measurement of ash composition using scanning high voltage X-ray sensor A system, method and computer program product is provided that enables measurement and determination of the relative material composition of ash content in a paper product. While materials in ash content, e.g., CaCaO3, Clay, and TiO2, have dist... | 05/20/2008 |
| 7343292 | Audio encoder utilizing bandwidth-limiting processing based on code amount characteristics A mapping transform unit subjects input audio signals to a mapping transform and generates frequency region signals that take frequency as a variable; a code amount designation unit supplies a preset coding bit rate as a code amount output; a frequency region signal... | 03/11/2008 |
| 7342449 | Differential amplifier, and data driver of display device using the same Disclosed is a Rail-to-Rail amplifier including a plurality of differential pairs of a first conductivity type and a plurality of differential amplifiers of a second conductivity type each with one of an input pair thereof constituting an input terminal, a different... | 03/11/2008 |
| 7339422 | Amplifier circuit and display device Offset canceling amplifier circuit in which a high accuracy of output with a suppressed output offset is achieved and a variation in a slew rate is also suppressed, and a display device having the amplifier circuit. A first differential pair (M5, M6) c... | 03/04/2008 |
| 7330109 | System and method for capturing and rerouting an individual local security system A method and system used by a central monitoring station to monitor and control a local installed security system. The method includes programming into a receiver an identifier for a local security system to be captured and controlled. Programming a control instruct... | 02/12/2008 |
| 7327372 | Color correcting parameter calculator, image color correcting device, method of calculating color correcting parameters, and program therefor In a color correcting parameter calculator, a color correcting unit 11 calculates a target color by executing color correction processing of an input color on a reference side while a reference side color perception value calculator unit 13 calculates ... | 02/05/2008 |
| 7323979 | Dual technology glass breakage detector A dual technology glass breakage detector for a security system that detects the breaking of glass in a window or door without generating false alarms caused by similar types of sounds. The dual technology glass breakage detector includes an acoustic sensor/audio pr... | 01/29/2008 |
| 7298170 | Safety system based on reconfigurable array of logic gates An array of logic gates is configured to implement a predefined strategy for an emergency response system in a hardware-only runtime environment. The array of logic gates receives a plurality of input signals from a set of sensors and actuators located within an ind... | 11/20/2007 |
| 7220227 | Adapter for endoscope and endoscope An adapter for an endoscope of the present invention includes: a locking device for attaching and detaching that attaches and locks this adapter for an endoscope onto a predefined position on an endoscope control part; and a first treatment tool locking device that ... | 05/22/2007 |
| 7206128 | Illumination unit of stereomicroscope In an illumination switching frame fixed to the end of an objective of Greenough stereomicroscope, a folding mirror is fixed removably to illumination optical axes q and q′ to switch coaxial vertical illumination and episcopic illumination. ... | 04/17/2007 |
| 7205531 | Sample information measuring method and scanning confocal microscope When irradiating a sample with light from a light source through an object lens, discretely changing a relative position between a beam condensing position of the object lens and the sample in an optical axis direction of the converging beam, obtaining light intensi... | 04/17/2007 |
| 7206779 | Method and apparatus for retrieving similar objects An object retrieval method used is characterized as follows. When a user selects objects, the dispersion between the objects is found with respect to each of a plurality of feature quantities. Within a retrieval range of objects, the dispersion between the objects i... | 04/17/2007 |
| 7196339 | Light-receiving unit and measuring apparatus including the same A measuring apparatus includes a confocal optical microscopy, an excitation light source unit that emits excitation light for generating fluorescence from a fluorescent material, and a light-receiving unit. The confocal optical microscope includes an excitation ligh... | 03/27/2007 |
| 7182530 | Electrode shutter device with start area A shutter device includes a stationary plate having a plurality of driving electrodes movable element opposes the stationary plate and including a sheet subjected to an electret-forming process. A drive control unit for moving the movable element using variation in ... | 02/27/2007 |
