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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8184241 | Liquid crystal display device The present invention mechanically protects a surface of a miniaturized liquid crystal display device for mobile phone or the like without deteriorating image quality and without increasing a thickness of a whole display device. To achieve such an object, in the pre... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8184229 | Liquid crystal display device A liquid crystal display device includes a liquid crystal display panel and a backlight arranged on a back surface of the liquid crystal display panel, the backlight including a plurality of rod-shaped light sources, a frame which supports the rod-shaped light sourc... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8184087 | Display method for LCD device with reduced color break-up The present invention provides a display method for an LCD device with reduced color break-up, comprising the following steps: generating a control signal for each sub-frame, and displaying the sub-frames successively. The present invention generates, according to b... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8180952 | Storage system and data guarantee method A system according to the invention reads/writes data by using a memory device performing a wear leveling. A host 4 reads/writes data from/in a flash memory device 2. A first protection code BC is added to the end of a logical block for every logical b... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8180590 | Railroad surveying and monitoring system A Railroad Surveying and Monitoring System configured on a mobile platform for surveying, monitoring, and analyzing rail position and superstructure and terrain substructure of railroad tracks (20a,b) or other structures. The system employs two or more... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8179904 | Packet transfer device and transfer control method thereof A first issue is to provide a packet transfer device for identifying a connection such as a TCP connection linked to a bandwidth control means, and provide a proxy acknowledgment for each identified connection such as TCP. A second issue is to provide a packet trans... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8179353 | Driving method for display device A liquid crystal display includes pixels each having an switching element, drain drivers and gate drivers for operating the switching elements and the pixels, and drain lines and gate lines supplying signals from the drain drivers and the gate drivers to the switchi... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8175589 | Method for SIM card replacement Method for SIM card replacement, aimed to obtain the functionality of a first SIM card storing a real IMSI number associated to a real MSISDN (MSISDNrA,MSISDNrB), the method comprising: providing a user with a... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8175159 | Moving picture signal coding method, decoding method, coding apparatus, and decoding apparatus Moving picture motion compensation coding/decoding predicts a motion vector in a coding block from a motion vector of the adjacent position and codes a differential motion vector calculated from the motion vector to be coded and its prediction motion vector. The cod... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8175096 | Device for protection against illegal communications and network system thereof A communication device, an illegal communication protection device, and network system for providing protection from illegal communications. A communication device is connected to a network, for receiving packets sent and received over networks, and transmitting pac... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8172622 | Socket structure stack and socket structure thereof A socket structure stack and a socket structure thereof are provided. The socket structure stack includes at least two socket structures, and each socket structure includes a main body, a plurality of conductive elements, and a plurality of connecting elements. The ... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8171837 | Pressure container It is intended to provide a pressure container which can prevent dispersion of a hazardous substance or the like to the exterior and ensure a high level of safety with a simple structure. To achieve this object, a pressure container (10) comprises an outer ve... | 05/08/2012 |
| D659254 | Sample collector | 05/08/2012 |
| 8171215 | File server, file management system and file management method When receiving a file access from the client, the file access program refers to the mapping table, and processes an access to files of on volumes of RAID groups. The file server analyzes the file access states, and groups the files depending on the access time perio... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8171060 | Storage system and method for operating storage system By considering a device life and time needed for data migration, data stored in a storage apparatus is securely preserved until a retention term of each of the data. Multiple disk devices 40A to 40C that store a data file generated by a service server ... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8169393 | Display device A display device includes a display panel having (m×n) pieces of pixels wherein m and n are integers of 2 or more, n pieces of video lines, and m pieces of scanning lines, a video line address circuit, a scanning line address circuit, n pieces of video line vector ... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8169294 | Over-current protection device An over-current protection device comprises two metal foils and a positive temperature coefficient (PTC) material layer. The PTC material layer is sandwiched between the two metal foils and has a volume resistivity below 0.1 Ω-cm. The PTC material layer includes (i... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8167806 | Ultrasonograph An ultrasonograph capable of generating a transmission beam having a uniform width over a wide range in an ultrasonic wave propagation direction is provided. A weighted mean value of a plurality of transmission delay time values corresponding to focal lengths of tra... | 05/01/2012 |
| D658723 | Die | 05/01/2012 |
| 8166243 | Information processing system and program for controlling the information processing system A problem to be solved is to enable the user to read out data stored in a logical unit in a power saving state in a short time in a storage system having a power saving function such as stopping the spindle of the HDD. To solve the problem, candidate document file i... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8164731 | Liquid crystal display device The present invention provides a liquid crystal display device which can obviate cutting off of a peripheral region of the liquid crystal display device which is provided with an inspection circuit and can surely perform the inspection of an image display even when ... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8164399 | Thin film piezoelectric vibrator, thin film piezoelectric bulk acoustic wave resonator, and radio-frequency filter using such resonator A thin film piezoelectric bulk acoustic wave resonator has a multilayer structure including a piezoelectric thin film, a first metal electrode film, and a second metal electrode film. At least a part of the piezoelectric thin film is interposed between the first and... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8163541 | Cell culture apparatus and control method thereof A cell culture apparatus is provided in which a plurality of culture vessels can be mounted and removed in a set, which has a regulation mechanism that can fix each culture vessel in the correct position, and which enables suppression of production costs. The cell c... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8162538 | Temperature-measuring member, temperature-measuring device, and method for measuring temperature The surface density of projections formed on a thin metal film of a temperature-measuring member having the metal film having been subjected to a temperature profile is calculated with a number-calculating section according to image data fed into an arithmetic proce... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8161916 | Decubitus ulcer prevention garment for dogs Decubitus ulcer prevention garments for a dog are provided that include a fluid-filled bladder. The garments can include an inner layer that contacts and interacts with the body of the dog; an intermediate layer that interfaces with the inner layer and includes the ... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8161256 | Remote copy system and path setting support method A remote copy system includes: a host computer; a first storage system connected to the host computer; and a second storage apparatus connected to the first storage system. At least one of the first storage system and the second storage system holds, in a storage pa... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8161221 | Storage system provided with function for detecting write completion It is an object to prevent a processing speed of the storage system provided with a function for detecting a write completion of data from being reduced. A controller module is provided with at least one processor module, at least one storage resource, and at... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8161211 | Storage system and data processing method for the same The present invention aims for efficient use of storage capacity in a storage system by reducing the amount of time taken for processing including removing redundancy and data compression executed with respect to transferred data. Focusing on data patterns in... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8160854 | Method of managing and displaying gene expression data A method visually and clearly manages and displays a large amount of gene expression data obtained using a large number of DNA chips. The types of DNA chip are displayed in a leftmost column of a matrix, parameters such as times in a time series, treatment methods, ... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8159945 | Sensor network system and data processing method for sensor network An overload on a communication path in a sensor network system is prevented while transferring information from a sensor node as close to real time as possible. When the transfer rate of events transferred from a boundary node (DR) toward a gateway (GW) exceeds a li... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8159923 | Optical information recording apparatus, optical information recording method, optical information reproducing apparatus and optical information reproducing method An optical information recording/reproducing apparatus and an optical information recording/reproducing method that record information using holography, wherein the optical information recording/reproducing apparatus includes a signal generation unit that generates ... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8159486 | Level converter circuit and a liquid crystal display device employing the same A display device includes a pixel driver circuit. Each of level converter circuits in the pixel driver circuit has an input terminal supplied with a signal swinging between a first voltage and a second voltage lower than the first voltage; a first first-conductivity... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8158063 | Biosensor package structure with micro-fluidic channel A biosensor package structure with a micro-fluidic channel is provided. The biosensor package structure includes a substrate, a biochip, and a cover. The substrate has a first surface, a second surface, and an opening. The biochip is attached on the first surface. A... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8156253 | Computer system, device sharing method, and device sharing program The disclosed is a computer system enabling a plurality of LPARs on a plurality of physical computers to share an SR-IOV device that requires an interface between a PF and a VF. In an environment where a PCI SR-IOV device is allocated to virtual machine monitors on ... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8156076 | Terminal and data distribution system Disclosed herewith is a terminal for receiving data distributed from a host computer. The terminal includes a database for storing data distributed from the host computer and a schedule manager for managing the schedule of the terminal. Upon receiving an update requ... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8154257 | Storage system including a plurality of battery modules In a storage system provided with a plurality of storage modules, the rated power consumption can be reduced. The storage system is provided with a charge control unit. The charge control unit stops, when detecting that a predetermined number of a plurality of batte... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8153855 | Blasting system and blasting method The object is to rapidly clean-up an off-gas generated by blasting in a pressure vessel to such a level as to permit the exhaust of the off-gas. An object to be blasted is blasted in a pressure vessel to generate an off-gas, which is introduced into a combustion fur... | 04/10/2012 |
| D657473 | Reagent container | 04/10/2012 |
| 8149973 | Clock recovery circuit A clock recovery circuit capable of simultaneously satisfying all of a bit synchronization period, a clock wander tracking performance, and a high high-frequency jitter tolerance. The clock recovery circuit includes: a phase difference detecting circuit that detects... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8149393 | Personal identification system A personal identification system, which uses a vein pattern of a finger, optimizes the amount of light of a light source based on a captured finger image and emphasizes the vein pattern during image processing for identification. ... | 04/03/2012 |
