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"To place a man in a multi-stage rocket and project him into the controlling gravitational field of the moon where the passengers can make scientific observations, perhaps land alive, and then return to earth--all that constitutes a wild dream worthy of Jules Verne. I am bold enough to say that such a man-made voyage will never occur regardless of all future advances."
Lee deForest, American radio pioneer ; 1957
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7808176 | Display unit A display unit capable of preventing corrosion of a metal wiring and improving the reliability is provided. The display unit includes a driving panel having a bonding region and a terminal region on a driving substrate and a sealing panel bonded on the bonding regio... | 10/05/2010 |
| 7680172 | Laser diode device A laser diode device capable of detecting laser light with a simple structure is provided. A laser diode device, includes a semiconductor layer formed through laminating a first conductive type layer, an active layer and a second conductive type layer in this order,... | 03/16/2010 |
| 7630032 | LCD with selective transmission filter having light transmittance of 80% or more at wavelength regions of 440+/−20nm; 525+/−25nm and 565+/−45nm, and 10% or less at 470 to 485nm and 575 to 595nm A liquid crystal display having a wide color reproduction range is provided. A liquid crystal display includes a liquid crystal panel driven based on image signals, a light source emitting light for illuminating the liquid crystal panel, and a light selective transm... | 12/08/2009 |
| 7616860 | Methods and apparatuses for displaying content through a storage device In one embodiment, the methods and apparatuses store content on a storage device; detach the storage device from a recorder/playback device; and display the content on the storage device. ... | 11/10/2009 |
| 7607156 | Bi-directional remote control unit and method of using the same A bi-directional communications link between a television set and a remote control unit assists a viewer in controlling the entertainment system. The television set can signal the remote control unit to confirm instruction signal received from the remote control uni... | 10/20/2009 |
| 7606451 | Optical communication system, optical reader, and method of reading information An optical communication system includes at least one optical ID tag and at least one optical reader. Identification information is communicated between the optical ID tag and the optical reader using light as a communication medium. The optical ID tag includes stor... | 10/20/2009 |
| 7603611 | Maximum likelihood decoding device, signal evaluating method, and reproducing apparatus The invention relates to a maximum likelihood decoding device that performs Partial Response Maximum Likelihood decoding on a reproduced data signal from a recording media or another source. The device includes a Viterbi detector that performs bit detection from the... | 10/13/2009 |
| 7602440 | Image processing apparatus and method, recording medium, and program The present invention relates to an image processing apparatus and method, a recording medium, and a program that can very sharply display video images which are subjected to frame rate conversion by suppressing a decrease in the image quality (blurred images) cause... | 10/13/2009 |
| 7602439 | Lens unit and imaging apparatus A lens unit includes: a lens barrel; a movable section including a movable lens and configured to be moved in an optical axis direction relative to the lens barrel; a linear actuator including a drive magnet and a drive coil and configured to move the movable sectio... | 10/13/2009 |
| 7601987 | Semiconductor light emitting device The present invention provides a semiconductor light emitting device realizing a lower detection level of spontaneous emission light by a semiconductor photodetector and an improvement in light detection precision by selectively reflecting spontaneous emission light... | 10/13/2009 |
| 7600189 | Display device, display method, and program A display device that is capable of displaying predetermined display information in each of a plurality of display areas includes a setting unit for setting display control information that represents the position and size of the display area and the switching of th... | 10/06/2009 |
| 7599906 | File management device, file management method, file management method program, and recording medium the file management method program A file managing apparatus is disclosed which is capable of restoring deleted files with ease. When a user gives an instruction to delete a file 6, a parent entry number for the file 6 is changed from “1” to “2” in a property list having the ent... | 10/06/2009 |
| 7599210 | Nonvolatile memory cell, storage device and nonvolatile logic circuit One or serially connected field effect transistors are cross coupled with each other, first terminals of nonvolatile variable resistance elements are connected to their storage nodes, and the other terminals of the variable resistance elements are connected to a pow... | 10/06/2009 |
| 7595657 | Dynamic dual control on-die termination Controlling on-die termination on a bi-directional single-ended data bus carrying data between a controller and a memory device. The controller and the memory device respectively include input termination pull-ups and input termination pull-downs. An enabled state i... | 09/29/2009 |
| 7592554 | Switch device A spherical portion of a shaft is provided with engagement projection portions at two locations to be arranged by intervals of 90° in the rotational circumferential direction and there is provided a guide portion including limiting faces for being engaged to the en... | 09/22/2009 |
| 7590926 | Decoding apparatus, decoding method, program-recording medium, program and recording/reproduction apparatus Disclosed is a decoding apparatus for decoding an encoded signal on the basis of a plurality of state-transition trellises having differing state counts. The decoding apparatus includes a decoding section for decoding the encoded signal on the basis of a first state... | 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 |
| 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 |
| 7222176 | Apparatus and method for using storage domains for controlling data in storage area networks A Storage Domain architecture in which a pool of storage devices is controlled by one or a plurality of Storage Domain Servers (SDS) and create a single, compatible, enterprise wide, storage resource pool that appears to the system as a gigantic shared disk drive. T... | 05/22/2007 |
| 7177912 | SCSI transport protocol via TCP/IP using existing network hardware and software A computer network system includes a client-server architecture, where the client transmits SCSI commands over a network using TCP/IP to a server to request input and output operations for a physical storage device that is communicatively coupled to a storage device... | 02/13/2007 |
| 6168531 | Soup bowl attraction A simulated soup bowl entertainment attraction, comprising: a bowl-shaped member having a top bounded by a top rim, a bottom permitting light transmission therethrough, and sidewalls connecting the top rim with the bottom; a fog generator producing a fog ... | 01/02/2001 |
| 6147940 | Compact disc changer utilizing disc database A method and apparatus for updating a memory in a Compact Disc changer. Information identifying discs stored in a CD changer is stored in a memory. The memory is updated when a CD is loaded which does not have identifying features which are recognized by ... | 11/14/2000 |
| 6133962 | Electronic program guide having different modes for viewing An improved electronic programming guide (EPG) having time blocks capable of selectively expanding and contracting in size, according to a mode of the EPG, in order to facilitate fast and efficient time navigation through available programming by a viewer... | 10/17/2000 |
| 6128625 | Method and apparatus for operating a database A method and apparatus for updating a memory in a Compact Disc changer. Information identifying discs stored in a CD changer is stored in a memory. The memory is updated when a CD is loaded which does not have identifying features which are recognized by ... | 10/03/2000 |
| 6128255 | Method for building a play list A method and apparatus for updating a memory in a Compact Disc changer. Information identifying discs stored in a CD changer is stored in a memory. The memory is updated when a CD is loaded which does not have identifying features which are recognized by ... | 10/03/2000 |
| 6124611 | Epitaxial channel vertical MOS transistor A vertical MOS transistor includes an epitaxially formed channel between its lower source/drain region and upper source/drain region, with a gate electrode in a trench that extends vertically through those regions. A process for forming the vertical MOS t... | 09/26/2000 |
| 6121158 | Method for hardening a photoresist material formed on a substrate A method for hardening a photoresist material formed on a semiconductor substrate comprising the steps of coating a surface of a substrate of a wafer with a layer of photoresist material. Next, the layer of photoresist material disposed on the surface of ... | 09/19/2000 |
| 6114205 | Epitaxial channel vertical MOS transistor A vertical MOS transistor includes an epitaxially formed channel between its lower source/drain region and upper source/drain region, with a gate electrode in a trench hat extends vertically through those regions. A process for forming the vertical MOS tr... | 09/05/2000 |
| 6069851 | Entertainment micro system The invention relates to an entertainment system having a playback device for retrieving data from a recording medium and for generating a signal corresponding to the data, wherein the playback device includes a transparent door which covers the recording... | 05/30/2000 |
| 6052471 | Smart audio receiver that automatically select an input audio source Receiver control circuitry of a receiver automatically detects, selects, and enables a priority signal provided to the receiver from a plurality of audio and/or visual source devices. Upon the user starting a source device that serves as a potential sourc... | 04/18/2000 |
