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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8185937 | Systems and methods for universal password control A system and method is described for controlling the password(s) of one or more programs through a universal program. The universal control program allows access to one or more other programs and allows editing of the passwords of the other programs directly through... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8185863 | Delay fault test quality calculation apparatus, delay fault test quality calculation method, and delay fault test pattern generation apparatus A delay fault test quality calculation apparatus for calculating delay fault test quality to be achieved by a test pattern to be applied to a semiconductor integrated circuit includes a defect distribution extraction unit, a delay fault-layout element information ex... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8185811 | Robust joint erasure marking viterbi algorithm decoder Joint erasure marking Viterbi algorithm (JEVA), decoder schemes, methods, and systems are provided which perform robust trellis decoder techniques. The provided JEVA decoding schemes are shown to be maximum likelihood decoding schemes that find the most likely trans... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8185220 | HMI devices with integrated user-defined behavior The claimed subject matter provides a system and/or method that facilitates utilizing a human machine interface (HMI). An interface component can facilitate receipt of data. A human machine interface (HMI) component communicatively coupled to the interface component... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8184910 | Image recognition device, image recognition method, and image scanning apparatus having image recognition device An image recognition device has a first resolution converter 202 that lowers resolution of an input image, an area reader 203 that reads out a processing area from an output of the first resolution converter 202, a second resolution converter | 05/22/2012 |
| 8184668 | Method for reducing capacitance and improving high frequency performance in vertical cavity surface emitting lasers (VCSELs) A VCSEL structure is provided. The VCSEL structure comprises a substrate. The structure may also include one or more conducting layers positioned on the substrate. There may be void spaces positioned between portions of the conducting layers to electrically isolate ... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8184510 | Method of recording and reproducing an optical recording medium There is provided a method of recording and reproducing an optical recording medium which performs a tracking servo and a focusing servo by irradiating a laser beam onto determined positions including lands and grooves of a track of the recording medium and detectin... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8184466 | Semiconductor storage device and ROM generator According to one embodiment, a semiconductor storage device includes a first memory cell, a second memory cell and a third memory cell. The first memory cell forms a connection path used for storage of data. The second memory cell varies a connection place from a co... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8184007 | Wireless tag reader/writer In a wireless reader/writer according to one example of the present invention, a reader/writer main body 120 emits a radio wave with a different output power from an antenna 121 when a base unit 140 is detected to be mounted on an enclosure. In ... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8183857 | Rotation angle detection device for detecting rotation angle of a rotating body A rotation angle detection device for detecting rotation angle of a rotating body to be measured includes magnetic detection elements which are fixed to a stator and detect magnetic flux density of a magnet which is rotated with the rotating body. The device can cal... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8182555 | Nano-sized zinc oxide particles for fuel A fuel composition contains a liquid fuel and a specific amount of nano-sized zinc oxide particles. The nano-sized zinc oxide particles can be used to either improve combustion or increase catalytic chemical oxidation of fuel. ... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8182554 | Fuels for cold start conditions A fuel composition contains a liquid fuel and nano-sized zinc oxide particles. The nano-sized zinc oxide particles can be used to either improve cold start performance of internal combustion engines or lower a flash point temperature of a liquid fuel. ... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8181157 | Custom language support for project documentation and editing A software documentation system is provided. This includes a documentation object to store documentation data of an application. One or more custom language components are stored with the documentation objects to provide language display options for the application.... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8180404 | Sharing antennas for increased multiple-input uplink reception The claimed subject matter facilitates sharing antennas among carriers co-located at a base station such to increase throughput of the individual carriers. Thus, the carriers can effectively receive multiple-input/multiple-output (MIMO) from mobile devices though th... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8180385 | Intelligent adaptive re-coding for improved communications resource utilization System(s) and method(s) that, periodically or when dynamically triggered, adapt data rates associated with user equipment (UE) in a network are presented. When the UE uses an application or a service, data traffic associated with the UE is inspected to obtain inform... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8179671 | Information processing apparatus An information processing apparatus includes: a hard disk drive unit including a hard disk drive configured to read various data from and write various data in a magnetic disk incorporated therein; a housing of an apparatus main body configured to hold the hard disk... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8179410 | Paper sheet sensor adjusting method In a state where a sheet exists, an current I is gradually increased. When an voltage V reaches a light receiving level Vx, the current I at the time is stored as I1. The voltage V immediately before the voltage V reaches the light receiving level Vx is store... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8179409 | Thermal printer A print-dot counting section counts a number of print dots of print data. An adjusting section adjusts to reduce, according to the number of print dots counted by the print-dot counting section, one of conveying speed of a print medium by a conveying unit and energi... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8176389 | Decoder device and method for decoding data stored in storage medium A decoder device includes: a decoder that decodes data stored in a storage medium by performing error correction on the data, the error correction being capable of correcting code error and code erasure included in the data; a memory that stores a history of an addr... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8175552 | Filter circuit, wireless transmitter, and wireless receiver A filter circuit is constructed of a passive mixer and a frequency response device. The passive mixer generates a frequency-converted signal by mixing an input signal transmitted through a transmission line and a local oscillation signal, and outputs the frequency-c... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8175528 | Wireless mass storage flash memory Systems and/or methods are presented that can facilitate access of a memory device by the use of wireless communication technologies. A memory module is presented which combines memory with a wireless adapter component and a memory controller component to facilitate... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8175089 | Extended address space capability for an industrial protocol Systems and methods are provided for communicating with control objects according to a singular and unified address space. In one aspect, an industrial communications system is provided. The system includes a global address protocol that can be employed to communica... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8174866 | Semiconductor storage device A semiconductor storage device includes: a memory cell array that includes a plurality of memory cells having a cell transistor formed on a well subjected to application of a predetermined substrate potential; a memory cell array control circuit that switches the nu... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8174714 | System and method for management of consumable items in an image forming apparatus An image forming apparatus of an embodiment of the invention includes a first storage unit to store, based on stored information stored in wireless tags attached to a plurality of consumable items, an application to manage the stock number of the plurality of consum... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8174306 | Electrostatic actuator apparatus According to one embodiment, an electrostatic actuator apparatus includes a first voltage generation circuit configured to generate a first voltage, a first switch connected between the first voltage generation circuit and a first node, a second voltage generation c... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8174293 | Time to digital converter A time to digital converter includes: a delay circuit having a plurality of delay stages that delay an input clock signal in multiple stages, at least one of the delay stages being a variable delay stage; a plurality of flip flops that capture outputs of the delay s... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8174049 | Semiconductor device and method of fabricating the same A semiconductor device according to one embodiment includes: a semiconductor substrate having first and second regions; a first transistor comprising a first gate insulating film and a first gate electrode thereon in the first region on the semiconductor substrate, ... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8173271 | Fluorescent rare earth complex, and light-emitting element, security medium and lighting device using the same The present invention provides a fluorescent rare earth complex having high solubility to a medium, showing fluorescence of high intensity and possessing excellent durability, and also provides a light-emitting element using that complex. The rare earth complex comp... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8172466 | Optoelectronic interconnection module An optoelectronic interconnection module capable of performing optical signal transmission and electrical signal transmission, including a flexible optoelectronic interconnection board including an optical interconnection path, electrical wires and electrical connec... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8172213 | Sheet processing apparatus and sheet processing method A sheet processing apparatus includes a conveying motor for conveying a sheet along a conveying path, a skew detecting unit configured to detect a quantity of skew of the conveyed sheet, a hole punching section arranged downstream from the skew detecting unit, an at... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8171365 | Communication apparatus and method thereof This is disclosed a communication apparatus. A receiving unit receives plural data frames which are transmitted from other communication apparatus. An error detection unit checks whether each data frame is received correctly or incorrectly. A determination unit esti... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8171125 | Scalable distributed storage and delivery Embodiments describe scalable distributed storage delivery method that can utilize commodity storage devices, thus there is little, if any, modification of the existing storage hardware or storage clients. According to an aspect is a system that can include a plural... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8170500 | Radio-frequency switch circuit A radio-frequency switch circuit of the invention includes: n-stage through FETs (field effect transistors) connected in series between the antenna terminal and each of the radio-frequency terminals, where n is a natural number; a radio-frequency leakage prevention ... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8170309 | Image processing apparatus and method thereof A position specifying unit specifies three diagnostic positions corresponding to respective vertexes of a reference triangle on a myocardial boundary in a diagnostic image, a calculating unit matches three training positions with the three diagnostic positions for e... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8169359 | Pulse doppler radar device A judging and controlling part 110 comprises an operation mode judging unit 111, a pulse width selecting unit 112, and a band limiting width selecting unit 113, wherein the operation mode judging unit 111 receives a signal of a gea... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8169250 | Signal level conversion circuit A signal level conversion circuit includes three or more level shift circuits to output internal output signals upon receiving input signals, respectively. Each of the level shift circuits is formed of a common electrical element and an electrical element connected ... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8169085 | Semiconductor device and method of fabricating the same A semiconductor device according to one embodiment includes: a substrate; a wiring provided above the substrate and including a graphene nanoribbon layer comprising a plurality of laminated graphene nanoribbon sheets; and a wiring connecting member penetrating at le... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8168528 | Restoration method using metal for better CD controllability and Cu filing Methods of making interconnect structures are provided. In one aspect of the innovation, when forming a trench or via in a dielectric layer, the sidewall surface of another via and/or trench is covered with a metal oxide layer. The metal oxide layer can prevent and/... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8168522 | Method for fabricating semiconductor device An aspect of the present disclosure, there is provided a method for fabricating a semiconductor device, including, forming a gate insulating film on a semiconductor substrate, forming a metal film on the gate insulating film, depositing a metal-silicon compound film... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8167297 | Sheet separating device and method for separating stacked sheets A sheet separating device includes: an air blowing unit that is configured to blow air toward a side face of stacked sheets being stacked with a plurality of sheets to separate the sheets by forming an air layer between the sheets; and a sheet pressing unit that is ... | 05/01/2012 |
