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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8184944 | Recording medium, recording device, recording method, and playback device A recording medium having recorded thereon one or more pieces of playlist information each of which includes a stream table including multiple stream entries. Each audio stream has been encoded in one of a mandatory format that is an encoding format decodable by a p... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8184810 | Secure device and relay terminal An IC card includes a tamper resistant module which has one or more applications and a card control unit for controlling an operation of the IC card, a secure memory area which is accessible from only the tamper resistant module, and a contactless interface which se... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8179972 | Image encoding device, image decoding device, and integrated circuit used therein An image decoding device and an encoding device include an arithmetic unit for performing arithmetic processing, an arithmetic data storage unit for storing an arithmetic result by the arithmetic unit, an input selection unit for selecting whether to read pixel data... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8179968 | Motion vector coding and decoding methods A motion vector coding method and apparatus that improves efficiency of coding motion vectors when a current block is coded using a plurality of motion vectors. The apparatus includes a motion vector coding unit that codes a motion vector inputted from a motion vect... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8179043 | Plasma display panel free from yellowing A plasma display panel is formed of a front panel including display electrodes, a dielectric layer, and a protective layer which are formed on a glass substrate, and a rear panel including electrodes, barrier ribs, and phosphor layers all of which are formed on a su... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8175749 | Control apparatus and control method for robot arm, robot, control program for robot arm, and integrated electronic circuit for controlling robot arm A control apparatus for a robot arm includes an operation information database in which pieces of information relating to operations of the robot arm are stored, a force detection unit that detects a force of a person, and an operation correction unit that corrects ... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8175343 | Imaging device, image processing device, control method, and program An imaging device supports the taking of an image with a suitable composition without requiring user operation. The imaging device detects, using a face detection circuit, face regions of faces in an image input from the image input unit. When a plurality of face re... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8173649 | Glucokinase activator A compound represented by the following formula (1): (wherein the carbon atom denoted by * is in the R-configuration; R1 and R2 are each independently a hydrogen atom, a halogen atom, an amino group, a... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8170719 | Control apparatus and control method for robot arm, robot, control program for robot arm, and integrated electronic circuit for controlling robot arm A control apparatus for a robot arm includes an operation information database in which pieces of information relating to operations of the robot arm are stored, a force detection unit that detects a force of a person, and an operation correction unit that corrects ... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8170493 | Transmission device, and wireless communication apparatus using the same A transmission device includes a transmitter for transmitting various signals to a reception device, a receiver for receiving a response signal emitted from the reception device in response to the transmission of the various signals from the transmitter to the recep... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8164619 | Recording medium, playback device, and integrated circuit A recording medium records a main-view stream, a sub-view stream, and management information. The management information includes a system rate for each stream, and each stream is divided into a plurality of data blocks that form a plurality of extent blocks. In eac... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8159918 | Reproduction signal evaluation method, reproduction signal evaluation unit, and optical disk device adopting the same A reproduction signal evaluation method evaluates the quality of a reproduction signal reproduced from an information recording medium based on a binary signal generated from the reproduction signal using a PRML signal processing system. The method includes a patter... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8155200 | Motion vector coding and decoding method A motion vector coding method and apparatus that improves efficiency of coding motion vectors when a current block is coded using a plurality of motion vectors. The apparatus includes a motion vector coding unit that codes a motion vector inputted from a motion vect... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8154599 | Imaging region adjustment device An imaging region adjustment device includes plural camera terminals, capable of imaging an entire imaging target without blinds spots. Each of the camera terminals includes a camera which images a virtual imaging region obtained while changing the position of an im... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8154204 | Plasma display device A plasma display panel includes a front plate having a dielectric layer covering a display electrode formed on a substrate and a protective layer formed on the dielectric layer, and a rear plate facing the front plate so as to form a discharge space. The plasma disp... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8150238 | Recording medium, playback device, and integrated circuit A pair of main-view and sub-view video streams and a graphics stream are recorded on a BD-ROM disc. Metadata is provided in each GOP in the sub-view video stream. The metadata includes offset information. The offset information specifies offset control for a plurali... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8144206 | Imaging apparatus adapted to perform normal imaging and high-speed imaging An imaging apparatus includes an imaging unit having a discrete pixel structure that outputs directly signals of respective M sample points corresponding to M pixels per single frame for normal imaging and imaging at a first frame rate. The imaging unit adds signals... | 03/27/2012 |
| 8144172 | Color temperature correction device and display device A color temperature correction device corrects, in a display device that represents brightness of RGB of a video signal by a plurality of levels of gray scales, a color temperature of the video signal. The color temperature correction device includes: a recording me... | 03/27/2012 |
| 8140999 | Display process device and display process method A display process device that includes a screen definition information interpretation section that interprets screen definition information which defines a moment in which a first screen event is to be issued, and issues a first screen event. The first screen event ... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8139930 | Information recording medium, device and method for playing back 3D images A recording medium allows random access to be performed in playing back 3D graphics. The recording medium includes a digital stream area where a digital stream including temporally-arranged GOP pairs is recorded, and a map information area where map information is r... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8139925 | Recording medium, playback device, and integrated circuit Provided is a recording medium that enables seamless connection between preceding playitems which are stream data arranged prior to a position where a long jump occurs, such as a layer boundary, and succeeding playitems which are stream data arranged subsequent to t... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8139114 | Surroundings monitoring apparatus and surroundings monitoring method for reducing distortion caused by camera position displacement A surrounding monitoring apparatus reduces distortion caused by camera position displacement. A position displacement information obtainment unit obtains position displacement information and outputs it as camera position displacement information, a moving object st... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8135149 | Wireless communication device A wireless communication device includes a speaker grille, a built-in speaker provided behind the speaker grille, and an output amplifier connected to the built-in speaker. A voltage applied to the output amplifier is increased to a level higher than the level of vo... | 03/13/2012 |
| 8135130 | Data encryption apparatus, data converting method, data converting program, recording medium and integrated circuit The data encryption apparatus with a data converting unit splits 256-bit input data into 32-bit data blocks A1, B1, A2, and B2. A first combining unit performs an exclusive OR operation on A1 and B1, and on A2 and B | 03/13/2012 |
| 8134904 | Information recording method and information recording apparatus for recording medium A recording method for recording data in basic reproduction unit to a recording medium having a first recording layer and a second recording layer, includes detecting a size of an unrecorded region of the first recording layer while recording data in the basic repro... | 03/13/2012 |
| 8130625 | Optical information recorder/reproducer, optical information recording/reproducing method and control circuit A distance control circuit keeps constant the distance between a condensing member and the surface of an optical disk using return light from a region where near field light is generated. Additionally, a focus control circuit controls the focus position of the near ... | 03/06/2012 |
| 8126176 | Hearing aid A hearing aid comprises a noise suppressor that calculates noise suppression gain, an adjustment amount calculator that calculates an adjustment amount on the basis of a signal strength and a noise component strength, and a nonlinear compressor that calculates a ref... | 02/28/2012 |
| 8126057 | Moving picture coding method, and moving picture decoding method A moving picture coding apparatus performs inter-picture predictive coding on pictures constituting a moving picture and includes a coding unit for performing predictive error coding on image data; a decoding unit for performing predictive error decoding on an outpu... | 02/28/2012 |
| 8121460 | Information recording medium and playback device for playing back 3D images To aim to increase the use efficiency of a screen on which a subtitle is displayed together with a stereoscopic image. A video shift mode is set for each subtitle. When a stereoscopic image is played back, in accordance with the video shift mode of the subtitle, a v... | 02/21/2012 |
| 8120675 | Moving image recording/playback device A moving image recording/playback device records a moving image of a subject. In the case of recording, the moving image recording/playback device sequentially outputs a plurality of image frames that constitute the moving image at a predetermined frame rate and, fo... | 02/21/2012 |
| 8119534 | Semiconductor light emitting device with protrusions to improve external efficiency and crystal growth A substrate has at least one recess and/or protrusion formed in and/or on a surface thereof so as to scatter or diffract light generated in an active layer. The recess and/or protrusion is formed in such a shape that can reduce crystalline defects in semiconductor l... | 02/21/2012 |
| 8116384 | Filtering strength determination method, moving picture coding method and moving picture decoding method A moving picture coding apparatus includes an inter-pixel filter having filters for filtering decoded image data so as to remove block distortion which is high frequency noise around block boundaries. The inter-pixel filter includes filters having different filterin... | 02/14/2012 |
| 8108889 | Digital television receiver module and digital television receiver using the same A DTV module includes a CPU, a decoder, and a CA interface circuit. The decoder executes a decoding processing on a digital television signal inputted from a demodulator provided on a motherboard, so as to decode the digital television signal into a video signal and... | 01/31/2012 |
| 8106051 | Utilities of amide compounds Compounds having an activity to enhance the expression of apoAI are provided, which are used as medicaments. Compounds of formula (I): in which ring A and Ar1 are independently a monocyclic or bicyclic aro... | 01/31/2012 |
| 8097427 | Direct mass spectrometric analysis of drug candidates targeting protein complexes The invention relates to a method of using high mass matrix assisted laser desorption-ionization (MALDI) mass spectrometry for the qualitative and quantitative analysis of the effect of drug candidates on protein complexes such as protein-protein interactions in pur... | 01/17/2012 |
| 8094830 | Video/sound output device and external speaker control device A television set includes: an internal speaker which outputs sound; a memory which holds information; a remote controller receiver which receives an instruction from the outside of the television set; a microcomputer which causes, based on a mode specifying instruct... | 01/10/2012 |
| 8092830 | Lactic acid polymer and process for producing the same A process for producing a lactic acid polymer of 15,000 to 50,000 in weight-average molecular weight, the content of polymeric materials having not more than about 5,000 in weight-average molecular weight therein being not more than about 5% by weight, characterized... | 01/10/2012 |
| 8091064 | Supporting system, design supporting method, and computer-readable recording medium recorded with design supporting program An optimum target system is designed by implementing software modules and hardware modules, without discriminating between the software modules and the hardware modules. An external storage stores the software modules including namespace identifiers for identifying ... | 01/03/2012 |
| 8085870 | Transmitter A transmitter suppresses peak power occurring in a transmission signal. The transmitter generates peak suppression signals for suppressing the peak power in the transmission signal respectively, synthesizes the peak suppression signals generated, and subtracts a sig... | 12/27/2011 |
| 8085856 | Filtering strength determination method, moving picture coding method and moving picture decoding method A moving picture coding apparatus includes an inter-pixel filter having filters for filtering decoded image data so as to remove block distortion which is high frequency noise around block boundaries. The inter-pixel filter includes filters having different filterin... | 12/27/2011 |
