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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| D639698 | Stone | 06/14/2011 |
| 7958499 | Program execution control device, program execution control method, control program, and recording medium When a home appliance equipped with a processor implementing a conventional JVM with a JIT compiler executes uncompiled methods, the execution speed is slower because the methods are compiled at runtime. To suppress the execution speed reduction, a program execution... | 06/07/2011 |
| 7958353 | Information security device The present invention provides an apparatus for securely acquire a circuit configuration information set corresponding to a new cryptosystem without increasing the number of reconfigurable circuits. A content playback apparatus 100 includes an FPGA 122... | 06/07/2011 |
| 7958240 | Group judgment device In a server, an echo-request transmitting unit transmits echo-request data to a target device, and an echo-reply receiving unit receives echo-reply data from the target device. A time measuring unit measures, as the target time, the time required between transmissio... | 06/07/2011 |
| 7957929 | Drug dispensing apparatus A drug dispensing apparatus including a cassette for containing drugs in an aligned state, a rotor disposed at one open end of the cassette, a pushing unit for pushing the drugs toward the rotor, a drive mechanism for pivoting the rotor alternately between a dispens... | 06/07/2011 |
| 7957834 | Method for calculating rotation center point and axis of rotation, method for generating program, method for moving manipulator and positioning device, and robotic system Calculating a rotation center point on a plane of rotation of a positioning device by using a manipulator. The positioning device positions a workpiece by rotating the plane of rotation. The calculating includes a first step of obtaining location information of a pr... | 06/07/2011 |
| 7957822 | Component mounter control method and component mounter A method controls a component mounter which includes a mobile unit for mounting a component onto a circuit board, and judges on which side of the component mounter as user, who issues an instruction to the component mounter, is present. Additionally, the method perf... | 06/07/2011 |
| 7957703 | Wireless circuit device A current control circuit (5) recognizes whether or not a transmission signal is transmitted based on a control signal outputted from a transmission signal control circuit (4). When the transmission signal is transmitted, the current control circuit ( | 06/07/2011 |
| 7957610 | Image processing method and image processing device for enhancing the resolution of a picture by using multiple input low-resolution pictures An image processing device according to the present invention uses a representative picture having a first resolution and multiple reference pictures having the first resolution to generate a high-resolution picture having a second resolution higher than the first r... | 06/07/2011 |
| 7957590 | Image processing method, display image processing method, image processing device, image processing program, and integrated circuit device including that image processing device An aim of the invention is to achieve an image processing method that performs color information correction of an image more naturally with a simple configuration. The image processing method of the invention is an image processing method that performs color informa... | 06/07/2011 |
| 7957342 | Master station of communication system and access control method A communication bandwidth is divided into a beacon period in which all master stations compete for transmission of a beacon packet, a first carrier sense multiple access (CSMA) period in which only authorized specific stations are allowed to compete for access, and ... | 06/07/2011 |
| 7957253 | Multiple recording layers optical disc having physical position information of pre-recording marks An optical disc (101) to and from which information can be reproduced and recorded by laser irradiation is provided with a first recording layer (102) and a second recording layer (104). The first recording layer (102) has a first recordi... | 06/07/2011 |
| 7956927 | Video signal converter and video display device A video signal converter has a target pixel setting unit which sets up a position of a target pixel of an input video signal, a position parameter feeding unit which supplies a position parameter depending on the position of the target pixel set by the target pixel ... | 06/07/2011 |
| 7956904 | Image file reproduction device and image file reproduction method A method of reproducing an image file from a recording medium that stores an image file of a first type and/or an image file of a second type includes reproducing the first type of image file or second type of image file, detecting whether each of a predetermined nu... | 06/07/2011 |
| 7956774 | Variable length coding method and variable length decoding method An image coding apparatus provides a run-length encoding unit RLE1 that subjects quantized coefficients which are obtained by quantizing frequency components of an image signal to a variable length coding process by using a run value Run that indicates the nu... | 06/07/2011 |
| 7956766 | Apparatus operating system Each apparatus transmits to a control server a notification signal indicative of a pending change or a change in an output state of the apparatus. The control server has stored therein a control rule which associates an output state of one apparatus with an output s... | 06/07/2011 |
| 7956115 | Phenyl acrylate The present invention is to provide a light-controlling film giving an excellent haze, and a compound and a composition which enable to produce the film. The invention provides phenyl acrylate represented by the formula (I); a composition comprising the phenyl acryl... | 06/07/2011 |
| 7956082 | Indole derivative having PGD2 receptor antagonist activity The present invention creates an indole derivative having DP receptor antagonistic activity and a pharmaceutical composition comprising the said compound as an active ingredient, and further a therapeutic agent for treating allergic diseases. A compound of th... | 06/07/2011 |
| 7956079 | Antihepatitis C virus agent and anti-HIV agent An anti-hepatitis C virus agent or anti-HIV agent comprising, as an active ingredient, a fullerene derivative which has a nitrogen atom forming a ring together with adjacent bonded carbon atom pairs constituting the carbon cluster skeleton of the fullerene or a quat... | 06/07/2011 |
| 7956072 | Agent for repairing corneal sensitivity containing amide compound The amide compound of the formula (I) [each symbol is as defined in the description] has a promoting action on neuritogenesis of trigeminal nerve cells, and the compound is useful as a corneal neuritogenesis promoter, an agent for recovering corneal sensitivity by p... | 06/07/2011 |
| 7956010 | Amide compound and use thereof for controlling plant diseases Disclosed is an amide compound represented by the formula (1) below, which has excellent plant disease controlling activity. In the formula, X1 represents a fluorine atom or a methoxy group; X2 represe... | 06/07/2011 |
| 7955789 | Adhesion-preventing material and process for preventing adhesion An object of the present invention is to provide an adhesion-preventing material which is capable of effectively preventing the surfaces of organs from adhesion, and which can be absorbed in the body with high safety and produced with ease and has high practical uti... | 06/07/2011 |
| 7955394 | Artificial knee joint The artificial knee joint includes a femoral component, a tibial tray and an insert plate fixed onto the top surface of the tibial tray. The femoral component includes a femoral articular surface and a cam that is provided on the rear end of the femoral articular su... | 06/07/2011 |
| 7955077 | Occlusion correction instrument and method of use An occlusion correction improvement instrument includes an upper mold-mounting member provided with a plate-shaped member that is parallel to a Camper's plane of an upper model having a tooth model-shaped surface of a maxillary tooth row and with a plane parallel to... | 06/07/2011 |
| 7954962 | Laser image display, and optical integrator and laser light source package used in such laser image display A laser image display including a laser light source emitting laser light, a beam deflector element for receiving laser light and deflecting its advancing direction, a beam deflecting element control section for controlling the degree of deflection performed by the ... | 06/07/2011 |
| 7954739 | Garbage disposal apparatus A garbage disposal apparatus includes a shredding device for shredding garbage put in through a drain opening of a sink and a connecting member, a transverse conveying device for conveying the garbage shredded by the shredding device in a transverse direction, a deh... | 06/07/2011 |
| 7954567 | Adjustable winged centering tool for use in pipes with varying diameter An adjustable centering tool for use in pipes of varying inner diameter. The centering tool being provided with a number of identical and steplessly adjustable, radially protruding wings having guiding lugs and chamfered end faces. The wings, having been set, are re... | 06/07/2011 |
| 7954531 | Labeling apparatus A labeling apparatus of the present invention is constituted by: at least three support rollers which come into contact with the outer surface of the vial to rotate; an arm for rotatably supporting the support rollers; a rotation unit (rotation rollers) for rotating... | 06/07/2011 |
| 7954233 | Method for component mounting A method for component mounting which reduces the length of time that a component mounter called alternate mounting component mounter takes for mounting components is a method for component mounting used for a component mounter including plural mounting heads which ... | 06/07/2011 |
| 7953985 | Memory card, application program holding method, and holding program A memory card receives an encrypted application program from a host apparatus. The memory card includes an Integrated Circuit (IC) card unit having a tamper resistant function, and a flash memory unit. The IC card unit also includes a tamper resistant storage unit, ... | 05/31/2011 |
| 7953602 | Digital video reproducing apparatus for recognizing and reproducing a digital video content Character information recognition means extracts, through a character recognition process, character information from a selection button included in an index image. Based on text data having been outputted from the character information recognition means, index dict... | 05/31/2011 |
| 7953283 | Portable terminal A portable terminal including an input unit (1001), through which images are entered, an encoding unit (1002) operable to encode the input images, thereby providing encoded data, a transmitting unit (1003) operable to transmit the encoded data t... | 05/31/2011 |
| 7953179 | Peak suppressing OFDM transmitter Communication equipment transmits signals of an OFDM system while effectively suppressing peaks in the transmission. OFDM signals are formed and peaks of the OFDM signals are suppressed. The OFDM signals of which the peaks are suppressed are converted into intermedi... | 05/31/2011 |
| 7953126 | Fiber laser processing method and fiber laser processing apparatus A fiber laser processing apparatus controls a LD drive current ILD in a power feedback control mode (FIG. 3E) such that output of a fiber laser beam FB rises substantially from zero or a value around zero to a preceding level having no substantial ... | 05/31/2011 |
| 7953105 | Communication apparatus enabling temporal coexistence of systems A coexistence controller which performs management and control of time division for coexistence, is provided in a power line communication modem which has a function as a QoS controller for a QoS type communication system and a power line communication modem for a b... | 05/31/2011 |
| 7952362 | Device for measuring the loss factor A device for measuring the loss factor and/or measuring the phase angle between a voltage and a current and/or recording a voltage decay and/or current decay and/or recording partial discharge processes and/or measuring the propagation time on test objects that are ... | 05/31/2011 |
| 7951922 | Photoresponsive heterocyclic azo compound, method for producing the same, and optical information recording medium There are provided a novel optical information recording material or medium excellent in various holographic optical information recording properties such as sensitivity, response speed, long-term storage stability, and repeatability, and a substance therefor. A pho... | 05/31/2011 |
| 7951877 | Process for the production of vinyl compound A process, advantageous in producibility, for the production of a vinyl compound containing very small amounts of ionic impurities and hydrolysable halogens, which is capable of curing by means of heat and/or light and giving a cured product having excellent dielect... | 05/31/2011 |
| 7951009 | Fixed constant-velocity universal joint A fixed constant velocity universal joint is made compact, has little decrease in load capacity even at an operating angle, and can improve high angle strength and durability through lessening instances in which a ball runs over a track at a high angle. A cage inclu... | 05/31/2011 |
| 7950923 | Occlusal plane analyzer, articulator, and occlusal plane analyzing method An occlusal plane analyzer (5) is composed of an analysis board (7) made of a magnetic material and held above a lower jaw model (2), a magnet (8) which can attract the analysis board (7) with magnetic force and which has a circula... | 05/31/2011 |
