| Patent Number |
Title Of Patent |
Date Issued |
| 7593596 |
Phase unwrapping method, program, and interference measurement apparatus |
September 22, 2009 |
| A candidate pixel generating unit searches a path-undetermined adjacent pixel j which is adjacent around a parent pixel i, and, with respect to the searched adjacent pixel j, generates a candidate pixel having data {j(i,|Wij|)} in which the parent pixel i and magnitude |Wij| of a phase |
| 7593590 |
Image status estimating method, image correcting method, image correction apparatus, and storage |
September 22, 2009 |
| An apparatus divides an original image into a plurality of areas, computes a characteristic amount for the plurality of areas, and computes a statistic amount for estimation of the status of an image using the characteristic amount. The statistic amount is compared with a predetermin |
| 7593571 |
Component edge detecting method, computer-readable recording medium and component inspection app |
September 22, 2009 |
| A method for detecting an edge of a component mounted on a substrate, comprising: a first edge detecting step detecting an edge of the component from image data of the component based on a predetermined first characteristic; and a second edge detecting step detecting an edge of the c |
| 7593553 |
Image connection method, and program and apparatus therefor |
September 22, 2009 |
| Fingerprint section images of a finger are continuously input by relative movement with respect to a fingerprint sensor, and characteristic shapes such as ridge shapes, edge lines, and portions where changes of tangent directions are large are extracted from the fingerprint section image |
| 7593425 |
Signal distribution method and a signal distribution apparatus |
September 22, 2009 |
| A signal distribution method and a signal distribution apparatus are disclosed, wherein transport packets of a television signal containing multiplexed channels are provided in a transmission format of a digital broadcasting standard, and such transport packets are transmitted and di |
| 7593337 |
Packet processing system |
September 22, 2009 |
| A control device includes a virtual IF set to associate with address information of an interface on a forwarding device and, when detecting that an application section accesses the virtual IF, requests the forwarding device to set a packet transfer rule for transferring a packet rece |
| 7593187 |
Magnetic head having a heating coil |
September 22, 2009 |
| A magnetic head is composed of a write head which magnetically records information by emitting magnetic flux, which is generated by a write coil, from a magnetic pole unit to a recording medium; and a read head having a reading element which converts record magnetic flux, which is em |
| 7593179 |
Control apparatus, storage apparatus, and writing control method |
September 22, 2009 |
| A control apparatus detects positional information of a head performing writing processing every predetermined time interval, and computes next-sample projected positional information of the head based on the difference between the positional information detected the previous time an |
| 7593176 |
Control apparatus and storage device |
September 22, 2009 |
| A control apparatus performs, when reading predetermined data stored in a storage medium, a correction of a signal read by a head during a Viterbi decoding process of the signal. A signal-quality-value calculating unit calculates a signal quality value of the signal based on a status of |
| 7592656 |
Semiconductor device and fabricating method of the same |
September 22, 2009 |
| An Al.sub.2O.sub.3 film with a thickness greater than that of a wiring is formed as a protective film, and then the Al.sub.2O.sub.3 film is polished by CMP until a conductive barrier film is exposed. Namely, CMP is applied to the Al.sub.2O.sub.3 film by utilizing the conductive barri |
| 7592127 |
Resist pattern thickening material, resist pattern and process for forming the same, and semicon |
September 22, 2009 |
| The present invention provides a resist pattern thickening material and the like which can thicken a resist pattern and form a fine space pattern. The resist pattern thickening material contains: a resin; a crosslinking agent; and at least one type selected from cationic surfactants, |
| 7592081 |
Magnetic recording medium and magnetic storage device |
September 22, 2009 |
| A magnetic recording medium is disclosed that is able to increase a coercive force Hc of a recording layer and improve a signal-to-noise ratio of the recording layer without degradation of a thermal fluctuation resistance of the recording layer, and enables high density recording. Th |
| 7591580 |
Lighting device |
September 22, 2009 |
| In the lighting device, cylindrical lenses are provided on a reflection surface side of a light guide plate, and the adjacent cylindrical lenses are connected by a concaved curved surface. |
| 7591293 |
Device for bonding a metal on a surface of a substrate |
September 22, 2009 |
| A device and method for bonding objects to be bonded each having a metal bonding portion on a substrate, comprising cleaning means for exposing the metal bonding portions to a plasma having an energy enough to etch the surfaces of the metal bonding portions at a depth of 1.6 nm or more |
| 7590929 |
Record reproduction method, apparatus, and circuit for using error correcting code |
September 15, 2009 |
| A record reproduction apparatus includes an encoding unit that encodes sector data to be written into a recording medium, by dividing the data into a predetermined number of blocks, and an iterative decoding unit that iteratively decodes the sector data read from the recording medium, |
| 7590884 |
Storage system, storage control device, and storage control method detecting read error response |
September 15, 2009 |
| In a storage system, a disk device performs recovery and transfers read data to a control device, and the control device judges the validity of the recovery to prevent a transfer of erroneous data. A control device read-accesses a disk device, and the disk device returns read data and a |
| 7590838 |
Remote boot method and mechanism, and computer-readable storage medium |
September 15, 2009 |
| A remote boot method loads an image of an operating system from a file apparatus that is connected to a computer system to a main memory of the computer system and starting the operating system, and remotely specifies an image of a boot target from a system monitoring mechanism that |
| 7590827 |
Processor and instruction control method having a storage of latest register for updating data o |
September 15, 2009 |
| A latest register update buffer which stores latest register update data is allocated and prepared every general register for storing source data. A latest register update processing unit stores a value in the general register as latest register update data into the latest register updat |
| 7590757 |
Broadcast type communication data distribution device and broadcast type communication system |
September 15, 2009 |
| By using a distribution device 1 comprising a unit 2 analyzing whether received data is broadcast type communication data and a unit 3 relaying the data received from a sender to an addressed receiver and also copying/transferring the data to one or more receivers other than the addr |
| 7590686 |
Apparatus for controlling a multi-processor system, scalable node, scalable multi-processor syst |
September 15, 2009 |
| An apparatus for controlling a multi-processor system comprises: a plurality of local ports that holds a data request made from the node; a local snoop unit that performs a local snoop on the requests held in the local ports; a broadcast queue that broadcasts the request to the other |
| 7590532 |
Voice code conversion method and apparatus |
September 15, 2009 |
| It is so arranged that a voice code can be converted even between voice encoding schemes having different subframe lengths. A voice code conversion apparatus demultiplexes a plurality of code components (Lsp1, Lag1, Gain1, Cb1), which are necessary to reconstruct a voice signal, from |
| 7590357 |
Optical module having small stray capacitance and stray inductance |
September 15, 2009 |
| An optical module including an optical element package accommodating an optical element and having a high-speed signal lead terminal, a power supply lead terminal, and a grounding lead terminal; a main printed wiring board on which an integrated circuit is mounted; an auxiliary print |
| 7590353 |
System and method for bandwidth allocation in an optical light-trail |
September 15, 2009 |
| The present invention relates to allocating the use of optical light-trails. Optical light-trails enable a plurality of nodes included in a light-trail to share the use of an optical wavelength to transmit traffic between the nodes included in the light-trail. A method for allocating |
| 7590181 |
Adaptive modulation and coding |
September 15, 2009 |
| In an adaptive modulation and coding method one or more adjustable values are created (S1), each corresponding to at least one of a plurality of available modulation and coding levels applicable to a signal transmitted from a transmitter to a receiver, and each representing a change to t |
| 7590147 |
LAN signal transmitting method and apparatus adapted to shut down a LAN signal if extracted link |
September 15, 2009 |
| A LAN signal transmission method and a transmission apparatus using the method are disclosed. A first transmission apparatus extracts only a data section of a LAN signal that is received, and accommodates the data section in a digital wrapper signal. Link information between a first LAN |
| 7590126 |
Frame transfer processing method and device |
September 15, 2009 |
| In a frame transfer processing method and device, information indicating a flooding destination is preset for every physical transmission line and every VLAN when a plurality of VLANs are accommodated in a single logical transmission line where physical links are aggregated, a single |
| 7590076 |
Switching apparatus |
September 15, 2009 |
| A switching apparatus for learning a source address set in a packet in an address learning table and delivering a packet on the basis of an address learned in the address learning table includes an address learning unit for limiting a number of learned addresses such that a number of lea |
| 7590048 |
Restoration and protection method and an apparatus thereof |
September 15, 2009 |
| A label switching router (LSR) is disclosed in which a control label switched path (LSP) is set up on a route of LSRs, in the reverse direction of traffic, for restoration and protection. Link failure, node failure, etc., are signaled on the control LSP. Further, a process is carried |
| 7589959 |
Information processing device and display device |
September 15, 2009 |
| An information processing device has: a support stand having a base that lies flat and a pole that stands on the base; a processing unit that performs data processing; a display panel that displays an image; and a storage unit that stores information. The device further has an adaptor |
| 7589933 |
Storage |
September 15, 2009 |
| A mold used to manufacture, through metal mold casting, a damper that is fixed onto a housing in a disc drive and reduces a vibration of the housing, the disc drive recording information in and reproducing information from a recording medium. The mold includes a sectionally concave b |
| 7589929 |
Servo pattern writing apparatus, servo pattern writing method, servo pattern reading apparatus, |
September 15, 2009 |
| There is provided a technique capable of eliminating the need to create data for compensating the displacement of a servo pattern occurring at the time of writing the servo pattern using an amplitude method and thereby of significantly reducing the production time of a disk medium. A |
| 7589926 |
Methods and apparatus for formatting memory media |
September 15, 2009 |
| At least one rotating memory medium such as a hard disk is installed in a hard disk drive or the like. The disk drive has a controller, controller memory and one or more heads for writing and reading to and from one or both sides of the disk. The disk is scanned for defects as sector |
| 7589685 |
Glass antenna |
September 15, 2009 |
| To provide a compact and low-cost glass antenna in which an antenna position can be easily recognized by emitting a light near the antenna position, and thus a passerby or the like can easily grasp the position when he or she holds up a tag. The glass antenna has plate-like glasses 1 |
| 7588843 |
Magnetic recording medium and method of making the same |
September 15, 2009 |
| A magnetic recording medium includes a continuous recording layer, and a seed layer including a surface held in contact with the recording layer. The seed layer includes an oxidized region and a non-oxidized region in the surface held in contact with the recording layer. The recording la |
| 7587634 |
Network fault diagnostic device, network fault diagnostic method, and computer product |
September 8, 2009 |
| A network fault diagnostic device is configured in the following manner. A causal relation table stores causal relations between faults and events, and a monitor event selector refers to the causal relation table to extract a minimum event required for identifying a fault, and sets the |
| 7587631 |
RAID controller, RAID system and control method for RAID controller |
September 8, 2009 |
| With respect to each head mounted on a hard disk, an area accessed by the head is obtained in advance and managed as disk information. Then, if a read error or a write error has occurred during operation, the corresponding head is identified on the basis of a logical block address at |
| 7587574 |
Address translation information storing apparatus and address translation information storing me |
September 8, 2009 |
| Context information pertaining to the virtual address is obtained, and a storage location for storing the address translation information is determined based on the context information. |
| 7587437 |
Parallel efficiency calculation method and apparatus |
September 8, 2009 |
| This parallel efficiency calculation method can be applied, even in a case where a load balance is not kept, to many parallel processing including a heterogeneous computer system environment, and quantitatively correlates a parallel efficiency with a load balance contribution ratio and a |
| 7587427 |
Hierarchical storage system, and control method and program therefor |
September 8, 2009 |
| At power-on again, a restore processing unit restores block information tables from a primary storage to a volatile memory. After classifying the block information tables into group-specific links of a plurality of time zones, a first sort processing unit connects the group-specific link |
| 7587397 |
Distributed transaction processing control |
September 8, 2009 |
| A distributed transaction processing system includes a master server (coordinator) and slave servers (participants). The master server and the slave servers create log file that indicates progress of a transaction. The log file is stored in a shared disk accessible from all the servers. |
| 7587229 |
Superconducting tunable filter having a patch resonator pattern tuned by a variable dielectric c |
September 8, 2009 |
| A superconducting tunable filter comprises a dielectric base plate; a patch-shaped resonator pattern formed of a superconducting material on the dielectric base plate; a top dielectric locally placed on the superconducting resonator pattern at a prescribed position and made of a mate |
| 7587140 |
Optical time-division demultiplexing apparatus |
September 8, 2009 |
| Amplitude modulation is performed for a signal light with a modulation signal having the same cycle as that of an optical pulse to be extracted by using an optical modulator. At this time, timing is adjusted so that the peak of the optical pulse of the channel to be extracted of the |
| 7587112 |
Optical device and light control method |
September 8, 2009 |
| In order to prevent a spectrum of a wavelength channel from becoming narrower, a device according to the present invention includes a light dividing section capable of dividing a wavelength spectrum in an input light beam and outputting a plurality of divided light beams, which are s |
| 7586737 |
Electronic component and lead unit therefor |
September 8, 2009 |
| An electronic component has a casing. An electrically-conductive body enclosed in the casing. The inner end of a lead is welded to the electrically-conductive body. The outer end of the lead projects outward out of the casing through a through hole formed in the casing. An enlarged p |
| 7586723 |
Power source fault detection apparatus, program, and method |
September 8, 2009 |
| A fault detection apparatus of a power source provided with a central processing unit, a power source, a power receiver supplied with current from a power source, a unit periodically accessing the power receiver from the central processing unit so as to supply a periodic current peri |
| 7586716 |
Regulator with shunt over-current by-pass |
September 8, 2009 |
| Controlling the supply voltage with high precision irrespective of variations in threshold. A bypass transistor is connected between power supply terminals and provides a bypass path of an excessive current flowing when the supply voltage increases. A resistor is connected between th |
| 7586713 |
Control apparatus, storage apparatus, and head control method |
September 8, 2009 |
| A control apparatus, storage apparatus and control method uses a correction value for head position written in a recording medium to control head position and prevents a use of a correction value that has improperly been read out. The apparatus comprises: an allowable range acquisiti |
| 7586672 |
Optical transmission system |
September 8, 2009 |
| A reliable optical transmission system with an improved signal control mechanism that avoids abrupt power variations of light beams, thereby preventing optical supervisory channel (OSC) signals from experiencing errors. An optical amplifier amplifies main signals under the control of |
| 7586447 |
Wireless device, antenna switch, and method of receiving signal |
September 8, 2009 |
| A flip-open type mobile wireless device able to receive a signal of the same polarized wave both in an open state and a closed state of a movable part including an antenna with respect to a fixed part, provided in the antenna with a first feeding point and a second feeding point for |
| 7586414 |
Radio tag |
September 8, 2009 |
| In a noncontact type radio tag communicating with an RFID reader/writer, a first planar antenna is arranged on one surface of a dielectric substrate, a ground plane with which a second planar antenna is integrally formed is arranged on the other surface of the dielectric substrate, a |
