| Patent Number |
Title Of Patent |
Date Issued |
| 7598619 |
Electronic component and semiconductor device, method of fabricating the same, circuit board mou |
October 6, 2009 |
| An integrated type semiconductor device that is capable of reducing cost or improving the reliability of connecting semiconductor chips together or chips to a circuit board. One embodiment of such an integrated type semiconductor device comprises a first semiconductor device (10) having |
| 7598612 |
Semiconductor device and manufacturing method thereof |
October 6, 2009 |
| A semiconductor device including a semiconductor substrate containing a plurality of electrode pads and a passivation film with an opening that exposes a central area of each of the electrode pads, and a bump electrically connected to each of the electrode pads, the bump being dispos |
| 7598301 |
Water based ink |
October 6, 2009 |
| There is provided a water-based ink that can exhibit high gloss on gloss paper and has excellent fixation while maintaining ink reliability such as recovery from clogging, continuous printing stability, and ink storage stability. The water-based ink comprises at least yellow pigment- |
| 7597436 |
Maintenance liquid for ink jet recording apparatus |
October 6, 2009 |
| Disclosed is a maintenance liquid for an ink jet recording apparatus which possesses excellent cleaning properties. In particular, a maintenance liquid, which exhibits excellent cleaning properties even in an ink jet printer using an ink having a high colorant density and containing a |
| 7597317 |
Stacker position changer, recording apparatus or liquid ejecting apparatus incorporating the sam |
October 6, 2009 |
| A recording section includes a recording head operable to record information on a first medium and a second medium. A first stacker has a first face and a second face, and is movable between a first position and a second position. A stacker position changer is operable to move the fi |
| 7597316 |
Paper feeding method and paper feeder |
October 6, 2009 |
| An image-forming apparatus has a limitation pad 31c and a retard roller 34, which separately feed recording paper P on an elevation tray 31 in an MPT cover 30 by bringing the recording paper P against an outer peripheral surface 33a of the feeding roller 33. In this image-forming app |
| 7596262 |
Image forming apparatus, image processing method, program, and image processing apparatus |
September 29, 2009 |
| c, m, and y, which are the primary colors, are calculated from inputted RGB data. Duty limitation is then applied to c, m, and y by means of the limit amount .alpha.. c', m', and y', which have been limited by .alpha., are then normalized. The largest limit amount is .beta. when the |
| 7595921 |
Increasing profile accuracy and accelerating profile creation |
September 29, 2009 |
| When a profile to be referred to during conversion between different color systems is created, output color data that associates first and second color component data with their output colors is obtained, an interpolation function is generated based on the output color data for the f |
| 7595811 |
Environment-complaint image display system, projector, and program |
September 29, 2009 |
| An environment-compliant image display system, projector, and program that enables the reproduction of appropriate colors even when affected by ambient light. The projector has a color control processing update section that corrects colors by adjusting a LUT in a 3D-LUT storage secti |
| 7595140 |
Liquid developer and image forming apparatus |
September 29, 2009 |
| A liquid developer includes toner particles formed of a resin material and a coloring agent, and an insulation liquid in which the toner particles are dispersed, the insulation liquid containing ester-exchange oil obtained by an ester-exchange reaction of soybean oil and at least one of |
| 7594768 |
Tape processing apparatus, method of conducting demonstration with tape processing apparatus, an |
September 29, 2009 |
| There is provided a tape processing apparatus arranged to perform an ink-character printing and a braille embossing on a process tape, the apparatus including: a first demonstration device which performs a first demonstration process based on first demonstration data for demonstration |
| 7594653 |
Medium feeding apparatus, liquid ejecting apparatus and recording apparatus |
September 29, 2009 |
| A medium feeding apparatus includes: a pivot unit, supporting a medium and pivoting to cause the medium to come in contact with and to separate from a feeding unit; a first guide unit, guiding one side end of the medium supported on the pivot unit; a second guide unit, guiding the other |
| 7594040 |
Network relay device having network plug-and-play compliant protocols for network relay |
September 22, 2009 |
| A network relay device compliant with network plug-and-play protocols is presented. The relay device relays messages between a network and a device unit having N service devices that provide a service in response to a request from a client on the network. In one embodiment the relay |
| 7594039 |
Image and sound input-output control |
September 22, 2009 |
| A home gateway 30, input devices, output devices and a client are connected via a network LAN. Installed into the home gateway 30 is a server-side program 100 for performing control of input devices and output devices, edit of image, and provision of an interface window to the client |
| 7593591 |
Method and apparatus for increasing contrast in a digital image |
September 22, 2009 |
| A method of enhancing contrast in a digital image comprises isolating pixels of the image having intensities falling within a low intensity range, determining at least one feature of the pixel distribution with the range and adjusting intensities of pixels in the image to make the pi |
| 7593438 |
Driving method for laser light source device, laser light source device, image display device, m |
September 22, 2009 |
| A driving method for laser light source device includes: providing a laser light source device including a laser light source, a wavelength conversion element converting the wavelength of the light emitted from the laser light source, and a resonator mirror constituting a resonator s |
| 7593270 |
Integrated circuit device and electronic instrument |
September 22, 2009 |
| An integrated circuit device has a display memory which stores data for at least one frame displayed in a display panel which has a plurality of scan lines and a plurality of data lines. The display memory includes a plurality of RAM blocks, each of the RAM blocks including a plurality o |
| 7593076 |
Optical device and method for manufacturing optical device |
September 22, 2009 |
| An optical device includes a polarizer having a polarizing layer, a first light-transmissive substrate bonded on one surface of the polarizing layer of the polarizer, and a second light-transmissive substrate bonded on the other surface of the polarizing layer of the polarizer. The first |
| 7593039 |
Image correcting method, image correcting apparatus, and storage medium having program stored th |
September 22, 2009 |
| An image correcting method includes: (a) acquiring original image information to be corrected; (b) setting a confirmation range for confirming an effect of a correction; (c) producing corrected image information; and (d) displaying, on an image display section, an original image base |
| 7593008 |
Electro-optical apparatus, driving method thereof, and electronic device |
September 22, 2009 |
| An electrooptical apparatus having a plurality of scanning lines, a plurality of signal lines, and electrooptical devices each being placed at an intersection of each of the scanning lines and each of the signal lines, and the electrooptical apparatus is driven according to the amount |
| 7592983 |
Electro-optical device, method of driving electro-optical device, pixel circuit, and electronic |
September 22, 2009 |
| An electro-optical device includes a plurality of pixel circuits that are disposed to correspond to intersections of a plurality of scanning lines and a plurality of data lines, a scanning line driving circuit that sequentially selects the plurality of scanning lines to apply a selection |
| 7592951 |
Device and method for minimizing the number of crystal oscillators used in an integrated navigat |
September 22, 2009 |
| A hybrid navigation satellite receiver and mobile telephone uses only two crystal oscillators. One that operates a master clock around 27-MHz and that consumes milliwatts of power. The other oscillator consumes only microwatts of power and operates continuously on battery power at about |
| 7592208 |
Method for manufacturing semiconductor substrate and method for manufacturing semiconductor appa |
September 22, 2009 |
| A method for manufacturing a semiconductor substrate, includes: forming a first semiconductor layer on a semiconductor base material; forming a second semiconductor layer on the first semiconductor layer, the second semiconductor layer having an etching selectivity larger than that of th |
| 7591699 |
Method of manufacturing light-emitting element including the emission layer and the carrier tran |
September 22, 2009 |
| Methods of manufacturing light-emitting elements including providing an emissive layer and a carrier transfer layer between a pair of electrodes, the carrier transfer layer mainly made of an organic polymer and contacting the emissive layer, performing an affinity improvement treatme |
| 7591602 |
Gap detector, liquid ejecting apparatus incorporating the same, and gap detecting method execute |
September 22, 2009 |
| A gap detector is operable to detect a distance between a liquid ejecting head adapted to eject liquid toward a target medium and a platen adapted to support the target medium. A circular plate is adapted to be provided on a guide shaft which is rotated together with the rotary plate to |
| 7591552 |
Liquid ejecting apparatus |
September 22, 2009 |
| A liquid ejecting apparatus comprising a transporting path to transport a first target medium in a first direction and to transport a second target medium in the first direction and a second direction, a first and second rollers, a supporting member that supports the second roller and is |
| 7591544 |
Liquid ejecting head, method of producing the same, and liquid ejecting apparatus |
September 22, 2009 |
| A liquid ejecting head includes a channel-forming substrate that communicates with nozzle orifices for ejecting a liquid and that includes a plurality of pressure-generating chambers separated by a plurality of partition walls and arranged in parallel in a direction in which a short |
| 7591526 |
Liquid ejecting apparatus and method for adjusting positions of nozzle rows |
September 22, 2009 |
| A liquid ejecting apparatus comprises a moving unit that moves by receiving a moving force, and a plurality of nozzle rows for ejecting liquid onto a medium, wherein each of the nozzle rows is adjusted in its position on the moving unit, taking a nozzle row that is arranged on a side |
| 7591524 |
Semiconductor memory device |
September 22, 2009 |
| In a semiconductor memory device 10, the maximum counter value in a carry-up unit 111 of an address counter 110 is set to 128 bits when an access request is for writing data to a memory array 100. On the other hand, in the semiconductor memory device 10, if the access request is for |
| 7590765 |
Bulk data transfer and buffer control device and electronic instrument |
September 15, 2009 |
| A data transfer control device for transferring data via a bus includes a buffer controller for controlling access to a data buffer in which a command block area, a data area and status block area are prepared, and a transfer controller for controlling data transfer. The transfer con |
| 7590368 |
Image forming apparatus and method of cleaning intermediate transfer belt |
September 15, 2009 |
| An image forming apparatus includes an intermediate transfer belt that has an elastic layer to which a toner image on an image carrier developed using a liquid developer is primarily transferred, a cleaning roller that cleans an extraneous material remaining on the intermediate transfer |
| 7590308 |
Image processing apparatus, an image processing method, and a computer readable medium having re |
September 15, 2009 |
| In order to provide an image processing apparatus and an image processing method whereby a high quality output image can be consistently obtained, regardless of the order in which an operator sets the parameters for the performance of filtering, (I) a GUI module (9a) stores, in an input |
| 7590275 |
Method and system for recognizing a candidate character in a captured image |
September 15, 2009 |
| A system and method of recognizing characters in a captured image, includes selecting a portion of the image encompassing a string of characters in the captured image to be recognized. The selected portion is examined to identify segments that potentially include the characters of th |
| 7590060 |
Network congestion recognition and management |
September 15, 2009 |
| Apparatus for managing bandwidth for a plurality of connections each having a respective connection token, the apparatus having corresponding methods and computer-readable media, comprises a memory to store the connection tokens, the memory comprising a ready connection queue, a pend |
| 7590030 |
Governor and a power generating device and an apparatus using the governor |
September 15, 2009 |
| It is intended to provide a governor that is small, does not produce wear particles or noise, is low cost, is not affected by differences in attitude, is not affected by magnetism, and has outstanding durability. The governor has a rotor that rotates using energy supplied from an ene |
| 7590026 |
Access to printing material container |
September 15, 2009 |
| The present invention provides a storage device that enables identification data to be readily rewritten and ensures normal completion of a data writing operation in a short time period. In the storage device of the invention, an ID comparator determines whether or not identification |
| 7590015 |
Integrated circuit device and electronic instrument |
September 15, 2009 |
| An integrated circuit device includes a data driver block, a memory block, an information storage block in which an address of a defective cell of the memory block is programmed and stored as a defective address, and a switch control circuit which performs control for switching access to |
| 7589881 |
Electro-optic device and electronic apparatus |
September 15, 2009 |
| An electro-optic device includes first and second pixels that form first and second images, respectively. The first and second pixels are arranged alternately in a first direction. A light blocking element overlaps the pixels in plan view. The pixels are divided into pixel groups, each |
| 7589873 |
Setting a color tone to be applied to an image |
September 15, 2009 |
| When setting a color tone during editing of an image, processes such as the following are performed. First, there is displayed a tone setting screen 200 that includes a tone specifying portion 210 for substantially specifying a plurality of color tone parameters that specify the tone of |
| 7589810 |
Electrooptic device, electronic apparatus, and driving method for the electrooptic device |
September 15, 2009 |
| An electrooptic device simultaneously displays a first image and a second image in different directions. The electrooptic device includes a first polarizer and pixel rows in which first and second pixels are alternately arranged to emit light through the first polarizer. The electrooptic |
| 7589809 |
Reflective plate, production method therefor, liquid crystal device, and electronic device |
September 15, 2009 |
| The invention provides a thin reflective plate having cholesteric liquid crystal that can prevent or reduce a decrease of reflection efficiency. A reflective plate includes a cholesteric liquid crystal layer, and the cholesteric liquid crystal layer includes a plurality of regions in whi |
| 7589779 |
Imaging module, interface, and method handling multiple simultaneous data types |
September 15, 2009 |
| A method is provided for transmitting image data in a plurality of formats simultaneously over a data path. Successive data blocks, each comprising compressed image data representing a block of pixels of a first image are transmitted over a data path. During intervals between transmissio |
| 7589739 |
Color evaluating method of image display device |
September 15, 2009 |
| There is provided a color evaluating method of an image display device, which evaluates colors displayed by the image display device, including: displaying an image evaluation image, in which a plurality of color regions corresponding to a pixel or a plurality of pixels of the image |
| 7589733 |
Layout element arranging device, layout element arranging method, layout element arranging progr |
September 15, 2009 |
| Aspects of the invention can provide natural eye flow chasing images arranged on a path and fully give the feeling of being, liveliness and truthfulness, by matching a direction of the image and a direction of the arrangement point or an acquisition time of the image and a relative p |
| 7589699 |
Electronic circuit, electro-optical device, method for driving electro-optical device and electr |
September 15, 2009 |
| A drive current corresponding to a digital-data voltage or an analog-data voltage transmitted via a data line can be transmitted to an organic EL element of a pixel circuit provided corresponding to the intersection of a scan line and the data line. The digital-data voltage can be tr |
| 7589669 |
Positioning system, terminal apparatus, terminal apparatus control method, terminal apparatus co |
September 15, 2009 |
| The terminal apparatus has: positioning vector information generating means for generating positioning vector information which indicates a passing direction and a passing speed, based on the satellite signals used when each item of the current position information was generated; pas |
| 7589450 |
Actuator device, liquid-jet head and liquid-jet apparatus |
September 15, 2009 |
| An actuator device includes: a layer provided on a single crystal silicon (Si) substrate, and made of silicon dioxide (SiO.sub.2); at least one buffer layer provided on the layer made of silicon dioxide (SiO.sub.2); a base layer provided on the buffer layer, and made of lanthanum nickel |
| 7589018 |
Method of forming contact hole, method of manufacturing wiring board, method of manufacturing se |
September 15, 2009 |
| A method of forming a contact hole includes forming a first conductive layer patterned so as to serve as an electrode or a wiring on a substrate, forming an insulation layer on the substrate and the first conductive layer, inserting a cutting instrument into the insulation layer at a |
| 7588348 |
Lamp device, manufacturing method for same and projector having a lamp device |
September 15, 2009 |
| A lamp device and a projector having the lamp device eliminated of light leaking in a direction opposite to a reflecting direction at a rear end of an encapsulation fixing an arc tube on a reflection mirror is simply and inexpensively provided. An arc tube and a reflection mirror are |
| 7587586 |
Method, program, and system for setting up communication data for devices and supported applicat |
September 8, 2009 |
| A communication setup program eliminates the need for setting communication data common to multiple applications individually for each application. The communication setup program configures communication data that is reflected by the applications when each application is loaded, and |
