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| Patent # | Description |
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| US-8,259,185 |
Terminal device, connectable position information display method and
program A terminal device includes: a communication means radio communicatable to access points; a storage means for storing a database associating identification... |
| US-8,259,184 |
Imaging apparatus with shake correction In an imaging apparatus with a shake correction function, the influence of front curtain shock is prevented from being exerted on a shake correction function... |
| US-8,259,157 |
Teleconference terminal apparatus and image transmitting method A teleconference terminal apparatus includes: imaging field changing control means for carrying out control of an imaging field changing unit designed to change... |
| US-8,259,156 |
Videoconference arrangement A television and camcorder combination include an acoustic echo canceller and a videoconference protocol stack in order to provide videoconferencing... |
| US-8,259,042 |
Varying the peak luminance of a display panel with comparison of the mean
gradation value of a current frame... A self-luminous display apparatus capable of varying a peak luminance of a display panel in a unit of one frame, which includes: a mean gradation value... |
| US-8,258,989 |
Data demodulator, data demodulation method and program thereof A data demodulator includes: a conversion means for converting an RLL code obtained by converting data in which information bits including specific bits are... |
| US-8,258,988 |
Encoding apparatus, encoding method, and program Provided is an encoding apparatus including an encoding unit that converts, based on a first conversion rule group according to which a total value for a base-K... |
| US-8,258,914 |
Touch panel and method of manufacturing the same A touch panel includes a first transparent electrode substrate, a second transparent electrode substrate, a first bonding layer, a first transparent substrate,... |
| US-8,258,514 |
Semiconductor device and display apparatus using the semiconductor device Disclosed herein is a semiconductor device which employs a thin-film transistor. In addition, the semiconductor device has a gate electrode, a gate insulation... |
| US-8,258,500 |
Photovoltaic device containing carbon nanotubes and at least one organic
hole conductor The invention relates to a photovoltaic device, uses of the photovoltaic device, combinations of this photovoltaic device with circuits and to a method of... |
| US-8,258,481 |
System and method for selectively enabling or disabling an optical device A system for selectively enabling or disabling an optical device. In an illustrative embodiment, the system implements an optical-device theft-prevention... |
| US-8,257,849 |
Winding electrode body, nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery, and
method for manufacturing winding... A winding electrode body is provided which includes a belt-shaped positive electrode, a belt-shaped negative electrode, and two belt-shaped separators. In the... |
| US-8,257,538 |
Device transfer method and display apparatus A device transfer method and a display apparatus are provided. A device transfer method and a display apparatus are provided by or in which, in transferring... |
| US-8,256,873 |
Liquid discharge apparatus An apparatus including nozzles that discharge liquid; a liquid discharge head including nozzle arrays where the nozzles are arranged in one direction; a liquid... |
| US-8,256,684 |
Antenna apparatus The present invention provides an antenna apparatus (60) for use in a non-contact type IC card into and from which data can be written and read by an electronic... |
| US-8,256,501 |
Plate-type heat transport device and electronic instrument A plate-type heat transport device and electronic instrument are provided. The plate-type heat transport device includes a heat absorbing plane absorbing heat... |
| US-D666,565 |
Television receiver |
| US-8,256,014 |
Content processing device, server device, communication method, and
storage medium containing computer program When a PC 10 connects to a PD 20, the PC 10 decides whether or not the PD 20 holds a group ID and if the PC 10 decides PD 20 holds the group ID, PC 10 decides... |
| US-8,255,897 |
Software updating system, information processing apparatus and method,
recording medium and program It is made possible to update software appropriately. When additional software is installed, update management data for the additional software is generated.... |
| US-8,255,588 |
Signal processing apparatus, signal processing method, signal processing
system, program and medium A signal processing apparatus and method for processing an input signal. A first signal processing unit processes the input signal, and an expansion unit adds a... |
| US-8,255,573 |
Communication network system, gateway, data communication method and
program providing medium This invention relates to provide a communication network system, a gateway, and a data communication method, in which the gateway has an advanced... |
| US-8,255,555 |
Reception apparatus and method for reducing time delay in channel
switching A reception apparatus receiving a stream delivered by multicast through a network includes: a stream receiving a stream of a first channel as a viewing stream... |
| US-8,255,488 |
Information communication terminal, information distribution apparatus,
information distribution system,... In a server serving as an information distribution apparatus and an information communication terminal, contents are managed by using content identifiers... |
| US-8,255,462 |
Information processing system and information processing apparatus An information processing system and apparatus which have a plurality of actuators, a plurality of sensors, a signal processing unit, a control unit, and an... |
| US-8,255,214 |
Signal processing method and processor A first signal of two signals to be compared for similarity is divided into small areas and one small area is selected for calculating the correlation with a... |
| US-8,255,204 |
Character input apparatus, character input assist method, and character
input assist program Disclosed herein is a character input apparatus including: a display section having a screen capable of displaying at least characters; an operation section... |
| US-8,254,972 |
Device and method for handling messages A device, method and system for handling received messages on a portable electronic device. The device includes a message handling section 12 to handle or route... |
| US-8,254,964 |
Method and arrangement relating to location based services for a
communication device A system and method may include receiving information about a movement of a device from a motion detector of the device, receiving information about ambient... |
| US-8,254,790 |
Communications system and communications lighting apparatus An optical-information transmitting, lighting apparatus 2 is installed in a place where a lighting apparatus of the existing type for applying light generally... |
| US-8,254,777 |
Image capturing device and activation method therefor An image capturing device includes a first controller operable to control image capturing; an operation section including a switch; a detector operable to... |
| US-8,254,757 |
Information processing apparatus and data processing method and program Disclosed herein is an information processing apparatus including: a first data processing block configured by a virtual machine as a virtual hardware... |
| US-8,254,753 |
Subtitle generating apparatus and method For generation of a subtitle in a digital movie screening system, it is essential to reduce the burden of processing the subtitle when screening a movie. There... |
| US-8,254,726 |
Image processing apparatus, image processing method, and program An image processing apparatus that converts an input image having first resolution into an output image having second resolution higher than the first... |
| US-8,254,722 |
Masking tool A system for controlling effects performed on an image includes a digital camera having a display that displays the image. Masking tools position graphical... |
| US-8,254,713 |
Image processing apparatus, image processing method, program therefor, and
recording medium in which the... In an image processing apparatus that processes image data containing a distortion of an image pickup optical section, which is obtained by picking up an... |
| US-8,254,708 |
Encoding device, encoding method, recording medium, and image processing
apparatus An encoding device includes: a color-difference signal encoding unit for encoding a color-difference signal for each processing block in multiple ... |
| US-8,254,707 |
Encoding device, encoding method, encoding program, decoding device,
decoding method, and decoding program in... The present invention relates to an encoding apparatus, an encoding method, an encoding program, a decoding apparatus, a decoding method and a decoding program... |
| US-8,254,690 |
Information processing apparatus, information processing method, and
program An information processing apparatus that compares a query image and a model image and provides support information for discriminating a subject of the model... |
| US-8,254,677 |
Detection apparatus, detection method, and computer program An apparatus for detecting a cut change based on a similarity between a first image and a second image, includes a unit for generating one of a luminance... |
| US-8,254,645 |
Image processing apparatus and method, and program An image processing apparatus includes a holding unit configured to hold, for each combination of a first angle indicating a face direction of a first face... |
| US-8,254,641 |
Biometrics authentication system A biometrics authentication system includes: a detection section; a light source section including a plurality of unit light sources capable of illuminating... |
| US-8,254,639 |
Image storage device, imaging device, image storage method, and program An image storage device includes a facial-expression-correlation estimator configured to estimate a facial expression correlation representing a degree of... |
| US-8,254,613 |
Speaker apparatus A speaker apparatus includes a speaker, a tubular duct extended in order to make the sound generated in the inside of the cabinet of the speaker get to the... |
| US-8,254,603 |
Speaker apparatus and method for driving speaker A speaker apparatus includes an acoustic vibration plate, and an actuator mounted to the acoustic vibration plate such that one end and the other end thereof,... |
| US-8,254,594 |
In-vehicle apparatus Disclosed herein is an in-vehicle apparatus having an apparatus body, a loading slot formed on the front surface of the apparatus body, a front panel arranged... |
| US-8,254,465 |
Apparatus for encoding and decoding header data in picture signal
transmission A picture decoding method and apparatus for decoding a bit stream, the bit stream being compatible with MPEG 1 moving picture video standard. The method... |
| US-8,254,414 |
Communication apparatus and communication method, communication system,
and computer program A communication system includes a plurality of communication stations arranged to respectively transmit a beacon on which beacon time information related to a... |
| US-8,254,356 |
Methods, systems and computer program products for suspending
packet-switched sessions to a wireless terminal Methods, systems and computer program products are provided through which a wireless terminal participating in a packet-switched communications session may... |
| US-8,254,339 |
Receiver apparatus and method for releasing memory thereof In a receiver apparatus of HSDPA (High Speed Downlink Packet Access) data transmission scheme, it is achieved to minimize the occurrence of the system... |
| US-8,254,231 |
Driving device and method, program, and recording medium A driving device includes: n pickups; n first control means for respectively controlling the pickups; and a second control means for controlling the n first... |
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