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| Patent # | Description |
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| US-8,111,671 |
Wireless communication system, wireless communication apparatus, wireless
communication method and computer program The present invention eliminates a transmission-waiting operation which is unnecessary while accommodating a prioritized traffic. Although a communication... |
| US-8,111,642 |
Using traffic patterns to improve sleep mode efficiency in a radio handset Disclosed is a method of using observed traffic pattern data to improve sleep mode efficiency in a radio handset. The radio handset determines quality of... |
| US-8,111,608 |
Radio-communication device and radio-communication method A radio-communication device performs processing in a communication environment in which an OFDM (Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing) modulation method... |
| US-8,111,598 |
Optical disk apparatus and emission control method An optical disk apparatus according to the present invention includes a spindle motor that rotates an optical disk on whose information recording surface a... |
| US-8,111,595 |
Optical disk recording and playback apparatus and signal detection method
utilizing a differential push-pull... An optical disc recording and playback apparatus includes an optical pickup performing an operation for recording and playing back signal information into and... |
| US-8,111,477 |
Recording medium, recording apparatus, reproducing apparatus, and
reproducing method Provided is a recording medium onto which a plurality of tracks that constitute a unit as one unit of signal processing for reproducing data are recorded, each... |
| US-8,111,426 |
Head unit, droplet discharging apparatus, droplet discharging system,
information processing apparatus,... The present invention provides a droplet discharging apparatus including a discharge head for deflectively discharging droplets through one discharge port at a... |
| US-8,111,353 |
Lens array sheet, light source and liquid crystal display device A lens array sheet includes a lens layer having a lens surface on which a plurality of lenses are formed in an array, a light reflection layer arranged at an... |
| US-8,111,340 |
Display apparatus A display apparatus includes scanning lines; signal lines crossing the scanning lines; thin-film transistors connected to the scanning lines and the signal... |
| US-8,111,339 |
Liquid crystal projector and control method for liquid crystal projector A liquid crystal projector which projects a three-dimensional imaged based on image signals for the left and right eyes including: a liquid crystal panel into... |
| US-8,111,334 |
Signal switching apparatus and control method of signal switching
apparatus A signal switching apparatus includes: a video reference input block; a plurality of synchronous signal generating blocks; a plurality of video signal input... |
| US-8,111,332 |
Noise suppression method, noise suppression method program, recording
medium recording noise suppression method... An apparatus for suppressing noise of a video signal. The apparatus includes: a difference-signal generation section generating a difference signal being a... |
| US-8,111,328 |
Image signal processing apparatus, image display, and image display method An image signal processing apparatus, an image display, and an image display method that enable detecting a black band region included in an input image signal... |
| US-8,111,325 |
Image processing apparatus and method and program An image processing apparatus includes an interlace-progressive converter converting an interlace input image into a progressive intermediate image, a... |
| US-8,111,317 |
Image capturing apparatus with lens cover An image capturing apparatus includes a camera body having an image-capturing lens for receiving light to form an image of a subject and a display unit having a... |
| US-8,111,312 |
Solid-state imaging device, method of driving the same, and camera A solid-state imaging device includes: a plurality of pixels which are arranged in a matrix; a sequential scanning device that selects each row of pixels; and... |
| US-8,111,306 |
Apparatus, method and computer-readable medium for eliminating dark
current components of an image pickup device An image pickup apparatus includes an image pickup device including plural imaging planes each having different dark current characteristics, each of the... |
| US-8,111,298 |
Imaging circuit and image pickup device An imaging circuit includes a photoelectric conversion section and a transferring section. The photoelectric conversion section in which pixels each having a... |
| US-8,111,281 |
Methods and terminals that control avatars during videoconferencing and
other communications Methods and associated wireless communication terminals are disclosed that control the display of avatars on communication terminals. A person's portrait... |
| US-8,111,247 |
System and method for changing touch screen functionality A system and method changes touch screen functionality based on whether a user is detected during camera operation. A first camera generates a video signal... |
| US-8,111,236 |
Backlight driving device and display A backlight driving device for driving a backlight that illuminates a display panel is disclosed. The backlight driving device includes: a luminance data input... |
| US-8,111,234 |
Liquid crystal display apparatus, liquid-crystal-display controlling
method, and computer program A liquid crystal display apparatus including a liquid crystal display as a display unit, including the following elements: a backlight configured to illuminate... |
| US-8,111,190 |
Navigation apparatus and navigation-related information display method A navigation apparatus and a navigation-related information display method acquire a plurality of orbit data from a plurality of GPS satellites, pinpoint the... |
| US-8,111,041 |
Power transmission control device, power reception control device,
non-contact power transmission system, power... A power reception device transmits authentication information (e.g., start code, manufacturer ID, product ID, rated power information, and resonance... |
| US-8,111,020 |
Apparatus and method for driving backlight unit The present invention is directed to a drive apparatus for a backlight unit (20) in which plural LED (Light Emitting Diode) elements are cascade-connected every... |
| US-8,110,978 |
Display device The present invention provides a display device including: a pair of substrates in which a plurality of pixels are disposed in a matrix form as a whole, the... |
| US-8,110,856 |
Solid-state imaging device and method for manufacturing the same A solid-state imaging device having a high sensitivity and a structure in which a miniaturized pixel is obtained, and a method for manufacturing the solid-state... |
| US-8,110,756 |
Electronic device An electronic device includes a housing and a positioning portion. The housing includes a first member secured to the housing and a second member secured to the... |
| US-8,110,459 |
MOSFET having a channel region with enhanced stress and method of forming
same A semiconductor device is provided that includes a semiconductor substrate, an n-channel MOSFET formed on the substrate and a p-channel MOSFET formed on the... |
| US-8,110,343 |
Manufacturing method for optical recording and reproducing medium stamper In an optical recording and reproducing medium having a groove 2 formed along a recording track and which is recorded and/or reproduced with irradiation of... |
| US-8,109,592 |
Liquid-ejecting head, liquid-ejecting device, liquid-ejecting method, and
ejection medium for liquid-ejecting head A liquid-ejecting head includes a liquid cell that contains an ejection medium that is liquid at normal temperature, a nozzle for ejecting the ejection medium... |
| US-8,109,584 |
Liquid ejection head, liquid ejection apparatus, and manufacturing method
of liquid ejection head A liquid ejection head includes an energy-generating element arranged on a semiconductor substrate, a barrier layer deposited on the semiconductor substrate for... |
| US-8,108,991 |
Method and device for connecting a wiring board Connection with an ACF is realized relative to a wiring board having an electronic component mounted on the rear surface thereof with high connection... |
| US-D653,672 |
Display device with user interface |
| US-D653,647 |
Audio system |
| US-8,108,934 |
Information processing apparatus and method, and a program Disclosed herein is an information processing apparatus that processes an encrypted content. The apparatus includes a control section configured to control the... |
| US-8,108,898 |
Content and application download based on a home network system
configuration profile A system and method is provided for identifying, accessing, and managing service applications for use with associated consumer electronic devices in a home... |
| US-8,108,886 |
Receiving apparatus and receiving method, broadcasting apparatus and
broadcasting method, information... When the user of a receiving apparatus presses a notice button provided for a remote controller to indicate the preference concerning the person or thing... |
| US-8,108,861 |
Information management apparatus and method, recording medium, as well as
program for scheduling a recording of... An information management apparatus presents an unexpected event to all users. This apparatus displays time ranges of scheduled events from the start time to... |
| US-8,108,789 |
Information processing device, user interface method, and information
storage medium To group a plurality of data items through a simple operation, an information processing device includes a displaying unit for displaying an image of a virtual... |
| US-8,108,688 |
Information processing apparatus, method, and program Disclosed herein is an information processing apparatus that processes content data supplied in a format that has at least a metadata region in which metadata... |
| US-8,108,674 |
Transmitting/receiving system and method, transmitting apparatus and
method, receiving apparatus and method,... A transmitting/receiving system includes a transmitting apparatus that transmits, to another apparatus, first encrypted data obtained by encrypting stream data... |
| US-8,108,572 |
Communication system and its method and communication apparatus and its
method This invention relates to a communication system including a first apparatus having a first storage medium, and a second apparatus for transmitting data to the... |
| US-8,108,509 |
Altering network transmitted content data based upon user specified
characteristics A system for converting content data transmitted over a computer network from a first computer to a second computer is disclosed. Content data comprising text... |
| US-8,108,493 |
Remote access management A remote access management service for enabling remote access to an item of media content stored in a network device from a remote device, said network device... |
| US-8,108,489 |
Server reservation method, reservation control apparatus and program
storage medium To allow many users to efficiently use functions of a processing server that performs predetermined processing, via a network and also prevent a time during... |
| US-8,108,462 |
Information processing apparatus, information processing method,
information processing program and recording... Disclosed herein is an information processing apparatus capable of exchanging information with another apparatus. The apparatus includes: a unit for carrying... |
| US-8,108,319 |
System and method for controlling access to computer readable content
using downloadable authentication An invention is provided for controlling access to computer readable media is disclosed. The method includes receiving a digital authentication ticket, which... |
| US-8,108,310 |
Recording apparatus and method, and communication device and method The present invention relates to a recording apparatus and method and communication apparatus and method suitably for use in supplying the encoded data of... |
| US-8,108,305 |
Data sending/receiving method and apparatus, data receiving apparatus and
data sending apparatus A sending receiving method for data, such as musical data, in which plural data stored in a first storage unit are retrieved based on the request information... |
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