Optimizing operation of a media player during rendering of media files. The invention includes authoring software to create a data structure and to populate the created data structure with obtained metadata. The invention also includes rendering software to retrieve the metadata from the data structure and to identify media files to render. In one embodiment, the invention is operable as part of a compressed media format having a set of small files containing metadata, menus, and playlists in a compiled binary format designed for playback on feature-rich personal computer media players as well as low cost media players.
A fractional up-sampling filter is configured to convert a lower data rate to a higher data rate by using methods of interpolation to generate output digital data that corresponds to the higher data rate. For example, if the higher data rate output is 4/3 of the lower data rate input, then for every three (3) digital data values originally sampled by the fractional up-sampling filter, four (4) output digital data values are generated and output from the filter. These output digital data values are obtained by methods of interpolation. Interpolation is performed using different filter coefficients depending on the relative timing of the output digital data rate versus the original sampling rate. The fractional up-sampling filter utilizes a high frequency master clock to derive the fractional relationship between the original sampling rate to the new fractional sampling rate.
H03M 7/00 - Conversion of a code where information is represented by a given sequence or number of digits to a code where the same information is represented by a different sequence or number of digits
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Automatic radio frequency feedback calibration circuit
A calibration circuit is configured to provide automatic feedback calibration during a tuning cycle. Automating the calibration process reduces the engineering evaluation time and mass production test time. The calibration settings vary as a function of frequency, and the calibration circuit automatically determines the proper calibration for any frequency application. The calibration circuit enhances communication performance by comparing and computing a time difference between a reference path and a feedback path. The calibration circuit is configured as part of a phase modulation path within a modulation circuit. The calibration circuit provides for calibration without prior knowledge of the system and reduced factory test time. The calibration circuit provides numerous advantages, including, but not limited to, accurate system results for time, frequency, temperature, and process variations with each calibration, or tuning.
H03L 7/06 - Automatic control of frequency or phase; Synchronisation using a reference signal applied to a frequency- or phase-locked loop
H03L 7/18 - Indirect frequency synthesis, i.e. generating a desired one of a number of predetermined frequencies using a frequency- or phase-locked loop using a frequency divider or counter in the loop
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ANODE ELECTRODES FOR DIRECT OXIDATION FUEL CELLS AND SYSTEMS OPERATING WITH CONCENTRATED LIQUID FUEL
An anode electrode for use in a fuel cell comprises a stacked structure including, in sequence: a catalyst layer, a hydrophobic, microporous layer ('MPL'), a porous gas diffusion layer ('GDL'), and an anode plate with at least one recessed fuel supply-fuel/gas exhaust channel formed in a surface thereof facing the GDL, wherein the stacked structure further comprises at least one hydrophobic region aligned with the at least one recessed channel. The electrode is useful in direct oxidation 'fuel cells and systems, such as direct methanol fuel cells operating with highly concentrated liquid fuel. An anode electrode for use in a fuel cell comprises a stacked structure including, in sequence: a catalyst layer, a hydrophobic, microporous layer ('MPL'), a porous gas diffusion layer ('GDL'), and an anode plate with at least one recessed fuel supply-fuel/gas exhaust channel formed in a surface thereof facing the GDL, wherein the stacked structure further comprises at least one hydrophobic region aligned with the at least one recessed channel. The electrode is useful in direct oxidation fuel cells and systems, such as direct methanol fuel cells operating with highly concentrated liquid fuel.
A method for selectively arranging ferritin in a specified inorganic material part formed on a substrate is provided. The method for arranging ferritin of the present invention is characterized in that ferritin is selectively arranged on a part including titanium or silicon nitride (SiN) in an efficient manner by adding a nonionic surface active agent. Also, selective arrangement capability of ferritin can be markedly improved by modifying the N-terminus of ferritin with a certain peptide.
The present invention provides a method for production of a single electron semiconductor element (SET) in which a quantum dot is selectively arranged in a nano gap between fine electrodes, whereby the product yield is significantly improved, leading to excellent practical applicability. The method for production of SET of the present invention is characterized in that a solution containing ferritin including a metal or semiconductor particle therein, and a nonionic surfactant is dropped on a substrate having a source electrode and a drain electrode formed by laminating a titanium film and a film of a metal other than titanium, whereby the ferritin is selectively arranged in a nano gap between the source electrode/drain electrode.
An object of the present invention is to provide an allele specific primer which is accompanied by less possibility of the false positive and enables definite discrimination when a base immediately adjacent to on the 3′ side of a target SNP base is G, while a base adjacent with one base spaced apart is C. According to the present invention, the 3′ end base is designed to be the base corresponding to SNP; the second base from the 3′ end to be T or G; the third base from the 3′ end to be any one of A, T or C; and the base sequence of from the fourth from the 3′ end to the 5′ end base to be completely complementary to the sequence of from a base three bases away from the target SNP base on the 3′ side to a desired base.
A digital camera of the present invention includes a microcomputer 110 having a live view mode controlling so that image data generated by a CMOS sensor 133 or image data obtained by subjecting the image data generated by the CMOS sensor 133 to predetermined processing is displayed on a liquid crystal monitor 150 as a moving image in real time, wherein the microcomputer 110 controls so that, when the live view mode is set, the digital camera comes out of the live view mode, and setting information on the digital camera is displayed on the liquid crystal monitor 150, in accordance with the manipulation of the manipulation portion 140. Due to this configuration, in a digital camera that includes a movable mirror and is capable of displaying a subject image in a live view through an electronic viewfinder, the operability thereof can be enhanced.
The present invention provides an induction heating apparatus that can detect that a power factor correction circuit is in operation or in non-operation. The induction heating apparatus includes a power factor correction circuit that corrects a power factor of an inputted direct-current power supply by turning on and off a switching element connected to a choke coil, a booster circuit that boosts an output voltage of the power factor correction circuit by turning on and off a switching element connected to a choke coil, an inverter circuit that inputs the output voltage of the booster circuit to generate a high-frequency current in a heating coil by turning on and off a switching element, and an inverter circuit drive control unit that, in driving the power factor correction circuit, controls output of the inverter circuit such that an input current reaches a target value and detects the voltage in the booster circuit. The inverter circuit drive control unit stops the output of the inverter circuit when it is detected that the power factor correction circuit is in non-operation.
H02M 3/24 - Conversion of dc power input into dc power output with intermediate conversion into ac by static converters
G05F 1/40 - Regulating voltage or current wherein the variable is actually regulated by the final control device is ac using discharge tubes or semiconductor devices as final control devices
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Discrimination method of target base in DNA, and allele specific primer used in the method of the same
An object of the present invention is to provide an allele specific primer which is accompanied by less possibility of the false positive and enables definite discrimination when a base immediately adjacent to on the 3′ side of a target SNP base is G, while a base adjacent with one base spaced apart is G. According to the present invention, the 3′ end base is designed to be the base corresponding to SNP; the second base from the 3′ end to be T or G; the third base from the 3′ end to be any one of T or G; and the base sequence of from the fourth from the 3′ end to the 5′ end base to be completely complementary to the sequence of from a base three bases away from the target SNP base on the 3′ side to a desired base.
An object of the present invention is to provide an allele specific primer which is accompanied by less possibility of the false positive and enables definite discrimination when a base immediately adjacent to on the 3′ side of a target SNP base is G, while a base adjacent with one base spaced apart is T. According to the present invention, the 3′ end base is designed to be the base corresponding to SNP; the second base from the 3′ end to be T or G; the third base from the 3′ end to be G or C; and the base sequence of from the fourth from the 3′ end to the 5′ end base to be completely complementary to the sequence of from a base three bases away from the target SNP base on the 3′ side to a desired base.
An object of the present invention is to provide an allele specific primer which is accompanied by less possibility of the false positive and enables definite discrimination when a base immediately adjacent to on the 3′ side of a target SNP base is G, while a base adjacent with one base spaced apart is C. According to the present invention, the 3′ end base is designed to be the base corresponding to SNP; the second base from the 3′ end to be T or G; the third base from the 3′ end to be any one of A, T or C; and the base sequence of from the fourth from the 3′ end to the 5′ end base to be completely complementary to the sequence of from a base three bases away from the target SNP base on the 3′ side to a desired base.
A speaker system comprises a speaker unit (12) and a passive radiator (13) which are mounted in a speaker box (11). In the passive radiator (13), an edge (13b) is sandwiched and bonded by a first diaphragm (13d) and a second diaphragm (13c). This improves the strength of bonding the edge (13b) with the first and second diaphragms (13d, 13c) and input resistance characteristics to achieve bass reproduction and high input resistance.
H04R 1/28 - Transducer mountings or enclosures designed for specific frequency response; Transducer enclosures modified by provision of mechanical or acoustic impedances, e.g. resonator, damping means
H04R 1/26 - Spatial arrangement of separate transducers responsive to two or more frequency ranges
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APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING TRACK JUMPING SCANNING, AND OPTICAL DISC DEVICE
A track jumping scanning control section (300) in an optical disc device is provided with a header cycle calculating circuit (341A), which calculates a header cycle from a time when an optical beam is applied on a header region in a certain sector in an optical recording medium to a time when the optical beam is applied to a header region in a subsequent sector. The control section is also provided with a comparing circuit (342), which compares the length of the header cycle calculated by the header cycle calculating circuit with a time required for track jumping scanning, and a delay control circuit (343), which controls delay of starting timing of the track jumping scanning, based on the comparison results obtained from the comparing circuit.
G11B 7/085 - Disposition or mounting of heads or light sources relatively to record carriers with provision for moving the light beam into, or out of, its operative position.
G11B 7/09 - Disposition or mounting of heads or light sources relatively to record carriers with provision for moving the light beam or focus plane for the purpose of maintaining alignment of the light beam relative to the record carrier during transducing operation, e.g. to compensate for surface irregularities of the latter or for track f
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METHOD FOR FORMING BUMP AND DEVICE FOR FORMING BUMP
A method for forming a bump (19) on an electrode (32) of a wiring board (31) comprises a step (a) for supplying a fluid (14) containing conductive particles (16) and a bubble generating agent onto a first region (17) including the electrode (32) of the wiring board (31), a step (b) for arranging a substrate (40), which is provided with a wall face (45) for forming a meniscus (55) of the fluid (14) in the vicinity of the electrode (32), opposite to the wiring board (31), and a step (c) for heating the fluid (14) so as to generate bubbles (30) from the bubble generating agent contained in the fluid (14).
H05K 3/34 - Assembling printed circuits with electric components, e.g. with resistor electrically connecting electric components or wires to printed circuits by soldering
H01L 21/60 - Attaching leads or other conductive members, to be used for carrying current to or from the device in operation
An image codec device enabling the user to adequately check the self-portrait of the user while the user is feeling of presence. The image codec device (100) comprises cameras (Ca, Cb, Cc) for creating pickup image data by pickup, monitors (Ma, Mb, Mc) for displaying images, coders (101, 102, 103) for coding pickup image data, decoders (121, 122, 123) for creating decoded image data by decoding the coded image data, and combiners (111, 112, 113) for performing image processing of the pickup image data picked up by the camera (Ca, Cb, Cc), thereby creating processed image data, combining the processed image represented by the processed image data and the image represented by the above decoded image data, and outputting the combined image data representing the combined image to the monitors (Ma, Mb, Mc).
A scalable encoder enabling improvement of the encoding efficiency in the second layer and improvement of the quality of the original signal decoded using the encoding signal in the second layer. A predictive coefficient encoder of the scalable encoder has a predictive coefficient codebook where candidates of the predictive coefficient are recorded. After searching the predictive coefficient codebook, the scale factor of the first layer decoded signal inputted from a scale factor calculator is multiplied, and a predictive coefficient which most approximates the multiplication result to the scale factor of the original signal inputted from the scale factor calculator is determined and encoded, and the coded code is inputted to a multiplexer.
G10L 11/00 - Determination or detection of speech or audio characteristics not restricted to a single one of groups ; G10L 15/00-G10L 21/00
G10L 19/00 - Speech or audio signal analysis-synthesis techniques for redundancy reduction, e.g. in vocoders; Coding or decoding of speech or audio signals, using source filter models or psychoacoustic analysis
G10L 21/00 - Processing of the speech or voice signal to produce another audible or non-audible signal, e.g. visual or tactile, in order to modify its quality or its intelligibility
G10L 21/02 - Speech enhancement, e.g. noise reduction or echo cancellation
G06F 15/00 - Digital computers in general; Data processing equipment in general
A planar heating element for use in the steering wheel of an automobile, a motor boat, or the like, by which feeling of use when a steering wheel is held is enhanced by regulating the temperature portion of the planar heating element attached to the steering wheel. The linear heater (17) of a planar heating element (14) is arranged while repeating a loopback along the circumferential direction of a ring portion (12). Since loopbacks of the linear heater (17) are arranged sparsely at the outermost circumferential part of the ring portion (12), temperature can be regulated at those portions of the outermost circumferential part of the ring portion (12) where the palms contact when a user holds the ring portion (12). Feeling of use when the steering wheel is held can thereby be enhanced by regulating the heat generation from the planar heating element (14) in accordance with how it is held by the user.
Disclosed is an electric double layer capacitor comprising a cylindrical case having a bottom, a lateral surface and an opening, a capacitor element placed in the case, an electrolyte solution for driving which is contained in the case, and a terminal plate provided onto the opening of the case. The capacitor element has a first extraction electrode portion, and a second extraction electrode portion extending in the direction opposite to the extending direction of the first extraction electrode portion. The second extraction electrode portion is joined to the bottom of the case. The first and second extraction electrode portions are sloped away from the central axis of the capacitor element. In this electric double layer capacitor, the extraction electrode portions of the capacitor element are securely connected with the case and the sealing plate respectively.
H01G 11/82 - Fixing or assembling a capacitive element in a housing, e.g. mounting electrodes, current collectors or terminals in containers or encapsulations
H01G 9/00 - Electrolytic capacitors, rectifiers, detectors, switching devices, light-sensitive or temperature-sensitive devices; Processes of their manufacture
Disclosed is an alkaline cell comprising a positive electrode containing an electrolytic manganese dioxide, a negative electrode containing zinc or an zinc alloy, a separator arranged between the positive electrode and the negative electrode, and an alkaline electrolyte solution. In this alkaline cell, the positive electrode contains 0.1-0.7 part by weight of sodium per 100 parts by weight of the electrolytic manganese dioxide and 0.003-0.05 part by weight of silicon per 100 parts by weight of the electrolytic manganese dioxide.
Conformity judging test of semiconductor integrated circuits having a plurality of DACs has a problem of lengthening a test time due to increase of the number of the DACs and high resolution. In the case of testing two DACs, i.e., a DAC (1) and a DAC (2), a control section (170) alternately increases digital input values to the DAC (1) and the DAC (2), thus, outputs from the DAC (1) and a comparing section (1) to which an analog output value from the DAC (2) is inputted, repeat inversion to and from '0' and '1'. Conformity of the DAC is judged by judging whether an output pattern from the comparing section (1) matches with an expected value or not by a judging section (180).
A memory controller including a physical block (201) formed by a plurality of pages, each having a data area (202) and a redundant area (203). Starting at the first page of the physical block (201), data is written in the data area (202) and information used for correcting an error in the data and status information indicating that the data has been written are written in the redundant area (203). When creating write information in the physical block (201), a final effective page is temporarily specified by performing binary search on the redundant area (203) of each page. By checking the contents of all the areas (the data area and the redundant area) of the final effective page temporarily specified and its adjacent page, thereby identifying the final effective page and judging whether an error page caused by power interruption exists.
A ceramic laminated device is composed of a dielectric ceramic and an Ag electrode. In the dielectric ceramic which can be sintered at a low temperature and has a high specific permittivity and a high Q value, reaction of the ceramic to Ag is suppressed low at the time of being sintered, and furthermore, a filter having a high Q value and a low loss is stably obtained by controlling segregation of a specific element in the vicinity of an electrode. In a ceramic laminated body composed of at least a ceramic and a glass containing Si, a ratio A/B of a Si element concentration (A), which is a concentration within a range at a distance of 5騜m or less from the Ag electrode, to a Si element concentration (B), which is a concentration within a range at a distance of more than 5騜m from the Ag electrode, is 2 or less.
A content search device (1) calculates the number of valid encrypted contents as comparison objects contained in encrypted content databases (3, 121) and the number of valid decryption keys contained in decryption key databases (4, 21). The database having the smaller number is decided to be a reference database. By successively reading out entries contained in the reference database, a combination of an encrypted content and a corresponding decryption key is searched.
G06F 21/10 - Protecting distributed programs or content, e.g. vending or licensing of copyrighted material
G09C 1/00 - Apparatus or methods whereby a given sequence of signs, e.g. an intelligible text, is transformed into an unintelligible sequence of signs by transposing the signs or groups of signs or by replacing them by others according to a predetermined system
A surface-mount current fuse comprises a first base (13) having a recessed part (11a) and having a shape in which the width of one end (12a) in the longitudinal direction is smaller than that of the other (12b) and a second base (14) having the same shape as the first base (13). The lower surface of the second base (14) is joined to the upper surface of the first base (13) in such a way that the one end (12a) of the first base (13) is in contact with the other end (12b) of the second base (14), thus forming a prismatic body. An element part (17) is provided in the space (16) defined by the recessed part (11a) and the recessed part (11b). The boundary between the first and second bases (13, 14) passes through the center point of the side. Therefore, the productivity of the surface mount current fuse is improved.
H01H 85/045 - General constructions or structure of low voltage fuses, i.e. below 1,000 V, or of fuses where the applicable voltage is not specified cartridge type
H01H 85/143 - Electrical contacts; Fastening fusible members to such contacts
H01H 85/17 - Casings characterised by the casing material
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RADIAL ANISOTROPIC MAGNET MANUFACTURING METHOD, PERMANENT MAGNET MOTOR USING RADIAL ANISOTROPIC MAGNET, IRON CORE-EQUIPPED PERMANENT MAGNET MOTOR
It is possible to improve tranquility and controllability of an iron core-equipped permanent magnet type motor when enhancing the shape compatibility and a maximum energy product (BH)max of a radial anisotropic magnet. Provided is a radial anisotropic magnet manufacturing method for maintaining a magnetic anisotropy (C axis) angle against the tangent of the magnet by fixing magnetic powder in a mesh shape and obtaining a predetermined arc shape or an annular shape by deformation accompanied by flow. It is possible to improve the magnet deformation and shape compatibility against the thickness by performing deformation accompanied by a viscosity flow or an expansion flow. Additionally, it is possible to reduce the cogging torque by controlling the C-axis angle ϑ against the tangential direction at an arbitrary position and at an arbitrary angle without dividing the magnetic pole into segments.
H02K 15/03 - Methods or apparatus specially adapted for manufacturing, assembling, maintaining or repairing of dynamo-electric machines of stator or rotor bodies having permanent magnets
H01F 1/053 - Alloys characterised by their composition containing rare earth metals
H01F 41/02 - Apparatus or processes specially adapted for manufacturing or assembling magnets, inductances or transformers; Apparatus or processes specially adapted for manufacturing materials characterised by their magnetic properties for manufacturing cores, coils or magnets
A heat exchanger for exchanging heat through heat transfer plates by flowing a primary airflow and a secondary airflow in air passages. The heat exchanger comprises a unit element having a heat transfer plate and an air passage formed between the heat transfer plates by stacking the unit elements. Each of the unit elements is structured by molding a space rib for holding the space between the heat transfer plates integrally with a shield rib for shielding the leak of the airflows by use of a resin. The unit element includes an error detection part which can easily detect an error in stacking when the unit elements are stacked.
A technique of packet resending control that is effective for a mobile node in a home agent is to be disclosed. An MN (10) selects a packet transferred to a specific care-of-address in an HA (60), a packet with a specific flow information, a packet transmitted from a specific communication partner node (for example, an CN (40)), etc. from capsulated packets transmitted to itself after the HA receives on its behalf, and requests the HA to carry out buffering of selected packets when the selected packets are transferred. For example, even when connection with an MN becomes unstable and a packet from an HA is impossible to arrive at an MN, the HA is possible to resend the packet subjected to the buffering, so that delay of packet arrivals at the MN can be reduced in comparison with the case that the packet is resent from the CN.
An optical head (10) used for an optical disk (30) in which a variation in the thickness of a light transmission layer is large includes a divergence/convergence degree enlarging member (20) secured between a collimation lens (4) and an objective lens (6). Since the movement range of the collimation lens can be reduced, this optical head can be miniaturized.
A focus control device for an optical disc with land and groove portions is provided to control no focus difference in level between land and groove regions. The optical disc is provided with continuously formed land and groove regions. An optical pickup is used to write data on, or read data from, the optical disc. In this connection the focus control device is comprised of a land learning unit (1) for determining a focusing position of the land region, a groove learning unit (2) for determining a focusing position of the groove region, and a focus position operating unit (3) for determining a focusing position of a region where the land region is changed to the groove region. When a switching signal is changed in reverse in response to a position change from the land region to the groove region, the focus position of the optical pickup is moved so as to be a third focus position.
G11B 7/09 - Disposition or mounting of heads or light sources relatively to record carriers with provision for moving the light beam or focus plane for the purpose of maintaining alignment of the light beam relative to the record carrier during transducing operation, e.g. to compensate for surface irregularities of the latter or for track f
Provided is an inductance component having high reliability without having stress locally applied, even under a condition where heat is applied to the entire component, such as in solder mounting. The inductance component is provided with a base body (5), a coil (6) formed in the base body (5) and terminals (7, 8) electrically connected to the coil (6). Magnetic layers (9A, 9B) arranged substantially parallel to the winding flat surface of the coil (6) are formed in the base material (5), and the entire magnetic layers (9A, 9B) are covered with a material having a uniform heat expansion/contraction rate.
A navigation apparatus for dynamically setting the frequency at which a guidance arrow is updated according to circumstances in a route guidance using a live-action image. The navigation apparatus for displaying the live-action image to perform the route guidance comprises a search section (7) for searching a route from the current position to a destination and a drawing section (11) for displaying the guidance arrow indicating the route searched by the search section (7) superimposed on the live-action image. The drawing section (11) dynamically sets the frequency at which the display of the guidance arrow is updated according to a predetermined condition.
A wireless communication device is provided to obtain a frequency diversity gain, so that transmission characteristics can be improved. In this wireless communication device, a modulator (201) modulates transmitting data by a prescribed modulation system, an inserting unit (202) inserts 旜0” into the data so as to generate desirably modulated data, an S/P convertor (203) converts the desirably modulated data to parallel ones, a DFT unit (204) converts time domain data to frequency domain data by N-point DFT processing, a data mapping unit (205) carries out mapping N-point frequency domain data to M-point ones, an IDFT unit (206) converts frequency domain data to time domain data by M-point IDFT processing, a CP adding unit (207) adds a CP to every data block, and a P/S converter (208) converts parallel data to serial ones.
It is possible to solve the problem that a server application owned by a secure device cannot be used by a client application owned by other secure device. A secure device includes: an application storage unit (202) for storing a client application as an application performing data processing; an address calculation unit (205) for judging whether the application storage unit (202) has a server application for passing data to/from the client; and a reference destination existence judging unit (210) for judging whether other secure device has a first server application when the address calculation unit (205) has judged that the application storage unit (202) does not have the first server application for passing data to/from the first client application.
G06K 19/07 - Record carriers with conductive marks, printed circuits or semiconductor circuit elements, e.g. credit or identity cards with integrated circuit chips
G06F 21/24 - by protecting data directly, e.g. by labelling
G06K 17/00 - Methods or arrangements for effecting co-operative working between equipments covered by two or more of main groups , e.g. automatic card files incorporating conveying and reading operations
G06K 19/10 - Record carriers for use with machines and with at least a part designed to carry digital markings characterised by the kind of the digital marking, e.g. shape, nature, code using markings of different kinds in the same record carrier, e.g. one marking being sensed by optical and the other by magnetic means at least one kind of marking being used for authentication, e.g. of credit or identity cards
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HIGH-SPEED QoS HANDOVER METHOD AND PROCESSING NODE USED IN THE METHOD
Disclosed is a technique for providing a high-speed QoS handover method in which a QoS path reconfigured before a handover becomes an optimal QoS path after the handover, the load of the route reconfiguration of the QoS path performed after the handover can be reduced, and the QoS path set immediately after the handover can have a reduced setting section, so as to minimize the QoS interrupt time. A processing node used in the method is also provided. The method includes a step for a mobile terminal (10) to transmit a first signaling to constitute a predetermined QoS path to a processing node performing a predetermined process so as to reduce the load of the QoS path modification process after the handover; and a step for the processing node which receives the first signaling to generate a second signaling for performing QoS setting of a predetermined QoS path according to the received first signaling and transmit the generated second signaling to a predetermined communication partner performing QoS setting of the predetermined QoS path.
It is an object to provide an authentication relay apparatus, authentication relay system, and authentication relay method which enables registration of a slave apparatus to a network, even when communication ranges between a master apparatus and a slave apparatus to be registered are restricted and both or one of the registration messages is not reached. A representative registration apparatus 100 includes: a master and slave apparatus supporting control section 101 which generates, according to a registration message received from a master apparatus or a slave apparatus, a registration message to be transmitted to the master apparatus or the slave apparatus; a communication range switching section 104 for switching a transmission range of a message to be transmitted; and a communication range determining section 107 which determines, according to a destination of a registration message generated by the master and slave apparatus supporting control section 101, a transmission range of the registration message thus generated, so as to provide instructions to the communication range switching section 104.
H04L 9/32 - Arrangements for secret or secure communications; Network security protocols including means for verifying the identity or authority of a user of the system
H04B 3/54 - Systems for transmission via power distribution lines
A sound image localizer in which the sound volume of a sound image localizing signal is not lowered, clipping is prevented, and the component for sound image localization included in the sound image localization signal is not degraded. The sound image localizer comprises a frequency component analyzing section (104) for analyzing the frequency component obtained from a sound source signal, a frequency component analyzing section (103) for analyzing the frequency component obtained from a head transfer function corresponding to a target position, a frequency component comparing/correcting section (105) for comparing the frequency component obtained from the analyzed sound source signal and the frequency component obtained from the head transfer function and judging whether or not clipping occurs in a specific frequency band, a sound image localization processing section (106) for outputting a sound localization signal having an amplitude component corresponding to the specific frequency band of the sound source signal or the head transfer function is suppressed to a sound reproducing device if the frequency component comparing/correcting section (105) judges that clipping occurs.
Provided is a scalable encoding device capable of improving quality of a decoded signal without increasing an encoding amount and compensating data with a sufficient quality upon data loss. In the scalable encoding device, an extension layer bit distribution calculation unit (103) calculates a bit distribution of a quality improving encoding data and compensation encoding data in the extension layer according to an audio mode of the input signal. An extension layer encoding unit (105) generates quality improving encoding data according to the specified number of bits. A compensation information encoding unit (104) extracts a part of core layer encoding data and makes it as compensation encoding data for the core layer. An extension layer encoded data generation unit (106) multiplexes the extension layer bit distribution information, the compensation encoding data, and the quality improving encoding data so as to obtain extension layer encoding data.
G10L 19/02 - Speech or audio signal analysis-synthesis techniques for redundancy reduction, e.g. in vocoders; Coding or decoding of speech or audio signals, using source filter models or psychoacoustic analysis using spectral analysis, e.g. transform vocoders or subband vocoders
G10L 19/00 - Speech or audio signal analysis-synthesis techniques for redundancy reduction, e.g. in vocoders; Coding or decoding of speech or audio signals, using source filter models or psychoacoustic analysis
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CONTENT REPRODUCTION DEVICE, CONTENT REPRODUCTION RESUMPTION METHOD, AND CONTENT REPRODUCTION PROGRAM
It is possible to provide a content reproduction device capable of smoothly resuming view of a remaining portion when resuming a content reproduction which has been interrupted, by making a user accurately recall the past view contents. The content reproduction device has a function to resume reproduction of a content which has been interrupted. The content reproduction device includes: an input unit (1) for receiving an input from outside; a data input unit (2) for acquiring content data and the like from outside; an output control unit (4) for generating interruption position information indicating the position where the content reproduction has been interrupted according to a content reproduction interruption request received by the input unit (1); a view management unit (5) managing information and the like generated by the output control unit (4); and a resumption position judging unit (6) for generating content partitioning position information indicating a content partition of the content and reproduction resumption position information indicating the position where the content reproduction is resumed according to the interruption position information. According to the reproduction resumption position information, the output control unit (4) resumes content reproduction and the output unit (3) is controlled by the output control unit (4) to reproduce and output the content.
Provided is a terminal for performing broadcast transmission suitable for a transmission line having various characteristics. A terminal (100) comprises a transmission/reception section (201), a control unit (204), a transfer management section (206), and an external interface section (203). The terminal (100) refers to an IGMP (MLD) message received by the transmission/reception section (201), classifies a host which has issued the message and a relay terminal on the basis of the characteristics of the transmission line, and performs the broadcast transmission of a multicast packet in the form suitable for each characteristic of the transmission line.
Provided are a frequency allocation method and a detection method capable of simultaneously obtaining a frequency diversity gain and a time diversity gain. In this method, most of signals transmitted from a plurality of transmission antennas of a transmission device are not overlapped by one another on a frequency region by allocating a frequency for each of the transmission antennas by using one of the following methods: the Distributed-FDMA method for allocating a distributed frequency band, the Localized-FDMA method for allocating a local frequency band, and the Hybrid-FDMA method for allocating a mixed frequency band. Signals transmitted from the transmission antennas are received and the received signals are subjected to a time-space inverse Fourier transform so as to convert the received signal from the frequency region to the time region and perform MIMO detection on the time region, thereby detecting the transmission signals from the transmission antennas.
A speaker device (10) comprises a speaker box (11) having a space (19) therein, a speaker unit (12), and a passive radiator (13). The speaker unit (12) and the passive radiator (13) are installed in the speaker box (11). The space (19) of the speaker box (11) is so formed that its depth at the passive radiator (13) side is smaller than that at the speaker unit (12) side. By this constitution, it can be easily realized that the apparatuses, onto which the speaker device (10) is mounted, are made into a thin type.
H04R 1/28 - Transducer mountings or enclosures designed for specific frequency response; Transducer enclosures modified by provision of mechanical or acoustic impedances, e.g. resonator, damping means
H04N 5/64 - Constructional details of receivers, e.g. cabinets or dust covers
An information recording medium is provided with the N number of information layers (N is an integer of 2 or more) on a substrate (1). Information is recorded and reproduced by irradiating each of the information layers (11, 12) with a laser beam (4). When the N number of information layers are permitted to be first information layer to an Nth information layer in sequence from an opposite side to a laser beam inputting side, the Lth information layer (L is an integer satisfying the inequalities of 2≤L≤N) included in the N number of information layers includes at least a recording layer (135) which can cause phase change by laser beam irradiation, a reflection layer (132) and a transmittance adjusting layer (131) in this order from the laser beam inputting side. The transmittance adjusting layer (131) includes at least one element (M) selected from among Ti, Zr, Hf, Y, Cr, Zn, Ga, Co, Bi, In, Ta and Ce. The transmittance adjusting layer also includes Nb and oxygen (O). The rate of content of Nb in the transmittance adjusting layer (131) is 2.9 atomic % or more.
G11B 7/24 - Record carriers characterised by shape, structure or physical properties, or by the selection of the material
G11B 7/243 - Record carriers characterised by the selection of the material of recording layers comprising inorganic materials only, e.g. ablative layers
G11B 7/254 - Record carriers characterised by the selection of the material of layers other than recording layers of protective topcoat layers
G11B 7/257 - Record carriers characterised by the selection of the material of layers other than recording layers of layers having properties involved in recording or reproduction, e.g. optical interference layers, sensitising layers or dielectric layers which are protecting the recording layers
G11B 7/26 - Apparatus or processes specially adapted for the manufacture of record carriers
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MIMO COMMUNICATION APPARATUS AND ITS COMMUNICATION METHOD
A MIMO communication apparatus improving detection performance even when a conventional detection method such as a ZF method or an MMSE method is used. A coding and modulating section (201) codes and modulates transmission data. An S/P converting section (301) divides the transmission data into K number of symbol sub-streams by S/P conversion. A multiplier (302) multiplies each of the K symbol sub-streams by different phase sequences corresponding to different antennas. A GI inserting section (203) inserts a GI.
H04J 99/00 - Subject matter not provided for in other groups of this subclass
H04B 7/06 - Diversity systems; Multi-antenna systems, i.e. transmission or reception using multiple antennas using two or more spaced independent antennas at the transmitting station
Provided is a resource allocation method capable of improving a reception quality when connecting a plurality of sub frames into one frame and performing a communication process for each of the frames. In this method, when a sub frame #1 is transmitted, LRB is selected as a resource allocation format according to CQI fed back from a mobile station and RB having a preferable propagation quality is allocated for transmission data according to the LRB format. When a sub frame #2 is transmitted, the same resource allocation method (LRB) as the head sub frame is used and the transmission data is allocated for the same RB. When a sub frame #3 is transmitted, the resource allocation method is switched from the sub frame #1 and the sub frame #2 and the transmission data is allocated for RB by using the DRB format.
An imaging device composed of a binocular optical system having a parallax of each color information item and producing no false color around the periphery. The imaging device comprises lens sections, imaging regions each having a light-receiving surface generally perpendicular to the optical axis of the corresponding lens section and outputting an imaging signal, and a parallax computing section for computing the parallax value of an imaging signal with respect to a reference imaging signal (G0) which is one of the imaging signals except the above imaging signal. The imaging device creates a combined image by removing the pixel signals captured from the pixels in the region (dminx in the x-direction, dminy in the y-direction) which may include a missing image due to the parallax in the imaging signal other than the reference imaging signal (G0), to obtain an effective pixel signal, correcting the imaging signals according to the parallax value, and combining them.
A digital imaging signal obtained by converting an image data obtained by an imaging element into a digital value by pixel is inputted to an automatic phase adjusting apparatus, and the automatic phase adjusting apparatus adjusts a pulse phase to be used for imaging, based on the digital imaging signal. The automatic phase adjusting apparatus is provided with a luminance level detecting section for calculating luminance of the digital imaging signal for a plurality of pixels in a first pixel region; a variance calculating section for calculating a variance value which indicates signal variance for each pixel of the digital imaging signal for a plurality of pixels in a second pixel region; and a timing adjusting section for adjusting the pulse phase, corresponding to the calculation results of the luminance level detecting section and the variance calculating section.
To provide a method for determining a mounting condition to be set for at least one apparatus among apparatuses for manufacturing component-mounted boards. The method includes: determining, from among the apparatuses, a specific apparatus which satisfies a predetermined standard in performance associated with a manufacturing operation (S1); obtaining the mounting condition associated with the manufacturing operation from the specific apparatus determined in the determining (S2); and setting the mounting condition obtained in the obtaining for an apparatus other than the specific apparatus (S3).
A radio communication base station device can efficiently obtain a multiuser diversity gain from frequency scheduling while reducing the amount of a reference signal occupying an uplink. In the device, a grouping section (109) divides a plurality of RBs (Resource Blocks) into a plurality of RB groups. An RB group control unit (108) performs a control to change the correspondence relationship between the RBs and the RB groups with time. When the grouping section (109) divides the RBs into the RB groups, the RB control unit (108) performs a control to change a combination of the RBs included in each of the RB groups with time. A scheduling section (110) performs a scheduling of allocating each of a plurality of mobile stations to each of the RBs in each of the RB groups according to the reception quality of the reference signal.
A transmitter apparatus and a method for switching modulation schemes of the transmitter apparatus wherein a stable reduction of interference power can be achieved during switching transmission band limit filters. During switching the modulation schemes, a switching control part (106) switches, in accordance with a modulation scheme, transmission band limit filters (109-111;115-117), and further controls signal switches (125,126) to switch, as transport signals to be inputted to D/A converters (112,118), from outputs of the transmission band limit filters (modulated signals) to outputs of a storing part (124) (DC signals) before switching the filters. The switching control part (106) switches from the DC signals to the modulated signals after switching the filters. The storing part (124) has stored DC values that are the effective values of the modulated signals. During a predetermined interval in the period of switching the modulation schemes, the transport signal is a DC signal, and the transmission spectrum of this interval is non-modulated spectrum having no spread of frequency. Therefore, the interference power caused by switching the filters can be reduced.
In a monolithic double wavelength laser device comprising an infrared laser part (100) and a red laser part (130) mounted on an identical n-type GaAs substrate (101), a p-type first clad layer (105) in the infrared laser part (100) and a p-type first clad layer (135) in the red laser part (130) are formed of the same material and are different from each other in impurity concentration.
H01S 5/22 - Structure or shape of the semiconductor body to guide the optical wave having a ridge or a stripe structure
G11B 7/125 - Optical beam sources therefor, e.g. laser control circuitry specially adapted for optical storage devices; Modulators, e.g. means for controlling the size or intensity of optical spots or optical traces
H01S 5/343 - Structure or shape of the active region; Materials used for the active region comprising quantum well or superlattice structures, e.g. single quantum well [SQW] lasers, multiple quantum well [MQW] lasers or graded index separate confinement heterostructure [GRINSCH] lasers in AIIIBV compounds, e.g. AlGaAs-laser
According to a result of comparison obtained by a number-of-subcommands comparison section (110), a command output controller (100) selects one having a smaller number of subcommands from a first storage area or a second storage area as a storage area to be divided. According to a result of comparison obtained by a size comparison section (111), the command output controller (100) selects a partial storage area having not smaller than a predetermined size as a partial storage area to be divided, from partial storage areas constituting the storage area to be divided. The command output controller further generates a subcommand in an access area dividing section (109) for each partial storage area obtained by dividing the partial storage area to be divided, replaces the subcommand accessing the partial storage area to be divided with the generated subcommand, and alternately selects subcommands from the replaced first subcommand group and second subcommand group for output to a memory (105).
A user support device for correctly judging the perplexed state of the user to provide support. The user support device comprises a perplexed state judging section (107) and an operation support section (109). The perplexed state judging section (107) judges whether the user is in the perplexed state on the basis of the fluctuation trend of dwell time reflecting decision making time required until each operation is performed in a series of operations performed by the user following a plurality of menus arranged in a tree structure. The operation support section (109) supports the operation when a positive judgment is made by the perplexed state judging section (107).
A program reproducing device includes: a reception unit (12) for receiving a program data reproduction instruction stored in a program storage unit; a reproduction unit (14) for reproducing the program data whose reproduction has been instructed via the reception unit; a reproduction completion judging unit (15) for judging whether a predetermined ratio of the program data stored in the program storage unit has been reproduced by the reproduction unit; and a reproduction completion information setting unit (16) for setting reproduction information indicating whether reproduction has been completed for the program data according to the judgment result by the reproduction completion judging unit. Thus, a user can manage the reproduction condition appropriate for his/her feeling.
A nonvolatile memory element comprises a first electrode (2), a second electrode (6) formed above the first electrode (2), a variable resistive film (4) which is formed between the first electrode (2) and the second electrode (6) and whose resistance value is increased or decreased depending on an electric pulse applied between the electrodes (2, 6), and an interlayer insulating film (3) provided between the first electrode (2) and the second electrode (6). In the interlayer insulating film (3), an opening extending from its surface to the first electrode (2) is formed. The variable resistive film (4) is formed on the inner wall surface of the opening. The inner area of the opening formed by the variable resistive film (4) is filled with an embedded insulating film (5).
H01L 27/10 - Devices consisting of a plurality of semiconductor or other solid-state components formed in or on a common substrate including integrated passive circuit elements with at least one potential-jump barrier or surface barrier the substrate being a semiconductor body including a plurality of individual components in a repetitive configuration
H01L 27/105 - Devices consisting of a plurality of semiconductor or other solid-state components formed in or on a common substrate including integrated passive circuit elements with at least one potential-jump barrier or surface barrier the substrate being a semiconductor body including a plurality of individual components in a repetitive configuration including field-effect components
H01L 45/00 - Solid state devices specially adapted for rectifying, amplifying, oscillating, or switching without a potential-jump barrier or surface barrier, e.g. dielectric triodes; Ovshinsky-effect devices; Processes or apparatus specially adapted for the manufacture or treatment thereof or of parts thereof
H01L 49/00 - Solid state devices not provided for in groups and and not provided for in any other subclass; Processes or apparatus specially adapted for the manufacture or treatment thereof or of parts thereof
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OPTICAL DISC DEVICE, OPTICAL HEAD CONTROL METHOD AND OPTICAL HEAD CONTROL DEVICE
Optical crosstalk correction is accurately performed, while corresponding to generation of offset components of a tracking error signal. An optical disc device is provided with a DPDTE signal generating section (203) for detecting positional deviation of an optical spot from a mark or a pit; an FE signal generating section (202); an optical crosstalk correcting section (205) or the like for correcting a signal outputted from the FE signal generating section (202) by using the DPDTE signal generating section (203); and a focus control section (206) or the like for controlling an actuator (160) to focus optical beams on an information layer. The DPDTE signal generating section (203) detects positional deviation based on phase information obtained from a signal received by a prescribed light receiving region. The optical crosstalk correcting section (205) performs correcting operation for removing signal components, which are included in the signal from the prescribed light receiving region of the detector (108) to be used by the FE signal generating section (202) and are from the prescribed light receiving region on the detector (108) to be used for the DPDTE signal.
G11B 7/09 - Disposition or mounting of heads or light sources relatively to record carriers with provision for moving the light beam or focus plane for the purpose of maintaining alignment of the light beam relative to the record carrier during transducing operation, e.g. to compensate for surface irregularities of the latter or for track f
G11B 7/085 - Disposition or mounting of heads or light sources relatively to record carriers with provision for moving the light beam into, or out of, its operative position.
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VIDEO RECEPTION DEVICE, VIDEO DISTRIBUTION SYSTEM, AND VIDEO RECEPTION METHOD
When in a video reception device, a reception/reproduction process of a video stream which is multicast-distributed also to other video reception device cannot be completed within a predetermined time and the video reproduction is delayed, the video is thinned and reproduced.
Regarding electronic component mounting in which an electronic component having plural solder bumps for external connection on its lower surface is mounted on a board, in an electronic component mounting operation of previously measuring the height position of solder paste on the board on which the solder paste has been printed, and mounting the electronic component on the board on which the solder paste has been printed by a loading head, whether the transfer of the solder paste to the solder bumps is necessary or not is judged on the basis of the measurement result of the height of the solder paste. In case that it is judged that the transfer is necessary, the transfer of the solder paste is executed, and thereafter the electronic component is mounted on the board. Hereby, it is possible to prevent the poor joint in case that a thin-sized semiconductor package which causes easily warp deformation is mounted on the board by solder-joint.
A technology providing a message identification method that can accurately identify a message for reserving the resources of a new path when a path change occurs in a network and the like is disclosed. According to the technology, a step of a relay node 102 that has detected a change in a data communication path including first information for differentiating a QoS reservation message from a QoS maintenance message in the QoS reservation message used to make a QoS reservation in a relay node on a new data communication path and transmitting the QoS reservation message, and a step of, when a relay node 110 that has received the QoS reservation message judges whether the relay node 110 itself is a relay node positioned at a convergence point of the QoS maintenance message and judges that the relay node 110 itself is the relay node positioned at the convergence point, identifying which message is the newest based on second information for identifying the relay node itself and the message to be received by the relay node itself, stored in a predetermined memory area in the relay node itself, and the first information included in the QoS reservation message.
Provided is an objective lens driving apparatus for driving an objective lens for optically recording/reproducing information in and from an optical recording medium. The objective lens driving apparatus is provided with a lens holder to which an optical system including an objective lens is attached; a supporting member, which has one end attached to the lens holder and the other end attached to a fixed member and elastically supports the lens holder to the fixed member so that the lens holder can move in a focusing direction vertical to the recording surface of the optical recording medium and in a tracking direction vertical to the focusing direction; first/second tracking coils, which have winding axes parallel to the directions vertical to the focusing direction and the tracking direction and are fixed to the lens holder; and a magnet for giving magnetic field to each tracking coil to have the tracking coil generate electromagnetic force. A drive center axis is specified as an axis extending to the middle of each winding axis of each tracking coil. The drive center axis does not pass the center of gravity of the objective lens driving apparatus, and the magnet has a magnetization pattern wherein the total torque due to electromagnetic force generated by each tracking coil is 0.
G11B 7/09 - Disposition or mounting of heads or light sources relatively to record carriers with provision for moving the light beam or focus plane for the purpose of maintaining alignment of the light beam relative to the record carrier during transducing operation, e.g. to compensate for surface irregularities of the latter or for track f
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SEMICONDUCTOR INSPECTING SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR INSPECTING SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE
In a semiconductor inspecting system (1000), semiconductor devices of the same type are prepared. One semiconductor device (200) is set in mode (A) wherein an interface signal outputted from a core circuit (202) for a storage device (201) is outputted to the external through an external terminal (204), and the other semiconductor device (250) is set in mode (B) wherein a storage device (251) is isolated from a core circuit (252), and an inspection code is stored in the storage device (251). Both of the semiconductor devices (200, 250) are connected through a connecting line (270), and actual operation of the one semiconductor device (200) is inspected by using the inspection code stored in the storage device (251) of the other semiconductor device (250). Thus, the other semiconductor device can be used as a storage device for the one semiconductor device, and actual operation of not only the core circuit but also an interface circuit can be inspected in a short inspection time.
Disclosed is a stereo audio decoding device and others capable of reducing a stereo audio encoding bit rate and suppressing degradation of audio quality. In this device, a section 0 where only an L-channel signal SL(n) exists is identified, a monaural signal of the section 0 transmitted from the stereo audio encoding side is made to be an L-channel signal of section 0 SL(0)(n), and the L-channel signal SL(0)(n) of the section 0 is scale-adjusted so as to predict an R-channel signal SR(1)(n) of a section 1. A contribution of the R-channel signal SR(1)(n) of the predicted section 1 is subtracted from the monaural signal of the section 1 so as to isolate the L-channel signal SL(1)(n) of the section 1. This device continuously repeats the aforementioned scale adjustment and isolation process so as to obtain the L-channel signal SL(n) and the R-channel signal SR(n) of all the sections.
G10L 19/00 - Speech or audio signal analysis-synthesis techniques for redundancy reduction, e.g. in vocoders; Coding or decoding of speech or audio signals, using source filter models or psychoacoustic analysis
H04S 5/00 - Pseudo-stereo systems, e.g. in which additional channel signals are derived from monophonic signals by means of phase shifting, time delay or reverberation
A semiconductor storage device is provided with an address terminal to which an address for reading storage data in a memory array is inputted; a clock input terminal for inputting an input clock; a data output terminal for outputting the data read from the memory array corresponding to the address; and a clock output terminal for outputting an output clock synchronized with the input clock. The clock output terminal constantly outputs either a first voltage or a second voltage, and only when effective data is outputted from the data output terminal, an output voltage is transited from the first voltage to the second voltage or from one voltage to the other.
Disclosed is an incandescent lamp for use while mounted within a reflector having a concave reflective surface that contains a hermetically sealed bulb storing a filament assembly (60) therein. The filament assembly (60) includes a primary light-emitting portion (64A) that is a single coil wound in a cylindrical shape with a short axis (SX) and a long axis (LX) in a cross sectional plane, the primary light-emitting portion (64A) intersecting an optical axis (R) of the reflector. The primary light-emitting portion (64) intersects the optical axis (R) in such a way that a central axis (CX) thereof, which is substantially perpendicular to the short axis (SX) and the long axis (LX), is tilted with respect to the optical axis (R) at least in a direction perpendicular to the optical axis (R) and the long axis (LX).
A technique is disclosed, according to which communication can be achieved with high efficiency by selecting access points to be connected based on the quality of end-to-end communication between a mobile node and a correspondent node when there are a plurality of access points. According to this technique, a mobile node 100 transmits to the access point a first message to request the selection of access points to be connected, and the access point, upon receipt of the first message, transmits a second message including specified information necessary for the selection of access points to be connected to a communication apparatus 108. A relay node, upon receipt of said message, updates the specified information based on a providable QoS information, transfers the updated second message to the communication apparatus, and in case another second message has been received subsequently and the relay node itself is a crossover node, optimal communication path between the mobile node and the communication apparatus is decided, and a third message is transmitted to notify the results of decision to the access point on the optimal communication path.
A method of scheduling radio blocks on at least two carriers in a multi-carrier frequency hopping TDMA mobile communication system for uplink transmission by a mobile terminal capable of simultaneous downlink reception on two carriers, comprising the step of assigning N, N being an integer, downlink timeslots on at least a first carrier for use by the mobile terminal, said N downlink timeslots having the same timeslot number on consecutive TDMA frames, the step of assigning M, M being an integer, uplink timeslots on the first carrier for use by the mobile terminal on consecutive TDMA frames, and the step of assigning M uplink timeslots on the second carrier for use by the mobile terminal on consecutive TDMA frames, said uplink timeslots having a different timeslot number than the uplink timeslots on the first carrier, wherein each radio block scheduled for uplink for the mobile terminal consists of 4 timeslots transmitted on the first carrier and 4 timeslots transmitted on the second carrier over a period of 4 consecutive TDMA frames.
A method for scheduling radio resources on at least two carriers in a multi-carrier frequency hopping TDMA mobile communication system for simultaneous downlink reception in a TDMA frame by a mobile station comprising the steps of assigning downlink time slots on a first carrier for use by the mobile terminal, assigning downlink time slots on a second carrier for simultaneous use by said mobile terminal, wherein the assignment of downlink time slots on the first carrier is independent from the assignment of downlink time slots on the second carrier. The invention also relates to a base station for scheduling radio resources and a mobile terminal for receiving data in the mobile communication system.
The invention relates to a method for scrambling a sequence of symbols comprising at least two reference symbols (R1, R2) and at least one first data symbol (D), said method comprising obtaining a first reference symbol (R1) and a second reference symbol (R2), determining a first scrambling symbol (S1) corresponding to the first reference symbol (R1) and a second scrambling symbol (S7) corresponding to the second reference symbol (P2), and obtaining at least one first data symbol (D) comprised in a range from the first reference symbol (R1) to the second reference symbol (R2) in the sequence of symbols. In order to improve the accuracy of the channel estimation at a receiver and achieve high radio resource usage efficiency, a third scrambling symbol (Sx) corresponding to the at least one first data symbol (D) is determined as an interpolated value of the first scrambling symbol (S1) and the second scrambling symbol (S7).
The invention relates to a method for retransmitting data packets in a network. Further, the invention relates to an adapted mobile terminal and control entity for performing the method, respectively. To minimize the signaling overhead and transmission delays, the invention provides mechanisms that optimize the retransmission of data packets and manage acknowledgement messages.
A semiconductor integrated circuit testing method wherein the quality of the spread of a semiconductor chip can be tested before the semiconductor chip becomes a packaged semiconductor integrated circuit. Input data are established, and circuit current values I(L) and I(H) determined for each of a plurality of circuit areas are compared with first test specification ranges I1(L) and I1(H) to extract products within the first test specification (S2). Then, the current values for the circuit areas of those extracted products within the first test specification are compared with second test specification ranges I2(L) and I2(H) that are decided based on those current values, thereby implementing a re-test to extract circuit areas within a second test specification. The current values may be replaced by the voltage values.
A conventional optical pickup device compatible with a two-layer optical information recording medium has problems that the S/N of a sub frame is degraded by stray light and a signal processing circuit is complicated. Provided is an optical pickup device including: a semiconductor laser (102) for emitting a light beam (L1) of a wavelength corresponding to recording/reproduction onto/from a two-layer optical information recording medium (101); a diffraction grating (103) for diffracting the optical beam (L1) of the wavelength into a main beam of 0-th degree diffracted light and a sub frame of plus and minus primary degree diffracted light; a 1/4 wavelength plate (104) for polarizing the optical beam (L1) of the rectilinearly polarized light (p polarized light) into circularly polarized light; a polarized light hologram element (105) for diffracting the optical beam (L1) reflected from the two-layer optical information recording medium (101); a stray light removal region (111) for removing the stray light; and a first light reception element group (106), a second light reception element group (107), and a third light reception element group (108) for receiving the diffracted light from the polarized light hologram element (105).
An information recording/reproducing device records a first hologram by irradiating a discretionary area in a hologram recoding medium with a signal beam including discretionary two-dimensional information and a reference beam emitted from the same light source as that for the signal beam. After the first hologram is recorded, the incidence angle of the signal light to the hologram recording medium is changed, and a signal beam having the changed incidence angle and a reference beam substantially the same as that for recording the first hologram are applied. Thus, in the same area where the first hologram has been recorded, a second hologram different from the first hologram is multiply recorded, and at the same time, at least a part of refracted light from the first hologram is acquired.
A radio transmission system capable of simultaneously transmitting data by radio to stations. The radio transmission system comprises radio stations for transmitting/receiving data and constitutes a system for path diversity by the radio station on the transmitting side, a multipath transmission channel, and the radio station on the receiving side. At least one of the radio stations determines delay amounts from a reference timing at which the simultaneous transmission is performed in the radio transmission system and a symbol waveform on which a modulated waveform is based according to a response packet sent in response to a request packet for the simultaneous transmission to the stations transmitted by the radio station or another radio station. Each difference in the delay amounts is set to a predetermined delay resolution or higher for each symbol waveform and the difference between the maximum value and the minimum value of the delay amounts is set to a predetermined delay upper-limit or lower.
An optical disc device includes: an optical head (103)containing a lens arranged at a position shifted from a traverse axis to a tangential direction; a traverse motor (104) as second moving means for moving the optical head (103) in the direction across the tracks of an optical disc (101); a track quantity calculation unit (123) for calculating the number of tracks crossed until a second address is reached from a first address of the optical disc (101) as a search quantity; a search tracking drive signal generation unit (112) and a search traverse drive signal generation unit (119) as search control means for moving the optical beam focusing point from the first address to the second address of the optical disc; and a search quantity correction unit (124) for correcting the number of search tracks calculated by the track quantity calculation means according to a deviation amount from the traverse shift of the lens.
G11B 7/085 - Disposition or mounting of heads or light sources relatively to record carriers with provision for moving the light beam into, or out of, its operative position.
G11B 7/135 - Means for guiding the beam from the source to the record carrier or from the record carrier to the detector
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GLASS COMPOSITION AND DISPLAY PANEL EMPLOYING THE SAME
A glass composition which is an oxide glass having a composition satisfying the following: 60 wt.%ឬB2O3ឬ78 wt.%, 15 wt.%ឬZnO≤24 wt.%, 6 wt.%≤R2O≤16 wt.%, 1 wt.%≤MOឬ17 wt.%, and 0 wt.%≤SiO2≤15 wt.%. In the composition, R represents at least one member selected among Li, Na, and K, and M represents at least one member selected among Mg, Ca, Sr, and Ba. Also provided is a display panel employing this glass composition.
C03C 8/04 - Frit compositions, i.e. in a powdered or comminuted form containing zinc
H01B 3/08 - Insulators or insulating bodies characterised by the insulating materials; Selection of materials for their insulating or dielectric properties mainly consisting of inorganic substances vitreous enamels
H01J 11/12 - AC-PDPs with at least one main electrode being out of contact with the plasma with main electrodes provided on both sides of the discharge space
H01J 11/22 - Electrodes, e.g. special shape, material or configuration
H01J 11/24 - Sustain electrodes or scan electrodes
If a defect region in a wide area such as bubble on a disk (1) is present, alternate recording in units of a single block frequently occurs when recording in the defect region is tried, and time-out may occur. Therefore, a continuous defect region such as a bubble is predicted under a predetermined condition, and blocks in a spare region (15) are continuously allocated as the alternate region. In response to request to record data in the continuous defect region, a control is made so that the data is alternately recorded in the allocated alternate region. Thus, continuous recording in the alternate region is possible, and the access performance is improved.
In a noise reduction circuit, a transistor circuit (21) receives power supply from a direct current voltage source (Vcc) through a power supply line circuit (24), and outputs an output signal by amplifying an input signal. An offset signal adding circuit (25) obtains and attenuates a part of the output signal, generates an offset signal, which has substantially the reverse phase and the same amplitude compared with those of a leak signal leaked to the power supply line circuit (24), and substantially offsets the leak signal by adding the offset signal to the leak signal.
A binding update technology is disclosed to make a mobile node transmit a binding update message for resolving a multiple-tunnel state, so that data transmission efficiency is improved and network resources are used effectively. According to the technology, a home agent or a communication partner node (HA/CN201) detects a multiple-tunnel state caused by a mobile node (MN(202)), for example, that repeatedly moves around networks. The home agent or communication partner node transmits a binding update requesting message to the mobile node (step S22) to request the update of binding information. In the binding update requesting message, a home address to form the multiple tunnels is designated, and the mobile node updates the binding information so as to bind the home address with the present c/o address and transmits a binding-up date message (step S24).
In a local network formed by at least one router, provided is a communication device capable of performing bidirectional communication over the router. An upper node segment judgment unit (421) acquires address range information under the upper node router connected to an outer network side than the router connected to it. A terminal communication path holding unit (425) connects and holds a communication path with other communication device in the local network. A message relay unit (424) relays and transfers a communication message from the other communication device. Upon reception of a first request message requesting establishment of a communication path from the other communication device, a terminal communication path holding unit (425) stores the transmission origin address information on the received first request message, transmits a response message to the stored transmission origin address information, and establishes a communication path connection with the other communication device.
Provided is a mobile communication system capable of obtaining a diversity effect even when a signal received by a relay station has an error in a corporate relay to which time space encoding is applied. In this mobile communication system, when S1 has no error and S2 has an error, a relay station (1) does not perform relay transmission at time t (Null) and relay-transmits S1* to a base station at time t + T. That is, in this case, the relay station (1) relay-transmits at time t + T only S1 to be transmitted at time t when no error is contained in either S1 or S2. Moreover, when S1 has an error and S2 has no error, the relay station (1) relay-transmits S2 at time t and does not perform relay transmission at time t + T (Null). That is, in this case, the relay station (1) relay-transmits only S2 to be transmitted at time t + T at time t if no error is contained in either S1 or S2.
H04B 7/02 - Diversity systems; Multi-antenna systems, i.e. transmission or reception using multiple antennas
H04B 7/06 - Diversity systems; Multi-antenna systems, i.e. transmission or reception using multiple antennas using two or more spaced independent antennas at the transmitting station
H04B 7/26 - Radio transmission systems, i.e. using radiation field for communication between two or more posts at least one of which is mobile
H04J 99/00 - Subject matter not provided for in other groups of this subclass
H04L 1/00 - Arrangements for detecting or preventing errors in the information received
A vector quantizing device for dividing a sequence of vectors and quantizing them with an enhanced performance of vector quantization by using information on the correlation between the high and low order that the vector sequence has. The vector quantizing device (100) creates a predicted vector by prediction using a first quantization divided vector, creates the difference between the divided vector and the predicted vector as a predicted residual vector, and determines a second code by converting the predicted residual vector into a quantized vector. A vector dequantizing device (150) creates a predated vector by prediction using a first quantization divided vector, creates a second quantization divided vector by adding the predicted vector and the predicted residual vector, and creates a quantized vector by connecting the first and second quantization divided vectors.
A monitoring camera device (1) is provided with a camera case (2); a dehumidifying element (3) arranged in the camera case (2); a current value detecting section (8) for detecting the current value of the driving current of the dehumidifying element (3); a target current value determining section (10) for determining a target current value (It) based on a first current value (I0) detected at a period start time (t0) of a prescribed current change judging period and a second current value (I1) detected at a period end time (t1); and a voltage control section (13) for controlling the driving voltage of the dehumidifying element (3). Dehumidification of a target dehumidifying quantity (S) is performed for the camera case (2) until the target time (t2) by driving the dehumidifying element (3) until the target time (t2) at a target current value (It). Thus, the monitoring camera device (1) wherein dehumidification can be performed in a short time when the humidity inside the camera case (2) is high is provided.
This invention provides a fuel battery system (100) comprising a fuel battery (6), to which a fuel and an oxidizing agent are supplied for power generation, a hydrogen generator (4), to which a raw fuel for the fuel supplied to the fuel battery is supplied to generate hydrogen, a raw fuel state detector (101a) for detecting the state of supply of the raw fuel to the hydrogen generator, and a start approval/disapproval device (201). The start approval/disapproval device approves the start operation of the fuel battery system when the raw fuel state detector detects that the state of supply of the raw fuel to the hydrogen generator is normal and disapproves the start operation of the fuel battery system when the raw fuel state detector detects that the state of supply of the raw fuel to the hydrogen generator is not normal. The above constitution can provide a fuel battery system which has the same construction as the prior art fuel battery system, has low initial cost and maintenance cost and can restart the operation in an easy and safe manner.
The invention relates to method for providing a multicast service from or via an application server to a mobile terminal within a mobile communication system, wherein the mobile communication system provides a downlink multicast or broadcast service (DMBS) that can be utilized for transmitting the downlink multicast data to the mobile terminal. Further, the invention relates to a mobile terminal and network entities that participate in this method. To enable an efficient provision of a bidirectional multicast service to users, wherein a DMBS may be used for providing downlink multicast data to the users, the invention proposes that the mobile terminal requests an application server to route downlink multicast data through the resources established for the multicast service instead of the resources for the DMBS, upon receiving a notification that a point-to-point connection is to be used for the downlink multicast data transfer. Thereby, the establishment of additional RAN resources for DMBS can be prevented.
The invention relates to a method for managing mobility of a mobile node, which is registered to a subset of network access entities (NAE). A location update is necessary because the MN moves from a first network area served by the first router to a second network area served by the second router, keeping the same IP addresses. In response to a trigger from the MN, the second router requests from the first router information on the registered NAEs, before they are informed to route data, destined for the mobile node, to the second router. Furthermore, the global IP addresses of the MN, created based on the prefixes of the registered NAEs, are updated. To expedite the address configuration after handover, the second router generates a IP address configuration message for the MN, comprising address prefixes of only the registered NAEs, without prior reception of a router solicitation message.
An initial noise estimation is determined using received DPQSK values rounded to the nearest, permitted value in the encoding scheme. The estimate is improved in an iterative process or using a look up table of the relationship between the estimate and the actual SNR or using a polynomial or other formula approximation. In an alternative method the previously proposed moment ration is used as the starting point.
An image display system is constituted by an image providing apparatus that uses radio wireless-communication to provide image data and by an image display apparatus that receives the image data. The image providing apparatus comprises a data acquiring part that acquires an image data to be provided to the image display apparatus; a wireless communication part that provides the acquired image data to the image display apparatus; an infrared receiving part that receives an off data transmitted from the image display apparatus; and a control part that halts the power supply to the data acquiring part and wireless communication part to turn off the power supply of the image providing apparatus when the infrared receiving part receives the off data.
H04N 21/442 - Monitoring of processes or resources, e.g. detecting the failure of a recording device, monitoring the downstream bandwidth, the number of times a movie has been viewed or the storage space available from the internal hard disk
H04N 21/61 - Network physical structure; Signal processing
H04N 5/00 - PICTORIAL COMMUNICATION, e.g. TELEVISION - Details of television systems
A simple system is used to achieve both a process in which particular information is reproduced in real time while being detected from an input data and a process in which particular information is detected from an input data at a high rate. For this achievement, a control means (108) switches, based on mode information from a host CPU (105), between a reproducing/detecting means (102) for reproducing, in real time, particular information, such as digital watermarking information included in an input data, while detecting that particular information and a high-rate detecting means (103) for detecting, at a higher rate than a usual reproduction rate, particular information included in an input data. In this way, a single signal processing apparatus (101) can perform both a reproducing/detecting process and a high-rate detecting process.
In a conventional optical pickup device using a two-wavelength semiconductor laser, an optical beam from an inferior optical information recording medium transmits a 1/4 wavelength plate and becomes a p-polarized light instead of an s-polarized light. Accordingly, it is impossible to control a focus tracking error signal. Provided is an optical pickup device including: a first semiconductor laser (103) for emitting an optical beam (102) having a first wavelength corresponding to recording/reproduction to/from a first optical information recording medium (101); a second semiconductor laser (106) for emitting an optical beam (105) having a second wavelength longer than the first semiconductor laser corresponding to a second optical information recording medium (104); a diffraction grating (107) for diffracting an optical beam of the first and the second wavelength into 0 degree diffracted light and plus and minus 1 degree diffracted light; a wavelength plate (108); a polarization hologram element (109) for diffracting a reflected light from the first and the second optical information recording medium; a collimator lens (114); an objective lens (115); and a first light receiving element group (110) to a third light receiving element group (112) for receiving diffracted light from a hologram element.
G11B 7/135 - Means for guiding the beam from the source to the record carrier or from the record carrier to the detector
G11B 7/09 - Disposition or mounting of heads or light sources relatively to record carriers with provision for moving the light beam or focus plane for the purpose of maintaining alignment of the light beam relative to the record carrier during transducing operation, e.g. to compensate for surface irregularities of the latter or for track f
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CONNECTION SUPPORT SERVER AND COMMUNICATION APPARATUS
A communication apparatus capable of detecting a device on a different network in a router-multistage network composed of a plurality of routers without requiring the user to have special knowledge or to pay high cost. If a communication apparatus (101) cannot detect a desired device on its own network, it requests a connection support server (001) securing communication paths with all devices on the home network to relay a request for the detection of the device. The connection support server (001) transfers the relay request for the detection of the device to an arbitrary device belonging to a network different from the network to which the communication apparatus (101) belongs. The arbitrary device as a proxy detects the device and transfers information on the detected device to the connection support server (001). The communication apparatus (101) acquires the information from the connection support server (001) to detect the device on the different network.
Provided is an inertia force sensor wherein switches (64, 66) are connected in parallel to both resistors (48, 54) of a lowpass filter (36) and a highpass filter (38), respectively, and a capacitor (56) of the highpass filter (38) can be recharged at a high speed, not through the resistors (48, 54) but by turning on the switches (64, 66).
A multilayer wiring board comprises first and second wirings provided on both sides of an electric insulating base, a conductor extending through the electric insulating base to interconnect the first and second wirings and an anchoring conductor extending through the electric insulating base. The presence of the anchoring conductor prevents strain in the shearing direction in the electrical insulating base and deformation of the conductor. Thus, a multilayer wiring board excellent in electrical connection is provided.
Disclosed is a technique wherein, when there exist a plurality of packet routing paths, a source of transmitting a packet selects an optimum packet length to efficiently utilize network resources. According to this technique, when there exist a plurality of packet routing paths for a packet to be transferred from a data transmitting apparatus (103) to a data receiving apparatus (102) via a network relay apparatus (101), for example, the path via a network A (104) and the path via a network B (105), the network relay apparatus or data receiving apparatus searches for and retrieves path MTU information of those paths and notifies multipath MTU information including the retrieval results to the data transmitting apparatus. The data transmitting apparatus refers to the multipath MTU information to compare the path MTU information of those paths with each other, thereby deciding a packet length suitable for the packet to be transmitted to the data receiving apparatus.
An electrochemical element in which a safety mechanism can be normally operated even when an accident happens. The electrochemical element comprises an exhaust valve which is operated, when the internal pressure in a case (4) reaches a predetermined value, so as to discharge the generated gas in the case to the outside; and a holed plate (2) which has hole parts (5a, 5b) and is installed between an electrode group (3) and the exhaust valve. The area of the holed plate (2) excluding the hole parts (5a, 5b) is 20 to 50% of the area of the case opening. The holed plate (2) has a function for electrically insulating the electrode group (3) from a sealing plate (1).
Provided is an electric cleaner, which is hardly reduced in its suction even after it sucked dust, while retaining a high sucking work per unit time. A dust collecting case (5) for introducing the air containing the dust, which has been sucked by an electric blower (21), has a cylindrical shape including a suction port (6) for introducing the air containing the dust, in the tangential direction, and a dust storing portion (24) on the other end side of the suction port (6). A dust eliminating filter (27) in the dust collecting case (5) is arranged in a wind passage, with which the dust collecting case (5) and the electric blower (6) communicate. By a swirling air flow in the dust collecting case (5), therefore, the dust is continuously swirled in the dust collecting case (5). As a result, the dust is separated, even in case it sticks to the dust eliminating filter (27), from the face of the dust eliminating filter (27), thereby to retain an intake air passage at all times.
A sound encoder enabling prevention of deterioration of the sound quality of a reproduced signal even if the harmonic structure is broken in a part of the sound signal. The filter state position determining section (111) of the sound encoder judges the noise characteristic of the first-layer decoding spectrum and thereby determines the band of the first-layer decoding spectrum to be used to set the filter state. A filter state setting section (112) sets the first-layer decoding spectrum contained in the determined band out of the first-layer decoding spectrum as the filter state. A filtering section (113) performs filtering of the first-layer decoding spectrum according to the set filter state and the pitch coefficient and computes an estimate spectrum of the input spectrum. An optimal pitch coefficient is determined by a closed loop processing from the filtering section (113) through a search section (114) to a filter information setting section (115).
G10L 19/02 - Speech or audio signal analysis-synthesis techniques for redundancy reduction, e.g. in vocoders; Coding or decoding of speech or audio signals, using source filter models or psychoacoustic analysis using spectral analysis, e.g. transform vocoders or subband vocoders
A plasma display panel having an image display region (17) and a non-image display region formed by disposing a front glass substrate (3) and a back glass substrate (10) oppositely, and a sealed portion (18) where the circumferential edges of the glass substrates in the non-image display region are sealed by a seal layer (19). In the plasma display panel, at least one of the front glass substrate (3) and the back glass substrate (10) has a thickness of 2.0 mm or less, and the distance between the glass substrates in the sealed portion is set larger than the distance between the glass substrates in the image display region.
A plasma display panel having anterior glass substrate (3) and posterior glass substrate (10) disposed opposite to each other so as to provide an image display region and a non-image-display region and having a sealed part in which the periphery of the glass substrate (3) at the non-image-display region is hermetically sealed by a seal layer. In the plasma display panel, at least either the anterior glass substrate (3) or the posterior glass substrate (10) has a thickness of 0.5 to 2.0 mm, and the seal layer consists of a glass material with a softening point temperature 30° to 70°C lower than the sealing temperature at the hermetical sealing of the periphery of anterior glass substrate (3) and posterior glass substrate (10) by the seal layer.
Provided is a monitoring camera device by which a camera installation height can be easily measured by a simple constitution. The monitoring camera device is provided with a distance detecting section and a direction detecting section. The distance detecting section detects a distance (D) to an object by using an auto-focusing function. The direction detecting section detects a photographing direction (ϑ) of an imaging section turned by a turning mechanism. A height calculating section converts the detected distance (D) to the object into a length in a vertical direction, by using the photographing direction (ϑ) obtained when the distance (D) is detected, and calculates a camera installation height (H).
In one example of a semiconductor storage device, two memory cell gates (TG) or a bit line connecting gate (SW) is formed on every N-type diffusion layer (OD) formed on a semiconductor substrate, at crossing positions with a word line (WL) or a bit line selection line (KS). A region close to the center of the N-type diffusion layer (OD) is permitted to be a source/drain region common to the two gates, while regions close to the both ends are permitted to be a separate source/drain region for each gate. The source/drain region is connected to a storage electrode (SN) of a memory cell capacitor through a storage contact (CA) or connected to a sub bit line or a main bit line through a sub bit line contact (CH) and a via of a metal wiring. The memory cell gate (TG) and a bit line connecting gate (SW) are arranged to repeat the same pattern by having the four gates as one unit.
H01L 21/8242 - Dynamic random access memory structures (DRAM)
G11C 11/401 - Digital stores characterised by the use of particular electric or magnetic storage elements; Storage elements therefor using electric elements using semiconductor devices using transistors forming cells needing refreshing or charge regeneration, i.e. dynamic cells
G11C 11/4097 - Bit-line organisation, e.g. bit-line layout, folded bit lines
H01L 27/10 - Devices consisting of a plurality of semiconductor or other solid-state components formed in or on a common substrate including integrated passive circuit elements with at least one potential-jump barrier or surface barrier the substrate being a semiconductor body including a plurality of individual components in a repetitive configuration
H01L 27/108 - Dynamic random access memory structures
