Patents Represented by Attorney Frishauf, Holtz, Goodman & Chick, P.C.
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Patent number: 7868824Abstract: A beamforming apparatus obtains the beamforming parameters that realize arbitrary desirable PSF by using optimization theories. The apparatus uses at least one of the beamforming parameters such as the intensities, frequencies, bandwidths and shapes of the signals transmitted by the transmitting unit, the filtering of noises, amplifications (gains) and shapes of the signals received by the receiving unit, delays of the directions of propagation and array used by the delay units, apodization functions of the directions of propagation and array used by the apodization units, the number of the additions of the signals by the addition unit, array element parameters such as element size or shape and how to implement the elements in transducers (e.g., connections by leads between the elements and with the surroundings), which are determined by the specified optimization process to realize the desirable PSF.Type: GrantFiled: July 11, 2007Date of Patent: January 11, 2011Inventor: Chikayoshi Sumi
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Patent number: 7864167Abstract: A display device that displays image information in response to a digital display signal includes a display panel signal lines and scanning lines which intersect at right angles with each other, and a plurality of display pixels with optical elements arranged near the intersecting points of the signal lines and scanning lines. A signal driver circuit has a plurality of current generation circuits including a drive current generation circuit for generating drive current from a plurality of gradation currents based on the display signal value supplied to each of the scanning lines, a scanning driver circuit for sequentially applying a scanning signal to each of the scanning lines for setting the selection state of each line of each display pixel, and a gradation current generation circuit for generating gradation currents according to each display signal bit at least based on a constant predetermined reference current.Type: GrantFiled: October 29, 2003Date of Patent: January 4, 2011Assignee: Casio Computer Co., Ltd.Inventors: Katsuhiko Morosawa, Tomoyuki Shirasaki
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Patent number: 7826561Abstract: Method for tuning a Single Sideband receiver including processing the signal in the time domain, converting the signal to the frequency domain, processing the signal in the frequency domain, converting the modified signal from the frequency domain to a correlation domain, processing the signal in the correlation domain and analyzing the processed signal from the correlation domain to determine a receiver tuning error.Type: GrantFiled: December 20, 2006Date of Patent: November 2, 2010Assignee: ICOM America, IncorporatedInventor: John A. Gibbs
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Patent number: 7816333Abstract: A method for the prevention or treatment in a mammal of a disease preventable or treatable by the pharmacologically useful antisense or antigene activity of an oligonucleotide analogue or a pharmacologically acceptable salt thereof in the body of said mammal, which method comprises administering to said mammal in need of such prevention or treatment a pharmaceutically effective amount of an oligonucleotide analogue comprising two or more nucleoside units, wherein at least one of said nucleoside units is a structure of the formula (2): wherein A is methylene; and B is an unsubstituted purin-9-yl, an unsubstituted 2-oxo-pyrimidin-1-yl or a substituted purin-9-yl; or a pharmacologically acceptable salt thereof.Type: GrantFiled: July 27, 2007Date of Patent: October 19, 2010Assignees: Daiichi Sankyo Company, Limited, Mitsubishi-Kagaku Foods CorporationInventors: Masakatsu Kaneko, Koji Morita, Takeshi Imanishi
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Patent number: 7817852Abstract: An image processing apparatus obtains image data, and extracts a subject pixel (to be subjected to color noise reduction processing) and nearby pixels which are a predetermined distance away from the subject pixel and which are not adjacent to the subject pixel. The image processing apparatus multiplies values of the extracted pixels with predetermined coefficients, and which averages the values of the extracted pixels that have been multiplied by the predetermined coefficients.Type: GrantFiled: July 19, 2007Date of Patent: October 19, 2010Assignee: Casio Computer Co., Ltd.Inventor: Hitoshi Amagai
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Patent number: 7816552Abstract: A method for preparing a compound having the following formula (I) by reducing a nitro group of the following formula (III) followed by carrying out an intramolecular dehydration condensation, wherein R2 is hydrogen, alkyl, cycloalkyl, phenyl or a 5- or 6-membered heterocyclic, and X is oxygen, sulfur or nitrogen.Type: GrantFiled: September 26, 2005Date of Patent: October 19, 2010Assignee: Sankyo Company, LimitedInventors: Hisaki Kajino, Hiroshi Miyamoto, Rei Okazaki, Yutaka Ikeuchi
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Patent number: 7806251Abstract: A panel-carrying-out apparatus used for conveying panels ejected from a press machine includes: a semicircular sorting conveyor adapted to be driven switchably in a normal direction or a reverse direction; and a pair of straight conveyors respectively disposed at ends of the sorting conveyor. Each of the panels from the press machine is mounted on the center position of the sorting conveyor in terms of a conveying path. Specifically, an arced conveyor included in the sorting conveyor, on which each of the panels is initially mounted, is adapted to be driven switchably in the normal direction or the reverse direction.Type: GrantFiled: August 5, 2008Date of Patent: October 5, 2010Assignee: Komatsu Ltd.Inventors: Shigekazu Noda, Akio Kawato, Koji Uozumi
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Patent number: 7809341Abstract: A received low-frequency standard radio wave, which is an amplitude modulation signal, is converted to an intermediate frequency signal Sa, and is output to a detection circuit and an AGC circuit. The detection circuit and AGC circuit generates an RF control signal Sf1 and IF control signal Sf2 from the input intermediate frequency signal Sa, and controls an RF control circuit and IF control circuit by outputting the generated RF control signal Sf1 and IF control signal Sf2 to the RF control circuit and IF control circuit. By this a radio wave reception device can speed up AGC operation.Type: GrantFiled: April 15, 2009Date of Patent: October 5, 2010Assignee: Casio Computer Co., Ltd.Inventor: Kaoru Someya
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Patent number: 7802460Abstract: A fixed-side connecting portion 151 is provided on an end of the fixed bar 141 while a movable-side connecting portion 152 is provided on an end of the movable bar 142. An air clamp 16 is housed within the fixed bar 141. By pneumatically driving the air clamp 16 while the movable-side connecting portion 152 is superimposed on an upper side of the fixed-side connecting portion 151, a clamp member 165 protrudes from a case 161 to be downwardly rotated and holds the movable-side connecting portion 152 against the fixed-side connecting portion 151. Since the clamp member 165 is pneumatically driven, a die replacement time can be shortened. In addition, since the air clamp 16 is housed within the fixed bar 141, the size of a transfer feeder 41 can be reduced.Type: GrantFiled: February 17, 2006Date of Patent: September 28, 2010Assignee: Komatsu Industries Corp.Inventors: Hidekazu Tokunaga, Masaaki Kashiwa
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Patent number: 7804568Abstract: A liquid crystal display device includes a first substrate having one surface on which a first electrode is provided, a second substrate which is provided with a second electrode, and a liquid crystal layer which is interposed between the first and second substrates. Negative dielectric anisotropy homeotropic aligning films are formed on mutually faced surfaces of the first and second electrodes, respectively. A pair of polarizing plates are arranged on a side of the other surface opposite to the one surface of each substrate. And a pair of optical compensation layers are arranged respectively between the other surfaces of the substrates and the polarizing plates, and give a retardation having a value which is substantially ¼ of a wavelength ? of transmitted visible light to the transmitted visible light.Type: GrantFiled: September 25, 2008Date of Patent: September 28, 2010Assignee: Casio Computer Co., Ltd.Inventor: Kunpei Kobayashi
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Patent number: 7803169Abstract: A blood occlusion auger having an in vivo distal auger tool coupled in operative association with an ex vivo auger control for opening and traversing occlusions in a blood vessel The auger control allows the selection of predetermined threshold forces and step-lengths values and operates in successive repetition of identical sequential stages, to traverse occlusions. Once disposed adjacent an occlusion, the auger tool, commanded by the auger control, operates in two states, first to radially dilate the vessel and second to penetrate distally into a furrow.Type: GrantFiled: November 20, 2006Date of Patent: September 28, 2010Assignee: Ovalum Ltd.Inventor: Noam Shamay
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Patent number: 7803595Abstract: Nucleic acids encoding mouse and human sphingosine kinase type 2 isoforms, methods for detecting agents or drugs which inhibit or promote sphingosine activity and therapeutic agents containing peptides or antibodies to peptides encoded by such nucleic acids.Type: GrantFiled: August 14, 2007Date of Patent: September 28, 2010Assignees: Sankyo Company, Limited, Georgetown UniversityInventors: Sarah Spiegel, Takafumi Kohama
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Patent number: 7803292Abstract: An optical film producing method, comprises steps of: extruding a melted material including a melted cellulose ester resin from a casting die by using an extruding device; forming a film by pressing the extruded melted material between a first rotating member and a second rotating member; and winding up the formed film, wherein the following formulas are satisfied: 30° C.?T1?T2?60° C., 0° C.?T2?T3?20° C., Tg<T3, where T1 is the temperature of the melted material at an exit of the casting die, T2 is the temperature of the film at a point where the film firstly contacts the first rotating member, T3 is the temperature of the film at a point where the film is pressed between the first rotating member and the second rotating member, and Tg is the glass transition temperature of the film.Type: GrantFiled: December 18, 2006Date of Patent: September 28, 2010Assignee: Konica Minolta Opto, Inc.Inventor: Katsuhiko Heki
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Patent number: 7798854Abstract: A connector which is capable of preventing degradation of transmission, and achieving downsizing. Contact portions of first and second signal contacts, and contact portions of ground contacts are arranged in a row in a contact arranging direction. Contact portions of contacts for non-high-speed transmission are arranged in a row in the contact arranging direction. The row formed by the contact portions of the first and second signal contacts, and the contact portions of the ground contacts, and the rows formed by the contact portions of the contacts for non-high-speed transmission are parallel. The contact portions of each pair of first and second signal contacts are disposed between the contact portions of adjacent ones of the ground contacts in the contact arranging direction.Type: GrantFiled: February 2, 2009Date of Patent: September 21, 2010Assignee: Japan Aviation Electronics Industry, LimitedInventor: Yukitaka Tanaka
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Patent number: 7798652Abstract: Transmission-type screens are placed corresponding to a display board at a front area of the display board, on which an article is placed. Each of the screens transmits and projects a projector image luminous flux projected from a backside of the screens to a front side of the screens. When the projector image luminous flux is projected from the backside of the screens, each of inner circumferences which defines a space including an image projecting space for leading the projector image luminous flux to the backside of the screens without obstruction. A display shelf might have a projector and a computer. The projector projects the projector image luminous flux. The display shelf might have a reflecting mirror which lead the projector image flux to the screens.Type: GrantFiled: March 23, 2007Date of Patent: September 21, 2010Assignee: Toshiba Tec Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Yoshihiko Ikeda, Hiroki Mochizuki, Masanori Takeuchi, Makoto Nozawa, Wang Yun
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Patent number: 7800678Abstract: An imaging device that is connectable to an external display device includes a decoder that, based on an instruction to reproduce coded moving image data recorded in any one of an internal recorder, a memory card and an external recording device, decodes data and sequentially obtains a plurality of frames in a predetermined order. The imaging device also includes a blur estimator that sequentially obtains a total motion vector of each frame corresponding to an obtaining speed and a predetermined order of frames, a blur correction processor that sequentially corrects the blur of the frames based on respective total motion vectors, and a second display processor that sequentially outputs the blur corrected frames to the external display. Blur correction processing for moving images output to the external display is performed suitably.Type: GrantFiled: July 13, 2009Date of Patent: September 21, 2010Assignee: Casio Computer Co., Ltd.Inventor: Hiroyuki Hoshino
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Patent number: 7801272Abstract: In an X-ray diffraction method using the parallel beam method, an X-ray parallel beam is incident on a sample, and diffracted X-rays from the sample are reflected at a mirror and thereafter detected by an X-ray detector. The reflective surface of the mirror has a shape of an equiangular spiral that has a center located on the surface of the sample. A crystal lattice plane that causes reflection is parallel to the reflective surface at any point on the reflective surface. The X-ray detector is one-dimensional position sensitive in a plane parallel to the diffraction plane. A relative positional relationship between the mirror and the X-ray detector is determined so that reflected X-rays from different points on the reflective surface of the mirror reach different points on the X-ray detector respectively. This X-ray diffraction method is superior in angular resolution, and is small in X-ray intensity reduction, and is simple in structure.Type: GrantFiled: August 13, 2008Date of Patent: September 21, 2010Assignee: Rigaku CorporationInventor: Hideo Toraya
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Patent number: 7800917Abstract: A printed wiring board has a first wiring layer formed at least on one surface of an insulative substrate, an insulating layer formed as covering the first wiring layer, and a second wiring layer formed on the insulating layer. The insulating layer is formed of a cured insulative sheet made of a high-stiff sheet-type reinforcing material containing resin. The first and second wiring layers are electrically connected to each other through at least one hole having a bottom. The second wiring layer is united with the insulating layer at an interface thereof with a conductive material of the second wiring layer injected into concave sections provided on the interface. Another printed wiring board has an insulative substrate having a first surface and a second surface, a first insulating layer and a second insulating layer formed on the first surface and the second surface, respectively, and a first wiring layer formed on the first insulating layer and a second wiring layer formed on the second insulating layer.Type: GrantFiled: July 24, 2006Date of Patent: September 21, 2010Assignee: Meiko Electronics Co., Ltd.Inventors: Hiroshi Shimada, Shigeru Michiwaki, Kazuo Shishime
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Patent number: 7800792Abstract: Disclosed is an image reading method for reading an image on a document, including: reading cyclically the image in a main scanning direction with using an image pickup section, while relatively moving at least one of a light emitting section and the document irradiated by the light emitting section with a sub-scanning velocity in a sub-scanning direction perpendicular to the main scanning direction, against the image pickup section which comprises a plurality of light receiving elements in the main scanning direction; controlling, while the cyclic reading, a reading cycle in the main scanning direction to be inversely proportional to a magnification ratio; controlling, while the cyclic reading, light emitting intensity and light emitting period in the reading cycle to be constant irrespective of the magnification ratio; and controlling, while the cyclic reading, the sub-scanning velocity to be constant irrespective of the magnification ratio.Type: GrantFiled: August 9, 2006Date of Patent: September 21, 2010Assignee: Konica Minolta Business Technologies, Inc.Inventor: Hiroyuki Futami
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Patent number: 7800430Abstract: A current generator arrangement for use, e.g., in 1-10V interfaces for lighting systems, includes at least one transistor (Q3) having a base-emitter junction wherein the voltage drop across the base-emitter junction defines the intensity of the output current and wherein the base-emitter junction is exposed to temperature drift. A resistive network (Req2) is coupled to the transistor (Q3), whereby the intensity of the output current is a function of both the voltage drop across the base-emitter junction of the transistor (Q3) and the resistance value of the resistive network (Req2). The resistive network (Req2) includes at least one resistor element (NTC3; NTC4) whose resistance value varies with temperature to keep constant the intensity of the output current irrespective of any temperature drift in the voltage drop across the base-emitter junction of the transistor (Q3).Type: GrantFiled: June 4, 2007Date of Patent: September 21, 2010Assignee: OSRAM Gesellschaft mit beschraenkter HaftungInventor: Alberto Ferro