Patents Represented by Attorney Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C.
  • Patent number: 8310565
    Abstract: A photographic apparatus comprises a monitor, a face detector, and an electronic zoom controller. The monitor displays a first through-image based on image data. The face detector performs face detection on an image of an area displayed on the monitor, based on the image data. The electronic zoom controller performs first electronic zoom control that enlarges and displays a second through-image corresponding to a predetermined area including a face area detected by the face detector, to the size of a display area of the first through-image, on the monitor. The electronic zoom controller performs second electronic zoom control that enlarges and displays an intermediate through-image corresponding to an intermediate area including the predetermined area and larger than the predetermined area, to the size of the display area of the first through-image, on the monitor, before performing the first electronic zoom control.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 11, 2009
    Date of Patent: November 13, 2012
    Assignee: Pentax Ricoh Imaging Company, Ltd.
    Inventor: Hirokazu Maeda
  • Patent number: 8310837
    Abstract: A circuit module is mounted with an IC that modulates and demodulates a multicarrier signal. The circuit module has a laminated board, which is provided internally with a plurality of conductive layers laminated having insulating layers in between, and an IC, which is provided with a plurality of ground terminals to be grounded. Of the plurality of conductive layers, a conductive layer provided proximate to the IC configures a ground layer electrically connected to the plurality of ground terminals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 2007
    Date of Patent: November 13, 2012
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Hiroshi Kawano, Munenori Fujimura, Takumi Naruse, Shuichiro Yamaguchi, Yoshinori Hashimoto
  • Patent number: 8309436
    Abstract: A method of producing an epitaxial substrate for a solid-state imaging device, comprising: forming a gettering sink by injecting laser beam to a semiconductor substrate through one surface thereof, condensing the laser beam to an arbitrarily selected portion of the semiconductor substrate, thereby causing multi-photon absorption process to occur in the portion, and forming a gettering sink having a modified crystal structure; and epitaxially growing at least two epitaxial layers on the semiconductor substrate in which the gettering sink is formed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 2010
    Date of Patent: November 13, 2012
    Assignee: Sumco Corporation
    Inventor: Kazunari Kurita
  • Patent number: 8309733
    Abstract: [Technical Problem] To provide a novel imino derivative capable of being an insecticide compound having excellent characteristics such as sustained effects and broad spectrum. [Solution to Problem] To provide an imino derivative represented by Formula (1). wherein “Ar” denotes a heterocyclic group which may have a substituent on the ring; “X” denotes a sulfur atom or CH2, NR; “R” denotes a hydrogen atom or an alkyl group; “Y” is selected from COR1 or CONR3R4, CONHCOR5, CO2R9; and each of “R1”, “R3”, “R4”, “R5”, and “R9” denotes a hydrogen atom or a certain substituent.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2009
    Date of Patent: November 13, 2012
    Assignees: Meji Seika Pharma Co., Ltd., Gifu University
    Inventors: Shinzo Kagabu, Masaru Mori, Satoru Kumazawa
  • Patent number: 8310152
    Abstract: Disclosed is a method for manufacturing an organic EL device which comprises a hole injection layer having a flat surface that is not contaminated. Specifically disclosed method for manufacturing an organic EL device, which comprises a step of forming an anode on a substrate; a step of forming a hole injection layer on the anode; a step of forming an inorganic film on the substrate and the hole injection layer; a step of forming a bank on the inorganic film in such a manner that at least a part of the inorganic film formed on the hole injection layer is exposed; a step of etching the exposed inorganic film by using the bank as a mask so that the hole injection layer is exposed therefrom; and a step of forming an organic light-emitting layer by applying an organic light-emitting material onto the exposed hole injection layer. The hole injection layer contains tungsten oxide or molybdenum oxide.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2008
    Date of Patent: November 13, 2012
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Shuhei Nakatani, Hidehiro Yoshida
  • Patent number: 8307986
    Abstract: The invention relates to a material separator for conveyor systems, in particular for machines processing plastics pellets. A container provided with a covering hood or a lid (2) is provided with a laterally arranged material feed connection (3) and a suction connection (4) arranged laterally above it as well as preferably a closure device (5) arranged at the lower end of the container (5). In the interior of the container (1) a screen (11) extending over the cross section of the container (1) is provided between the material feed connection (3) and the suction connection (4). The container (1) or the container upper edge (9) is beveled on the covering hood side or the lid side according to a flat cut. The screen (11) extends from the region between the material feed connection (3) and the suction connection (4) in the interior of the container in the direction of the lid (2) up to the region of the container upper edge (9) and is preferably bent in a roof-shaped manner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 10, 2008
    Date of Patent: November 13, 2012
    Assignee: Wittmann Kunststoffgeraete GmbH
    Inventor: Erhard Fux
  • Patent number: 8308764
    Abstract: A method of arranging a surgical needle in an applicator. The needle is made of a hyper-elastic alloy which, after treatment, has two distinct states and includes a crimping zone for securing a suture to the needle, a free end having a tapered point which includes an inclined heel portion arranged on an inside portion of a curved profile. The method includes forcing the needle into a roughly elongated position when the needle is housed in an internal bore of the applicator. When the needle is not housed in an internal bore of the applicator, the needle adopts a curved profile as a result of superelasticity or hyper-elasticity of the needle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 2010
    Date of Patent: November 13, 2012
    Assignee: Soprane S.A.
    Inventors: Thierry Loubens, Antoine Watrelot, Lionel Riou
  • Patent number: 8309148
    Abstract: A cookie cup sandwich cookie having dissimilarly-sized base cakes is continuously produced by applying a layer of filler cream to a lower base cake and applying an upper base cake to the lower base cake so that the outer periphery of the upper base cake surrounds the layer of filler cream. The apparatus for the production of the sandwich cookies includes at least one rotary molder for producing lower base cakes and upper base cakes having different sizes, a filler cream depositor that deposits a layer of filler cream on each of the lower base cakes, and a conveyer system for transporting and at least substantially concentrically aligning the dissimilarly sized lower and upper base cakes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 2009
    Date of Patent: November 13, 2012
    Assignee: Kraft Foods Global Brands LLC
    Inventors: Mihaelos N. Mihalos, Theodore N. Janulis, Chris E. Robinson, Carol Wines
  • Patent number: 8309353
    Abstract: It is an object of the present invention to establish a system for reliably differentiating an ES cell into a hepatic cell. The present invention provides a method for inducing the differentiation of an ES cell into a hepatic cell, which comprises, in the presence of an M15 cell, culturing a mammal-derived ES cell in the presence of activin and bFGF, and then culturing the ES cell in the presence of dexamethasone, HGF, and oncostatin M.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 30, 2008
    Date of Patent: November 13, 2012
    Assignee: Kumamoto University
    Inventors: Shoen Kume, Nobuaki Shiraki, Kahoko Umeda, Kazuhiko Kume
  • Patent number: 8311818
    Abstract: A transform coding apparatus includes an input scale factor calculating section that calculates an input scale factor having a predetermined number of scale factors associated with an input spectrum as an element, and a codebook that stores a plurality of scale factor candidates having a predetermined number of elements and outputs one scale factor candidate. The transform coding apparatus also includes an error calculating section that calculates an error on a per element basis, a weighted error calculating section that determines a weight on a per element basis and calculates a sum of products of the error and the weight to calculate a weighted error, and a searching section that searches for a scale factor candidate that minimizes the weighted error in the codebook.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 13, 2012
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Masahiro Oshikiri, Tomofumi Yamanashi
  • Patent number: 8309227
    Abstract: Carbon fibrous aggregator obtained by a chemical vapor phase growing method, which comprises plural granular parts, and plural carbon fibers which are mutually independently extended outwardly from their respective granular parts so that each granular part is associated with two or more of carbon fibers, wherein the carbon fibers show a three dimensional expansion in all; and which show a three dimensional network structure of the carbon fibers at least in a part by a state that at least a part of the plural carbon fibers extended from one granular part is linked with another granular part; wherein mean length of carbon fibers which link two granular parts together is of 3.0-20.0 ?m, and wherein a coefficient of variation, CV, ((standard deviation/mean value)×100) which is obtained on a determination of outer diameter distribution of the carbon fibers which constitute the aggregator of carbon fiber is not more than 30%.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 13, 2012
    Assignee: Hodogaya Chemical Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yoshinori Hitoe, Jun Suzuki
  • Patent number: 8308979
    Abstract: An ink for an organic electroluminescent device includes a functional material, a first solvent, a second solvent, and a third solvent. The functional material is for forming a functional layer of the organic electroluminescent device. The first solvent is for dissolving the functional material. The second solvent has a diester backbone and a second boiling point that is at most equal to a first boiling point of the first solvent or greater than the first boiling point of the first solvent by at most 20° C. The third solvent is an aliphatic alcohol and has a third boiling point that is less than the first boiling point of the first solvent and less than the second boiling point of the second solvent.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 25, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 13, 2012
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Shinichiro Ishino, Tomoki Masuda, Hirotaka Nanno, Yuko Kawanami, Noriyuki Matsusue, Mituru Harada
  • Patent number: 8309157
    Abstract: A flexible, strip-shaped food product is made by comminuting substantially frozen meat and heating the comminuted meat to at least partially denature the meat proteins and cooling the cooked meat. About 4% by weight to about 45% by weight of wheat flour is admixed with the cooked meat, along with other ingredients, to form a dough. Use of the wheat flour unexpectedly increases tensile strength of the dough and products baked from the dough, and maintains flexibility of the strip-shaped food products over an extended period of time. Cooking of the meat in the presence of salt unexpectedly increases water activity of the pieces, resulting in a product that has a skin and a moist middle, while maintaining tensile strength. The dough is rotary-molded into strip-shaped pieces. The rotary mold may have angled die cups. The strip-shaped dough pieces are then baked and dried.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2007
    Date of Patent: November 13, 2012
    Assignee: Del Monte Corporation
    Inventors: Robert Lombard, Kenchu Tham, Haitao Ni, Paul Ziemba, Harry Levine
  • Patent number: 8305305
    Abstract: An image display device in which a plurality of pixel circuits are arranged has a current light-emitting element, a driver transistor for flowing current in the current light-emitting element, a retention capacitor for retaining a voltage determining an amount of current flowed from the driver transistor, and a writing switch for writing a voltage depending on an image signal to the retention capacitor. Transistors configuring the respective pixel circuits are an N-channel type transistor, each of the pixel circuits further includes an enable switch, an initialization capacitor for initializing the voltage of the retention capacitor, and a separation switch.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 6, 2010
    Date of Patent: November 6, 2012
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventor: Shinya Ono
  • Patent number: 8306078
    Abstract: A repetition frequency control device includes a slave photoelectric conversion unit which converts a slave laser light pulse into a slave electrical signal, a master photoelectric conversion unit which converts a master laser light pulse into a master electrical signal, a frequency change unit which changes the repetition frequency of the master electric signal by a predetermined value, a phase comparator which detects a phase difference between the slave electric signal and the output from the frequency change unit, and a loop filter which removes a high frequency component of an output from the phase comparator, where the repetition frequency of the master laser does not undergo control based on one or both of the master electric signal and the slave electric signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 6, 2012
    Assignee: Advantest Corporation
    Inventors: Tomoyu Yamashita, Akiyoshi Irisawa
  • Patent number: 8304677
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a high-voltage gas circuit breaker, and there is provided a gas circuit breaker including a movable arc contact and a fixed arc contact engaged with the movable arc contact; a cylinder rod coupled with the movable arc contact; an insulating rod connected to the cylinder rod through a link mechanism in which an end thereof is connected to an operating mechanism; and an ejection nozzle for ejecting an arc-extinguishing gas between the movable arc contact and the fixed arc contact, wherein the link mechanism is reduced in a length direction of the insulating rod to pull the cylinder rod to a side of the insulating rod when the insulating rod is moved apart from the cylinder rod.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2009
    Date of Patent: November 6, 2012
    Assignee: LS Industrial Systems Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Jeong Hoon Yoon
  • Patent number: 8303700
    Abstract: The present invention is related to a coating composition for the production of a magnetically induced image, consisting of volatile components (S) and non-volatile components, the latter consisting of an ink vehicle (I) and magnetically orientable optically variable interference pigment (P), to a process for manufacturing the coating composition, and to the use of the composition for the production of a magnetically induced image coating on a substrate with the help of applied magnetic fields. Said magnetically induced image coating may be used as a security device on value- or identity documents, brand protection labels and the like.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 6, 2012
    Assignee: Sicpa Holding SA
    Inventors: Pierre Degott, Claude-Alain Despland, Patrick Magnin, Patrick Veya, Mathieu Schmid, Edgar Mueller, Albert Stichelberger
  • Patent number: 8307149
    Abstract: A nonvolatile memory device (101) includes a plurality of physical blocks, each of which is provide with a nonvolatile memory (103), a logic/physical address conversion table, a temporary block and a temporary table. The nonvolatile memory (103) includes a plurality of pages which are predetermined writing units, respectively. The logical-physical address conversion table (106) stores correspondence information between logic addresses and physical addresses of data to be stored in the physical blocks. The temporary block is a physical block to store data that are smaller in size than those of the page. The temporary table (107) stores correspondence information between logic addresses and physical addresses with respect to data to be stored in the temporary block.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2006
    Date of Patent: November 6, 2012
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Toshiyuki Honda, Hirokazu So, Shigekazu Kogita, Masayuki Toyama, Seiji Nakamura, Masato Suto, Manabu Inoue
  • Patent number: 8306813
    Abstract: An encoding device reduces the encoding distortion as compared to the conventional technique and obtains a preferable sound quality for auditory sense. In the encoding device, a shape quantization unit quantizes the shape of an input spectrum with a small number of pulse positions and polarities. The shape quantization unit sets a pulse amplitude width to be searched later upon search of the pulse position to a value not greater than the pulse amplitude width which has been searched previously. A gain quantization unit calculates a gain of a pulse searched by the shape quantization unit for each of bands.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 29, 2008
    Date of Patent: November 6, 2012
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Toshiyuki Morii, Masahiro Oshikiri, Tomofumi Yamanashi
  • Patent number: 8305310
    Abstract: A display device including pixels has formed therein at least two driving blocks each made up of pixel rows, and includes: a signal line driving circuit that outputs a signal voltage to an output line disposed in each of pixel columns; and a selector circuit that provides a signal voltage outputted from the output line to one of a first signal line and a second signal line which are provided in each of the columns, provides a standard voltage from a standard voltage source to one of the two signal lines, and provides the signal voltage and the standard voltage mutually exclusively to the two signal lines. Each of the pixels includes a current control unit and an organic EL element. Pixels in the k-th driving block are connected to the first signal line and pixels in the (k+1)-th driving block are connected to the second signal line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 10, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 6, 2012
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Masafumi Matsui, Shinya Ono