Abstract: A voice sound input apparatus, adapted to be inputted a sound and configured to output sound data, includes: a display unit; a first microphone, related to a first sound hole; a second microphone, related to a second sound hole; a signal processing unit; and a microphone holding unit, formed with the first sound hole, and adapted to extend toward a sound source predicted position; wherein a distance between the first sound hole and the second sound hole is a distance that a phase component of a sound strength ratio is lower than or equal to 0 dB, the sound strength ratio being a ratio between a strength of a sound component contained in differential sound pressure of sounds entered to the first sound hole and the second sound hole and a strength of sound pressure of the sound entered to the first sound hole.

Abstract: A method for managing financial accounts, comprising obtaining a data item, a first account, and a second account, generating a plurality of change requests comprising the data item, sending the one of the plurality of change requests to a first financial institution managing the first account, wherein the data item is used by the first financial institution to update the first financial account, sending one of the plurality of change requests to a second financial institution managing the second account, wherein the data item is used by the second financial institution to update the second financial account, receiving a plurality of notifications associated with a status of the first account and a status of the second account, and reporting the plurality of notifications.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method for representing a transfer of currency during a transaction. The method involves establishing a network connection with a computing device, receiving, from the computing device, transactional data associated with the transaction, receiving currency data associated with a financial account, and displaying a pictorial representation of currency based on the currency data, where a currency type and a currency denomination are depicted as a portion of the pictorial representation. The invention further involves designating an amount of currency from the pictorial representation to obtain image data, where the amount of currency is sufficient to complete the transaction, transmitting the image data to the computing device as part of the transaction, and sending instructions to transfer the amount of currency from the financial account based on the image data and the transactional data.

Abstract: A transmitter transmits data to a communicating opponent with a better channel condition with use of one or more frequency blocks including one or more carrier frequencies. The transmitter includes a communicating opponent selection unit evaluating the channel condition for each frequency block for each of plural communicating opponents and selecting one or more communicating opponents from the plurality of communicating opponents, a modulation scheme determination unit determining at least a modulation scheme depending on the evaluated channel condition, a control channel generation unit generating a control channel indicative of the determined modulation scheme and one or more frequency blocks available for the selected communicating opponents to receive a data channel, and a channel transmission unit providing the selected communicating opponents with the control channel and the data channel modulated in accordance with the modulation scheme.

Abstract: The invention relates to a control device that comprises a plate (7) having at least first (9) and second (11) adjacent portions, a flexible protection layer (3) covering the plate (7), and a touch-surface sensor (5) sandwiched between said protection layer (3) and the first portion (9) of the plate (7), characterized in that it comprises at least one hinging film (13) connecting the first portion (9) to the second portion (11) for hinging both portions (9, 11) relative to each other, the first portion (9) being fixed, and at least one switch (17) associated with the second portion (11) that is capable of pivotal movement between a raised rest position and an active position for activating the switch (17).

Abstract: In view of the above problem, the present invention is to provide an electrical power tool which enables a user to intuitively grasp a rotation direction and a rotation speed of a tip tool. The electrical power tool 1 comprises a chuck 2 provided at a tip of a tool body 3, and rotatable with a tip tool held, and an operation switch 7 having operation protrusions 6 exposed to both side surfaces of a tool body 3 so as to be able to operate, respectively bilaterally symmetrically protruded with a rotation axis of the chuck 2 therebetween, coaxially rotatable with the chuck 2, and urged so as to be self-restored to a neutral position. The chuck 2 is rotated in a direction according to a rotation direction of the switch 7 at a speed according to a rotation angle from the neutral position of the operation switch 7.

Abstract: To generate a sense of click according to the movement of a moving member, reset screwing sections to screw in when a screwing action of the screwing sections is released, and reduce the number of components. In a container 100, when a main body cylinder 2 and an operation cylinder 3 are relatively rotated in an extending direction and relatively rotated in a retracting direction, a female screw member 5 and a moving member 4 relatively rotate, the moving member 4 moves forward and moves backward according to a screwing action of screwing sections 8, and click teeth 54 and 64 also relatively rotate in synchronization with each other. Since an elastic body 61 urges the click teeth 64 toward the click teeth 54, a sense of click is given when the moving member 4 moves forward and moves backward.

Abstract: A method for scrubbing a storage pool is disclosed. The method includes loading a scrub queue with a number of identifiers corresponding to a number of datasets, selecting a first identifier from the scrub queue, where the first identifier corresponds to a first dataset, initiating a scrubbing of the first dataset. The method further includes, upon receiving an indication of a requirement to pause the scrubbing, pausing the scrubbing of the first dataset, creating a bookmark recording a last location within the first dataset that was scrubbed before pausing the scrubbing of the first dataset, detecting at least one change to a storage pool, and performing a modification in response to detecting the at least one change to the storage pool.

Abstract: A system for transmitting data, including: a transmitter node having a setup path packet and multiple data packets; a receiver node connected to the transmitter node by a first optical channel (OC); and a first intermediate node having a first forwarding module and connected to the transmitter node by a second OC and to the receiver node by a third OC, where the transmitter node transmits the setup path packet and a first subset of the multiple data packets to the first intermediate node using the second OC, where the first forwarding module relays, in response to receiving the setup packet, the first subset to the receiver node by switching the first subset from the second OC to the third OC, and where the receiver node receives a second subset of the multiple data packets from the transmitter node using the first OC.

Abstract: A light-emitting element driving circuit is installed on a second substrate, which is connected via a signal line to a first substrate, on which is mounted a CPU configured to generate an LED drive control signal. The light-emitting element driving circuit includes a pulse generation unit configured to start and stop an operation based on the LED drive control signal and output an LED drive signal when the pulse generation unit is in an active state, an LED oscillator configured to supply a reference pulse signal to the pulse generation unit, and an LED driver unit configured to cause a light-emitting element to perform a flickering operation based on the LED drive signal.

Abstract: A variable gain amplifier circuit includes: an operational amplifier having a non-inverting input terminal applied with a predetermined voltage; a feedback resistor having one end connected to an inverting input terminal of the operational amplifier and the other end connected to an output terminal of the operational amplifier; and a variable resistor having one end applied with an input voltage and the other end connected to the inverting input terminal of the operational amplifier.

Abstract: A radio communication method in which a mobile station receives signaling information transmitted by a base station via a shared control channel, detects a presence/absence of data addressed to the mobile station, demodulates a shared data channel when the data is present, and receives data transmitted by the base station. The method includes the steps of transmitting, from the base station to the mobile station, a synchronization request via the shared control channel and transmitting, at the mobile station, feedback information including channel quality information, as a response to the synchronization request, via a random access channel. The method also includes generating, at the base station, timing advance information when receiving the feedback information, and transmitting, from the base station to the mobile station, the timing advance information, and adjusting, at the mobile station, a transmission timing of uplink data based on the timing advance information.

Abstract: In general, the invention relates to a system that includes a smart phone and a smart card. The smart phone includes a web browser and a display for displaying a web page, where the web page includes at least one selectable entry. The smart card includes at least one proactive logic entity, where the at least one proactive logic entity is configured to respond to selection of the at least one selectable on the web page.

Abstract: A method for generating a pricing estimate involves displaying a graphical user interface (GUI) to obtain and display data associated with the pricing estimate, receiving items of the pricing estimate receiving a request to generate the pricing estimate, and obtaining, in response to receiving the request, pricing data for the items from a pricing server collecting pricing data from suppliers. The method further involves accessing a pricing rule relating to items of the pricing estimate, applying the pricing rule to the pricing data for the items to obtain adjusted pricing data, populating the GUI with the adjusted pricing data, calculating a total estimated cost based on adjusted pricing data and displaying the total estimated cost within the GUI.

Abstract: A method for reporting financial data includes displaying a report of the financial data at a first level of granularity and a report slider. The report includes a first plurality of line items. The report slider includes a sliding module in a first position, The method detects a first movement of a sliding module on the report slider from the first to second position, and generates a first sub-report for a first line item of the first plurality of line items and a second sub-report for a second line item of the first plurality of line items based on the second position of the sliding module. The first line item and the second line item are selected in the report. The first sub-report and the second sub-report display financial data are at a second level of granularity. The method displays the first sub-report and the second sub-report with the report.

Abstract: A method for throttling in a file system. The method includes receiving a request by a client from an application to write data to a server, wherein the application is associated with an application bandwidth and wherein the server is associated with a server bandwidth, queuing a first job to write the data to the server on an I/O queue using an application-to-client throttling mechanism using at least one selected from the group of the application bandwidth and the server bandwidth, and issuing the first job from the I/O queue to the server using a client-to-server throttling mechanism and at least one selected from the group of the application bandwidth and the server bandwidth.

Abstract: A method of transmitting cell information is disclosed. The method includes the steps of transmitting a primary broadcast channel at constant intervals in a cell of a mobile communications system; broadcasting, in the primary broadcast channel, scheduling information indicating a location of a first scheduling unit, including information to be broadcast in the cell; and broadcasting, in the first scheduling unit, information indicating whether the cell is a dominant cell or a subordinate cell.

Abstract: A method involving receiving an indication of a requirement to allocate at least one page for a process, where pages are associated with cache colors; generating a selection bitmap by performing a logical operation of a system available colors bitmap and a process bitmap, where the system available colors bitmap and the process bitmap each include one bit corresponding to each cache color, where each bit of the system available colors bitmap indicates whether a number of pages associated with a corresponding cache color that are available to be allocated is above a minimum threshold, and where each bit of the process bitmap indicates whether any pages associated with the corresponding cache color have been recently allocated for the process. The method also includes selecting, using the selection bitmap, a cache color; and allocating a page for the process, wherein the allocated page is associated with the selected cache color.

Abstract: A base station apparatus is disclosed that includes a selection unit selecting user equipment terminals to which radio resources are allocated based on priority levels indicating a priority order of allocating the radio resources for a shared channel and a resource determination unit determining a transmission power level of a control channel and resources for the control channel, the control channel indicating communications of the shared channel to the selected user equipment terminals. In the base station apparatus, when the sum of the transmission power of the control channel related to the selected user equipment terminals exceeds a predetermined first threshold value or when a sum of control resources for the control channel related to the selected user equipment terminals exceeds a predetermined second threshold value, the resource determination unit transmits the control channel to some user equipment terminals among the selected user equipment terminals.

Abstract: The method of producing a metal film in accordance with the present invention includes: the organic film forming step of applying, onto a substrate or a film, an underlayer composition containing an addition polymerizable compound having three or more reactive groups, an addition polymerizable compound having acid groups, and an addition polymerizable compound having hydrophilic functional groups and polymerizing the composition, to form an organic film; the metal salt producing step of processing the organic film with an aqueous solution containing metal (M1) ions, to convert the acid groups to a metal (M1) salt; the metal fixing step of processing the organic film processed with the aqueous solution containing metal (M1) ions with an aqueous metal (M2) ion solution containing metal (M2) ions having lower ionicity than the metal (M1) ions, to convert the metal (M1) salt of the acid groups to a metal (M2) salt; and the reduction step of reducing the metal (M2) ions, to form a metal film on a surface of the or