Abstract: A system is presented that facilitates masking data in write data bound for a memory device. The system contains a memory controller and a memory array communicatively coupled to the memory controller. The memory controller sends a write command and write data to the memory array and the memory array updates data contained therein based upon the write command and write data. If the write operation requires a byte mask, the controller sends a byte mask command via a command bus linking the controller and the memory array. Accordingly, separate and dedicated byte mask pins or bus is not necessary to convey byte mask information.

Abstract: A conventional wireless device constantly measures the signal strength of its server base station and the strength of signals from surrounding base stations for handoff purposes. The wireless device transmits this information to its serving base station, which discards the information a short time afterward, following handoff. The present system and method store the formerly discarded information in one of several existing network elements or in a separate computer system. This information is used to generate a carrier to interference ratio, which indicates the level of interference between station pairs, and to also generate a carrier to interference matrix, including identifying potential interference for each station pair. The frequency of occurrences during predetermined desired periods of time and the volume of traffic affected by each level of interference may also be calculated. This provides comprehensive, continuous, real-time information for wireless frequency planning.

Abstract: According to an aspect of the present invention, a thermal printer includes a housing in which a space is formed, printing means disposed in the housing, a cover disposed in the housing and which comes into contact with and separates from the housing when rotated, thereby opening and closing the space, urging means for urging the cover in a direction away from the housing, an engaging part which is disposed in the housing and which prevents the movement of the cover in a direction away from the housing when engaged with the cover, a pressed part which is disposed rotatably in the cover and which moves the engaging part when pressed, thereby releasing engagement between the cover and the engaging part, and elastic means arranged to urge the pressed part in a direction away from the engaging part.

Abstract: A video recorder includes a schedule reconfiguration section having: a local deterioration determining module that determines whether a local deterioration in a recording state occurs by performing simulating the recording state obtained when the reallocated resources are used for performing the programmed recordings and comparing the simulated recording state with a recording state obtained when the resources before the reallocation is used for performing the programmed recordings; and an allocation restoring module that restores the reallocated resources at a part causing the local deterioration to the resources allocated before the reallocation when the local deterioration determining module determines the occurrence of the local deterioration.

Abstract: A semiconductor switch includes: a first terminal; a second terminal; a switch section including a through FET connected between the first terminal and the second terminal and a shunt FET connected between the second terminal and a first ground terminal; a first control terminal configured to drive the through FET; a second control terminal configured to drive the shunt FET; and a driver provided on a substrate together with the switch section and configured to provide a differential output to the first control terminal and the second control terminal.

Abstract: A rotation angle detector for detecting the rotation angle of a rotator to be measured which detects the flux density, generated depending on rotation of the rotator to be measured, of a ring-like magnet fixed to the rotator by means of a magnetic detection element. Since a soft magnetic member is interposed between the ring-like magnet and the rotator, rotation angle of the rotator can be measured accurately without being affected by the material or diameter of the rotator or the fixing state of the rotation angle detector to the rotator. Consequently, a rotation angle detector for detecting the rotation angle of a rotator to be measured accurately without being affected by the material or diameter of the rotator or the fixing state of the rotation angle detector to the rotator is presented.

Abstract: A design analyzing device includes a circuit specification description analyzing section configured to create structure data about an assertion description, a pass pattern creating section configured to create data about a plurality of pass patterns for which the assertion description passes from the structure data, a matching waveform calculating section configured to create waveform data for each signal in a circuit defined by the assertion description and correlation data that indicates a correlation between the waveform of each signal and a partial expression in the assertion description based on data of each of the plurality of pass patterns, and a display data outputting section configured to output display data about a diagram showing the correlation between each partial expression and the waveform of each signal for each pass pattern.

Abstract: A wire bonding method involves bonding a wire in order at a first bonding point and a second bonding point; raising a capillary, through which the wire is inserted, on the second bonding point; cutting the wire by closing a clamper provided above the capillary at a time when the capillary has reached a prescribed height; and measuring a load incurred on the wire at a time of cutting of the wire.

Abstract: According to embodiments, in a case that a source voltage is lowered and a potential difference between the source voltage and a ripple terminal voltage is below a constant potential difference, the ripple terminal voltage is lowered until the ripple terminal voltage reaches a first threshold value when a lowered value of the source voltage is equal to or larger than a predetermined voltage that exceeds the first threshold value by the constant potential difference, and the ripple terminal voltage is lowered until the ripple terminal voltage reaches a second threshold value smaller than the first threshold value when the lowered value of the source voltage is below the predetermined voltage.

Abstract: There is provided a technique in which a retracting operation of a bundle of sheets from a stapler after a staple process can be stably performed irrespective of the number of sheets constituting the bundle of sheets or the transport resistance. When the bundle of sheets subjected to the staple process is moved by a stacker in a direction of retracting from the stapler, an alignment roller is caused to come in contact with the bundle of sheets held by the stacker and to assist the movement of the bundle of sheet.

Abstract: An adjustable airway pressure system is provided. The system may include a cap and a canister. The cap may include a substantially hollow conduit having indicia indicative of a plurality of airway pressure values and adapted to receive and output exhaled gas. The conduit may have screw threads on an exterior surface of the conduit. The cap may also include an adjust collar circumscribing the conduit and having an interior surface with a second plurality of screw threads. The second plurality of screw threads may couple and be complementary to the first plurality of screw threads such that a rotation of the adjust collar causes the conduit to move in a substantially vertical direction. The conduit may be adapted to be adjusted to heights along a continuum. The canister may contain liquid and receive the conduit such that the received exhaled gas is output from the conduit into the liquid.

Abstract: One embodiment of the invention is an emulsion type inkjet ink including water, a pigment, an emulsifier, and an alcohol compound in which the alcohol compound is dispersed in water with the emulsifier. The emulsifier is a polyoxyethylene sorbitan fatty acid ester compound, and the alcohol compound is a compound including an aromatic ring and having a boiling point of 180° C. or higher.

Abstract: A distributed historian framework is provided where historical data is collected in accordance with an organizational model of a hierarchical system that is distributed across various elements of an enterprise. A directory service operates with the organizational model to enable configuration of historian components within the organization and to enable data to be located within the organization. In one aspect, an industrial automation system is provided. The system includes at least one historian component to archive data within an organization. A common data model then exposes functionality and data of the organization to the historian component.

Abstract: There is provided a technique which can contribute to the improvement of management efficiency of a document file. Metadata relating to a document as a management object are acquired, and the plural metadata are hierarchically displayed in a tree form based on respective attributes of the acquired plural metadata.

Abstract: A spatial motion calculation apparatus includes an image position relation calculation unit that calculates first similarities based on an image position relation between an inputted groups of feature points 1 and 2, a spatial position relation calculation unit that calculates second similarities based on an spatial position relation between said inputted groups, a feature descriptor relation calculation unit that calculates third similarities based on a feature descriptor relation between said inputted groups, and a spatial motion calculation unit that estimates the spatial motion based on the result that integrates the first to third similarities.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus management system in an example has an information communication terminal that transmits a print request for image data, an image forming apparatus that receives the print request transmitted from the information communication terminal, and a management server having a storage unit for storing a management database in which the information communication terminal and permitted image forming apparatuses for setting image forming apparatuses allowed to print the image data corresponding to the print request transmitted from the information communication terminal are registered in association with each other and a control unit for determining, on the basis of the management database stored by the storage unit, whether printing of the image data transmitted from the information communication terminal by the image forming apparatus should be permitted.

Abstract: In a document data management apparatus to manage document data read and digitized by an image reading apparatus, management of the document data is performed in view of the reliability of an image reading processing of the image reading apparatus, so that the reliability of various processings using the document data is improved. There are included a document data acquisition unit to acquire document data read and digitized by an image reading apparatus, a reliability determination unit to determine reliability of an image reading processing of the image reading apparatus for the document data based on the document data acquired by the document data acquisition unit, and a storage prohibition unit to prohibit, with respect to the document data for which the reliability determined by the reliability determination unit is lower than a specified threshold value, storage of the document data.

Abstract: An industrial control configuration can be a dynamic entity where different controllers are added, are subtracted, fail, etc. When dynamic functions occur, bindings of the configuration can benefit from a modification. Therefore, automatic adjustment of bindings can occur to facilitate improved operation. Automatic adjustment can be practiced when the industrial control configuration is a distributed control configuration without reliance upon a central database.

Abstract: A system is provided that facilitates read access in a memory device. The system comprises a plurality of row addresses buffers that store high order addresses associated with one or more software threads. The system further comprises a plurality of row data buffers. The row data buffers are each associated with at least one row address buffer and store row data within the range of the high order addresses of the row address buffers. The system increase memory device performance by limiting the latency associated with context switching. The plurality of row address buffers and row data buffers enables software threads to associate with one or more buffers and maintain efficient subsequent memory accesses despite context switching.

Abstract: The method for producing a developing agent according to the invention contains subjecting the toner material dispersion liquid to mechanical shearing to make the granular mixture into fine particles, thereby providing a dispersion liquid containing fine particles having a smaller particle diameter than a particle diameter of the granular mixture. The toner material dispersion liquid is subjected to mechanical shearing under a temperature of a glass transition point Tg of the binder resin or more and a pressure of 10 MPa or more, and the resulting dispersion liquid containing the fine particles is depressurized with two or more stages while maintaining the temperature of a glass transition point Tg of the binder resin or more and then cooled to a temperature of a glass transition point Tg of the binder resin or less.