Abstract: A method for manufacturing a semiconductor device includes preparing a semiconductor substrate having a first region of a first electrical conduction type as a part of a surface layer of the semiconductor substrate and a first gate electrode and a capacitor structure, the first gate electrode and the capacitor structure being disposed on the first region; forming a first insulating film covering the first gate electrode and the capacitor structure, the first insulating film being covering the surface of the semiconductor substrate; implanting a first impurity of a second electrical conduction type into the semiconductor substrate, so as to form a region of the second electrical conduction type in each of a second region and a third region, the second region being a region between the first gate electrode and the capacitor structure, the third region being a region opposite to the capacitor structure with the first gate electrode therebetween.

Abstract: An arithmetic circuit calculates a correction value for a value that is obtained by an add-subtract operation of two values and that is expressed in a predetermined fixed precision.

Abstract: An information processor transmits and receives electronic information via a network, and includes an electronic information encrypting unit which encrypts the electronic information. A storage unit stores the electronic information and the encrypted electronic information data encrypted by the electronic information encrypting unit. An electronic credit generating unit generates a letter of credit to erase the electronic information from the storage unit and to transmit the encrypted electronic information data to the other information processor. An electronic information communicating unit transmits and receives the encrypted electronic information data and the electronic letter of credit to and from the other information processor.

Abstract: A method of manufacturing a semiconductor device on the basis of changed design layout data. The method decides a functional relationship between layout parameters based on layout data and the electrical characteristic of a plurality of semiconductor elements. Candidates of the values of the layout parameters are extracted from design layout data so as to decrease the difference between a target electrical characteristic and a predicted electrical characteristic. A specific value from the candidate values of the layout parameters is selected and the design layout data is changed based on the specific selected value.

Abstract: A transport apparatus includes a plurality of transport processing units. The transport processing unit transports optical signals on an optical network which controls, by transmitting or receiving the optical signals including control information, apparatuses that are managed on the basis of areas. The transport processing unit includes a setting-information storage unit that stores therein setting information indicating a group to which a plurality of apparatuses within the area belongs, a frame generating unit that, upon receiving the optical signal, determines on the basis of the setting information whether the control information is to be terminated or to be passed through itself, sets a destination depending on the result of the determination, and generates a frame including the control information, and a path switching unit that switches a path of the frame on the basis of the destination of the frame.

Abstract: A managed server (srv-10) is powered on by a power controlling unit. The managed server executes a POST process, and transfers a PXE request to a boot controlling unit. The boot controlling unit transfers an HBA vendor determining program. In the managed server, the WWN is set by an HBA vendor-dedicated program corresponding to an HBA vendor, and when a PCI initialization code can not be loaded, the POST process is re-started, and the PXE request is transferred again. The boot controlling unit transfers an NOP program, and the managed server starts an OS with a SAN boot.

Abstract: A capacitive sensor includes a plurality of electrodes each of which outputs an electrical signal corresponding to a capacitance determined by a distance between a surface of the capacitive sensor and an electrical conductor. The plurality of electrodes include electrodes having a first parasitic capacitance and electrodes having a second parasitic capacitance different from the first parasitic capacitance, and are arranged in a prescribed pattern different than a pattern of biometric information of a body part to be read by the capacitive sensor.

Abstract: A communication system wherein a base station sends packets having sequence numbers attached, to a mobile station, the mobile station rearranges the packets by sequence number, and hard handover is performed. A handover source base station having a controller decides whether the handover source base station forwards packets which were not sent to the mobile station, out of packets received from a host station, to a handover target base station, controls forwarding of the packets to the handover target base station and sends forwarding execution information from the handover source base station to the mobile station to notify whether the forwarding of the packets has been executed, the mobile station including a receiver that receives the forwarding execution information from the handover source base station; and a controller that executes reordering of the received packets based on the forwarding execution information at the handover.

Abstract: A semiconductor device includes a gate insulation film formed over a semiconductor substrate; a cap film formed over the gate insulation film; a silicon oxide film formed over the cap film; a metal gate electrode formed over the silicon oxide film; and source/drain diffused layers formed in the semiconductor substrate on both sides of the metal gate electrode.

Abstract: A decoding apparatus decodes a first encoded data that is encoded from a low-frequency component of an audio signal, and a second encoded data that is used when creating a high-frequency component of an audio signal from a low-frequency component and encoded in accordance with a certain bandwidth, into the audio signal. In the decoding apparatus, a high-frequency component detecting unit divides the high-frequency component into bands with a certain interval range correspondingly to the certain bandwidth, and detects magnitude of the high-frequency components corresponding to each of the bands. A high-frequency component compensating unit compensates the high-frequency components based on the magnitude of the high-frequency components corresponding to each of the bands detected by the high-frequency component detecting unit.

Abstract: A storage apparatus includes a written state bit map memory that stores a written state bit map that includes bits each allocated to one of partial areas of a storage device for storing write management information indicating whether written data is present in a partial area of the storage device that is allocated to one of the bits, a bit map management section, when data is written into a partial area of the storage device in response to a write request from the host apparatus, that sets a value indicating that the data is written into the partial area to a bit allocated to the partial area in which the data is written, and a patrolling process section for performing a patrolling process on the partial areas of the storage device on the basis of the write management information stored in the written state bit map memory.

Abstract: An optical transmission apparatus comprising a first gradient index lens, an optical receiver, and a second gradient index lens. The first gradient index lens is connected to an end of an optical transmission line. The optical receiver receives light and is provided to an electronic device. The second gradient index lens is arranged between the first gradient index lens and the optical receiver.

Abstract: A signal restoration circuit includes a storage configured to store input signals by disposing the input signals in an input order, the input signals being readable from the storage in the disposed order, and a storage controller configured to control delay time from an input of the input signal to an output in the storage based on delay information of the input signal.

Abstract: An electronic apparatus includes a housing, a printed substrate and a holder. The housing includes a front surface, a back surface, and a side surface which connects between the front surface and the back surface. The side surface includes an opening. The printed substrate includes a first surface on which a switch is mounted and a second surface which is on the reverse side of the first surface. The holder includes a holding portion and an operating portion, the holding portion is configured to hold the printed substrate under the first surface of the printed substrate facing the side surface of the housing, the operating portion is integrally formed in the holder and is exposed from the opening.

Abstract: A video playback device includes a part to acquire a first video data at a first frame rate containing frame sequences each including a frame holding information about a background image and information about a moving object image, and second frames each holding information about position of the moving object image; and a generation part to generate, based on the first video data, a second video data to be played back at a second frame rate, the generation part includes a part to compute, with respect to each two contiguous frames in the first video content, position of a virtual moving object image situated in between two moving object images in the two contiguous frames; and a part to create, with respect to each position of the virtual moving object image, a frame image containing the background image and the motion object image placed in the computed position.

Abstract: The embodiments disclose a method of and a device for identifying direction of characters in image block. The method includes: performing optical character recognition processing on the image block by assuming various directions as assumed character directions to obtain sub image blocks, recognized characters and correctness measures in each assumed direction; in sub image blocks in the assumed directions with a 180° mutual relation, searching for a minimum matching pair; when there is one sub image block in each assumed direction in a minimum matching pair and recognized characters belonging to the minimum matching pair are the same rotation invariant character or belong to the same rotation invariant character pair, adjusting their correctness measures to the same; calculating an accumulative correctness measure in each assumed direction based on the adjusted results; and identifying the direction of the characters in the image block according to the accumulative correctness measures.

Abstract: In response to receiving second transmission timing adjustment information during connection processing while the user equipment is performing the connection processing to the base station based on first transmission timing adjustment information, the first transmission timing adjustment information is applied to transmission timing adjustment for transmission processing until a valid term of the first transmission timing adjustment information; and the second transmission timing adjustment information is applied to transmission timing adjustment for transmission processing after the valid term of the first transmission timing adjustment information.

Abstract: A receiving apparatus includes a memory that stores parameters corresponding to lines based on a first time interval and a second time interval in a coordinate space in which first phase rotation in a reception signal is defined as a first axis and second phase rotation in a reception signal is defined as a second axis; a selecting device that selects a line that is closest to a coordinate point in the solution space, the coordinate point being represented by a first observation value of the first phase rotation and a second observation value of the second phase rotation; an acquiring device that acquires the parameters corresponding to the line from the memory; and an estimating device that estimates, based on the parameters, the first observation value, and the first time interval or the parameters, the second observation value, and the second time interval, frequency deviations of the reception signals.

Abstract: A biometric authentication device and method include extracting movement information representing bending and stretching of an imaging object from a plurality of images obtained, and determining whether or not the imaging object is a biological object, based on the movement information.

Abstract: An adaptive equalizer and an adaptive equalizing method are provided. The adaptive equalizer includes an adaptive equalizing unit, for adaptively equalizing an inputted signal to output the equalized signal; a coefficient updating unit, for updating a coefficient of a filter of the adaptive equalizing unit; a switching unit, connected between the coefficient updating unit and the adaptive equalizing unit and a monitoring device, for controlling on or off of the switching unit in accordance with the fact that a down sampling phase of the inputted signal or a down sampling phase of the equalized signal is within a predetermined range. When the switching unit is on, the coefficient updating unit is capable of updating the coefficient of the adaptive equalizing unit, and when the switching unit is off, the coefficient updating unit is incapable of updating the coefficient of the adaptive equalizing unit.