Abstract: An analog/digital converter includes: a first analog/digital conversion unit that performs digital conversion on received first analog input voltage in a first time period; a second analog/digital conversion unit that performs digital conversion on received second analog input voltage in a second time period that is different from the first time period; and a first coupling capacitor that connects the first analog/digital conversion unit and the second analog/digital conversion unit, and wherein the second analog/digital conversion unit receives, through the first coupling capacitor, first residual voltage that is remaining voltage of the first analog input voltage on which digital conversion is performed in the first analog/digital conversion unit, as the second analog input voltage.

Abstract: An encoding apparatus having a direct mode as a prediction mode, when a pixel with opposite parity from a top field to a bottom field, for example, is referred to for obtaining a reference vector in the direct mode, performs correction by adding or subtracting a value corresponding to a half pixel to or from a value of the obtained reference vector. The encoding apparatus, when a pixel with opposite parity is referred to for obtaining a first and a second direct vector by temporally scaling the corrected reference vector, performs correction by adding or subtracting a value corresponding to a half pixel to or from values of the obtained direct vectors.

Abstract: A computer-readable recording medium having stored therein a program for causing a computer to execute a circuit design process includes: calculating a maximum number of wirings arrangeable in an adjacent region of a part on a board based on a design rule; and drawing the wirings of the maximum number in the adjacent region of the part on the board.

Abstract: A power amplifier includes: an amplifier; a matching circuit, including a variable reactance magnetic device having a reactance which varies in accordance with a magnetic field, configured to match an output of the amplifier with a certain impedance; an amplitude detector configured to detect the amplitude of an input signal for the amplifier; and a magnetic-field control circuit configured to apply a magnetic field corresponding to the amplitude detected by the amplitude detector to the variable reactance magnetic device.

Abstract: A sound processing device includes a first calculation unit configured to calculate a suppression gain of noise by using respective input signals input from a plurality of microphones; an integration unit configured to obtain an integration gain by using a suppression gain of an acoustic echo and the suppression gain of the noise; an application unit configured to apply the integration gain to one input signal among the plurality of input signals; and a second calculation unit configured to calculate the suppression gain of the acoustic echo by using signals to which the integration gain is applied, output signals that are output to a replay device, and the one input signal.

Abstract: A storage unit stores therein an association relationship between information for specifying a first portion of a file in a first table format and information for specifying a second portion of a file in a second table format. The control unit extracts, upon receiving a search request for an area to be influenced by the first portion, the information for specifying the second portion associated with the information for specifying the first portion by referring to the storage unit, and outputs the information for specifying the second portion and information for specifying the file in the second table format containing the second portion, as a reply to the search request.

Abstract: An apparatus obtains response information including a result of processing executed by a virtual machine operates on the first device, calculates the first value that is used to evaluate a response time from transmission of the request information to reception of the response information, calculates a ratio of processing capability of the first device to processing capability of the second device, calculates, based on the first value and the ratio, a second value that is used to evaluate a processing time until a response for a request is received when the virtual machine operates on the second device, determines the second device to be a migration destination candidate of the virtual machine when the second value is smaller than a threshold value, migrates the virtual machine that operates on the first device to the migration destination candidate to turn off the power of the first device.

Abstract: An interrupt monitoring apparatus includes a storage that stores a given threshold that corresponds to an external interrupt notification; a measuring circuit that measures time that elapses from a time when the external interrupt notification is received until a time when dispatch notification is received from a CPU; a comparing circuit that compares the given threshold and the time measured by the measuring circuit; and an output circuit that outputs to the CPU, a comparison result obtained by the comparing circuit.

Abstract: A virtual tape device includes a determination unit and a copy creation unit. The determination unit determines, when deleting some logical volume data among a plurality of logical volume data stored on a first physical tape, whether to conduct copy processing to store a copy of the logical volume data onto a second physical tape on the basis of a storage location of the logical volume data. The copy creation unit stores, when it is determined to conduct the copy processing, a copy of the logical volume data on the second physical tape so as to cause spacing between a storage location of the logical volume data on the second physical tape and a head location on the second physical tape to become shorter than spacing between a storage location of the logical volume data on the first physical tape and a head location on the first physical tape.

Abstract: A data transmission method and system, transmitter and receiver. The method includes: mapping, by a transmitter, a plurality of data streams to a plurality of antennas of the transmitter by using precoding matrices and transmitting the plurality of data streams to a receiver via the plurality of antennas, wherein the transmitter selects the precoding matrices by taking a resource block as a granularity. With the embodiments of the present invention, the transmitter may transmit data streams to the receiver by using the precoding matrices W, and selects the precoding matrices W by taking a resource block (RB) as a granularity, so as to support DM-RS demodulation, and the receiver is not needed to perform PMI feedback, which is also applicable to a scenario where user feedback is not supported or PMI feedback is inaccurate, thereby achieving open-loop spatial multiplexing CoMP transmission.

Abstract: A wireless communication system includes a base station and a mobile station that communicates with the base station. The base station includes a sending unit. The sending unit sends, to the mobile station, a first signal that indicates, as a notification, reduction of the number of candidates for channels each of which includes control information addressed to the mobile station. The mobile station includes a receiving unit and an acquiring unit. The receiving unit receives the first signal sent by the sending unit. The acquiring unit monitors one or a plurality of channels the number of which has been reduced, from the candidates, based on the first signal and acquires the control information from the one or the plurality of channels.

Abstract: An electronic apparatus includes a fan unit having a first connector part and a second connector part disposed at different positions, and a housing configured to accommodate the fan unit. The housing includes a connector and a connector protecting part. The connector is configured to be connected to one of the first and the second connector parts, and the connector protecting part is configured to cover the other one of the first and the second connector parts when the fan unit is inserted into the housing.

Abstract: A transmission signal power control device includes: at least one low-power attenuator configured to attenuate amplitude of a transmission signal when an absolute value of the amplitude of the transmission signal is smaller than or equal to a clipping threshold; a power amplifier configured to amplify the transmission signal output from the at least one low-power attenuator; and a control unit configured to stop operation of the power amplifier when the absolute value of the amplitude of the transmission signal is smaller than or equal to a value and operate the power amplifier when the absolute value of the amplitude of the transmission signal is larger than the value.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes: a dividing unit that divides a storage region in accordance with storage region management information, the storage region management information and type information; a setting unit that selects a first division region from division regions indicative of the divided storage region and that puts the first division region in a stand-by state; a detecting unit that detects an abnormality in information processing when the information processing is performed using a second division region of the division regions; a controlling unit that puts the second division region in the stand-by state and that causes the first division region, which has been in the stand-by state, to recover; and an analyzing unit that adds the second division region that is in the stand-by state to a physical address space, and that analyzes information stored in the second division region.

Abstract: An HEMT includes, on an SiC substrate, a compound semiconductor layer, a silicon nitride (SiN) protective film having an opening and covering the compound semiconductor layer, and a gate electrode formed on the compound semiconductor layer so as to plug the opening. In the protective film, a projecting portion projecting from a side surface of the opening is formed at a lower layer portion 6a.

Abstract: An information processing system includes an information processing apparatus and a first and second storage apparatuses. The first storage apparatus receives a first migration command for migrating data from the first storage apparatus to the second storage apparatus, creates inheritance-destination information based on the first migration command, instructs the second storage apparatus to create inheritance-source information based on the first migration command, and performs migration of the data in accordance with the first migration command.

Abstract: A wiring design support apparatus includes: an input device with which input data about a wiring design content in a multilayered printed circuit board is input; a storage device includes a stab length limitation value table and a back drill application table stored therein, wherein the stab length limitation value table includes set data of a limitation value about a stab length of a through hole of the printed circuit board, and the back drill application table includes set data of information about whether a conductor of a stab of the printed circuit board can be removed or not; and a processor configured to determine, based on the stab length limitation value table and the back drill application table, whether a wiring design of the input data is appropriate.

Abstract: A disclosed output method includes: receiving, from an output apparatus of plural output apparatuses, notification that represents that a radio wave from a portable apparatus was received; and causing the output apparatus that received the radio wave to restart both or either of an image output and a sound output, which were stopped, for example, in another output apparatus of the plural output apparatuses after detecting that no radio wave was received from the portable apparatus. For example, when the timing of the stop in the image such as video and/or sound is stored, the output apparatus restarts both or either of the image output and the sound output from the stored timing.

Abstract: In order to identify a parallel-executed portion of processes included in a business flow, following stages are executed: obtaining transaction records including a processing time, a process type and an identifier from a database; grouping the transaction records based on the identifier and sorting the transaction records within a group based on the processing time; in case where the processing time included in the transaction record represents only one time, calculating a processing period of each transaction record based on a sequence of the processing times in the transaction records in the group; identifying a transaction record relating to a process executed in parallel based on the distribution of the calculated processing periods for each process type; and identifying, for each group, a business flow of the group based on the processing result of the identifying the transaction record and the transaction records in the group.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a determination unit and a graph generation unit. The determination unit determines a graph type by analyzing character strings to be presented in an electronic document. The graph generation unit generates a graph of the graph type based on data of the electronic document.