Patents Assigned to INSTITUTE
  • Patent number: 9595256
    Abstract: A singing synthesis section for generating singing by integrating into one singing a plurality of vocals sung by a singer a plurality of times or vocals of which parts that he/she does not like are sung again. A music audio signal playback section plays back the music audio signal from a signal portion or its immediately preceding signal corresponding to a character in the lyrics when the character displayed on the display screen is selected by a character selecting section. An estimation and analysis data storing section automatically aligns the lyrics with the vocal, decomposes the vocal into three elements, pitch, power, and timber, and stores them. A data selecting section allows the user to select each of the three elements for respective time periods of phonemes. The data editing section modifies the time periods of the three elements in alignment with the modified time periods of the phonemes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 14, 2017
    Assignee: NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
    Inventors: Tomoyasu Nakano, Masataka Goto
  • Patent number: 9593290
    Abstract: This invention relates to a lubricating oil composition and production thereof. The lubricating oil composition comprises a Mannich base represented by the following formula (III) (wherein A and R2 are as defined in the specification) and a lubricant base oil. The lubricating oil composition according to this invention exhibits excellent cleansing and dispersing performance and excellent anticorrosion performance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 14, 2017
    Assignees: CHINA PETROLEUM & CHEMICAL CORPORATION, RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF PETROLEUM PROCESSING SINOPEC
    Inventors: Shihao Xin, Xin Xie, Zuoxin Huang, Qinghua Duan, Zhiqiang Wu, Lihua Wang
  • Publication number: 20170065966
    Abstract: Disclosed are a modified catalyst for converting ortho-hydrogen to para-hydrogen, in which a metal active material capable of converting ortho-hydrogen to para-hydrogen is coated on a surface of a porous support, a method for preparing the same, and an apparatus and a method for converting ortho-hydrogen to para-hydrogen in hydrogen gas using the same. Accordingly, a pressure drop may be prevented and impurities in hydrogen gas may also be simultaneously removed when ortho-hydrogen is converted to para-hydrogen, and a stable reaction operation may be enabled.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 7, 2016
    Publication date: March 9, 2017
    Applicant: KOREA INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
    Inventors: In Wook NAH, Sarng Woo KARNG, In Hwan OH, Kang Bong LEE, Jung Hyun KIM
  • Publication number: 20170066748
    Abstract: There is provided a labeling precursor compound represented by the following general formula (2): wherein R1 represents an alkynyl group, an alkynyloxy group, an azide group, an azidoalkyl group, an arylazide group, a monocyclic or condensed polycyclic aryl group or a nitrogen-containing heterocycle; R2 and R3 each independently represent an alkyl group or a hydroxyalkyl group which hydroxy group may be protected with a protecting group, and n is an integer of 1 or 2; R6 represents an alkyl group or —CONR11R12 wherein R11 and R12 each independently represent an alkyl group or a monocyclic or condensed polycyclic aryl group; and R4, R5, R7 and R8 each independently represent a hydrogen atom, an alkyl group or an alkoxy group.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 1, 2016
    Publication date: March 9, 2017
    Applicants: NIHON MEDI-PHYSICS CO., LTD., TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
    Inventors: Masahito TOYAMA, Masato KIRIU, Hiroshi TANAKA
  • Publication number: 20170067058
    Abstract: As a result of dedicated studies, the present inventors succeeded in discovering, for the first time, that fibrogenesis could be suppressed at the physiological tissue level by inhibiting sulfation at position 4 or 6 of GalNAc, which is a sugar that constitutes sugar chains. Furthermore, the present inventors conducted studies using various disease model animals, and as a result, successfully demonstrated that inhibitors of sulfation at position 4 or 6 of GalNAc had therapeutic effects on diseases caused by tissue fibrogenesis (tissue fibrogenic disorders).
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 21, 2016
    Publication date: March 9, 2017
    Applicant: STELIC INSTITUTE OF REGENERATIVE MEDICINE, STELIC INSTITUTE & CO.
    Inventors: Hiroyuki YONEYAMA, Jun KOYAMA, Masato FUJII
  • Publication number: 20170067011
    Abstract: A method for artificial cultivation of Ophiocordyceps sinensis fruiting bodies. The method comprises: inoculating Ophiocordyceps sinensis into a sterile rice medium, cultivating at 9-13° C. for 40-60 days, after the medium is covered with mycelia, performing low-temperature induction at 1-8° C. for 60-80 days to develop a fruiting body primordium, and transferring the cultivation to 11-16° C. till harvest of the fruiting bodies. The method provided by the present invention requires no low-oxygen environment, which can reduce cultivation cost; it only needs 3-4 months from induction to harvest of fruiting bodies; the rice medium for use has a low cost, which is suitable for commercial cultivation of Ophiocordyceps sinensis fruiting bodies.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 2, 2014
    Publication date: March 9, 2017
    Applicant: GUANGDONG ENTOMOLOGICAL INSTITUTE
    Inventors: Li Cao, Richou Han
  • Publication number: 20170067998
    Abstract: A synchronization method between satellite time and ground time, and a satellite system using the same are provided, in which the satellite system includes a satellite and a ground equipment, in which the ground equipment generates a satellite command including information about time difference between the ground time and the satellite time included in a telemetry data frame transmitted from the satellite and transmits the satellite command to the satellite, and the satellite can synchronize the satellite time with the ground time, using the information about the time difference included in the satellite command.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 26, 2015
    Publication date: March 9, 2017
    Applicant: KOREA AEROSPACE RESEARCH INSTITUTE
    Inventor: Yee-jin CHEON
  • Publication number: 20170068849
    Abstract: Disclosed is an apparatus for hand gesture recognition based on a depth image, which includes a depth image acquiring unit configured to acquire a depth image including a hand region, a depth point classifying unit configured to classify depth points of a hand region in the depth image according to a corresponding hand portion by means of a machine studying method, and a hand model matching unit configured to match a three-dimensional hand model with the classified depth points by using distances between the classified depth points and a hand portion respectively corresponding to the depth points. A recognition method using the apparatus is also disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 24, 2016
    Publication date: March 9, 2017
    Applicant: KOREA INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
    Inventors: Hwasup LIM, Sungkuk CHUN, Sang Chul AHN
  • Publication number: 20170065069
    Abstract: Nanobrushes, methods of forming nanobrushes, and methods of altering material with a nanobrush are disclosed herein. A nanobrush may include a substrate having a surface and a plurality of bristles deposited on at least one portion of the surface. The plurality of bristles may be arranged into a plurality of bunches. Each of the plurality of bunches may be spaced from an adjacent bunch at a bunch interval equal to or less than about 100 ?m.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 25, 2015
    Publication date: March 9, 2017
    Applicant: INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY KANPUR
    Inventors: Ramakrishna SUBRAMANIAM ANANTHA, Jhuma DUTTA
  • Publication number: 20170065764
    Abstract: A neural probe structure has a probe having a microfluidic channel. The probe is inserted into an inside of a subject. A body to which the probe is fixed has a fluid entrance communicating with the microfluidic channel. A cover element is fixed to the body to cover the fluid entrance. The cover element has a connecting opening to which an external conduit is connected, and a fluid delivery channel extending such that the connecting opening and the fluid entrance are in fluid communication. A fluid fed from the external conduit flows along the fluid delivery channel, goes into the fluid entrance, and is delivered to the subject through the microfluidic channel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 29, 2016
    Publication date: March 9, 2017
    Applicant: KOREA INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
    Inventors: Il-Joo CHO, Eui Sung YOON, Hyogeun SHIN, Uikyu CHAE, Hyunjoo Jenny LEE
  • Publication number: 20170068333
    Abstract: In a portable type information input and output apparatus having a portable housing, the control unit performs a control to determine whether a detected output by a first sensor (light sensor or atmospheric pressure sensor) for detecting a first environmental change in three-dimensional space exceeds a threshold value or not, and to execute command by regarding all or part of information obtained by a second sensor (acceleration sensor, angular velocity sensor, direction sensor, atmospheric pressure sensor or temperature sensor) for detecting a second environmental change in the three-dimensional space as an input information, and to generate an output signal according to the second environmental change in the three-dimensional space based on the input information, and to output the generated output signal as a vibration information from an information output device composed of at least one vibration device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 4, 2015
    Publication date: March 9, 2017
    Applicant: USUDA RESEARCH INSTITUTE & SYSTEMS CORPORATION
    Inventor: Hiroshi USUDA
  • Publication number: 20170070763
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are an apparatus for controlling copying of broadcast content and a method for recording and playing back broadcast content using the apparatus. The broadcast content copying control apparatus includes a communication unit for receiving a request for recording of broadcast content from a DRM client, and receiving content management information (CMI) corresponding to the broadcast content from a DMCD server, a security package configuration unit for configuring a DMCD security package using the CMI, a content management unit for recording the broadcast content based on recording permission information included in the CMI, and an encryption/decryption unit for encrypting the broadcast content, wherein the communication unit transmits recording result information to the DRM client, wherein the recording result information includes at least one of recording status information of the broadcast content, copy control information (CCI) corresponding to the broadcast content, and the CMI.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 1, 2016
    Publication date: March 9, 2017
    Applicant: ELECTRONICS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS RESEARCH INSTITUTE
    Inventor: Han-Seung KOO
  • Publication number: 20170064963
    Abstract: A method of inactivating B antracis spores in a contaminated target environment by: exposing the environment containing said spores to an effective amount of persulfate in solution and an oxidation agent, and allowing the persulfate solution and oxidation agent to remain in contact with the environment containing said spores for sufficient time to inactivate the spores.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 21, 2016
    Publication date: March 9, 2017
    Applicants: U.S. ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY, BATTELLE MEMORIAL INSTITUTE
    Inventors: Joseph P. WOOD, Morgan Q.S. WENDLING, Andrew LASTIVKA
  • Publication number: 20170065539
    Abstract: Methods of shortening the duration of anti-infective therapy and increasing the effectiveness of anti-infective drugs in subjects with infection are present. The methods are based on altering the replication rate of a pathogen, which makes the pathogen more susceptible to the actions of the anti-infective drug.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 26, 2016
    Publication date: March 9, 2017
    Applicant: INSTITUTE FOR CLINICAL PHARMACODYNAMICS, INC.
    Inventor: Paul G. Ambrose
  • Publication number: 20170065928
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a system and a method therefor capable of reducing the amount of heat which must be supplied to a regeneration tower for regenerating an absorbent in an acid gas capture process for such acid gas as carbon dioxide and provides a low energy-type acid gas capture system and method using recirculation of an absorbent capable of reducing energy consumption by recirculating the absorbent, from which acid gas has been pre-separated, to an absorption tower before supplying the absorbent to the regeneration tower in an acid gas capture system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 7, 2014
    Publication date: March 9, 2017
    Applicant: KOREA INSTITUTE OF ENERGY RESEARCH
    Inventors: Il Hyun BAEK, Jong Kyun YOU, Ki-Tae PARK, JeongnNam KIM, SungYoun KIM
  • Publication number: 20170069489
    Abstract: Preparing a low dielectric constant thin film layer used in an integrated circuit includes: extracting gas out of a furnace; when the vacuum level within the furnace is less than 10?3 Pa, starting a 13.36 MHz radio frequency power supply and a matcher; sending the exhaust nitrogen gas, used to remove remaining gas out of the furnace by a third gas inlet pipe, into the furnace through a second pressure gas mixing tank and a second nozzle sequentially; uniformly mixing octamethyl cyclotetrasiloxane and cyclohexane, and introducing same into a pressure stainless steel tank, and, respectively by first and second gas inlet tubes, introducing bubbled nitrogen gas and inert gas into the furnace sequentially through a first pressure gas mixing tank, the pressure stainless steel tank and a first nozzle; after deposition, transferring the deposited thin film layer to the furnace's heating zone for annealing, obtaining a low dielectric constant thin film layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 23, 2014
    Publication date: March 9, 2017
    Applicant: ZHANGJIAGANG INSTITUTE OF INDUSTRIAL TECHNOLOGIES SOOCHOW UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Xuhui SUN, Yujian XIA
  • Publication number: 20170069965
    Abstract: An antenna structure with reconfigurable patterns includes a grounded plane, at least one active antenna, and at least one current dragger. The active antenna is disposed adjacent to a side of the grounded plane, while the current dragger is disposed adjacent to another side of the grounded plane. The current dragger includes at least one switch. The at least one switch is configured to selectively conduct a current at the grounded plane to the current dragger or electrically insulate a current at the grounded plane from the current dragger.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 12, 2013
    Publication date: March 9, 2017
    Applicant: INDUSTRIAL TECHNOLOGY RESEARCH INSTITUTE
    Inventors: TA CHUN PU, JUI HUNG CHEN, HUNG HSUAN LIN, CHUN YIH WU
  • Publication number: 20170070892
    Abstract: Disclosed is a mobile communication network system and a network configuring method. The communication network system includes: a common control access network; at least one access network slice added according to a service type requested by a device; a common control core network; and at least one core network slice added according to a service type requested by the device. The access network slice and the core network slice are determined by the service type requested by the device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 7, 2016
    Publication date: March 9, 2017
    Applicant: ELECTRONICS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS RESEARCH INSTITUTE
    Inventors: Pyeong Jung SONG, Hyun LEE, Sung Cheol CHANG
  • Publication number: 20170066936
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an ink composition containing a multifunctional adhesive suitable for a three-dimensional (3D) printer and the use thereof. The multifunctional adhesive of the present invention contains a compound with a catechol group and exhibits excellent adhesion to various materials (e.g. dry plaster powders, polymers, metals, ceramics, and composite materials). The use of the ink composition of the present invention containing the multifunctional adhesive enables the processing of various functional materials that were difficult to fabricate into a 3D structure. Therefore, it is highly likely that the ink composition of the present invention can effectively create a market for functional materials for a 3D printer and find new areas of application (e.g. automotive, medical, fashion, aviation/aerospace, construction, consumer electronics, entertainment, etc.).
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 28, 2016
    Publication date: March 9, 2017
    Applicant: KOREA INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
    Inventors: Heonju LEE, Myoungwoon MOON, Wonjin JO, Sangsoo HAN, Haeshin LEE, Intaek SONG
  • Patent number: 9590237
    Abstract: A lithium-ion secondary battery of the present invention comprises a positive electrode including a positive electrode active material composite formed by compositing a lithium silicate-based material and a carbon material, a negative electrode including a negative electrode active material containing a silicon, and an electrolyte. The lithium-ion secondary battery satisfies 0.8<B/A<1.2, where A is irreversible capacity of the positive electrode and B is irreversible capacity of the negative electrode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 8, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2017
    Assignees: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOYOTA JIDOSHOKKI, NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
    Inventors: Akira Kojima, Junichi Niwa, Kazuhito Kawasumi, Yuta Ikeuchi, Masanori Morishita, Toshikatsu Kojima, Tetsuo Sakai