Abstract: A clock distributor includes unit circuit parts each including an oscillator, a first element configured to convert output voltage of the oscillator into a current, a second element having a voltage current conversion characteristic of an opposite phase to that of the first element, the second element being feedback connected to the first element and the oscillator, a third element configured to convert output voltage of the oscillator into a current, a fourth element having a voltage current conversion characteristic of an opposite phase to that of the third element, the fourth element being feedback connected to the third element and the oscillator; a wiring part to connect a connection part of the first and second elements of a unit circuit part to a connection part of the third and fourth elements of another unit circuit part; and a synchronization circuit connected to the oscillator of a unit circuit part.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a receiving unit that receives an access request for data from one of a plurality of information processing apparatuses in a distributed processing system in which the information processing apparatuses execute a process in a distributed manner, a query issuing unit that issues, when the access request for the data is received by the receiving unit, a query to each of the information processing apparatuses as to whether the data is stored in a page cache managed by an operating system on each of the information processing apparatuses, and a responding unit that makes a response to the access request, the response specifying, as an access destination, an information processing apparatus that has responded to the query issued by the query issuing unit.

Abstract: A transmission device transmits a frame to a correspondent device and receives a frame from the correspondent device. The transmission device includes: a measurement unit configured to perform a delay measurement that measures a period of time from when a frame is transmitted to the correspondent device until when a corresponding frame is received from the correspondent device; and a delay decision unit configured to determine a transmission delay between the transmission device and the correspondent device based on a plurality of target measurement results obtained from a plurality of delay measurements except for at least a first delay measurement among delay measurements performed by the measurement unit.

Abstract: A mobile phone, into which a voice call function is embedded, includes a processor that controls the entire mobile phone, and a function DB that stores control content of respective voice processing which is to be performed on a call voice, in association with each call category. In addition, the processor estimates a call category type on the basis of an amount of transmitting voice of current communication content, and reads the control content of the respective voice processing corresponding to the call category type from the function DB. Furthermore, the processor performs the respective voice processing on the call voice being communicated, on the basis of the read control content of the respective voice processing.

Abstract: A mobile station in a communication system for sending packets, to which numbers indicating sequence are attached, from a base station to a mobile station and performing delivery of the packets in order of the sequence number in the mobile station, includes a buffer which stores packets received from both a source base station and a target base station; and a control unit which performs the delivery of the stored packets in order of the sequence number at the handover procedure based on information indicating whether packets which are not sent from the source base station to the mobile station, are forwarded from a source base station to a target base station is set, the information being received from the source base station.

Abstract: A wireless communication method includes: detecting, at a wireless communication apparatus, a collision of data transmitted from a plurality of wireless communication terminals during a first period that is in a communication-enabled state; shifting, when the collision has been detected, a second period, which belongs to the same frame as the first period and is in a communication-disabled state, to a communication-enabled state; transmitting, at the wireless communication apparatus, a request to the plurality of wireless communication terminals for retransmission of the data and receiving data transmitted from the plurality of wireless communication terminals in response to the request, using the shifted second period.

Abstract: Provided is a transmission circuit that includes first and second drive circuits. A first digital signal at a data rate of a predetermined period length is input to the first drive circuit. A second digital signal at the data rate of the predetermined period length shifted by ½ of the predetermined period length relative to the first digital signal is input to second drive circuit. The outputs of the first drive circuit and the second drive circuit are connected. The connected output indicates the maximum level or the minimum level when the value of the first digital signal and the value of the second digital signal are the same. The connected output indicates a level between the maximum level and the minimum level when the value of the first digital signal and the value of the second digital signal are different.

Abstract: A computer-readable recording medium stores a data sharing program that causes a processor of a first terminal to execute a process that includes detecting a communication bandwidth used between the first terminal and a second terminal that are communicably connected in an ad-hoc network; comparing the detected communication bandwidth and a bandwidth related to a storage apparatus of the first terminal; determining an operation scheme related to data sharing of data in the storage apparatus of the first terminal and data in a storage apparatus of the second terminal, based on a comparison result obtained at the comparing; notifying the second terminal of the determined operation scheme; and executing a mounting process that enables access of the storage apparatus of the first terminal by the second terminal, based on the determined operation scheme.

Abstract: A method for changing, by using a computer, an arrangement of strings that are arranged along an inner periphery of a graphic and partially overlap one another is offered. The computer arranges the strings in a radial pattern from a reference point determined within the graphic, determines whether overlapping strings are present, and moves the reference point in a direction to separate from the overlapping strings when the computer determines that the overlapping strings are present.

Abstract: A computer-readable recording medium stores a program for causing an apparatus to execute a procedure. The procedure includes: regarding each data in a data set having a key and a value corresponding to the key, calculating a key characteristic value of the data as an index value indicating an existence of the key in the data and another key included in the value based on the value of the key and the value of the other key included in the value; generating a segment in which data blocks of which the calculated key characteristic values are similar to each other are grouped in one group; and setting a storage destination of the data in the generated segment.

Abstract: A writing-system comprises a first and a second writing-device, and is connected to an information-processor-apparatus that obtains unwritten-data from the first and the second writing-devices when a notification is received, the notification indicating that the unwritten-data is generated while writing data on a recording-medium used by either of the writing-devices, wherein the first writing-device comprises a first writing-unit, when the unwritten-data is generated while writing data on a recording-medium, transmits to the information-processor-apparatus, dummy information for inhibiting the unwritten-data to be obtained by the information-processor-apparatus, and writes the unwritten-data to a memory-unit, the recording-medium and the memory-unit are included in a cartridge accommodated in the first writing-device, and the second writing-device comprises a second writing-unit that writes, on the recording-medium, the unwritten-data stored in the memory-unit when the cartridge is moved from the first writi

Abstract: A method for transmitting uplink response signals is provided. In the method, at the terminal device side, the signal which represents whether the transmission block is received correctly is sent in Physical Uplink Control Channel (PUCCH) corresponding to the specific transmission block, so that a Base Station (BS) is informed which transmission blocks are received correctly. The base station device side determines that the transmission blocks excluding the transmission blocks which are determined to be received correctly are retransmitted according to the feedback response signals instead of retransmitting all the transmission blocks, thus improving the efficiency of data transmission, reducing the unnecessary retransmission, and benefiting full use of the communication resources. The related terminal device and base station device for implementing the method are also provided.

Abstract: The present invention provides a nonlinear estimating apparatus and method, and a receiver. The nonlinear estimating apparatus includes: an information sequence acquiring unit, configured to acquire a symbol information sequence of the pulse signal inputted by a transmitting side; a perturbation quantity generating unit, configured to calculate the weighted sum of the interaction items of the pulses on one or more moments relative to the current moment, so as to obtain an additive perturbation quantity and a multiplicative perturbation quantity produced on a transmission link with a certain length; and a signal estimating unit, configured to estimating the signal received at a receiving side according to the symbol information sequence, the additive perturbation quantity and the multiplicative perturbation quantity. With the embodiments of the present invention, the accuracy of estimation of nonlinear signals may be further improved.

Abstract: A frame transmission system includes a frame transmitter and a frame receiver. The frame transmitter includes a frame fragmentation unit and a reproduction header appending unit. The frame fragmentation unit fragments an input frame and outputs transfer frames when the length of the input frame exceeds a predetermined fragmentation reference frame length, and does not fragment the input frame and outputs the input frame as a transfer frame when the length of the input frame is less than or equal to the fragmentation reference frame length. The reproduction header appending unit appends a reproduction header to the transfer frames outputted from the frame fragmentation unit. Here, the reproduction header being required when the transfer frames are reproduced at a receiving side. The reproduction header appending unit varies the header length of the reproduction header to be appended to the transfer frame, according to the length of the input frame.

Abstract: An image file processing apparatus includes an image generation apparatus that carries out: (a) storing with a table in which identifiers for identifying data representing design values of design elements are associated with data representing design values by each of the design elements of the design object; (b) acquiring image generation data for each of the design elements of the design object based on design data of the design object; and (c) generating image data expressing an image for each of the design elements of the design object based on the image generation data, deriving the identifiers corresponding to design values for the image data based on the table, associating the derived identifiers with the generated image data, and, for each of the design elements of the design object, generating an image file containing the image data and definition data related to the image data.

Abstract: A reverberation reduction device includes, a processor; and a memory which stores a plurality of instructions, which when executed by the processor, cause the processor to execute, calculating reverberation characteristics in response to an impulse response of a path of a sound from an audio output unit to an audio input unit by determining the impulse response from a first audio signal and a second audio signal that represents a sound that the audio input unit has picked up from the first audio signal reproduced by the audio output unit, and estimating a distance from the audio input unit to a sound source in accordance with at least one of a volume and a frequency characteristic of a third audio signal that represents a sound that the audio input unit has picked up from a sound from the sound source; correcting the reverberation characteristics so that the reverberation characteristics.

Abstract: A computer-readable recording medium storing a program for causing a computer to execute a procedure for managing a system that retrieves a image corresponding to a first type specified by a retrieval request received from a terminal device and another image corresponding to a second type associated with the first type, from an image database storing a plurality of images associated with at least a number of a plurality of types, the procedure includes: referring to a learning state representing whether feature values of images corresponding to each of the plurality of the types have been obtained; retrieving an unlearned type in which the feature value has not been obtained, among the plurality of types; specifying an association type associated with the unlearned type; and outputting the unlearned type in accordance with the learning state of the association type.

Abstract: A radio device including: a processor configured to execute a procedure including a difference calculating process which calculates, when a plurality of transmission symbols are one symbol with different assignment positions of one of a frequency area and a time area, a difference between an assignment position of one reference symbol and an assignment position of another symbol among the plurality of transmission symbols, and a shift process which generates a symbol by shift processing of one of the frequency area and the time area with respect to the reference symbol, which is assigned to the an assignment position and subjected to an orthogonal transform processing, according to the difference; and a transmitter configured to performs transmitting processing based on the reference symbol which is subjected to the orthogonal transform processing and the generated symbol by the shift processing.

Abstract: A display control method includes obtaining displaying data, and displaying the displaying data on a display device by a processor, wherein when a displaying element group includes a specific number or more of display elements, the displaying data includes display elements which are included in the display element group and satisfy a specific condition.

Abstract: A work content creation apparatus that carries out: deriving a motion range for a component that moves from animation data representing movement in 3-dimensional space of a component with a component name for work subject to processing, and based on a motion pattern and a motion condition stored in a first storage section, deriving a motion condition relationship to motion pattern of the component in the motion range; based on a correspondence relationship stored in a second storage section, deriving a work name corresponding to the motion condition relationship to motion pattern; and based on a correspondence relationship stored in a third storage section, deriving work content corresponding to the work name and the component name as work content of work performed on the component.