Abstract: A reception apparatus that decodes a preamble reduces the size of a buffer that holds a decoding result. A holding unit holds a plurality of bits to each of which physical layer pipe identification information is assigned as a physical layer pipe presence/absence bit string. A reception unit receives a predetermined number of physical layer pipes that do not exceed the number of bits of the physical layer pipe presence/absence bit string and the physical layer pipe identification information of each of the predetermined number of physical layer pipes. A setting unit sets the value of the bit corresponding to the received physical layer pipe identification information of the physical layer pipe presence/absence bit string to one of two values, and sets the value of a non-corresponding bit to another of the two values. A decoding processing unit performs processing for decoding the physical layer pipe corresponding to the bit of the one value.

Abstract: A silica that is superior in terms of fluidity, oil absorption ability, and compression moldability to conventional silica used as a pharmaceutical additive, and is suitable as an additive for formulations such as pharmaceuticals. A porous silica particle composition having the following properties: (1) a BET specific surface area from 250 to 1,000 m2/g; (2) an average particle diameter from 1 to 150 ?m; (3) a pore volume from 0.1 to 8.0 cm3/g; and (4) an oil absorption capacity from 2.2 to 5.0 mL/g.

Abstract: A reception apparatus that decodes a preamble reduces the size of a buffer that holds a decoding result. A holding unit holds a plurality of bits to each of which physical layer pipe identification information is assigned as a physical layer pipe presence/absence bit string. A reception unit receives a predetermined number of physical layer pipes that do not exceed the number of bits of the physical layer pipe presence/absence bit string and the physical layer pipe identification information of each of the predetermined number of physical layer pipes. A setting unit sets the value of the bit corresponding to the received physical layer pipe identification information of the physical layer pipe presence/absence bit string to one of two values, and sets the value of a non-corresponding bit to another of the two values. A decoding processing unit performs processing for decoding the physical layer pipe corresponding to the bit of the one value.

Abstract: Based on version information owned by each of information processing apparatuses, an information processing apparatus that stores the newest version of a user application among the plurality of information processing apparatuses is specified, and an update program for updating the user application to the newest version of the user application is directly transmitted through wireless communication from the information processing apparatus that stores the newest version of the user application to an information processing apparatus that does not store the newest version of the user application among the plurality of information processing apparatuses, thereby updating the user application of an information processing apparatus performing this method among the plurality of information processing apparatuses, using the received update program.

Abstract: Based on version information owned by each of information processing apparatuses, an information processing apparatus that stores the newest version of a user application among the plurality of information processing apparatuses is specified, and an update program for updating the user application to the newest version of the user application is directly transmitted through wireless communication from the information processing apparatus that stores the newest version of the user application to an information processing apparatus that does not store the newest version of the user application among the plurality of information processing apparatuses, thereby updating the user application of an information processing apparatus performing this method among the plurality of information processing apparatuses, using the received update program.

Abstract: When it is detected that a home button is pressed while an application is being executed, execution of the application is suspended and a home button menu is displayed on a display device. Then, when execution of shop software is started, the shop software obtains application identification information of the active application via system software, accesses a shop server based on the application identification information, and displays a page related to the active application on the display device.

Abstract: In an exemplary information processing apparatus communicable with a server via network, update information is obtained from the server at a first timing and the obtained update information is saved. The update information is information for determining presence of an update of each application. At a second timing independent of the first timing, the information processing apparatus determines whether there is an update to each of at least one of applications stored in a storage unit accessed by the information processing apparatus based on the saved update information. The information processing apparatus obtains, from the server, update data used for updating the application with respect to which it has been determined that the update is present.

Abstract: A battery charge/discharge control device (20) includes an input-enabled power adjustment unit (40) having an input-enabled current value calculation unit (42) and an input power limit value calculation unit (44). The input-enabled current value calculation unit (42) uses a battery current value, a battery temperature value, and an estimated charge capacity value at the time “t” upon execution of detection, so as to obtain an input-enabled current value reduction amount per unit time during charge and an enabled current amount recovery amount per unit time when being left uncontrolled.

Abstract: A non-limiting example content distribution system comprises a content server that is connected communicably with a game apparatus via a network. If it is decided to reservation-purchase of a content according to an operation of a user, the content server distributes a reservation content to a game apparatus. The reservation content is a content that a part of a normal content that can be executed by the game apparatus is changed to be inexecutable (unable to start). If reaching a date and time of a sale start of the content or an executable date and time, the game apparatus is downloaded with a modifying program for the reservation content according to an operation of the user to modify the reservation content. Therefore, the reservation content can be changed to a normal content.

Abstract: An exemplary portable storage medium stores therein a program of an application. An exemplary information processing apparatus can execute the application. The storage medium stores a first data which is a program or data forming a part of the application and second data which is a program or data forming a part of the same application formed by the first data. The information processing apparatus reads the second data from the storage medium and installs the second data in the information processing apparatus. Further, the information processing apparatus starts and executes the application based on the first data stored in the storage medium and the installed second data.

Abstract: A method is provided for manufacturing an electrode that has a porous inorganic layer on the surface of an active material layer and is suitable for constructing a nonaqueous secondary battery with excellent input-output performance. In this manufacturing method, an electrode perform, which has an active material layer (344) consisting primarily of active material particles (42) and supported on a collector (342), is prepared. The water concentration of at least the surface (344a) of the active material layer (344) is adjusted to 100 ppm to 500 ppm. A slurry (S) containing inorganic particles (44), a binder and an organic solvent is coated on the surface (344a) of the active material layer with the water concentration thus adjusted, to form a porous inorganic layer.

Abstract: A receiving apparatus includes: a transmission path characteristics estimating section obtaining pre-interpolation transmission path characteristic data as estimate values for transmission path characteristics as characteristics of a transmission path of an OFDM signal for transmission symbols of pilot signals by using the pilot signals contained in the OFDM signal, and filtering the pre-interpolation transmission path characteristic data by using an interpolation filter, thereby obtaining transmission path characteristic data as estimate values for transmission path characteristics for transmission symbols of the OFDM signal; a distortion correcting section performing distortion correction for the OFDM signal by using the transmission path characteristic data; and a filter controlling section controlling a pass band of the interpolation filter.

Abstract: When it is detected that a home button is pressed while an application is being executed, execution of the application is suspended and a home button menu is displayed on a display device. Then, when execution of shop software is started, the shop software obtains application identification information of the active application via system software, accesses a shop server based on the application identification information, and displays a page related to the active application on the display device.

Abstract: An exemplary portable storage medium stores therein a program of an application. An exemplary information processing apparatus can execute the application. The storage medium stores a first data which is a program or data forming a part of the application and second data which is a program or data forming a part of the same application formed by the first data. The information processing apparatus reads the second data from the storage medium and installs the second data in the information processing apparatus. Further, the information processing apparatus starts and executes the application based on the first data stored in the storage medium and the installed second data.

Abstract: In an exemplary information processing apparatus communicable with a server via network, update information is obtained from the server at a first timing and the obtained update information is saved. The update information is information for determining presence of an update of each application. At a second timing independent of the first timing, the information processing apparatus determines whether there is an update to each of at least one of applications stored in a storage unit accessed by the information processing apparatus based on the saved update information. The information processing apparatus obtains, from the server, update data used for updating the application with respect to which it has been determined that the update is present.

Abstract: The present technique relates to a reception apparatus, a reception method, a program, and a reception system capable of starting decoding of data in a short time. A reception apparatus according to an aspect of the present technique includes a demodulation unit configured to demodulate a modulated signal used to transmit transmission control information about data and the data to be transmitted, a first decoding unit configured to decode the transmission control information obtained by demodulation performed with the demodulation unit, a storage unit configured to store the data obtained by demodulation performed with the demodulation unit, and a second decoding unit configured to decode the data stored in the storage unit on the basis of the transmission control information decoded by the first decoding unit. The present technique can be applied to a receiver receiving an OFDM signal of DVB-C2.

Abstract: A receiver that receives an Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) signal obtained by modulating a common packet sequence and data packet sequence. The common packet sequence is made up of packets common to a plurality of streams. The data packet sequence is made up of packets specific to one of the plurality of streams. The receiver sorts the common packet sequence, obtained by demodulating the received OFDM signal, in the time domain, and sorts the data packet sequence, obtained by demodulating the received OFDM signal, in the time domain. The receiver then switches the output for error correction from the one sorting over to the other sorting if, while the one sorting supplies its output to the error correction, the other sorting completes its input of a predetermined unit of information to be processed.

Abstract: A receiving apparatus for receiving an orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) signal including a frame having one frame length of a plurality of patterns. The apparatus comprises an acquiring section to acquire information regarding a preamble signal from an OFDM signal from a transmitting apparatus; a frame determining section to determine whether the one frame length is short in the frame based on the information regarding the acquired preamble signal; and a time interpolating section to obtain transmission path characteristics by comparing a pilot contained in the preamble signal with a known pilot corresponding to the pilot in a phase of transmission, when the frame determining section determines that the one frame length is short in the frame, and to interpolate a data portion in a time direction based on transmission path characteristics.

Abstract: A receiving apparatus includes: a deinterleaving device configured to perform a deinterleaving process on an LDPC-coded data signal having undergone an interleaving process, the LDPC representing Low Density Parity Check, by use of a memory which has columns capable of storing as many as “a” data, the “a” being an integer of at least 1; and a control device configured such that if the data signal is supplied in units of N data, the N being an integer smaller than the “a,” the control device controls the deinterleaving device to write the data signal to a predetermined address of the memory while reading previously written data from the predetermined address in a write period, the control device further controlling the deinterleaving device to stop writing the data signal to the predetermined address of the memory while reading the previously written data from the predetermined address in a write inhibit period.

Abstract: A nondestructive identification device includes: a radiation source 1 irradiating an x-ray 2 to a standard sample 5 made of a known material and a sample 3; a sensor 4 detecting a radiation ray having transmitted the standard sample 5 and the sample 3; a signal processing device 7 converting a signal of the sensor 4 into an image; an image processing device 8 which performs adjustment on an entire second image to make a luminance value of a part of the standard sample 5 in the obtained image or a relation between the luminance value and a thickness of the standard sample 5 in a first image where the energy of the radiation source 1 is first energy be the same as that in the second image where the energy of the radiation source 1 is second energy, and which performs a computation processing to take a difference or a ratio between the adjusted second image and the first image; and a display device 9 displaying an image.