Hitachi, Ltd.

International Business Machines Corporation

Sony Computer Entertainment Inc.

Sony Corporation

Toshiba America Electronic Components, Inc.

Makoto Aikawa

Yutaka Takami

Kazunori Hashimoto

Shinichiro Fukushima

Sang Hoo Dhong

Iwao Takiguchi

Tetsuji Tamura

Hiroo Okamoto

Brian King Flachs

Manabu Sasamoto

Shigeru Hirahata

Yoshimichi Kudo

Gilles Gervais

Shoko Hatanaka

Hitoaki Owashi

Takaharu Noguchi

Kazuo Takaragi

Takeshi Inoue

Brad William Michael

Hiroyuki Higaki

Charles Ray Johns

Kirk David Peterson

David William Boerstler

Jieming Qi

Eskinder Hailu

Yasuo Sato

Yosuke Muraki

Hidenori Nanami

Hiroshi Hasegawa

Koji Inoue

Atsushi Yoshioka

Makoto Sano

Jonathan James DeMent

Hiroyuki Koreeda

Tatsuya Maruyama

Robert Walter Berry, Jr

Toshiyuki Hiroi

Mayuko Tanaka

Byron Lee Krauter

Hiroki Yamazaki

Yasushi Tomita

Stephen Douglas Weitzel

Kazuhiko Miki

Yaping Zhou

Shigeyuki Ito

Paul Marlan Harvey

Tetsuharu Inamitsu

Soichi Furuya

Masumi Moritani

Yoshihiro Mizuno

Atsushi Honzawa

Hiroki Usui

Yuuichi Kobayashi

Shinichirou Fukushima

Akira Kishida

Hideyuki Takeda

Hashimoto Kazunori

Koichi Tahira

Rodney Gordon Webster

The present invention is applied to a distributed control system in which a plurality of control devices (a central control device, an individual control device, and the like) are connected via a network. For example, the central control device executes a start-up deadline determination processing for setting a start-up deadline in consideration of the performance of a device to be controlled, and communication processing for transmitting a packet including identification information of a command and information of the start-up deadline to the individual control device. For example, when receiving the packet transmitted from the central control device, the individual control device controls execution of the command on the device to be controlled on the basis of the start-up deadline included in the packet.

Communication method, central control device and individual control device

Apparatuses and method capable of reliably tracking processes through which products have passed without calling for expensive setup are necessary in production and distribution processes of the products. A process management apparatus including a data transmission/reception unit to and from an RFID tag of an information recording medium and a data generation unit comprises a process data generation unit for representing a process, a process pass certificate data generation unit for generating process data pass certificate data and a transmission/reception unit for the process data with the information recording medium and the process pass certificate data can track the processes through which the object products have passed.

Information recording medium, and process management apparatus and process management system using the information recording medium

A semiconductor element or mobile terminal stores a user's biometric information pattern used for execution of a biometric authentication process and the residual number of trials indicating the number of allowed failures in the biometric authentication process, sends processing data to an external device so that the external device can use the processing data when the external device executes part of the biometric authentication process, and decreases the residual number of trials by a predetermined value while the processing data is output to the external device after start of communication with the external device.

Semiconductor element, biometric authentication method, biometric authentication system and mobile terminal

A biometric authentication systemincludes an IC cardincluding a reading unitsending generation information back to a terminal and a writing unitwriting biometric information in a storage area indicated in a write instruction, and a terminalincluding a card generation acquisition unitreceiving from the IC card the generation information, a device generation acquisition unitreceiving from a biometric authentication device the generation information, a biometric information acquisition unitreceiving biometric information from the biometric authentication device, a first write instruction unitidentifying a storage area of the same generation as the generation of the biometric authentication device and transmitting a write instruction of the biometric information to the IC card, and a second write instruction unittransmitting a write instruction for a storage area of the oldest generation to the IC card.

Biometric authentication method, biometric authentication system, IC card, and terminal

A first information-communication device generates first biometric pattern used for comparison based on user biometric information retrieved by a biometric sensor, and sends the generated first biometric pattern to a second biometric information-communication device. The second information-communication device compares the first biometric pattern sent from the first information-communication device with second biometric pattern, which is user biometric pattern stored in memory, and sends the second biometric pattern to the first information-communication device when the compared biometric pattern matches. The first information-communication device then stores the second biometric pattern sent from the second information-communication device.

Communication system, method for transferring information, and information-communication device

A biometric authentication apparatus for identifying a subject person by using biometric information of a user has memories and a processing unit for performing biometric authentication. The memories and store a remaining trial number whose value is reduced each time biometric authentication fails. The processing unit generates a lower limit value smaller than the remaining trial number at the start of biometric authentication, performs biometric authentication until the reduced remaining trial number becomes equal to or smaller than the lower limit value, and generate alarm data for issuing alarm to the user when the reduced trial number becomes equal to or smaller than the lower limit value.

Biometric authentication apparatus, biometric authentication system, IC card and biometric authentication method

A determining unit determines the state of the microprocessor. A setting unit sets a power supply voltage to be supplied to the microprocessor according to the state of the microprocessor determined by the determining unit. A power supply circuit supplies the power supply voltage set by the setting unit, to the microprocessor via a power supply line. The determining unit determines repeatedly the state of the microprocessor at preset timing, and the setting unit resets the power supply voltage every time the determination is performed by the determining unit.

Method and program for setting microprocessor power supply voltage

A management apparatus including a portable terminal identifying module to receive card information from a non-contact IC card processing unit having a module to communicate with an IC card without contact.

Portable terminal

Mechanisms for generating a worst case current waveform for testing of integrated circuit devices are provided. Architectural analysis of an integrated circuit device is first performed to determine an initial worst case power workload to be applied to the integrated circuit device. Thereafter, the derived worst case power workload is applied to a model and is simulated to generate a worst case current waveform that is input to an electrical model of the integrated circuit device to generate a worst case noise budget value. The worst case noise budget value is then compared to measured noise from application of the worst case power workload to a hardware implemented integrated circuit device. The worst case current waveform may be selected for future testing of integrated circuit devices or modifications to the simulation models may be performed and the process repeated based on the results of the comparison.

Generating a worst case current waveform for testing of integrated circuit devices

A hierarchical structure is established among a plurality of RFID tags, such that ID numbers can be read only from RFID tags which belong to a particular layer. RFID tag can control whether permission should be given to read its ID number therefrom to protect the ID number. Data held in the RFID tag can be read from the outside. RFID tag comprises a memory circuit having a function of holding data, and a logic circuit having a function of processing a control command received from outside. Memory circuit stores an own ID number for identifying the RFID tag itself, and a parent ID number for identifying a second RFID tag. When RFID tag receives an ID number read command which contains first data as a parameter from outside, the logic circuit outputs the own ID number to outside only when the first data matches the parent ID number.

Radio frequency identification (RFID) tag, portable terminal, and server for RFID tag

A technology for supplying a power supply voltage to a microprocessor. Before normal arithmetic processing of the microprocessor, duty cycle correction process for adjusting the duty cycle of a clock signal inside the microprocessor is performed. In the duty cycle correction process for adjusting the duty cycle, the duty cycle of the clock signal is adjusted so as to minimize the power voltage at which the microprocessor is still operable.

Method for controlling operation of microprocessor which performs duty cycle correction process

In a settlement transaction system or settlement transaction method using the system, the system includes a content providing server conducting a digital broadcast, for example, for a CS broadcast, a BS broadcast, a CATV, or a broadcast using ground waves; a settlement server to execute settlement transaction or settlement transaction, an order placement managing server to execute order placement processing, and an order managing server which receives an order of a request from a user to purchase articles and which sends an associated indication to the settlement server and the order placement managing server according to information of the order. The user operates a terminal in which an IC card communication application to communicate with an IC card is only installed. It then becomes possible to reduce a load imposed onto the system in association with a change to an existing digital broadcast system.

System of settlement transaction and method

In one embodiment, a test system tests a device under test (DUT). The DUT includes an internal test controller that executes built-in self-test (BIST programs. Built-in self-test programs include array-based automatic built-in self-test programs, discrete and combinational logic built-in self-test programs, and functional architecture verification programs (AVPs). An external manufacturing system test controller manages the internal test controller within the DUT and determines minimum operating voltage levels for a power supply input voltage that supplies the DUT. A logic simulator provides a modeling capability to further enhance the development of minimum voltage power supply input operational values for the DUT.

Method and apparatus for testing to determine minimum operating voltages in electronic devices

A semiconductor device of the generation with the minimum processing dimensions of 90 nm, or later, wherein variation of processing dimensions of gate electrodes in a logic block and a power source noise are suppressed; wherein a gate electrode formed to have a comb-shaped pattern is formed on a normal cell region, a dummy gate electrode formed to have a comb-shaped pattern is formed on a vacant region, a wiring for applying a predetermined voltage is connected respectively to at least a part of the dummy gate and the semiconductor substrate (source drain regions), and an electrostatic capacity between the part of the dummy gate electrode and the semiconductor substrate constitutes a decoupling capacitor of the power source.

Semiconductor device

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Sagamihara, Japan

Makoto Aikawa