Sony Corporation

Jsr Corporation

Other

Nec Corporation

Japan Synthetic Rubber Co., Ltd.

Fanuc Corporation

Fujitsu Fanuc Limited

Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba

Koninklijke Philips Corporation N.v.

Euro-celtique S.a.

Masayuki Hattori

Nobuo Kawahashi

Toshiyuki Miyauchi

Masayuki Motonari

Takashi Yokokawa

Jun Murayama

Shigeo Nakamura

Kazuo Nishimoto

Hiroyuki Yano

Gaku Minamihaba

Akira Iio

Kiyoshi Kasai

Ryoji Imazeki

Katsuya Okumura

Yukiteru Matsui

Tomohisa Konno

Kouhei Yamamoto

Kiyonobu Kubota

Atsushi Kikuchi

Hidetoshi Kawauchi

Kohei Yamamoto

Nobuo Sakurai

Hiromi Takeuchi

Nobuo Hayasaka

Nobuyuki Ito

Norihiko Ikeda

Nobuyuki Kurashima

Hirotaka Shida

Hiroshi Tadenuma

Kazuhito Uchikura

Michiaki Ando

Hideyuki Suzuki

Tamotsu Ikeda

Ryoji Ikegaya

Yosuke Ueno

Kazuo Watanabe

Hiizu Ootorii

Atsushi Shigeta

Hiroyuki Kamata

Naoto Miyashita

Dai Fukushima

Yuichi Hirayama

Haruo Togashi

Yasuhiro Iida

Kazukuni Takanohashi

Kou Hasegawa

Marten Erik Van Dijk

Kazuhisa Funamoto

Akihiro Sakurai

Tatsuya Shimizu

Tetsuhiro Futami

Yoshitaka Matsui

Kazuhiro Shimizu

Makiko Kan

Akihiro Takemura

Yoshifumi Miyajima

Sachiya Tanaka

Keita Izumi

Osamu Kikuchi

Kazuhiko Ida

Osamu Yairo

Shiro Yasukawa

Tohru Masukawa

Akiko Fukushima

Kakun Han

Satoshi Ishikawa

Minori Kondoh

Haruhiro Hirai

Tatsuaki Sakano

Hitoshi Kishimoto

Robert J McEliece

Hiroyuki Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba Yano

Gaku c/o Intellectual Property Division Minamihaba

Katsuya c/o Octec Inc Okumura

Yukiteru Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba Matsui

Susumu Yamamoto

Yoshikuni Tateyama

A display panel includes a plurality of first unit pixels, each including: a data input terminal, a data output terminal, a display element, and a waveform shaping section. The display element is configured to perform display based on data inputted to the data input terminal. The first waveform shaping section is provided on a signal path from the data input terminal to the data output terminal.

Display panel having daisy-chain-connected pixels, pixel chip, and electronic apparatus

Disclosed herein is a decoding apparatus that performs soft-decision decoding on a linear block code, the apparatus including a hard-decision decoder configured to perform hard-decision decoding on a received word using a hard-decision decoding algorithm; and a soft-decision decoder configured to perform, using a soft-decision algorithm, soft-decision decoding merely on a received word for which the hard-decision decoder has failed in the hard-decision decoding.

Decoding apparatus and decoding method

Disclosed herein is a receiving apparatus including: first to third position determination sections configured to determine the start position of an FFT interval which serves as a signal interval targeted for FFT by an FFT section; a selection section configured to select one of those start positions of the FFT interval which are determined by the first through the third position determination section; and the FFT section configured to perform FFT on the OFDM time domain signal by regarding the start position selected by the selection section as the start position of the FFT interval in order to generate the first OFDM frequency domain signal.

Receiving apparatus, receiving method, and program

Disclosed herein is a synchronization circuit including: a first phase-locked loop circuit; a second phase-locked loop circuit; a first output circuit; a second output circuit; a first detection circuit; a second detection circuit; and a control circuit.

Synchronization circuit, synchronization method, and reception system

Disclosed herein is an information processing apparatus including: a demodulation FFT processing section configured to carry out an FFT process on a demodulation-related signal extracted by making use of a demodulation FFT window from every symbol of a received OFDM signal and output the frequency-domain signal; a control FFT processing section configured to carry out a process equivalent to an FFT process on a control-related signal extracted by making use of a control FFT window from every symbol of the received OFDM signal and output the frequency-domain signal; a transmission-line information estimation section; an equalization section; a reception-quality computation/comparison section; and an FFT-window position control section configured to control the demodulation FFT window to be used by the demodulation FFT processing section and the control FFT window to be used by the control FFT processing section on the basis of a comparison result produced by the reception-quality computation/comparison section.

Information processing apparatus, information processing method, display apparatus and information processing program

An OFDM receiver may include OFDM-signal receiving means for receiving an orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) signal; channel-characteristic estimating means for estimating a channel characteristic using pilot signals in the OFDM signal received by the OFDM-signal receiving means; and transmission-distortion compensating means for applying, on the basis of the channel characteristic estimated by the channel-characteristic estimating means, processing for compensating for transmission distortion to the OFDM signal received by the OFDM-signal receiving means. The channel-characteristic estimating means may include plural kinds of time-direction-channel estimating means used for the estimation of a channel characteristic, and switching control means for switching these estimating means according to a state of a channel.

OFDM receiver and OFDM signal receiving method

The present invention relates to a decoding method and a decoder, a program, a recording-and-reproducing apparatus and a method, and a reproducing apparatus and a method that are suitable for decoding encoded data encoded by using a linear code on ring R. A low-density processing unit performs parity-check-matrix low-density processing, performs linear combination for rows of a parity check matrix included in an obtained reception word, and generates a parity check matrix according to the linear-combination result, thereby reducing the density of the parity check matrix used for decoding, at step S. Then, at step S, an LDPC decoding unit performs decoding by using a sum product algorithm (SPA) by using the parity check matrix whose density is reduced through the processing performed at step S. Where the processing at step Sis finished, the LDPC decoding unit finishes decoding for the reception word. The present invention can be used for an error-correction system.

Decoding method and device for decoding linear code

A chemical mechanical polishing method, including: chemically and mechanically polishing a polishing target surface by continuously performing a first polishing step and a second polishing step having a polishing rate lower than a polishing rate of the first polishing step, a chemical mechanical polishing aqueous dispersion used in the first polishing step and the second polishing step being a mixture of an aqueous dispersion and an aqueous solution, and the polishing rate being changed between the first polishing step and the second polishing step by changing a mixing ratio of the aqueous dispersion and the aqueous solution.

Chemical mechanical polishing method

A chemical mechanical polishing aqueous dispersion comprises abrasives in a concentration of not more than 1.5% by mass, wherein the abrasives comprise ceria and have an average dispersed particle diameter of not less than 1.0 &#x3bc;m. A chemical mechanical polishing method comprises polishing an insulating film by the use of the chemical mechanical polishing aqueous dispersion. By the use of the chemical mechanical polishing aqueous dispersion, occurrence of polishing scratches can be suppressed without lowering a removal rate.

Chemical mechanical polishing aqueous dispersion and chemical mechanical polishing method

The cleaning composition which comprises organic polymer particles (A) having a crosslinked structure and a surfactant (B) and is used after chemical mechanical polishing. The cleaning method of a semiconductor substrate is a method for cleaning semiconductor substrate given after chemical mechanical polishing, by the use of the cleaning composition. The process for manufacturing a semiconductor device including a step of chemically and mechanically polishing a semiconductor substrate and a step of cleaning the semiconductor substrate obtained after the chemical mechanical polishing, by the cleaning method.

Cleaning composition, method for cleaning semiconductor substrate, and process for manufacturing semiconductor device

Disclosed is a chemical mechanical polishing aqueous dispersion comprising (A1) first fumed silica having a specific surface area of not less than 10 m/g and less than 160 m/g and an average secondary particle diameter of not less than 170 nm and not more than 250 nm and (A2) second fumed silica having a specific surface area of not less than 160 m/g and an average secondary particle diameter of not less than 50 nm and less than 170 nm. Also disclosed is a chemical mechanical polishing method using the chemical mechanical polishing aqueous dispersion. According to the chemical mechanical polishing aqueous dispersion and the chemical mechanical polishing method, a chemical mechanical polishing process wherein a barrier metal layer and a cap layer can be efficiently removed by polishing and damage to an insulating film material of a low dielectric constant present in the underlying layer is reduced can be carried out.

A method of embedding an additional layer of error correction into an error correcting code, wherein information is encoded into code words of said code over a first Galois field and wherein a number of code words are arranged in the columns of a code block comprising a user data sub-block and a parity data sub-block, provides an additional layer of error correction that can be easily implemented without losing compatibility improving the error correction capabilities. The method includes the steps of:

Method and apparatus for embedding an additional layer of error correction into an error correcting code

A chemical mechanical polishing aqueous dispersion comprises abrasives (A) containing ceria, an anionic water-soluble polymer (B) and a cationic surfactant (C), wherein the amount of the anionic water-soluble polymer (B) is in the range of 60 to 600 parts by mass based on 100 parts by mass of the abrasives (A) containing ceria, and the amount of the cationic surfactant (C) is in the range of 0.1 to 100 ppm based on the whole amount of the chemical mechanical polishing aqueous dispersion.

The present invention is particularly applied to serial concatenated coding and serial concatenated trellis coded modulation. In second encoding, which is inner coding, a sequence that is not encoded or that is encoded so as to produce a finite impulse response and a sequence that is encoded so as to produce an infinite impulse response are output. In interleavingbefore the second encoding, the sequences are permuted so as not to be mixed with each other.

Encoding device for performing serial concatenated coding

A method and apparatus for recording or reproducing data in which high performance encoding and a high efficiency decoding are realized to lower the decoding error rate. A magnetic recording and/or reproducing apparatusincludes, in a recording system, a modulation encoderfor modulation encoding input data in a predetermined fashion and an interleaverfor interleaving data supplied from the modulation encoderto re-array the data sequence. The magnetic recording and/or reproducing apparatusalso includes, in a reproducing system, a first deinterleaver for interleaving the input data for re-arraying the data sequence so that the bit sequence of data re-arrayed by the interleaverwill be restored to its original bit sequence, a modulation SISO decoder for modulation decoding data supplied from the first deinterleaver and a second deinterleaver for interleaving data corresponding to a difference value between data output by the modulation SISO decoder and data output by the first deinterleaver to re-array the data sequence of the difference data.

Method and apparatus for reproducing data and method and apparatus for recording and/or reproducing data

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Kanagawa, Japan

Masayuki Hattori