The present invention provides a method for producing polyorganosiloxane particles through the step of hydrolyzing and condensing a silicon compound having a non-hydrolyzable group and a hydrolyzable alkoxyl group bonded to its silicon atom in the presence of a catalyst and thereby forming seed particles of polyorganosiloxane particles to obtain a seed-particles-containing solution and the step of...

A game machine is provided which enables playing content of a player in a game play part, in which the player operates an operation target, to be reflected in an action of the operation target appearing in a video image displayed in a video image watching part. A replay data recording unit (90) records reproduction data for reproducing a scene of the operation target moving in a game space accordi...

Systems and methodologies are described that facilitate estimating transmit covariance from evaluation of a channel (e.g., forward link channel, reverse link channel, . . . ) to be utilized in linear precoding for multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) wireless communication systems. Predefined codebooks that include any number of precoding matrices may be modified based upon transmit covariance es...

Personal care compositions comprising a dipeptide and methods of using such compositions to treat the condition of keratinous tissue. The C terminal amino acid of said dipeptide is threonine. The personal care composition can be applied topically, ingested orally, injected, or used as part of a combined treatment regimen.

The present invention relates to the security closure for drinks bottle through which a drink counterfeiter cannot introduce counterfeited drinks into the drinks bottle, so that production and marketing of the counterfeited drinks can be inhibited. The security closure for drinks bottle comprises an upper cap, a lower cap, a disk type bottom plate which is movably inserted into a guiding pin of th...

A method and equipment by which a mobile station receiving a point-to-multicast (p-t-m) transmission from a radio access network (RAN) of a wireless communication system communicates information to the RAN of use in the mobile changing to a neighboring cell for receiving the p-t-m transmission; in particular, the mobile station indicates to the RAN whether cell reselection parameters for the neigh...

Multiple transport channels (405, 406, 407) are multiplexed and transmitted in a single physical channel. A code (TFCI) is added to the transport channel data flows to indicate which processing schemes, from a set of available schemes, are being employed and the resultant blocks are interleaved. The depth of the interleaving is set in dependence on the transmission time intervals associated with t...

The invention relates to a method for authenticating the user of a terminal (5), in which terminal a device (15) for verifying the rights to use is applied for running an authentication protocol. The device (15) for verifying the rights to use is connected to the terminal (5). In the device (15) for verifying the rights to use, an extensible authentication protocol interface is applied, via which ...

A chip component with dielectric substrate and plurality of radiating antenna elements on the surface thereof. In one embodiment, two (2) substantially symmetric elements are used, each covering an opposite head and upper surface portion of the device. The surface between the elements comprises a slot. The chip is mounted on a circuit board (e.g., PCB) whose conductor pattern is part of the antenn...

Apparatus and methods are described for a weapon simulator. An example weapon simulator includes a pressure piston, which is couplable to a weapon, which acts to open a breech, and which is seated in a pressure cylinder. An example pressure piston includes a slider. The slider holds a pressure intake opening open and keeps one or more pressure outlet openings closed when the breech is in a front-m...

An epitaxial growth method includes: supporting a substrate for growth (for example, an InP substrate) with a substrate supporter, growing a compound semiconductor layer comprising 3 or 4 elements (for example, a III-V group compound semiconductor such as an InGaAs layer, AlGaAs layer, AlInAs layer and AlInGaAs layer) on the substrate for growth by metal organic chemical vapor deposition, polishin...

A system receives a search query that includes a set of search terms, determines whether at least one of the search terms corresponds to the name of a geographic area, and determines whether the geographic area corresponds to an unambiguous geographic area when at least one of the search terms corresponds to the name of the geographic area. The system performs a local search, based on one or more ...

An absorbent composite comprising: a base material and water-absorbent resin particles; wherein the following conditions (1) to (4) are fulfilled: (1) the weight ratio of water-absorbent resin relative to the total weight of the base material and water-absorbent resin is 65 to 99 wt%, (2) the water-absorbent resin particles adhering directly to the base material constitute 50 wt% or more of the to...

A laser driver (4) causes a semiconductor laser (1) to operate such that a first oscillation period of monotonically increasing the oscillation wavelength and a second oscillation period of monotonically decreasing the oscillation wavelength alternately exist. A photodiode (2) converts laser light emitted from the semiconductor laser (1) and return light from a measurement target (12) into electri...

A low bit rate digital audio coding system includes an encoder which assigns codebooks to groups of quantization indexes based on their local properties resulting in codebook application ranges that are independent of block quantization boundaries. The invention also incorporates a resolution filter bank, or a tri-mode resolution filter bank, which is selectively switchable between high and low fr...

There is provided a semiconductor device including bit lines (14) formed in a semiconductor substrate (10), insulating film lines (18) located on the bit lines (14) to successively run in a length direction of the bit lines (14), gate electrodes (16) located above the semiconductor substrate (10) between the bit lines (14), and word lines (20) located on the gate electrodes (16) to run in a width ...

An inexpensive packaging bag for use in a microwave oven, in which the packaging bag can be prevented from opening at the base part of a branch section when used for tetorting or for cooking in the microwave oven, and pressure in the packaging bag can be automatically released when the bag is used for cooking in the microwave oven. A packaging bag for microwave oven hermetically sealed by heat-sea...

A method and apparatus for improving the thermal conductivity of a printed circuit board (PCB) assembly comprising an integrated circuit (IC) mounted on a PCB. A void is formed in the PCB and a device or material is disposed in the void that has a higher thermal conductivity than the thermal conductivity of the removed portion of the circuit board. By placing a material that has a relatively high ...

In general, the invention is directed toward a device for processing digital video data, such as an encoder, a decoder or an encoder/decoder (CODEC). The device makes use of an innovative architecture in which functionality is partitioned between an embedded processor, a digital signal processor and dedicated hardware to achieve increased performance. In addition, the device includes a programmabl...

Techniques for archiving data exchanged between a terminal and a wireless communication network during a session are described. Session data may be archived at a network entity in real-time while the session is in progress or may be uploaded to the network entity for archival after the session has terminated. The network entity may archive all data exchanged during the session or only data of the ...