Author: claimsbot

1. An aircraft display system, comprising:
a display device; and
a processor in operable communication with the display device and adapted to receive at least data representative of a desired course of the aircraft, data representative of required navigation performance (RNP) for the aircraft, and data representative of estimated position uncertainty (EPU) for the aircraft, the processor configured, in response to at least these data, to render a horizontal situation indicator on the display device that includes:
(i) an aircraft symbol representative of a top-down view of the aircraft, the aircraft symbol rendered at a position that is representative of actual aircraft position relative to the desired course,
(ii) an EPU graphic representative of the EPU for the aircraft and
(iii) an RNP boundary graphic representative of at least one RNP boundary for the aircraft, the RNP boundary graphic rendered at a position relative to the rendered aircraft symbol and comprising a shaded region that shades a portion of the display device.
2. The system of claim 1, wherein the RNP boundary graphic is at least selectively representative of each RNP boundary for the aircraft.
3. The system of claim 2, wherein the RNP boundary graphic at least selectively comprises a pair of shaded regions.
4. The system of claim 1, wherein the processor renders the shaded region in a color.
5. The system of claim 4, wherein the color that the processor renders the shaded region is representative of actual aircraft position relative to the at least one RNP boundary.
6. The system of claim 1, wherein the processor renders the shaded region as a plurality of lines.
7. The system of claim 1, wherein the processor renders the shaded region as a plurality of geometric symbols.
8. The system of claim 1, wherein:
the EPU graphic comprises a pair of line segments separated from each other by a separation distance that is proportional to the EPU for the aircraft.
9. The system of claim 8, wherein:
one line segment is rendered left of the rendered aircraft symbol; and
another line segment rendered right of the rendered aircraft symbol.
10. The system of claim 1, wherein the processor is further configured to:
determine a lateral deviation distance of the aircraft from the desired course; and
render a corrective graphic if the lateral deviation distance is greater than a first predetermined lateral deviation distance.
11. The system of claim 10, wherein the processor is further configured to:
render the RNP boundary graphic in a first color when the lateral deviation distance is not greater than the first predetermined lateral deviation distance; and
render at least a portion of the RNP boundary graphic is a second color when the lateral deviation distance is greater than the first predetermined lateral deviation distance.
12. The system of claim 10, wherein the corrective graphic comprises:
a graphic representative of a corrective direction; and
a graphic indicating the lateral deviation distance.
13. The system of claim 10, wherein the processor further configured to render a lateral deviation indicator on the display device.
14. The system of claim 13, wherein the processor is further configured to render the lateral deviation indicator at a predetermined position on the display device if the lateral deviation distance is greater than a second predetermined lateral deviation distance.
15. The system of claim 14, wherein the processor is further configured to render at least a portion of the RNP boundary graphic at the predetermined position if the lateral deviation distance is greater than a third predetermined lateral deviation distance.

The claims below are in addition to those above.
All refrences to claim(s) which appear below refer to the numbering after this setence.

1. A computer-readable storage medium having stored thereon:
a relational database comprising:
a probe table including a plurality of probe records, each of said probe records specifying a polymer probe for use in one or more polymer probe arrays;
a sequence item table including a plurality of sequence item records, each of said sequence item records specifying a nucleotide sequence to be investigated in said one or more polymer probe arrays; and
wherein there is a many-to-many relationship between said probe records and said sequence item records.
2. The medium of claim 1 wherein said relational database further comprises:
a tiling item table including a plurality of tiling item records, each of said tiling item records having an aggregation relationship with said probe records so that each tiling item record has many associated probe records.
3. The medium of claim 1 wherein said relational database further comprises:
a genomic item table including a plurality of genomic item records, each of said genomic item records specifying a genomic item to be investigated by said one or more polymer probe arrays; and
wherein there is a many to many relationship between genomic item records and sequence item records.
4. The medium of claim 1 wherein said relational database further comprises:
a chip design table including a plurality of chip design records, each of said chip design records specifying a design of a chip including a subset of said plurality of probe records.
5. A computer implemented method for operating a relational database comprising:
creating a probe table including a plurality of probe records, each of said probe records specifying a polymer probe for use in one or more polymer probe arrays;
creating a sequence item table including a plurality of sequence item records, each of said sequence item records specifying a nucleotide sequence to be investigated in said one or more polymer probe arrays;
storing data in said probe table and said sequence item table; and
wherein there is a many-to-many relationship between said probe records and said sequence item records.
6. The method of claim 5 further comprising the step of:
creating a tiling item table including a plurality of tiling item records, each of said tiling item records having an aggregation relationship with said probe records so that each tiling item record has many associated probe records.
7. The method of claim 5 further comprising the step of:
creating a genomic item table including a plurality of genomic item records, each of said genomic item records specifying a genomic item to be investigated by said one or more polymer probe arrays; and
wherein there is a many to many relationship between genomic item records and sequence item records.
8. The method of claim 5 further comprising the step of:
creating a chip design table including a plurality of chip design records, each of said chip design records specifying a design of a chip including a subset of said plurality of probe records.
9. A computer system comprising:
a processor; and
a storage medium storing a relational database accessible by said processor, said storage medium having stored thereon:
a relational database comprising:
a probe table including a plurality of probe records, each of said probe records specifying a polymer probe for use in one or more polymer probe arrays;
a sequence item table including a plurality of sequence item records, each of said sequence item records specifying a nucleotide sequence to be investigated in said one or more polymer probe arrays; and
wherein there is a many-to-many relationship between said probe records and said sequence item records.

1. A data-sharing system configured to share a data file among a plurality of devices, the data-sharing system comprising:
a plurality of information-processing devices which can store at least one data file;
a file server which manages the at least one data file; and
a mobile terminal which controls an operation performed, to share the at least one data file stored in one of the plurality of information-processing devices,
wherein the file server includes
file-management means for receiving and storing the at least one data file stored in the one of the plurality of information-processing devices, when it is requested that the at least one data file be registered, as an object to be used by an other of the plurality of information-processing devices;
shared-information transmission means for transmitting file-sharing information including location information and attribute information of the at least one data file stored by the file-management means; and
first file-transmission means for returning the at least one data file stored by the file-management means upon receiving an instruction to select the at least one data file stored by the file-management means, wherein

each of the plurality of information-processing devices includes
second file-transmission means for transmitting the at least one data file, which is stored in the respective information-processing device to the file server upon receiving request information transmitted from the mobile terminal, the request information indicating that it is requested that the at least one data file stored in the respective information-processing device be registered, as the object to be used by the other of the plurality of information-processing devices; and

shared-information transfer means for transferring the file-sharing information to the mobile terminal, the file-sharing information being transmitted from the file server, after the second file-transmission means transmits the at least one data file to the file server, and wherein
the mobile terminal includes
registration-request means for making a request of the one of the plurality of information-processing devices to register the at least one data file stored in the one of the plurality of information-processing devices, as the object to be used by the other of the plurality of information-processing devices; and
transmission-request means for selecting the at least one data file to be received on the basis of the attribute information included in the file-sharing information transmitted from the one of the plurality of information-processing devices, for accessing the file server on the basis of the location information corresponding to the selected at least one data file, and for making a request of the file server to transmit the selected at least one data file.
2. The data-sharing system according to claim 1, wherein the file server further includes reduced-image-data generation means, operated when the at least one data file includes image data that is transmitted from the one of the plurality of information-processing devices for generating a plurality of reduced-image-data items of different resolutions on the basis of the image data and for storing the plurality of reduced-image-data items in the file-management means,
wherein the mobile terminal further includes image-reproduction means for reproducing and showing the plurality of reduced-image-data items,
wherein the shared-information transmission means transmits the location information of the registered at least one data file, and location information and attribute information of each of the plurality of reduced-image-data items corresponding to the registered at least one data file, as the file-sharing information,
wherein the transmission-request means of the mobile terminal selects at least one of the plurality of reduced-image-data items, to receive the selected at least one of the plurality of reduced-image-data items, on the basis of the attribute information of the at least one of the plurality of reduced-image-data items included in the file-sharing information transmitted to the transmission-request means, accesses the file server on the basis of the location information corresponding to the selected at least one of the plurality of reduced-image-data items, and makes a request of the file server to return the selected at least one of the plurality of reduced-image-data items.
3. The data-sharing system according to claim 2, wherein the shared-information transmission means adds at least one of information about a resolution and information about a size of each of the plurality of reduced-image data items to the file-sharing information, as the attribute information of each of the plurality of reduced-image data items.
4. The data-sharing system according to claim 2, wherein the transmission-request means selects the at least one of the plurality of reduced-image-data items according to at least one of information about a production capacity of the image-reproduction means and information about a data-storage capacity of the mobile terminal on the basis of the attribute information of the plurality of reduced-image data items included in the file-sharing information transmitted to the transmission-request means.
5. The data-sharing system according to claim 1, wherein the mobile terminal further includes first request means for transmitting the file-sharing information to the other of the plurality of information-processing devices, to make a request of the other of the plurality of information-processing devices to receive the at least one data file transmitted from the file server, and the information-processing device further includes second request means for accessing the file server, to make a request of the file server to transmit the at least one data file on the basis of the location information included in the file-sharing information transmitted from the mobile terminal.
6. The data-sharing system according to claim 5, wherein the file-management means stores a plurality of data files corresponding to one another, the data files being different from one another in operating systems and versions thereof, and the shared-information transmission means adds identification information to the file-sharing information, as the attribute information of each of the plurality of data files, the identification information identifying at least one of a respective operating system and a version that correspond to each of the plurality of data files stored by the file-management means.
7. The data-sharing system according to Claim 1, wherein each of the information-processing devices further includes:
detection means for detecting the mobile terminal according to a short-range communication scheme; and
authentication means for performing an authentication for the mobile terminal detected by the detection means, and for allowing for communicating with the mobile terminal, when the mobile terminal is authenticated.
8. A mobile terminal which controls an operation performed, to share at least one data file among a plurality of devices, the mobile terminal comprising:
registration-request means for making a request of one of a plurality of information-processing devices to transmit at least one predetermined data file stored in the one of the plurality of information-processing devices to a file server so that the at least one predetermined data file is registered with the file server, as an object to be used by an other of the plurality of information-processing devices; and
transmission-request for receiving file-sharing information including location information and attribute information of the registered at least one predetermined data file, the file-sharing information being transmitted from the file server via the one of the plurality of information-processing devices, for selecting the at least one predetermined data file on the basis of the attribute information included in the transmitted file-sharing information, for accessing the file server on the basis of the location information, and for making a request to the file server to transmit the selected at least one predetermined data file.
9. A data-sharing method adapted to share a data file among a plurality of devices, the data-sharing method comprising:
transmitting the data file stored in one of a plurality of information-processing devices to a file server by using the one of the plurality of information-processing devices, when a mobile terminal configured to control a data-file-sharing operation makes a request of the one of the plurality of information-processing devices to register the data file, as an object to be used by an other of the plurality of information-processing devices;
storing the data file in a management region, the storing being performed by the file server;
transmitting file-sharing information including location information and attribute information of the data file stored in the management region, by the file server;
transferring the file-sharing information from the one of the plurality of information-processing devices to the mobile terminal after the one of the plurality of the information-processing devices receives the file-sharing information, the one of the plurality of information-processing devices functioning as a transmission source of the data file stored in the management region;
receiving the file-sharing information, selecting the data file for a reception on the basis of the attribute information included in the file-sharing information, accessing the file server on the basis of the location information and making a request of the file server to transmit the data file by using the mobile terminal; and
transmitting the data file for which the mobile terminal made the request from the file server to the mobile terminal, after the file server reads the data file from the management region, by the file server.
10. A data-sharing system configured to share a data file among a plurality of devices, the data-sharing system comprising:
a plurality of information-processing devices which can store at least one data file;
a file server which manages the at least one data file; and
a mobile terminal which controls an operation performed, to share the at least one data file stored in one of the plurality of information-processing devices, wherein

the file server includes
a file-management unit configured to receive and to store the at least one data file stored in the one of the plurality of information-processing devices, when it is requested that the at least one data file be registered, as an object to be used by an other of the plurality of information-processing devices;
a shared-information transmission unit configured to transmit file-sharing information including location information and attribute information of the at least one data file stored by the file-management unit; and
a first file-transmission unit configured to return the at least one data file stored by the file-management unit upon receiving an instruction to select the at least one data file stored by the file-management unit, wherein

each of the information-processing devices includes
a second file-transmission unit which transmits the at least one data file stored in the one of the plurality of information-processing devices to the file server upon receiving request information transmitted from the mobile terminal, the request information indicating that it is requested that the at least one data file stored in the one of the plurality of information-processing devices be registered, as the object to be used by the other of the plurality of information-processing devices; and
a shared-information transfer unit which transfers the file-sharing information to the mobile terminal, the file-sharing information being transmitted from the file server after the second file-transmission unit of the one of the plurality of information-processing devices transmits the at least one data file to the file server, and wherein

the mobile terminal includes
a registration-request unit which makes a request of the one of the plurality of the information-processing devices to register the at least one data file stored in the one of the plurality of information-processing devices, as the object to be used by the other of the plurality of information-processing devices; and
a transmission-request unit configured to select the at least one data file on the basis of the attribute information included in the file-sharing information transmitted from the one of the plurality of information-processing devices, to access the file server on the basis of the location information, and to make a request of the file server to transmit the selected at least one data file.
11. A mobile terminal which controls an operation performed, to share at least one data file among a plurality of devices, the mobile terminal comprising:
a registration-request unit which makes a request of one of a plurality of information-processing devices to transmit at least one predetermined data file stored in the one of the plurality of information-processing devices to a file server so that the at least one predetermined data file is registered with the file server, as an object to be used by an other of the plurality of information-processing devices; and
a transmission-request unit configured to receive file-sharing information including location information and attribute information of the at least one registered predetermined data file, the file-sharing information being transmitted from the file server via the one of the plurality of information-processing devices, to select the at least one predetermined data file on the basis of the attribute information included in the transmitted file-sharing information, to access the file server on the basis of the location information, and to make a request of the file server to transmit the selected at least one predetermined data file.

The claims below are in addition to those above.
All refrences to claim(s) which appear below refer to the numbering after this setence.

1. A method of manufacturing an SOI substrate, comprising the steps of:
forming an ion introduced layer in a semiconductor substrate;
forming a silicon oxide film on the semiconductor substrate by chemical vapor deposition using organic silane as a silicon source gas;
bonding the semiconductor substrate to a base substrate with the silicon oxide film interposed therebetween;
heating the semiconductor substrate to separate a part of the semiconductor substrate at the ion introduced layer, thereby, forming a semiconductor layer on the base substrate; and
irradiating the semiconductor layer with a laser beam so that the semiconductor layer is melted at least partly.
2. The method of manufacturing an SOI substrate according to claim 1, further comprising a step of forming an insulating layer on the semiconductor substrate before forming the ion introduced layer.
3. The method of manufacturing an SOI substrate according to claim 2, wherein the insulating layer is a single-layer film including at least one of a silicon nitride film and a silicon nitride oxide film or a multi-layer film formed by stacking two or more films.
4. The method of manufacturing an SOI substrate according to claim 1, wherein the ion introduced layer is formed by exciting a source gas containing one or more gasses selected from the group consisting of a hydrogen gas, a noble gas, a halogen gas, and a halogen compound gas to generate ions and irradiating the semiconductor substrate with the ions.
5. The method of manufacturing an SOI substrate according to claim 4, wherein the ion introduced layer is formed in the semiconductor substrate before forming the silicon oxide film.
6. The method of manufacturing an SOI substrate according to claim 5, wherein a heating temperature for forming the silicon oxide film is less than or equal to 350\xb0 C. and a heating temperature for separating the part of the semiconductor substrate is more than or equal to 400\xb0 C.
7. The method of manufacturing an SOI substrate according to claim 5, wherein a heating temperature for forming the silicon oxide film is a temperature at which ions that have been introduced to the ion introduced layer do not escape, and a heating temperature for separating the part of the semiconductor substrate is a temperature at which the ions that have been introduced to the ion introduced layer escape.
8. The method of manufacturing an SOI substrate according to claim 4, wherein the ion introduced layer is formed by mass-separating the ions generated from the source gas and irradiating the semiconductor substrate with mass-separated ions.
9. The method of manufacturing an SOI substrate according to claim 4, wherein the ion introduced layer is formed by using a halogen gas as the source gas, irradiating the semiconductor substrate with the ions generated from the halogen gas, and then using a hydrogen gas as the source gas, and irradiating the semiconductor substrate with the ions generated from the hydrogen gas.
10. The method of manufacturing an SOI substrate according to claim 1, wherein the ion introduced layer is formed by exciting a hydrogen gas to generate ions including H3+ ions and irradiating the semiconductor substrate with the ions.
11. A method of manufacturing an SOI substrate, comprising the steps of:
forming an ion introduced layer in a semiconductor substrate;
forming a first bonding layer on the semiconductor substrate;
forming a second bonding layer on a base substrate;
bonding the semiconductor substrate to the base substrate with the first bonding layer and the second bonding layer interposed therebetween;
heating the semiconductor substrate to separate a part of the semiconductor substrate at the ion introduced layer, thereby, forming a semiconductor layer on the base substrate; and
irradiating the semiconductor layer with a laser beam so that the semiconductor layer is melted at least partly,
wherein at least one of the first bonding layer and the second bonding layer is a silicon oxide film formed by chemical vapor deposition using organic silane as a silicon source gas.
12. The method of manufacturing an SOI substrate according to claim 11, further comprising a step of forming an insulating layer on the base substrate.
13. The method of manufacturing an SOI substrate according to claim 12, wherein the insulating layer is a single-layer film including at least one of a silicon nitride film and a silicon nitride oxide film or a multi-layer film formed by stacking two or more films.
14. The method of manufacturing an SOI substrate according to claim 11, wherein the ion introduced layer is formed by exciting a source gas containing one or more gasses selected from the group consisting of a hydrogen gas, a noble gas, a halogen gas, and a halogen compound gas to generate ions and irradiating the semiconductor substrate with the ions.
15. The method of manufacturing an SOI substrate according to claim 14, wherein the ion introduced layer is formed in the semiconductor substrate before forming the first bonding layer.
16. The method of manufacturing an SOI substrate according to claim 14, wherein the ion introduced layer is formed by mass-separating the ions generated from the source gas and irradiating the semiconductor substrate with mass-separated ions.
17. The method of manufacturing an SOI substrate according to claim 14, wherein the ion introduced layer is formed by using a halogen gas as the source gas, irradiating the semiconductor substrate with the ions generated from the halogen gas, and then using a hydrogen gas as the source gas, and irradiating the semiconductor substrate with the ions generated from the hydrogen gas.
18. The method of manufacturing an SOI substrate according to claim 11, wherein the ion introduced layer is formed by exciting a hydrogen gas to generate ions including H3+ ions and irradiating the semiconductor substrate with the ions.
19. A method of manufacturing an SOI substrate, comprising the steps of:
forming an ion introduced layer in a semiconductor substrate;
forming a bonding layer on the semiconductor substrate;
bonding the semiconductor substrate to a base substrate with the bonding layer interposed therebetween;
heating the semiconductor substrate to separate a part of the semiconductor substrate at the ion introduced layer, thereby, forming a semiconductor layer on the base substrate; and
irradiating the semiconductor layer with a laser beam so that the semiconductor layer is melted at least partly,
wherein the ion introduced layer is formed by exciting a hydrogen gas to generate ions including H3+ ions and irradiating the semiconductor substrate with the ions.
20. The method of manufacturing an SOI substrate according to claim 19, further comprising a step of forming an insulating layer on the semiconductor substrate before forming the ion introduced layer.
21. The method of manufacturing an SOI substrate according to claim 20, wherein the insulating layer is a single-layer film including at least one of a silicon nitride film and a silicon nitride oxide film or a multi-layer film formed by stacking two or more films.
22. The method of manufacturing an SOI substrate according to claim 19, wherein the ion introduced layer is formed in the semiconductor substrate before forming the bonding layer.
23. The method of manufacturing an SOI substrate according to claim 22, wherein a heating temperature for forming the bonding layer is less than or equal to 350\xb0 C. and a heating temperature for separating the part of the semiconductor substrate is more than or equal to 400\xb0 C.
24. The method of manufacturing an SOI substrate according to claim 22, wherein a heating temperature for forming the bonding layer is a temperature at which ions that have been introduced to the ion introduced layer do not escape, and a heating temperature for separating the part of the semiconductor substrate is a temperature at which the ions that have been introduced to the ion introduced layer escape.
25. The method of manufacturing an SOI substrate according to claim 19,
wherein the generated ions further include H+ ions and H2+ ions, and
wherein the percentage of H3+ in the total amount of H+, H2+, and H3+ is greater than or equal to 70%.