Abstract: Reinforcement of a system renewability is realized skillfully utilizing properties peculiar to a system. As a result, there is produced such a new effect as to similarly reinforce required specification with respect to copyright protection of a content recorded in a medium for exclusive use in reproduction and a recordable medium. In a system which encrypts information such as a content to record/reproduce the information, design is made so that encryption/decryption processing information differs for a device (software (S/W) main body device) whose main body is software constituted of a recording/reproducing drive of a recording medium and a personal computer (PC), a device (hardware (H/W) main body device) whose main body is hardware integrally containing a drive and data coding/demodulation processing, and the medium for exclusive use in reproduction and the recording medium.

Abstract: A method of holographic recording and reproduction includes recording to the holographic recording medium a wavelength variation reference pattern which is recorded as a hologram at a wavelength of the recording beam, recording to the holographic recording medium a page data pattern as a hologram at the wavelength of the recording beam, detecting the wavelength variation between the recording beam and the reproducing beam based on the size of an image for wavelength variation reference obtained by reproducing the wavelength variation reference pattern at a wavelength of the reproducing beam, and reproducing the page data pattern using the reproducing beam with a wavelength controlled based on the detected wavelength variation.

Abstract: A video recording/reproducing apparatus comprises a receiver which receives a broadcast program, an acquiring unit which acquires program information of the broadcast program, a recording unit which records the broadcast program received by the receiver together with the program information acquired by the acquiring unit, a selector which selects a type of the program, and a searching unit which searches a latest program of the type selected by the selector based on the program information acquired by the acquiring unit and the program information recorded by the recording unit.

Abstract: A semiconductor memory device includes a memory cell array, a word line, a source line, a row decoder, and a source line driver circuit. The memory cell array includes a memory cell unit having a plurality of memory cells connected in series. The word line is connected to control gates of the memory cells. The source line is electrically connected to sources of the memory cells positioned on one end sides of the memory cell unit. The row decoder selects the word line. The source line driver circuit is arranged in the row decoder and applies a first voltage to the source line.

Abstract: A receiving large scale integrated circuit (LSI) device, including a demodulator which includes two signal processing circuits to demodulate two diversity signals to form a demodulated signal, a decoder which decodes the demodulated signal in accordance with an error correcting code to form a decoded signal, a receiving quality judgment circuit which codes the decoded signal to form a re-coded signal as a reference signal, compares the demodulated signal with the reference signal to obtain an error rate of the two diversity signals and supplies a judgment signal depending on the error rate, and a control circuit which selects one of the two signal processing circuits or both two signal processing circuits in response to the judgment signal of the receiving quality judgment circuit and stops supplying electric power or a clock signal to the one of the two processing circuits not selected by the control circuit.

Abstract: In the disclosed registration and authentication scheme, in the case of carrying out the registration and authentication of a wireless terminal with respect to a wireless base station provided inside the home, for example, a user of the wireless terminal must directly operate the wireless base station. For this reason, it is possible to prevent the registration and authentication of a wireless terminal of an external user who cannot easily operate the wireless base station, and thereby it is possible to realize the secure and easy registration and authentication processing even when the wireless communications are used.

Abstract: According to this invention, a digital key telephone system connected to an analog public network NW having a function of transmitting a ringing signal including identification information of a calling line through a subscriber line (CO line), accommodating a plurality of extension lines each connected to a digital key telephone (DKT) 2 or a standard telephone (STT) 4 as an extension terminal, and having a function of switching and connecting the subscriber line to the plurality of extension lines or the extension lines to each other includes a called party storage means storing, in advance, information representing the correlation between the calling line and the extension terminals 2 and 4 as a called terminal. When a ringing signal arrives from the analog communication network NW, calling line identification information (caller ID) contained in the ringing signal is detected by a calling line identification information interface unit (RCIU) 12.

Abstract: In an X-ray CT scanner, a first field of view corresponding to a reconstructed area of an image to be displayed is set. An original image data are reconstructed on the basis of a plurality of projection data in a patient in response to the first field of view. Whether or not an imaged region in the patient is larger than the first field of view is judged according to referring the original image data. A second field of view including the imaged region wholly is set in case that the imaged region is larger in area than the first field of view. Beam hardening correction data are produced on the basis of the projection data in the second field of view. The projection data are processed into the image corresponding to the first field of view with an aid of the correction data.

Abstract: A carrier rejection circuit for improving carrier rejection in a balanced modulator includes balun transformers, connected to the carrier signal port and the modulated signal port, which reduces parasitic carrier leakage by reducing the average voltages at the ports, offset adjustment circuitry, connected to the modulating signal port, which applies an adjustable offset voltage to the modulating signal to reduce in-phase parasitic carrier leakage and carrier leakage caused by offset voltage at the modulating port, and a reactance network, connected between the carrier signal port and the modulated signal port, for reducing quadrature-phase parasitic carrier leakage.

Abstract: In an image display apparatus, a frame memory for storing original data and a plurality of display memories for storing data to be displayed are used as memories for storing image data. Data transfer from the frame memory to the display memories is performed in accordance with a DMA scheme. The display memories as destinations of the data transfer are selectively switched. Since the image data transfer from the display memories is performed through a programmable data conversion memory, data conversion as image processing can be performed. The image data is read out from each of the display memories and is displayed on each of a plurality of display systems. An address signal for reading out at least a desired part of the image data from the frame memory is generated in synchronism with a common sync signal used when the image data is read out from the display memories.

Abstract: A head positioning mechanism in accordance with the present invention is equipped with a motor with a rotation axis, a pulley which is fixed to the rotation axis, a carriage member which holds the magnetic read/write heads and is guided towards and away from a disk, a flexible band which is wound around the pulley, two attachments which attach the respective ends of the band to spaced apart positions an the carriage member. The two attachments have respective elastic elements to give separately predetermined tension to the band, and at the same time, at least one of the attachments has a damping element which damps the vibration.