Abstract: A wall-crawling machine comprises a body, a plurality of guide wheels rotatably mounted on the body, at least one crawler track extending around the guide wheels, a plurality of permanent magnets disposed on an outer surface of each of the crawler tracks, and a guide device provided on the respective crawler tracks for selectively restraining or releasing the crawler track from moving relative to the body in a direction perpendicular to a plane on which the permanent magnets travel.

Abstract: An information signal transmission system is arranged to divide an original image information signal which consists of information signals representing a number k.times.l (k and l: positive integers) or picture elements into a plurality of small blocks, each grouping a number m.times.n (m and n: positive integers) of picture elements to have a plurality of compressing modes of different information compressing rates; and to compress the information signal for each of the blocks in one of the plurality of compressing modes in transmitting these information signals.

Abstract: A picture signal conversion device arranged to obtain an interpolation signal by using a scanning line signal of a first picture signal which has scanning line signals corresponding to a predetermined number of scanning lines within one field period and to convert the first picture signal into a second picture signal which has a greater number of scanning lines than that of the first picture signal comprises: first interpolation signal generating means which generates a first interpolation signal for the present field by using a scanning line signal obtained within the present field; second interpolation signal generating means which generates a second interpolation signal for the present field by using a scanning line signal of another field; output means arranged to detect the correlativity of scanning line signal between fields and to selectively produce, according to the detected correlativity, the first or second interpolation signal generated from the first or second interpolation signal generating mean

Abstract: A piping travelling apparatus having a plurality of continuous treads driven by motors through transmission gearing. The continuous treads are mounted to a frame and spaced apart a predetermined distance peripherally of the inner wall surface of the piping. At least one of the continuous treads is kept in contact with the inner wall surface of the piping no matter what the posture of the apparatus may be, so that the apparatus can travel without any trouble even if its posture undergoes a change when it moves along elevations and depressions on the inner wall surface of the piping or negotiates the boundary between different levels of the inner wall surface or bends of the piping. The apparatus enables a travel through piping of relatively small diameter having vertical or steeply slanted pipes to be made without any trouble.

Abstract: A system for transmitting an image information signal which continuously forms a temporally correlated group of image planes is arranged to divide each image plane portion of the image information signal into a plurality of blocks; to have a plurality of different information transmitting modes of transmitting the image information signal in different degrees of information density including a mode in which a present image plane portion of the image information signal is not transmitted; to form a transmitting information signal on the basis of applicable one of the plurality of the different information transmitting modes; to generate for each of the blocks a transmitting mode signal including information indicating use or nonuse of the information transmitting mode in which the present image plane portion of the image information signal is not transmitted; and to transmit the transmitting information signal and the transmitting mode signal in a multiplexing manner.

Abstract: A chain-like self-moving robot includes three or more capsule units connected to one another in a string by means of couplers. By expanding and contracting intercapsule spaces in a predetermined sequence so that a smaller number of the capsules are moved while a larger number of capsules remain stationary, the chain-like robot can move forwardly or backwardly.

Abstract: A multiarticulated manipulator including a multijoint connecting mechanism having a plurality of arms, each arm having a joint capable of being bent in one plane and all the arms being connected with one another in positions spaced apart from one another by circumferential extent of 90 degrees. A plurality of wires are provided, each wire being connected to one of the arms and all the wires being supported and guided by wire guides and driven by a drive. The multiarticulated manipulator incorporated in a movable type remoted-controlled visual monitor system further includes a lens fixed to a forward end of the multijoint connecting mechanism, a fiberscope connected to the lens, and a movable member having the drive mounted therein and supporting the multijoint connecting mechanism, and a camera mounted in the movable member and connected to the lens through the fiberscope.

Abstract: A CCD comb filter includes long and short CCD delay lines connected to receive a common input signal and is arranged to combine output signals of the long and short CCD delay lines. In order to realize a CCD comb filter very close to an optimum comb filter the product of the number of stages of the long CCD delay line and the transfer inefficiency of each stage thereof is set substantially equal to the product of the number of stages of the short CCD delay line and the transfer inefficiency of each stage thereof. In order that the transfer inefficiency of the short CCD delay line may be made greater to satisfy the above-mentioned requirement, transfer electrodes of the short CCD delay line are designed such that their length as viewed in charge transfer direction is made larger than the length of transfer electrodes of the long CCD delay line.

Abstract: A circuit for supplying weighting voltages to multipliers of a transversal filter comprises a plurality of electronic switches associated with the multipliers for switching magnitudes of the weighting voltages applied to the multipliers, and memory cells associated with the respective electronic switches for storing digital data to turn on or off the corresponding electronic switches. Those memory cells are sequentially addressed by address circuits to store data which define the magnitudes of the weighting voltages applied to the multipliers.

Abstract: An integration circuit comprises an operational amplifier with first and second input terminals and an output terminal, an integration capacitor connected between the first input terminal and the output terminal, an integration resistor connected at one end to the first input terminal, a switch connected at one end to the other end of said resistor, a voltage signal source to be integrated which is connected through the switch to the other end of the resistor, and a reference voltage signal source connected to the second input terminal. The integration circuit further comprises means which applies, at the same time as the switch is opened, a signal with the same potential as the signal derived from the reference voltage signal source to said other end of the resistor, thereby to prevent an output signal from being adversely affected by a parasitic capacitance of the switch.

Abstract: An operational amplifier is provided with a differential amplifier constructed by MOS transistors and a linear amplifier constructed by MOS transistors and coupled with the differential amplifier. The differential amplifier is supplied with first and second inputs. The output of the operational amplifier is derived from the output of the linear amplifier. A stabilizing circuit, which is coupled with the differential and linear amplifiers, stabilizes the output of the operational amplifier against a variation of the input DC levels to the differential amplifier.