Abstract: A digital camera capable of performing accurate document reading, and a document processing system utilizing the digital camera. In the document processing system, a document is divided into blocks and each block is sensed by a CCD 103; perspective correction is performed on the image data of each of the plurality of images obtained by divisionally sensing the document; and OCR process is performed on the corrected image data to convert the corrected image data to text data. The converted text data, corresponding to the image data of each of the plurality of images, is combined into one text data, and the combined text data is outputted for printing.

Abstract: It is an object to enable a printer to print at a high speed from drawing data including each drawing object of an image, a text, and graphics in the same page and to form print information in which a deterioration of a picture quality is small. An object-unit resolution discriminator discriminates attributes of drawing objects in print data which is formed by a host, discriminates a kind of resolution processing of each drawing object, selects either one of a high resolution rasterizer and a normal resolution rasterizer every drawing object on the basis of the discrimination result, and switches a resolution processing. A page detection/resolution controller switches a resolution mode for the printer driver to draw every page on the basis of the attribute detected by a page parameter discriminator for analyzing the print data and detecting the attributes of the drawing objects of each page.

Abstract: A process for production of nickel oxyhydroxide by electrolytic oxidation of nickel hydroxide in the presence of an alkali metal halide. The nickel oxyhydroxide is produced by adding nickel hydroxide particles to an aqueous solution of an alkali metal halide and stirring the mixture to prepare a nickel hydroxide slurry, and then converting a portion of the nickel hydroxide to nickel oxyhydroxide by electrolytic oxidation in the presence of the alkali metal halide.

Abstract: A copper metal film having 105 to 109 micropores per square centimeter and a product plated with the film. The copper metal film is obtained by immersing a work in an electroless plating solution which contains copper ions, a completing agent, a hypophosphorus acid compound, a metal catalyst for initiating reduction, and a compound having an acetylenic bond.

Abstract: A printed circuit board comprising a metal copper film having 105 to 109 micropores per square centimeter wherein the metal copper film is prepared by dipping a plating object into an electroless copper plating solution comprising a copper ion, a complexing agent, a hypophosphorus acid compound, a metallic catalyst for initiating the reductive reaction, and a compound containing an acetylenic bond.

Abstract: A digital camera capable of performing accurate document reading, and a document processing system utilizing the digital camera. In the document processing system, a document is divided into blocks and each block is sensed by a CCD 103; perspective correction is performed on the image data of each of the plurality of images obtained by divisionally sensing the document; and OCR process is performed on the corrected image data to convert the corrected image data to text data. The converted text data, corresponding to the image data of each of the plurality of images, is combined into one text data, and the combined text data is outputted for printing.

Abstract: A digital camera which performs accurate document reading, and is used in a document processing system. In the document processing system, a document is divided into blocks and each block is sensed by a CCD, and perspective correction is performed on the image data of each of a plurality of images obtained by divisionally sensing the document. An OCR process is performed on the corrected image data to convert the corrected image data to text data. The converted text data, corresponding to the image data of each of the plurality of images, is combined into one text data, and the combined text data is output for printing.

Abstract: An image processing apparatus in which the amount of data bits for each of plural block units is controlled to be the same for all block units, so as to facilitate location of each block unit in coded image data without necessarily decoding the entire image. Pixel image data which is formable into plural block units is input for each block unit, and the input image data is orthogonally transformed. The orthogonally-transformed image data is quantized, and variable-length coding is performed on the quantized image data so as to generate variable-length code. The amount of variable length code in each block unit is controlled to be no more than a predetermined amount of data bits, with the predetermined amount being the same for each block unit.

Abstract: An electroless copper plating solution which is based on an electroless copper plating solution comprising a copper ion, a complexing agent, a hypophosphorous acid compound as a reducing agent, and a metallic catalyst for initiating a reductive reaction, as characterized by further comprising a lithium ion or both a lithium ion and a polyoxyethylene type surfactant, and a method for electroless copper plating using the same, as well as a plated product made by such a process. The electroless copper plating solution in the present invention enables a uniform and acicular copper film to be deposited on the surface of a plating object, and therefore can be used for improving the strength of adhesion between various metals and resins, including bonding of a copper foil to a resin as applied in a conductive circuit such as a multi-layer printed circuit board or in a copper-plated laminate.

Abstract: A drawing object is processed in accordance with an attribute thereof to obtain an output image of a high quality. To this end, an image processing method for developing a drawing object, converting the drawing object into a code representative of a pattern for each set of a plurality of dots, and outputting the code to an output device, includes the steps of, judging whether the drawing object is a resolution prominent object, developing a drawing object which is not the resolution prominent object at a first resolution to convert into the code, developing the resolution prominent object at a second resolution higher than the first resolution, deriving an edge portion from an image developed at the second resolution, for each of blocks constituted of the plurality of dots, and converting the edge portion into an edge pattern code for each set of the plurality of dots, and outputting the code and the edge pattern code to the output device.

Abstract: An apparatus has a high-resolution rasterizer for rasterizing a drawing object at a first resolution, and a low-resolution rasterizer for rasterizing a drawing object at a second resolution lower than the first resolution. When input image data includes drawing objects which overlap each other, a drawing object determination unit selects the rasterizer for each of the overlapping drawing objects on the basis of the attributes of the overlapping drawing objects.

Abstract: In an image processing apparatus, a memory stores encoded image data, and command data is interpreted and converted into image data. The encoded image data stored in the memory is decoded and synthesized with the converted image data. The resulting synthesized image data is then encoded.

Abstract: An automatic focusing system is arranged to use as a parameter a signal component which is extracted from an image signal and varies with the state of focus, to compute an evaluation value on the basis of a degree to which the signal component satisfies preset conditions or rules, and to adjust focus on the basis of the result of the computing operation.

Abstract: In a turn off type semiconductor device, an n-type emitter layer is divided into a plurality of elements by trenches. A silicide layer of a high melting point metal is provided on a p-type layer adjacent to the individual elements of the n-type emitter layer on a bottom of each of the trenches. A gate electrode is provided on the associated silicide layer so as to surround the plurality of elements of the n-type emitter layer obtained by the division of the emitter layer. An insulator is filled in each of the trenches dividing the n-type emitter layer surrounded by the gate electrode. A cathode electrode is provided on both the insulators and the n-type emitter layer.

Abstract: A tunnel injection type semiconductor device having an MIS structure comprising a semiconductor region, a source, a drain and a gate electrode, wherein said source and said drain are composed of a metal or metal compound member, respectively, and wherein both have an overlapping portion with said gate electrode. A first conductivity type high impurity concentration semiconductor layer is formed in said semiconductor region in contact with and contiguous to said metalic member at the drain side. The source provides a Schottky barrier junction to said semiconductor region while said drain provides an ohmic contact to said semiconductor region. Using this structure a tunneling current flowing across a Schottky barrier junction between said source and said drain is controlled by a gate voltage.

Abstract: A combination portable magnetic tape cassette player and multiband radio receiver in which the sensitive elements of the radio receiver are arranged within a hinged, plastic cover of the combined apparatus and the circuitry of the radio receiver is formed on a printed circuit board having an AM band antenna mounted thereto, whereby the AM receiver antenna is electro-magnetically unshielded by the plastic cover and the combined tape player and radio receiver is of a size substantially equal to that of the tape player alone.

Abstract: A process for regenerating electroless plating bath comprising the steps of:(i) continuously or intermittently taking out a part or the whole of chelating agent-containing copper electroless plating bath from an electroless plating tank, followed by removing off the copper ion content from said bath;(ii) acidifying the thus obtained solution for precipitating the chelating agent therefrom and recovering the precipitated chelating agent;(iii) supplying said recovered chelating agent to an anodic cell separated by an exchange membrane from a cathodic cell having cathode, said anodic cell having copper anode, wherein in case a neutral or alkaline electrolyte solution is supplied to said cathodic cell said partitioning membrane is an anion exchange membrane or cation exchange membrane, while in case an acidic electrolyte solution is supplied to said cathodic cell said partitioning membrane is a cation exchange membrane, and applying direct current between both electrode; and(iv) then, recycling the solution withi

Abstract: There is presented a chemical copper-plating bath capable of providing a plated film having excellent mechanical characteristics, especially ductility, which bath contains a specific additive having the following formula: ##STR1## Stability of the bath as well as further improvement of mechanical strength of plated films are also found to be attained by adding in combination at least one compound selected from the group consisting of 1,10-phenanthroline, its derivatives, 2,2'-dipyridyl, 2,2'-diquinoline and water-soluble cyanides.

Abstract: A computerized numerical controller wherein a tape reader, upon reading of input tapes, inputs machine control data including source language instruction data into a storage device of a data processing device. The processing device, when operated under the control of an automatic programming program, converts the source language instruction data into blocks of machine part instruction data and stores the same in the storage device. The processing device, when operated under the control of a numerical control program, produces command signals each indicative of the length and velocity that a machine apparatus connected thereto is to move, in accordance with each of the blocks of the machine part instruction data and outputs the command signals to the machine apparatus so as to control the same. The processing device is enabled to operate selectively under the above-mentioned two programs.

Abstract: A combination portable magnetic tape cassette player and multiband radio receiver in which the sensitive elements of the radio receiver are arranged within a hinged, plastic cover of the combined apparatus and the circuitry of the radio receiver is formed on a printed circuit board having an AM band antenna mounted thereto, whereby the AM receiver antenna is electromagnetically unshielded by the plastic cover and the combined tape player and radio receiver is of a size substantially equal to that of the tape player alone.