Abstract: This invention provides an information processing method and apparatus, which can set all extent sizes of data divisionally recorded on a disk to be equal to or larger than the minimum recording unit, and can guarantee continuous reproduction of the divisionally recorded data. Of data divisionally recorded on a recording medium (5), data which corresponds to an end portion of that data and cannot be recorded as a recording area equal to or larger than a minimum recording unit specified in the recording medium (5) due to the presence of a recording area (6) of another data, that has already been recorded on the recording medium (5), is re-recorded on a recording area equal to or larger than the minimum recording unit. At this time, new data is generated by combining data less than the minimum recording unit, and data recorded in another recording area, and the new data is re-recorded on a new recording area.

Abstract: This invention provides an information processing method and apparatus, which can set all extent sizes of data divisionally recorded on a disk to be equal to or larger than the minimum recording unit, and can guarantee continuous reproduction of the divisionally recorded data. Of data divisionally recorded on a recording medium (5), data which corresponds to an end portion of that data and cannot be recorded as a recording area equal to or larger than a minimum recording unit specified in the recording medium (5) due to the presence of a recording area (6) of another data, that has already been recorded on the recording medium (5), is re-recorded on a recording area equal to or larger than the minimum recording unit. At this time, new data is generated by combining data less than the minimum recording unit, and data recorded in another recording area, and the new data is re-recorded on a new recording area.

Abstract: An oscillator device includes an oscillation system having an oscillator and an elastic supporting member, a detecting member for detecting oscillation amplitude of the oscillator, a driving member for driving the oscillator, and a control unit for generating a driving signal for driving the oscillator and for supplying the driving signal to the driving member, wherein the control unit reciprocally sweeps a driving frequency of the driving signal so that a resonance frequency of the oscillation system is included within a frequency range swept, wherein the control unit determines a resonance frequency based on at least two frequencies with which an oscillation amplitude value obtainable by the reciprocal sweeping reaches a maximum, and wherein the control unit generates the driving signal based on the determined resonance frequency.

Abstract: An oscillator device includes an oscillation system 115 having a plurality of oscillators and a plurality of torsion springs, a supporting member for supporting the oscillation system 115, driving members 114 and 1152, a signal output device 121 and 122, and a drive control unit 101-113, 123 and 124, wherein the driving member drives the oscillation system 115 so that the oscillator provides oscillation presented by an equation including the sum of a plurality of periodic functions, wherein the signal output device produces a signal corresponding to the displacement of the oscillator, and wherein the drive control unit controls the driving member based on an output signal of the signal output device and by use of a driving signal which is expressed by an equation including the sum of a plurality of periodic functions, the drive control unit including a driving signal generation circuit 109 for generating a driving signal using a trigonometric function table 110.

Abstract: An oscillation device capable of generating a drive signal waveform with a sufficiently small number of harmonic components is provided. The oscillation device includes an oscillation system, a supporting unit configured to support the oscillation system, a drive unit configured to drive the oscillation system, and a drive control unit configured to control the drive unit by supplying a drive signal. The oscillation system includes a torsion spring and an oscillator. The drive control unit includes a drive-signal generating circuit configured to generate the drive signal using an address generator configured to generate an address to which a predetermined variable is added at a frequency higher than a frequency of the drive signal and using a trigonometric-function table indexed by an output of the address generator. The frequency of the drive signal is adjusted by adjusting the predetermined variable.

Abstract: In a system for recording scenario and material files into a storage unit and reproducing the material files based on the scenario file, an information processing method capable of easily and surely preventing that the unnecessary material files are accumulated in the storage unit is provided. When the scenario file recorded in a hard disk is deleted, the unnecessary material files in this hard disk are automatically deleted. Namely, in the hard disk, the scenario file to be deleted and the scenario file to be remained are compared with each other, and the material files which are used in the scenario file to be deleted and from which the material files used in the remaining scenario file are excluded are deleted.

Abstract: A switching apparatus of a camera server switches to down-load advertisement for a predetermined period at predetermined intervals while down-loading an image sensed by a camera, in response to a request for the image sensed by the camera.

Abstract: A switching apparatus of a camera server switches to down-load advertisement for a predetermined period at predetermined intervals while down-loading an image sensed by a camera, in response to a request for the image sensed by the camera.

Abstract: A switching apparatus of a camera server switches to down-load advertisement for a predetermined period at predetermined intervals while down-loading an image sensed by a camera, in response to a request for the image sensed by the camera.

Abstract: This invention provides an information processing method and apparatus, which can set all extent sizes of data divisionally recorded on a disk to be equal to or larger than the minimum recording unit, and can guarantee continuous reproduction of the divisionally recorded data. Of data divisionally recorded on a recording medium (5), data which corresponds to an end portion of that data and cannot be recorded as a recording area equal to or larger than a minimum recording unit specified in the recording medium (5) due to the presence of a recording area (6) of another data, that has already been recorded on the recording medium (5), is re-recorded on a recording area equal to or larger than the minimum recording unit. At this time, new data is generated by combining data less than the minimum recording unit, and data recorded in another recording area, and the new data is re-recorded on a new recording area.

Abstract: In a system for recording scenario and material files into a storage unit and reproducing the material files based on the scenario file, an information processing method capable of easily and surely preventing that the unnecessary material files are accumulated in the storage unit is provided. When the scenario file recorded in a hard disk is deleted, the unnecessary material files in this hard disk are automatically deleted. Namely, in the hard disk, the scenario file to be deleted and the scenario file to be remained are compared with each other, and the material files which are used in the scenario file to be deleted and from which the material files used in the remaining scenario file are excluded are deleted.

Abstract: In a system for recording scenario and material files into a storage unit and reproducing the material files based on the scenario file, an information processing method easily and surely prevents unnecessary material files from accumulating in the storage unit by, when a scenario file recorded in a hard disk is deleted, unnecessary material files in this hard disk are automatically deleted. Namely, in the hard disk, the scenario file to be deleted and a scenario file to remain are compared with each other, and material files that are used by the scenario file to be deleted and not used by the remaining scenario file are deleted.

Abstract: A temperature control device for a constant temperature chiller unit or a vending machine is provided. Thermal medium fluid such as water in the chiller unit is accurately controlled under starting mode, heating mode and cooling mode. Thermal medium fluid such as air in the vending machine is conveniently controlled in winter mode and summer mode. In the device, a heat exchanger is interposed within a compression circuit, and a bypass circuit is disposed at the downstream side of a pump so that through the bypass circuit thermal medium fluid receives heat from the heat exchanger. Thus, the temperature of thermal medium fluid supplied to an external secondary heat load is controlled.

Abstract: A temperature control device for a constant temperature chiller unit or a vending machine is provided. Thermal medium fluid such as water in the chiller unit is accurately controlled under starting mode, heating mode and cooling mode. Thermal medium fluid such as air in the vending machine is conveniently controlled in winter mode and summer mode. In the device, a heat exchanger is interposed within a compression circuit, and a bypass circuit is disposed at the downstream side of a pump so that through the bypass circuit thermal medium fluid receives heat from the heat exchanger.

Abstract: An information providing apparatus for selecting desired information from a plurality of storing media and outputting the selected information to a terminal apparatus comprises an input unit to input information requests from a plurality of terminal apparatuses, a deciding unit for classifying the plurality of information requests inputted by the input unit and deciding a retrieving order of the information according to each information request, a memory to store the retrieving order decided by the deciding unit, a reading unit for selecting the storing medium corresponding to the information request from the plurality of storing media in accordance with the retrieving order stored in the memory and for reading out the desired information, and an output unit to output the information read out by the reading means to the terminal apparatus. The memory stores the ID number of the storing medium, the ID number of the information, and the ID number of the terminal apparatus as one set.

Abstract: In an apparatus for decoding image information which has been variable-length coded on a block unit basis of a plurality of pixels, the image information is decoded on the block unit basis, the number of blocks decoded in a predetermined period of time is counted, and the decoded image information is corrected by using the result of the counting.

Abstract: In an image display apparatus arranged to include a bit mapping memory having transparency parameter values and to display images while importing a picture effect to a plurality of image data on the basis of the transparency parameter values, a code memory is arranged to hold transparency parameter codes, and a look-up table is arranged to be used for converting the transparency parameter codes into the transparency parameter values. The image display apparatus is thus arranged to bring forth the picture effect by converting, through the look-up table, the transparency parameter codes into the transparency parameter values to be used for transparency between a plurality of images.

Abstract: A reproducing method and apparatus for reproducing images by reading an image signal from a recording medium, the image signal including a plurality of blocks each including image data and control data to control reproduction of an image in conjunction with other blocks. The reproducing method includes the steps of reading the image signal from the recording medium; setting a mode from among a plurality of modes including a normal reproduction mode, in which the blocks are read in the reading step in a sequence corresponding to a recording sequence of the image signal, and a special reproduction mode, in which the blocks are read in the reading step in a sequence different from a recording sequence of the image signal; rewriting the control data of a block in the read image signal in the special reproduction mode; and reproducing the image data included in a block in accordance with the control data which is rewritten in the rewriting step.

Abstract: A multimedia program is formed of different media information files together with a sequencing program controlling the order the time duration for reproducing the media information files. Versions of a file having different language attributes are packaged with other files so that these other files need be stored only once. An editing program suggests a reproduction time for an accompanying main file to be reproduced in accordance with the longest reproduction time of the versions of the file having different attributes.

Abstract: A 1,4-benzoxazine derivative of the following formula (I): ##STR1## or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof is disclosed. The compound of the present invention is useful as a medicament for preventing or treating disorders induced by intracellular acidosis during myocardial ischemia, such as cardiac dysfunction, myocardial necrosis, arrhythmia, reperfusion injury, and the like, which are observed in ischemic heart diseases (e.g. myocardial infarction, angina pectoris, etc.).