Abstract: A method for operating a reverse osmosis membrane device, a slime control method that is applied to a reverse osmosis membrane device, and a water treatment device are provided. The method comprises: a first step for intermittently adding an oxidation-based slime inhibitor and intermittently supplying water to be treated containing the oxidation-based slime inhibitor to a reverse osmosis membrane device; and a second step for adding an organic-based slime inhibitor at least during a period other than the addition period of the first step and supplying the water to be treated containing the organic-based slime inhibitor to the reverse osmosis membrane device.

Abstract: Provided is an electronic device that decreases a width of a bezel, and restricts a decrease in an image quality of an image captured with a camera. The electronic device includes: a displaying unit; and a capture unit arranged on a side opposite a displaying surface of the displaying unit. The capture unit includes: a plurality of photoelectric-conversion units that converts light that has been made to enter through the displaying unit into electricity; and a plurality of polarization elements arranged on a light entering side of at least one photoelectric-conversion unit of the plurality of photoelectric-conversion units.

Abstract: In a metadata collection system comprising a plurality of content management servers each capable of managing content and content metadata as local content and managing content metadata stored in another content management server as reference content and a metadata collection apparatus connected with the plurality of content management servers to collect metadata from the plurality of content management servers, the metadata collection apparatus collects metadata from the individual content management servers based upon server information held at the content management servers and category identifiers appended to tree structures generated at the content management servers by individually referencing the plurality of content management servers.

Abstract: An information signal transmission system and a remote control device for such a system for allowing a viewer to continuously watch, for example, in a bedroom a program the viewer has watched in a living room. A recipient of information is detected referring to identification information set in a remote command device, and monitor devices are alternately switched for continuously providing the viewer with an information signal.

Abstract: Disclosed is a semiconductor integrated circuit device operated in stability by high-speed clock signals and which is high in a cell using rate and in interconnection efficiency. In a mid part of a chip, there are provided an I/O 11b, supplied with a clock signal from outside, and a PLL 12, connected to the I/O 11b, and adapted for routing an internal clock signal, generated on the basis of the clock signal, to DRAM macros 14. The PLL 12 generates the internal clock signal by multiplying the frequency of the clock signal. The internal clock signal generated is distributed via buffer 13 to each macro cell in need of the internal clock signal. Part of the DRAM macros may be replaced by logic macro cells.

Abstract: In a metadata collection system comprising a plurality of content management servers each capable of managing content and content metadata as local content and managing content metadata stored in another content management server as reference content and a metadata collection apparatus connected with the plurality of content management servers to collect metadata from the plurality of content management servers, the metadata collection apparatus collects metadata from the individual content management servers based upon server information held at the content management servers and category identifiers appended to tree structures generated at the content management servers by individually referencing the plurality of content management servers.

Abstract: A content sharing system includes a plurality of client stations, each including a content acquiring unit, and one or more content management servers that manage a plurality of content items. The content management server includes a storage unit that stores meta data of the content items, a tree structure generating unit that generates a tree structure including a plurality of containers arranged in hierarchical levels, each container having an identifier representing a type of content assigned thereto, a content allocating unit that allocates the content items to the containers on the basis of the meta data and the identifiers, and a content presenting unit that presents the tree structure having the content items allocated thereto to the client station. The content acquiring unit acquires the tree structure from the content management server and acquires the one or more content items from the content management server using the acquired tree structure.

Abstract: An information signal transmission system and a remote control device for such a system for allowing a viewer to continuously watch, for example, in a bedroom a program the viewer has watched in a living room. A recipient of information is detected referring to identification information set in a remote command device, and monitor devices are alternately switched for continuously providing the viewer with an information signal.

Abstract: An information signal transmission system and a remote control device for such a system for allowing a viewer to continuously watch, for example, in a bedroom a program the viewer has watched in a living room. A recipient of information is detected referring to identification information set in a remote command device, and monitor devices are alternately switched for continuously providing the viewer with an information signal.

Abstract: Disclosed is a semiconductor integrated circuit device operated in stability by high-speed clock signals and which is high in a cell using rate and in interconnection efficiency. In a mid part of a chip, there are provided an I/O 11b, supplied with a clock signal from outside, and a PLL 12, connected to the I/O 11b, and adapted for routing an internal clock signal, generated on the basis of the clock signal, to DRAM macros 14. The PLL 12 generates the internal clock signal by multiplying the frequency of the clock signal. The internal clock signal generated is distributed via buffer 13 to each macro cell in need of the internal clock signal. Part of the DRAM macros may be replaced by logic macro cells.

Abstract: In order to appropriately assign a plurality of programs to a plurality of storage devices, a header file and a source file are compiled by a compiling processing section so as to create an object file. The object file and a library file are linked by a link processing section in order to create an execution-format file. A plurality of execution-format files are linked by a complex execution-format file creation section in order to create a complex execution-format file on the basis of ROM information.

Abstract: Disclosed is an information signal transmitting apparatus for transmitting and receiving a desired information signal via a network, by which apparatus the work of installing a variety of equipment is simplified. Information indicating an attribute of each equipment and an address of the equipment are transmitted and received via the network between the variety of equipment. Whether one piece of equipment is connectable or not to another is determined based on the received attribute information. The connection between the two pieces of equipment is established based on the determined result.

Abstract: The present invention provides a program creation apparatus for a software development system capable of deleting some of modules during an execution. A header file 30 and a source file 31 are compiled by a compiler 33 using a compile information 32 from a compile processing block 34 and the header file 30, so as to create an object file 35. Using a linker 38, a link information 37, and a library file 36, the object file 35 is linked in a link processing block 39 so as to become an execution-formatted file 40. A composite execution-formatted file information 41 provides an information about the execution-formatted file 40 to be contained in a composite execution-formatted file format file 43. According to this information, a composite execution-formatted file creation block 42 is supplied with an initialization program 78 and a plurality of execution-formatted files 40 and outputs the single composite execution-formatted file format file 43.

Abstract: In a telecommunication system a service area is divided into a plurality of cells. Radio base stations are disposed corresponding to individual cells of the plurality of cells. Each radio base station stores regional information such as disaster information, advertisement information, and shopping information. When a communication is made between a radio base station and a portable telephone terminal, regional information such as disaster information, advertisement information, and shopping information is transmitted from the base station to the portable telephone terminal.

Abstract: A recording/reproducing method for recording/reproducing digital signals on plural slanted tracks of a tape-shaped recording medium, in which, even if some of the slanted tracks are erased due to junction recording or after-recording, the signals can be reproduced satisfactorily. The input digital signals are divided into upper order bits and lower order bits, and the upper order bits are further divided into upper order side bits and lower order side bits. The data corresponding to the upper order bits, the data corresponding to the upper order side bits of the lower order bits and the data corresponding to the lower order side bits of the lower order bits are recorded in respective different slanted tracks.

Abstract: In a microcomputer including a central processing unit (CPU), a user mode interrupt control circuit for generating a user mode interrupt request signal and transmitting the user mode interrupt request signal to the CPU, and a supervisor mode interrupt control circuit for generating a supervisor interrupt request signal, a selector circuit is connected to the CPU, the user mode interrupt control circuit and the supervisor mode interrupt control circuit. When the selector circuit is in a first state, the supervisor mode interrupt request signal is transmitted from the supervisor mode interrupt control circuit directly to the CPU. When the selector is in a second state, the supervisor mode interrupt request signal is transmitted from the supervisor mode interrupt control circuit via the user mode interrupt control circuit to the CPU.

Abstract: In a mobile communication apparatus, power consumption at the time of waiting can be reduced, and hand-off can be easily performed to other systems. The mobile communication apparatus is provided with a memory part (32) which memorizes a selection signal of the first fixed communication apparatus for selecting the first fixed communication apparatuses, the signal being obtained by receiving a signal transmitted from the first fixed communication apparatuses when a hand-off is performed between the first and second fixed communication apparatuses; a comparing part (33) for comparing a memorized selection signal of said first fixed communication apparatuses with a newly received selection signal of the first fixed communication apparatus; and a hand-off process part (31) for performing hand-off to a second fixed communication apparatus from said first fixed communication apparatus in accordance with the comparison result.

Abstract: A spread spectrum communication system, which can detect the synchronization of the spread code surely even when the carrier-to-noise ratio is low, and can detect the boundary of the data. Wherein two types of spread code S20, S21 are transmitted from a transmitter 21 as an initial synchronizing signal based on a predetermined transmission pattern, and two types of spread code are respectively detected at a receiver 22. The predetermined transmission pattern is detected based on the detected two spread codes. Therefore, the spread code is detected several times at the receiver, and the synchronization of the spread code can be detected surely even when the carrier-to-noise ratio is low. Further, the boundary of the data can be detected by the predetermined transmission pattern.

Abstract: A video disk player includes a memory for storing a video data signal, a Y/C separator for separating the video data signal stored in the memory means into a luminance signal and a chrominance signal, a sync generator for generating sync signals, a selecting circuit for receiving the luminance signal and the video data signal and for selecting one of the luminance signal and the video data signal as an output signal, the selecting circuit selecting the video data signal as the output signal during a selected horizontal scan period, and a mixer for mixing the sync signals with the output signal and the chrominance signal.

Abstract: An information signal transmission system and a remote control device for such a system for allowing a viewer to continuously watch, for example, in a bedroom a program the viewer has watched in a living room. A recipient of information is detected referring to identification information set in a remote command device, and monitor devices are alternately switched for continuously providing the viewer with an information signal.