Abstract: A lens holder is configured by coupling an upper piece and a lower piece. First bobbin portions around which respective tracking coils are wound are provided in one of the upper and lower pieces, and second bobbin portions around which respective focusing coils are wound are provided in the other one of the upper and lower pieces.

Abstract: A holding member provided with a coil comprising a proximity facilitating portion capable of bringing the coil closer to a magnetic member facing the coil.

Abstract: To provide a video display system for allowing a user to look at and listen to video and sound on various means. A video display system has a video display device and a portable video display device, connected to each other for communication. The video display device produces own device video data and own device sound data to be displayed and reproduced, respectively, on the video display device; displays the own device video data and reproduces the own device sound data; encodes these data into a data format which the portable video display device is able to handle, to thereby produce other device video data and other device sound data; and sends to the portable video display device. The portable video display device receives these data, and decodes and displays the other device video data, and decodes and reproduces the other device sound data.

Abstract: To effectively reproduce video depending on the performance of a reproducing apparatus. A controller 446 determines whether or not an entry of video is a beginning of a chapter of video or whether or not a scene change of the entry is important. In other words, the controller 446 determines whether or not an entry under evaluation corresponds to a time of a chapter of chapter scene change information 447 or whether or not the entry is an important scene change. If an entry under evaluation corresponds to a time of a chapter the controller 446 sets priority_flag=3 and stores it to an output server 426. The present invention can be applied to a game device or the like that uses for example a DVD.

Abstract: A nozzle diaphragm assembly includes a diaphragm outer ring having a groove opened toward an inner diameter side to be continuous in an inner peripheral direction; a diaphragm inner ring having a groove opened toward an outer diameter side to be continuous in an outer peripheral direction; and a nozzle blade having a diaphragm outer ring insertion portion on one end and a diaphragm inner ring insertion portion on the other end, in which the groove opened toward the inner diameter side of the diaphragm outer ring and the diaphragm outer ring insertion portion are shaped to be fitted to each other, and in which the groove opened toward the outer diameter side of the diaphragm inner ring and the diaphragm inner ring insertion portion are shaped to be fitted to each other.

Abstract: Audio control data extracted from SMF data by a data decoder section is supplied to an audio decoder section. The audio decoder section receives the audio control signal and generates a tone as an audio output in accordance with the audio control signal. If the decoding period by the audio decoder section is sufficiently short, the performance tone and the audio output create synchronized sounds because the audio control signal is decoded from a Meta event of the SMF data.

Abstract: A lens holder is configured by coupling an upper piece and a lower piece. First bobbin portions around which respective tracking coils are wound are provided in one of the upper and lower pieces, and second bobbin portions a round which respective focusing coils are wound are provided in the other one of the upper and lower pieces.

Abstract: In the axial turbine according to the present invention, a nozzle blade 1 and/or a movable blade 5 has a profile in which a throat-pitch ratio “s/t” is maximized at a blade-central portion in height, wherein “s” being a shortest distance between a rear edge of a nozzle blade (movable blade) and a back side of another nozzle blade that is adjacent to the nozzle blade, and “t” being a pitch of the nozzle blades disposed in the row, minimized in a position between the blade-central portion in height and a blade-root portion and increased from a minimized value to the blade-root portion. This structure enables to provide the axial turbine, which permits to control flow distribution of the working fluid in the height direction of the blade in the passage between the blades of a turbine nozzle unit and a turbine movable nozzle and reduce the blade profile loss and the secondary flow loss at the blade-root portion, thus making a further improvement in the turbine stage efficiency.

Abstract: In the axial turbine according to the present invention, a nozzle blade 1 and/or a movable blade 5 has a profile in which a throat-pitch ratio “s/t” is maximized at a blade-central portion in height, wherein “s” being a shortest distance between a rear edge of a nozzle blade (movable blade) and a back side of another nozzle blade that is adjacent to the nozzle blade, and “t” being a pitch of the nozzle blades disposed in the row, minimized in a position between the blade-central portion in height and a blade-root portion and increased from a minimized value to the blade-root portion. This structure enables to provide the axial turbine, which permits to control flow distribution of the working fluid in the height direction of the blade in the passage between the blades of a turbine nozzle unit and a turbine movable nozzle and reduce the blade profile loss and the secondary flow loss at the blade-root portion, thus making a further improvement in the turbine stage efficiency.

Abstract: An assembled nozzle diaphragm according to the present invention includes a diaphragm outer ring 15 having a groove 23 opened toward an inner diameter side to be continuous in an inner peripheral direction of the diaphragm outer ring 15; a diaphragm inner ring 16 having a groove 28 opened toward an outer diameter side to be continuous in an outer peripheral direction of the diaphragm inner ring 16; and a nozzle blade 14 having a diaphragm outer ring insertion portion 12 on one end and a diaphragm inner ring insertion portion 13 on the other end, in which the groove 23 opened toward the inner diameter side of the diaphragm outer ring 15 and the diaphragm outer ring insertion portion 12 of the nozzle blade 14 are shaped to be fitted to each other only in a circumferential direction of each of the groove 23 and the diaphragm outer ring insertion portion 12, and in which the groove 28 opened toward the outer diameter side of the diaphragm inner ring 16 and the diaphragm inner ring insertion portion 13 of the nozz

Abstract: Upon reception of the group ID and sound volume control signal, a selecting means refers to a control group ID management memory to determined whether the part being supplied belongs to the received group ID or not. When it is determined that the part being supplied belongs to the received group ID, the selecting means transmits the sound volume control signal supplied to the control means. The control means receives this sound volume control signal received from the selecting means and executes the process corresponding to the sound volume control signal for the supplied signal (MIDI signal or audio signal) and then outputs such sound volume control signal. As explained above, the control manipulation in the receiving side can be simplified.

Abstract: Audio control data extracted from SMF data by a data decoder section is supplied to an audio decoder section. The audio decoder section receives the audio control signal and generates a tone as an audio output in accordance with the audio control signal. If the decoding period by the audio decoder section is sufficiently short, the performance tone and the audio output create synchronized sounds because the audio control signal is decoded from a Meta event of the SMF data.

Abstract: Audio control data extracted from SMF data by a data decoder section is supplied to an audio decoder section. The audio decoder section receives the audio control signal and generates a tone as an audio output in accordance with the audio control signal. If the decoding period by the audio decoder section is sufficiently short, the performance tone and the audio output create synchronized sounds because the audio control signal is decoded from a Meta event of the SMF data.

Abstract: The invention intends to transmit audio signals of multiple channels in such a manner as to be able to decode and reproduce them in real time on the receiving side. Digital signals of multiple channels are each divided into one or more fragments in an audio signal input circuit, and the fragments of multiple channels are each encoded into coded fragment data by an encoder of the corresponding channel. At the time when transmission of one of the coded fragment data is ended, a multiplexer selects another of the coded fragment data of multiple channels to be next transmitted, and supplies it to a transmitting circuit.

Abstract: A signal component coding circuit codes spectral components from a transform circuit for converting an audio signal to spectral components. A code string generation circuit generates a code string block of each unit time from the coded data from the signal component coding circuit. A compression rate change circuit changes the compression rate of the code string from the code string generation circuit, if necessary. For example, when the compression rate needs to be changed because of a change of the transmission capacity of a transmission line, the compression rate change circuit extracts codes of respective signal components from the code string, if necessary, and thus generates a code string having a changed compression rate.

Abstract: The invention intends to decode and reproduce digital audio signals in real time. A transmission rate of a transmission line is detected, and a selection instructing unit instructs, to an encoding selecting circuit, a coding method which can provide coded data having a bit rate corresponding to the detected transmission rate. In response to the instruction from the selection instructing unit, the encoding selecting circuit controls a switch so as to select one of a plurality of encoders for encoding an audio signal with different coding methods. Each frame of the audio signal cut out by a frame cutting circuit is supplied to the encoder selected by the switch for encoding thereof. Resulting coded data is outputted after an ID representing the instructed coding method has been added to the coded data in a header inserting circuit.

Abstract: A steam turbine includes a turbine high pressure section, a turbine intermediate pressure section and a turbine low pressure section, in which at least two or more of these pressure sections are combined together, and a turbine rotor which is subjected to a gradient thermal treatment at different thermal treating temperatures at respective pressure sections is rotatably supported by bearings and accommodated in a turbine casing, and in a case where an axial distance from a setting position of a turbine movable blade of a final stage of the turbine low pressure section to a setting position of a partition plate disposed at a time when the gradient thermal treatment is performed to each of the pressure sections at different thermal treating temperature is defined as A, a blade length of the turbine movable blade is defined as B, and an axial distance from a prior stage of the final stage of the turbine low pressure section to the setting position of the partition plate is defined as C, the setting position of t

Abstract: The MIDI reproducing block has such a sound source as a synthesizer and synthesizes and reproduces electronic sounds sequentially according to entered MIDI playing information, thereby generating MIDI sound signals of an accompaniment music. Generated MIDI sound signals are supplied to the mixer. The audio reproducing block reproduces audio sound signals according to entered audio information. Generated audio sound signals are supplied to the mixer. The tempo change time setting block sets a tempo change time in entered tempo change information. Tempo change information in which a tempo change time is set is supplied to both MIDI reproducing block and audio reproducing block. The mixer mixes supplied MIDI sound signals with audio sound signals, thereby generating reproduction signals, then outputs the signals after the sound volume is adjusted. Generated reproduction signals are then supplied to the speaker. The speaker then outputs supplied reproduction signals as sounds.

Abstract: In a tone color map generating section, a tone color parameter and the effective time for making the tone color map effective are extracted from an SMF stored in a MIDI file database, and the tone color parameter is stored in a tone color map database. When a demand processing section receives a playback start position for starting the playback of the SMF, a read processing section reads the tone color parameter stored in the tone color map database in accordance with the playback start position, and generates time information indicating time to set the tone color parameter in a MIDI device. A sending circuit sends the tone color parameter together with the corresponding time information, and then sends a MIDI signal from the playback start position thereafter, stored in the MIDI file database.

Abstract: Method and apparatus for encoding sub information is provided for synchronizing the main information of a digital audio disk with the sub information thereof. A sub signal encoding unit is composed as part of a unit for recording a signal of a digital audio disk. The sub signal encoding unit is inputted with a main signal having a format of the digital audio disk and a sub signal for improving the sound quality of the audio signal. A data cutting section is provided with the main signal and takes out part of the main signal as a synchronous signal. A Q channel generating section operates to replace the format of the synchronous signal with the Q channel data format so that the synchronous signal may be recorded in the Q channel of the subcode of the digital audio disk. A subcode encoding section is provided with the sub signal and the Q channel data and encodes the sub signal according to the format of the subcode.