Abstract: The present invention provides a labelled acyl-L-carnitine, which is an acyl-L-carnitine, a salt thereof or a derivative thereof, of which carbon group is labelled with a radionuclide or a stable isotope. It is possible to diagnose human diseases falling under acyl-carnitine metabolic syndrome, or human diseases due to structural/functional disorder of the brain by measuring the behavior of the labelled acyl-L-carnitine in various tissues or a biological sample from a subject administered with one or more kinds of the labelled acyl-L-carnitines.

Abstract: A method for treating Acylcarnitine Metabolic Dysfunction Syndrome comprising administering an acylcarnitine or a pharmacologically acceptable salt thereof orally or parenterally is disclosed. The acylcarnitine may be acetylcarnitine, propionylcarnitine, butyrylcarnitine, isobutyrylcarnitine, valerylcarnitine, isovalerylcarnitine or hexanoylcarnitine.

Abstract: An apparatus is provided for synchronizing left-and right-eye images and for providing a composite video signal for a stereoscopic television system. The synchronization operation at a field-by-field rate is assured by detecting the phase-difference between a first vertical sync pulse which is derived from the vertical sync signal which is sampled by a horizontal sync signal and a second vertical sync pulse which is constantly delayed from the vertical sync signal of the composite video signal. As a result, the left eye image is always associated with the left eye lens of the viewer and the right eye image is always associated with the right eye lens of the viewer.

Abstract: A color signal demodulating device designed so that a local subcarrier oscillator generates a demodulating signal which is both synchronized and inverted in phase with respect to a color signal at each horizontal scanning period so as to demodulate an R-Y signal and which reverses phase with each horizontal scanning period; a bust signal and a signal inverted in phase therefrom are alternately switched therebetween and used to drive the local subcarrier oscillator. The output of this local subcarrier oscillator can be used for both the demodulation signal for the R-Y carrier and as the demodulation signal for the B-Y demodulator.

Abstract: In the PAL system, the demodulating axis for one of the two color difference signals, i.e. the R-Y signal, is transmitted switched in phase 180.degree. at each horizontal scanning period. In order to reproduce this signal, a demodulator circuit for color television signals is provided for producing a R-Y signal of the correct polarity, using a line switching signal not controlled by the phase of the transmission signal, and having a frequency half that of the horizontal frequency.

Abstract: A television receiver including: television signal receiving means for simultaneously receiving two different television signals to produce two different image signals, a first and a second image signal corresponding to the television signals; synchronous signal producing means for producing vertical synchronous signals and horizontal synchronous signals from the two image signals; memory means for sampling and storing the second image signal; driving pulse producing means for producing driving pulses to drive the memory means in accordance with the synchronous signals supplied to the driving pulse producing means from the synchronous signal producing means; mixing means for producing a mixed image signal by inserting, into the first image signal under the control of the driving pulses, the second image signal read out from the memory means by the driving pulses; and display means for displaying the output of the mixing means; wherein the second image signal of each horizontal synchronous period is sampled by

Abstract: A color television receiver receiving two television signals of different channels, compressing the time axis of one of the television signals, and inserting this compressed television signal in a portion of the other television signal for displaying the pictures of the two channels on the same screen. In the receiver, the luminance signal, chrominance signal and synchronizing signal are derived from each of the received two television signals. A writing clock pulse signal is produced on the basis of one of the synchronizing signals for writing the luminance signal and chrominance signal in the corresponding television signal in a memory circuit, while a reading clock pulse signal is produced on the basis of the other synchronizing signal to read out the luminance signal and chrominance signal from the memory circuit in a relation in which these signals are compressed in the time axis.

Abstract: An image display apparatus has an: image signal receiver for simultaneously receiving two different image signals, a first image signal and a second image signal; a memory for writing therein the second image signal; controlling means for controlling the writing position, writing frequency, writing sequence, reading-out sequence, reading-out frequency and start-timing of reading-out of the second image signal; a display for displaying full picture information or partial picture information of the second image signal a part of a displayed picture of the first image signal by selectively reading-out the second image signal under the control of the controller; and zoom-up device for stepwisely or continuously varying the writing position and reading-out position of the second image signal controlled by the controller so as to zoomwisely display the full or partial picture of the second image signal on the picture of the first image signal.

Abstract: A frequency discriminating apparatus is constituted by a piezoelectric ceramic resonator, a reference capacitor, a pre-amplifier including a broad tuning circuit, a pair of amplitude detectors, and a differential amplitude limiter. The piezoelectric ceramic resonator is made of a piezoelectric lead titanate ceramic plate having a pair of electrodes covering the entire area of the major surfaces thereof, and the plate is poled with a poling field of not less than 50 kV/cm in the thickness direction. The thickness of the plate is chosen so as to cause the plate to vibrate in the thickness-extensional vibration of the 3rd harmonic overtone at a preselected frequency when an electrical signal is applied to the pair of electrodes. The differential amplitude limiter differentially adds the two signals detected by the two amplitude detectors and limits the peak output voltage amplitudes to a predetermined amplitude.