Abstract: A display order deciding unit decides the display order upon displaying a telephone directory on the basis of setting if the telephone directory is displayed in the display order in response to a usage frequency or in the alphabetical order by a learning function setting unit, the information about the number of callings stored in a count storing unit, setting of the display mode of the telephone directory (by a day of the week) by a display mode selecting unit, and the information of a day of the week that is recognized by a day recognizing unit, and manages it in a display order managing unit. Upon displaying the telephone directory, an information display unit displays the information that is managed by the display order managing unit.

Abstract: In a radio apparatus including a transmitter unit and an antenna unit, a detector is located in the vicinity of an antenna in the antenna unit rather than in the transmitter unit. The detector supplies a rectified signal from a transmission wave which is to be radiated from the antenna and the rectified signal is supplied to a control circuit in the transmission unit as a feedback component. A control signal is then determined by the control circuit based on the rectified signal and supplied to a variable attenuator to increase/decrease power of the transmission wave.

Abstract: A mounting assembly for an optical scanner includes a base unit with a hole for receiving a post of a rotor unit that includes a laser light source that emits light towards a bar code symbol or other object that reflects the light to a collector also mounted on the rotor unit. Flexures connect the base unit to the rotor so that the post and hole arrangement limits translational movement of the rotor unit due to a shock force applied to the optical scanner. The flexures may be use to transmit power signals to the rotor unit and to provide monitoring signals from the rotor unit.

Abstract: In a video processor for compression encoding a series of picture elements of video data (frames or fields) based on macroblocks in some of the video data, each macroblock consisting of up to a predetermined number, such as 16×16, of picture elements in each video datum, a buffer stores the picture elements of the video datum. Controlled by a control signal produced in responses to the video data, an address signal is generated to assign the picture elements of each macroblock to one of memory sequences in one of parallel accessible banks of a frame memory, which is preferably a synchronous DRAM. The banks are allotted to each macroblock and two macroblocks which are contiguous to this each macroblock in each video datum in each macroblock row and each macroblock column, respectively. In this manner, the banks are allotted, when two in number, to the macroblocks which are arranged in each video datum in a checkered pattern.

Abstract: An arbiter connects a plurality of devices to a bus. The arbiter determines priority among the devices based on minimum access intervals associated with the devices and timers which keep track of the elapsed time since each device last had access to the bus. The timers can be configured to either count up from zero to the minimum access interval of each device or count down from the minimum access interval of each device to zero. The arbiter can also adjust the minimum access intervals of the various devices based upon factors such as the amount of data required by the device, the amount of data most recently received by the device and the transfer rate of the device. The arbiter thus optimizes bus usage while minimizing the likelihood of a given device not functioning based on an ability to access the bus due to contention with other devices.

Abstract: The invention provides a high speed two-dimensional discrete cosine transform circuit which can reduce the number of addition operations for rounding to one time. The two-dimensional IDCT circuit calculates M.times.N-point two-dimensional inverse discrete cosine transforms wherein M.times.N is equal to 2.sup.2n, and includes an M.times.N two-dimensional IDCT operator for calculating two-dimensional inverse discrete cosine transforms as matrix vector products of a transform matrix of MN rows and MN columns and MNth-order input vectors, a shift operator for shifting results of the calculation of the M.times.N two-dimensional IDCT operator rightwardly, and an adder for adding 2.sup.n-2 to a discrete cosine coefficient from among discrete cosine transform coefficients to be inputted to the M.times.N two-dimensional IDCT operator. An output signal of the shift operator is outputted as a circuit output signal of the two-dimensional IDCT circuit.

Abstract: A field effect transistor with a trench or groove gate having V-shaped walls is formed in a semiconductor substrate and a gate oxide is grown on the V-shaped walls to the surface of substrate and filled with a gate electrode material, such a polysilicon. Preferably, the bottom of the V-shaped walls are rounded before the trench is filled. Source/drain impurities either are diffused or implanted into the areas of the substrate on both sides of the surface oxide of the V-shaped gate. Contacts are made to the source, drain, and gate within field isolation to complete the structure. The resultant FET structure comprises a self aligned V-shaped gate having conventional source and drain surrounded by field isolation but with an effective channel length (L.sub.eff) of less than about one-half of the surface width of the gate. Preferably, the converging walls of the V-shaped gate end in a rounded concave bottom.

Abstract: A simple color separation apparatus includes a light source for radiating light on the document, a movable color filter set arrayed in parallel with the main-scanning direction, the movable color filter set includes filters selectively transmitting colors respectively, which separate into three colors the radiated light reflected from the document, wherein each filter has sufficient length to cover the light in the main-scanning direction and a width that prevents interference between colors of the reflected and separated light; a lens for image-forming the light transmitted by each filter of the color filter set; a three-line CCD sensor for converting the light image formed by the image-forming lens to electrical signals, wherein the three-line CCD sensor includes three lines arrayed in parallel with the main-scanning direction, each of which has a line width that is determined by the magnification of the lens; and a carriage for moving the color filter set in the sub-scanning direction.

Abstract: A dynamic RAM having two-transistor memory cells includes a top array of memory cells and a bottom array of memory cells, with a sense amplifier disposed between the two halves. The memory cells in each column of the top half are coupled to respective Bit.sub.-- Plus lines, and the memory cells in each column of the bottom half are coupled to respective Bit.sub.-- Minus lines. The Bit.sub.-- Plus lines and the Bit.sub.-- Minus lines are respectively coupled to Plus and Minus inputs of sense amplifiers for each column. One row of the top array includes only dummy cells, and one row of the bottom array includes only dummy cells. When a memory cell in the top array is read, a dummy cell in the lower array is activated, and when a memory cell in the bottom array is read, a dummy cell in the upper array is activated. That way, a two-transistor memory cell array can have a dual-differential bit line feature in order to reduce errors due to noise.

Abstract: A conical crusher having a rigidly supported outer frustoconically shaped crushing member and an inner conical crushing member supported on a wobble mechanism which is in turn supported by air bellows. The air pressure in the air bellows is regulated to adjust the spacing between the inner and outer crushing members, and therefore the particle size of the crushed material. The inner and outer crushing members are readily replaceable.

Abstract: A drawing arranging system includes a first storage portion for storing coupling relationship between aggregate of characteristic points representing an objective drawing for processing and aggregate of relative vectors connecting characteristic points, a second storage portion for storing relational expressions as constraint conditions relating the lengths and directions of the relative vector, a parameter selecting portion for selecting one of parameters, for which values are not yet determined, according to a predetermined rule when the parameter of the relational expression corresponding to the characteristic points and the relative vectors of the drawings as object for processing is the parameter, for which the value is not yet determined, and a drawing arranging portion for sequentially fixing values of parameters selected by the parameter selecting portion and performing re-arrangement of the drawing by updating the attribute of the drawing.

Abstract: A probe for use in attentuated total reflectance measurements in spectroscopy, such as Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy, is formed of an optical waveguide element having input and output sections and a loop between the two sections. The loop has a small radius of curvature and is exposed so that it can be contacted with a sample to obtain attenuated total reflectance measurements. The input and output sections may be retained in the bore of a thin walled tube with the loop forming a tip which extends from one end of the tube. The input and output sections of the optical waveguide element may be connected by couplers to a spectrometer to receive the output beam from and provide a return beam to the spectrometer. The tightly curved surfaces of the optical waveguide element at the loop result in multiple internal reflections as the beam of radiation traverses the loop.

Abstract: The present invention relates generally to a cutting system for vegetables, including potatoes, which includes a conveyor for transporting food product to the general vicinity of a rotating cutting blade. The conveyor generally aligns the food product and arranges it in a single row. The conveyor introduces the food product between a pair of endless belts which include contoured paddles on their mating surfaces to receive the food product and drive it toward the cutting knife. The endless belts are floating and coupled to pneumatic pistons to maintain contact between the paddles and the food product, even though the food product may vary in size. A double sided driving chain belt drives the endless belts to ensure positive, non-slipping feeding. The paddles prevent rotation of the food product while it is being cut. In the most preferred embodiment, the device is used for feeding potatoes into a rotating knife adapted to cut helical strips.

Abstract: A Chrysanthemum plant named Denise particularly characterized by its flat capitulum form; spoon-decorative capitulum type; greyed-orange ray floret color; diameter across face of capitulum of 76 to 89 mm when fully opened; spreading and prolific branching pattern, with 6 to 8 breaks after pinch when grown outside under natural daylength in fall flowerings and in 10 cm pots for spring flowerings; natural season flower date of Aug. 30 to 31 when planting rooted cuttings on Jun. 21 to 23 in Salinas, Calif., and of Oct. 10 to 15 when planting rooted cuttings Jun. 15 to Jun. 18 in Hightstown, N.J.; flowering response of 46 to 49 days after rooting in no light/no shade programs in spring in Salinas; plant height of 25 to 30 cm when grown in fall under natural daylength with no growth regulators in New Jersey; and of 22 to 23 cm when grown in 10 cm pots in spring with 0 to 2 applications of 2500 ppm B-9 SP; and durable, uniform performance.