Abstract: A digital signal process of a plurality of functions is enabled by a common hardware constructed on one chip having input terminals t1, t2 and t2'; output terminals t3 and t4; and a control signal input terminal t5. The chip is constructed to include class sorting circuits 111a and 111b; delay and selecting circuits 112a and 112b; switching circuits 113a and 113b; switching circuits 114a and 114b; coefficient memories 115a and 115b; filter operating circuits 116a and 116b; a line delay circuit 117; a product sum operating circuit 118; and a switching circuit 119. Signal flow and circuit functions are selectively controlled by control signals. The functions of the chip can be consequently switched and a plurality of signal processes are realized by one chip.

Abstract: A synchronous control device is disclosed which is capable of obtaining stable synchronization regardless of the kind of image source even when the automatic synchronous control circuit cannot operate in the normal manner.The device includes a phase comparator, an integrator, a horizontal oscillation circuit, and a horizontal synchronous control circuit composed of a frequency measuring section consisting of a digital frequency measuring circuit, etc. and a control section consisting of a frequency determining circuit, an oscillation frequency control circuit, etc. The frequency measuring section measures the input horizontal synchronizing frequency and transfers it to the control section as digital data, and the control section determines the true value of the input synchronizing frequency by the frequency determining circuit while monitoring the transition of the frequency data per unit time.

Abstract: Process and composition, in particular for controlling fleas on small mammals, characterized in that the composition includes, on the one hand, at least one insecticide of 1-N-arylpyrazole type, in particular fipronil, and, on the other hand, at least one compound of IGR (insect growth regulator) type, in doses and proportions which are parasiticidally effective on fleas, in a fluid vehicle which is acceptable for the animal and convenient for local application to the skin, preferably localized over a small surface area.

Abstract: A method and an apparatus for encoding and decoding a signal are provided for predicting high-resolution data based on low-resolution data. The low-resolution data and the high-resolution data both contain a plurality of pixels. The encoding and decoding method includes the first step of encoding the low-resolution data, outputting the encoded low-resolution data, decoding the encoded low-resolution data, and outputting the decoded data, the second step of predicting the high-resolution data based on the decoded low-resolution data and generating the predicted high-resolution data by repetitively outputting the pixels of the low-resolution data, and the third step of encoding the high-resolution data based on the high-resolution data and the predicted high-resolution data and outputting the encoded high-resolution data.

Abstract: A signal trap device and method for trapping a desired FM signal out of a frequency multiplexed signal where a plurality of FM signals are included in a frequency multiplexed form. A replay signal reproduced from a video cassette tape is supplied directly to a subtracter while being fed to a fixed delay circuit and a variable delay circuit to be delayed therein by a predetermined delay time. The delayed signal is supplied also to the subtracter, which then subtracts the delayed signal from the reproduced replay signal and outputs the result of such subtraction therefrom. The delay time of the fixed delay circuit is set to correspond to the center frequency of the carrier of the desired FM signal to be trapped. Meanwhile the delay time of the variable delay circuit is so set as to correspond to the signal obtained by demodulating the desired FM signal. Thus, the desired FM signal can be trapped properly without any harmful influence on the other FM signal.

Abstract: Audio outputs representing various sounds are displayed on a screen as graphical objects. The user manipulates the size or location of the object on the screen such that the corresponding audio output is modified accordingly. If, for example, the size of the graphical object is increased, the sound becomes louder; conversely, if the graphical object is decreased, the sound becomes softer. By further moving the graphical object between the left and right edges of the screen, the audio balance between the channels is modified. If the object is moved to the left of the screen, only the left audio output channel is enabled. Conversely, only the right audio output channel is enabled if the graphical object is moved to the right side of the screen.

Abstract: A copolymer comprisinga) a segment A with a number-average molar mass Mn of from 1000 to 20,000 g/mol, which hasi) units 1, which have been derived from structures of the formula (I) ##STR1## where the radicals R.sup.1 and R.sup.2, independently of one another, are a hydrogen, fluorine, chlorine or bromine atom or a branched or unbranched alkyl or alkoxy radical having from 1 to 6 carbon atoms; and/orii) units 2, which are derived from structures of the formula (II) ##STR2## and b) a segment B, derived from a polyarylene sulfide structure of the formula (IV) ##STR3## where Ar is an aromatic radical, or more than one condensed aromatic radicals, and n is a number from 2 to 100, in particular from 5 to 20, together with a process for its preparation, and also its use for compatibilizing blends made from polyarylene sulfides and aromatic polyesters.

Abstract: Digital image enhancement apparatus for processing an input sampled image signal having an input sample rate to generate an output, enhanced, image signal at the input sample rate comprises one or more filters for filtering and sample rate up-converting the input image signal to generate a detail signal at an intermediate sample rate higher than the input sample rate and for generating an intermediate image signal, the intermediate image signal being a sample rate up-converted version of the input image signal; a detecting circuit for detecting whether a combination of the detail signal and the intermediate image signal goes beyond predefined limits on the signal level of the output image signal and, if so, for modifying the detail signal so that a combination of the detail signal and the intermediate image signal would not go beyond the predefined limits on the signal level of the output image signal; a sample rate down-converter for converting the detail signal to a down-converted detail signal at the input

Abstract: Multiple images are displayed on a screen of a computer system to reflect a temporal relationship among them. Based on date and time when an image is obtained in relation to other displayed images, its size is set accordingly. Namely, the more recent the image, the larger its size on the screen. In addition, the larger the size of the image, the more processing operations, including graphical or text processing functions, are available to a user to be performed on that image.

Abstract: The present invention relates to nucleic acid molecules, polypeptides encoded by the same, antibodies directed thereto and a method of preparing such polypeptides including: (a) inserting an isolated DNA molecule coding for a polypeptide which is immunoreactive with a 66 kDa polypeptide derived from Borrelia garinii IP90 into an expression vector; (b) transforming a host organism or cell with the vector; (c) culturing the transformed host cell under suitable conditions; and (d) harvesting the polypeptide. The isolated DNA molecule is preferably at least 10 nucleotides in length, and the method may optionally include subjecting the polypeptide to post-translational modification. The host cell can be a bacterium, a yeast, a protozoan, or a cell derived from a multicellular organism such as a fungus, an insect cell, a plant cell, or a mammalian cell.

Abstract: This invention provides a liposomal construct for delivering a diagnostic or therapeutic agent to a mammal comprising a liposomal carrier, a diagnostic or therapeutic agent entrapped within or associated with said liposomal carrier and a sequestering agent distributed within said liposomal carrier to reduce leakage of the diagnostic or therapeutic agent from the liposomal construct prior to delivery.

Abstract: The invention relates to new substituted pyrazol derivatives of general formula (I) in which: R.sup.1, R.sup.2, R.sup.3, R.sup.4, R.sup.5 and R.sup.6 have the meanings given in the description, agents with herbicidal action containing at least one compound of formula (I), and their use as herbicides.

Abstract: An incorrect operation is prevented from occurring in a tracking system for keeping track of a photographic object and taking a picture of the photographic object. When a body which is most likely to be recognized incorrectly as a photographic object exists, pan/tilt driving is carried out on a lens block employed in the tracking system so that an optical axis of the lens block is brought into the range of an angle set as an allowed-drive range. By doing so, the lens block will never take a picture of the body. As a result, an incorrect operation can be prevented from occurring due to incorrect recognition of the body as a photographic object.

Abstract: Video camera which emphasizes an outline of a video signal produced thereby. A detail signal of a video image represented by the video signal is generated and which represents a vertical outline emphasis signal. Edges of the video image and burst-like portions of the video signal are detected, and an edge detection signal is generated that corresponds in one manner to the detected edges and that corresponds in another manner to the detected burst portions. The detail signal is adjusted by the edge detection signal or by a cross color suppression signal generated from the vertical outline emphasis signal. The video signal then is modified by the adjusted detail signal so as to produce the outline emphasized video signal. The detail signal may also be adjusted by a gain setting signal that corresponds to the vertical outline emphasis signal and which is compressed in level when the vertical outline emphasis signal is relatively low.

Abstract: Mucosal administration, particularly intranasally, of killed whole pneumococci, lysate of pneumococci and isolated and purified PspA, as well as immunogenic fragments thereof, particularly when administered with cholera toxin B subunit, provides protection in animals against pneumococcal colonization and systemic infection. The ability to elicit protection against pneumococcal colonization in a host prevents carriage among immunized individuals, which can lead to elimination of disease from the population as a whole.

Abstract: Data items are arranged into groups and each group is represented by a graphical object (a so-called landmark) for easily identifying each group and its corresponding data items on a screen display. The landmark may have display attributes (such as shape, color, size, function, animation, etc.) which are different from the display attributes of another landmark. Each landmark has two non-parallel lines (grid lines) associated therewith and is positioned at the intersection of the two lines providing directional orientation when the landmark is displaced on the screen display.

Abstract: An IR keyboard 1 generates key code information corresponding to key operated to add break flag information indicating distinction between in-operation and operation release to the key code information as operation status information of the key to add terminator code information indicating that the key code information corresponding to key operation every once is completed to the last portion of the key code information to transmit, as key operation information, the key code information, the break flag information and the key code information by an infrared ray signal from a light emitting unit 11. Further, a light receiving unit 2 receives the infrared ray signal transmitted from the light emitting unit 11 to input key operation information of the IR keyboard 1 to a computer unit 3.

Abstract: According to the present invention, it is possible to provide a signal switching apparatus for reducing cross point identification name data stored in a memory required to generate switching control data according to a combination of a selected destination operating switch and a selected source operating switch so that a memory capacity of the memory can be reduced.

Abstract: A disc playback apparatus for playing back a disc on which data have been recorded under a CLV control is provided with a CLV control section for performing a CLV control, a speed comparator and a reference clock generator for performing a CAV control, a changeover switch for switching between the CLV control and the CAV control, and a CPU for setting a switching point of the changeover switch and controlling the switching of the changeover switch. According to another aspect of the invention, switching is made between a playback with a CLV servo control and a playback with a CAV servo control in accordance with the reproduction scanning position in the disc radial direction. In particular, a difference between disc rotation speeds at the disc innermost and outermost tracks is made smaller than that in a case where a playback is performed at a specific linear velocity over the disc entire area.

Abstract: In a video reproducing apparatus, operating devices and recording devices are connected with a simple structure to record game information while operating the game, and a plurality of small capacity of external secondary memory can be used as a large capacity of external secondary memory. The main body of the video game machine is connected to a plurality of the operating devices with a serial interface so that serial data is communicated bidirectionally in accordance with a predetermined communication procedure while at the same time connecting recording devices to the serial interface respectively corresponding to a plurality of operating devices to allow the main body of the game machine to write predetermined data into and read it from recording devices in accordance with a communication procedure.