Abstract: A reproducing apparatus operable to move data that is coded and managed for copyright protection after evaluation an encryption key and permitting its movement based on a result of the evaluation, to copy data that is recorded in a server to a terminal apparatus, and, cause the terminal apparatus itself to reproduce the data and, where a terminal apparatus is connected to the server to, render data on the server reproducible.

Abstract: A transmitting/receiving device and a transmitting/receiving method for transmitting and receiving an acoustic signal through infrared radiation or the like are obtained wherein noise and interruption of the sound due to overmodulation of a transmitting device in compressing/expanding and transmitting the acoustic signal are not generated. In a transmitting/receiving device or a transmitting/receiving method having a receiving device for receiving a signal wireless-transmitted from a transmitting device, demodulating the signal to obtain an analog signal, and outputting the signal, wherein an analog acoustic signal input into the transmitting device is digitized, subjected to signal processing, analog-converted, and output. In the signal processing, the input digital signal is delayed and a level of the delay output signal is compressed or expanded according to a level of the input signal.

Abstract: A single-reel tape cartridge includes a leader block and a take-up reel disposed inside a drive apparatus that are provided with retaining members so that the leader block is firmly positioned and rattling thereof is prevented. A pair of changer grips which extend from end to end of a housing of the cartridge in the vertical direction are formed at two corners of the cartridge housing. In addition, a memory module, which stores the management information for the tape-like recording medium and which is used for radio communication, is disposed at an angle in one of the corners of the cartridge so that a communication antenna of the memory module faces at least two directions. In addition, the leader tape is provided with a striped portion used for identifying the medium, and the cartridge housing is closed by a shutter used for disengaging the reel lock.

Abstract: A display control system including: a screen unit for forming a screen by a plurality of display units each displaying a part of an image; a video signal processing unit for generating a post-video processing signal to be displayed by the plurality of display units from an input video signal, and then supplying the post-video processing signal to the screen unit; an image area display unit having a display unit for schematically displaying the screen unit based on the display information including position information of the display units forming the screen unit, the image area display unit displaying a state of display of the video signal as an image area on the display unit; and a control unit for controlling the state of display of the image area; wherein based on the result of the control, the control unit generates control information for controlling a state of display of the image displayed on the screen unit, and then the video signal processing unit generates the post-video processing signal based on

Abstract: A switching device having a central actuator and two outer actuators disposed separately from the central actuator on two sides, wherein the central actuator is a cylindrical dial (23) supported rotatably and depressibly by a pair of spindle bearings (26) included in a base plate; the base plate (25) supporting the dial (23) is fitted in a frame; the outer actuators are pivotable in a direction approximately perpendicular to a direction in which the three actuators are arrayed and about a pivot approximately perpendicular to a direction in which operating surfaces of the outer acutators are pushed to press a contact (30) disposed on the frame; and each of the outer actuators has a to-be-supported piece (34) extending to a position where the outer actuator deviates from a lateral edge of the dial (23) in the rotating direction as viewed from the front.

Abstract: First, at step S1, i=0 is set. At step S2, data comprising M samples is fetched. At step S3, an M-point DFT is applied to the data fetched at step S2 above. At step S4, an obtained y(k) is multiplied by a twist coefficient w(i, k). The result is placed in y(k). At step S5, the value in y(k) is overwritten to an array x which contains original data. The above processing is repeated N/M times through steps S6 and S7 until all the input data is processed. At step S9, an FFT with N/M (=2n) points is performed within the range of 0?k<M. Finally, at step S12, a sort is performed.

Abstract: An optical recording medium having plural recording layers includes a first recording layer on which first data is to be recorded and a second recording layer on which second data is to be recorded. The first and second recording layers are layered, with the second data being recorded at a location in the second recording layer in the vicinity of a location in the first recording layer where the first data relevant to the second data is recorded. Replay signals of variable configurations can be obtained by suitably synthesizing data read out from the respective recording layers.

Abstract: An optical disc recording method of irradiating an optical beam to an optical disc including a basal plate made of synthetic resin which has a concavo-convex pattern formed in advance on one surface thereof, and a reflective coat made of metal which is formed over the concavo-convex pattern on the basal plate, to physically change the concavo-convex pattern so as to record identification data.

Abstract: In a projector apparatus, one end of a fixing member is adhered to an outer peripheral portion of a back of a first screen, and a first pressing member having a protrusion is adhered to a back surface of the end of the fixing member. A fixing plate having a predetermined height is provided at an inside of housing frames, and a hole is formed in the fixing plate and a fixing protrusion is provided in the rearside of the hole. Further, a second pressing member is adhered to the outside of the protrusion of the front surface of the fixing plate. The fixing member adhered to the first screen is inserted from another hole and the fixing protrusion is engaged with the fixing hole formed in the other end of the fixing member.

Abstract: Additional information for copyright protection is added to a video signal (first information signal) and an audio signal (second information signal), which are associated with each other and are independently usable, in a video watermark information superimposition unit and an audio watermark information superimposition unit, respectively. The video signal and the audio signal having the additional information added are then output. In a receiving apparatus for receiving the video signal and the audio signal, copyright protection is performed on at least one of the video signal and the audio signal based on both the additional information added to the video signal and the additional information added to the audio signal.

Abstract: A vehicle driver inputs an alarm signal from an operating unit. A control unit adds a current position of the vehicle detected by a navigation unit to the alarm signal and transmits the alarm signal with the current position from a transmitting and receiving unit to another vehicle. The transmitting and receiving unit receives a signal from another vehicle and supplies the signal to the control unit. The control unit calculates an intervehicular distance from current position data of the other vehicle included in the received signal and current position data of its own vehicle and outputs the alarm signal from speakers only when the intervehicular distance is within a predetermined value.

Abstract: A speaker assembly device for a door of a vehicle capable of being installed in vehicle doors of different thicknesses and shapes includes a speaker unit; a holder for mounting the speaker unit to a front portion thereof, the holder including an engagement portion at a back portion thereof; and a spacer including an engaging portion and an opposingly contacting portion, the engaging portion being engageable with the engagement portion of the holder and the opposingly contacting portion opposingly contacting the door of the vehicle.

Abstract: A picture book, folding card, or card-case, and modifications for larger displays, all of which show film-like animation, as well as other types of lenticular images, and all of which include embodiments allowing interchangeable images, as well as accommodating standard computer-printer print-outs, which have been made with accompanying software. In each case, a mechanical advantage is provided to effect relative motion between image and overlaying lenticular screen. The images can also be three-dimensional, or any one of many other, well-known lenticular image-types. Various methods of achieving mechanical advantage, and translation of motion-direction and type are shown, as well as different materials, and manufacturing techniques. Such a family of devices can be used as greeting, or novelty cards, educational or informational books, advertising premiums and displays, and can be wall mounted and/or motor-driven.

Abstract: When a seal-like recording medium with a built-in memory that stores information specifying a communicates is placed in the close proximity of a medium read/write unit of a communication terminal apparatus and a button is operated, information (operator in case of seal-like medium, and telephone number in case of seal-like medium) stored in the seal-like medium is read out.

Abstract: The invention concerns a topical composition comprising an emulsion of at least one discontinuous phase in a continuous phase, the or each discontinuous phase including a eutectic mixture of first and second pharmaceutically acceptable components which are both pharmacologically active agents and the continuous phase being provided by a pharmaceutically acceptable carrier, the eutectic mixture having a melting point below 40° C. The topical composition may additionally comprise, in the eutectic mixture, a third or fourth pharmaceutically acceptable component.

Abstract: A transfer apparatus for transferring data which achieves balancing in profit and loss between a proprietor of copyright and a user includes an instruction section for providing an instruction of a transfer rate, a transfer control section for variably using one of various transfer control methods for data in response to the transfer rate of the instruction provided by the instruction section, and a billing control section for changing the transfer control method by the transfer control section in response to billing processing performed by a user of the transfer apparatus.

Abstract: A reduction is made in signal distortion that occurs in an output signal of a PWM switching power amplifier due to noise disturbances from a switching power supply. In a switching power amplifier that has a switching power supply unit, a clock signal for controlling the switching of the switching power supply unit is generated based on a clock signal that is used to synchronize switching operations. The clock signal has a clock period that is an integer multiple of a period t of the clock signal and matches a timing at which a signal level of a PWM power signal that is generated by the switching power amplifier is at ground level. The switching of the switching power supply unit is synchronized using the clock signal.

Abstract: A housing having openings for exposing the operation surfaces of a peripheral component interconnect (PCI) expansion card and a communication and network riser (CNR) expansion card to the outside at its front surface and at its back surface, respectively. A motherboard, which is incorporated in the housing, has multiple connectors arranged at specific intervals. The PCI expansion card has a PCI card electrode and is inserted into and connected with one of the connectors of the motherboard. A CNR expansion card has a CNR card electrode and is inserted into and connected with another one of the connectors of the motherboard. The PCI expansion card and the CNR expansion card are attached to the corresponding connectors in the motherboard, with the electronic-parts-implementing surface of the PCI expansion card and the electronic-parts-implementing surface of the CNR expansion card facing each other.

Abstract: A complex resonance type switching converter provided with a self-excited voltage resonance type converter has a conduction controlling device Q2 connected in series with a control winding Nc of a drive transformer CDT in which a detecting winding NA, a driving winding NB of a self-oscillation driving circuit, and the control winding Nc are wound on an identical core. An amount of current conducted in the conduction controlling device Q2 is varied, whereby a level of a base current flowing from the self-oscillation driving circuit to a base of a switching device Q1 is changed and switching frequency of the switching device Q1 is variably controlled. Thereby a conduction angle and the switching frequency of the switching device are changed simultaneously, and consequently constant-voltage control is effected on a direct-current output on the secondary side of the converter. Use of such a drive transformer CDT makes it possible to prevent variations of the self-oscillation driving circuit and reduce size.

Abstract: A radio transmission method for carrying out radio transmission in a radio transmission network formed of plural communication stations by control of a communication station set up as a central control station, wherein one station of the plural communication stations determines whether it is capable of relaying a signal sent from another station according to a condition of a power supply or the presence/absence of portability and, if it is determined that the relay transmission is possible, the one station sets up itself in a condition capable of relay transmission.