Abstract: A pen-based portable computer system, and more particularly, to a computer system which includes a host computer or a server that is adapted to interface with one or more wireless interface devices over a radio link. The wireless interface devices are pen-based devices which include a digitizer panel and are adapted to operate on a mouse mode, as well as a pen mode. In a mouse mode, pen down events are translated into mouse data and transmitted over the radio link to the remote server or host computer. In a pen mode, pen down events in an ink field are formulated as pen data. In accordance with an important aspect of the present invention, the wireless interface device includes a local handwriting recognition system for translating handwriting into characters which are then transmitted to the remote server or host computer over a radio link for processing.

Abstract: A canceling method and apparatus can achieve a fast communication by improving an S/N value by adaptively canceling a noise with respect to a frequency or band having a large noise by selecting noise canceling band in accordance with a condition of noise being generated. A reception signal contains a specific signal having a specified time position, amplitude and phase. A noise distribution of the specific signal is recognized so as to predict a noise by extracting a frequency band having a larger noise component from a pair of frequencies generated by the insertion of the specific signal. An original transmission signal is reproduced by canceling the predicted noise from the reception signal.

Abstract: A communication system capable of performing efficient Wavelength Division Multiplexing (WDM) transmission by flexibly handling connection services. A Bit Error Rate (BER) measurement unit measures BER of individual optical signals with different wavelengths. A BER transmission unit transmits BER information to the sending end. A wavelength assignment unit assigns each wavelength to at least one of high Quality-of-Service (QoS) communication and low QoS communication. A wavelength-assignment exchanging unit identifies low quality wavelengths with high BERs being used for the high QoS communication, and unless the low quality wavelengths being used for the high QoS communication outnumber the high quality wavelengths with low BERs being used for the low QoS communication, it exchanges the low quality wavelengths and an equal number of the high quality wavelengths. An optical signal transmission unit multiplexes the wavelengths to transmit the optical signals.

Abstract: A transmitting apparatus for cross connecting and transmitting main signals which enter via ring-configured transmission lines to which working and protection channels have been assigned in first and second directions, and rescuing a main signal by looping back the main signal in the opposite direction using the protection channel when a transmission line fails. Storing non-rescue information which indicates whether each channel that is the object of rescue by loop-back is a non-rescue channel. Determining whether a failure for which rescue is impossible has occurred in each channel, which is the object of rescue, other than a non-rescue channel. On the basis of main-signal cross-connect information, interchanging a result of discrimination of each channel and inserting the interchanged result of discrimination in the main signal of the corresponding channel after cross connect.

Abstract: An apparatus for measuring a medical substance where a prism having a high refractive index, a thin metal film formed on one of the surfaces of the prism, a light source for making a light incident upon the thin metal film, and a detector for detecting an incident angle of a light being made incident upon a film on which a plasmon resonance phenomenon is generated on the thin metal film are provided. The medical substance, i.e. antigen as an object to be measured, is fixed to the surface of the thin metal film, and the condition for generating the plasmon resonance phenomenon is varied when a mixture of antibody which is coupled with the medical substance in a specific manner and a sample is made contact with a surface of the thin metal film; and the amount of the medical substance can be detected by recognizing the change with a high sensitivity.

Abstract: The movement of an object due to the continuous pushing of a simple ON/OFF switch is made an easier-to-use interface for users by a method of moving an object displayed on a screen of a TV monitor of a computer having a controller which has a pressure-sensitive unit. In the method, the pushing by a user on the controller is sensed by the pressure-sensitive unit, a pressure-sensing output signal is determined depending on the pushing pressure, and the object is moved within the screen of the TV monitor depending on the magnitude of the pressure-sensing output signal of the controller.

Abstract: To provide a plasma display device which implements a peak luminance higher than prior art, reduces the power dissipation, improves the smoothness of gradation display, and conducts clear display suitable especially for TV display. By setting a plurality of APL levels according to the average value of the scene brightness, and by shortening a sustaining pulse period and increasing the number of sustaining pulses of each sub-field in APL levels having small APL, the peak luminance is raised. Further, by making the sustaining pulse period long in APL levels having large APL requiring large discharge light emission power, the light emission efficiency is improved and the maximum power dissipation is reduced. The luminance distribution in the scene when the APL level is small is detected. On the basis of that information, setting of the number of sustaining pulses and the sustaining pulse period is changed in the same APL level.

Abstract: A semiconductor film formation method allowing a single-crystal semiconductor film to be formed at a desired position on a substrate with reliability is disclosed. After preparing the substrate having a non-single-crystal semiconductor film formed thereon and an optical mask having a predetermined pattern, a projection area of the optical mask is relatively positioned at the desired position on the substrate. Thereafter, the desired position of the non-single-crystal semiconductor film is irradiated with laser light through the optical mask to change an irradiated portion of the non-single-crystal semiconductor film to the single-crystal semiconductor film. Then, an insulation film is formed on at least the single-crystal semiconductor film.

Abstract: A distortion compensating device provided in a receiver for compensating distortion which is added to a signal in a transmission path. The signal is generated in a multi-level modulator of a transmitter in which a digital signal is mapped to one of a plurality of specified signal points in a signal space diagram. The device includes a signal-point-position averaging circuit for producing an average signal point for each of a plurality of distributions of received signal points in the signal space diagram. A discrimination circuit in the device discriminates the average signal point closest to a received signal point from other average signal points in the signal space diagram.

Abstract: The present invention provides a radiation source module for use in a fluid treatment system. In one embodiment, the module comprises: a substantially elongate first support member having a longitudinal first axis; and a first pair of radiation source assemblies extending from the first support member, each radiation source assembly comprising a radiation source; wherein the first pair of radiation source assemblies is oriented such that a second axis extending through a center point of each radiation source assembly is disposed at an angle with respect to the first axis.

Abstract: A foldaway electronic device includes a base unit having opposing lateral surfaces and an end portion, a cover unit having opposing lateral surfaces, each of which corresponds to one of the lateral surfaces of the base unit, and an end portion that is rotatably attached to the end portion of the base unit, whereby the cover unit may be rotated between a folded position relative to the base unit and an unfolded position relative to the base unit, a locking mechanism in the base unit and cover unit that locks the cover unit in the folded position, a lock release mechanism in the base unit that releases the locking mechanism when the cover unit is in the folded position, and impelling means in the base unit for impelling the cover unit from the folded position to an unfolded position after the lock release mechanism has been actuated, wherein either lateral surface of the base unit has a guard portion that extends over and prevents contact by a user's thumb and fingers with a portion of the corresponding lateral

Abstract: A voltage supplied to a cooling fan 305 is adjusted in accordance with a temperature measured near a central processing unit 401. At this time, different tables of temperatures and supplied voltages are referred to depending upon whether or not an external memory device is mounted, whereby suitable control of the cooling fan 305 is performed in accordance with an attaching-detaching state of the external memory device in an information processing device that permits internal mounting of the external memory device.

Abstract: A quartz-crystal unit comprises a container body having a recess, a quartz-crystal blank having a pair of excitation electrodes respectively disposed on one and the other principal surfaces, and a pair of extending electrodes respectively extended from the pair of excitation electrodes, and a cover for sealing an opening plane of the recess. The extending electrodes are led to both sides of one end of the crystal blank, and the one end is secured by a conductive adhesive to hold the crystal blank in the recess in parallel to the cover. The crystal unit satisfies 0<d/L<0.64, where L is the length from the one end to the other end opposing the one end in the crystal blank, and d is a gap between mutually opposing surfaces of the crystal blank and the cover.

Abstract: An expandable endovascular prosthesis comprising: body having a proximal end and a distal end; a first expandable portion disposed between the proximal end and the distal end, the tubular first expandable portion being expandable from a first, unexpanded state to a second, expanded state with a radially outward force thereon to urge the first expandable portion against a vascular lumen; and a second expandable portion attached to the first tubular expandable portion; the second expandable portion being expandable upon expansion of the tubular first expandable portion. The endovascular prosthesis is particularly useful in the treatment of aneurysms, particularly saccular aneurysms.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display device includes (a) a first substrate including a first area in which an incident light is reflected and a second area through which a light passes, and further including a pixel electrode covering the first and second areas therewith, (b) a second substrate including at least an opposing electrode, (c) a liquid crystal layer sandwiched between the first and second substrates and including liquid crystal molecules each having a major axis aligned perpendicularly to the first and second substrates when no electric field is applied thereto, and (d) a first alignment-controller for controlling alignment of the liquid crystal molecules, the first alignment-controller being arranged at a boundary of the first and second areas or in the vicinity of the boundary.

Abstract: The invention relates to the new crystalline forms II, III and V of meloxicam; to the processes for obtaining the crystalline forms I, II, III and V; and, finally, to the interconversion processes of the forms II, III, IV and V into the form I.

Abstract: Without making such a matter that, for example, a branching point where the flow of a game story is branched is notified to the user, the user is let so as to detect a timing for a hidden branching point to be present, and in dependence on whether the detection of the branching point is right or wrong, the story has a varied subsequent development.

Abstract: An adaptive antenna unit includes feeding antenna elements arranged so as to reduce spatial correlations thereof, parasitic antenna elements, provided with respect to each of the feeding antenna elements and arranged so as to increase mutual coupling between a corresponding one of the feeding antenna elements, variable reactance elements each terminating a corresponding one of the parasitic antenna elements, and a control section. The control section controls reactances of the reactance elements and controls weighting of the reception signals received by the feeding antenna elements, in response to the reception signals.