Abstract: A method for regenerating a carbon slurry used to produce a black matrix-type phosphor screen of a cathode ray tube is disclosed, in which excess carbon slurry is collected after the completion of a carbon-coating process onto a cathode ray tube panel. This collected carbon slurry is regenerated by means of an ion-exchange resin.

Abstract: A semiconductor apparatus is disclosed, in which the entire or part of an electron active region is formed by a superlattice structure semiconductor layer in which a plurality of different semiconductor layers, less than 8 monolayers, and containing a fraction or a binary compound semiconductor layers are alternately and epitaxially grown and a main current direction is selected to be in the direction perpendicular to the laminae of said superlattice layers.

Abstract: A cabinet for containing cooking appliances such as a microwave oven having a cooking chamber having a front opening, a door for closing the front opening of the cooking chamber, a locking mechanism for locking the door at a closed position, and a manually operated member mounted in the vicinity of the front opening of the microwave oven for manually unlocking the door locked by the locking mechanism is disclosed. The cabinet includes a compartment for containing the cooking appliance, a cover for concealing a space between the front inner periphery of the compartment and the front outer periphery of the cooking appliance, the cover having a recess formed therein so as to correspond to the manually operated member so that the manually operated member is positioned in the recess, the recess having a front opening, and a closure member rotatably mounted on the cover member so as to close and open the front opening of the recess.

Abstract: A touch panel apparatus which, when attached to a display having a substantially cylindrical display surface, reduces the effects of parallax by having a first set of plural light source - photo-detector pairs provided adjacent the cylindrical display surface for generating and detecting a first set of parallel light beams passing across the cylindrical display surface of the display, a second set of plural light source photo-detector pairs provided adjacent the cylindrical display surface for generating and detecting a second set of parallel light beams passing across the cylindrical display surface of the display, wherein the first and second sets of light beams are non-parallel relative to the principal direction of cylindrical curvature of the cylindrical display surface, and a process circuit connected to the first and second sets of light source - photo-detector pairs for determining coordinates by detecting interrupted light beams.

Abstract: Apparatus and method of recording and reproducing data using a disk to record musical performance data. Data related to the music and start times for each piece of music are recorded onto a table of contents section of the disk and the operation is controlled according to this data. Therefore, wasteful reproduction operation is avoided when there exists non-recorded areas between pieces of music or when a piece of music shorter than the initial piece of music is recorded overlapped thereon, enabling the music to be favorably reproduced. In carrying out the (sound) recording operation, furthermore, the non-recorded areas can quickly be found.

Abstract: A still picture signal editing or processing apparatus having a still picture signal source for generating a still picture signal, an analog-to-digital converter for converting the still picture signal into a digitized still picture signal, first and second main field memories, an auxiliary field memory, a signal processer for processing a still picture signal, a display for displaying a still picture, a selector for supplying a signal selectively read out from the first and second main field memories to the display, and a memory controller for controlling read and write operations of the first and second main field memories and auxiliary field memory, thereby a digitized still picture signal from the analog-to-digital converter is supplied to the first main field memory, the digitized still picture signal is read out from the first main field memory, compressed by 1/n in data amount and is separated into first and second compressed signals by the signal processer, the first and second compressed signals are

Abstract: A color image scanner which includes a plurality of light sources composed of a first light emitting diode for emitting a red light, a second light emitting diode for emitting a yellow light and a fluorescent light source for emitting a blue light, a control circuit for switching the plurality of light sources, sequentially and an image sensor for receiving light reflected from the original, scanned image, wherein a characteristic value of the light emitted from the first light emitting diode is selected so as to have an overlap in wavelength with that of the light emitted from the second light emitting diode, and a characteristic value of the light emitted from the fluorescent light source is selected so as to have an overlap in wavelength with that of the light emitted from the second light emitting diode.

Abstract: An automatic level adjusting system for a television receiver which is suitable as its automatic white balance adjusting circuit. In the manufacturing-process of the television receiver, desired data is selected from a positional data group of black or white reference pulse signal to be inserted into a video signal and is stored in a non-volatile memory, whereby when an image is reproduced, black or white level of the video signal is adjusted automatically on the basis of the data stored in the non-volatile memory. Thus, the insertion position of black or white reference pulse signal can be changed without modifying the hardware of the television receiver so that the automatic level adjusting system can be applied commonly to different types of television receivers.

Abstract: A system and method for processing an extraordinarily large amount of data is configured using ordinary versatile computers of relatively slow data processing speed. Tasking is shared to plural computers or processors connected to a system bus; a shared storage device provided in common for these processors is made up of plural memory banks connected to the system bus; data transferred between the processors and the memory banks are divided into predetermined amounts of divisional data; the divisional data are processed simultaneously in parallel fashion; and each memory bank is occupied simultaneously in parallel fashion in response to each memory request from each processor. An arbitrator is provided for acting on a single memory request in accordance with a predetermined priority order in the case where plural memory requests are outputted simultaneously to the same memory bank.

Abstract: A disk-like recording medium is provided with recording tracks (TK), each of which includes recording sectors (SC.sub.1, SC.sub.2, . . . , SC.sub.m). Each of the recording sectors includes a recording region (AR.sub.C) for control and a subsequent region (AR.sub.D) for writing data. The invention further deals with a disk apparatus using the disk-like recording medium. In the recording region (AR.sub.C) for control of the disk-like recording medium are provided a clock data pit (Q.sub.B), a pair of tracking data bit (Q.sub.A, Q.sub.C) positioned inside and outside a track center line (K.sub.C) being separated at a predetermined distance from the clock data pit (Q.sub.B), and a pair of traverse data pits (Q.sub.D,Q.sub.E) being separated from each other at a distance allotted depending upon the recording tracks (TK). In recording or reproducing the data using a light beam, the clocks are reliably reproduced under a stable tracking condition, and traverses can be counted.

Abstract: A rotation control circuit for a Hall motor of reduced-size and suppressed irregular rotation and having a controller that stores in a memory circuit data indicative of an irregular magnetization of a rotor magnet derived from a change of the magnetic field of the rotor magnet detected by a Hall element as an irregular rotation informationsignal, in which the irregular rotation information signal is input to a speed servo loop of the Hall motor, whereby the change of magnetic field of the rotor magnet is used as an FG signal to form a speed servo circuit.

Abstract: The uppermost page of an opened volume is rubbed toward the volume's spine to buckle the uppermost page and permit air to enter a space between the buckled page and the next page. The buckled page is then released to fall back toward its initial position and form an air layer between the uppermost page and the next page. The uppermost page is attracted upward by applying a suction force and a plate is moved along a path crossing the attracted uppermost page to turn it.

Abstract: A folded line DRAM having shared sense amplifiers wherein one of two the memory cell arrays is provided with a pair of switches for dividing the bit line pairs into plural bit line pair groups and the second memory cell array is provided with separate switches connected in series the bit line pairs for the purpose of reducing power consumption caused by charging and discharging of the bit lines during accessing.

Abstract: An image reading apparatus for converting an image on a document having a white/black text area into a display signal. An image reader scans pixels forming the image to produce a read signal having a level corresponding to the brightness density of each of the scanned pixels. The read image is compared with a dither matrix data signal and converted into a dither converted signal. The read image is also compared with a threshold value and converted into a binary signal having a first level representing a white pixel and a second level representing a black pixel. A discrimination circuit receives the binary signal for producing a detection signal when the white/black text area is scanned. Upon occurrence of the detection signal, the dither converted signal is mixed with the binary signal to form the display signal.

Abstract: A circuit for biasing a field effect transistor using a current source to provide a constant current which can be shared between amplifier stages by connecting it to the drain of a first stage and the source of a second stage.

Abstract: On a transmitting side, a digital video signal comprising respective pixel samples (each of which may include eight bits) is received, and a set of elementary pixel samples determined from the received pixel samples at a predetermined rate are transmitted. The values of respective subject pixel samples other than the elementary ones are predicted, and respective predictive errors of the predicted values are detected from present values of the received pixel samples. First flags are then generated individually for each subject pixel sample whose predictive error is greater than a threshold value, and second flags are generated individually for each subject pixel sample whose predictive error is less than or equal to the threshold value. The present values of the subject pixel samples having the first flags are transmitted, and compressed data (including the second flags) is transmitted for the subject pixel samples having the second flags.

Abstract: There is disclosed a method for optically recording data in data areas of a disk-like recording medium in which servo signal areas are formed along the track in alternation with data areas. Parity codes for error correction are generated and affixed in at least one direction, that is, in the column or row direction, of a two-dimensionally arrayed data block, and the two-dimensionally arrayed data affixed with the parity codes are supplied sequentially to an optical pickup along any one of the column and row directions so as to be recorded in respective ones of said data areas.

Abstract: A conductive device for protecting and securing electrical circuit substrates during manufacture and shipment which includes a plurality of spring driven pin slides anchored on a common support member, each slide securing a substrate against a corresponding substrate stop.

Abstract: A method and system for separating a noise signal into frequency components, then automatically performing noise reduction on the individual frequency components, and then recombining the processed frequency components to generate an output noise signal. The noise reduction parameters for each frequency component may be independently set. The output noise signal generated during performance of the invention will typically be recombined with a signal (such as a television signal) from which the input noise signal for the invention was originally extracted. In a preferred embodiment, the input noise signal supplied to the system of the invention is generated by subtracting two adjacent frames of a television signal.