Abstract: An improved memory system for use in a data processing system which memory system has two memory banks and corresponding error correction circuitry associated with each. Data words of a block thereof are stored in the memory banks in an interleaved fashion wherein alternating words are stored in one bank and intervening alternating words are stored in the other bank. During a write operation the memory is controlled so that the first data word of a block stored in a memory bank uses a late write technique and all subsequent data words thereof use an early write technique. During a read operation, pairs of data words are read and checked for errors simultaneously and are then supplied in a pipelined manner.

Abstract: A disk reproducing device that has two guide rails disposed at both sides of a disk and that reads data recorded on both sides of the disk using a single pickup device (21) by moving the pickup device along the guide rails. Each guide rail is composed of two linear guide shafts connected by an arcuated guide section (15). The arcuated guide section has a diameter smaller than that of the linear guide shafts, joints connecting the guide shafts and the guide section have tapering shapes, and a plurality of turning bearings are disposed on the pickup device. The pickup device can therefore move smoothly. In addition, all guide shafts can be swung substantially equally by swinging only one linear guide shaft thereby permitting a tilt adjustment to be executed by a single motor. The apparatus further has an adjusting member composed of a flat spring, a screw and other parts, to adjust a position of the pickup device relative to the disk.

Abstract: An image reading apparatus is provided with a transparent plate horizontally disposed on which an image reading operation is performed, and a transporting device disposed above the transparent plate for transporting an original sheet to the transparent plate. The transporting device includes a pressure roller for pressing the original sheet onto an upper surface of the transparent plate at a pressure applying position and transporting the original sheet along the upper surface of the transparent plate. The image reading apparatus is also provided with a light source disposed below the transparent plate for illuminating through the transparent plate a portion of the transported original sheet. The illuminated portion of the original sheet is positioned on the upper surface of the transparent plate at an upstream side of the pressure applying position with respect to a transporting direction of the original sheet.

Abstract: A method for testing circular saws in which a saw to be tested is mounted for rotation at a controllable speed, a sensor being mounted opposite a surface thereof for determining the distance from the sensor to the surface. The sensor is appropriately calibrated and, when the saw is rotated at selected speeds, the output signal from the sensor is processed so as to provide a time domain response waveform and a frequency domain response waveform therefrom at the selected speeds of rotation. Certain characteristics of the saw's operation, such as the presence of low frequency "wobble" components, the width of the cutting operation, the perpendicularity of the cutting plane of the saw relative to the axis of rotation, and the development, or flatness, of the saw, are determined from the time domain and frequency domain responses.

Abstract: A driving circuit of a liquid crystal display for driving source lines of an active-matrix type liquid crystal display having a thin film transistor matrix array comprising a shift register circuit for sequentially storing digital video signals for one line, each of the digital video signals being comprised of pixel data of a series of predetermined bits, a latch circuit for holding for one horizontal period the digital video signals for one line stored in the shift register circuit, a conversion circuit for classifying each pixel data constituting the digital video signals for one line outputted from the latch circuit into upper and lower bits, selecting adjacent two different DC voltages according to a value designated by the upper bits, performing pulse width modulation between the two different DC voltages according to a value designated by the lower bits and supplying analog video signals to the corresponding source lines of the matrix array, and a comparison data generating circuit for outputting compar

Abstract: A system for indoor pollution control that purifies ambient air in a room. The air-purification components can be housed, for example, in an item of ordinary furniture such as a chair. This allows large components capable of high purification rates to be used, but without the large space requirements hitherto normally required with previously known high-rate systems. In addition, the air flow is directed so that a localized spatial zone can be preferentially purified without the need for physical enclosures. The system can be used to prevent dispersion of harmful substances such as pathogens or tobacco smoke that originate from a source, and can also create a microenvironment of purified air.

Abstract: A device for aligning a flexible mask with a substrate when the substrate is mounted on a vacuum chuck member which includes a surround member surrounding the exposed surface of the substrate. The mask is held on a mask holder and the chuck member and mask holder are movable toward and away from each other. The surround member rests on a flexible element which effectively causes the surround member to float so that when the mask is brought into contact with the substrate, the mask always lies in the same plane as the exposed surface of the substrate and the exposed surface of the surround member and no distortion of the mask occurs.

Abstract: A machine translation apparatus in which the sentence construction of a source language entered by an input device is analyzed in order to generate the corresponding translated text after being converted into a sentence construction in a target language, wherein the machine translation apparatus uses a device for determining whether or not a word string obtained from a sentence construction analysis is a proper noun with an acronym, a device for examining whether or not the number of first letters of each of a certain number of words corresponds to the number of letters of the acronym, and also for examining whether or nor these words are registered in a dictionary, and a device for outputting the corresponding term after it is translated into a target language, when the words are registered in the dictionary, and for outputting directly the words, whose number of first letters corresponds to the number of the letters of the acronym, without translating them, when the words are not registered in the dictionar

Abstract: A semiconductor integrated circuit includes a semiconductor chip having a predetermined circuit device and a PN junction diode group formed on the surface thereof. The PN junction diode group is supplied with a constant current in the forward direction, whereby the potential difference between the terminals thereof changes according to the surface temperature of the semiconductor chip. A potential difference generating circuit generates a fixed potential difference corresponding to a predetermined limit temperature of the chip surface, whereby the potential difference between the terminals of the PN junction diode group is compared with the fixed potential difference. As a result, when the determination in made that the temperature of the semiconductor chip surface reaches the limit temperature, the operation of the circuit device is temporarily or completely halted.

Abstract: A supermicrocellular foamed material and a method for producing such material, the material to be foamed such as a polymerplastic material, having a supercritical fluid, such as carbon dioxide in its supercritical state, introduced into the material to form a foamed fluid/material system having a plurality of cells distributed substantially throughout the material. Cell densities lying in a range from about 10.sup.9 to about 10.sup.15 per cubic centimeter of the material can be achieved with the average cell sizes being at least less than 2.0 microns and preferably in a range from about 0.1 micron to about 1.0 micron.

Abstract: A floating type magnetic head device of the present invention includes a slider capable of floating above a recording medium while moving relatively to the recording medium, and a magnetic head. The magnetic head is incorporated inside a cavity section formed substantially in the center of the slider. By incorporating the magnetic head inside the cavity section, the magnetic head can be protected, thereby reducing a possibility of head crash of the magnetic head due to its contact with dust or a projecting object existing on the surface of the recording medium. Further, by disposing the magnetic head substantially in the center of the slider, it can be avoided that the direction of an air stream at the center of the slider varies depending on an instantaneous position in a radial direction of the recording medium, thereby providing stable floating characteristics of the floating type magnetic head device and improving accuracy of recording.

Abstract: A method and system for handling a branch instruction which requires branching from a current instruction of a first instruction sequence to the first instruction of a second instruction sequence. The branch instruction is fetched and the next instruction of the first sequence is fetched while the branch instruction is displacement formatted. The first instruction of the second sequence is fetched while such next instruction is displacement formatted and the branch instruction is executed. The second instruction of the second sequence is fetched while the first instruction is displacement formatted, but the next instruction of the first sequence is not executed so that an execution wait occurs. The third instruction of the second sequence is then fetched while the second instruction is displacement formatted and the first instruction is executed.

Abstract: A video display system such as a broadcast receiver or a studio monitor is designed to display both MAC-type input signals and HDTV-type input signals, only the latter being of constant luminance type. For MAC signals a normal Y, U, V to R, G, B, decoder matrix is used comprising amplifiers (18, 20, 22) resistors (24A, 24B, 26A, 26B, 28A, 28B, ) and further amplifiers (24, 26, 28). The output is applied to a CRT display device (30) having a conventional gamma factor. For HDTV signals, the decoder matrix is augmented by a correction matrix having six or eight circuit sections. Each circuit section comprises resistors (42, 44, 46), an operational amplifier (40), and circuitry including diodes (48, 50) for selecting the output only over a portion of the permissible color range.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display includes a plurality of laminated liquid crystal layers and a transparent substrate interposed between the liquid crystal layers, the transparent substrate being formed of an aggregate of optical fibers arranged so that a ray may be introduced between main and back surfaces of the substrate, whereby aberration of a display image of adjacent liquid crystal layers caused by a difference of a viewing angle can be prevented.

Abstract: A magnetic recording and reproducing apparatus utilizing a magnetic tape in a cassette, the tape being driven by reels and information data being recorded or reproduced on or from the magnetic tape. The apparatus includes a mechanism for pulling or storing the magnetic tape out of or in the cassette which mechanism includes a pair of guide rollers for restricting the running path of the magnetic tape, the guide rollers being movable between an unloading position and a loading position. A magnetic head, which can be a multi-track magnetic head having a plurality of magnetic heads, the number of which is defined to be smaller than the number of tracks standardized as a track format on the magnetic tape, records or reproduces information-data when the guide rollers are in their loading position and the head is allowed to vertically move each time the running direction of the magnetic tape is changed.

Abstract: In a VTR for a TCI signal, time-base correction and TCI decode processing are applied to the reproduced TCI signal of each channel and also to the corresponding dropout signals. According to the resulting dropout signal for luminance signal and the dropout signal for chrominance signal, the dropout section of a luminance signal and the dropout section of a chrominance signal are respectively compensated for. As a result, a luminance signal may have the data of the dropout section compensated for with data of a highly correlated luminance signal of 1H before and 1H after the horizontal period where dropout occurs. The dropout compensation circuits can be simplified since the luminance and chrominance signals are processed by separate circuits.

Abstract: The developing device, which is capable of mixing developers with magnetic toners and capable of providing the developers having a uniform magnetic toner density to a photoconductor for a copying machine, the device having a developing tank which contains a roller composed of a sleeve and a magnetic body with the magnetic body being disposed inside of the sleeve concentrically and rotatably with respect to each other, the device also having a magnetic toner supply tank disposed adjacent to the developing tank for supplying the magnetic toners to the developing tank through a toner supply port, the developing device includes a unit coupled to the developing tank for controlling an amount of the developers to be supplied to the sleeve, and a unit disposed between the toner supply port and the control unit for scraping the developers from the sleeve.

Abstract: An improved video signal processing circuit (63) in the high quality television system for alternating-current driving a liquid crystal module (64) is disclosed. A reference signal is inserted into vertical blanking periods of a R signal by a reference signal generator (20) and switching circuit (4). The R signal in which the reference signal is inserted in converted into digital signals of n channels by an A/D converter (6). There exists difference in circuit characteristics among signal processing circuits for processing the respective digital signals. However, the signals signal-processed for each channel are supplied to microcomputer 21 through switching circuits (18.sub.1 -18.sub.n). Since the microcomputer 21 controls full scale level and offset level of D/A converters 9.sub.1 -9.sub.n and adders 11.sub.1 -11.sub.n, the deviations produced among sampled video signals due to difference in circuit characteristics among channels can be reduced.

Abstract: Light beams emitted from a semiconductor laser are introduced into an optical guide. The light beams linearly passing inside the optical guide are radiated one after another in the direction substantially perpendicular to the passing direction so as to be received by an optical modulator disposed on the optical guide over the length thereof, where the light beams are selectively modulated and then radiated out throughout the length thereof.

Abstract: A method of manufacturing a semiconductor device comprises the steps of (i) forming a SiC monocrystal layer over the entire surface of a semiconductor substrate; (ii) forming a boron ion implanted layer, which is substantially a thin film, by implanting a specified amount of boron ions in the surface region of the SiC monocrystal layer; and (iii) forming a high resistance SiC monocrystal layer of a thin film by subjecting the boron ion implanted layer to heat treatment; whereby the high resistance SiC monocrystal layer can be function at least as an electric insulating layer.