Abstract: A hanging arrangement comprises eyeglasses inclusive a bow supporting lenses aside a nose bridge thereof, the bow defining first and second temple supports at first and second ends thereof, and first and second temples joined respectively with the first and second temple supports and a hanger secured with the eyeglasses and hanging the eyeglasses with the first and second temple supports in vertical alignment. The hanger is comprised of a one-piece molded plastic body comprising a display portion having an opening therethrough for receipt of a display rod and a tail depending from the display portion, the tail having first and second successive segments, the first segment having an opening therethrough, the second segment having a reduced thickness portion pierceable by the eyeglass temple to define an opening on assembly of the hanger with the eyeglasses. The hanger defines a further reduced thickness portion adjacent the first segment opening.

Abstract: A data transfer system includes first and second microprocessors, each having a data input portion, a data output portion, and a data transfer control signal input/output portion to input or output a data transfer request signal for requesting permission for transfer of data or a data transfer permission signal representing the permission for transfer of data. A first data transfer path connects the data output portion of the first microprocessor with the data input portion of the second microprocessor. A second data transfer path connects the data output portion of the second microprocessor with the data input portion of the first microprocessor. A data transfer control signal transmitting path connects the data transfer control signal input/output portion of the first microprocessor with the data transfer control signal input/output portion of the second microprocessor to feed the data transfer request signal or the data transfer permission signal between the microprocessors.

Abstract: A recording or reproducing apparatus has a rotary head drum which is composed of a rotary drum with magnetic heads mounted on the outer periphery thereof and a stationary drum. It records a signal on or reproduces a signal from a magnetic tape by running the magnetic tape which is pulled around the predetermined portion of the outer peripheral surface of the rotary head drum. An angle varying member for varying the angle formed between the magnetic tape and the rotary head drum is provided at least at one of the locations where the magnetic tape enters and leaves the rotary head drum. Alternatively, a member for positioning the magnetic tape relative to the rotary head drum may be provided.

Abstract: A garment hanger is comprised of a one-piece body having a hook portion for the receipt of a display rod, a central portion depending from the hook portion, the body defining in the central portion an opening therethrough and a garment support member disposed in the opening and movable relative to the body and a lower portion defining a fold line segment depending from the central portion and a flap segment depending from the fold line segment, the central portion, the fold line segment and the flap segment jointly defining a slot in the body which opens into a margin of the body.

Abstract: In a photographing device of the kind having a plurality of blades disposed one after another in an overlapping manner in the direction of the optical axis of a photo-taking lens, with an exposing aperture part for high luminance included in an exposing aperture hole formed in each of the blades, and performing exposure control for an exposure surface by driving and moving these blades relative to each other in the direction of traversing the optical axis, the fore end positions, relative to the optical axis, of the exposing aperture parts for high luminance included in the exposing aperture holes formed respectively in the blades are arranged to be located farther away from the optical axis accordingly as the blades are located farther away from the exposure surface.

Abstract: There is provided an image sensing apparatus which comprises a detecting part for detecting an optical characteristic of a photographic optical system, an image sensing part for converting an optical image photographed by the photographic optical system into an electrical signal, a combining part for combining character information with image information outputted from the image sensing part, and a control part for controlling a combining operation of the combining part in accordance with an output of the detecting part.

Abstract: A video signal reproducing apparatus for reproducing a video signal recorded on a magnetic recording medium includes a modulating circuit for receiving a color-difference line-sequential signal and modulating the color-difference line-sequential signal at intervals of one horizontal scanning period, an adding circuit for adding a luminance signal to the color-difference line-sequential signal modulated by the modulating circuit, a delay circuit for delaying a signal outputted from the adding circuit or the modulated color-difference line-sequential signal by one horizontal scanning line, and a subtracting circuit for subtracting the signal outputted from the adding circuit and not delayed by the delay circuit from a signal which has been delayed by the delay circuit by one horizontal scanning line. The video signal reproducing apparatus is arranged to provide line interpolation information for the luminance signal as well as simultaneous color-difference signals.

Abstract: A telephone system in which a service node and a service control point are permitted to communicate with each other by adapting the central office switch to have a non-call associated signalling communication service which can be invoked by non-call associated signalling messages and which further utilizes the network access control and/or signalling channel of the service node.

Abstract: An inventory of goods is protected from theft by means of electronic article surveillance (EAS) markers integrated with items of the inventory. Each such item has a structural member in which a cavity is integrally formed. A respective magnetostrictive element is housed, free of mechanically clamping constraint, in each cavity. A respective biasing element is located adjacent to the cavity on each such item of inventory. The biasing element provides a magnetic field to bias the respective magnetostrictive element. EAS equipment is provided at a retail store where the inventory is maintained. The EAS equipment generates an alternating electromagnetic interrogation field, and when an item of inventory having the integrated EAS marker is exposed to the interrogation field, the biased magnetostrictive element is excited into mechanical resonance that is detected by the EAS equipment.

Abstract: In a cassette mounting device arranged to cause a cassette which contains a tape-shaped recording medium therein to move between its mounting position and a position in which information is recorded or reproduced on or from the recording medium, a holder for holding the cassette is provided with a hatch part and an aperture part which is arranged to be formed by removing the hatch part from the holder, the aperture part being arranged such that the cassette can be taken out, if necessary, from the holder through the aperture part without damaging the recording medium.

Abstract: An image signal recording and reproducing system of this invention is arranged to record an image signal on a recording medium and to reproduce a recorded image signal from the recording medium. The system is provided with a first recording mode for recording an image signal for one picture having a first resolution on n recording tracks (n: positive integer) of the recording medium and a second recording mode for recording an image signal for one picture having a second resolution higher than the first resolution on m recording tracks (m: integer greater than n) of the recording medium. If an image signal recorded on the basis of the second recording mode is to be reproduced from the recording medium on which image signals are recorded in either one of the first and second recording modes, an arbitrary portion of an image corresponding to the image signal reproduced from the recording medium is extracted and outputted.

Abstract: A video signal recording apparatus for recording of a still-image signal on a recording medium can be set to an interval recording mode for recording a still-image signal at intervals of a predetermined time interval. First time data relative to a recording time according to the amount of information of the still-image signal for one picture is compared with second time data relative to the predetermined time interval. If the first time data is greater than the second time data, a notice to that effect is given for the purpose of preventing an operation error. In addition, a similar advantage can be achieved by displaying the first time data. Also, if the first time data is greater than the second time data, the apparatus is disabled from being set to the interval recording mode.

Abstract: An electronic article surveillance system has a receiver with a plurality of receiving coils. Each coil in the system is treated as a separate detection unit with its own noise environment which is distinct from the noise environments of the other coils in the system. This allows the system to optimize its performance by maximizing the sensitivity of each coil according to its own local noise environment. In EAS systems in accordance with the invention, the priority of the detection routines is to keep an accurate and up-to-date picture of the noise environment for each coil in "noise phases" and to look for tags during "transmit phases". Upon tag detection, a controller establishes a validation sequence comprising a number of cycles and can change the number of cycles adaptively to the noise environment.

Abstract: An improvement in a method for the manufacture of electronic surveillance tags by providing a continuous web of electrically insulative material, applying to opposed surfaces of the electrically insulative material web a succession of first and second electrically conductive coils and applying to the succession of first electrically conductive coils a normally electrically insulative deactivation structure extending across the first coil succession and convertible to be electrically conductive, the improvement comprising the step of providing an electrostatic charge drain in electrically conductive relation with each of the first electrically conductive coils substantially throughout the manufacture of the tags. The new step may be practiced by providing an elongate electrically conductive member across the succession of first electrically conductive coils in electrical continuity therewith.

Abstract: A video signal processing apparatus is arranged to process a composite information signal which is formed by multiplexing first and second information signals having different frequency bands. When the composite information signal recorded on a recording medium is reproduced, the first information signal is extracted from the reproduced composite information signal and a first detection signal is obtained by subjecting the extracted first information signal to a detection process. The second information signal is also extracted from the reproduced composite information signal and a second detection signal is obtained by subjecting the extracted second information signal to a detection process. The first and second detection signals are compared with each other. A correction process is performed on the composite information signal reproduced from the recording medium according to the result of comparison. The reproduced composite information signal can be adequately corrected by virtue of the arrangement.

Abstract: A deactivator for deactivating electronic article surveillance tags includes a deactivating coil, drive circuitry controllable for supplying driving signals to the deactivating coil, a reference signal generator for generating a reference signal having preselected characteristics varying with time, a comparator for comparing characteristics of the driving signals with the reference signal characteristics, and a control unit for controlling the drive circuitry in accordance with signal comparisons effected by the comparator.

Abstract: A light quantity adjusting device is provided with a light blocking member for adjusting a quantity of light by moving the light blocking member and a drive source for driving the light blocking member. The drive source includes at least a rotor having a plurality of poles, a stator, a coil and a limiting part arranged to limit the rotation angle range of the rotor to an angle not exceeding 180 degrees. The drive source is arranged such that a cogging torque existing when the coil is not energized works over the whole rotation angle range to cause the rotor to rotate in one direction and, a coil torque generated when the coil is energized works over the whole rotation angle range to cause the rotor to rotate in the other direction. The peak of the coil torque is set to be obtainable within the rotation angle range, and a torque which is obtained by combining the cogging torque and the coil torque works to cause the rotor to rotate in the other direction.

Abstract: A camera comprising an exposure control circuit for controlling the exposure in accordance with the output of a light measuring circuit receptive of light at a different position from that of a photographic lens system, a distance detecting circuit for automatically determining the object distance, the photographic lens system comprising lens groups on either side of a diaphragm whose axial position relative to an image plane is made constant, the front and rear lens groups being moved axially to effect zooming and the one of the lens groups which lies behind the diaphragm being moved axially to effect focusing, and an exposure correction control circuit for detecting the axial position of the rear lens group behind the diaphragm to correct the exposure value obtained from the light measuring circuit when the exposure is controlled.

Abstract: An end office of a telephone system in which the end office is operated based on a zero loss plan which requires that the line side equipment be exclusive of any means for introducing loss into the receive paths established in the line side equipment for the subscriber locations served by the end office switch.