Abstract: Anode voltages A′ and B′ corresponding to video signals A and B are switched by a first switch and supplied to an anode. Cut-off voltages A and B corresponding to the video signals A and B are switched by a second switch and added to a video signal by an adder. A resultant signal is supplied to a cathode. In a CRT, the luminance rises in association with the step-down of the cut-off voltage and the step-up of the anode voltage and the resolution rises in association with the step-up of the cut-off voltage and the step-up of the anode voltage. The first and second switches are switched in accordance with the format of the input video signal respectively, thereby properly selecting the anode voltage which is applied to the CRT and the cut-off voltage. The video image can be displayed by the CRT at the luminance and resolution according to the video signal without changing a driving voltage.

Abstract: A skew of an optical pickup device can be adjusted by a movable-side member itself which holds thereon an objective lens. A holder which holds an objective lens is supported by four spring wires such that it can be moved in the focusing direction and the tracking direction of an optical disk. A center of a magnetic circuit which drives the holder is shifted in the outer peripheral side relative to the optical disk. Elastic force of the spring wires of the inner peripheral side is suppressed by increasing the amount of a gel material bonded to the spring wires located on the inner peripheral side of the optical disk as a damping material as compared with the amount of the gel material bonded to the spring wires located on the outer peripheral side.

Abstract: An image projection apparatus according to the present invention includes a prime color component selection unit, made up of a temporal color separation sub-unit and a spatial color separation sub-unit, a modulation unit on which falls a light beam split in its optical path by the prime color component selection unit, and a projection unit for synthesizing and projecting the light beams from first and second spatial modulation sub-units of the modulation unit. In the image projection apparatus, the first and second spatial modulation sub-units perform spatial modulation on images corresponding to respective different prime color components. In the image projection apparatus of the present invention, two spatial modulation units are used, thus simplifying the structure and reducing the size as compared to the so-called three-plate type image projection apparatus employing three spatial modulation sub-units.

Abstract: A tape cassette and a tape streamer drive for driving the tape cassette are provided. MAFN data and VMAFN data are defined so as to indicate the maximum frame number of all frames formed in a partition and the maximum frame number of frames in a valid area in the partition, respectively. The MAFN data and the VMAFN data are stored in a MIC disposed in the tape cassette. The size of an available recording area remaining in the partition is calculated from the MAFN data and the VMAFN data. Thus, a powerful technique is achieved for managing the tape cassette used in a data storage application.

Abstract: An upconverter for converting IF television signals to VHF or UHF signals prior to broadcast is configured to process either analog or digital television signals. The upconverter identifies the type of incoming television signal and generates an appropriate reference signal depending on whether the incoming television signal is digital or analog. In an analog format, the reference signal is used by the modulator generating the IF signal to synchronize phase with the signals output by various other upconverters. In a digital format, the reference signal is used, for example, as a test signal for the upconversion circuit.

Abstract: The CPU 102 detects that the posture of the apparatus main body has been shifted from the normal posture into an abnormal posture on the basis of the acceleration information obtained as detection output of the acceleration sensor 41. Then, it restores the normal posture by means of a playback technique for controlling various drivers 3D through 7D, using route planning data stored in advance in the memory 101 for restoring the normal posture from a falling posture.

Abstract: A high-frequency circuit, wherein there is provided a switching transistor connected between an input terminal and an output terminal, with a gate electrode connected to a control terminal via a resistance element, and with an effective gate portion of the gate electrode divided into a plurality of sections, and arrangement is made of additional capacitance elements added in parallel to a capacitance between a gate and a source or drain of the switching transistor at positions in proximity to one ends of at least two effective gate sections of the plurality of effective gate sections. Preferably, there is provided a short-circuiting transistor similarly having an additional capacitance element between the output terminal Tout and a reference voltage supply line.

Abstract: A semiconductor memory device includes a plurality of memory cells each having, alternately provided in a word line direction, an active region (channel forming region) comprised of a first conductivity type semiconductor and impurity regions comprised of a second conductivity type semiconductor shared by adjacent memory cells. One embodiment of the method comprises driving control gates capacitively coupled with the borders of the active regions with impurity regions and electrically isolated from the word lines to electrically divide the physical memory cell array into n number of memory cell arrays, and driving the impurity regions and word lines in the same memory cell array to operate in parallel the plurality of memory cells connected to the same word line out of the cell columns.

Abstract: To provide a video signal transmission apparatus capable of correctly transmitting a digital video signal. A PLL circuit 5 has a first cutoff frequency lower than the frequency of a horizontal synchronization signal contained in a digital video signal S9. has the characteristics of causing attenuation of a signal of the frequency higher than the first cutoff frequency, performs PLL processing for a dot clock signal S14 for identifying one pixel's worth of data of the digital video signal S9, and generates a transmission clock signal 55 of the frequency N (integer of 2 or more) times the first dot clock signal S14. The PLLL circuit 6 has a second cutoff frequency higher than the frequency of the horizontal synchronization signal, tracks a signal of a frequency lower than the related second cutoff frequency, performs the PLL processing on the serial signal S2 input via the transmission cable 4, and generates a transmission clock signal S6.

Abstract: A holographic stereogram printing system to print holographic stereograms with good efficiency and no drop in the operating rate of the imaging system and holographic printer. An imaging system control section of an imaging system comprises an operating section that along with controlling the operation of the camera according to the desired selection of the user such as imaging method, image size selection or image layout, also creates an information management file for the base image based on the control information. A holographic stereogram printer prints out a holographic stereogram according to the information management file provided along a transmission path.

Abstract: A paint for forming a heat absorbing film which exhibits a good binding property for binding with a conductive reflecting film, contains a black pigment, and a compound represented by Si(OR1)nR2m, where n+m=4, n=1 to 4, m=0 to 3, each of R1 and R2 is one of an alkyl group, an alkenyl group and an aryl group, or a hydrolyzate of the compound. Also, the present invention relates to a heat absorbing film formed out of this heat absorbing film paint and a color CRT provided with this heat absorbing film.

Abstract: In a tape cassette 10 in which a mouth portion 21 opened in forward and up-and-down directions is provided at the front portion of a cassette shell 20 accommodating therein tape reels 40 and 50 having a magnetic tape 30 wound therearound, a part of the magnetic tape is located so as to traverse the front end of the mouth portion, and a front lid 60 for covering the front side of the magnetic tape is provided, a slider 80 is provided so as to be freely movable forwardly and downwardly, each side surface portion of the slider along the side surface of the front lid has a lid-support portion 83 at the front-end portion thereof and a main-surface portion 82 located so as to be farther outward than the lid-support portion, the front lid has a front-surface portion 61 covering the front surface of the tape-shaped recording medium, and side-surface portions 62 projecting backwardly from both the ends of said front surface portion, the side surface portions being freely-rotatably supported to the lid-support portion

Abstract: A circuit for providing a sufficiently accurate clock signal for reconstruction of an image from a video signal can function with or without receiving an incoming video signal containing clock data. In this way, a clock signal for supporting an on-screen display can be created in the absence of an incoming video signal. Control data used to control a voltage controlled oscillator generating a clock signal is recorded when the control logic of the oscillator is locked to the timing data in an incoming video signal. In the absence of an incoming video signal, the recorded control data is retrieved and resubmitted to the control logic so that the oscillator can be made to output an appropriate clock signal even in the absence of an input video signal.

Abstract: There is provided a photo-curable, electrically conductive composition which is capable of forming a lower layer (black layer) electrode circuit satisfying both the sufficient conductivity and blackness after calcination in the formation of an electrode on a front substrate of a plasma display panel (PDP). The composition comprises, in the first fundamental mode thereof, (A) electrically conductive black fine particles having a specific surface area of more than 20 m2/g,(B) anorganic binder, (C) a photopolymerizable monomer, and (D) a photopolymerization initiator, and in the second mode further comprises (E) inorganic fine particles besides the above components.

Abstract: There is a method and apparatus for plating in which electroless copper plating is performed in a contact hole and an interconnect trench on a minute scale of a semiconductor integrated circuit device, and a plating structure. Organic material originated from an organic gas carried over from the preceding step is removed from the inner surface of a blind hole, thereafter the surface of the barrier layer is subjected to predetermined pretreatments comprising a hydroxylation treatment, a coupling treatment, a Pd colloidal solution treatment and the like, and following the pretreatments, electroless plating with copper is effected desirably under influence of ultrasonic waves. Hence, a uniform, good quality plating layer is formed inside and outside the hole and a CMP processing following the plating is performed with ease.

Abstract: A device for disposing excrement is provided which can feed air to an interior of a diaper cup main body 2. The diaper cup main body 2 forms a space A as a passage for feeding the air from an air feed hose to air blow ports 2e, 2f, 2g of the diaper cup main body. The space A is formed by joining together an upper cup 2a and a lower cup 2b. The upper cup 2a is adapted to be placed on a pelvic region of a human body and has the air blow ports 2e, 2f, 2g. The lower cup 2b has a connecting cylinder portion 2i to be connected to a wash-water feed hose 17, a connecting cylinder portion 2h to be connected to an excrement suction hose 16, and a connecting cylindrical portion 2j to be connected to an air feed hose 18.

Abstract: A disk storage apparatus has a magnetic head (8) that is completely retracted outside of a disk cartridge, except upon a reading/writing operation. The magnetic head (8) is inserted into the disk cartridge (16) only upon the reading/writing operation. The disk storage apparatus can completely retract a rotation actuator to an outside of a disk cartridge. The disk storage apparatus can be reliably and stably operated and has a reduced overall thickness.

Abstract: A mounting method for mounting an electrode assembly on a plasma etching apparatus includes inserting alignment pins in apertures of the plasma etching apparatus. Apertures of the electrode assembly are aligned relative to the alignment pins. The electrode assembly is then mounted on the plasma etching apparatus, passing the alignment pins through the apertures of the electrode assembly. Each alignment pin is then replaced with a locking arrangement.

Abstract: An electroforming apparatus comprising a container unit for storing the plating solution, a cathode part placed in the container unit and for holding an object to-be-plated and an anode part placed in the container unit face-to-face with the cathode part, wherein a current-conductive opening of the anode part is formed to have an area larger than that of a current-conductive opening of the cathode part.

Abstract: An optical element having a complex structure of diffraction grating, an inclined surface, a difference in level and the like and of good optical characteristics, its manufacturing method, and an optical element manufacturing metal die capable of injection molding the optical element are disclosed. By using an optical element manufacturing metal die constituted to have nestings which have mirror surface forming portions two adjoining pairs of mirror surfaces of the optical element are molded by two adjoining pairs of mirror surface forming portions which are formed on the same nesting. The optical element manufacturing metal die is constituted to include the nesting having a diffraction grating forming portion in which a predetermined concave-convex pattern for molding the diffraction grating of the optical element is formed on one surface of a substrate.