Abstract: A musical sound editing apparatus is provided having a general performance mode for performing a general performance of a musical sound, and a pattern create mode for creating a pattern of accompaniment data. When the mode is changed from the general performance mode to the pattern create mode, a tone of a musical sound produced is automatically changed from a tone in the general performance mode to a tone in the specified channel. When a new tone is specified in the pattern create mode, a tone allocated to a channel for a keyboard in a musical sound generator is changed to the new specified tone, and a tone allocated to the specified current channel is also changed to the new tone.

Abstract: The subject of the present invention is to cause an agent to smoothly respond to an user's request to utilize an agent function of accessing software more effectively than in the prior art. An agent computer block 16 selects an appropriate one of a plurality of agents corresponding to an accessing user on the basis of an agent table where the plurality of agents are recorded from voice data provided by an input/output interface computer block 15, reads out from a storage device 17 agent set information on the selected agent, transfers this set information to the input/output interface computer block 15, displays the selected agent's peculiar figure (mainly, face) on a display device 13 in accordance with the agent set information, and outputs from a voice output device 11 a message in the agent's peculiar voice.

Abstract: A portable telephone set is provided with a remote control button for remotely controlling the base station telephone set by operating the button. If the portable telephone set is out of the service area of the base station set when the remote control button is operated, the portable telephone set calls the base station set by using the telephone numbers of the base station set stored in the RAM of the portable telephone set to connect it to the base station set by way of a line and thereafter transmits a remote control signal for the operated remote control button to the base station set. If the portable telephone set receives control information from a radio base station as it enters the service area of the radio base station from outside the service area, the speaker of the portable telephone set sounds to notify the user of the situation.

Abstract: A printing tape cassette contains a printing medium tape wound around a reel and held so that its coloring layers appear outside. The coloring layers are colored in different colors at corresponding temperatures and fixed by fixing rays of different wavelengths. The cassette is a substantially square box made of a ray cutting material. The cassette is set on a printer and has a slit-like port through which the printing tape is fed out, a window which cuts the fixing rays and through which window the printing tape accommodated in the cassette is confirmable visually. The printer comprises a reel drive shaft, a platen roller, a guide plate, a tape sensor, a thermal head, a ray cutting shutter, a fixing ray irradiator and a cutter.

Abstract: When the communication control section of a provider (server) receives data from a mobile terminal through a PHS base station and a communication line, the CPU of the provider (server) determines the sender of the received data. The CPU classifies the received data by sender and stores the classified data in a storage unit. The destinations to which the stored data can be sent are also stored as pre-registered transmission destinations in the storage unit. Upon reception of a data transmission request from the mobile terminal or a PC, the CPU determines whether the requester which has sent the data transmission request is a pre-registered transmission destination. When the requester is a pre-registered transmission destination, the CPU causes the communication control section send the data stored in the storage unit to the requester.

Abstract: A face image data processing device which processes data on a face image to create the face image suitable for an age and presumes the age of the created face image on the basis of same. In response to designation of data on an age by an age designating unit, respective part images corresponding to the designated age data are read from a storage. A face image composed of a combination of the read part images and suitable for the designated age data is created, and displayed or printed. The age of the created face image is presumed from the created face image by an age presumption section. The presumed age is displayed/printed along with the associated face image.

Abstract: An illumination panel comprises a light source, a photoconductor for guiding light from the light source, and an optical film for emitting light emitted from the photoconductor ahead of an observer. The photoconductor comprises a stepwise face having an incident end face onto which the light from the light source is projected, step faces, and step differentiating faces for emitting the light guided from the light source and connecting the step faces, and reflective films formed on the step faces. The optical film is arranged at the front side of the photoconductor, and has projected incident portions which are opposite to the step differentiating faces in a light emitting direction. The optical film emits the light emitted from the step differentiating faces ahead, and causes the light that is projected from the front to be reflected ahead on reflective faces on the step faces.

Abstract: A succession of music note data are provided. Those music note data which partially overlap in duration are corrected so that they completely overlap in duration. The corrected music note data are used for music navigation. As a result, the apparatus can properly guide a player to play chords or operate a plurality of keys at the same time.

Abstract: A wristwatch receives time-of-day information transmitted in the form of an infrared signal and then calculates the difference between the received time-of-day information and its time data. A decision is made as to whether the difference is not less than or less than a predetermined value. If the difference is less than the predetermined value, the accuracy of the received data and the accuracy set in the wristwatch are determined by referring to the types of time-measuring references. When the received data is higher accurate, the current time data stored by the first storage area is corrected by the received time data.

Abstract: In an object-image displaying apparatus, a plurality of part designating switches disposed at positions corresponding respectively to locations of parts in an object image to be composed are operated to read out a part pattern of the relevant part from a part-pattern memory, which previously stores a plurality of part patterns of each of the parts. The read out part patterns are combined into an object image, and the combined object image is displayed on a display device and is printed by a printer. Further, a plurality of part designating switches provided respectively in correspondence to a plurality of part images displayed on the display device are operated to read out a part pattern of the relevant part from among plural sorts of part patterns stored in a memory. The read out part patterns are combined into an object image, and the object image is displayed on the display device and is printed by the printer.

Abstract: A printer controller 41 sets compensation values, representing the positional deviations of LED array chips 31, in a delay circuit section 68 via shift register 61 and a latch circuit 63. The shift register 69 sequentially acquires bit map data from the printer controller 41, and supplies the acquired bit map data to an AND gate 66 through the latch circuit 62. Upon receiving a strobe signal from the printer controller 41, the delay circuit section 68 supplies the received strobe signal to the AND gate 66 after a delay time corresponding to a preset compensation value has lapsed. The AND gate 66 generates drive signals each being the logical product of the input bit map data and the strobe signal, and supplies them to the LED array chips 31 through a buffer 67. The LED array chips 31 make LEDs emit light at the timings corresponding to the positional deviations so that images are formed without a positional deviation.

Abstract: Three ink storage chambers stored into a main body case of an ink cartridge is isolated from four surfaces of this main case body by way of a partition and depressing partition portions projected from this portion. Also, these ink storage chambers are isolated from a bottom portion of the main body case by a stepped portion of a lower cylindrical portion, and is arranged by forming space between a lid and the own ink chambers. Only refilling hole portions of an upper cylindrical portion are communicated with an external portion via holes of the lid. A label on which a trademark “ABC” is printed is attached onto the upper portions of the three refilling hole portions. A label reading apparatus is provided on the side of an ink-jet printer, and a printing operation by any ink cartridge other than the genuine-labeled in cartridge is not carried out. As a genuine ink refilling member, at least ink bottles and a label are employed as a set of such a genuine ink refilling member.

Abstract: A document image processor reads data on the image of an original document and automatically sets a format for the document in a document processor such as a word processor or personal computer. First, an image scanner reads a document as image data. A character recognizer recognizes and encodes a character from the read image data, and a document processor stores the encoded document data into a document memory. When the character recognizer encodes the image data, it analyzes the structure of the document. The document processor produces format information on the basis of the result of the analysis, and sets the produced format information in the document format memory in correspondence to document data in the document memory. Thus, the document image processor reads a document image from the document, encodes the image, and sets a format for a document conforming exactly to the document image in correspondence to the encoded document data.

Abstract: A translucent or transparent panel member which has a protrusion on the upper surface thereof is disposed on the upper surface of a plate-like luminescent member, to form a luminescent device. The luminescent device is manufactured by forming a protrusion on the upper surface of the panel member, providing a masking layer on the peripheral side surface and the upper surface, of the protrusion, forming a printed layer on the upper surface of the panel member, forming a printed layer on the upper surface of the protrusion after removing the masking layer from the protrusions, and arranging the panel member on the upper surface of the plate-like luminescent member. Such a plate-like luminescent device is arranged in the timepiece case to illuminate the analog hand mechanism. Such a plate-like luminescent device is also arranged in an electronic apparatus case to illuminate a liquid crystal display device of the electronic apparatus.

Abstract: An antiferroelectric liquid crystal display device includes: an active matrix type LC cell and an antiferroelectric liquid crystal sealed in the cell. Liquid crystal molecules aligned to one of a first aligning direction and a second aligning direction are aligned in the other aligning direction in accordance with an applied voltage, thus forming a plurality of regions of different alignment states in a range shorter than a wavelength of light in a visible light band, and directions of said directors are changed in accordance with a ratio of regions in a first alignment state to regions in a second alignment state. The liquid crystal molecules may behave along a predetermined cone by a phase transition precursor in accordance with an applied voltage. The liquid crystal molecules may behave so as to be inclined in a direction perpendicular to an electric field, in accordance with an applied voltage.

Abstract: An electrically controlled birifringence type liquid crystal display panel has a pictograph (picto) display area and character display areas. Character codes are stored in a DDRAM and color attribute data indicating the display colors of characters are stored in a CCRAM, both in one-to-one association with the character display areas. Character patterns for character codes stored in the DDRAM are read from a character generator, and, simultaneously color attribute data in the CCRAM is read out. A segment driver performs PWM (Pulse Width Modulation) control on voltages to be applied to electrodes of the liquid crystal display panel based on the character patten and the color attribute data, for displaying the characters in arbitrary colors. Color attribute data which specifies the display color of each of pixels constituting a pictograph is set in a picto RAM.

Abstract: In a system having a plurality of apparatuses connected via a communication line, one apparatus serving as a master unit performs processing on data stored in the other apparatus or apparatuses. The apparatus serving as a master unit generates a work designation message containing a program statement and transmits it to the other apparatuses. The apparatus, receiving the message, performs data processing based on the message and transfers the message to another apparatus in a predetermined order. All the apparatuses connected to the communication line perform processing based on a received message and the processing is completed when the message is returned back to the master unit.

Abstract: The action of a user who is carrying a movable terminal is analyzed in a host terminal. The portable terminal detects the time and position where the portable terminal is present at a predetermined time interval and supplies the pieces of information to the host terminal. The host terminal analyzes the time-serially detected information to recognize the moving locus and the moving speed of the user who is carrying the movable terminal. The host terminal has position information of railway lines and roads as line patterns. By matching processing between the moving locus and the line patterns, the transport facility used by the user for movement is estimated. This invention is to provide a system capable of analyzing/recording a daily action without performing any cumbersome operation.

Abstract: A tape cassette which contains a roll of a magnetically affixable printing tape formed around a holding reel and a roll of an ink ribbon formed around a holding reel and having a non-magnetic ink layer formed on the ribbon is set in a cassette accommodating section of a tape printer. The printing tape and the ink ribbon are fed out from their holding reels within the cassette across a cut in the tape cassette and through between a thermal head and a platen roller while being pressed by those elements to thereby perform printing. The printing tape comprises a printing layer and a magnetic layer pasted to the printing layer. S and N poles which extend lengthwise of the tape are alternately arranged widthwise on the magnetic layer. Thus, two overlapping poles of any two adjacent turns of the tape have the same polarity at any peripheral position.

Abstract: A phototransistor having a non-linear light vs. conductivity characteristics and an organic electroluminescent layer are sandwiched by a pair of electrodes, a predetermined voltage is applied to the pair of electrodes, and address light is irradiated on a phototransistor to let a current flow in the phototransistor, thus causing the electroluminescent layer to emit light. It is therefore possible to drive the device to present crosstalk-free gradation display with a high contrast ratio.