Abstract: In a character string outputting apparatus, a character frame is produced by substituting a numeral sequence indicative of an arranging position of each character contained in a desirable character string for a character string configuration function. In this character frame, the respective characters for constituting the desirable character string are allocated within an arbitrary designated character string configuration region. Thus, the fonts for constituting the desirable character string are arranged within the produced character frame, and also the enlarging rate of the respective characters is variable by moving the origins of the fonts about these characters when these fonts are arranged. This character string outputting apparatus may be utilized as such a character string outputting apparatus capable of outputting a proportional spacing font.

Abstract: An object image display device which changes and displays the image of an object such as an animal or a building. A display displays an object image including a combination of patterns of the parts of the object. The pattern of at least part of the object image displayed on the display is successively changed to a different part pattern of the same at least part in response to the keying operation of keys. Thus, the display displays the object image such that the at least part of the object image successively moves. The user is able to set a shape to which the object image is changed and the timing of changing the object image. Each time the object image is changed, a voice corresponding to the aspect of change of the object image is output sequentially to the outside. Externally inputting a voice into the device changes at least a part of the object image displayed at present in accordance with the contents of the input voice.

Abstract: An electrically connecting structure including a first electronic part having a first connecting terminal, a second electronic part having a second connecting terminal which is arranged to face the first connecting terminal of the first electronic part, and an anisotropic conductive adhesive arranged between the first connecting terminal and the second connecting terminal. The anisotropic conductive adhesive includes an insulating adhesive, a plurality of first conductive particles which are covered with an insulating layer, and a plurality of second conductive particles which are not covered with any material. The first conductive particles and the second conductive particles have substantially the same size.

Abstract: Data on various conversation sentences are sent/received by radio between radio communication devices remote from one another. Many conversation sentence data items and different code data items are beforehand stored in a corresponding relationship in a conversation sentence data storage ROM. When one of the conversation sentence data items is selected by operation of a select switch, a corresponding code data item is sent to a receiving end, which is provided with a ROM having the same contents of storage as the ROM. A conversation sentence is read from the ROM in accordance with the received code data and displayed on a display.

Abstract: A pair of polarizing plates are disposed on two sides of an STN type liquid crystal cell constituted by a liquid crystal twist-aligned at a twist angle of 180.degree. to 270.degree.. A retardation plate is disposed between one of the polarizing plates and the liquid crystal cell in such a manner that the optical axis of the retardation plate crosses the transmission axis of the adjacent polarizing plate at 35.degree. to 55.degree.. The pair of polarizing plates are arranged such that their transmission axes are parallel to each other. The liquid crystal cell is arranged such that the optical axis of the retardation plate crosses the aligning direction of the liquid crystal molecules on the substrate side adjacent to the retardation plate at a predetermined angle. A driving circuit is connected to the liquid crystal cell.

Abstract: In a traveling state calculating device, a sensing and sending unit senses the number of rotations of a wheel and sends by radio a signal indicative of the sensed number of rotations of the wheel to a calculating and displaying unit to thereby calculate and display the traveling speed and the covered distance. When the traveling state cannot be detected accurately due to interference of radio signals from other devices, the present traveling state calculating device senses the interference, and changes the frequency of the radio signal being used to another frequency to prevent continuation of the interference so as to calculate the traveling state accurately.

Abstract: An object image creation device which reads related data items such as bar codes or magnetically recorded data items related to an object image printed or recorded on a card or a volume and creates an object image based on the read related data items. The created object image is correctable to be output in accordance with the user's intention. A battle game or a congeniality divination game is playable between a plurality of object images based on the read related data items.

Abstract: A pair of transparent substrates are arranged to oppose each other and bonded to each other through a seal member. A polymer dispersed liquid crystal layer and spacers are provided between the pair of transparent substrates. A plurality of pixel electrodes respectively provided with TFTs are disposed in a matrix form on the counter surface of one substrate opposing the other substrate, and the spacers for regulating the gap between the substrates are fixed, through resin films, to remaining regions of the counter surface of one substrate obtained by excluding pixel regions corresponding to the pixel electrodes from the region inside the seal member. A black mask is formed on the remaining regions of the counter surface of the other transparent substrate, and a flat counter electrode opposing the plurality of pixel electrodes is formed on the black mask.

Abstract: A photosensor formed on an insulating substrate has a transparent top gate electrode arranged on the upper side of a semiconductor layer for photoelectric conversion and a bottom gate electrode arranged on the lower side of the semiconductor layer. If light is applied from the top gate electrode side in a state in which a bottom gate voltage V.sub.BG =+20 V is applied to the bottom gate electrode and a top gate voltage V.sub.TG =-20 V is applied to the top gate electrode, electron-hole pairs are generated in the semiconductor layer and only the holes are held in the semiconductor layer by the effect of the top gate voltage V.sub.TG =-20 V. Therefore, an n-channel is formed in the semiconductor layer and a drain current I.sub.DS flows. It was confirmed that the drain current I.sub.DS will not flow even if illumination light is applied when the bottom gate voltage V.sub.BG is set at 0 V. Therefore, the selection or non-selection state of the photosensor can be controlled by the bottom gate voltage V.sub.TG.

Abstract: When an incoming call is received via a telephone line in an automatic answering/recording mode, a response message stored in a recording memory is read out by a burst signal processing section at the timing of expansion processing for restoration of reception speech data, and a message sent from a caller is written in the recording memory at the timing of compression processing for generation of transmission speech data, thereby providing a simple digital radio telephone apparatus capable of performing a simultaneous answering/recording operation.

Abstract: A main CPU and a sub CPU take share of executing a tone generating process to generate multiple tone signals on a real-time basis without using an exclusive tone generator. The main CPU and sub CPU are formed on a one-chip LSI, thus facilitating realization of a compact electronic musical instrument. According to another structure, the main CPU executes tone generation while the sub CPU performs an effect process, thereby permitting a one-chip LSI to generate an effect-added musical tone.

Abstract: In an electronic appliance equipped with an electronic wristwatch equipped with a sensor, a trend in various variations such as temperatures, altitude and waterdepths can be visually and intuitively recognized. In the electronic appliance, measurement data constructed of plural digits are acquired in response to output signals from the sensor. The upper digit data among the plural digits of measurement data are digitally displayed by way of an electronic/optical digital display unit, e.g., an LCD display, whereas the lower digit data among the plural digits of measurement data except for the plural digits are displayed by way of either a pointer type display unit, or an electronic/optical analog display unit, e.g., a meter.

Abstract: When receiving a conversion instruction from a key input section, a CPU reads character data stored in a message memory to a conversion buffer, converts the same into numeric data base on a conversion table, causes a tone signal generator to convert the same into a DTMF signal and outputs the signal to a speaker. When an input instruction of a registration designation and message number is received from the key input section, the CPU forms transmission data for sequentially storing the input information and the numeric data converted from character data in this order, causes to convert the same into the DTMF signal and outputs the signals. At the time of reception of the transmission data, the CPU identifies the content of the data, restores the numeric data into the character data based on an inverse conversion table, retrieves a message number from a TEL bank memory and registers a message into a memory area assigned to the number.

Abstract: A pair of polarizing plates are disposed on two sides of a TN-type liquid crystal cell constituted by a liquid crystal twist-aligned at a twist angle of 80.degree. to 120.degree.. A retardation plate is disposed between one of the polarizing plates and the liquid crystal cell in such a manner that the optical axis of the retardation plate crosses the transmission axis of the adjacent polarizing plate at 45.degree.. The pair of polarizing plates are arranged such that their transmission axes are parallel to each other. The liquid crystal cell is arranged such that the optical axis of the retardation plate crosses the aligning direction of the liquid crystal molecules on the substrate side adjacent to the retardation plate at 45.degree.. A liquid crystal driving circuit is connected to the liquid crystal. This circuit serves to change the voltage applied to the liquid crystal to change the polarized state of light transmitted through the liquid crystal so as to change the color of emerging light.

Abstract: A recording apparatus has an array of recording elements arranged in a main scanning direction and having a predetermined dot pattern, and forms a dot image on a recording medium located opposite to the recording elements. Reception circuit receives image data of a predetermined dot density. A plurality of line buffers store one dot line of data of interest as a printing target among the image data and aligned in the main scanning direction, and plural dot lines of data preceding and following the one dot line with respect to a sub-scanning direction. A compensation data generating circuit converts the one dot line of data of interest as the printing target into N lines of compensation data, divided by N with respect to the sub-scanning direction, based on the plural dot lines of data preceding and following the one dot line. A control circuit controls the time for activating the recording elements based on the compensation data.

Abstract: An electronic competing game apparatus utilizes article image data representative of human, animal, and housings to obtain a competing result of this game. In the electronic competing game apparatus, the respective portions of the article is designated by operating a designation unit, and a plurality of article images are displayed on a display unit. A competing result between the respective article images displayed on the display unit is judged by a judging unit based upon both point data corresponding to the partial images for constituting the respective article images, and point data corresponding to numeral data produced in an irregular sequence. When the designation unit is operated while the respective article images are attacking with each other, the irregularly set point data is added to the point data set to the respective article images. The competing results between the respective article images are determined based on the added point data.

Abstract: A buffer serves as a sub-memory with respect to a hard disk and performs a data recording/reproducing operation. With this arrangement, even if the access rate of data in the hard disk is not so high, data transfer between the hard disk and an audio I/O, a MIDI I/O, and image I/O can be performed, and audio, MIDI, and video data can be simultaneously and selectively recorded/reproduced.

Abstract: A portable screen assembly for use with a projector has a housing made up of a lower casing and an upper casing pivotally mounted on the lower casing to open or close the lower casing. The housing accommodates a roll rotatably mounted on the lower casing, a screen wound around the roll, a hanger bar to which one side of the screen is connected, and two extension robe assemblies having respective first ends pivotally mounted on the lower casing for movement between folded-down positions and erected positions generally perpendicular to each other. The hanger bar extends parallel to the roll in a spaced relationship when accommodated within the housing, while the two extension robe assemblies extend, when in the folded-down positions, in line with each other in a direction parallel to the roll and in a spaced relationship thereto. A bar clip is mounted on a second end of each of the extension robe assemblies.