Abstract: In an electronic musical instrument with an ANY KEY mode which regards keys as a single one-key, an ON event in a non-operation state is valid, and a one-key play operation is advanced by one tone.

Abstract: A thin film transistor panel has a substrate on which a plurality of electrode lines are aligned in a matrix form, thin film transistors which are formed on crossing portions of the plurality of the electrode lines, a diffusible insulating film for covering said thin film transistors, and metal-diffused layers and are connected to source electrodes. The metal-diffused layers are formed by diffusing a metal into predetermined areas of said insulating film. If the metal-diffused layers are used as the pixel electrodes, high density display can be obtained due to the fine pixel electrodes.

Abstract: A hand-held image reading apparatus reads image data corresponding to image information from a surface and prints the image data on a printing medium. The apparatus reads the image data by moving over the surface. Further, the apparatus stores the read image data in an internal memory, extracts the image data existing in the center of the image data stored in the memory and prints only the extracted image data on the printing medium.

Abstract: A thin-film memory element made by the technique of forming thin film and functioning as a thin-film transistor. The memory element has two gate-insulating films, and two gate electrodes formed on the gate-insulating films, respectively. The first gate-insulating film can accumulate electrical charge, whereas the second gate-insulating film cannot. The gate electrode on the first gate-insulating film is used as write/erase electrode, and the gate electrode on the second gate-insulating film is used as read electrode. Since the memory element has two electrodes, one for writing or erasing data, and the other for reading data, its threshold voltage remains unchanged. Hence, data can be read from the thin-film memory element for a virtually indefinitely long period of time.

Abstract: A handy copier comprising a case, an image sensor located in the case, a memory also located in the case, and a printer incorporated in the case. As the case is moved on an original, the image sensor reads the image data formed on the original, and the image data is stored into the memory. As the case is moved on a printing medium, the printer prints the image data stored in the memory, on the printing medium. The memory address of the memory, which is being accessed when the case is stopped for a predetermined period during the data-reading operation, is stored in an address memory incorporated in the case. This address separate one image date item from the next. Hence, image data items continuously read from the original are read from the memory, one by one, and are printed on the printing medium, one by one. Also, even if the case is stopped for the predetermined period, the printer is prepared to print the next image data item.

Abstract: A method of forming an image without cleaning on the basis of repeated electrophotographic process cycles. Each process cycle includes charging a surface of a photosensitive drum to a predetermined polarity, and irradiating the charged surface of the photosensitive drum with light which carries image information, thereby forming a latent image corresponding to the image information. The latent image is visualized by using a dry developer material, and the visualized image is transferred from the surface of the photosensitive drum onto a transfer medium. The developer material contains a transfer accelerator (hydrophobic silica or light-transmitting fine powder) for improving efficiency for transfer of the visualized image onto the transfer medium.

Abstract: This invention relates to a stringed musical instrument such as an electronic guitar, a guitar synthesizer, an electronic violin and an acoustic guitar. A fret structure member is formed by integrally forming a plurality of frets. The fret structure member is molding in a neck portion or fingerboard so as to project a head portion of each of said frets from a fingerboard surface of said neck portion or said fingerboard molded by a synthetic resin. Each base end portion of said plurality of frets is integrally molding in said neck portion or said fingerboard molded by said synthetic resin.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes an apparatus body having a casing. An operation panel section is arranged at one side of the casing of the apparatus body. An opening is used to feed sheets of paper from outside into the apparatus body through it or to discharge them outside from the apparatus body through it. A tray has one face and the other face and it is located adjacent to the opening, serving to hold sheets of paper discharged through the opening or to guide them into the apparatus body through the opening. According to this image forming apparatus, the tray can be moved to a position where the one face opposes the surface of the operation panel section of the casing when it is not used, and has an operation section through which the operation panel section of the casing can be operated from the other face when the tray is at that position.

Abstract: An electronic musical instrument includes a musical tone generation instructor for detecting a breath operation state at a mouthpiece portion arranged on an instrument main body and instructing generation of a musical tone, a lip detection part for detecting a biting strength at said mouthpiece portion, a control information output part for outputting a plurality of parameter control information for variably controlling contents of at least one parameter of a musical tone to be generated so as to be varied in accordance with the biting strength detected by the lip detection part on the basis of instruction by the musical tone generation instructing part, a designation part for designating an arbitrary one of the plurality of parameter control information to be output from the control information output part, and a control part for, when the biting strength at the mouthpiece portion is detected by the lip detection part under a condition that the one parameter control information is designated by the designati

Abstract: A breath detection signal from a breath sensor section is converted to a digital breath detection signal, and when the value of the detection signal exceeds a preset value, a tone is generated. After the tone generation, a tone parameter of the tone being generated is controlled according to the value of said digital breath detection signal. When a predetermined period of time is elapsed from an instant when the digital breath detection signal exceeds a preset signal, initial breath data is generated in correspondence to the breath detection signal or preset value at that instant. The tone parameter of the tone at the time of the tone generation is controlled according to initial breath data. After the generation of the tone, the tone parameter of the tone being sounded is controlled according to after-breath data corresponding to the breath detection signal.

Abstract: Disclosed is a musical tone signal generating apparatus for an electronic musical instrument. When waveforms are switched to change a tone color in correspondence with a change in pitch, waveforms are switched not simultaneously with a change in pitch but when waveform data corresponding to a loop end address is read out, and a peak value of the waveform falls within a predetermined range or a zero-crossing point is detected, thereby smoothly switching waveforms. The pitch is also changed at the above-mentioned timing to prevent generation of an unnecessary tone color upon switching. Furthermore, waveforms are switched by cross-fade control to more smoothly switch output waveforms.

Abstract: A memory circuit receives (n.times.n) data dots of an image data and stores a plurality of data dots selected from the image of data in a single address. Before the plurality of data dots are stored in the single memory, they are shifted in a transverse row direction by one bit with regard to each of the rows and are shifted in a vertical column direction by one bit with regard to each of the columns. The image data is rotated in a step-like manner by 90.degree. clockwise or anticlockwise. The image data is rotationally shifted during write/read times, and the address in which the data dots are stored is decoded in units of data dots.

Abstract: A detecting device for detecting the positions where strings are operated, and an electronic musical instrument using the detecting device, such as an electronic stringed instrument of an electronic keyboard instrument. Wherein each of frets, with which conductive strings are brought into contact, is formed of a two-layer structure of a conductive member and a resistance member provided on the conductive member. Voltage pulses are sequentially applied to either the conductive strings or the conductive members of the frets and a voltage pulse is detected from a conductive member or a string, thus detecting a position in which a string is stopped against the fret.