Abstract: A video processing apparatus retrieves highlight data from video data of DVD video standards and analyzes its highlight data and acquires a display position of a highlight on a display screen. Further, the video processing apparatus analyzes predetermined on screen display data and acquires a display position of on screen display on the display screen. Then, the video processing apparatus displays the on screen display on the display screen so as not to overlap with menu items of a main menu screen on which the highlight is overlaid by controlling the display position of the on screen display so as to differ from the display position of the highlight.

Abstract: A structure for leading out a power code extended from a wiring board on which electronic components of an electronic apparatus are mounted, the structure includes: a first housing, accommodating the wiring board, and comprised of resin; a second housing, accommodating the first housing, and formed with an opening communicating an external space of the electronic apparatus; a regulating member, hanging up the power cord above the wiring board and guiding the power cord to the opening, and being monolithic with the first cover.

Abstract: A drive stoppage command unit commands a drive unit to stop driving a pickup head, and an objective lens of a pickup head, when it has decided that the power supply voltage of operating power which is being supplied by a first power supply unit to a servo control unit is less than or equal to a first voltage. Furthermore, the drive stoppage command unit also commands the drive unit to stop driving the pickup head and the objective lens, if stoppage of the driving of the pickup head and of the objective lens has been decided upon by a logic control unit.

Abstract: A disc apparatus which enables an optical pickup to move swiftly to a target track is provided. A disc apparatus (1) includes an optical pickup (4) which irradiates an optical disc (2) with a laser light, a motor (6) which moves the optical pickup (4) to a target track in a radial direction of the optical disc (2), and a controller (7) which controls the motor (6). The controller 7 includes a calculating means (7a) which calculates a voltage level applied to the motor (6) and a recording unit (7b) which records a reference voltage level, a corrected number of tracks, and a coefficient. The calculating means (7a) calculates a voltage level based on the number of tracks between a track which the optical pickup is positioned over and the target track, the reference voltage level, the corrected number of tracks, and the coefficient.

Abstract: A DVD recorder connected to a DV camera via an IEEE 1394 serial bus comprises: an image selector for selecting a moving image, as a candidate image for an opening/ending screen, from moving images contained in stream data received from the camera; a moving image extractor for extracting the selected moving image from the moving images; a storage unit for temporarily storing the extracted moving image; an image converter for converting the stored moving image into a still image; a title screen selector for selecting, from the still images, a still image to be an opening/ending screen for a file of stream data recorded in the recorder; and a data associating unit for associating the selected still image with the file of stream data. This recorder can be more convenient to use, and can reduce the required recording area of a DVD for creating the opening/ending screen.

Abstract: There is provided a disk loading apparatus capable of improving the stability in the centering operation at low cost only by changing the shape of the guide groove without adding extra parts or complicated structures. The disk loading apparatus includes a feed roller 2, a disk arm 4 adapted to move back and forth between an initial position where a disk 100 that is drawn by the feed roller 2 is received and a retracted position that corresponds to a chucking position for the disk, and a guide groove 5. The feed roller 2 has a function of centering the disk 100. The guide groove 5 includes slant wall surfaces 57 with the groove width therebetween decreasing progressively in the retracting direction of the disk arm 4, and receiving surfaces 58 for limiting the tilt angle of the disk arm 4.

Abstract: An optical disk device includes an optical pickup, a measurement unit and a control unit. The optical pickup is configured to emit laser light to a disk to record data. The measurement unit is operatively coupled to the optical pickup to measure a peak value of a RF signal outputted from the optical pickup, a fluctuation amplitude of the peak value of the RF signal and an amplitude of the focus drive signal of the optical pickup. The control unit is operatively coupled to the measurement unit to correct the peak value of the RF signal measured during a second recording based on the fluctuation amplitude of the peak value of the RF signal and the amplitude of the focus drive signal measured during a first recording prior to the second recording.

Abstract: A tray door attachment structure for a disk device has a tray door and a torsion coil spring. The tray door is pivotably attached to a front panel of the disk device. The tray door includes a door body, a door arm on which a spring receiving portion and a spring supporting portion located adjacent to the spring receiving portion are formed and a rotational axle formed on the door arm and attached to the front panel. The torsion coil spring biases the tray door in a closing direction. The torsion spring includes a coil attached to the rotational axle, a first arm abutting the front panel and a second arm abutting the spring receiving portion. The second arm has a distal end portion. The distal end portion is supported by the tray door and is latched by the spring supporting portion.

Abstract: A microphone unit comprises a microphone, leg members and a base. The microphone comprises a diaphragm for detecting sound and a housing for containing the diaphragm. The leg members project outwardly from a rear wall of the housing, and are provided near a second through-hole which connects a second inner space to outer space. The base is connected to the leg members to form a gap between the housing and the base. When the microphone unit thus formed in a simple structure and reduced thickness is mounted in a product, the gap allows the outer space to be connected to the second inner space through the second through-hole, making it possible to efficiently guide sound to the second inner space and obtain good differential characteristics.

Abstract: In a heat radiation mechanism of an electronic apparatus, an opening allowing flow of air between a first duct side and a second duct side is formed on a portion mounted with a heating device of a circuit board in an air flow route constituted by a first duct and a second duct, and heat generated from the heating device is radiated from a first vent hole or a second vent hole through the air flow route.

Abstract: An electronic device includes a power supply circuit, a load circuit, a main device, a memory, and a holding circuit. The power supply circuit has a controlled output terminal that selectively supplies a second power supply voltage according to a power supply output control signal. The controlled output terminal supplies the second power supply voltage in response to the power supply output control signal being at a first level. The main device has a built-in power supply controlling microprocessor. The memory stores a program that is processed by the power supply controlling microprocessor. The holding circuit temporarily holds the power supply output control signal at the first level when the commercial power supply is connected to the power supply circuit such that the power supply circuit supplies the second power supply voltage from the controlled output terminal until the power supply controlling microprocessor loads the program from the memory and starts up.

Abstract: An optical pickup apparatus includes a plurality of laser light sources, a single objective lens, and a beam shaping mirror. The beam shaping mirror causes each of the laser beams to be incident on a transmission surface, reflects the beam from a reflection surface being unparallel to the transmission surface and causes the beam to emerge from the transmission surface, thereby to convert a light intensity distribution of the beam of each of the wavelengths from an elliptic shape into a circular shape. The beam shaping mirror is made of a liquid crystal, which forms the transmission surface and the reflection surface, and is electrically driven so that a refractive index of the liquid crystal may be held constant irrespective of the wavelengths of the beams each of which enters the beam shaping mirror.

Abstract: An image generating apparatus capable of stably taking up an ink sheet on a take-up bobbin with proper tensile force by performing proper torque control on the take-up bobbin is obtained. This image generating apparatus comprises a driving source transporting an ink sheet of an ink sheet cartridge and a take-up reel transmitting the driving force of the driving source to a take-up bobbin of the ink sheet cartridge and taking up the ink sheet on the take-up bobbin, while the take-up reel includes a reel member, integrally provided with a plurality of fragment portions concentrically with the rotation axis thereof, engaging with the take-up bobbin, a driving-side gear member fitted with the outer peripheral surfaces of the fragment portions of the reel member and a spring member press-fitted with the inner peripheral surfaces of the fragment portions of the reel member thereby bringing the fragment portions into pressure contact with the driving-side gear member.

Abstract: A liquid crystal module includes a liquid crystal panel, a lamp unit, a light guide plate, a rear frame and a light reflecting sheet. The lamp unit is configured to emit light. The light guide plate is configured to guide the light emitted by the lamp unit, and has a peripheral face. The rear frame is disposed rearward of the light guide plate, and has a facing portion facing a part of the peripheral face of the light guide plate. The light reflecting sheet is disposed between the light guide plate and the rear frame, and has a tab portion that is sandwiched between the part of the peripheral face of the light guide plate and the facing portion of the rear frame.

Abstract: A support structure for supporting a display device includes a base member mounted on a rear surface of the display device, a support member rotatably mounted on the base member that supports the display device in a state in which a lower surface of the display device is in contact with a setting plane and the support member is opened by a predetermined angle with respect to the base member, and a protruded portion formed integrally with an outer surface of the support member and extending in a widthwise direction of the support member, the protruded portion restricting rotation of the support member beyond a supporting position thereof by contact of the protruded portion with the base member when the display device is tilted.

Abstract: A display screen turning apparatus includes a base portion for placing a display screen portion thereon, a transmission gear portion for transmitting driving force of a driving source arranged inside the base portion, a display screen support member supporting the display screen portion rotatably in a horizontal plane and a vertical plane, a rack plate arranged on the base portion and including a rack gear meshed with the transmission gear portion in a horizontal direction, and a coupling portion rotatably coupling the rack plate in the horizontal plane with respect to the display screen support member. The display screen support member is rotated in the anteroposterior direction with respect to the vertical plane by a prescribed angle through the coupling portion coupled to the rack plate following reciprocation of the rack plate in the horizontal plane with normal and reverse rotation of the driving source.

Abstract: A wall hanging display apparatus including a wall side attachment member that is fixed to a wall; and a apparatus side attachment member that is fixed to the display apparatus and is connected to the wall side attachment member, is characterized by a structure in which only one of the wall side attachment member and only one of the apparatus side attachment member are used for hanging the display apparatus on the wall.

Abstract: A synchronous rectifier circuit (DC-DC converter) includes a CR integration circuit and a discharge circuit. The CR integration circuit outputs a voltage that varies at delayed timing as compared with a voltage induced in a secondary-side main winding. The discharge circuit discharges a gate voltage of a rectifier transistor as a result of conduction of a discharge transistor in response to the output voltage from the CR integration circuit. According to such a configuration, the rectifier transistor is turned off earlier than the timing of switching of polarity of voltages induced in the secondary-side main winding and a secondary-side auxiliary winding in response to turn-on of a primary-side transistor.

Abstract: An optical disk device includes a reproduction component, an output component and a control component. The reproduction component directs a laser beam at an optical disk that is loaded in the optical disk device with the optical disk storing a plurality of audio data streams in a plurality of different acoustic qualities. The reproduction component reproduces one of the audio data streams. The output component outputs the one of the audio data streams to an amplifier. The control component acquires from the amplifier first audio format information indicating audio formats to which the amplifier corresponds, and acquires from the reproduction component second audio format information indicating audio formats of the audio data streams stored in the optical disk. The control component determines the one of the audio data streams with an audio format that belongs to both the first audio format information and the second audio format information.

Abstract: An optical disk device includes a reproduction component, a determination component, a memory component, a communication component, and an output component. The reproduction component reproduces contents stored in optical disks. The determination component determines genres of the contents while the reproduction component reproduces the contents. The memory component stores a first table that associates each of the genres that have been determined by the determination component with a reproduction counter that indicates a number of times the reproduction component has reproduced the contents that belong to each of the genres. The communication component downloads from a server advertising data corresponding to one of the genres stored in the first table. The one of the genres is selected based on the reproduction counter of the first table. The output component outputs an advertisement based on the advertising data that is downloaded by the communication component.