Abstract: When a user specifies a road that he/she wants to pass through, a guiding route generation device generates a guiding route that passes through the specified road up to a destination. A guiding route (37) generated based on waypoints specified is stored in a storage means (15) of the guiding route generation device. A display means (11) displays the guiding route (37) along with roads in the periphery. The guiding route generation device specifies a certain road as the specified pass-through road from among the roads displayed along with the guiding route (37), and further, finds and determines whether there are crossings and the number of the crossings between the specified pass-through road and the guiding route (37). When there is no crossing, the guiding route generation device generates two routes between the specified pass-through road and the guiding route (37) and extends the specified pass-through road to generate a user-specified road.

Abstract: An optical acoustoelectric transducer having a directivity pattern like a better 8 by receiving by a light-receiving element a reflected fraction of the light from a light-emitting device disposed at the center of a bottom plate that is parallel to a diaphragm, has an opening through which an acoustic wave enters, and is connected to supporting side plates. An optical acoustoelectric transducer having uniform amplitude characteristics in a wide frequency range by mixing by a mixer circuit the outputs of a plurality of optical microphones having diaphragms of mutually different thicknesses so as to make the receiving sensitivity uniform in different frequency ranges. A directional optical acoustoelectric transducer having a small size and wide band characteristics by arranging a plurality of light-emitting devices (LD) and a plurality of light-receiving elements (PD) corresponding to a plurality of diaphragms arranged parallel.

Abstract: Both a pre-word (PW) and a sync word (SW) are used to establish a synchronization or only the sync word (SW) is used to establish a synchronization in accordance with an operational status related to the synchronization in a mobile wireless communication apparatus. For example, during an initial synchronization with a control channel (110) being received, both the pre-word (PW) and the sync word (SW) are used to establish a synchronization when a calculation result in a synchronization calculating part exceeds a predetermined threshold value only once. During an initial synchronization with a direct communication channel (112) being received, both the pre-word (PW) and the sync word (SW) are used to establish a synchronization when the calculation result exceeds the predetermined threshold value once; or alternatively, only the sync word (SW) is used to establish a synchronization when the calculation result successively exceeds the predetermined threshold value twice.

Abstract: A speech piece editing section (5) retrieves speech piece data on a speech piece the read of which matches that of a speech piece in a fixed message from a speech piece database (7) and converts the speech piece so as to match the speed specified by utterance speed data. The speech piece editing section (5) predicts the prosody of a fixed message and selects an item of the retrieved speech piece data most matching each speech piece of the fixed message one by one according to the prosody prediction results. However, if the proportion of the speech piece corresponding to the selected item of the speech piece data does not reach a predetermined value, the selection is cancelled. Concerning the speech piece for which selection is not made, waveform data representing the waveform of each unit speech is supplied to a sound processing section (41). The selected speech piece data and the supplied waveform data are interconnected thereby to create data representing a synthesized speech.

Abstract: When no messages are existent which must be notified to a mobile transmitting/receiving apparatus (102), a carrier signal of non-modulation is outputted in an area of control information of transport data having a frame structure. As a specific example, an FSK modulator (16) causes a transmitting circuit (17) to output a carrier signal of non-modulation from a line control apparatus (101) in correspondence with the area for control information in which non-modulation data is set by a frame data processing unit (15), while causing a modulated wave signal as four-level FSK modulated to be outputted in the areas other than the non-modulation data area. When non-modulation data is set in the area for control information, function channel identification information in the same frame is set as non-modulation identification data, thereby avoiding any unstable operation in the mobile transmitting/receiving apparatus (102) at the receiving end.

Abstract: When a sound presence/absence detector (12) detects a sound absence interval, a non-modulated carrier signal is outputted in an area used to transmit speech data that are included in transmission data having a frame structure and that correspond to the sound absence interval. That is, an FSK modulator (14) causes a transmitting circuit (15) to output the non-modulated carrier signal from a wireless communication apparatus (100) in the area used to transmit the speech data corresponding to the sound absence interval. In the meantime, a four-level FSK modulated wave signal is outputted in the areas other than the one of the sound absence interval. A non-modulation discriminating data for allowing the sound absence interval to be determined are included in an area of channel identifying information included in the transmission data having the frame structure, and allow a communication terminal apparatus at the receiving end to avoid any unstable operations.

Abstract: A display panel driving mechanism for electronic device supports a lower side of a display panel (1), which is arranged on a front plane of an electronic device, to be freely turned around a first shaft (5a) which moves by following a slider (4) driven in to and fro directions. The mechanism shifts a second shaft (9a), which is provided on a member (9) attached on an upper side of the display panel (1), along a guide groove (2a) provided on a member (2) fixed to a case. In a shifting initial period of the first shaft (5a), the first shaft (5a) is shifted in a rear direction from an initial status, in which the display panel (1) is at a position where it covers the front plane of the electronic device by not inclining and the front plane of the display panel is inclined to face down. In the shifting initial period, the first shaft (5a) is permitted to shift to the rear and to an upper part.

Abstract: Title information on music composition data recorded on a reproduction CD is acquired from a title information providing site and recorded on a recording MD together with composition data. A recording/reproducing apparatus (100) transmits TOC information acquired from the reproduction CD to a title information providing server (500) through a communication device (200), a wireless public communication network (WNET), a communication exchange (400), and the Internet (INET). The title information providing server (500) creates an inquiry code corresponding to the received TOC information and transmits it to a title information database (600). The title information database (600) sends a response code corresponding to the inquiry code as a reply to the title information providing server (500).

Abstract: Title information on music composition data recorded on a reproduction CD is acquired from a title information providing site and recorded on a recording MD together with composition data. A recording/reproducing apparatus (100) transmits TOC information acquired from the reproduction CD to a title information providing server (500) through a communication device (200), a wireless public communication network (WNET), a communication exchange (400), and the Internet (INET). The title information providing server (500) creates an inquiry code corresponding to the received TOC information and transmits it to a title information database (600). The title information database (600) sends a response code corresponding to the inquiry code as a reply to the title information providing server (500).

Abstract: A vehicle mount disc player having a small thickness by removing a wasteful space around a reproduction unit chassis when a disc is loaded or unloaded. The vehicle mount disc player has the reproduction unit chassis supported in a floating state by a main chassis via damper mechanisms. The reproduction unit chassis is locked so as to be shifted to a disc motor side along an axial direction of a disc motor and a turntable when the disc is loaded or unloaded.

Abstract: The process control unit (11) of a microcomputer (1) controls a decoder (21) to decode an input signal, and acquires the voice format information of an input signal. The process control unit (11) calls the processing method of matrix processing stored in a storage unit (12) based on the acquired voice format information. The process control unit (11) further acquires encode channel-related information from an input signal. When the encode channel is 2-channel, the process control unit (11) controls a surround processor (22) to perform matrix processing on an input signal and output a multi-channel-based voice. An acoustic device capable of setting a reproduction mode according to an input signal is realized.

Abstract: There are provided a guide route search device and a guide route search method for searching a guide route via a plurality of points as well as a computer program for realizing the method. A guide route satisfying the route point condition such as a stay time at each point is searched. According to another aspect of the invention, after searching a guide route, an operator can perform a correction such as addition, deletion, or modification of the route points or rearrangement of the arrival order at the points. It is possible to judge whether the guide route after the correction satisfies the route point condition. According to still another aspect of the invention, a guide route is superimposed together with the current position on the map image. The map color and/or brightness is changed according to the arrival time at a route point.

Abstract: In a navigation device, a destination waypoint is set by a user through an input section (13), and, when guidance to the destination waypoint is started, a control section (11) stores positional information on the destination waypoint into a destination waypoint history table (21) of a storage section (12) at predetermined timing, the destination waypoint history table (21) storing positional information on destination waypoints. Stored information is displayed on a display section (14) when the user sets a destination waypoint. The user can select a destination waypoint based on the displayed information and set the destination waypoint. After the destination waypoint is set, only the destination waypoint satisfying predetermined conditions is stored.

Abstract: A satellite digital radio broadcast receiver has an integrated circuit including a first reception series for processing a satellite wave signal from a satellite and a second reception series for processing a ground wave signal from a repeater in order to receive both the satellite wave signal and the ground wave signal having the same broadcast contents and different modulation methods. The receiver has an automatic gain control unit for amplifying a signal from a single antenna at a variable gain amplifier, and in accordance with the level of a signal outputted from the variable gain amplifier, for controlling the gain of the variable gain amplifier; and a two-way distributor for distributing an output of the automatic control unit to two distribution outputs, wherein one distribution output of the two-way distributor is supplied to the first reception series of the integrated circuit and the other distribution output is supplied to the second reception series of the integrated circuit.

Abstract: A voice signal interpolation apparatus is provided which can restore original human voices from human voices in a compressed state while maintaining a high sound quality. When a voice signal representative of a voice to be interpolated is acquired by a voice data input unit 1, a pitch deriving unit 2 filters this voice signal to identify a pitch length from the filtering result. A pitch length fixing unit 3 makes the voice signal have a constant time length of a section corresponding to a unit pitch, and generates pitch waveform data. A sub-band dividing unit 4 converts the pitch waveform data into sub-band data representative of a spectrum. A plurality of sub-band data pieces are averaged by an averaging unit 5 and thereafter a sub-band synthesizing unit 6 converts the sub-band data pieces into a signal representative of a waveform of the voice by a sub-band synthesizing unit 6.

Abstract: In a diaphragm for a loud-speaker of the present invention, an increase in tensile strength is averagely attained as a whole, and the over all diaphragm is uniformly colored without showing any lattice pattern. The diaphragm includes a woven fabric comprising yarns made from a blend of a plurality of fibers wherein at least one of the plurality of fibers is PBO (poly(p-phenylene benzobisoxazole)) fiber.

Abstract: A voice signal interpolation apparatus is provided which can restore original human voices from human voices in a compressed state while maintaining a high sound quality. When a voice signal representative of a voice to be interpolated is acquired by a voice data input unit 1, a pitch deriving unit 2 filters this voice signal to identify a pitch length from the filtering result. A pitch length fixing unit 3 makes the voice signal have a constant time length of a section corresponding to a unit pitch, and generates pitch waveform data. A sub-band dividing unit 4 converts the pitch waveform data into sub-band data representative of a spectrum. A plurality of sub-band data pieces are averaged by an averaging unit 5 and thereafter a sub-band synthesizing unit 6 converts the sub-band data pieces into a signal representative of a waveform of the voice by a sub-band synthesizing unit 6.

Abstract: There is provided a service class control system and the like for facilitating modification of a service class of a terminal device or disabling unauthorized modification of the service class. A service class management server (1) contains service class data for specifying a range of service provided by the user terminals 2-1 to 2-n. When a user terminal 2-k transmits data requiring a start of providing a service, in response to this, service class data indicating the service class of the user terminal 2-k is transmitted to the user terminal 2-k. After receiving the service class data, the user terminal 2-k provides a service of the range specified by the service class data.

Abstract: A site diversity method, a digital satellite broadcast receiving method and a digital satellite broadcast receiver are provided which can make a difference of data output timing between a main station and a subsidiary station at the time of site exchange as small as possible and can perform re-synchronization as soon as possible. In the site diversity method for digital satellite broadcast, when a site exchange execution designation signal is received, the site is exchanged during a period of a TMCC information field of a predetermined specific frame of a super frame determined when the execution designation signal is received. On the receiver side, information of broadcast is continuously received by detecting a TMCC information field in a specific frame during a period of which field the site was exchanged and by establishing re-synchronization by using a super frame sync pattern W2 or W3 after the detected TMCC information field.

Abstract: A fine displacement detection device by sound or the like: which can easily align individual optical components; which disposes a light emitting element (13) and a light receiving element (14) on a substrate, emits light from the light emitting element (13) to a diaphragm (I) set at a position facing the substrate, receives light reflected from the diaphragm (1) by the light receiving element (14), and detects as an electric signal the fine displacement of the diaphragm (1) by sound or the like; and which provides, on the optical paths of the substrate and the diaphragm (1), a focusing element (2) that focuses an incidence light from the light emitting element (13) for leading to the diaphragm (1) and focuses a diverged/reflected light from the diaphragm (1) for leading to the light receiving element (14), and a reflected light flux dividing element (3) that divides the diverged/reflected light focused by the focusing element (2) for leading to the light receiving element (14).