Abstract: An image pickup and display device including a body having an image pickup lens, a display unit capable of displaying an image and having a longitudinal side extending along a longitudinal side of the body in a folded state where the display unit is in close proximity to or abuts against the body, a first rotation shaft having an axis extending along a surface of the body, a rotation-supporting mount rotatably attached to the body through the first rotation shaft, and a second rotation shaft extending perpendicular to the first rotation shaft through the rotation-supporting mount and rotatably supporting the display unit with respect to the rotation-supporting mount. The second rotation shaft extends along a side of the display unit and a side of the body when the display unit is folded. With this, even when the body is in a stable horizontal position, the display unit can be viewed excellently by being rotated around the second rotation shaft.

Abstract: Of two bearings supporting a rotor of a circuit-integrated type core-equipped brushless motor, a part of an outer periphery of the bearing, which is disposed at a position near a stator core, is allowed to directly abut on an inner periphery of a hole formed in a center of the stator core, and therefore, reduction in thickness, reduction in diameter, space-saving and enhancement in output power can be realized. The stator core is fixed to the casing by causing projected parts provided at the housing to bite into second notched parts formed inside first notched parts formed at the stator core and crimping them, whereby the problem of a decrease in a winding space accompanying reduction in a diameter of the stator core is solved, and reduction in thickness, reduction in diameter, space-saving and enhancement in output power are achieved.

Abstract: A radio receiver for receiving signals of at least two different communication standards, including a narrow band signal having a narrow bandwidth and a wide band signal having a wide bandwidth, is provided. The receiver comprises a shared radio frequency (RF) front-end that receives the wide band signal during at least one period of operation, downconverts, in a single downconversion, the wide band signal directly to baseband, receives the narrow band signal during at least another period of operation, and downconverts, in a single downconversion, the narrow band signal to a low intermediate frequency (Low-IF). The receiver further comprises a baseband processing chain that operates on the downconverted wide band signal to extract desired data and a Low-IF processing chain that operates on the downconverted narrow band signal to extract desired data.

Abstract: In a semiconductor substrate having a notch in an edge portion thereof, each of the two shoulder portions of the notch is configured as an arc and the difference in curvature between the two shoulder portions of the notch is not less than 0 mm and not more than 0.1 mm.

Abstract: An optical disk device is provided that can realize favorable recording/reproduction of signals on/from an optical disk having a plurality of signal planes arranged in proximity to each other. In this optical disk device, a hologram (4) is divided into n(n?2) regions Ak(k=1, 2, . . . , n) by a straight line that intersects with an optical axis, and a photodetector (7) is divided into at least two regions A and A?. Light emitted from a light source (1) is focused on a signal plane (6a) or (6b) included in a plurality of signal planes of the optical disk by an objective lens (5). Light reflected from a first signal plane (6a) and light reflected from a second signal plane (6b) pass through the objective lens (5) to turn into light beams a and a?, respectively, that enter the hologram (4).

Abstract: A random code vector reading section and a random codebook of a conventional CELP type speech coder/decoder are respectively replaced with an oscillator for outputting different vector streams in accordance with values of input seeds, and a seed storage section for storing a plurality of seeds. This makes it unnecessary to store fixed vectors as they are in a fixed codebook (ROM), thereby considerably reducing the memory capacity.

Abstract: In a video signal reproducing apparatus, the changing time of a sub-video signal is adjusted, by a time-adjusting circuit, so as to be synchronized with the changing of a frame of a main video signal from the output of an interlace-scan-video-signal converter. And the sub-signal is added to the output of an interlace-scan converter by an adder. The output of the adder is converted into a progressive-scan video signal in synchronism with the boundary of frames of main video signal by the progressive-scan video signal converter. In the reproducing apparatus, even in the case that the sub-video signal is recorded without synchronism with the frames of the main video signal, an irregular frame is not generated even when the sub-video changes. And a single field of the sub-video does not leave or is not visible.

Abstract: An optical disk drive includes a turntable, a first motor for turntable drive, an optical pickup and a drive mechanism arranged on a drive base and a separate traverse base that floats on the drive base. A loading drive mechanism drives a disk loading mechanism. A second motor can be driven in forward and reverse directions to supply drive power to the loading drive mechanism and a pickup drive mechanism. A drive power transfer path switching mechanism is used to switch the path through which drive power from the second motor is transferred to supply power to the loading drive mechanism and pickup drive mechanism. By continuously driving the second motor in one direction, then moving the optical pickup, raising or lowering the turntable, and transporting a disk can be accomplished in this sequence substantially continuously. By reversing the direction of motor drive, these operations can be accomplished substantially continuously in reverse direction in reverse sequence.

Abstract: A fluorine-containing organic film is deposited on a semiconductor substrate using a material gas containing fluorocarbon as a main component in a reactor chamber of a plasma processing apparatus. The fluorine-containing organic film is then exposed to plasma of a rare gas in the same reactor chamber to densify the fluorine-containing organic film.

Abstract: The solid-state imaging device according to one embodiment of the present invention includes a semiconductor substrate, a plurality of photoelectric conversion regions arrayed in the vertical direction and the horizontal direction on the surface of the substrate, and an electric charge transfer region disposed between the photoelectric conversion regions adjacent in the horizontal direction of the substrate. The substrate comprises a n-type semiconductor substrate, a first p-type impurity region formed on the n-type semiconductor substrate, a semiconductor regions formed on the first p-type impurity region, and a second p-type impurity region disposed below the electric charge transfer region. The photoelectric conversion region and the electric charge transfer region are n-type impurity regions formed on the surface portion of the semiconductor region.

Abstract: A resist film is formed from a chemically amplified resist material including a base polymer having a lactone group and having neither a hydroxyl group nor a carboxylic group as an adhesion group bonded to a polymer side chain; and an acid generator for generating an acid through irradiation with light. The resist film is irradiated with extreme UV of a wavelength of a 1 nm through 30 nm band for pattern exposure. The resist film is developed after the pattern exposure, so as to form a resist pattern from an unexposed portion of the resist film.

Abstract: This invention provides a steel sheet for a mask frame which maintains a tension-type color CRT shadow mask under tension.

Abstract: A GaN-based compound semiconductor epi-wafer includes: a substrate 11 made of a first nitride semiconductor belonging to a hexagonal system; and an element layer 12 for forming a semiconductor element, which is made of a second nitride semiconductor belonging to the hexagonal system and which is grown on a principal surface of the substrate 11. An orientation of the principal surface of the substrate 11 has an off-angle in a predetermined direction with respect to a (0001) plane, and the element layer 12 has a surface morphology of a stripe pattern extending substantially in parallel to the predetermined direction.

Abstract: A method for transferring a thin plate is provided, in which three or more grasping claws of a transfer arm grasp the periphery of the thin plate in order to transfer it to a predetermined transfer position, and three or more holding claws hold the periphery of the thin plate in the transfer position. The transfer arm rotates about a shaft which is in a direction of a vector sum of a first vector perpendicular to a surface of the thin plate before transfer, and a second vector perpendicular to the surface of the thin plate after the transfer, to transfer the thin plate with changing the posture thereof.

Abstract: An FSK receiving apparatus has, as means for performing offset correction upon a demodulated base band signal, a second low pass filter 9 for integrating the demodulated base band signal; a window comparator for detecting a DC offset component in an output voltage from the second low pass filter 9; an up/down counter 11 for incrementing or decrementing a count value on the basis of the output of the window comparator 10; a clock generating portion 13 for generating a timing signal for counting operation in the up/down counter 11; a reference voltage generating portion 12 for generating a reference voltage for a comparator 7 on the basis of the output of the up/down counter 11; and a charging circuit 22 for supplying a reference voltage in the last frame to the second low pass filter 9 so as to charge the second low pass filter 9 with the last-frame reference voltage and set an initial value of the second low pass filter 9.

Abstract: The reset function incorporated microcomputer of the present invention, capable of suppressing a variation in reset voltage with a simple configuration, includes a reset decision section. In the reset decision section, a band gap reference circuit generates a predetermined reference voltage VA. A voltage dividing resistance generates a reset voltage VR from the reference voltage VA. A comparator compares the supply voltage VDD applied to the microcomputer with the reset voltage VR, and outputs a reset signal SR.

Abstract: An electron-emitting element is provided which lessens the necessary voltage to be applied to a grid electrode and accurately and precisely controls electron emission from a cathode electrode. This is achieved by a field emission type electron-emitting element wherein an electric field existing between the grid electrode (3) and an anode electrode emanates from an electron passage opening in the grid electrode (3) to the cathode electrode (2) side and interacts with an electric field existing between the cathode electrode (2) and the grid electrode (3) such that a combined electric field is formed, and an electron-emission controlling element is provided which varies the intensity of the combined electric field by varying the potential of at least one of the cathode electrode (2), the anode electrode, and the grid electrode (3).

Abstract: A method of laser machining using an ultra-fast pulse laser is presented. According to the present invention a plurality of holes with a pitch less than the wavelength of the laser are drilled into a material sample. Reliable and reproducible hole drilling is accomplished through an exemplary drilling sequence which applies a number of pulses at a first pulse energy to the surface spaced to avoid laser hardening of the surface for adjacent holes of a first set of holes. Next, the number of pulses is increased or the energy of the laser beam is increased to drill holes that are interstitial to the first set of holes. The exemplary laser machining process may used to produce both one-dimensional and two-dimensional photonic crystals, among other applications.

Abstract: The spreading code generation apparatus of the present invention temporarily stores a spreading code string generated from one spreading code generator in memory (shift register or RAM).