Abstract: The invention provides a board layout structure of a digital broadcast receiving portion, wherein mutual positional relation between a digital signal demodulation unit and a digital tuner is interchangeable between right and left. An IF input terminal of a digital signal demodulation unit is placed at a center of a connector so that the IF input terminal can be electrically connected to a digital tuner by pattern wiring of fixed length whether the digital tuner is placed to the right or to the left of the digital signal demodulation unit so as to give even digital broadcast receiving performance in either case.

Abstract: The invention provides a recording and reproducing device having a CM skip function, which prevents reductions of advertising effects and user-friendliness. In the case where the contents recorded on the recording and reproducing device include a commercial portion, a viewing history flag is assigned to the commercial portion. If the commercial has been reproduced, the viewing history flag relevant to the commercial is set at 1 to control viewing history of each individual commercial portion. In the case where there is a request for reproduction of the contents, it is determined whether or not the commercial yet to be viewed is more than a predetermined amount to secure convenience for the user by imposing no operational limit until reaching the predetermined amount. If the predetermined amount is reached, an operational limit is imposed so as to urge viewing of the commercial.

Abstract: A data transfer system is provided for preventing a slave device from operating erroneously or running out of control upon resuming communication after communication is interrupted due to the occurrence of abnormal circumstances such as a power failure and the like. A master device transmits a stop condition to the slave device for terminating communication and performs a power failure-processing task when abnormal circumstances such as a power failure or a momentary power failure occurs. The master device transmits a stop condition for terminating communication upon either the occurrence of abnormal circumstances or the resumption of communication subsequent to the recovery of the abnormal circumstances, and transmits a start condition for reestablishing communication after transmitting a stop condition to the slave device. The slave device terminates communication upon receipt of either stop condition and reestablishes communication upon receipt of a start condition.

Abstract: An optical encoder with improved resolution without narrowing either a slit pitch or a width in a moving direction of a light-receiving element is provided. A light-receiving block on a first row in a direction perpendicular to the moving direction is provided with four light-receiving elements 3 (A[1], B[1], A?[1], B?[1]) and a light-receiving block on a second row is provided with four light-receiving elements 3 (A[2], B[2], A?[2], B?[2]). The shape of each light-receiving element 3 is identical (width in the moving direction is approximately P/4 and width in the direction perpendicular to the moving direction is approximately W/2). The position of the light-receiving block on the second row in the direction perpendicular to the moving direction is shifted by P/8 in the moving direction and by W/2 in the direction perpendicular to the moving direction relative to the light-receiving block on the first row.

Abstract: The invention provides an electronic apparatus and data processing method thereof which is possible to read controllable data even if a write error occurs in the process of writing data into a nonvolatile memory. Calculation processing is performed so as to add “1” at the time of writing data into an EEPROM 15, and calculation processing is performed so as to subtract “1” at the time of reading data from the EEPROM 15. Thereby, even if an error occurs at the time of writing data into the EEPROM 15, calculation processing is performed so as to subtract “1” at the time of reading data from the EEPROM 15, thus making it possible to read controllable data.

Abstract: The invention provides an electronic apparatus that discharges static electricity built up on a decorative panel to a ground portion with reliability without degrading the appearance design. A bent portion of a connecting member is interposed between a decorative panel and a nameplate, and the nameplate is fixed to the decorative panel. Thereby, the bent portion is pinched between the decorative panel and the nameplate, being in elastic contact with a conductive coating layer of the decorative panel, and a curved portion extending from the bent portion makes elastic contact with a front plate as a ground portion, thus discharging static electricity built up on the conductive coating layer to the front plate through the connecting member.

Abstract: The present invention provides a display device capable of simplifying assembling operation and maintenance operation, and also capable of reducing the occurrence of a sink mark on the surface of the casing. All internal components are mounted on a chassis. Actually, a display panel is mounted on the front side of the chassis (on the side where a front cabinet is positioned), and various circuit boards (power supply board, AV board, MPEG board), a speaker and a recording and reproducing unit are mounted on the rear side of the chassis (on the side where a back cabinet is positioned). A stand supporting unit is attached to the bottom side of the chassis and an operation board is attached to the upper surface of the chassis.

Abstract: The invention provides an instruction manual capable of storing documents such as guarantee certificates easily thereto. An instruction manual 1 of an electronic device having its rear portion 2 bound in a spreadable manner has a back cover 3 disposed on the outer side of the instruction manual and a paper portion 4 overlapped therewith which are bound together at their upper edges 5, lower edges 6 and side edges 9, thereby forming a document storage portion 7 between the back cover 3 and the paper portion 4. The back cover 3 has a document insertion slot 12. Thus, documents such as a guarantee certificate 11 can easily be stored in the document storage portion 7 through document insertion slots 12 without having to open the instruction manual 1.

Abstract: The present invention provides a receiver provided with an electronic program guide in a program configuration with other programs inserted in the middle thereof, which easily transmits a reservation excluding the programs inserted in the middle thereof. In step S180, programs closely related to a reserved program are extracted from the electronic program guide information stored in RAM 13, it is judged in next step S190 whether or not there are programs closely related to the reserved program before and after the reserved program, and if there are such programs, control moves to step S200 or moves to step S120 otherwise. In step S200, a screen is displayed which prompts a user to select whether or not to reserve the programs closely related to the reserved program.

Abstract: The invention provides a multi-layer printed circuit board with a through hole having a connection formed by filling conductive paste in the through hole, wherein the voltage of a circuit having constant current flow is stabilized. The circuit board comprises a closed circuit that starts from a power supply terminal and passes a power supply line, a connection connecting the patterns on the front and rear surfaces of the board, a load and a ground line to reach an earth terminal, wherein if the voltage drop at the connection exceeds a value determined based on a predetermined rate with respect to the power supply voltage, all or some of the connections is replaced with a jumper wire so that the voltage drop at the connection is equal to or smaller than a value determined by said predetermined rate, according to which the voltage level of the power supply line and the ground line is stabilized.

Abstract: The invention provides a disk device capable of reading, writing or reading and writing signals in a disk medium, having a mechanism for preventing the disk medium from falling into the depth direction of the device. By providing ribs for preventing fall-in of the disk medium protruded toward the inner side of the device on the inner surfaces of both side walls of the frame and positioned rearward than the center of the disk medium with the distance between both ends of the ribs set to be smaller than at least the outer diameter of the disk medium, and formed so that it does not come into contact with the disk medium when the disk medium is clamped by the clamp mechanism, the disk medium is prevented from falling into the depth direction of the device by the ribs for preventing fall-in of the disk medium.

Abstract: The invention provides a printed circuit board capable of preventing an electronic component from tilting or uplifting without adopting special structures in an existing electronic component. The printed circuit board has an engagement portion and terminal holes and for mounting an electronic component, comprising narrowed portions and having substantially the same width as the mounting leg portions and connecting terminals of the electronic component, and guidance portions having a width wider than the narrowed portion, wherein the mounting leg portions and connecting terminals are inserted to the guidance portion, and the electronic component is moved via sliding motion, by which the mounting leg portions and the connecting terminals are supported tightly in the narrowed portion. Thus, it becomes possible to prevent the displacement or tilt of the electronic component.

Abstract: A display device provided with a radiating structure for cooling heat of heat generating parts is provided. In a PDP device provided with a display panel which displays videos, reinforcement support members which reinforce the display panel fixed to an enclosure is made to contact heat generating parts which are heated in the enclosure and the reinforcement support members are made to have a dual-function as radiating members for radiating heat from the heat generating parts. This makes it possible to cool heat of the heat generating parts and suppress an increase in the number of parts and an increase in the manufacturing cost.

Abstract: The invention provides a short-circuit protective circuit for a constant-voltage power-supply circuit. The constant-voltage power-supply circuit can realize a short-circuit protection with a simple circuit configuration in a power-supply circuit provided with a plurality of power-supply lines. A regulator is connected to one of a plurality of power-supply lines, and a constant voltage is outputted from an output terminal of the regulator through an output line. An output voltage from the regulator is inputted to constant-voltage circuits as a reference voltage, and output constant voltages from the constant-voltage circuits are supplied to the other output lines. A voltage detection circuit is connected to the other output lines, wherein if a voltage drop occurs in any output line, a detection signal is outputted to an operation circuit, thereby turning off an output control terminal of the regulator. Accordingly, the output of the regulator is stopped so that all of the output lines are stopped all at once.

Abstract: Disclosed is an interphone system that uses a home-use television broadcast receiving apparatus capable of receiving instructions for dealing with a visitor. According to the invention, a television includes a sending/receiving section for sending and receiving signals to and from a door phone apparatus, a storage section in which response information is stored as text data, and an audio synthesis processor which converts text data into an audio signal. An audio signal based on response information (e.g., “Please come in”) selected with the television is sent to the door phone apparatus and outputted from a door phone slave unit installed at the entrance of a house. Thus, it becomes possible to deal with a visitor by operating the television.

Abstract: The invention provides an electronic device provided with several ICs designed to reduce circuit space by reducing data transmission paths for connecting an external apparatus for developing or debugging software written into the several ICs and prevent misoperation of the device due to data collision on the data transmission path to which the external apparatus is connected. By connecting a connector for connection of a PC to a data reception line and data transmission line which connect a main microcontroller, DVD microcontroller and HDD microcontroller, data transmission paths to connect the PC are reduced and by controlling through voltage control resistors so that the signal level generated at an RXD terminal differs between times of data collision and normal operation and any one of signals of the DVD microcontroller, HDD microcontroller and PC can be read, misoperation in the event of data collision is prevented.

Abstract: Disclosed are a reproducing device, and a repeating range resetting method and a repetitive reproduction function control program to be carried out by the device having a repetitive reproduction function of repetitively reproducing a repeating range and capable of carrying out a reproducing procedure for reproducing a single or plural sets of contents recorded on an information recording medium, wherein a repetition start point resetting request or a repetition end point resetting request requesting changing a repetition start point or a repetition end point of a repeating range is accepted during a repetitive reproduction procedure for repetitively reproducing a repeating range to set a new repeating range. The repetitive reproduction procedure is continued to reproduce contents in the new repeating range.

Abstract: Damage to a part when assembling a substrate from behind a casing mounted with push buttons is prevented. When a circuit substrate is mounted in a casing to which a push button is attached, a circuit substrate is inserted along a guide groove of the push button. At this time, the contact section is pushed by the circuit substrate and the circuit substrate is engaged with the contact section with a second hinge section deflected. This causes the circuit substrate to be parallel with a pushing section with a tiny gap in between and a pushing operation of an operation button deforms a first hinge section and the pushing section turns ON/OFF a switch.

Abstract: A reproducing device for reproducing contents recorded on an information recording medium has a repetitive reproduction function to reproduce contents in a predetermined repeating range repeatedly in diverse reproduction modes. A special reproduction mode request requesting a special reproduction mode, such as a slow-motion reproduction mode, is accepted during a repetitive reproduction process for repetitively reproducing the repeating range. When the special reproduction mode request is made the repetitive reproduction process is continued in a reproduction mode specified by the special reproduction mode request.

Abstract: To make it possible to change a mounting angle of a display section with respect to a stand section and reliably keep the angle of the display section without being changed with the own weight. A fixed section 13A made up of an inclined plane 14A inclined backward, a fixed section 13B made up of an inclined plane 14B inclined forward and a horizontal fixed section 13C located on the same plane as that of a fixed plate 10 are formed in the fixed plate 10 which is to be fixed to a stand section 7 for supporting a display section 1. A mounting angle of the display section 1 is changed with respect to the stand section 7 by selectively fixing legs 5 to any one of these fixed sections 13A to 13C.