Abstract: By inputting an input text in voice or phonogram and also the source information which is a source of the input text, extracting candidate words composing the input text by analyzing the source information, and using the candidate words, ambiguity in converting the voice or phonogram to characters is eliminated and highly accurate conversion is realized. For example, highly reliable translation is effected by extracting candidate words comprising the translation text using a bilingual dictionary containing words in the source language, translations in the target language, and extracting associated words in the target language which correspond to each other. When ambiguity occurs in converting the voice or phonogram input of the translation text to characters, by selecting the above candidate words preferentially, a voice typewriter for translation or a word processor for translation for converting the inputted translation text to characters a highly accurate translation is realized.

Abstract: A system for reducing afterglow induced artifacts by filtering out afterglow using recursive filters that are tailored to match the intensity and decay time of the scintillating detectors that produce the afterglow.

Abstract: In ordering products, a customer selects a product from a product list stored in a remote computer system via a communication line. A sensor detects the customer size information and transmits it to the remote computer, thus enabling the remote computer to select a product having an appropriate size. Subsequently, on a monitor display, product image is superimposed on the customer body image. The fit evaluation is automatically performed by the local computer system. Depending on the fit of the product, the customer tries different products until placing an order.

Abstract: A translation machine is arranged to derive two or more syntaxes from one original sentence, determine which of the syntaxes is the most approximate according to a syntax priority rule given by a user or a manufacturer and output a translated sentence based on the most approximate syntax. The translation machine includes a memory, a translating module and a main CPU as main components. The memory serves to store a partial structure of each syntax and a syntax priority rule containing a numerical value indicating a priority of the partial structure and an incidental condition of the syntax. The translating module serves to collide the syntax priority rule stored in the memory with the syntax of the original sentence and giving a proper evaluating value to the syntax of the original sentence. The main CPU serves to output the translated sentences on the syntaxes derived from the original sentence according to their larger evaluating values.

Abstract: A power supply system for portable floodlighting equipment employing high-intensity electric discharge lamps comprises an alternating current generator having three or more independent armature windings, one for producing independently current at a voltage sufficiently high for starting a discharge lamp in series with a capacitor. The windings are out of phase with one another and interference with the operation of the lamps energized by the separate and independent windings and electric apparatus energized by the standard voltage generator is effectively eliminated. The use of the generator winding for starting and energizing the lamps eliminates the usual starting ballast and decreases the weight and cost of the portable floodlighting unit.

Abstract: A microchannel plate with a plurality of microchannel portions, a portion in an amplifying direction from another portion having a lower surface zone resistance than the other, materials and circuitry being provided to permit controlled higher-temperature operation.

Abstract: A helix-type delay line borne by a conical surface. The internal surface of a sleeve has grooves into which are inserted dielectric supports of constant height that are affixed to the helix-type delay line, and the depth of the grooves increases with the diameter of the line.

Abstract: A plasma discharge ion source for a mass spectrometer, having a magnet forming an axial magnetic field, two cathodes axially spaced in said field and an annular anode between the cathodes. Ions generated by the source emerge via an opening in one cathode and then pass in succession through axially aligned openings in two planar electrodes. The electrode closest said one cathode has a further disc or cone shaped electrode positioned in the opening of that electrode so as to form an annular gap between the peripheries of the disc shaped electrode and opening.Ions from the source opening pass in succession through the annular gap and then through the electrode opening in the electrode furtherest from the source opening. By applying suitable electric potentials to the electrodes ions of an energy above a predetermined level are prevented from passing through the electrodes.

Abstract: The circuit of the current source comprises two enhancement IGFET pairs connected in series and one enhancement current source IGFET. All of the IGFETs show the same conductivity (p-channel or n-channel) and the two IGFET pairs are connected between the supply voltage and the substrate. The common connection point of the first IGFET pair is connected to the gate electrode of the substrate IGFET of the second IGFET pair and the common connection point of the second IGFET pair is fed to the gate of the current source IGFET.

Abstract: A second order section of an electronic filter comprises three cascaded amplifier stages and a compensating amplifier stage coupled between the first and second amplifier stages. The compensating stage introduces a leading phase shift at high frequencies so that the normalized transfer function of the circuit, for different frequencies, is substantially identical.

Abstract: A specimen anticontamination device for an electron microscope incorporates a cold trap installed outside the magnetic pole pieces of the objective lens. This cold trap effectively absorbs the residual gases which contribute to the specimen contamination, because its position is nearer the residual gas source than the conventional cold trap installed near the specimen and inside the magnetic pole pieces. For this reason, the device is very effective as an anticontamination means particularly in electron microscopes having a narrow objective lens pole piece gap wherein the space available would preclude installation of the conventional anticontamination device.