Abstract: A file which is virtually combined multiple files (a virtual combination file) is displayed as a thumbnail S. The part ‘A’ indicates the number of files that are virtually combined and the number of the file currently being displayed as a thumbnail S. The user can change the file that is displayed as a thumbnail S by operating the part ‘A’. The part ‘B’ indicates the number of files that are related to and grouped with the file being displayed as a thumbnail S and the number of the file currently being displayed as a thumbnail S. The user can easily keep track of the files that are virtually combined and the files that are registered as belonging to the same group as any of these files.

Abstract: There is provided an information recording medium having a plurality of recording layers (layer L0, layer L1) for recording information. At least one of the recording layers (layer L0, layer L1) has a management information area where recording speed management information defining the maximum possible recording speed when recording information is recorded.

Abstract: An inexpensive and secure key management system provides a digital content copy protection system and a method for the same. The key management system is constituted by a master data memory configured to be stored with a device key, a secret data management block configured to convert the device key to a plain text key, a write-in and encryption process block including an encrypting function block for encrypting the plain text key, a nonvolatile memory configured in a first chip and stored with an encryption key encrypted by the write-in and encryption process block, and a signal processing LSI configured in a second chip and including a decrypting function block for decrypting the encryption key.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a programmable-gate-array copy protection method and a system which prevent unauthorized copying of an FPGA program. A copy protection method for a field-programmable gate array, the method comprising a step of causing a user-specific gate array to boot a user circuit data to the field-programmable gate array, the user-specific gate array being connected to the field-programmable gate array and a memory device in which the user circuit data is stored and being pre-programmed at a semiconductor-vender's factory.

Abstract: An optical disk with multi-layered structure provided with at least two recording layers is provided. In respective recording layers, tracks are formed, and the track is formed such that the amount of eccentricity is different in respective recording layers. In the method for identifying the recording layer which identifies the recording layer of the optical disk, the recording layer is identified by detecting the amount of the eccentricity set to the track of the respective recording layers.

Abstract: An optical recording medium, in which a first substrate, a first recording layer, a first reflecting layer, an intermediate layer, a second recording layer, a second reflecting layer, and a second substrate are at least laminated, the optical recording medium further including a transcription layer between the second recording layer and the second reflecting layer. The optical recording medium of the invention can solve a problem of insufficient signal amplitude of one recording layer as compared with the other recording layer in a writable optical recording medium of a conventional double layer structure.

Abstract: An optical recording medium of dual layer type is provided which has at least a first substrate, a first recording layer capable of optical recording, a translucent reflecting layer, an intermediate layer, a second recording layer capable of optical recording, and a second substrate in this order from a side where a laser beam for recording, reproduction, or recording/reproduction is applied, wherein the first recording layer is made of an organic dye and the second recording layer is made of a metal material having a higher reflectivity than the organic dye. The optical recording medium provides sufficient signal amplitudes from both recording layers during reproduction, and gives compatibility with a typical optical recording medium during reading.

Abstract: An optical recording medium is provided which can solve a problem of insufficient signal amplitude of one recording layer as compared with the other recording layer in a writable optical recording medium of a conventional double layer structure. An optical recording medium, in which a first substrate having a first groove formed thereon, a first recording layer formed on a first-groove forming surface of the first substrate, a semi-translucent first reflecting layer, an intermediate layer, a second recording layer, a second reflecting layer, and a second substrate having a second groove formed thereon are at least disposed in this order, wherein the optical recording medium further includes a heat conducting layer between the second recording layer and the intermediate layer and a heat insulating layer between the second recording layer and the second reflecting layer.

Abstract: An optical recording medium having a structure comprising at least a first substrate, a first recording layer capable of optical recording, a first reflection layer, an intermediate layer, a second recording layer capable of optical recording, a second reflection layer and a second substrate in this order from a side on which recording, reproducing or recording and reproducing laser light is applied, wherein the intermediate layer is composed of a resin having a glass transition temperature of 90° C. or greater.

Abstract: A sheet metal equipment sales method includes the following steps of: prompting a user to access from an information terminal; receiving engineering drawing-related information relating to the user's product by a seller's computer, editing the engineering drawing-related information, searching a product the same as or similar to the user's product from a database, performing demonstrative working of the user's product by actual equipment to prepare demonstrative working information; and distributing one of the user's product fabrication information and the demonstrative working information.

Abstract: A file which is virtually combined multiple files (a virtual combination file) is displayed as a thumbnail S. The part ‘A’ indicates the number of files that are virtually combined and the number of the file currently being displayed as a thumbnail S. The user can change the file that is displayed as a thumbnail S by operating the part ‘A’. The part ‘B’ indicates the number of files that are related to and grouped with the file being displayed as a thumbnail S and the number of the file currently being displayed as a thumbnail S. The user can easily keep track of the files that are virtually combined and the files that are registered as belonging to the same group as any of these files.

Abstract: A sheet sorting apparatus capable of changing the discharge priority bin in accordance with the number of sheets. The sheet sorting apparatus discharges sheets from a specified discharge port into a corresponding bin. The bins are constructed so as to be readily removable, and the discharge priority bin is determined based on the estimated number of discharge sheets and the capacity of the bin.

Abstract: An optical recording medium has a substrate having an annular grooves, a recording layer including an organic coloring matter and formed on the substrate, and a metallic reflection layer. The recording layer has a thickness so as to have an absorbance between 0.65 and 0.75. Information is recorded in the recording layer by a laser beam having a wavelength between 600 and 700 nm, using an objective lens having a numerical aperture between 0.55 and 0.70.

Abstract: A digital signal processor in which the control device transmits to and writes into the buffer memory the data necessary for multiplication or for generating addresses in the external memory, and then the data in the buffer memory is written into the internal memory during a single sampling period. This processing device contains an address comparator that compares the address set by the control device in the internal memory into which the data in the buffer memory is written, with the address in the internal memory controlled by the program, and then that produces control signals to write the data read from the buffer memory into the internal memory. The data read from the buffer memory is written into the internal memory, and is also used for multiplication or for generating addresses in the external memory.

Abstract: A process for producing a xylylene glycol, which comprises reacting a xylylene dichloride with an alkali metal or alkaline earth metal salt of acetic acid using a tertiary amine as catalyst in the presence of an inert organic solvent to effect esterification, removing the by-product inorganic chloride and the catalyst from the organic solvent layer containing diacetoxymethylbenzene which was formed, adding to the resulting organic solvent layer an aqueous alkali solution to effect saponification, separating the aqueous solution layer containing xylylene glycol which was formed, and extracting said aqueous solution layer with an extraction solvent to recover the xylylene glycol.