Abstract: A component measuring apparatus is provided with a case having a cylindrical case main body and a cover arranged to cover the base end opening section of the case main body; a chip mounting section for mounting a chip; a light measuring section for detecting a prescribed component; a printed board whereupon a control section having a function of controlling the operation of the light measuring section is arranged; a liquid crystal display device; a battery arranging section for arranging a battery provided on the cover; an O-ring arranged between the case main body and the light measuring section on the leading end section of the case main body; and an O-ring arranged between the case main body and the cover on the base end opening section of the case main body. Sealing of inside the case is ensured by the O-ring.

Abstract: A digital broadcasting receiving apparatus is characterized in that the digital broadcasting receiving apparatus is provided with an antenna combination determination processing unit for selecting at least two antennas from among a plurality of antennas which have directivities in different directions and each of which receives a digital broadcasting wave transmitted from outside the digital broadcasting receiving apparatus, and for providing an instruction for switching among the above-mentioned plurality of antennas on the basis of a state of reception of the digital broadcasting waves received by the selected antennas, and switches for switching among the above-mentioned plurality of antennas according to the instruction from the above-mentioned combination determination processing unit.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a OFDM signal receiver device that performs weighting for branch metrics based on average noise power or signal-to-noise power ratio and conducts Viterbi decoding based on the result of the weighting. In the present invention, based on a demodulated signal, electric power corresponding to a noise component contained in the demodulated signal is calculated. A noise power signal corresponding to the result of the calculation is output from a noise power-calculating unit 8. Based on the noise power signal and a transmission channel characteristic corresponding to a subcarrier component that is output from an interpolation filter unit, a weighing factor for a branch metric is calculated by a weighting factor-calculating unit 9, and based on the weighting factor, the demodulated signal is decoded by decoding unit 10.

Abstract: A diversity receiver is provided with antennas (1a) and (1b) in a first branch and antennas (1c) and (1d) in a second branch each of which antenna gains is controlled so that the offset between the directions of directional radiation patterns for the first and second branches becomes approximately ?/2. Thereby, the diversity receiver can obtain a sufficient diversity gain even when it is incorporated into an indoor television with the antennas being built thereinto in close vicinity to one another.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a OFDM signal receiver device that performs weighting for branch metrics based on average noise power or signal-to-noise power ratio and conducts Viterbi decoding based on the result of the weighting. In the present invention, based on a demodulated signal, electric power corresponding to a noise component contained in the demodulated signal is calculated, A noise power signal corresponding to the result of the calculation is output from a noise power-calculating unit 8. Based on the noise power signal and a transmission channel characteristic corresponding to a subcarrier component that is output from an interpolation filter unit, a weighing factor for a branch metric is calculated by a weighting factor-calculating unit 9, and based on the weighting factor, the demodulated signal is decoded by decoding unit 10.

Abstract: An image reproduction apparatus which converts a sampling frequency from a first frequency to a second frequency, performs interfield interpolation at a third frequency, and converts the sampling frequency from the third frequency to the first frequency, wherein the interfield-interpolation is performed at the first frequency between signals one field apart from each other. The apparatus also converts a number of vertical scanning lines to convert a high definition TV signal of the MUSE format to a signal of NTSC format, sets a scanning period used in the vertical scanning line conversion, and generates a coefficient used in the vertical scanning line conversion.

Abstract: A MUSE-NTSC converter of a relatively simple and small scale circuit design. An oscillation signal from a 28.63636 MHz oscillator (20) is eight times as large as a subcarrier frequency fsc. A Y image processing circuit (17) and a chroma encoder (18) can perform various kinds of processing, such as dividing a frequency of the oscillation signal from the 28.63636 MHz oscillator (20) and the like, to produce a subcarrier frequency. A signal separating circuit (3') receives the oscillation signal from the 28.63636 MHz oscillator (20) as a single system clock and performs some kinds of signal processing which vary from a full wide mode to a zoom mode. Thus, in performing PLL on system clocks in the MUSE mode and the NTSC mode, there may be only one PLL circuit (21) for synchronizing an oscillation signal from a 32.4 MHz oscillator (19) and the oscillation signal from the 28.63636 MHz oscillator (20) in phase.