Abstract: An LCD control unit includes a software adjustment block for adjusting the ?-correction voltages by a software. The LCD control unit includes a voltage generator block generating n ?-correction voltages and m Vcom voltages based on a voltage address signal, a voltage selecting block selecting a pair of ?-correction voltages and a Vcom voltage based on a time series polarity control signal, and an LCD driver having a ?-correction resistor string which receives the ?-correction voltages at both the ends thereof. The LCD driver converts external data signals into display voltages having voltages corrected by the outputs from the ?-correction resistor string.

Abstract: An IC card is provided into which information can be written without requiring a writer. The IC card (1) includes an IC chip (3), an antenna (4), and a plurality of circuits (5), which are built into a card main body (2), terminals (6, 7) connected to the extremity of each of the circuits (5), and a conductive sticker (8) affixed to the surface of the card main body (2) and providing continuity between the terminals (6, 7). Among a plurality of the conductive stickers (8), by peeling off a particular conductive sticker (8), continuity of the circuit (5) corresponding to the peeled conductive sticker (8) is broken, and since the IC chip (3) transmits a signal corresponding to the continuity/discontinuity states of the plurality of circuits (5) to a reader, information can be written without requiring a special writer by simply peeling off the conductive sticker (8), thus greatly improving the convenience.

Abstract: A display control device of the present invention includes a gamma circuit producing and outputting a gray scale voltage and a selection drive circuit selecting the gray scale voltage on the basis of a pixel data displayed on a display device and outputting the selected gray scale voltage as a pixel driving signal to the display device. The selection drive circuit includes an analog memory and holds the selected gray scale voltage in the analog memory.

Abstract: A display control circuit (100) that may have a reduced power consumption has been disclosed. A display control (100) may include a plurality of output cells (3-1 to 3-N). Each output cell may include an amplifying circuit (35) for driving an output terminal (PS) to essentially a gray level voltage according to a display data (DIN). Amplifying circuit (35) may include a dead zone in which an output may be a high impedance when the output terminal is substantially the gray level voltage. An amplifying circuit (21) may be included to provide a drive for the output terminal (PS) in the vicinity of the gray level voltage. Amplifying circuit (21) may not include the dead zone. In this way, by providing the large drive by amplifying circuit (35) and a smaller drive strength by amplifying circuit (21), current consumption may be reduced.

Abstract: A gradation selector circuit provided with a resistor string circuit in which resistive elements are connected in series between a high potential power source and a low potential power source and a selector circuit which is connected to the resistor string circuit, which selects one of plural analog voltages generated in the resistor string circuit according to a control signal and which outputs it to an output terminal is used. The selector circuit includes analog switching circuits that select analog voltage close to intermediate potential. The analog switching circuit includes a P-type MOS transistor to the source electrode and the back gate electrode of which the resistor string circuit is connected and a depletion type N-type MOS transistor to the source electrode of which the drain electrode of the P-type MOS transistor is connected and to the drain electrode of which an output terminal is connected.

Abstract: A recording and reproducing device and method and program thereof is proposed, in which editing properties of the file of voice information recorded and stored are enhanced so as to exceptionally enhance the usability. In the recording and reproducing device and method and program thereof, in case a portion of the selected file on voice information is taken as unnecessary, each image located at the starting point of time and the end point of time of the portion of the file from among each image displayed is specified, and a portion of the file corresponding to the section from the image at the specified starting point of time to the image at the end point of time is erased, and after that, the remainder of the files before and after the section is connected to each other.

Abstract: A portable type recording and reproducing device including recording means for converting sound information output from sound collecting means to files in message units and recording the files on a predetermined recording medium, and recording image information output from photographing means on the recording medium in association with a corresponding file of sound information in response to a first external operation, display means for displaying images based on image information associated with respective files of sound information, and reproducing means for reproducing a file of sound information associated with an image selected by a predetermined second external operation among the images displayed by the display means.

Abstract: Disclosed are a portable recording/reproducing apparatus for recording predefined information onto a recording medium and reproducing the recorded information, and a method for controlling the apparatus.

Abstract: A recording and reproducing device including sound collecting means for collecting external sound, and outputting sound information corresponding to a result of sound collection, photographing means for photographing an outside, and outputting image information corresponding to a result of photographing, recording means for converting the sound information to files in message units and recording the files on a predetermined recording medium, and recording the image information on the recording medium in association with a corresponding file of sound information in response to a predetermined first external operation, display means for displaying images based on image information associated with respective files of sound information, and reproducing means for reproducing a file of sound information associated with an image selected by a predetermined second external operation among the images displayed by the display means.

Abstract: A bump bonding apparatus and method in which a ball 6 is formed on the tip end of a wire 4 by an electric discharge between the wire 4 and a discharge electrode 3, and a bump 8 is formed by joining this ball 6 to the pad 2 of a semiconductor chip 1. In cases where the position of the capillary 5, when the capillary 5 is lowered following the next ball formation and the tip end portion of the wire (ball 6 or stripped bump) comes into contact with the electrode pad 2 drops below the lower limit of the permissible error range of the ball contacting level (first detected position H1) of the capillary 5 at a time when a normally formed ball 6, comes into contact with the electrode pad 2, a bump non-adhesion signal is outputted, and the bonding operation is stopped.

Abstract: In a method for driving a common inversion type liquid crystal display apparatus including a plurality of signal lines, a plurality of scan lines, a common electrode, and a plurality of pixel units, a common voltage applied to the common electrode is inverted for scan line. Also, digital video signals each including a plurality of digital color signals are time-divisionally received while one of the scan lines is selected. Further, a sequence of the digital video signals including the digital color signals is changed for every two consecutive frames to time-divisionally generate an output sequence of analog video signals including analog color signals, so that each of the analog color signals is placed exclusively at predetermined time slots of the output sequence. Additionally, the output sequence of the analog video signals including the analog color signals are time-divisionally supplied to the signal lines so that the analog color signals are supplied to their corresponding signal lines.

Abstract: A display control circuit disclosed includes a selector circuit, an operational amplifier controlling circuit and an operational amplifier. The selector circuit is connected to a digital image data signal line to output an analog signal of the amplitude corresponding to input digital image data. The operational amplifier controlling circuit is connected to the digital image data signal line to output control signals of the polarity according to the input digital image data. The operational amplifier includes a first input stage and a second input stage, made up by complementary connection of differential transistor pairs of opposite conductivity types, and is designed to selectively turn on a first constant current source supplying the bias current to the first input stage or a second constant current source supplying the bias current to the second input stage depending on the polarity of the control signal.

Abstract: A editing apparatus and an editing method that allow a source group name, a destination group name, the total number of files of each of the source group and the destination group, and the file insertion position of the destination group to be represented with an integrated icon in the case that a file categorized as a group and recorded in one of at least one record medium is moved to another group.

Abstract: A wide sheet formed of a metal foil is wound a plurality of times around outer peripheral surfaces of four honeycomb matrices arranged in series to form an intermediate tube. As a result, a subassembly is formed. A brazing filler material is wound around an outer peripheral surface of the subassembly at an end portion thereof. The subassembly is inserted into an outer tube. The outer tube is caulked to reduce an outer diameter thereof. Then, heat processing is performed in vacuum to diffusion bond a corrugated sheet and a flat sheet, which form the honeycomb matrices, and the wide sheet of the intermediate tube to each other. The intermediate tube and the outer tube are brazed to each other. Thus, a metal substrate for carrying a catalyst is achieved.

Abstract: The present invention provides a liquid crystal panel driving circuit including an operational amplifier and a flexible substrate. The operational amplifier outputs an output signal based on an image signal and a feedback signal corresponding to the output signal without a high frequency content. In the flexible substrate with an inductance, the output signal passes through to a liquid crystal display via the inductance. The operational amplifier may include an operational amplifier element and a negative feedback circuit. The operational amplifier element includes a non-inverting input terminal supplied with the image signal, an inverting input terminal supplied with the feedback signal and an output terminal outputting the output signal. The negative feedback circuit formed between the output terminal and the inverting input terminal.

Abstract: A recording/reproducing apparatus has a control unit in which a position to pause and a time to pause are set for data which has been recorded on a recording medium and is continuous with respect to time, and when a current position reaches the set pause position during the reproduction of the data, the reproduction of the data is paused for the set pause period of time.

Abstract: Each gamma characteristic adjusting unit in a gamma correcting circuit selects a reference voltage from basic voltages generated by a basic voltage generating circuit based on correction adjustment data and selects a reference-voltage output terminal from reference-voltage output terminal candidates of a gamma correction resistor circuit as a target from which the reference voltage is to be output. As double adjustments based on such two-stage selection are possible, the adjustment range for the gamma characteristic can be made wider.

Abstract: A gradation selector circuit provided with a resistor string circuit in which resistive elements are connected in series between a high potential power source and a low potential power source and a selector circuit which is connected to the resistor string circuit, which selects one of plural analog voltages generated in the resistor string circuit according to a control signal and which outputs it to an output terminal is used. The selector circuit includes analog switching circuits that select analog voltage close to intermediate potential. The analog switching circuit includes a P-type MOS transistor to the source electrode and the back gate electrode of which the resistor string circuit is connected and a depletion type N-type MOS transistor to the source electrode of which the drain electrode of the P-type MOS transistor is connected and to the drain electrode of which an output terminal is connected.

Abstract: A liquid crystal drive circuit for AC-driving a liquid crystal panel, the liquid crystal drive circuit being constituted of a switched capacitor type D/A converter having a sample period and a hold period, the liquid crystal drive circuit comprising a differential operational amplifier 204, a first reference voltage input terminal 200 connected to one input terminal of the differential operational amplifier, a first capacitor group 205 connected to the other input terminal of the differential operational amplifier, for dividing second and third reference voltages 201 and 202, a second capacitor group 206 connected between an output terminal and the other input terminal of the differential operational amplifier, and switch means 207 to 218 for changing a connection condition of the first capacitor group and the second capacitor group to the differential operational amplifier, the switch means being on-off controlled at every predetermined periods for changing the connection condition, so that a color unevennes

Abstract: A wide sheet formed of a metal foil is wound a plurality of times around outer peripheral surfaces of four honeycomb matrices arranged in series to form an intermediate tube. As a result, a subassembly is formed. A brazing filler material is wound around an outer peripheral surface of the subassembly at an end portion thereof. The subassembly is inserted into an outer tube. The outer tube is caulked to reduce an outer diameter thereof. Then, heat processing is performed in vacuum to diffusion bond a corrugated sheet and a flat sheet, which form the honeycomb matrices, and the wide sheet of the intermediate tube to each other. The intermediate tube and the outer tube are brazed to each other. Thus, a metal substrate for carrying a catalyst is achieved.