Abstract: A speech recognition device starts to generate dictionary data for each type of name based on name data and paraphrase data, and executes dictionary registration of the dictionary data. The speech recognition device obtains text information same as text information for generating the dictionary data last time. When back-up data corresponding to the last time text information is generated, the speech recognition device executes the dictionary registration of the dictionary data generated as the back-up data. Further, a dictionary data generation device executes the dictionary registration of the dictionary data based on given name data every time the dictionary data generation device completes generation of the dictionary data based on the given name data.

Abstract: A multilayer ceramic electronic component that has a multilayer portion having an outer layer portion adjacent region including an area in contact with an outer layer portion that forms a thermal-shock absorbing portion that includes curved ceramic layers and inner electrode layers smoothly varying in thickness from point to point. A region to an inside of the thermal-shock absorbing portion forms a normal multilayer portion that includes ceramic layers with less curvature than the ceramic layers in the thermal-shock absorbing portion and inner electrode layers with less variation in thickness from point to point in a direction along a principal surface of the outer layer portion than the inner electrode layers in the thermal-shock absorbing portion.

Abstract: A laminated body is divided into a large grain region and a small grain region. The large grain region is located outside the small grain region, and a boundary surface between the regions is located inside the outer surface of the laminated body while surrounding a section in which internal electrodes are present in the laminated body. To obtain the laminated body, firing is carried out with a profile in which the average rate of increase from room to the maximum temperature is 40° C./second or more.

Abstract: A laminated ceramic capacitor including a laminated body having a plurality of stacked ceramic layers and internal electrodes located between the ceramic layers. The internal electrodes have a plurality of ceramic columnar members formed therein, which project into the internal electrodes from interfaces between the ceramic layers and the internal electrodes, but do not penetrate in the thickness direction of the internal electrodes.

Abstract: A speech recognition device starts to generate dictionary data for each type of name based on name data and paraphrase data, and executes dictionary registration of the dictionary data. The speech recognition device obtains text information same as text information for generating the dictionary data last time. When back-up data corresponding to the last time text information is generated, the speech recognition device executes the dictionary registration of the dictionary data generated as the back-up data. Further, a dictionary data generation device executes the dictionary registration of the dictionary data based on given name data every time the dictionary data generation device completes generation of the dictionary data based on the given name data.

Abstract: A multilayer ceramic electronic component that has a multilayer portion having an outer layer portion adjacent region including an area in contact with an outer layer portion that forms a thermal-shock absorbing portion that includes curved ceramic layers and inner electrode layers smoothly varying in thickness from point to point. A region to an inside of the thermal-shock absorbing portion forms a normal multilayer portion that includes ceramic layers with less curvature than the ceramic layers in the thermal-shock absorbing portion and inner electrode layers with less variation in thickness from point to point in a direction along a principal surface of the outer layer portion than the inner electrode layers in the thermal-shock absorbing portion.

Abstract: A method of manufacturing a laminated body in a raw state for a laminated ceramic capacitor, which includes dielectric ceramic layers containing a dielectric ceramic raw material powder for and internal electrodes, in which a heat treatment is carried out in accordance with a temperature profile in which the average rate of temperature rise is 40° C./second or more from room temperature to a maximum temperature. The dielectric ceramic raw material powder contains a BaTiO3 system as its main constituent and contains Re (Re is at least one selected from Sc, Y, La, Ce, Pr, Nd, Pm, Sm, Eu, Gd, Tb, Dy, Ho, Er, Tm, Yb, and Lu) as an accessory constituent, in which the content of Re is 0.3 to 3 parts by mol with respect to 100 parts by mol of the main constituent.

Abstract: A laminated body is divided into a large grain region and a small grain region. The large grain region is located outside the small grain region, and a boundary surface between the regions is located inside the outer surface of the laminated body while surrounding a section in which internal electrodes are present in the laminated body. To obtain the laminated body, firing is carried out with a profile in which the average rate of increase from room to the maximum temperature is 40° C./second or more.

Abstract: Changes in states giving rise to electrode breakage and ball formation are made less likely during firing step for sintering the laminated body, and the improvement in DC bias characteristics is achieved in laminated ceramic electronic components with a laminated body which has internal electrodes, even when ceramic layers and the internal electrodes are reduced in thickness. The laminated body is divided into a large grain region in which the ceramic has a relatively large grain diameter and a small grain region in which the ceramic has a relatively small grain diameter. The large grain region is located outside the small grain region, and a boundary surface between the large grain region and the small grain region is located inside the outer surface of the laminated body while surrounding a section in which the internal electrodes are present in the laminated body.

Abstract: A method of manufacturing a laminated body in a raw state for a laminated ceramic capacitor, which includes dielectric ceramic layers containing a dielectric ceramic raw material powder for and internal electrodes, in which a heat treatment is carried out in accordance with a temperature profile in which the average rate of temperature rise is 40° C./second or more from room temperature to a maximum temperature. The dielectric ceramic raw material powder contains a BaTiO3 system as its main constituent and contains Re (Re is at least one selected from Sc, Y, La, Ce, Pr, Nd, Pm, Sm, Eu, Gd, Tb, Dy, Ho, Er, Tm, Yb, and Lu) as an accessory constituent, in which the content of Re is 0.3 to 3 parts by mol with respect to 100 parts by mol of the main constituent.

Abstract: An electromagnetic relay has a movable contact arranged at one end of a drive shaft that reciprocates in an axis center direction based on excitation and demagnetization of an electromagnet block, and a pair of adjacently arranged fixed contacts with which the movable contact is operable to contact and separate. A first electromagnetic iron piece, a second electromagnetic iron piece and the movable contact are inserted to the drive shaft so that the first electromagnetic iron piece and the second electromagnetic iron piece sandwich the movable contact. The second electromagnetic iron piece is biased to one end side of the drive shaft with a coil spring inserted to the drive shaft. When the movable contact contacts to the pair of fixed contacts, the second electromagnetic iron piece forming a magnetic circuit with the first electromagnetic iron piece pushes the movable contact to the pair of fixed contacts.

Abstract: Changes in states giving rise to electrode breakage and ball formation are made less likely during firing step for sintering the laminated body, and the improvement in DC bias characteristics is achieved in laminated ceramic electronic components with a laminated body which has internal electrodes, even when ceramic layers and the internal electrodes are reduced in thickness. The laminated body is divided into a large grain region in which the ceramic has a relatively large grain diameter and a small grain region in which the ceramic has a relatively small grain diameter. The large grain region is located outside the small grain region, and a boundary surface between the large grain region and the small grain region is located inside the outer surface of the laminated body while surrounding a section in which the internal electrodes are present in the laminated body.

Abstract: An electromagnetic relay has a movable contact arranged at one end of a drive shaft that reciprocates in an axis center direction based on excitation and demagnetization of an electromagnet block, and a pair of adjacently arranged fixed contacts with which the movable contact is operable to contact and separate. A first electromagnetic iron piece, a second electromagnetic iron piece and the movable contact are inserted to the drive shaft so that the first electromagnetic iron piece and the second electromagnetic iron piece sandwich the movable contact. The second electromagnetic iron piece is biased to one end side of the drive shaft with a coil spring inserted to the drive shaft. When the movable contact contacts to the pair of fixed contacts, the second electromagnetic iron piece forming a magnetic circuit with the first electromagnetic iron piece pushes the movable contact to the pair of fixed contacts.

Abstract: A camera having a photographic mode automatic selecting apparatus. A photographic mode selecting device selects a photographic mode from a plurality of photographic modes. A photographic distance detecting device detects photographic distance data of a photographic lens. The photographic mode selecting device selects an appropriate photographic mode from the plurality of photographic modes based on the photographic distance data of the photographic lens.

Abstract: The present invention relates to an optical camera having a zoom function in which a focal length can be varied or the variation is actuated by a focal length changing member, and in particular to a camera in which a focal length is varied through a motor.The optical camera has a zoom lens operable by a rotatable zoom ring for changing the focal length thereof. An automatic focusing operation is effected by a control means when the focal length is changed so that an image of an object viewed through a viewfinder remains in focus. The zoom lens can include a motor and an in-exposure zoom control means can be provided for controlling zooming movement of the lens during an exposure operation.

Abstract: A camera wherein exposure parameters fixed by a program line can be shifted along an exposure value EV line so that exposure parameters for an exposure operation are based on the shifted program line according to the preference of the camera user.The camera has setting means for temporarily changing these exposure parameters at a constant exposure value with respect to the values predetermined by a program line. A counting means counts the number of times that a shutter is released while the program line is shifted in one direction and control means stores the changed values for shifting the program line under certain conditions. In this way a learning function is provided to learn the aforementioned tendency of the user.

Abstract: The present invention relates to an optical camera having a zoom function in which a focal length can be varied or the variation is actuated by a focal length changing member, and in particular to a camera in which a focal length is varied through a motor.The optical camera has a zoom lens operable by a rotatable zoom ring for changing the focal length thereof. An automatic focusing operation is effected by a control means when the focal length is changed so that an image of an object viewed through a viewfinder remains in focus. The zoom lens can include a motor and an in-exposure zoom control means can be provided for controlling zooming movement of the lens during an exposure operation.

Abstract: An information setting and displaying device for a camera, has a ring-like rotary dial rotatably mounted in an adjustable manner on a camera body. A display member includes at least a pair of display sub-areas arranged inside the rotary dial and successively along an inner periphery of the rotary dial. An information setting mechanism changes information in a predetermined order responsive to rotation of the dial. A display control mechanism displays current set information in one of the display sub-areas, and displays proposed information, to be set as the rotary dial rotates, in the direction from the current display sub-area toward another display sub-area.

Abstract: An information setting and displaying device for a camera has a rotary dial mounted on a camera body to be rotatable stepwise. A display member is provided adjacent the rotary dial, and includes at least a pair of display sub-areas arranged along the direction in which the rotary dial rotates. An information setting mechanism sets information by operating said rotary dial. A display control mechanism displays current set information in one of the display sub-areas and displays a proposed information, to be set as the rotary dial rotates in a direction from one of the display sub-area toward the other display sub-area by at least one step. The proposed information is displayed in the other display sub-area. The information includes at least one of a shutter speed, a diaphragm stop, and an exposure compensation value.

Abstract: A camera having a zoom lens. The camera includes a shutter, an aperture and program exposure mode control. The program exposure control includes one or more reference program characteristics representing combinations of shutter speed and aperture corresponding to one or more of a portrait mode, a landscape mode and a close up mode. Each reference program characteristics define a predetermined aperture in a first range from a low shutter speed to a hand-induced vibration limit and defines a different aperture in a second range beyond the hand-induced vibration limit. One of the reference program characteristics is selected, wherein the hand-induced vibration limit is defined in accordance with a focal length of said zoom lens.