Abstract: A focusing device of a photographing lens for focusing by rotating a rotary tube relative to a stationary tube comprises a set-hold unit including a to-be-detected unit movable with the rotary tube and a detection unit movable to the to-be-detected unit; a first drive unit for driving the detection unit relative to the to-be-detected unit; the detection unit producing a distance signal representing a distance between the detection unit and the to-be-detected unit; a first drive control unit for controlling the first drive unit to keep the relative distance between the detection unit and the to-be-detected unit to a predetermined relation in accordance with the distance signal from the detection unit; a command unit for issuing a command signal; a second drive unit for driving the rotary tube; and a second drive control unit for controlling the second drive unit in response to the command signal from the command means to keep the relative distance between the detection unit and the to-be-detected unit to a pre

Abstract: A display apparatus includes a display panel having a display picture area formed by scanning electrodes and data electrodes arranged in a matrix. A display data storage memory stores data supplied from a display data input device. A controller controls the display data storage memory to store the moving display data. The controller also supplies address data for designating only the scanning lines corresponding to the moving display data so as to control the electrode matrix to scan only the scanning lines on which the moving display data is written.

Abstract: A display apparatus, comprises a plurality of pixels arranged in pluralities of rows and columns. A plurality of first control lines is provided, each connecting a column of pixels in common, and a plurality of second control lines is provided, each connecting a row of pixels in common. The first control lines are divided into a plurality of blocks. Third control lines are disposed so that the first control lines in each of the blocks are commonly connected by a third control line. A multiplexing switching element is disposed at each connection between the third control lines and the first control lines. Further, a difference in output voltage between two multiplexing switching elements disposed at a boundary between a neighboring pair of blocks is 50 mV or less.

Abstract: Compound of the general formula (I), which is useful as an agricultural and horticultural fungicide, an agricultural and horticultural fungicidal composition containing said compound, use of said composition for controlling plant disease, and process for the production of said compound: ##STR1## wherein ##STR2## shows a case in which R.sup.3 and R.sup.4 together form a cyclic substituent, and R.sup.1 and R.sup.4 are substituents disclosed in the specification.

Abstract: A display apparatus includes (a) a display panel having a display picture area formed by scanning electrodes and data electrodes arranged in a matrix; (b) a driver including a first driver for driving the scanning electrodes and a second driver for driving the data electrodes; and (c) a controller for controlling the driver so as to repeat a partial rewriting scanning operation by applying a scanning selection signal to only a part of the scanning electrodes forming the display picture area. In addition, the apparatus operates in an interlace mode when normal field scanning is performed and in a non-interlace mode when partial scanning is being performed to change the position of the cursor. In addition, the apparatus includes a flag memory for setting one bit of data for each electrode.

Abstract: A driving apparatus comprises a driving unit and a drive voltage generating unit. The driving unit includes a scanning electrode driver and a data electrode driver for driving an electrode matrix formed of scanning electrodes and data electrodes. The drive voltage generating unit includes a first means for generating a fixed voltage, a second means for generating a source voltage for providing drive voltages for driving the electrode matrix, and a third means for generating a first voltage equal to a subtraction of the fixed voltage from the source voltage and a second voltage equal to a subtraction of the source voltage from the fixed voltage. The first and second voltages are preferably controlled so as to vary depending on an external temperature.

Abstract: A lens assembly for an automatic focusing camera having an automatic focusing mode and a manual focusing mode comprises an optical system including a lens group shiftable along an optical axis to perform a focusing operation, a focusing operation member rotatable around the optical axis to shift the lens group along the optical axis to perform the focusing operation, a power drive device for power driving the focusing operation member, a focusing handling member rotatable around the focusing operation member to perform the focusing operation manually, a connection element including a plurality of engaging recesses formed in an outer periphery of the focusing operation member at predetermined intervals in a circumferential direction, and a connecting member shiftable in a radial direction to engage with one of the recesses, the connecting element being adapted to transmit the rotation of the manual focusing handling member to the focusing operation member through the connecting member, and a changing-over devi

Abstract: A display control unit is combined with a display device including a display element and electrodes for applying an electric field to the display element. The display control unit includes a control unit for changing and setting a plurality of voltages applied to the electrodes such that one of the plurality of voltages is fixed, and differences between the fixed voltage and other voltages are kept at a predetermined ratio.

Abstract: An improvement in a capacity control valve for use in a fluid compressor with a relatively high pressure HP and a relatively low pressure LP for changing the operational characteristics thereof by using the relatively high pressure HP taking into consideration that an increased pressure loss of the refrigerant as generated from an increased flow rate thereof and the thermal load on the car cooler would occasionally occur on the part of the relatively high pressure HP during the operation.

Abstract: A zoom lens assembly comprises a photo-taking optical system having a focusing portion, a zooming portion, and an optic axis, a manual operator movable in the direction of the optic axis for zooming and rotatable about the optic axis for focusing, an electrically rotated drive shaft, a member for moving the zooming portion of the photo-taking optical system for zooming in response to the movement of the manual operator in the direction of the optic axis, an intermediate member rotatable in response to the rotation of the manual operator to move the focusing portion of the photo-taking optical system for focusing, and movable in the direction of the optic axis with the manual operator, a transmission system for coupling the intermediate member to the drive member for movement in the direction of the optic axis to thereby transmit the rotation of the drive member to the intermediate member irrespective of the movement of the intermediate member in the direction of the optic axis, and a change-over device operab

Abstract: An active matrix type display panel comprising a first base plate, a second base plate, and a liquid crystal disposed therebetween. The first base plate has thin film transistors formed thereon in the form of a matrix. The second base plate has a counter electrode formed thereon. The source of the thin film transistor are connected to information signal input electrodes which form counter electrodes of capacitive elements for sampling-and-holding information signals.

Abstract: An active matrix-type display device including a plurality of field effect transistors arranged in a matrix, a plurality of gate lines, an apparatus for combining the gate lines in a set of combinations each containing two or more gate lines and for changing the set of combinations, and a driver for sequentially driving the combinations of gate lines so that the gate lines contained in a combination are driven simultaneously and all the gate lines are scanned in one vertical scanning period.

Abstract: A method of driving a liquid crystal display panel which is suitable to display a multivalue image such as a television image or the like, including the steps of inverting an image signal every time a horizontal sync signal is generated, applying the image signal to source lines of the display panel, and synchronously applying an inversion control signal to the common opposite electrode of the display panel, thereby remarkably reducing the driving voltage of the source lines. In this manner, a high-speed CMOS device of a low withstanding voltage can be used as an integrated circuit to drive the source lines.

Abstract: In a method of driving a liquid crystal panel using one horizontal period (1H) as a reversal period, the liquid crystal panel using a TFT as a switching element for driving the panel in units of divided blocks and comprising the block division TFT's (B-TFT), a matrix circuit for driving each block in time division, and a TFT active matrix panel; each block of the B-TFT's is further divided into two half-blocks and a control signal shifted in phase between adjacent two half-blocks is applied to time-divisionally drive the liquid crystal panel at superposed timings. High intensity lines produced at the intersection of blocks due to the charge sharing effect are eliminated to thereby enable a high quality image to be produced.

Abstract: A photoelectric conversion apparatus includes light reception elements which are rendered enabled under application of voltage; a first memory section for storing outputs from the light reception elements in the enabled state; a second memory section for storing outputs from the light reception elements in a disabled state; and an arithmetic operation circuit for correcting the contents of the first memory section in accordance with the contents of the second memory section.

Abstract: A novel ketene S,S-acetal derivative which is useful as an antimycotic agent and an agricultural chemical of fungicidal, plant growth regulating or insecticidal properties represented by the general formula (I): ##STR1## wherein R represents a hydrogen atom; an alkyl group having 1 to 8 carbon atoms; a cycloalkyl group having 3 to 6 carbon atoms; a methylene group; a lower alkenyl group; a lower alkyl group substituted by a halogen atom, a cyano group, a lower alkoxyl group, a lower alkylthio group; a carbamoyl group, an acyl group, or an alkenoyloxy group; a phenyl group represented by ##STR2## (in which R.sub.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display panel comprising: a liquid crystal display section; an array section of switching elements connected to first information signal lines of the liquid crystal display section, respectively; a driving circuit section which divides the switching element array section into a plurality of blocks and time-sharingly drives these blocks on a block unit basis; second information signal lines of wirings as many as the number of switching elements of one block among those blocks being connected to the driving circuit section; an information signal output circuit for applying an information signal to the second information signal lines; and an arithmetic operating circuit for correcting the information signal which is applied to the second information signal line in the previous block near the next block between the previous block which is previously driven and the next block which is driven next when the panel is time-sharingly driven for every block to an information signal to eliminate a high l

Abstract: In a photographing lens barrel having a manual operation ring and a stationary ring, a device for locking said manual operation ring is provided. The locking device includes a lock member projecting from one of said two rings, a lock part formed on the other ring to engage with said lock member, and a lock-operating member movable between a lock position and an unlock position. The lock operating member is biased toward said locking position by spring means and is held in said unlock position by limiting means.

Abstract: In a photographing lens, only a second dioptric system is moved in the direction of the optical axis for focusing while keeping constant the positional relation between a first dioptric system and first and second catoptric systems. The first catoptric system has a through-hole formed at the central area. The second dioptric system is moved within a range containing the through-hole and the area near the through-hole. A driving mechanism for moving the second dioptric system is so mounted as to pass through the first catoptric system. The driving mechanism includes a slide member and a movement-expanding member. The slide member is slidable in the direction along the optical axis interlocking with the motion of an operation member. The movement-expanding member expands the movement of the slide member and transmits the expanded movement to the second dioptric system.

Abstract: A novel ketene S,S-acetal derivative which is useful as an antimycotic agent and an agricultural chemical of fungicidal, plant growth regulating or insecticidal properties represented by the general formula (I): ##STR1## wherein R represents a hydrogen atom; an alkyl group having 1 to 8 carbon atoms; a cycloalkyl group having 3 to 6 carbon atoms; a methylene group; a lower alkenyl group; a lower alkyl group substituted by a halogen atom, a cyano group, a lower alkoxy group, a lower alkylthio group; a carbamoyl group, an acyl group, or an alkenoyloxy group; a phenyl group represented by ##STR2## (in which R.sub.