Abstract: A robot performing a variety of actions is disclosed. The voice of a user picked up by a microphone is recognized by a voice recognizer. A gesture of the user picked up by a CCD is recognized by an image recognizer. A behavior decision unit decides the behavior to be taken by the robot based on the voice information provided by the voice recognizer and the image information provided by the image recognizer.

Abstract: A robot performing a variety of actions is disclosed.

Abstract: A touch panel apparatus of the type in which a plurality of photo-detecting pairs generate a plurality of detecting beams which cross the display surface and including a circuit for reducing the sensitivity of the photo-detecting pairs at the corners of the display surface to prevent malfunction due to reflected beams caused by the relatively higher intensity beams at those locations resulting from the relatively shorter beam lengths

Abstract: A graphic image display system allows image data input through a data input apparatus to be displayed precisely. The graphic image display system is also able to display graphic images with satisfactorily high resolution. The graphic image display system according to the present invention comprises a scanning laser beam and a thermal liquid crystal cell. The system further includes a transparent data touch tablet secured to a display screen. Auxiliary laser detectors may be added for reading the image written in the liquid crystal cell. Preferably, a common laser optical system is used to generate the display image and to read the written image.

Abstract: A touch panel apparatus which, when attached to a display having a substantially cylindrical display surface, reduces the effects of parallax by having a first set of plural light source - photo-detector pairs provided adjacent the cylindrical display surface for generating and detecting a first set of parallel light beams passing across the cylindrical display surface of the display, a second set of plural light source photo-detector pairs provided adjacent the cylindrical display surface for generating and detecting a second set of parallel light beams passing across the cylindrical display surface of the display, wherein the first and second sets of light beams are non-parallel relative to the principal direction of cylindrical curvature of the cylindrical display surface, and a process circuit connected to the first and second sets of light source - photo-detector pairs for determining coordinates by detecting interrupted light beams.

Abstract: A touch panel apparatus having a display, a first beam generator for generating a first set of beams skewed to the right, arranged in parallel to each other and aligned from the upper left to the lower right relative to the display surface of the display, a first beam scanner coupled to the first beam generator for scanning the display surface by the first set of beams with a predetermined sequence, a second beam generator for generating a second set of beams skewed to the left, arranged in parallel to each other and aligned from the upper right to the lower left relative to the display surface of the display, a second beam scanner coupled to the second beam generator for scanning the display surface by the second set of beams with a predetermined sequence, a first calculator for determining a first address based on an interrupted beam first appearing in the alignment sequence of the first set of beams, and a second calculator for determining a second address based on an interrupted beam first appearing in th

Abstract: A coordinate position digitizing system comprises a position determining plate having a plurality of first conductors extending in parallel with one another at regularly spaced intervals. A plurality of second conductors also extend in parallel with one another at regularly spaced intervals and across the first conductors. Driving and controlling means are provided in common to the first conductors and the second conductors for selectively energizing in turn one or more of the first conductors and second conductors, for example, by supplying a direct current flowing therethrough. Pick-up means, such as a magnetic flux detecting means, is movably set on the position determining plate for producing a signal in response to field variations on the position determining plate caused by the selective energization of the first conductors and second conductors.

Abstract: A coordinate position digitizing system to be used with a cathode ray tube, comprises a position determining plate having a plurality of conductors extending parallel with one another at regularly spaced intervals, and driving means for supplying a constant current selectively to the conductors, one after another, within a horizontal scanning period of the cathode ray tube. Magnetic flux detecting means detects magnetic flux on the position determining plate, and a band pass filter eliminates a noise component resulting from the deflection magnetic field of the cathode ray tube. Positional data defining a position of the magnetic flux detecting means on the position determining plate is produced in response to the output of the band pass filter.

Abstract: A coordinate position digitizing system incorporates apparatus for detecting the X and Y positions of a voltage detecting device relative to a position determining plate employing apparatus for generating data corresponding to the X and Y positions of said voltage detecting device on said plate at successive sampling times, means for calculating the difference corresponding to the difference in the indicated position at two successive sampling periods, and rejecting signals indicating positions which differ from previous positions by distances which are greater than a predetermined amount, corresponding to the maximum distance that the voltage detecting device can be moved between successive sampling periods. In this way, position-indicating signals which are corrupted by noise pulses or the like are rejected.

Abstract: A coordinate position digitizing system comprises a position determining plate having a plurality of first parallel strip electrodes provided on one surface of a insulating layer to form plural groups thereof each connected in common and a plurality of second parallel electrodes each having the width wider than that of each of the first electrodes and provided on the other surface of the insulating layer to extend in the direction perpendicular to the first electrodes, a detecting electrode provided to face to the surface of the insulating layer on which the first electrodes are provided and connected through a predetermined capacitance to a reference potential point for producing a signal in response to a voltage obtained thereat, driving and controlling means for supplying with a constant voltage selectively to the groups of the first electrodes one after another during a first period and also supplying with the constant voltage selectively to the second electrodes one after another during a second period,

Abstract: A pickup cartridge comprises a magnetic circuit having an air gap, a coil wound on the magnetic circuit and a cantilever having a permanent magnet inserted in to the air gap. In this case, the magnetic circuit comprises a delta-shaped jointless core having the air gap at its vertical angle, and the coil is inserted through the air gap and fixed to the core.

Abstract: In a color television system having a video tape recorder and a color television receiver which includes an automatic control circuit for automatically controlling color level and hue with a reference signal contained in a predetermined horizontal scanning line section of a video signal, and which is so designed that a broadcasting signal and a reproduced signal of the video tape recorder are selectively received by the color television receiver, the automatic control circuit rendered inoperative in response to a change-over operation by which the color television system is changed over to apply the reproduced signal of the video tape recorder to the color television receiver.

Abstract: A color television receiver for receiving a composite color television signal of the type having a chrominance component and which may include a VIR signal having a chrominance reference signal, comprises an input circuit, such as a band-pass amplifier, for receiving the chrominance signal and the chrominance reference signal, a chrominance demodulator for transforming the chrominance signal into red, blue, and green color signals, a video image display for presenting the color signals as a video picture, and a chrominance channel providing a pathway for the chrominance signal and chrominance reference signal between the input circuit and the chrominance demodulator. Included in the chrominance channel are first and second variable gain control circuits. A VIR-signal sensitive circuit is included to control the first variable gain control circuit in accordance with the amplitude of the chrominance reference signal.

Abstract: In a color television receiving circuit, a color-demodulating subcarrier signal produced by an oscillator is applied through a first variable phase shifter and further through a second variable phase shifter to a color demodulator circuit. The subcarrier signal, after passing through only the first variable phase shifter, is applied to a second color demodulator circuit provided particularly for hue error detection. When a received composite color television signal includes a vertical interval reference (VIR) signal, the detected output from the hue-error demodulator circuit is used to control the amount of phase shift of the first variable phase shifter, thereby automatically correcting the color hue. On the contrary, when the received signal does not include the VIR signal, the amount of phase shift of the first variable phase shifter is constant.