Abstract: A storage apparatus includes a base, an assembly frame, a box, a cover, and an open/close mechanism. The assembly frame is demarcated in the base. The box is buried in the assembly frame, and has a surface in which a storage opening is opened. The cover covers the storage opening and can be opened or closed. The open/close mechanism includes a guide portion, a guided portion, and an interval disposed between the guide portion and the guided portion. The guide portion is disposed on the assembly frame and/or the box. The guided portion is disposed on the cover and is guided by the guide portion. The interval is minimized at one of an open position, at which the cover opens the storage opening, and a closed position, at which the cover closes the storage opening.

Abstract: An electronic device includes a substrate, a first conductive material layer formed on the substrate, a patterning layer formed on the first conductive material layer, the patterning layer including first and second patterning layer parts having different critical surface tension, an insulation layer formed on the second patterning layer part of the patterning layer, the insulation layer including first and second insulation layer parts having different critical surface tension, and a second conductive material layer formed on the first patterning layer part and the first insulation layer part.

Abstract: [Problems] To easily associate the parameters representing the acoustic characteristic of a hearing aid with the audibility of the hearing aid user, shorten the time for adjusting the hearing aid, and improve the accuracy of the adjustment of the parameter. [Means for Solving Problems] By applying a two-dimensional matrix for changing the acoustic parameters of the hearing aid, a person adjusting the hearing aid can easily change the acoustic parameters depending on the audibility of the hearing aid user, the accuracy of the adjustment of the acoustic parameters is improved, and the period of time for adjusting the hearing aid is shortened.

Abstract: Disclosed is a memory device having a transistor, the transistor including a substrate; a gate electrode formed on the substrate; an insulation layer formed on the gate electrode, the gate electrode and the insulation layer forming a convex portion; a conductive layer formed at a top of the convex portion; a source electrode formed on one side of the convex portion on the substrate; a drain electrode formed on the other side of the convex portion on the substrate where the source electrode is not formed; and a semiconductor layer formed on the insulation layer existing between the conductive layer and the source electrode and between the conductive layer and the drain electrode.

Abstract: It is an object of the present invention to provide a wireless communication system, which ensures that communication can be maintained in an excellent status although a mobile wireless station may be moved in a service area. A CPU (210) of a mobile wireless station (2) in process of transmission is operated to causes a receiving circuit (202) to periodically notify the CPU (210) of the electric field intensity of a received radio wave. When the electric field intensity of the received radio wave becomes lower than a predetermined value, the CPU (210) is operated to judge the distance from a base station (1), with which the mobile wireless station (2) is currently communicating, is increased, and the CPU (210) is operated to control the receiving circuit (202) to receive radio waves on transmission frequencies of base stations (1) other than the base station (1) and detect the electric field intensities of the received radio waves.

Abstract: The invention provides a conjuring assisting toy which can make a viewer feel the supernatural force and interestedness which are inherent in a conjuring trick by displaying the result of a conjuring trick through simple operations, there is provided a conjuring assisting toy including a display means for displaying an image, a coordinate inputting means for designating coordinates relative to a display area of the display means, and a central control means, wherein the central control means includes a main control unit, a conjuring data storage unit, an input analyzing unit and an operation unit, an operation result storage unit, an inputted diagram storage unit, and an image data forming and outputting unit, an inputted position signal is analyzed by the input analyzing unit, the main control unit causes position information based on the inputted position signal to be stored in the inputted diagram storage unit, causes the display means to display a line image, determines specific feature information from i

Abstract: An object of this invention is to quickly complete white balance calculation in photographing. To achieve this object, an image sensing apparatus includes an image sensing element in which a line on which first and second color filters are arranged and a line on which first and third color filters are arranged are alternately arrayed on pixels, an image sensing controller which forms an image of one frame by n fields (n is an odd number), and reads out pixel data of the image sensing element so as to contain all color components in each 1-field period, a white balance calculation device which performs process on the basis of image data read out from the image sensing element by the image sensing controller, and starts the process before read of one frame from the image sensing element is completed by the image sensing controller.

Abstract: A current driver includes a gate line having a first and second nodes, K driving transistors, a terminal and a voltage generation section. The terminal receives a first current. The voltage generation section generates a bias voltage according to a current value of the first current. The gate line receives, at one of the first and second nodes, the bias voltage generated by the voltage generation section. Gates of the K transistors are connected between the first and second nodes of the gate line. In the voltage generation section, the relationship between the first current and the bias voltage is adjusted in the first mode, according to a current value of an output current flowing in a first driving transistor of the K driving transistors, and in the second mode, according to a current value of an output current flowing in a second driving transistor of the K driving transistors.

Abstract: The invention provides a conjuring tool which can be used as the magic implement for various magic tricks so that perform in more magical style, the conjuring tool is comprised of a traveling body having wheels which are pivotally attached to rotatable wheel shafts, a stopping device for stopping the rotation of the wheels when the traveling body run a prescribed distance is provided on the traveling body, wherein the stopping device has a gearwheel having a locking protrusion, a gearwheel for meshing the gearwheel having the locking protrusion and a wheel gear provided on the wheel shafts, and a locking part which can engage with the locking protrusion.

Abstract: Image data representative of features of a respective plurality images are transformed using a two dimension discrete cosine transform (DCT), and the DCT sign coefficients of the respective DCT transforms for the images are selectively used to generate a highly compressed and secure one-dimension binary data representation of a subject image whose image data has undergone a DCT transform. The binary data representation can be, for example, of a face image and is readily applicable to a passport, a credit card, a driver's license, an ID card, and the like, for use in rapid, secure face authentication.

Abstract: A multi-CPU computer which is capable of positively performing error handling, and restarting a system even when a fatal error has occurred in a CPU. When a hardware error has occurred in a first CPU, error information is notified to a second CPU by a first error notification circuit of the first CPU. Then, the error information notified from the first CPU is obtained by a second error notification circuit of the second CPU, and error handling based on the error information is requested of an operating system. The second CPU executes a process for storing fault information including the error information in a storage device and a process for restarting the system, according to the operating system.

Abstract: An object detection apparatus and method capable of detecting objects based on visual images captured by a self-moving unit. A sequential images output section makes a train of a first input image and a second input image sequential to the first input image and outputs said train. A local area image processor calculates local flows based on said first input image and said second input image. An inertia information acquiring section measures self-motion of the unit to calculate inertia information thereof. A global area image processor uses said inertia information to estimate global flow, which is a motion field of the entire view associated to the self-motion, using said global flow and said first input image and creates a predictive image of said second input image. The global area image processor then calculates differential image data, which is a difference between said predictive image and said second input image.

Abstract: This invention is to shorten the time of white balance processing. In order to achieve this object, this invention provides an image sensing apparatus including an image sensing section which senses an object image and scans charge of pixels by interlaced-scanning to acquire image data of one frame by two fields, a memory which temporarily sequentially stores the image data output from the image sensing section, and a control section which reads out the image data in a first field and that in a second field from the memory and calculates a white balance coefficient before the image data in the second field is completely read from the image sensing section.

Abstract: An embedded semiconductor device substrate having a semiconductor device integrated therein is formed by disposing a semiconductor device in an opening provided on an insulating resin, and sandwiching the semiconductor device and the insulating resin with a front surface wiring layer and a rear surface wiring layer and performing heat pressing. Connection between bumps of the semiconductor device and the front surface wiring layer is made with a connection wiring pattern. The connection wiring pattern is formed by patterning a resist film by direct exposure thereof with a light beam, and then performing etching. Thereby, it becomes possible to absorb a mounting error of a semiconductor device to a printed wiring board and a positional error of electrodes between semiconductor devices accompanying the tendency of reduction of the pitch of a semiconductor device, and to perform electric connection with a wiring pattern securely.

Abstract: A technique is disclosed, which can shorten attack time and release time without using RC filter with time constant. According to this technique, diodes 51 and 52 rectify AC signal at output stage of an amplifier 30 by voltage doubler rectification, and a smoothing capacitor 53 smoothens the signals rectified by the diodes 51 and 52. A transistor 41 of an attenuation circuit 40 turns on when DC voltage smoothened by the smoothing capacitor exceeds a predetermined level, and level of the output signal of the amplifier is attenuated by drawing the input signal of the amplifier.

Abstract: An image of an inspection object is picked up by an image pickup unit, and a characteristics quantity of an image of a defect part extracted by a defect extracting unit is extracted and digitized by a characteristics extracting unit. A database preparing unit regroups defects having similar characteristics by a defect classification unit on the basis of the characteristics information digitized by the characteristics extracting unit with respect to defects belonging to a defect group selected and designated by an operator via a display/input unit, and prepares on a database memory a database in which the defects of the inspection object are hierarchically classified.

Abstract: The present invention provides a packaging system that includes a beak-shaped hopper, a pair of opening and closing bars, and a sensor for sensing a limitless opening and closing movement of the opening and closing bars. The beak-shaped hopper and the pair of opening and closing bars are operable to move in unison back and forth along a main travel path. The main travel path leads to a rotary vacuum packaging device having a pressure resistant chamber. The beak-shaped hopper is dimensioned to convey packaging bags into the pressure resistant chamber. The opening and closing bars are dimensioned to detect a bag on the hopper by opening towards both sides immediately after a bag has been conveyed into the pressure resistant chamber. A pushing bar is dimensioned to convey an item to be packaged into the bag when the bag is detected on the hopper by the opening and closing bars. The opening and closing bars contact a sensor for detecting movement of the opening and closing bars when a bag is not on the hopper.

Abstract: If a failure is detected in a system, it is automatically judged which operation mode should be selected, a system-down mode or a dynamic degeneracy mode. If a failed device is severed from the system, the severance of the device is reported by making a device control unit access the device or changing the state of the device.

Abstract: A housing for enclosing an electronic control unit is constructed of a resinous cover and a metallic case having heat conductivity higher than that of the resinous cover. An air intake module is mounted on an engine inside an engine compartment. The air intake module forms an air passage through which air flows from an air inlet toward the engine. The electronic control unit is mounted on the air intake module such that the metallic case is exposed to the air passage in the air intake module and the resinous cover is exposed to the outside of the air intake module, that is, exposed in the engine compartment.

Abstract: In a stacked semiconductor package, since electric power is supplied to a second semiconductor package through a first semiconductor package, a power supply path becomes complicated and fluctuation of its inductance becomes large, whereby power bounce occurs to reduce signal quality and also prevent high speed signal communication. Therefore, according to the present invention, a first solder ball group for joint to a printed wiring board is attached to a second layer of the first semiconductor package, and a second solder ball group for joint to the first semiconductor package and a solder group for power supply for direct joint to the printed wiring board are provided on the second layer of the second semiconductor package, whereby electric power can be directly supplied from the printed wiring board.