Abstract: A throttle valve device ideal for small, inexpensive implements is provided. The throttle valve device having a damping member for slowly closing a throttle valve. The throttle valve device (1) has a throttle valve (4) that is fixed to a throttle shaft (5) pivotably supported in an air intake passage (2) and that is urged towards the closed direction, the throttle valve (4) adapted for adjusting the amount of air passing through the air intake passage (2). A through-bore (31) penetrating a shaft bore of the throttle shaft (5) is formed in a body, and a damping member (8) having frictional capabilities is inserted into and supported in the through-bore (31) in a state of pressing against the throttle shaft (5) inserted through the shaft bore (51).

Abstract: According to one embodiment, an electronic apparatus comprises a communication device, a first controller, a second controller, and a player. The communication device has a close proximity wireless communication function. The first controller establishes connection between a wireless device and the communication device in a proximity state. The second controller connects the electronic apparatus to a server through the close proximity wireless communication function and a wireless communication function of the wireless device. The player plays a content received from the server through the close proximity wireless communication function and the wireless communication function of the wireless device, to halt playing the content when the proximity state is released during the playing, and resume playing the content when the proximity state is restored.

Abstract: The present invention provides an image processor for outputting image data to an image forming device forming an image with use of a recording material having a plurality of color components. The processor comprises a component determining a region having higher brightness than predetermined brightness and a region having lower brightness than the predetermined brightness in the image data based on the image data and a component adjusting saturation so as to reduce density values of color components other than a color component having a maximum density value among the plurality of color components of the recording material to increase saturation in a region having brightness determined to be high and reduce density values of color components other than a color component having a minimum density value among the plurality of color components of the recording material to decrease saturation in a region having brightness determined to be low.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, an electronic device includes an input module and a video output module. The input module is configured to receive video contents data including motion picture data. The video output module is configured to output the motion picture data to a first display device and to output image data of a first screen for command entry for the video contents data to a second display device when video contents are displayable at the first and the second display devices. The video output module is configured to output image data of a second screen for displaying the motion pictures and an image for the command entry to one of the first and second display devices at which the video contents are displayable.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, a connection control module is configured to transmit a connection request signal during a period in which a communication module is in an unconnected state, and to establish a connection between the communication module and an external device which are in a close proximity state. A halt module is configured to halt a communication control module from executing a negotiation with the external device, when the connection between the communication module and the external device is released by the connection release request signal from the external device and thereafter the connection between the communication module and the external device is re-established by the connection control module.

Abstract: An image processing apparatus which performs processing of applying blur processing to divided image data, and compositing divided images having undergone the blur processing, the apparatus comprises an out of image boundary estimation unit which estimates a pixel out of an image boundary of image data for each of first image data subjected to the blur processing and second image data neighboring the first image data among the divided image data; and a blurring image generation unit which generates blurring image data for the first image data by performing the blur processing using a filter for the first image data while referring to the first image data, the second image data, and an estimation pixel estimated by the out of image boundary estimation unit.

Abstract: The DMA data transfer apparatus includes a memory, a communication controller, a DMA controller having a plurality of DMA engines each of which transfers data by DMA to the communication controller from the memory, and a DMA control unit. The DMA control unit determines a division size of transfer data such that the DMA engine can transfer the data, issues a data transfer directive by the DMA to the DMA controller, and controls data transfer by the DMA. The DMA control unit transmits the determination information for determination of the termination of data transfer to the communication controller. The communication controller determines the termination of data transfer based on the determination information transmitted from the DMA control unit.

Abstract: Provided is a device for issuing a synchronization message in a large-scaled computing system including an interconnect and a plurality of computing devices that is connected to the interconnect. The interconnect includes a plurality of switches that is connected to each other. The device sends a synchronization message for synchronizing computing processes on the computing devices to all the computing devices at same timing via the switches that are directly connected to any of the computing devices by using a protocol for a general-purpose interconnect.

Abstract: A node-to-node synchronizing apparatus includes an information generating unit. Before receiving a synchronization request for synchronization, the information generating unit receives, from each process in each computing node, a mask generation request requesting to generate process location information (mask) indicating the location of processes that participate in synchronization. The information generating unit then automatically generates the process location information based on the mask generation request.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus is provided, which forms an image by causing color material to adhere onto a print medium. The apparatus comprises a measurement component configured to measure an output density gradation characteristic of the apparatus, and a calculation component configured to calculate a color material consumption according to a dot pattern of a halftone image and the output density gradation characteristic.

Abstract: A broadcast receiving apparatus includes an operation receiving module for receiving a user operation; a broadcast receiving module for receiving broadcast contents including view restriction level information; a view restricting module for restricting viewing of the broadcast contents if the view restriction level information meets preset conditions; a decoding module for decoding the broadcast contents not being subject to the view restriction; and a display control module. The display control module displays videos of the decoded broadcast contents on a display device and to display, in a first form, a predetermined object displayed on the display device if the broadcast contents are not subject to the view restriction. The display control module also displays the object in a second form if the broadcast contents are subject to the view restriction. The view restricting module releases the view restriction if the operation receiving unit receives a user operation on the object.

Abstract: A wireless data-transferring apparatus performs wireless communication with an information-processing terminal. The data-transferring apparatus includes a unit for receiving broadcast program data, a unit for compression-encoding the broadcast program data received by the receiving unit, and a communications control device. The communications control device is configured to perform data-transfer between an external network and the information-processing terminal, in accordance with requests transmitted by radio signal from the information-processing terminal, and to transmit, by radio signal, data received from the external network and the compression-encoded broadcast program data to the information-processing terminal in a time-divided fashion when the communications control device receives the compression-encoded broadcast program data provided in the apparatus.

Abstract: The present invention provides an image processor for outputting image data to an image forming device forming an image with use of a recording material having a plurality of color components. The processor comprises a component determining a region having higher brightness than predetermined brightness and a region having lower brightness than the predetermined brightness in the image data based on the image data and a component adjusting saturation so as to reduce density values of color components other than a color component having a maximum density value among the plurality of color components of the recording material to increase saturation in a region having brightness determined to be high and reduce density values of color components other than a color component having a minimum density value among the plurality of color components of the recording material to decrease saturation in a region having brightness determined to be low.

Abstract: In an optical pickup apparatus body, an APC light-receiving element is arranged halfway along an optical path between a collimating lens and an objective lens, at a position which is entered by laser light which enters the objective lens and spreads out of an effective diameter D1. The APC light-receiving circuit detects divergence of a light flux that has been transmitted through the collimating lens, caused by correcting spherical aberration. In an optical pickup apparatus, an APC circuit calculates based on an output signal from the APC light-receiving element to control a current supplied from an LD driving circuit to an LD so that a light amount of the light flux emitted from the objective lens is kept fixed even though the divergence is changed.

Abstract: An optical/electrical interconnect board includes a base material composing an electrical circuit; a plurality of light receiving/emitting units, each of the units being constituted by a light emitting element and a light receiving element packaged on the base material; and an optical fiber tape that connects the light emitting element to the light receiving element for each of the light receiving/emitting units, the optical fiber tape being formed by bringing together optical wires for the units in a side-by-side manner and coating with a first coating material.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, a TV signal receiving apparatus includes a plurality of tuners which receive TV signals and an auto scan controller. The controller executes an auto scan function of scanning an entire range of a frequency band, which is receivable by said plurality of tuners, by scanning a predetermined unit of a frequency and of detecting a channel viewable at an area located therein at the time of scanning, in parallel by using the plurality of tuners.

Abstract: A data storing unit includes a plurality of areas divided in a predetermined range. A data writing unit writes, when reception data is received from outside, the reception data and a reception status indicating a status of the reception data in one area of the data writing unit collectively with a single writing operation, in such a manner that the reception status is located at an end of the one area.

Abstract: In a data transmitting and receiving apparatus, payloads of packets received from the first device are accumulated in a storage unit, a designated payload volume DSPS is calculated based on DSPS=TP×(1?RR/TR), where TP is a total payload volume of a packet received at a certain time point from the first device, RR is receiving rate of packets, and TR is transmitting rate of packets, and transmission is-started of the payload accumulated in the storage unit to the second device when a payload volume RPS accumulated in the storage unit has reached the designated payload volume DSPS.

Abstract: The DMA data transfer apparatus includes a memory, a communication controller, a DMA controller having a plurality of DMA engines each of which transfers data by DMA to the communication controller from the memory, and a DMA control unit. The DMA control unit determines a division size of transfer data such that the DMA engine can transfer the data, issues a data transfer directive by the DMA to the DMA controller, and controls data transfer by the DMA. The DMA control unit transmits the determination information for determination of the termination of data transfer to the communication controller. The communication controller determines the termination of data transfer based on the determination information transmitted from the DMA control unit.

Abstract: A female terminal fitting has a rectangular tubular body (12) with opposed first and second walls (16, 17) and an insertion opening (15) for receiving a tab (11). An elastic contact piece (21) is inside the body (12) and extends obliquely from a support (27) on the second wall (17) of the body (12) towards both the first wall (16) and the insertion opening (15). The elastic contact piece (21) then bends back towards the second wall (17) to define an apex (23). A projection (30) projects toward the first wall (16) from a location on the elastic contact piece (21) between the support (27) and the apex (23). The elastic contact piece (21) deforms flexibly about the support (27) when the tab (11) is inserted into the body (12), thus sandwiching the tab (11) between a contact (31) of the projection (30) and the first wall (16).