Abstract: A sound volume controller includes a level adjustment section that adjusts a level of an input audio signal and outputs the adjusted input audio signal as an output audio signal, a level detection section that detects the level of the input audio signal, a volume value detection section that detects a volume value set by a user, a coefficient table storage section that stores a coefficient table which describes a relation between levels of the output audio signal and levels of the input audio signal, a coefficient table change section that changes the coefficient table stored in the coefficient table storage section in accordance with the volume value detected by the volume value detection section, and a setting section that sets an amount of level adjustment of the level adjustment section in accordance with the level of the input audio signal detected by the level detection section and the coefficient table.

Abstract: LPF and HPF extract bass and treble ranges, respectively, from an input sound signal, and bass and treble boost circuits perform dynamic range expansion/contraction on the extracted bass- and treble-range sound signals in accordance with input levels of the sound signals. The input sound signal and the sound signals output from the boost circuits are added together. There may also be provided coefficient calculation sections for calculating filter coefficients on the basis of the levels of the sound signals extracted by the LPF and HPF. In this case, the bass and treble boost sections perform, in accordance with the filter coefficients calculated by the corresponding coefficient calculation sections, filter processes for increasing/decreasing the levels of the bass and treble ranges, respectively.

Abstract: An effect adding method, includes: applying different gains to a positive side waveform portion and a negative side waveform portion of an audio signal respectively when absolute values of input levels of the positive side waveform portion and the negative side waveform portion are smaller than a predetermined value; producing a higher range component of the audio signal based on a high range component of the audio signal to which the gain is applied, the higher range component being higher in frequency than the high range component; producing a lower range component of the audio signal based on a low range component of the audio signal to which the gain is applied, the lower range component being lower in the frequency than the low range component; and synthesizing an audio signal having an effect sound by adding the audio signal to which the different gains are applied, the higher range component, and the lower range component with each other.

Abstract: A modulation device includes: a spread code generation unit which generates a spread code having a predetermined cycle; an audio signal input unit to which an audio signal is input; a first modulation unit which phase-modulates the spread code in each cycle on the basis of a data code; and a combining unit which combines the audio signal with a modulation signal which has been generated on the basis of the phase-modulated spread code and distributed in a frequency range higher than a predetermined frequency to output a combined signal.

Abstract: For providing a module for use of a mobile communication terminal, being small in sizes and high in reliability, and enabling with plural numbers of bands, and also a mobile communication terminal with using the same therein, canceling is conducted on transmission signal and/or noises of reception band on reception side with using a feed forward technology, for maintaining a degree of suppression of the transmission signal and/or the noises of reception band on the reception side. In this case, for achieving the cancellation of wide band signals from the transmission signal to the reception band, a delay adjusting function is used, in addition to gain and phase adjusting functions. Also, for conducting stable canceling of jamming signals, controls are conducted on the gain, the phase and the delay of a loop with using a reception SN and/or a CQI signal, etc. Further, for achieving low power consumption, a feed forward loop can be made ON/OFF depending on a level of the transmission signal.

Abstract: An effect adding method, includes: applying different gains to a positive side waveform portion and a negative side waveform portion of an audio signal respectively when absolute values of input levels of the positive side waveform portion and the negative side waveform portion are smaller than a predetermined value; producing a higher range component of the audio signal based on a high range component of the audio signal to which the gain is applied, the higher range component being higher in frequency than the high range component; producing a lower range component of the audio signal based on a low range component of the audio signal to which the gain is applied, the lower range component being lower in the frequency than the low range component; and synthesizing an audio signal having an effect sound by adding the audio signal to which the different gains are applied, the higher range component, and the lower range component with each other.

Abstract: Signals in two different bands (band components) are extracted from an input signal by an HPF and a BPF, and frequency-shift processing is performed by an MPY. Further, in order to adjust levels of an interface between the band components of shifted frequency to a high-frequency band side and the input signal, band components with which the input signal is adjacent to the high-frequency band extension components are extracted by an HPF. Then, a gain is controlled on the basis of the output values from the HPF and the HPF so as to reduce a difference between the components of shifted frequencies and the level of the input signal by the level correction coefficient calculating unit and the MPY. Then, the shifted components are added to the high-frequency band of the input signal by an ADDER.

Abstract: Within a short-distance wireless transmitting apparatus for use of TV, for transmitting video without interruption and with low power consumption, a transmitter portion having a reception frequency differing from a transmission frequency is provided on a station side having a video source, and a receiver portion for receiving the frequency corresponding to a reception frequency band of the station side and also a transmitter portion for transmitting the frequency corresponding to a reception frequency band of the station side are provided on a panel side for displaying, in the structure thereof, wherein transmission/reception can be operated, simultaneously, by FDD separating in frequency for transmission. The frequency of the transmitter on the panel side is determined upon basis of a scan result, while scanning a vacant frequency on the station side, and thereby enabling to escape from an interference from other system, when the panel executes the transmission, in the structure thereof.

Abstract: A three-dimensional puzzle which forms a regular polyhedron and has not conventionally existed is realized. In addition, a three-dimensional puzzle which realizes a Fedrov space filling solid and has not conventionally existed is realized. According to the invention, a three-dimensional puzzle is provided having a regular polyhedron consisting of a plurality of convex polyhedrons which fill an interior of the regular polyhedron comprising the plurality of convex polyhedrons having a plurality of a pair of convex polyhedrons in a mirroring image relationship, wherein the plurality of convex polyhedrons are indivisible into two or more congruent shaped polyhedrons. In addition, the plurality of convex polyhedrons may be four convex polyhedrons and include three pairs of convex polyhedrons in a mirroring image relationship. Further the plurality of convex polyhedrons may be five convex polyhedrons and include four pairs of convex polyhedrons in a mirroring image relationship.

Abstract: In a digital broadcasting receiving apparatus, channel selection that switches a physical channel requires a longer period of time than analog. To solve the above problem, for example, there are provided two systems each including a digital tuner and a decoder, wherein channel selection and decoding are carried out by a second tuner and decoder respectively, when the user carries out the channel selection operation. During this time, the first system continues decoding. At the moment when the user carries out the channel selection operation, the luminance is decreased to some extent to allow the user to intuitively know that the channel selection operation is started, and then the luminance is further decreased gradually. When the luminance reaches zero, the decoding is started in the second system, and then the system to display is switched.

Abstract: In a receiving apparatus and a method for setting a receiving antenna thereof, for dissolving a problem of necessity of a large amount of time for channel search, since it needs a time for setting up the receiving antenna at each physical channel, in the channel search operation, including searching of receivable channels and also memorization of an optimal setup for each of the receiving channels, receiving conditions are obtained for all of the physical channels in each of the setups of receiving antenna, and this obtaining of the receiving condition is conducted on all of the setups of the receiving antenna. In that instance, a number of times of controlling the setup of receiving antenna is determined to be a number of combinations of the setups of receiving antenna, and thereby shortening the time necessary for the setup of the receiving antenna and the time necessary for channel preset.

Abstract: In a receiving apparatus equipped with a plurality of tuners, if a reception antenna is controlled in such a manner that a reception condition of a channel tuned by one tuner may become suitable, then a reception condition of the channel tuned by another tuner does not always become suitable. The receiving apparatus is provided with an antenna control unit which controls a reception antenna whose reception condition can be set, a first receiving unit, a second receiving unit, and a storage unit which stores thereinto tuning information such as a tuning channel, signal quality information, and a reception antenna setting condition. The receiving apparatus calculates a setting condition of the reception antenna capable of obtaining suitable receiving conditions in both the first and second receiving units by employing tuning information in a first channel and tuning information in a second channel.

Abstract: A medical training apparatus that is capable of recording a training history based on a medical training scenario and storing an evaluation of training that corresponds to the training history is provided. The medical training apparatus includes a training-history-information storage unit, an evaluation input unit, an operation unit, and a training-evaluation-information storage unit. The training-history-information storage unit stores history information about a training session that has been performed under a preset medical training scenario. The evaluation input unit inputs an evaluation result for either the training session or the history information stored in the training-history-information storage unit, with respect to a predetermined evaluation item for each predetermined matter. The operation unit performs an arithmetic operation on the evaluation result that has been input with the evaluation input unit.

Abstract: The present invention provides an easy-to-search program guide having efficient display contents of program information when receiving digital broadcasting from plural transmission media. A program information extracting unit extracts program information for channels receivable from a first and a second transmission media, and stores the extracted program information of individual channels in a storing unit. A program information integrating unit, when integrating program information of the first transmission media and program information of the second transmission media, compares program information stored in the storing unit, and integrates duplicate program information of a same channel, if any, into one piece of program information. A display contents creating unit creates a program guide based on the integrated program information, and displays it in a display unit.

Abstract: When a channel which is not scrambled is selected, an error occurs in a digital stream processed in a CA processing module, which causes noises to occur in video and audio signals to be viewed. If a FAT channel to be received is a channel that is not CA-scrambled, a digital stream is directly supplied from a FAT demodulator to a demultiplexer without passing the digital stream through an external processing module. As a result, no noise occurs in video and audio signals to be viewed because the video and audio signals are not influenced by an error of the digital stream that occurs in the processing module.

Abstract: A rubber crawler running device which includes a drive wheel connected to a drive shaft of a vehicle body, an idler wheel, and a rubber crawler having rubber projections formed on an inner peripheral surface thereof at predetermined intervals, the drive wheel and the idler wheel being disposed substantially horizontally, the rubber crawler being wound around the drive wheel and the idler wheel and contacting the running surface, wherein the drive wheel is formed so that engaging teeth thereof which engage with the rubber projections are exposed at right and left sides, and further comprising a guide skirt body fixed to the vehicle body and disposed at transverse direction outer sides of the drive wheel at a portion at which the rubber crawler is wound around the drive wheel, with a gap being kept between the drive wheel and the guide skirt body.

Abstract: Signals in two different bands (band components) are extracted from an input signal by an HPF and a BPF, and frequency-shift processing is performed by an MPY. Further, in order to adjust levels of an interface between the band components of shifted frequency to a high-frequency band side and the input signal, band components with which the input signal is adjacent to the high-frequency band extension components are extracted by an HPF. Then, a gain is controlled on the basis of the output values from the HPF and the HPF so as to reduce a difference between the components of shifted frequencies and the level of the input signal by the level correction coefficient calculating unit and the MPY. Then, the shifted components are added to the high-frequency band of the input signal by an ADDER.

Abstract: A sound volume controller includes a level adjustment section that adjusts a level of an input audio signal and outputs the adjusted input audio signal as an output audio signal, a level detection section that detects the level of the input audio signal, a volume value detection section that detects a volume value set by a user, a coefficient table storage section that stores a coefficient table which describes a relation between levels of the output audio signal and levels of the input audio signal, a coefficient table change section that changes the coefficient table stored in the coefficient table storage section in accordance with the volume value detected by the volume value detection section, and a setting section that sets an amount of level adjustment of the level adjustment section in accordance with the level of the input audio signal detected by the level detection section and the coefficient table.

Abstract: For enabling a counter-program recording when viewing a program, with only one (1) system of POD, a digital broadcast receiving apparatus, for receiving information being scrambled or coded, comprises a display unit for displaying the information being scrambled or coded thereon, a recording unit for recording the information being scrambled or coded, therein; and a controller unit for setting up timing for releasing the information recorded in the recording unit from scrambling or coding thereof, thereby achieving recording of the counter-program, by recording the contents while being descrambled, when recoding the counter-program during when viewing the program, and turning back the stream into POD when a user does not use the receiving apparatus or upon an operation of the user, so as to re-record that descrambled therein.

Abstract: The invention provides a tread pattern which is required to have traction with respect to the ground and which suppresses generation of vibration during traveling of a vehicle, and provides a tread pattern which provides traction and reduced vibration regardless of expected usage conditions or under usage conditions that are different from expected usage conditions. A tread pattern which provides improved traction with reduced vibration generation in which a contact patch is divided in the width direction thereof into right and left areas with respect to the traveling direction of the vehicle and each of the right and left areas is provided with tread lugs, wherein long-, middle-, and short-pitches are provided in each of the right and left areas, the tread patterns of the right and left areas are asymmetrical to each other, and total areas of the contact patches of each of the right and left areas are substantially equal to each other.