Abstract: A solid graphic arranging/editing method enables a user to enter or edit a solid graphic viewed on a display. According to the method, three points of a rectangular parallelepiped are specified, and the solid is arranged to be inscribed within the parallelepiped. A reference plane is then defined and a first point on the reference plane is specified. A local coordinate plane is also defined and a second point is specified on the local coordinate plane. A rectangle lying in the local coordinate plane and having the first and second points as diagonal vertices is then displayed. Auxiliary lines perpendicular to the local coordinate plane and passing the second point are also displayed and a third point on a selected auxiliary line is displayed. A rectangular parallelepiped is then displayed having the rectangle as one surface and the third point as a vertex. The position of the solid and the scales are then adjusted such that the solid is inscribed in the rectangular parellelepiped.

Abstract: An image data compression method in which reductions in data amount are achieved by deleting some pixel data. Compression is achieved by performing a reading step to read an image as plural pixel data and a deleting step to delete some of the pixel data. A prediction error calculating step calculates a prediction error that represents the difference between the color value pixel data of a pixel in question and the predicted color value thereof, as predicted by a prescribed prediction method from the pixel data of a pixel adjacent thereto. An area classifying step classifies the pixel data of the entire image area into either an abrupt color change areas type in which the prediction error is large or a nonabrupt color change area in which the prediction error is small. The deleting step is performed only on the pixel data classified in the nonabrupt color change area; deleted-position information is appended to the non-deleted pixel data that indicates the position of a pixel whose data has been deleted.

Abstract: A motion picture reproducing apparatus having a file composed of a header an image track on which image data have been recorded for a predetermined period of time and a sound track on which sound data have been recorded for the predetermined period of time. The image and sound data of the file are provided with track and data identifying numbers by a track identifying section and a data identifying section, respectively, and are outputted to a data synchronizing section. The data synchronizing section reads in order the image data and the sound data on the basis of the control information of the header, synchronizes the image data and the sound data to which the same data identifying numbers have been imparted with reference to the track and data identifying numbers which have been given to the image data and sound data, and outputs the image and sound data to reproduction units.

Abstract: In a 3-dimensional animation generating apparatus which uses a computer, the user generates a number of static images having parent-child relationships and which serve as key frames in the sequence from the start to the end of the animation, a number of animation frames specified by the user being automatically inserted between the key frames by means of interpolation. In this 3-dimensional animation generating apparatus, the times of each of the key frames as specified by the user are stored, the parent object coordinates and child object coordinates generated by the user are stored in a world coordinate system, along with parent-child relationship in each of the key frames.

Abstract: A portable motor-driven staple machine comprises: a trigger operation detecting switch 5 which is turned on and off by a trigger lever 3; a contact detecting switch 25 which is turned on and off by a contact arm 23; a cycle completion detecting switch 21 which is turned on and off by a plunger 17; and a mode change-over switch for selecting a single cycle operation mode or a continuous operation mode. Those switches are connected to a control circuit 26. When the trigger lever 3 is operated with the contact detecting switch 25 in "off" state, a timer section in the control circuit 26 counts clock pulses so that when it is detected that a predetermined period of time has passed, the switch "on" signal of the trigger operation detecting switch 5 is cut off.

Abstract: A device comprises a look-up table translating unit, a region dividing unit and a reduced image generating unit to reduce the size of a color image using look-up tables and a reference look-up table. Each of the look-up and reference look-up tables has as many entries as there are the pixel values. The look-up table translating unit creates an entry check table. The entry check table is for translating the table entries of the look-up table into the those of the reference look-up table. The region dividing unit divides the original color image into a plurality of regions. The reduced image generating unit accesses the entry check table and the reference look-up table to selectively determine a representative pixel of the region based on the RGB values thereof to generate the reduced color images.

Abstract: The method comprises a read-out step for reading out the image data from a predetermined recording medium according to a frame unit; an image outputting step for image-outputting the frame data read out in the read-out step; a time measuring step for measuring a reproductive processing time taken from a start of reading out in the read-out step to an end of outputting of an image in the image outputting step according to a frame unit; a predicting step for predicting an image output time of next frame data to be reproduced next to the frame data on the basis of the reproductive processing time measured in the time measuring step; a detecting step for detecting an image output time set per frame data from the image data; and a determining step for determining next frame data to be reproduced next to the frame data in accordance with the image output time predicted in the predicting step and the image output time detected in the detecting step.

Abstract: A video data reproducing apparatus and method therefor having a file controller section for controlling video data recorded on a first recording medium at random positions, and further, having a second recording medium for recording the video data in a serial manner. The apparatus includes a decision section for judging whether to select the video data of either the first recording medium or the second recording medium. A first reading section reads out the data of the first recording medium through the file controller section when the first recording medium is selected by the decision section, and a second reading section reads out the video data to a buffer memory from the second recording medium, without any intervention of the file controller section, when the second recording medium is selected by the decision section.

Abstract: A cutting machine for cutting a workpiece is disclosed, which comprises a feed conveyor for feeding the workpiece, a position matching unit for effecting position matching of the workpiece fed on the feed conveyer, position matching correcting unit for checking and calculating the deviation of the workpiece, cutting means for cutting the workpiece fed on the feed conveyer according to the deviation calculated by the position matching correcting unit, a pick-up unit for picking up cut parts from the cutting means by a suction system, a discharging conveyer for feeding parts picked up by the pick-up unit, and interlock control means for interlock controlling the individual components.

Abstract: An apparatus including an image pick-up device, a data storage controlling arrangement, a main memory, a mass storage device, and a manipulation size setting unit. The image pick-up device picks up images to produce image data and stores the same into a frame buffer. The main memory offers rapid access but low storage capacity and stores the image data supplied from the frame buffer. The mass storage device is capable of holding a vast amount of memory but cannot be accessed very quickly. It also stores the image data supplied from the frame buffer. The manipulation size setting unit sets a mask region and a frame rate both of which are necessary for storing the image data into the mass storage device.

Abstract: Novel hydroquinone derivatives of the formulae (I) and (II), ##STR1## wherein R.sup.1 is an alkyl group having 7 to 11 carbon atoms, ##STR2## wherein each of R.sup.2 to R.sup.5 is independently a hydrogen atom, a lower alkyl group or a lower alkoxy group provided that at least one of R.sup.2 to R.sup.5 is a lower alkyl group or a lower alkoxy group, and R.sup.6 is an alkyl group having a carbon chain of at least 2 carbon atoms. as compounds having antioxidant activity and tumor incidence inhibiting activity, and an antioxidant and a tumor incidence inhibitor containing, as an active ingredient, a hydroquinone derivative of the formula (III), ##STR3## wherein each of R.sup.7 to R.sup.10 is independently a hydrogen atom, a lower alkyl group or a lower alkoxy group, and R.sup.11 is an alkyl group having a carbon chain of at least 2 carbon atoms, and/or a salt thereof.

Abstract: By the selective use of a homogeneous stable precursor solution in which no polymerization reactions immediately occur and which contains aromatic compounds such as pyrrole, thiophene, aromatic amines or their derivatives, oxidizing agents, and solvents, as a precursor solution of conductive polymer film, a homogeneous and tough conductive polymer film can be obtained when the said precursor solution is cast on a substrate and the solvents are evaporated to remove.

Abstract: A hollow article or sheet of a copolyester which comprises, as main components, terephthalic acid as a dicarboxylic acid component and ethylene glycol as a diol component and which is characterized by:(1) isophthalic acid as a dicarboxylic acid component being from 0.5 to 3.0 mol %,(2) diethylene glycol as a diol component being from 1.0 to 2.5 mol %,(3) the intrinsic viscosity being from 0.60 to 1.50 dl/g,(4) the concentration of terminal carboxyl groups being at most 18 eq/ton, and(5) the content of a cyclic trimer being at most 0.40% by weight.

Abstract: Novel 3,4-dihydroxychalcone derivatives useful as a pharmaceutical material, and novel anti-inflammatory preparations. The 3,4-dihydroxychalcone derivatives are compounds of the formula [I], ##STR1## wherein X is a substituted phenyl group represented, e.g., by the formula (i), ##STR2## in which R.sup.1 is a hydrogen atom or an alkyl group and R.sup.2 is an alkyl group, an alkoxy group or an --OH group (excluding an OH-group in the 4-position)or salts thereof. The anti-inflammatory preparations contain one of the above 3,4-dihydroxychalcone derivatives as an active ingredient.

Abstract: A food composition prepared from a lactic acid fermented aqueous liquorice extract which is free of the disadvantages of extremely strong sweetness which makes liquorice extracts unsuitable for maintaining and enhancing the pharmacological activities (both disease preventing and treating effects) of treating ulcers and hepatic diseases.

Abstract: A copolyester which comprises, as main components, terephthalic acid as a dicarboxylic acid component and ethylene glycol as a diol component and which is characterized by:(1) isophthalic acid as a dicarboxylic acid component being from 0.5 to 3.0 mol %,(2) diethylene glycol as a diol component being from 1.0 to 2.5 mol %,(3) the intrinsic viscosity being from 0.60 to 1.50 dl/g,(4) the concentration of terminal carboxyl groups being at most 18 eq/ton, and(5) the content of a cyclic trimer being at most 0.40% by weight.

Abstract: The preparation for preventing and curing organ dysfunctions, provided by the present invention, is a medicament having the activity to prevent and cure organ dysfunctions which active oxygen species and active organic radical species would cause, and unconventionally improved in stability in vivo by containing, as an active component, the ascorbic acid derivative of the formula, ##STR1## wherein R.sub.2 is a group selected from the class consisting of an alkylcarbonyl lower alkyl group of which the terminal alkyl group has 7 inclusive to 15 inclusive carbon atoms, an alkyl group having 9 inclusive to 17 inclusive alkyl groups and an alkoxycarbonyl lower alkyl group of which the terminal alkoxy group has 7 inclusive to 20 inclusive carbon atoms; and the ascorbic acid derivative of the above formula in which R.sub.

Abstract: This invention relates to a novel ascorbic acid derivative having excellent antioxidant action and a process for preparing the same.Furthermore, this invention also relates to a novel antioxidant comprising the aforementioned ascorbic acid derivative or other known ascorbic acid derivatives.

Abstract: 2',3,4,4'-tetrahydroxychalcone and pharmacologically acceptable salts thereof are used as a therapeutic agent for treatment of renal disorders, and have activity for treatment of renal disorders and also for treatment of renal disorders accompanied by digestive disorders, and/or general inflammations, and/or allergic diseases.

Abstract: This invention relates to a novel ascorbic acid derivative having excellent antioxidant action and a process for preparing the same.Furthermore, this invention also relates to a novel antioxidant comprising the aforementioned ascorbic acid derivative or other known ascorbic acid derivatives.