Abstract: A tape packing method capable of packing a tape in such a mode that it can be let off with neither twist nor entanglement from its packing box. When the tape 1 is to be boxed and packed by dropping it, a turning force around the center portion of a packing box 4 is applied to the tape 1 being dropped into the packing box 4, and the direction of the turning force to be applied is alternately switched forward and backward at each predetermined number of turns.

Abstract: Digital watermarking of data, including image, video and audio data, is performed by repeatedly inserting the watermark into subregions or subimages of the data. Similarly, the watermark is repeatedly extracted from the subregions of the data.

Abstract: A method is provided for reducing or magnifying the picture size of a video composite signal with the use of fewer memories than a conventional video composite signal processor which processes pixel data after being converted into R, G, B signals. A video composite signal is directly converted into digital data and sampled with a sampling frequency of four times the color sub-carrier and stored in a pair of field buffers to be processed for picture size reduction or magnification. The digital data are reduced or multiplied in units of pairs of data with a phase difference of .pi./2. Color information is reproduced from corresponding two pairs of data of two adjacent fields having a phase difference of .pi..

Abstract: A game machine includes a housing; a grip mechanism including two hands for gripping articles mounted on a rear wall of the housing; a drive mechanism for moving the grip mechanism vertically and/or horizontally, and depthwise in the housing; a control mechanism for controlling starting and stopping of the drive mechanism; and an input mechanism manually controlled by a game user for sending signals to the control mechanism to start and stop vertical and/or horizontal movement of the grip mechanism. Depthwise movement of the grip mechanism is actuated by the control mechanism after horizontal and vertical movement is stopped. A sensor mechanism on the grip mechanism senses the presence of a prize between the two hands and sends a signal to the control mechanism to close the hands to grip the article whereupon the grip mechanism is returned to a home position, the hands are released and the prize is delivered to the user.

Abstract: The same data is processed in parallel by a plurality of different algorithms for deriving the same processing result from the same data. When an algorithm derives a processing result first, the processing result is used and the processing by the other algorithms is stopped or interrupted and updated to the same data which is reflected by the processing result data. This updated data is processed in parallel once again by a plurality of different algorithms, and when an algorithm derives another processing result first, the processing result is used, and the above processing is repeated, and inference. Consequently, sorting, data compression, simulation, and neurolearning can be processed at the highest possible speed.

Abstract: A technique for estimating an unsampled color data on the basis of plural color data sampled by a line image sensor. The sensor includes at least two types of color filters such as a red filter and a green filter. Those filters are alternately arranged pixel by pixel in a line of pixels so that A-type color data which corresponds to green data is sampled from a target pixel and plural B-type color data which correspond to red data are sampled from neighbor pixels neighboring the target pixel. An unsampled B-type color data of the target pixel is estimated by synthesizing the sampled A-type color data of the target pixel and the sampled B-type color data of the neighbor pixels.

Abstract: An apparatus for copying a document in which an operation unit is provided separately from a copying unit. The operation unit includes a memory to store the digital image signals inputted from the copying unit, a display to display the digital image on a screen, and an operation board to convert the display image into a desired image. The copy unit makes a copy image corresponding to the desired image on a recording material.

Abstract: An image processing apparatus and method selects a processing mode to be one of a character image processing mode and a picture image processing mode in accordance with an image texture in an original image. The apparatus and method uses a scanner which pre-scans an original image to obtain sampled image data, a judging means discriminates between a character image area and a picture image area in an area of the original image based on an analysis of the sampled image data. The apparatus and method the original image processing mode from a character image processing mode to a picture image processing mode and vice versa based on the discrimination by the judging means.

Abstract: Highly electrically conductive and stable macrocyclic poly-conjugated systems are provided from a preferred polymer comprising a repetition of cyclic structures each represented by Formula (1): ##STR1## X and Y each are at least one group selected from the group consisting of a C--C unsaturated bonding group, a C--N unsaturated bonding group, an N--N unsaturated bonding group, an Si--Si bonding group and at least one group selected from the group consisting of an aromatic ring, a heterocyclic ring and their derivatives. .alpha., .beta., .gamma., and .delta., when they do not form a closed ring with X, are each at least one group selected from the group consisting of a hydrogen atom, a C.sub.1-5 lower alkyl group, an --NH.sub.2 group, and an --NR.sub.2 group in which R is a C.sub.1-5 lower alkyl group. When .alpha., .beta., .gamma., and .delta. form a closed ring with X, (.alpha. and .beta.) or (.gamma. and .delta.) together jointly represent ##STR2## in which R is a C.sub.1-5 lower alkyl group.

Abstract: a polypropylene resin composition comprising:(A) a composition of (a) a crystallineethylene-propylene block copolymer, (b) a thermoplastic elastomerhaving a substantially saturated main chain, and (c) an inorganic filler;(B) (i) a hindered nitrogen-free phenolic antioxidant;(ii) a nitrogen-containing hindered phenolic antioxidant;(iii) a benzotriazole ultraviolet absorber; and(iv) a hindered amine light stabilizer having a molecular weight of 500 or more or having no N-H bond and having a molecular weight of less than 500, or(i') a hindered phenolic antioxidant;(ii') an organic sulfur type antioxidant; and(iii') a hindered amine light stabilizer having no N-H bond.

Abstract: The invention provides a moldable resin composition comprising (A) 50-73 wt % of a crystalline ethylene-propylene block copolymer in which the content of ethylene is 5-15 wt %, (B) 10-20 wt % of a hydrogenated block copolymer consisting of (i) 10-40 wt % of blocks of an aromatic vinyl compound polymer and (ii) 90-60 wt % of blocks of a conjugated diene polymer, (C) 2-7 wt % of an amorphous ethylene-propylene copolymer in which the content of propylene is 20-30 wt % and (D) 15-25 wt % of talc, with the proviso that the total amount of (B) and (C) is 12-25 wt %. The particulars of the components (A) to (D), including the degree of solubility of the polypropylene component of the block copolymer (A), the degree of hydrogenation of each of the blocks (i) and (ii) of the copolymer (B), Mooney viscosity of the copolymer (C) and the particle size distribution of the talc (D), are strictly specified.

Abstract: A color processor for reproducing a color image from color image signals. The processor has a scanner or a generator to obtain color image signals, an A/D converter to generate digital image signals from the color image signal, a density converter to generate density signals from the digital image signals, a controller to control the density converter, and an image reproducer to reproduce a color image according to the density signals. The density converter has a plural conversion data in a ROM memory. Color balance, density control, and picture/character mode change are all performed by selecting data from the conversion data and using the data for the density conversion.

Abstract: A color image forming method and apparatus for sequentially forming toner images of a plurality of colors on a photosensitive body so as to form a color toner image. The method and apparatus maintain a substantially constant developing bias so that a first exposure potential of a photosensitive surface and a second exposure potential of the photosensitive surface are substantially equal to one another.

Abstract: An electrophotographic copying apparatus, which is able to classify an image in a copy area of the original. The electrophotographic copying apparatus estimates a copy area of an original within a scan area based on copy condition data set and stored through an operation unit. A sampler samples the scanned image data in the copy area to form image data. An identifying unit uses the image data thus obtained to identify an image classification of the copy area from a group of image patterns.

Abstract: A fiber-reinforced thermoplastic resin composition comprises a composition of a thermoplastic resin in an amount of 50 to 99% by weight and a fibrous magnesium oxysulfate in an amount of 1 to 50% by weight, and magnesium oxide and/or zinc oxide in an amount of 0.01 to 30 parts by weight per 100 parts by weight of the fibrous magnesium oxysulfate.

Abstract: An image processor in which a high-frequency component of image signals is diminished, and a density value of each of the "diminished" image signals is compared with a first reference value in a first comparator. A first classifier is provided for classifying the image signals into a character image and a tonal image based on a signal output from the first comparator. A length or an area of an image signal classified into the tonal image is measured, and a second comparator is provided for comparing the length or area of a measured image signal measured with a second reference value corresponding to a reference length or a reference area. A second classifier is provided for further classifying an image signal below the second reference value from the second comparator into an image signal of the character image.

Abstract: A signal processing method for determining base sequence of nucleic acids by subjecting digital signals to signal processing, said digital signals corresponding to an autoradiograph of plural resolved rows which are formed by resolving a mixture of base-specific DNA fragments or base-specific RNA fragments labeled with a radioactive element in one-dimensional direction on a support medium,which comprises steps of:(1) detecting at least two bands continuously in the lower part of each resolved row and numbering the bands consecutively in order from the lower end;(2) obtaining correlation of a distance between the detected bands in the resolving direction with the band's number and predicting positions of undetected bands in the resolving direction from the correlation;(3) detecting at least one band on the resolved rows on the basis of the predicted positions and numbering the bands consecutively;(4) obtaining the correlation of the distance between the bands with the band's number for the already detected ban

Abstract: A method for analyzing autoradiography by subjecting digital signals corresponding to an autoradiograph having information on two-dimensional location of radioactively labeled substances resolved on a support medium to signal processing, to obtain the locational information on the radioactively labeled substances in the form of visual indicia, which includes the steps of:(1) electrically displaying the autoradiograph in the form of an image on the basis of the digital signals;(2) extracting signals in a given area along resolved rows of the radioactively labeled substances on the basis of input information on the rows determined from the display image; and(3) subjecting the extracted signals to one-dimensional signal processing to detect resolved portions.

Abstract: A light guide of an elongate shape having rectangular cross section, e.g., a quandrangular prism, directs, toward a light detector, either light emitted by applying a scanning light beam to an object and indicative of image information or a synchronizing light beam divided from the scanning light beam. The light guide has at least one outwardly spread end at which the light detector is disposed. The emitted light or the synchronizing light beam which has entered the light guide is totally reflected in the light guide by an inclined surface thereof progressively inclined in a direction toward the spread end, so as to be directed toward the light detector.