Abstract: A massaging apparatus capable of applying visual stimulus to a user being massaged is provided. A massaging apparatus 1 of the present invention comprises a hood 5 configured to cover a head part of the user supported by a body support unit; and a light emitting device 10 mounted to the hood 5. The light emitting device 10 includes a light guiding member 11 of a rod-shape provided with a fluorescent portion 11a on a peripheral surface thereof and a light source 12 configured to emit light entering an inside of the light guiding member 11 through an end surface of the light guiding member 11. The light guiding member 11 is disposed inside the hood 5.

Abstract: A terminal control system is provided that has a main control device, a plurality of terminal devices controlled by the main control device, and communication lines for connecting the main control device and each of the terminal devices so as to allow bidirectional communication, wherein the configuration is simple, communication time is short, and highly reliable bidirectional communication is possible. The terminal control system comprises a main control device 1, a plurality of terminal devices 2 controlled by the main control device 1, and communication lines 3 for connecting the main control device and each of the terminal devices so as to allow bidirectional communication, wherein control data is simultaneously and collectively sent from the main control device 1 to a plurality of the terminal devices 2, and terminal data for each of the terminal devices is independently sent from each of the terminal devices 2 to the main control device 1.

Abstract: Image data is produced which corresponds to document data for each page of each stored document file. Each produced image data is displayed while successively switched every document unit. The use of each displayed image data is detected. Use history of each document file based on the detection is displayed.

Abstract: A document searching apparatus 1 displays a document searching screen having a document map in which bars indicating the respective documents constituting the management objects are stacked and displayed, a pointer indicating one bar in the document map, and an image display region which displays an image of the document corresponding to the bar indicated by the pointer. The apparatus switches a position of the pointer in the document searching screen and the image of the document displayed in the image display region in accordance with the position indicated by the pointer in the document searching screen being displayed and a fluctuation amount of a direction corresponding to the direction in which the respective bars are stacked in the document map.

Abstract: Satisfactory failure determination and detection of the connection state are made possible in a terminal control system comprising a main control device, a terminal device controlled by the main control device, and a communication line connected so as to enable two-way communication between the devices. The terminal control system comprises a main control device 1, a terminal device 2 controlled by the main control device 1, and a communication line 3 connected so as to enable two-way communication between the devices, wherein the main control device 1 comprises a detection unit 4 for detecting a characteristic of a waveform of terminal data transmitted from the terminal device 2 and received by the main control device 1 via the communication line 3, and also comprises a determination unit 5 for determining a state of a connection between the main control device 1 and the terminal device 2 based on results of detection by the detection unit 4 and on a reference stored by the main control device 1.

Abstract: As is described above, an optical wavelength division multiplexing and transmission apparatus according to the present invention has the configuration in which a plurality of slave racks coupling to a master rack can be additionally installed one after another with the master rack. Therefore, in cases where it is desired to expand a function of a transmitter and a function of a receiver due to the increase of a quality of information to be transmitted, the additional installation of the slave rack can be performed without exerting influence on a communication means installed in advance and currently used. Accordingly, it can be expected that the optical wavelength division multiplexing and transmission apparatus is adapted for the optical communication service which is more and more increased in the future.

Abstract: A processing load of a high performance application processing such as a voice, an image and the like is reduced, and a processing capacity of a base band processing is improved. A semiconductor integrated circuit device used in a mobile communication system such as a cellular phone is provided with a base band CPU block performing a base band processing for executing a base band protocol stack, an application system CPU block executing a high-level OS and controlling applications other than the base band processing, an application real-time CPU block executing a real-time OS and the like and controlling an image/voice processing, all of which are formed on one semiconductor chip. Further, internal high-speed buses to which these CPU blocks are connected are respectively connected via bridges.

Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a massaging apparatus that faithfully incorporates the rhythm or melody of a music source and performs massage with accents arranged more effectively based on these. A massaging apparatus of the present invention comprises massaging mechanisms (4, 5) that give mechanical impulses to a body by driving motors (5a, 10, 11), and a control device (13) that controls operations of the motors. The control device (13) comprises a waveform converter (18) having a waveform converting circuit for converting a waveform of an audio signal input from a sound source (A), such as a smoothing circuit, a differentiating circuit, or an integrating circuit, and a specific frequency band signal selecting unit (17) having a low pass filter, a high pass filter, and a band pass filter. In accordance with a control signal output from the waveform converter (18) and the specific frequency band signal selecting unit (17), the operations of the motors are controlled.

Abstract: A transmission wavelength band in an optical transmission line is divided into a plurality of sub-bands and signal lights or an ASE dummy light is disposed per sub-band as a unit. The optical power of the ASE dummy light in each sub-band is controlled so as to realize the gain profile at a full implementation in the optical transmission line. While new signal lights are being added, the optical power of whole ASE dummy lights or the optical power of the ASE dummy lights in sub-bands adjacent to the sub-band in which the new signal lights are to be added is controlled while increasing the optical power of the new signal lights so that the transmission characteristics of the existing signal lights are not affected by the signal addition.

Abstract: In a state in which plural public folders are set in a digital multi-functional peripheral (MFP) and made public on a network, a first PC transmits, at the time of activation, designated to-be-monitored folder list data on first PC to a second PC. When second PC has received the designated to-be-monitored folder list data from first PC, second PC collates the received designated to-be-monitored folder list data with its own designated to-be-monitored folder list data. Second PC returns to first PC permission/non-permission data that rejects designation of a public folder as a to-be-monitored folder, if the public folder has already been designated as a to-be-monitored folder (“exclusion process”) and permits access to other public folders.

Abstract: A semiconductor acceleration sensor comprises: a frame having an opening inside thereof; flexible beams extending from the frame to the inside of the opening of the frame; a weight suspended from and supported by the beams so that the weight can freely move; piezoresistors to be mounted on the beams and to vary the resistance values in response to accelerations which work on the piezoresistors. The frame comprises damper plate portions, each of which covers a part of the opening spanning from a corner portion of two neighboring sides of the frame on the side of the opening to the inside of the opening, and each of which serves serve as a stopper to limit movement of the weight. The weight has corner portions which face the corner portions, respectively, and each of which is chamfered to have a shape of arc or a polygonal line consisting of at least three sides as seen in plan view.

Abstract: A document managing apparatus manages a file which is a document, and version information of the document by a document management table, produces a printing image of the document from the file managed as the document by the document management table, stores a printing image of the produced document in a storage unit, and updates the version information of the document which is managed by the document management table and whose printing image is stored in the storage unit.

Abstract: A document-managing-apparatus includes a storage unit which stores file-managing-information on a file of data constituting a document, which is a managing-target, and a storage unit which stores, by arranging in a particular order, document-managing-information on plural documents stored in the storage unit, position-information showing a display-position in a searching-screen of the display-unit being stored in the storage unit while related to the document when the storage unit receives a direction to search the document to display the documents in the arranged order in the searching-screen. When the apparatus receives a search refinement direction that narrows down the document from the plural documents, the apparatus searches the document, included within a previously set display-position in the display-positions shown by the position-information, from the plural documents.

Abstract: A document searching apparatus stores, in a table, information indicating a size of each document which is a management object, and produces a document map which stacks and displays bars having sizes in accordance with the sizes of the respective documents which are the management objects to display in a display a screen having the produced document map, a pointer indicating one bar in the document map, and an image display region which displays an image of the document corresponding to the bar indicated by the pointer.

Abstract: A document managing apparatus stores beforehand in a document management table a representative page of each document for use as a representative image of each document displayed when switching the document, and rewrites the representative page of a present document being displayed in a document searching screen into the present page being displayed in the document management table every detection of an input into a mouse or a keyboard which is an input device.

Abstract: An optical receiving apparatus includes a signal brancher for branching an optical input signal received from an optical transmission line into a first signal component and a second signal component, a clock extractor for extracting a clock having an amplitude from the second signal component, and a discriminator for discriminating the first signal component. The apparatus also includes a threshold controller for generating a discrimination threshold for the discriminator according to a relationship between the extracted clock amplitude and a bit error rate to which the extracted clock amplitude corresponds.

Abstract: A Petunia cultivar particularly distinguished by a purple flower with a dark purple edge, decumbent growth habit and small flower diameter.

Abstract: To control a gain profile in an optical fiber line to become a desirable form, a C-OTDR measuring apparatus (36) outputs a probe pulse light having a wavelength ?m for an optical fiber line (14). A power level on the input or output side of a variable gain equalizer (22) can be measured according to a C-OTDR waveform of a return light of the probe pulse light entered through a C-OTDR path (20c) and an optical fiber line (16). By sweeping the measurement wavelength ?m, the gain file is measured. The equalizing characteristics of the variable gain equalizer (22) are remotely controlled so that the gain profile becomes a desirable form according to the measured result.

Abstract: An optical repeater is provided which is operable to amplify signals propagated by a pair of optical transmission fibers. The optical repeater includes a first rare earth element doped (REED) fiber coupled to a first transmission fiber of the pair of optical transmission fibers. A second rare earth element doped (REED) fiber is coupled to a second transmission fiber of the pair of optical transmission fibers. A plurality of optical pump sources are provided, there being either four or more pump sources, or at least two pump sources in which each pump source has a different center wavelength. One or more optical energy couplers are coupled to combine portions of the outputs of all the optical pump sources and to distribute the combined portions for insertion into each of the first and second REED fibers for amplification of signals and into each of the first and second transmission fibers for Raman amplification of signals.

Abstract: A Petunia cultivar particularly distinguished by a purple flower with a dark purple edge, decumbent growth habit and small flower diameter.