Abstract: Hydrates of the compound of formula (I) and crystalline forms thereof have excellent storage stability and are useful medicaments.

Abstract: To provide a small lens for optical use which enables a lens per se to be coated easily and securely and to be readily positioned in a lens barrel into which it is mounted subsequently. Either a circumferential shape of a flange is formed polygonally on a plane orthogonal to an optical axis or at least two sides of the flange are formed linearly in a length equal to or longer than a diameter of the lens per se.

Abstract: A crank pulley for a recoil starter which integrally comprising a plate body, a leg portion perpendicular to the plate body and an impact surface formed on the leg portion.

Abstract: A radiation image is partitioned into a plurality of subregions. A certain subregion, which is among the plurality of the subregions, is set as a blackening region, which is to be subjected to a blackening process, or as a non-blackening region, which is not to be subjected to the blackening process. Subregions, which are adjacent to each other among the plurality of the subregions, are set alternately as a blackening region and a non-blackening region by taking the certain subregion as a reference subregion. The blackening process is performed on the subregion, which has thus been set as the blackening region.

Abstract: A disk drive, a servo controller, and a controller which have realized high-degree control by lightening processing load to a microprocessor unit (MPU) without increasing cost is disclosed. An analog/digital (AD) converter (ADC) performs the AD conversions of the regenerated levels A, B, C, and D of burst patterns supplied from a channel and retains the converted levels in an ADC register. A servo assist (SA) computes parameters, such as the position error of a head, independently of an MPU, based on the regenerated levels of the burst patterns retained in the ADC register and an instruction from the MPU retained in a SRAM. Based on the computed parameters, the SA computes servo data (DACOUT) for driving a voice coil motor and supplies the servo data to the DAC section of a VCM driver section through a SIO.

Abstract: A power consumption reduction circuit includes a clock frequency downconverting circuit. The clock frequency downconverting circuit downconverts a frequency of a CK signal, which is inputted, when a POR signal inputted is asserted, and outputs the CK signal to an IC selection circuit. In addition, if the POR signal inputted is negated, the clock frequency downconverting circuit outputs the CK signal inputted as it is to the IC selection circuit. A signal outputted from the clock frequency downconverting circuit is supplied to a plurality of ICs through the IC selection circuit.

Abstract: Energy subtraction processing can be carried out easily in an image data handing apparatus. In the image data handing apparatus, a low-energy image data set and a high-energy image data set are input from a buffer memory, and energy subtraction processing is carried out thereon by ES processing means to generate an energy subtraction image data set. An image based on the energy subtraction image data set is displayed on a display unit. The image data handling apparatus comprises information addition means for adding combination information indicating that the low-energy image data set belongs to the same combination as the high-energy image data set.

Abstract: Edge candidate points are detected with respect to radial straight lines, which have been set with respect to a predetermined point lying in a radiation image. A predetermined number of reference candidate lines are detected by the utilization of Hough transform with respect to the edge candidate points. It is determined that the region surrounded by the reference candidate lines is the irradiation field. The irradiation field on a radiation image is thereby recognized accurately. A blackening process is carried out on the region outside of the irradiation field, which has thus been determined.

Abstract: A system LSI has a MPU and a HDC (72) in which the HDC (72) incorporates a CIU (721). The CIU (721) decodes addresses transferred from a CPU (73), reads program codes stored in memories such as a ROM (13) and a SRAM (14) in the HDC (72) when the addresses indicate memory fields in the memories, and outputs the obtained program codes to the CPU (73).

Abstract: Edge candidate points are detected with respect to radial straight lines, which have been set with respect to a predetermined point lying in a radiation image. A predetermined number of reference candidate lines are detected by the utilization of Hough transform with respect to the edge candidate points. It is determined that the region surrounded by the reference candidate lines is the irradiation field. The irradiation field on a radiation image is thereby recognized accurately. A blackening process is carried out on the region outside of the irradiation field, which has thus been determined.

Abstract: The present invention is a semiconductor device that includes a DRAM and an internal mask ROM that are implemented on a single integrated circuit substrate. The semiconductor further includes a terminal coupled to an external ROM and a selector for choosing an external ROM or an internal mask ROM for program code loading. If an external ROM is coupled to the aforementioned terminal, the external ROM is given precedence for use in the loading of the aforementioned program code. The control method of the present invention pertains to a semiconductor device including a DRAM, an internal mask ROM, a terminal coupled to an external ROM, a selector for choosing the first path led from the internal mask ROM or the second path led from the terminal, and a coupling determiner deciding whether or not the terminal is coupled to the external ROM.

Abstract: Information representing a template, which has an irradiation field shape determined by a collimation plate used in an operation for recording a radiation image to be processed, is stored. An irradiation field on the radiation image is defined in accordance with the template. The irradiation field may be defined by carrying out matching of the template and the radiation image with each other. A blackening process for a region outside of the thus defined irradiation field on the radiation image is then carried out. An appropriate blackening process is thereby carried out quickly.

Abstract: An image size reducing process is carried out on an original radiation image represented by an original image signal, and a reduced image signal representing a reduced image is thereby obtained. A process for recognizing the irradiation field is carried out on the reduced image signal representing the reduced image, which has been obtained from the reducing process, and a temporary irradiation field contour is thereby detected. An enlarging process is then carried out in order to enlarge the temporary irradiation field contour to a size corresponding to the size on the original radiation image, and an enlarged temporary irradiation field contour is thereby obtained. A degree of conformity of the enlarged temporary irradiation field contour to the original radiation image is evaluated by use of a predetermined evaluation function. An irradiation field contour, which has the highest degree of conformity, is determined in accordance with the results of the evaluation.

Abstract: A data access unit is provided with: clock synchronizing means for operating a hard disk controller and a microcomputer unit in synchronization with a clock signal; and control means whereby plural data input/output operations between the hard disk controller and the microcomputer unit, based on a single-access request command issued from a CPU of the latter, are each performed continuously, discretely, or in a combination thereof for an arbitrary access time according to the response status created in accordance with the access condition of a resource managed by the hard disk controller.

Abstract: A crank pulley for a recoil starter is disclosed, in which a touching nail 12 is integrally provided in a recoil starter side by a press forming process in a shape of a protrusion. The touching nail has an L shape by bending in a reverse rotation direction, and a bending top face forms a contact dog. A corner of the touching part of at a top of the touching nail, and an outer corner part at the bending part of the touching nail, are formed into a curved or chamfered shape, and the dog is capable of being moved to the engine side, during a starting operation.

Abstract: A recoil starter comprises a reel 7 rotatably supported by a case 2, a slant first cam 14 disposed on the reel 7 and facing an engine side, and a dog 20 rotatably and axially movably supported on an axis coaxial with the reel 7. The dog 20 is provided with an engagement claw 26 engageable with an engagement portion 28 on the engine side, and a first cam follower 23 engageable with the first cam 14. The recoil starter further comprises a retainer 31 mounted on the case 3, the retainer 31 being engageable with the dog 20 and capable of braking rotation of the dog 20. The recoil starter further comprises a projection 15 projecting from the reel 7 and engageable with the dog 20 when the reel 7 starts rotation. The reel 7 is provided with a slant cam 18 facing away from the engine side. The dog 20 is provided with a second cam follower 24 engageable with the second cam 18.

Abstract: An improvement in an interleave type error correction method in which more errors can be corrected with less correction codes is provided. Array patterns of code words constituting the information code is form by interleaving. The array patterns comprise a plurality of sequences of a plurality of code words. Correction codes are added to the sequences so that a total number of the correction codes added to a selected sequence is greater than a total number of the correction codes added to the other sequences. An error correction is executed in the selected sequence by identifying a position of an error as a consecutive error code position, when the selected sequence is determined to contain said error having a characteristic feature that the error extends over other sequences. A code word of a position corresponding to said consecutive error code position of the selected sequence among code words in the other sequences is recognized as an erasure.

Abstract: An object of the present invention is to specify two disk drive apparatuses which are connected to an AT interface as a master or slave HDD for local or cable selection by only one jumper block. A disk drive apparatus connected to data processing means through a plurality of interface lines including one interface line connected to a first voltage level of said data processing means, including:a plurality of connection points connected respectively to said plurality of interface lines,a first connection point capable of being selectively connected to said one interface line,a second connection point kept at a floating voltage,a third connection point tied to the first voltage level,a fourth connection point tied to a second voltage level and selectively connected to one of said first, second, and third connection points, andcontrol means connected to said fourth connection point and recognizes itself as a first or second disk drive apparatus by detecting a voltage level of the fourth connection point.

Abstract: In a computer system including a host which operates in a pre-read mode to start a block data transfer after reading status of a peripheral device (HDD) in response to an interrupt from the peripheral device or in a post-read mode to read the status after completing the block data transfer, an interface circuit comprising mode detecting circuitry for automatically detecting whether the host operates in the pre-read mode or in the post-read mode so that data transfers can be correctly performed between the peripheral device and the host even if the host is in either mode, delay circuitry for delaying by a predetermined amount of time, a data request DRQ indicating that a block of data is ready to be transferred, when the post-read mode is detected, and interrupt circuitry for sending an interrupt request IRQ to the host in response to the output of the delay circuitry.

Abstract: An interface circuit for a peripheral device is disclosed that can accurately cope with any host with the same hardware whether the host is in the pre-read mode or the post-read mode and can send an interrupt request to the host practically without a waiting time if the host is in the post-read mode. The interface circuit generates an interrupt request (IRQ) to a host in response to a data request (DRQ) from a peripheral device (HDD) and drops the interrupt request if the status of the peripheral device is read by the host; it detects that the host operates in a post-read mode, and responds to the post-read mode detect signal and the status reading by the host in order to enable the regeneration of the interrupt request to the host.