Abstract: A KVM switch includes: an inputting portion that is capable of inputting a plurality of video signals output from an information processing apparatus; and a transmitting portion that adds the pieces of identification information of the respective corresponding video signals to the plurality of video signals input by the inputting portion, and transmits the plurality of video signals to which the pieces of identification information are added, to a remote terminal via a network.

Abstract: A socket connector is disclosed that includes a housing, multiple contact modules fixed to the housing, and multiple shield members coupled and fixed to the corresponding contact modules. The contact modules and the shield members are alternately arranged in alignment in a longitudinal direction of the housing. The shield members are fixed to the housing.

Abstract: A differential transmission connector unit is disclosed that includes a first differential transmission connector including a first electrically insulating block body; and first signal contact pairs and first ground contacts arranged alternately in a row in the first block body; and a second differential transmission connector including a second electrically insulating block body; and second signal contact pairs and second ground contacts arranged alternately in a row in the second block body. The first differential transmission connector is connected to the second differential transmission connector with the first signal contact pairs and the second signal contact pairs being in contact with each other and the first ground contacts and the second ground contacts being in contact with each other. One of the contact surface of each first ground contact and the contact surface of the corresponding second ground contact is a rolled surface, the contact surfaces contacting each other.

Abstract: A disclosed coaxial connector can be surface-mounted on a circuit board without degradation in signal transmission characteristics. The coaxial connector includes a center conductor, a surrounding conductor by which the center conductor is surrounded, and an insulating housing. The center conductor has a leg portion at its base end. The surrounding conductor has six lugs at its base end that extend radially. The leg portion and the lugs are exposed on a bottom surface of the housing. The coaxial connector is mounted on the circuit board with the leg portion pressed against a signal pad on the circuit board for electrical connection and the lugs pressed against a ground pad for electrical connection.

Abstract: An encoder which encodes each of image blocks of a video. The encoder includes a prediction mode selection information generator for generating prediction mode selection information which indicates that a first prediction mode for reducing temporal redundancy is applied to each of second image blocks or that a second prediction mode for reducing spatial redundancy is applied to each of the second image blocks. The second image blocks are obtained by dividing first image blocks. The encoder includes a predictive residual signal generator for generating a predictive residual signal by applying the selected first or second prediction mode to each of the second image blocks. The encoder includes a transmitter for transmitting the prediction mode selection information in association with the predictive residual signal.

Abstract: An enclosure for a connector is disclosed. The enclosure includes two or more enclosure parts, each having a joint such that the enclosure parts are fit together to constitute the enclosure. The joint may have a continuation of linear segments to form a shape like mountains, wherein the length of each segment is smaller than a wavelength corresponding to an operational frequency.

Abstract: A connector socket module having a reduced height used in a server is disclosed, the connector socket module including plural connector sockets, a relay board having a pattern of wiring electrically connected to the connector sockets provided on a front side of the relay board, a relay connector provided on a rear side of the relay board and electrically connected to the connector socket through the wiring, and a main board supporting unit extending from the rear side of relay board and supporting a main board at a prescribed height between upper and lower ends of the relay board, the main board having a main-board-side connector connected to the relay connector.

Abstract: A connector socket module is disclosed that includes a connector socket module main body and a holder member configured to hold the connector socket module main body. The connector socket module main body includes a relay board; multiple I/O connector sockets of which a corresponding one is to be connected to a connector plug, the I/O connector sockets being arranged on a first face of the relay board; and a mounting connector mounted on a second face of the relay board facing away from the first face to be connected to a connector on a main board. The holder member covers a side of the connector socket module main body on the side of the second face of the relay board, is formed by bending a metal plate member of a predetermined shape, and has a part to be fixed to the main board.

Abstract: A plug-side connector to be connected to a jack-side connector is provided that includes a conductive housing configured to surround an electromagnetically shielded projecting part of the jack-side connector upon the plug-side connector being connected to the jack-side connector; and a leaf spring member for a plug-side electromagnetic shield, the leaf spring member including multiple conductive leaf spring pieces arranged at a pitch enabling formation of the electromagnetic shield, the leaf spring member being provided to the housing so that the leaf spring pieces are arranged in a width direction of the housing on the interior side of the housing. The leaf spring pieces are configured to come into elastic contact with a surface of the projecting part of the jack-side connector upon the plug-side connector being connected to the jack-side connector.

Abstract: It is intended to implement imaging in an efficient way. In a first period in which a cradle unit is driven under acceleration from a stationary state, the cradle unit is driven with a constant first torque value. In a second period which comes after the lapse of the first period and in which the cradle unit is driven under acceleration, the cradle unit is driven with a constant second torque value which is smaller than the first torque value.

Abstract: An object of the present invention is to express a predicted picture signal with light overheads, and to provide motion compensation of different pixel accuracy.

Abstract: An object of the present invention is to express a predicted picture signal with light overheads, and to provide motion compensation of different pixel accuracy.

Abstract: An object of the present invention is to express a predicted picture signal with light overheads, and to provide motion compensation of different pixel accuracy.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a process for producing an ink jet recording material, comprising sequentially forming an ink-receptive layer and a glossy layer on a low air-permeable or air-impermeable support or a solvent-absorptive layer superimposed on the support, characterized in that the glossy layer is formed by applying a coating liquid for a glossy layer, the coating liquid comprising a cationic fine pigment and a cationic emulsion type adhesive, followed by pressing using a glossy roll and a press roll while making a surface of a resultant coating liquid layer contact with the glossy roll.

Abstract: A cable connector includes a contact assembly including an electrical insulating block part which is configured to incorporate plural signal contacts; and a relay wiring substrate mounted to a back of the contact assembly. The relay wiring substrate includes, on a surface, a contact connecting pad electrically connected to one of the signal contacts, a wiring connecting pad, and a wiring pattern connecting the contact connecting pad and the wiring connecting pad. The relay wiring substrate further includes a ground layer inside the relay wiring substrate. The cable connector further includes a cable connected to the relay wiring substrate by electrically connecting an end of a wiring with the wiring connecting pad. The relay wiring substrate further includes a ground pattern for matching impedance inside the relay wiring substrate.

Abstract: Ink jet recording sheet having excellent glossiness, ink absorptivity, image quality, and long-term preservability in which cracks generated on an ink receiving layer are significantly reduced. The ink jet recording sheet includes a supporting medium; and an ink receiving layer including an inorganic fine particle, a cationic polymer, and a binder, wherein an average primary particle size of the inorganic fine particle is 30 nm or less, and the cationic polymer including: at least one structural unit (a1) expressed by a following general formula (1) or (2): wherein m and n independently represents an integer of 0 to 4, and X represents an acid residue; and at least one structural unit (a2) expressed by a following general formula (3), (4), (5) or (6): wherein R1 to R8 independently represents a hydrogen atom or a C1-C4 alkyl group, and Y and Z independently represents an acid residue.

Abstract: A motion of an image in a block is detected with respect to image data D1, a coding mode to be applied thereto is selected among a plurality of prepared coding modes, and motion compensation is performed for the image data (Step S101). Then, an orthogonal transform coefficient D6 and coding mode information D3 undergo variable-length coding to generate coded data D7 (Step S103). Subsequently, in the variable-length coding of the coding mode information, a probability table for use in arithmetic coding is switched for each of binarization codes included in a binarization pattern of the coding mode information with reference to a coding mode selected in a block adjacent to the block. Thus, the image coding method, image decoding method, image coding apparatus, image decoding apparatus, program, computer data signal, and image transmission system, which are capable of enhancing efficiency of data compression for coding mode information multiplexed on coded data, are realized.

Abstract: A fingerprint sensor device is mounted on a printed wiring board by bonding a conductive pattern formed on a leg portion of a three-dimensional circuit board and a conductive pattern on the printed wiring board accommodated in a housing of an electronic device with a solder. The detecting surface of a fingerprint sensor element is exposed on the surface of the housing through a window hole provided at the housing. As compared to the conventional art that utilizes connectors, the detecting surface of the fingerprint sensor element is accurately positioned relative to the window hole provided at the housing of the electronic device.

Abstract: To perform high-speed and highly accurate measurement by setting desired measuring conditions for each measuring object. In an alignment sensor of exposure apparatus, in the case of performing position measurement for a plurality of sample shots, measurement is performed by changing the measuring conditions, in response to a measuring axis direction, a mark or a layer whereupon a mark to be measured exists. At that time, for the measuring objects to be measured under the same measuring conditions, for example, a position in a Y axis direction and a position in an X axis direction, measurement is continuously performed. When the measuring condition is changed, a baseline value is remeasured. The changeable measuring conditions are wavelength of measuring light, use and selection of a retarder, NA and ? of an optical system, a light quantity of measuring light, illumination shape, signal processing algorithm, etc.

Abstract: A signal encoding method according to the present invention is a signal encoding method of dividing a coding target signal as an object of coding into partition units and performing arithmetic coding based on probability-related information in the partition units, which comprises (1) a configuration information deriving step of analyzing the coding target signal in each of the partition units to derive as configuration information, information about an initial value of the probability-related information used for the arithmetic coding of the coding target signal in the partition unit in question; (2) a coding step of performing the arithmetic coding of the coding target signal in each of the partition units, based on the configuration information derived in the configuration information deriving step; and (3) a configuration information adding step of adding a header containing the configuration information to the arithmetic-coded signal in each of the partition units.