Abstract: When an image is displayed on a display device on the basis of image data, a blank region is formed around the image. A background color is displayed on the blank region. The background color to be displayed on the blank region is set so that its color temperature nearly matches that of a white paper sheet placed under desired illumination light. In this manner, the color tone of a preview image can be adjusted to match that of the original image with high precision.

Abstract: An image processing apparatus including an area setting unit for setting an area in an image, an image processing setting unit for setting a desired image processing to each area set by the area setting unit, a calculation unit for calculating an outer frame in accordance with the set area, and a designating unit for a user to designate a color of the outer frame, wherein the image is synthesized with the set outer frame having the designated color, and the synthesized image is displayed.

Abstract: When an image is displayed on a display device on the basis of image data, a blank region is formed around the image. A background color is displayed on the blank region. The background color to be displayed on the blank region is set so that its color temperature nearly matches that of a white paper sheet placed under desired illumination light. In this manner, the color tone of a preview image can be adjusted to match that of the original image with high precision.

Abstract: An image processor matches a hue of an output image with a hue of a preview image. The image processor generates preview image data to confirm on a display, an output color image generated by an image forming unit. The image processor incudes an input unit which inputs from the image forming unit density data representative of the output color image, the density data depending on the output characteristics of the image forming unit. A conversion unit converts the input density data into luminance data in a predetermined color space, and a color correction unit corrects color of the luminance data in accordance with the display characteristics and observation conditions of the display. The preview image data is generated dependent on the type of display and color temperature of the display.

Abstract: A wafer carrier includes a housing having an interior chamber which has a plurality of rows of grooves having a predetermined spacing formed thereon such that a plurality of wafers can be stored into the grooves of each row, respectively. The wafer carrier further includes a plurality of rows of movable elastic pieces provided around the interior chamber. The movable elastic pieces of each row corresponds to the grooves of each row formed on the interior chamber, respectively, and each movable elastic piece of each row is movable along a direction of the row between a first position of a corresponding groove and a second position between the corresponding groove and an adjacent groove.

Abstract: In an information processing debugging apparatus, a debugger owns a debug information adding element and a data with type access instructing element. The debug information adding element gives data type symbol information of a data type from a debug information object file to be used by an information processing program in a program object file to be debugged. The typed data access instructing element instructs an access operation by using a variable symbol of the information process program and an added data type symbol information as a variable having a data type where an operator designates a variable of the information program. Such an information processing program which is not formed by a debug option is symbolically debugged without increasing the memory capacity. A practical information processing program such as a library which is not directly related to debugging operation can also be symbolically debugged.

Abstract: A method of controlling data which is stored into a common storage in a multiprocessor system having a common storage which can be accessed from a plurality of computers is disclosed. Particularly, a method of controlling shared data using an extended storage as a common storage is disclosed. The copy of the data of a part of or all of a shared data set in an input/output device and the copy data control information to control the copied data are stored into the common extended storage. In the case of accessing the data in the common extended storage, the mutual exclusion among a plurality of computers and the consistency control of the data are realized by referring to the control information stored in the common extended storage.

Abstract: Disclosed is a process of preparing a catalyst supporting highly metal particles comprising, in the presence of carbon monoxide in a solution containing a metal-containing ion and a support on which metal particles produced by reduction of the metal-containing ion are supported, reducing by means of a reductant the metal-containing ion to the corresponding metal particles which are then supported on the support. According to the process of the present invention, because of the presence of the carbon monoxide which is supposed to have a function of depressing the deposition of a new metal particle present around the metal particles supported on the support, that is, the growth of the metal particles and another function of preventing the agglomeration among the metal particles supported, the catalyst of excellent properties having the metal particles supported and monodispersed on the support with the narrow particle size distribution can be prepared of which an average particle size is not more than 20 .ANG..

Abstract: Disclosed is a process of preparing a catalyst supporting highly metal particles comprising, in the presence of ethylene and/or acetylene in a solution containing a metal-containing ion and a support on which metal particles produced by reduction of the metal-containing ion are supported, reducing by means of a reductant the metal-containing ion to the corresponding metal particles which are then supported on the support. According to the process of this invention, because of the presence of the ethylene and/or acetylene which is supposed to have a function of depressing the deposition of new metal particles present around the metal particles supported on the support, that is, the growth of the metal particles and another function of preventing the agglomeration among the metal particles supported, the catalyst of the desired properties can be prepared.

Abstract: Disclosed is an electrocatalyst which comprises an inorganic support and four-element alloy essentially consisting of 10 to 39 atomic percent of platinum, 30 to 5 atomic percent of nickel, 30 to 5 atomic percent of cobalt and 30 to 3 atomic percent of manganese supported on the inorganic support. The electrocatalyst possesses excellent anti-poisoning against carbon monoxide.

Abstract: Disclosed is an electrocatalyst which comprises an inorganic support and a ternary alloy essentially consisting of platinum-palladium-ruthenium supported on the support. The electrocatalyst possesses excellent anti-poisoning against carbon monoxide.

Abstract: Disclosed herein are a platinum alloy catalyst comprising an electroconductive support and platinum-nickel-cobalt alloy particles having an ordered structure supported on the electroconductive support, and a process of preparing the catalyst. The catalyst possesses higher activity and longer durability because of its ordered structure.

Abstract: Herein disclosed according to the present invention are method and apparatus of two-degrees-of-freedom time difference comparison compensator. In a control system using a conventional regulator, a desired value or reference value is inputted to the regulator through a versatile time difference compensator. The apparatus may be constructed in the form of a versatile control apparatus to be realized as a hardware, a software or a composite having the two functions, an exclusive control apparatus, or a built-in control apparatus for an individual control system. Thus, the control system to be provided has an excellent effects in the relevant industry because it can make adjustments to the highest state while satisfying several characteristics such as the quickness of response and the stabilizability of perturbations or other several characteristics such as robust stabilizability simultaneously.

Abstract: A versatile time difference comparison compensation method of a control system, wherein a desired value or a reference value of feedback control is branched into several parts. One of the branches is directly compared with a feedback variable to obtain a first difference value and lag elements having various delay times are connected to the other of the branches, respectively, in order to make time difference comparison between the desired value or the reference value and the feedback variable to obtain second and third difference quantities, respectively. Various weighting elements receive the difference quantities inclusive of the first difference quantity to put various weights to the difference quantities and to obtain signals and the sum of the resulting signals is then calculated and the signal obtained by the sum is passed through a gain adjustment element to re-adjust a gain adaptive to a controlled system to produce an operation quantity.

Abstract: A control mechanism employing an internal model coordination method according to the present invention is arranged to obtain a manipulation variable by comparing a desired value or a reference value with a feedback variable into which a controlled variable is transformed to provide an error, sequentially transmitting the error to an internal model which is composed of the same number of elements as its order, adding the outputs of a plurality of gain controllers into which the state variables of the respective elements are input, and comparing the result of the addition with another feedback variable supplied from a conventional regulator. The control mechanism is characterized by a new regulator arranged to receive as its input a branched signal of the desired value or the reference value and a path arranged to cause a signal obtained by addition of the output of the new regulator to the final state variable of the internal model to be input to a corresponding one of the gain controllers.

Abstract: A silver halide photographic light-sensitive material comprising a support having thereon at least one light-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer and a surface layer thereof containing an organic fluoro-compound and a carboxy group-containing compound, resulting in an improvement in the physical characteristics of the surface.

Abstract: A photographic material comprising (I) a styrene-based polymer support having thereon a subbing layer which comprises a partial or complete reaction product of (a) a copolymer of styrene or vinyl acetate with maleic anhydride with (b) water or a hydroxy compound such as alcohol and (II) a photographic layer comprising a hydrophilic resin binder bearing on the subbing layer, wherein a compound containing two or more epoxy groups per molecule is contained in the subbing layer or in both of the subbing layer and the photographic layer.

Abstract: In a diffusion transfer color photographic material including a photosensitive element comprising silver halide emulsion layers having associated therewith dye image forming materials, an image receiving element, and a liquid processing composition for developing the silver halide emulsion layers after image-wise exposure and diffusing the dye images formed into the image receiving element, the dye images formed are stabilized and the formation of stains at blank areas is effectively prevented by incorporating one or more N-.alpha.-sulfoalkylated amino acids into at least one of the photosensitive element, the image receiving element or the liquid processing composition. A process using the same is also disclosed.

Abstract: A process for hardening, e.g., gelatin, in particular, a gelatin used for photographic light-sensitive materials, which comprises treating gelatin, a non-gelatin hydrophilic high molecular weight material containing primary or secondary amino groups or a composition containing the same with a compound represented by the following general formula (I): ##STR1## WHEREIN R.sub.1 and R.sub.2, which may be the same or different, each represents a monovalent residue which is bonded through a carbon atom or a sulfur atom thereof to the nitrogen atom forming the carboxylic acid ester, and R.sub.1 and R.sub.2 may combine to form a ring structure; R is a divalent or trivalent residue which is bonded through a carbon atom or a nitrogen atom thereof to the carbon atom of the carboxyl group in the carboxylic acid ester, and n is 2 when R is a divalent residue and n is 3 when R is a trivalent residue.

Abstract: A photographic sensitive material comprising a support having thereon at least one photographic emulsion layer, wherein at least one surface layer of the photographic sensitive material contains an alkylpolysiloxane having in the side chain thereof a polyoxyethylene chain, said alkylpolysiloxane being represented by the following general formula (I): ##STR1## in which R represents an aliphatic group or aryl group, R' represents a hydrogen atom, an aliphatic group or an aryl group R" represents an alkyl group or alkoxyalkyl group, A represents divalent residue of an aliphatic hydrocarbon, n represents 0 or an integer of 1 to 12, p represents a value of 0 to 50, q represents a value of 2 to 50, x represents a value of 0 to 100, y represents a value of 1 to 50, z represents a value of 0 to 100 and x + y + z represents a value of 5 to 250.