Abstract: A synchronization circuit includes a packet detecting unit that searches a received signal for a preamble that is added to the beginning of a packet and that includes given repetitive training sequences to detect the packet; a packet detection reconfirming unit that reconfirms the packet detection by the packet detecting unit by using a received signal in a field in the preamble, subsequent to the field where the packet detecting unit has detected the packet; and a control unit that cancels the packet detection by the packet detecting unit in response to the packet detection reconfirming unit that detects erroneous detection of the packet by the packet detecting unit to cause the packet detecting unit to start detection of a packet from a received signal again.

Abstract: A paper sheet storage unit 101 is opened upward and forward. Holding members 30, 32 are respectively configured to be reciprocated, between a waiting position and a holding position, by a lifting and lowering mechanism 35. When the respective holding members 30, 32 are in the waiting position, such holding members 30, 32 can serve as a guide surface, on the back side of the paper sheet storage unit 101, for guiding a batch of paper sheets stored in the paper sheet storage unit 101. Meanwhile, when the respective holding members 30, 32 are in the holding position, the holding member 32 is in contact with a top face of the paper sheet present at the lowest layer of the paper sheets stored in the paper sheet storage unit 101, and serves to press the paper sheet downward.

Abstract: A banknote handling apparatus including a receiving unit that receives banknotes to be counted, a recognition unit that recognizes attributes of the banknotes, a storing unit that stores the banknotes sorted based on a recognition result by the recognition unit, an operation unit for selecting a counting mode and a setting for stacking, and a verification counting process control unit that executes a first counting process when the operation unit selects a verification mode as the counting mode, stores the banknotes in stacking units in a designated first setting for stacking, executes a verification counting process to the banknotes stacked in the first setting for stacking, stores the banknotes in stacking units in a designated second setting for stacking that is different from the first setting for stacking, and determines match/mismatch of the number of banknotes of each denomination in the first counting process and the verification counting process.

Abstract: A banknote bundling device (3) makes a bundle of banknotes by bundling with a bundling tape one-hundred bundling-object-banknotes of a specific kind from among a plurality of banknotes. The banknote bundling device (3) includes a serial-number identification unit (16) that acquires a serial number for identify the banknote for each banknote, a bundle-ID creating unit (183) that creates a bundle ID associated with the serial number of each banknote of the bundle of banknotes for each bundle of banknotes, and a print control unit (184) that controls a printer (55) to print the bundle ID created by the bundle-ID creating unit (183) on the bundling tape of the bundle of banknotes for each bundle of banknotes. Therefore, a financial institution can adequately handle a false claim regarding a valid bundle of banknotes.

Abstract: A pointing system including: a pointing device including an operation portion and a light-emitting portion that emits light according to an operation to the operation portion; and a control device including an image pickup portion that picks up light from the light-emitting portion when the light-emitting portion emits light and outputs an image including information on a light spot of the light, a display portion that includes a screen and displays a pointer on the screen, and a control portion that judges, as well as judge a movement of the light spot based on the information on the light spot in the image and move the pointer on the screen based on the movement of the light spot, whether the light spot is turned off based on the information on the light spot in the image and executes processing related to a click when the light spot is turned off.

Abstract: A banknote handling apparatus including a receiving unit that receives banknotes to be counted, a recognition unit that recognizes attributes of the banknotes, a storing unit that stores the banknotes sorted based on a recognition result by the recognition unit, an operation unit for selecting a counting mode and a setting for stacking, and a verification counting process control unit that executes a first counting process when the operation unit selects a verification mode as the counting mode, stores the banknotes in stacking units in a designated first setting for stacking, executes a verification counting process to the banknotes stacked in the first setting for stacking, stores the banknotes in stacking units in a designated second setting for stacking that is different from the first setting for stacking, and determines match/mismatch of the number of banknotes of each denomination in the first counting process and the verification counting process.

Abstract: Provided is an input apparatus including an input operation section, a capacitive sensor, and an output section. The input operation section includes an operation member configured to mechanically receive an input operation, and a first detection circuit configured to detect the input operation of the operation member. The capacitive sensor includes a plurality of electrodes which are arranged around the operation member, and each of which has a capacitance variable due to an approaching of a detection target, and a second detection circuit configured to detect the capacitance of each of the plurality of electrodes. The output section is configured to output an output of the first detection circuit and an output of the second detection circuit.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes: a key array having a key layout in which rows of input keys parallel to a first direction are arranged in a second direction orthogonal to the first direction and the input keys belonging to one row are shifted in the first direction to the input keys belonging to another row; first wiring electrodes routed between the input keys at intervals in the first direction and each having a capacitance changed by proximity of a detection target; second wiring electrodes routed along the first direction to thread through the rows and each having the capacitance; and a control unit to generate a control signal including a first signal on a position of the detection target along the first direction based on the capacitances of the first and second wiring electrodes and a shift amount of the input keys in each row in the first direction.

Abstract: A sensor apparatus includes a sensor unit, a calculation unit, a switch circuit unit, and a control unit. The sensor unit has a plurality of detection electrodes each having a capacitance changed by proximity of a detection target object. The calculation unit calculates a first distance, which is a distance between the detection target object and the sensor unit. The switch circuit unit is capable of switching the detection electrodes between a first state in which a signal voltage for detecting the capacitance is supplied and a second state which is an electrically floating state, and selects at least two detection electrodes one by one switched from the second state to the first state. The control unit controls the switch circuit unit to cause a second distance, which is a distance between the detection electrodes switched from the second state to the first state, to correspond to the first distance.

Abstract: A linear sensor 21 includes an attachment base 22 attached to a metallic edge of a slide door 2 capable of opening and closing a platform 4, a skin cover part 23 which bulges from the attachment base 22 and has a hollow part 24 in the inside, an insulator 25 which has flexibility and also is embedded in the hollow part 24, and a plate-shaped electrode 26 opposed to the attachment base 22, at least a portion of the electrode being embedded in the insulator 25. In the hollow part 24, a gap 27 is disposed between the electrode 26 and the attachment base 22 and also, the electrode 26 is set in a plus pole and the attachment base 22 is set in a minus pole as the grounding, and proximity and/or contact between a foreign body and the skin cover part 23 is detected based on a change in capacitance between the electrode 26 and the grounding minus pole.

Abstract: A probe-unit base member having high rigidity and requiring no troublesome operations for its manufacture and a probe unit are provided. To achieve the purpose, the probe-unit base member includes a conductive substrate 41 that has a first opening 41a capable of fitting therein a probe holder 3 and a second opening 41b communicated with the first opening 41a; a coating 42 that is made of an insulating adhesive agent and is coated at least on an edge of the second opening 41b; and an insulating guide member 43 that is bonded to the edge of the second opening 41b through the coating 42 and guides one of two contact bodies to a position in contact with probes 2.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a transmission apparatus, a reception apparatus, a communication system, and a processing method used in the reception apparatus that are capable of reducing collisions of an Ack frame. A transmission apparatus 100 transmits an Ack frame 200 made up of only a PLCP preamble. In a reception apparatus 300, an RF unit 320 supplies the Ack frame 200 received by an antenna 310 to a PMD unit 340. The PMD unit 340 determines a termination end of the Ack frame 200 on the basis of a signal strength of the Ack frame 200 supplied from the RF unit 320. Furthermore, the PMD unit 340 generates a timing of the termination end of the PLCP preamble of the Ack frame 200 on the basis of the PLCP preamble. A PLCP unit 350 detects the Ack frame 200 on the basis of a result in which the termination end of the Ack frame 200 has been determined using the signal strength and the timing of the termination end of the PLCP preamble generated by the PLCP preamble of the Ack frame 200.

Abstract: A scrambling initial value is shared without deteriorating transmission efficiency. On the transmission side, a scrambling initial value is created based on a part of a physical layer header not scrambled, a transmission signal sequence scrambled is created by calculating an exclusive-OR operation between a scrambled sequence generated from the scrambling initial value and a transmission data sequence, and is transmitted. On the reception side, the same descrambling initial value as the scrambling initial value is created based on a part of a physical header of a reception frame, and a reception data sequence is descrambled by calculating an exclusive-OR operation between a descrambled sequence generated from this descrambling initial value and a reception signal sequence scrambled.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display device includes a first substrate and a second substrate with a liquid crystal material sandwiched therebetween, a pixel having an optically transmissive portion and an optically reflective portion, a phase plate which is formed between the second substrate and the liquid crystal material in the optically transmissive portion of the pixel, and a color filter which is formed between the second substrate and the liquid crystal material in the optically transmissive portion of the pixel and between the phase plate and the liquid crystal material in the optically reflective portion of the pixel. A counter electrode is formed between the color filter and the liquid crystal material, and a pixel electrode is formed between the first substrate and the liquid crystal material. An electric field which is produced by a voltage between the pixel electrode and the counter electrode induces behavior of the liquid crystal material.

Abstract: A banknote handling machine according to the present invention efficiently utilizes stacking units so as to efficiently process banknotes by returning odd banknotes of a first predetermined type in every transaction whereas keeping odd banknotes of a second predetermined type in a stacking unit, and performing subsequent transaction when banknote processing including depositing, taking-in, recognizing, sorting/stacking, and bundling of banknotes and confirming the deposit amount for one transaction is sequentially performed for a plurality of transactions.

Abstract: It is intended to provide a labeling precursor compound used for selectively producing radioactive halogen-substituted syn-1-amino-3-cyclobutane-carboxylic acids, and to provide a process for producing a radioactive halogen-substituted syn-1-amino-3-cyclobutane-carboxylic acid using the labeling precursor compound. A labeling precursor is used in which a phthalimide group is used as a protective group for protecting the amino group. The syn-form of the radioactive halogen-substituted 1-amino-3-cyclobutane-carboxylic acid can be selectively produced by labeling the labeling precursor with a radioactive halogen followed by deprotecting.

Abstract: A nitrification inhibitor and a soil improver and a fertilizer containing the same are offered which can be utilized in a wide area from a tropical to a temperate zone, and can be easily obtained from natural origin materials. It is a nitrification inhibitor to inhibit soil nitrification, containing as a main component either one of linoleic acid, ?-linolenic acid, ?-linolenic acid, and methyl linoleate, or their mixture of two or more. By incorporating this nitrification inhibitor into a soil improver or a fertilizer, nitrification of soil can be effectively inhibited.

Abstract: A received banknote processing apparatus having no temporary reserving section has a failure recovery processing unit. The failure recovery processing unit securely recovers the number of banknotes of an accepted transaction together with the determination of the fitness of the banknotes of the accepted transaction in failure recovery processing that is performed when a failure, such as a jam, occurs.

Abstract: A bill processing device comprises a hopping part 101 for receiving a placed bill, a carrying part 202 for carrying a bill received by the hopping part 101, a plurality of stacking parts 104 for stacking a bill carried by the carrying part 202, a identifying part 201 for identifying a bill received from the hopping part 101, a placing and running out part 103 which accommodates a bill received from the hopping part 101 and which can send out the bill, and a controlling part 300 which controls the hopping part 101, the carrying part 202, the plurality of stacking parts 104, the identifying part 201 and the placing and running out part 103. The controlling part 300 controls them to determine a destination stacking part from the plurality of stacking parts 104 according to an identification result of the identifying part 201, and when a bill can not be stacked in the determined destination stacking part, the controlling part controls 300 them to carry a bill to the placing and running out part 103.

Abstract: In a money handling system in which the number of stacking units is smaller than the number of denomination, banknotes are efficiently sorted by denomination while a deposit process is performed.