Abstract: The present invention provides a system composed of a monitor unit including a display and being driven by a battery and a base unit for transmitting image information to the monitor unit, which system is capable of charging the battery for driving the monitor unit without the need of provision of any special charging unit The monitor unit has a configuration that a battery is mounted on a back surface portion and a stand is contained in the back surface portion, and also a groove portion is formed in a bottom surface and a charge terminal is provided in the groove portion. The base unit has a configuration that a holding rail is formed in a lower portion of a front surface portion and a charge terminal is provided on the holding rail.

Abstract: In an apparatus for receiving digital television broadcast, a user may be safeguarded from misconception that the apparatus may be in disorder. When a channel for receipt is commanded in the apparatus for receiving digital television broadcast, the number of the channel is acquired at step S11. It is verified at step S12 whether or not the channel so selected has been set as being a channel for reception. If the result of check is affirmative, a picture for the channel is displayed at step S14. If otherwise, that is if the channel selected has not been set as the channel for reception, the effect that the channel cannot be viewed is displayed at step S15.

Abstract: An information processing method and apparatus for enabling more prompt sign-up. A network management server at step S62 received am equipment serial number from an information processing apparatus and, at step s63, references a database to retrieve a received equipment serial number. If the equipment serial number has not been found, the program moves to step S16 where a command for initiating manual setting is sent to an information processing apparatus. If the equipment serial number has been found, the program moves to step S81 to verify whether or not the admittance made or admittance not as yet made, recorded in the database in association with the equipment serial number received is admittance made. If the verified result indicates admittance not as yet made, the program moves to step S82 where the network management server sends an automatic setting initiating command to the information processing apparatus.

Abstract: A terminal apparatus setting method is provided, comprising the steps of connecting a terminal apparatus to a setting server which is provided for registering with one or more Internet service providers associated with the setting server. The terminal apparatus receives information regarding the one or more Internet service providers associated with the setting server from the setting server, and a desired one of the one or more Internet service providers associated with the setting server is selected. Selection information indicative of the selected Internet service provider is sent to the setting server. An input request regarding registration items required by the selected Internet service provider is received from the setting server. Registration information is in response to the required registration items in the input request and sending the registration information to the setting server.

Abstract: A television reception system is disclosed by which a television broadcasting program can be enjoyed at any place in a home without being influenced by connection to an antenna cable or a communication circuit and which can be connected to a network such as the Internet. A channel selection apparatus and a display apparatus are formed as separate apparatus from each other. The channel selection apparatus receives broadcasting signals, selects one of the broadcasting signals, forms a transmission signal from the selected broadcasting signal and transmits the transmission signal by radio. The radio signal from the channel selection apparatus is received by the display apparatus, and an image based on an image signal of the received signal is displayed on an LCD apparatus serving as a display element.

Abstract: A focus servo control system is a system for selectively applying a light beam to a disk on which data is recorded on plurally layered recording surfaces and setting the focus position of the light beam on a selected recording surface of the two-layered recording surfaces based on a signal read from reflected light from the selected recording surface of the plurally layered recording surfaces of the disk and includes a focus error detector for detecting a positional difference between the focus position of the light beam and the selected recording surface of the plurally layered recording surfaces, a sample-hold circuit for sampling and holding an output of the focus error detector, a focus position correcting circuit for correcting the focus position of the light beam based on one of the output of the focus error detector and an output of the sample-hold circuit, a data signal level detector for detecting the signal level relating to data read out from the disk, a comparator for comparing a signal level dete

Abstract: An apparatus for averaging pulses in a stream of pulses, which pulses are categorizable into at least two categories, includes structure for isolating the pulses into groupings of pulses, structure for counting the number of pulses of a particular category that occur within a grouping of pulses, and structure for generating an output signal when a predetermined number of pulses of a particular category occur within a grouping of pulses.

Abstract: A communication method and a communication apparatus, in which a terminal can be selected in accordance with a specific application, and the abuse thereof can be prevented in the case of terminal being stolen or lost. When a terminal is connected to a predetermined communication network by using an identification code assigned to each terminal, a specific identification code assigned to a first terminal can be set to a predetermined second terminal by a predetermined operation. The first terminal can not use the above-mentioned specific identification code which is set in the second terminal.

Abstract: A mobile communication subscriber apparatus such as a portable phone allows its user to make prompt contact with someone who places a call to a specific phone served as a local base station to the subscriber apparatus. The mobile communication subscriber apparatus is arranged to register its position to a base station when it is used at an external mode. This subscriber apparatus provides a mechanism for transmitting a control signal for indicating change of the settings of an answering function of the local base station.

Abstract: A track jump control apparatus for a disc reproducing system having a transport unit for moving a pickup element that reads data recorded on the disc in the radial direction of the disc at a high speed. The system also has a detecting unit for detecting a moving direction of the pickup element unit based on a pick-up signal output from the pickup element while the pickup element moves in the radial direction of the disc, and a protection unit for stopping the pickup element moved by the transport unit when the pickup element is judged to be moving in a different direction from the direction moved by the transport unit. The apparatus has a measuring unit for measuring a pulse duration of the picked-up signal, which is continuously obtained from the pickup element while the pickup element moves in the radial direction of the disc at a high speed.

Abstract: A drive speed detector for a pickup feed motor including a detector for detecting the drive speed of the optical pickup feed motor by generating an AC signal with a frequency which is proportional to the drive speed of the optical pickup feed motor and a controller for controlling the sensitivity of the detecting means in order to uniform an amplitude level of the AC signal output from the detecting means.

Abstract: A method for facilitating communication between parent telephones and child telephones in a cordless telephone system. The method includes steps of dividing a plurality of channels into groups and assigning each parent telephone to one of the groups. When a child telephone is registered with one of the parent telephones, the child telephone may scan only the channels in the group assigned to the parent telephone with which the child telephone is registered, rather than the entire plurality of channels in the cordless telephone system.

Abstract: An apparatus for averaging pulses in a stream of pulses, which pulses are categorizable into at least two categories, includes structure for isolating the pulses into groupings of pulses, structure for counting the number of pulses of a particular category that occur within a grouping of pulses, and structure for generating an output signal when a predetermined number of pulses of a particular category occur within a grouping of pulses.

Abstract: A method of processing original still picture data representing an original still image and stored in a video memory and storing processed still picture data representing a processed still image in a predetermined location of the video memory comprising the steps of setting an XY orthogonal coordinate system on the video memory, setting a reference line parallel to one of the X and Y axes of the orthogonal coordinate system and passing through a point of intersection of lines, each of which connects corresponding pixels of the original and processed still images, moving multiples the pixel data on a line of the original still image parallel to the reference line and furthest from the reference line to addresses of the video memory forming a line of the processed still image, and repeating the preceding step for pixel data on lines of the still image parallel to the reference line and second furthest from the reference line and succeeding lines, to thereby store the processed still picture data representing th

Abstract: A still picture signal editing or processing apparatus having a still picture signal source for generating a still picture signal, an analog-to-digital converter for converting the still picture signal into a digitized still picture signal, first and second main field memories, an auxiliary field memory, a signal processer for processing a still picture signal, a display for displaying a still picture, a selector for supplying a signal selectively read out from the first and second main field memories to the display, and a memory controller for controlling read and write operations of the first and second main field memories and auxiliary field memory, thereby a digitized still picture signal from the analog-to-digital converter is supplied to the first main field memory, the digitized still picture signal is read out from the first main field memory, compressed by 1/n in data amount and is separated into first and second compressed signals by the signal processer, the first and second compressed signals are

Abstract: In an automatic focusing circuit of a video camera, automatic focusing operation is performed by a focus evaluating value formed in response to a video signal obtained by an image sensing circuit (4). A first focusing motor control circuit (15) controls the rotation of a focusing motor (3) so that a focusing lens (1) is once fixed in the position where the focus evaluating value takes the maximum value. A second focusing motor control circuit (17) changes the focusing motor (3), by a predetermined very small amount, to determine the slope of the focus evaluating value, which change is repeated until inversion of the slope, that is, the maximal point is detected. As a result, the position of the focusing lens is corrected at the maximal point of the focus evaluating value. When the correction amount exceeds a predetermined value, first automatic focusing operation by the first focusing motor control circuit (15) is resumed.

Abstract: Pick-up control circuits for disc information reproducing apparatus. The apparatus includes a carriage, a source of a light beam mounted in the carriage, a focus lens for placing the light beam on a disc, the focus lens being mounted on a standard position in the carriage but movable by a prescribed range from the standard position, a circuit for detecting a tracking error signal responsive to a deviation of the light beam from a center of the track, a lens actuator for driving the focus lens to deviate from the standard position, a carriage actuator for driving the carriage to move in the radial direction in respect of the disc, a power source for applying a drive voltage to the carriage actuator, a switch connected between the power source and the carriage actuator, and a circuit for controlling the switch to apply the drive voltage intermittently to the carriage actuator, so that focus lens is moved to the standard position on or before reaching an end of the movable range.

Abstract: In an automatic focusing circuit of a video camera, an automatic focusing operation is performed by a focus evaluating value produced in response to a video signal obtained in an image sensing circuit (4). A focusing motor control circuit (14) controls rotation of a focusing motor (3) so that a focusing lens (1) is once fixed in the position where the focus evaluating value takes the maximum value. Then, a control circuit (14) resumes the automatic focusing operation after a lapse of a second time period when it is determined that the focus evaluating value was decreased to a predetermined level during a first time period and maintained the level over the second time period, and does not resume the automatic focusing operation when it is determined that the focus evaluating value did not maintain the level.

Abstract: In an automatic focusing circuit of a video camera, an automatic focusing operation is performed in response to a first focus evaluating value which is steeply changed and a second focus evaluating value which is gently changed, in response to the position of a lens, in which the first and second focus evaluation values are generated in response to a video signal obtained in an image sensing circuit 4. When a comparator 28 determines that the first focus evaluating value does not reach a predetermined reference value, a in-focus state detecting circuit 24 and a focusing motor control circuit 10 perform an intermittent automatic focusing operating every other field in response to the second focus evaluating value.

Abstract: In an automatic focusing circuit of a video camera, automatic focusing operation is performed by a focus evaluating value formed in response to a video signal obtained by an image sensing circuit (4). A first focusing motor control circuit (15) controls the rotation of a focusing motor (3) so that a focusing lens (1) is once fixed in the position where the focus evaluating value takes the maximum value. A second focusing motor control circuit (17) changes the focusing motor (3), by a predetermined very small amount, to determine the slope of the focus evaluating value, which change is repeated until inversion of the slope, that is, the maximal point is detected. As a result, the position of the focusing lens is corrected at the maximal point of the focus evaluating value. When the correction amount exceeds a predetermined value, first automatic focusing operation by the first focusing motor control circuit (15) is resumed.