Abstract: A sealed-by-resin type semiconductor device includes a substrate, a lead provided on the substrate, and a semiconductor element provided on the lead by flip chip bonding. The semiconductor element includes a plurality of terminals connected to the lead. The sealed-by-resin type semiconductor device further includes a resin for protecting the plurality of terminals, and the resin has a sufficiently low elasticity modulus that occurrence of undesirable migration is suppressed.

Abstract: A picture synthesizing apparatus, and method for synthesizing a moving picture of a person’s face having mouth-shape variations from a train of input characters, wherein the method steps comprise developing from the train of input character a train of phonemes, utilizing a speech synthesis technique outputting, for each phoneme, a corresponding vocal sound feature including articulation mode and its duration of each corresponding phoneme of the train of phonemes. Determining for each phoneme a mouth-shape feature corresponding to each phoneme on the basis of the corresponding vocal sound feature, the mouth-shape feature including the degree of opening of the mouth, the degree of roundness of the lips, the height of the lower jaw in a raised and a lowered position, and the degree to which the tongue is seen.

Abstract: Liquid oxygen, which is extracted from the bottom of a lower pressure rectifier and compressed by a liquid oxygen pump to a predetermined supply pressure, is evaporated in a main heat exchanger to prepare an oxygen gas product, while oxygen gas is circulated in the main heat exchanger at a linear velocity which is equal to or higher than the terminal velocity, calculated depending on the supply pressure, of an oxygen droplet having a diameter of 200 &mgr;m. This process effectively prevents precipitation of heavy impurities in the heat exchanger and produces higher pressure oxygen gas at reduced operational costs.

Abstract: A power transistor comprising a collector region formed in a semiconductor substrate, a base region formed within the collector region, and a hoop-shaped emitter region formed within the base region. The hoop-shaped emitter region divides the base region into an external section and at least one internal section surrounded by the emitter region on the substrate surface, the external and internal base sections being connected within the substrate. A base contact is formed on the surface of each internal base section surrounded by the emitter region. By this design, the electric current is more uniform within the emitter region, and safe operating area (SOA) destruction can be prevented. The invention is also directed to semiconductor integrated circuit devices using the above power transistor, and a method of forming the same.

Abstract: A personal computer having a speech recognition board and speech synthesis board are connected to a key service unit via a control information communication path and media information communication path. Upon executing an exchange service, it is checked if that exchange service uses media information. When the service uses media information, up and down channels are set on the media information communication path, and voice guidance and a voice dial signal for voice dialing are transferred via these channels, thus making the personal computer execute speech recognition required for voice dialing and a search process of a callee telephone number on the basis of the recognition result.

Abstract: This invention is characterized by providing an apparatus for automatically discriminating service users which can prevent troubles from occurring between the service provider and users because of difference in language. When the service provider has a call from a user, the service provider makes an announcement to the user to request the voicing of a specific keyword. If an answer by the keyword is made from the user, it is determined whether or not it is an answer by the correct keyword. If correct, the call is connected to the service provider. If not correct, how to use the service is announced in another language. Then, the line is disconnected. As a result, a user who is weak in the language used by the service provider can be prevented from being connected to the service provider.

Abstract: Latex polymer of fine particles having a heterogeneous phase structure which comprises a core of a polymer having repeating units derived from a conjugated diene monomer and a shell of a polymer having repeating units derived from at least one ethylenically unsaturated monomer carrying an active methylene group; a silver halide photographic light-sensitive material comprises a core/shell latex polymer whose shell consists of a polymer having repeating units of an ethylenically unsaturated monomer represented by the formula: CH.sub.2 .dbd.C(R.sup.1)--L--X (wherein R.sup.

Abstract: A semiconductor element/substrate mounting structure is formed by a first step of covering a resin film over the substrate together with a conductive portion; a second step of pressing and heating so that bumps penetrate through the resin film to come into contact with the conductive portion; and a third step of pressing and heating so that the bumps and the conductive portion become alloyed between the semiconductor element and the substrate.

Abstract: Latex polymer of fine particles having a heterogeneous phase structure which comprises a core of a polymer having repeating units derived from a conjugated diene monomer and a shell of a polymer having repeating units derived from at least one ethylenically unsaturated monomer carrying an active methylene group; a silver halide photographic light-sensitive material comprises a core/shell latex polymer whose shell consists of a polymer having repeating units of an ethylenically unsaturated monomer represented by the formula: CH.sub.2 .dbd.C(R.sup.1)--L--X (wherein R.sup.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a method of preparing 2,6-dimethylnaphthalene from a feed stream that contains hydrocarbons which contain dimethylnaphthalene isomers. The method includes the following steps:I. distillation and concentration of the dimethylnaphthalene isomers from the feed stream, to form a dimethylnaphthalene fraction,II. isomerization of the dimethylnaphthalene fraction to enrich the dimethylnaphthalene fraction in 2,6-dimethylnaphthalene, to form a 2,6-enriched dimethylnaphthalene fraction,III. purification of 2,6-dimethylnaphthalene from the 2,6-enriched dimethylnaphthalene fraction,wherein step II is conducted in the presence of a catalyst composition containing a synthetic zeolite characterized by an X-ray diffraction pattern including interplanar d-spacing (.ANG.)12.36.+-.10.411.03.+-.0.28.83.+-.10.146.18.+-.0.126.00.+-.0.104.06.+-.0.073.91.+-.0.013.42.+-.0.06,wherein the purification includes crystallization under pressure.

Abstract: In an optical disc player, as signals are read from and written to an optical disc, the optical disc is rotated by a spindle motor and an optical pickup is moved by a sled motor. These motors are both direct-current motors. The motor control circuit of the invention uses a drive circuit based on the BTL method, and additionally uses a resistor that is connected in series with the direct-current motor between the output terminals of the drive circuit. The voltage drop across the resistor is fed back, as positive feedback, to the drive circuit through a feedback amplifier. Since, when the motor is started up, a high current flows through the motor and thus a large voltage drop occurs across the resistor, a high feedback voltage is obtained and thus a high drive voltage is applied to the motor.

Abstract: A processor (10) comprises a plurality of processing elements each having an input register (11), first memory bank (12), first sense amplifier (40), ALU (13), output register (16), second memory bank (15) and second sense amplifier (42). The first sense amplifier (40) is shared between the input register (11) and first memory bank (12). The second sense amplifier (42) is shared between the output register (16) and second memory bank (15). The sense amplifier (40,42) may be paused to prevent voltage spikes during a read/write operation, or to wait until a calculation is completed.

Abstract: A telephone speech recognition system is provided which has a high level of speech recognition without affecting from various conditions of a telephone line. The system comprises speech analyzers (4) and (5), and reference speech model storages (7) to (9) corresponding to line connection data. A telephone line interface (1) having a line connection data acquisition function analyzes a call received from the telephone line for identifying the country, route, and other information of the call and transmits those line connection data to a line connection data processor (2). The line connection data processor (2) selects one of the acoustic analyzers (4) and (5) in response to the line connection data from the interface (1) and also one of the speech model storages (7) to (9). A speech pattern matcher (11) compares an acoustic vector train output of the selected acoustic analyzer with the speech models given from the selected reference speech model storage for speech recognition.

Abstract: A speech recognition system for recognizing a system user's speech can shorten a recognition period by reducing the amount of necessary calculations without deteriorating the accuracy rate of recognition. The speech recognition system successively calculates statistical probabilities of acoustic models, outputs a one sentence recognition result corresponding to acoustic models having the highest reliability when the one sentence is detected and stops the following calculations.

Abstract: A silver halide photographic material comprising a support having thereon at least one silver halide emulsion layer, wherein: the silver halide emulsion layer comprises a silver halide comprising silver chloride or silver chlorobromide having a silver chloride content of not less than 95 mol %; the silver halide emulsion comprises at least one transition metal selected from the group consisting of elements belonging to the groups V to VIII of the periodic table, which has one nitrosyl, thionitrosyl or aquo ligand per molecule; and the silver halide is chemically sensitized with a selenium compound selected from compounds represented by one of formulae SE-1 to SE-8 disclosed in the specification.

Abstract: A method for forming images on a silver halide light-sensitive material includes exposing a material which contains at least one light-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer and at least one hydrophilic colloidal layer, either of which includes a latex polymer having active methylene groups, and developing the exposed material with a developer which contains a dihydroxybenzene developing agent and an auxiliary developing agent showing superadditivity, wherein the following requirements are satisfied: the pH increase observed when adding 0.1 mole/l developer of NaOH to the developer.ltoreq.0.25; 9.5.ltoreq.initial pH of the developer.ltoreq.11.0; and the amount of the developer supplemented.ltoreq.225 ml/m.sup.2.

Abstract: A printing paper for use in sublimation-type thermal transfer recording includes a sheet-like base and a dye receiving layer disposed thereon. The dye receiving layer is composed of a copolymer of substituted or unsubstituted phenoxypolyethylene glycol acrylate or substituted or unsubstituted phenoxypolyethylene glycol methacrylate and another monomer. The substituted or unsubstituted phenoxypolyethylene glycol acrylate or the substituted or unsubstituted phenoxypolyethylene glycol methacrylate is of a proportion of at least 50 weight % of the copolymer.

Abstract: A speech endpoint detection unit determines that a first condition is met when a matching score of a partial sentence accepted by a grammatical rule unit is the highest of all partial sentences, and that a second condition is met when a duration time of input speech determined to coincide with a silent standard pattern is longer than a predetermined time. A speech endpoint is determined when the first and second conditions are both met and a speech endpoint detection signal is sent to a word prediction unit and a recognition result output unit. By requiring that both first and second conditions be met, a speech endpoint can correctly be detected even when a long silent period is present in the course of a sentence.

Abstract: A silver halide photographic material is disclosed, which comprises a support having thereon at least one light-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer comprising silver halide grains sensitized with a selenium or tellurium sensitizer and having a silver chloride content of 50 mol % or more, wherein the silver halide emulsion layer or other hydrophilic colloid layer contains polymer latex having an active methylene group. The silver halide photographic material provides high storage stability and less pressure marks.

Abstract: A processor (10) comprises a plurality of processing elements each having an input register (11), first memory bank (12), first sense amplifier (40), ALU (13), output register (16), second memory bank (15) and second sense amplifier (42). The first sense amplifier (40) is shared between the input register (11) and first memory bank (12). The second sense amplifier (42) is shared between the output register (16) and second memory bank (15). The sense amplifier (40,42) may be paused to prevent voltage spikes during a readrite operation, or to wait until a calculation is completed.