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.

Abstract: Circuitry and method for performing a double instruction during a single clock cycle in a synchronous vector processor (SVP) device having a plurality of one-bit processor elements organized in a linear array. The circuitry includes four sense amps per processor element and one ALU to enable reading of four data bits per clock cycle. The method includes reading data from each register file in a processor element and writing the data in one of the register file memory banks; enabling a 2:1 reduction in the amount of required instructions and a substantial reduction in overall cycle time.

Abstract: A silver halide photographic material is disclosed, which comprises a support having thereon at least one silver halide emulsion layer, wherein the emulsion layer or other hydrophilic colloid layer contains at least one hydrazine compound and at least one compound represented by the following formula (I): ##STR1## An image forming method is also described, which comprises development processing the above-described image exposed silver halide photographic material with a developing solution comprising (1) from 0.2 to 0.75 mol/liter of dihydroxybenzene based developing agent, (2) from 0.001 to 0.06 mol/liter of 1-phenyl-3-pyrazolidone or p-aminophenol auxiliary developing agent, (3) from 0.3 to 1.2 mol/liter of free sulfite ion, and (4) a compound represented by the following formula (E); and the concentration ratio of the compound represented by formula (E) to the dihydroxybenzene developing agent is from 0.03 to 0.12, and the developing solution has a pH value of from 9.0 to 12.0.

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: Disclosed are a silver halide photographic material containing at least one merocyanine color-sensitizing dye having a particular structure of formula (I) ##STR1## wherein R.sub.1 and R.sub.2 each represent an alkyl group having a residue capable of making the compound soluble in water as a free acid or salt; V.sub.1, V.sub.2, V.sub.3 and V.sub.4 each represent a hydrogen atom or a monovalent substituent, provided that these substituents (V.sub.1, V.sub.2, V.sub.3, V.sub.4) are not bonded to each other to form a ring and that the sum of the molecular weights of V.sub.1, V.sub.2, V.sub.3 and V.sub.4 is from 4 to 50; L.sub.1, L.sub.2, L.sub.3 and L.sub.4 each represent an optionally substituted methine group; M.sub.1 represents a charge-neutralizing pair ion; and m.sub.1 represents a number of from 0 to 4 that is necessary for neutralizing the intramolecular charge.

Abstract: The present invention resides in that two of three drivers are BTL-operated in pair to drive the motor for driving the tray and one of the two drivers and a remaining one driver are BTL-operated in pair to drive the other motors. Therefore, it is possible to construct a driver circuit for driving various drive motors within an optical disk drive device by adding only one driver to a conventional driver circuit and, thus, it becomes possible to make the drive circuit as a single chip IC.

Abstract: Disclosed is a silver halide photographic material and forming an image using the same, containing a hydrazine derivative in the emulsion layer(s) or in other hydrophilic colloid layer(s). At least one silver halide emulsion comprises silver halide grains containing (a) from 1.times.10.sup.-8 to 1.times.10.sup.-6 mol, per mol of silver, of an iridium compound, and (b) from 1.times.10.sup.-8 to 1.times.10.sup.-6 mol, per mol of silver, of a rhodium compound or from 1.times.10.sup.-9 to 1.times.10.sup.-5 mol, per mol of silver, of a rhenium compound, ruthenium compound or osmium compound, and having a silver chloride content of 50 mol % or more, the emulsion having been color-sensitized with a sensitizing dye of the following general formulae (1), (2) or (3): ##STR1## The material may be processed with a stable developer to give a hard image having few "black peppers".

Abstract: Disclosed herein are a method and apparatus for industrially freezing (or cooling) food or the like under pressure. The method consists of isostatically exerting pressure on the material such as food (14) and the frozen body (15) composed mainly of water through the pressure medium (12) contained in the pressure vessel (1), thereby cooling the material (14). When the temperature of the material (14) decreases below 0.degree.C. at which freezing does not take place under pressure, the pressure is released rapidly so that fine ice crystals are formed in the material (14).

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 silver halide photographic photosensitive material comprising a support, at least one silver halide emulsion layer on the support, a non-photosensitive hydrophilic colloid layer provided between the support and the at least one silver halide emulsion layer, and a backing layer provided on the side of the support which is opposite to the side having the at least one silver halide emulsion layer; wherein(a) the at least one silver halide emulsion layer contains silver halide grains having a grain size of not more than 0.2 .mu.m, and a silver chloride content of at least 90 mol %,(b) the non-photosensitive hydrophilic colloid layer contains a dye solid-dispersed in the form of fine crystals in the range of from 10-80 mg/m.sup.2, and(c) the backing layer has an absorbance at 340-380 nm of from 0.30-0.90. A method for processing the silver halide photographic photosensitive material is also disclosed.

Abstract: A radiation detector has a larger plural number of scintillators arranged closely and two-dimensionally together and a smaller plural number of photomultiplier tubes optically connected to this scintillator group. Specified regions on mutually opposite surfaces of these scintillators are covered with an optically reflective material and the areas covered by this reflective material vary according to the order in which these scintillators are arranged.

Abstract: The present invention relates generally to single instruction, multiple data processors. More particularly, the invention relates to processors having a one dimensional array of processing elements, that finds particular application in digital signal processing such as Improved Definition Television (IDTV). Additionally, the invention relates to improvements to the processors, television and video systems and other systems improvements and methods of their operation and control.

Abstract: Data selector circuit including a plurality of data registers connected in parallel via corresponding output buffers to a plurality of output drivers, wherein a decoder and selector portion is interposed between the output buffers and the output drivers for selectively providing one of a plurality of serial data output sequences from the data registers to the output drivers rather than a parallel data output format from the plurality of data registers which would otherwise occur. The decoder and selector portion is controlled by a partial address buffer which is provided with serial sequence selection data.

Abstract: A speech synthesis system comprises an input terminal for accepting text code, accent code, and phrase code.

Abstract: A speech synthesizer that synthesizes speech by actuating a voice source and a filter which processes output of the voice source according to speech parameters in each successive short interval of time according to feature vectors which include formant frequencies, formant bandwidth, speech rate and so on. Each feature vector, or speech parameter is defined by two target points (r.sub.1, r.sub.2), and a value at each target point together with a connection curve between target points. A speech rate is defined by a speech rate curve which defines elongation or shortening of the speech rate, by start point (d.sub.1) of elongation (or shorteninng), end point (d.sub.2), and elongation ratio between d.sub.1 and d.sub.2. The ratios between the relative time of each speech parameter and absolute time are preliminarily calculated according to the speech rate table in each predetermined short interval.

Abstract: A pressure-fixable toner is produced by: dispersing or dissolving a mixture containing (a) a colorant and/or magnetic particles, (b) a pressure fixable binding material, and (c) a capsule wall-forming resin, in an organic solvent; dispersing the resulting dispersion or solution in a dispersion-stabilizing solution; heating the dispersion to evaporate off the solvent; dispersing the resulting encapsulated toner in a lower alcohol to remove the solvent remaining within the encapsulated toner; and thereafter drying the toner. The toner can be used to develop images in electrophotographic systems.

Abstract: An echo control system for an adaptive echo canceller which forms a pseudo-echo or its residual signal by combining respective outputs from a tapped delay line holding an estimated characteristic of an echo path as a tap weight and receiving a received signal or its residual signal as an input signal, subtracts the pseudo-echo or its residual signal from an echo signal or its residual signal, and corrects the tap weight using an amount of correction obtained by the resulting residual echo signal or its residual signal and the received signal or its residual signal.

Abstract: In a digitalized facsimile transmission system, (k) number of scanning lines (k=2 or 4) are encoded to a relative address code and the next scanning line is encoded to a run length code, and each scanning line has the related synchronization code pattern corresponding either said relative address code or said run length code. Thus, the effect of a transmission error is restricted within one scanning line when that error occurs in the scanning line encoded to run length code, or k lines when that error occurs in the scanning line encoded to relative address code. The value (k) is switched between k=2 and k=4 according to the instantaneous quality of a communication line. When the quality is good, k=4 is selected, and when the quality is bad, k=2 is selected. The reception side can switch the decoding systems between relative address decode and run length decode, by being controlled through the related synchronization code patterns.

Abstract: An echo control system for an adaptive echo canceller which cancels an echo signal while successively estimating the transmission characteristic of an echo path by the use of a received signal and the echo signal, comprising means using the received signal of a predetermined duration for obtaining an autoregression coefficient in a case of using the received signal as the output of an autoregressive model, means for obtaining a difference signal between a predicted value of the received signal produced by using the autoregression coefficient and the received signal, means for obtaining a difference signal between a predicted value of the echo signal produced by using the autoregression coefficient and the echo signal, a memory for storing the estimated transmission characteristic of the echo path, and a corrector for correcting the content of the memory following an identification method by learning.

Abstract: A facsimile signal converter for converting an input facsimile signal into an output facsimile signal having a scanning line density different from that of the input facsimile signal. A table circuit is provided for developing white and black states of each output picture element of the output facsimile signal in correspondence to a predetermined number of combinations of states of reference picture elements and the geometric relation between the reference picture elements and the output picture elements. The reference picture element corresponds to at least one input picture element of the input facsimile signal adjacent to each output picture element of the output facsimile signal in consideration of a state of superimposing an input pattern on an output pattern indicated respectively by the input facsimile signal and the output facsimile signal.