Abstract: A light absorption anisotropic film that displays a bright and clear image in a desired direction and makes the image invisible from a direction other than the desired direction using an image display device, a viewing angle control system formed of the light absorption anisotropic film, and an image display device formed of the light absorption anisotropic film. The light absorption anisotropic film includes a light absorption anisotropic layer, and a first alignment layer adjacent to the light absorption anisotropic layer, in which the light absorption anisotropic layer contains a liquid crystal compound and an organic dichroic substance, an angle between a transmittance central axis of the light absorption anisotropic layer and a normal line of the light absorption anisotropic layer is 5° or greater and less than 45°, and the first alignment layer is a layer in which a polymerizable liquid crystal compound is hybrid-aligned.

Abstract: A control device is provided, which includes: a route determining unit configured to determine a travelling route of a hybrid vehicle; a travelling time estimating unit configured to, in a case where the travelling route includes an engine travelling restricted section and an engine requiring section, in which engine travelling is required, exists before the engine travelling restricted section in the travelling route, estimate a travelling time during which the hybrid vehicle travels from the beginning of the engine requiring section to the engine travelling restricted section; and a vehicle control unit configured to cause the hybrid vehicle to start the engine before the engine requiring section when the travelling time is shorter than a predetermined time.

Abstract: An object is to provide an insulating film for a semiconductor device which has characteristics of a low permittivity, a low leakage current, and a high mechanical strength, undergoes less change in these characteristics with the elapse of time, and has an excellent water resistance, as well as to provide a process and an apparatus for producing the insulating film for a semiconductor device, a semiconductor device, and a process for producing the semiconductor device.

Abstract: In a software management apparatus, a storage unit stores use order information that indicates in what order a plurality of pieces of software are used upon request from a first information processing apparatus. Based on the progress of software running on a plurality of second information processing apparatuses and the use order information stored in the storage unit, a prediction unit predicts which software the first information processing apparatus is expected to request in the next place. An installation unit installs the software predicted by the prediction unit on one of the second information processing apparatuses.

Abstract: An object is to provide an insulating film for a semiconductor device which has characteristics of a low permittivity, a low leakage current, and a high mechanical strength, undergoes less change in these characteristics with the elapse of time, and has an excellent water resistance, as well as to provide a process and an apparatus for producing the insulating film for a semiconductor device, a semiconductor device, and a process for producing the semiconductor device.

Abstract: Provided are a predetermined usage amount acquisition unit acquiring predetermined usage amount information within a predetermined period about the computer resources from the user terminals, a real usage amount calculation unit calculating real usage amount information indicating amount of actual usage of the user terminals within the predetermined period, and a charge calculation unit calculating, when calculating a charge imposed on the user terminals on the basis of the predetermined usage amount information and the real usage amount information, respectively a charge for a real usage amount equal to or larger than the predetermined usage amount and a charge for a real usage amount equal to or smaller than the predetermined usage amount in the whole usage amount by applying amount of money per different unit usage amount.

Abstract: The present invention provides a method for joining two metal members into a joined metal member. The method comprise steps of; applying a brazing material having a higher melting point than both the members on the surface of a first metal member and heating them to form a brazing material on said surface and a braze-diffusion layer under the brazing material in the surface area of the first member; and, then, pressing the first and another second metal members between which the brazing material is interposed during heating at a higher temperature than said melting point of the brazing material to squeeze the molten brazing material out between both the contact surfaces of both the metal members, therefor the two metal members being joined by the braze diffusion layers formed in both the surfaces into the joined metal member.

Abstract: A novel method for controlling culture of lactic bacteria, which enables the state of bacteria to be controlled in a simple and rapid manner in the step of cultivation in the production of various products utilizing lactic bacteria. The method is characterized in that, in the step of cultivating lactic bacteria, the intensity of the infrared absorption assignable to dissociable lactic acid and that of the infrared absorption assignable to nondissociable lactic acid in the culture are measured by FT-IR spectrometry and the pH value of the culture and/or the lactic acid concentration of the culture are calculated based on the measurements. The method according to another embodiment is characterized in that, in the above method for controlling culture of lactic bacteria, the intensity of the infrared absorption assignable to glucose as a substrate or an alcoholic C-O group of lactose is measured and the glucose concentration or lactose concentration is calculated based on these measurements.

Abstract: A window glass has a heat ray reflective layer including metal nitrides as a component thereof and an antenna conductor for an automobile wherein the heat ray reflective layer has a surface resistance of at least 20 k.OMEGA./sq. for preventing interference with the antenna operation.

Abstract: An antenna device for an automobile comprises an electric heating type defogger having heating strips and a bus bar for feeding a current to the heating strips and an antenna conductor having antenna strips arranged to form a pattern, which are fitted on the rear window glass fitted to a rear window opening formed in an automobile, wherein the defogger and the antenna conductor are spaced apart from each other with a predetermined small space in a capacitive coupling relation so a reactance circuit is connected to the defogger to effect anti-resonance between the defogger and the rear window opening of the body of the automobile at the central frequency in terms of logarithmic scale of a broadcast frequency band region; a quality factor value is determined by the inductance of a choke coil in the reactance circuit and the stray capacitance between the defogger and the rear window opening of the body of the automobile so that the ratio of an input impedance to a receiver to the impedance of the antenna conduct

Abstract: A transparent glass antenna for an automobile comprises a window glass panel, a transparent conductive film formed in the window glass panel excluding its peripheral portion where a blank region having a predetermined width is formed, a bus bar formed at the peripheral portion of the transparent conductive film so as to surround the substantially entire peripheral portion of the film, and a current feeding terminal formed at a predetermined position in the bus bar.

Abstract: A method of carburizing and quenching involves the following three steps of: pre-carburizing a steel member containing Cr with precipitating carbide by heating to achieve a surface carbon concentration of not less than 1%; spheroidizing the carbide obtained by alternately holding the steel member at a temperature slightly above and slightly below the A.sub.1 transformation temperature under a carbon potential of from 0.5 to 1.0%; and carburizing and quenching or carbo-nitriding and quenching the steel member followed by reheating at not more than the heating temperature of pre-carburizing.

Abstract: An antenna device for a television receiver mounted on an automobile comprises a front glass antenna including at least two antenna conductors which are separately provided in a windshield glass of the automobile; at least one second antenna provided on the automobile at a position spaced from the front glass antenna, and a switching circuit which is connected to the at least two antenna conductors of the front glass antenna and the at least one second antenna so as to selectively use signals received by the antenna.

Abstract: Speech synthesis is improved by using normalized values of pitch and amplitude data to modify phoneme signals which are further processed by a quantizing noise filter which computes and interleaves the average value between adjacent samples.

Abstract: An audibly announcing apparatus capable of announcing updated time or results of arithmetic operations in the form of audible sounds or synthesized voices, for example, a talking clock and a talking calculator is provided with power saving circuitry. A detector is provided for detecting the operating state of the apparatus where audible sounds or synthesized voices are to be outputted. The power saving circuitry prevents power from being supplied to a voice generator consumes most of power dissipated by the apparatus, when it is not desired to output audible voices. The voice generator includes a central processing unit (CPU), a program read only memory (P-ROM) and a digital-to-analog converter.

Abstract: A waveform synthesizer arrangement for use in an audible output device is adapted to synthesize desired waveforms and includes a digital filter to reduce the generation of output noise. A time sequential process is effected on data to be reproduced which considers the total nature of waveforms of interest thus performing proper waveform adjustment to avoid acute changes in the waveforms. The time sequential process is affected by previous data and has the effect on the frequency construction of the resulting waveform.

Abstract: A speech synthesis device is adapted to provide an audible indication of numerical information through the utilization of a predetermined number of phonemes. Those phonemes are stored within a read only memory on a single large scale integrated circuit chip. A desired length of pause or silence is provided depending upon the kind and location of information to be audibly outputted. The necessity for the pause period is stored in digitally encoded signals within the read only memory in the same manner as with the phonemes.

Abstract: A synthetic speech calculator is provided which is capable of generating an audible sound signal which can be representative of keyed data, sequences of keyed data (and errors), processed data, the contents of a memory or the contents of a counter. The sound signal can be suppressed under certain specific circumstances or made soft in intensity. A synthetic-speech calculator includes the keyboard consisting of digit keys and function keys, a desired number of registers for storing information entered by the depression of selected ones of the digit keys, a read-only-memory for storing a large number of digital codes as sound quantizing information, counter means for specifying the address of the memory so as to take a specific digital code out of the memory, a digital-to-analog converter for converting the specific digital code taken out of the memory into an audible sound signal, and a loud speaker driven by the audible sound signal and producing an audible sound.

Abstract: A synthetic-speech calculator includes a keyboard consisting of digit keys and function keys and, if desired, or more mode selectors, a desired number of registers for storing numerical information entered by the depression of selected ones of the digit keys, a read-only-memory for storing a large number of digital codes as sound quantizing information, counter means for specifying the address of the memory so as to take a specific digital code out of the memory, a digital-to-analogue converter for convering the specific digital code taken out of the memory into an audible sound signal, and a loud speaker driven by the audible sound signal and producing an audible sound. There are further provided means for producing audible sounds indicative of not only numerical information but also its associated conditional information having a particular meaning with respect to that numerical information, for example, position information, index information, tabulation information, etc.

Abstract: A synthetic-speech calculator includes a keyboard consisting of digit keys and function keys and, if desired, or more mode selectors, a desired number of registers for storing numerical information entered by the depression of selected ones of the digit keys, a read-only-memory for storing a large number of digital codes as sound quantizing information, counter means for specifying the address of the memory so as to take a specific digital code out of the memory, a digital-to-analogue converter for converting the specific digital code taken out of the memory into an audible sound signal, and a loud speaker driven by the audible sound signal and producing an audible sound. There are further provided means for producing audible sounds indicative of not only numerical information but also its associated conditional information having a particular meaning with respect to that numerical information, for example, position information, index information, tabulation information, etc.