Abstract: In order to enable a user to obtain information about a large number of recorded images, a display apparatus includes a browser window that can be switched between two modes. In the first mode, a first screen, referred to as an Icon Browser Screen, displays a list of files (that contain image data and/or additional data such as sound data and overlay image data) that are recorded in a recording apparatus such as, e.g., an electronic camera. In the second mode, a second screen, referred to as a Thumbnail Image Browser Screen, displays a series of thumbnail images of the images recorded in the recording apparatus. A thumbnail check box can be selected to switch between the two screens.

Abstract: A plurality of electrodes for measuring electrocardiogarphic waveforms are attached on body surface positions that constitute a subset of the standard 12-lead system. The measured electrocardiogarphic waveforms of said subset of said standard 12-lead system are used to calculate the electrocardiogarphic waveforms of remaining leads in the said standard 12-lead system. The measured and calculated electrocardiographic waveforms are synthesized to form a standard 12-lead electrocardiogram. The invention is capable of monitoring the 12-lead electrocardiogram with reduced number of electrodes, wherein a portion of waveforms are directly measured and used as primary information for diagnosing heart disease, and the other portion of waveforms are derived from the measured leads and are used as a secondary information for improving the accuracy of diagnosis.

Abstract: An image processing control apparatus and method accepts image data and overlay (memo) data stored in memory of an electronic device, such as, for example, an electronic camera, and supplies them to a composing part. In the composing part a composite image of the image data and the overlay data is created. The transmissivity or other composition ratios of the image data and overlay data can be adjusted. The composite image is supplied to memory and is stored in a given area. The resulting composite image is supplied to VRAM, and may be displayed on a display apparatus. A recording medium can store a control program for use by the image processing apparatus to perform the method.

Abstract: In order to enable a user to obtain information about a large number of recorded images, a display apparatus includes a browser window that can be switched between two modes. In the first mode, a first screen, referred to as an Icon Browser Screen, displays a list of files (that contain image data and/or additional data such as sound data and overlay image data) that are recorded in a recording apparatus such as, e.g., an electronic camera. In the second mode, a second screen, referred to as a Thumbnail Image Browser Screen, displays a series of thumbnail images of the images recorded in the recording apparatus. A thumbnail check box can be selected to switch between the two screens.

Abstract: To shorten the time required to transfer image data from a first information processing apparatus (e.g., an electronic camera) to a second information processing apparatus (e.g., a personal computer) the first information processing apparatus reduces the image data when it is determined that a slow interface is being used. Additionally, the reduced image data being transferred can be altered in size (enlarged or further reduced) prior to compression so that its size is best suited for the particular compression process.

Abstract: The present invention provides:a process for producing an alkali metal salt of an arylmercaptan compound, represented by general formula (3): ##STR1## which process comprises reacting a disulfide compound represented by general formula: ##STR2## with a hydroxide of an alkali metal M.sup.1 in the presence of a sulfur compound represented by general formula (2):H.sub.(2-i) S(M.sup.1).sub.i (2)a process for producing an alkoxycarbonylalkylthioaryl compound represented by general formula (5): ##STR3## which process comprises reacting the above-mentioned alkalimetal salt of an arylmercaptan compound with a halogenofattyacid ester compound represented by general formula (4):X.sup.1 R.sup.2 COOR.sup.3 (4)at pH 7-10; and a process for producing the above-mentioned alkoxycarbonylalkylthioaryl compound, which process comprises reacting the above-mentioned disulfide compound with the above-mentioned hydroxide of an alkali metal M.sup.

Abstract: In order to provide a very low iron loss, it is necessary to render the surface of a steel sheet smooth (specular). In the present invention, this is effected in a finish annealing furnace to simultaneously attain a high magnetic flux density and a specular surface. Specifically, after the completion of decarburization annealing, a steel material is pickled to remove an oxide layer present on the surface of the steel sheet, coated with an annealing separator comprising a substance nonreactive or less reactive with SiO.sub.2 and then subjected to finish annealing to provide a grain oriented electrical steel sheet having a specular surface. Magnetic domain division and tension coating of the steel sheet can provide a low iron loss value. In the finish annealing, since no time is required for dehydration, the annealing time can be shortened.

Abstract: A decarburization-annealed steel strip as an intermediate material for grain-oriented electrical steel strip having good secondary recrystallization and excellent electrical properties is provided by causing a steel strip to possess a micro-structure in which the primary recrystallization grains have an average diameter d of not less than 15 .mu.m and a coefficient of diameter deviation .sigma.* of not more than 0.6.

Abstract: The present invention provides:a process for producing an alkali metal salt of an arylmercaptan compound, represented by general formula (3): ##STR1## which process comprises reacting a disulfide compound represented by general formula: ##STR2## with a hydroxide of an alkali metal M.sup.1 in the presence of a sulfur compound represented by general formula (2):H.sub.(2-i) S(M.sup.1).sub.i (2)a process for producing an alkoxycarbonylalkylthioaryl compound represented by general formula (5): ##STR3## which process comprises reacting the above-mentioned alkalimetal salt of an arylmercaptan compound with a halogenofattyacid ester compound represented by general formula (4):X.sup.1 R.sup.2 COOR.sup.3 (4)at pH 7-10; anda process for producing the above-mentioned alkoxycarbonylalkylthioaryl compound, which process comprises reacting the above-mentioned disulfide compound with the above-mentioned hydroxide of an alkali metal M.sup.

Abstract: Method and apparatus for recording a plurality of audio channels on segmented tracks of a tape by rotary heads. The audio channels to be recorded are allocated to recording sectors provided for the individual audio channels on the basis of the relation between the number of the audio channels and the number of the segmented tracks, so that each recording track necessarily includes the individual audio channel recording sectors uniformly distributed in the longitudinal direction of the tape, and the two-dimensional distance between the sectors on which the same audio channel is recorded can be maximized on the tape. Thus, an adverse effect of an error attributable to a dropout and/or a scar formed on the tape can be dispersed, thereby achieving high capability for error correction.

Abstract: A method of producing non-oriented electrical steel sheet comprising the steps of preparing steel comprising, by weight, up to 2.5% silicon, up to 1.0% aluminum and up to 2.5% (Si+2Al), with the remainder being iron and unavoidable impurities, hot rolling and cold rolling the steel to a final thickness and following this by finish annealing, wherein the average cooling rate between Ar.sub.3 and Ar.sub.1 during cooling transformation (.gamma..fwdarw..alpha.) of the steel is controlled to be 50.degree. C./s or less.

Abstract: A recording apparatus of the present invention includes selective guard adding means for predicting, at the time of editing, positions of adjacency of new tracks to previously recorded tracks obtained at the time of completion of new track recording, and adds, at the time of editing, guards to locations where disturbance due to residue of erasing of the same azimuth might occur in order to remove or reduce the disturbance due to residue of erasing of the same azimuth caused at the editing point. When performing reproduction from a recording medium whereon tracks recorded by heads of at least two kinds of azimuth angles are disposed alternately and a plurality of tracks are handled as one recording unit and recorded, a reproducing apparatus of the present invention is so configured that the center of each of heads located at both ends of reproducing heads may be shifted to the inside as compared with each corresponding recording track.

Abstract: A very thin electrical steel strip having a thickness not exceeding 150 microns, an average grain diameter not exceeding 1.0 mm, a high degree of {110} <001> grain orientation, a high normalized magnetic flux density as expressed by a B.sub.8 /B.sub.s value which is greater than 0.9, and a low core loss not exceeding 50% of the core loss of any conventional product.It is produced from a starting material consisting of a grain-oriented electrical steel strip containing not more than 8% silicon, the balance thereof substantially being iron, and having a high degree of {110} <001> grain orientation, a normalized magnetic flux density as expressed by a B.sub.8 /B.sub.s value which is greater than 0.9, an average grain diameter of at least 20 mm in the rolling direction and an average grain diameter of at least 40 mm in the direction perpendicular to the rolling direction.

Abstract: A cardiac output and right ventricular ejection fraction computer comprises a catheter, having an indicator injection port which is located at the right ventricular, inserted into an intravascular of a patient and retained therein; thermal detector device, mounted on a distal portion of the catheter, for detecting the temperature of blood ejected from the right ventricle; signal processor device for calculating the right ventricular ejection fraction from a thermodilution curve obtained by detecting variation of the blood temperature measured by the thermal detector device when a indicator is injected into the right ventricular through the catheter; data input device for inputting data to the signal processor device.

Abstract: A improved pulse oximeter comprises first and second light-emitting diodes that apply red light and infrared light, respectively, to a living tissue including the arterial blood, a photodiode for detecting optical outputs as produced after the red and infrared light of two wavelengths issuing from light-emitting diodes have been absorbed by the living tissue, a first computing unit that computes the ratio between the pulsating components of light absorbance .PHI. for the two wavelengths due to the arterial blood on the basis of the dc components and pulsating components of the respective wavelengths that are obtained from the reception outputs of the photodiode, a correction circuit that not only detects the degree of fluctuation in the absorbance ratio .PHI. as produced from the first computing unit but which also holds the pulsating components of the respective wavelengths when they are stable and which, if there is a fluctuation in the absorbance ratio .PHI., computes a corrected absorbance ratio .PHI.

Abstract: A recording apparatus of the present invention includes selective guard adding means for predicting, at the time of editing, positions of adjacency of new tracks to previously recorded tracks obtained at the time of completion of new track recording, and adds, at the time of editing, guards to locations where disturbance due to residue of erasing of the same azimuth might occur in order to remove or reduce the disturbance due to residue of erasing of the same azimuth caused at the editing point. When performing reproduction from a recording medium whereon tracks recorded by heads of at least two kinds of azimuth angles are disposed alternately and a plurality of tracks are handled as one recording unit and recorded, a reproducing apparatus of the present invention is so configured that the center of each of heads located at both ends of reproducing heads may be shifted to the inside as compared with each corresponding recording track.

Abstract: An industrial process which is a process for producing a hexahydropyridazine-1,2-dicarboxy derivative in good yield, is provided. By reacting a hydrazine dicarboxy derivative of the general formula (1):ROC--NH--HN--COR (1)(wherein R is an alkoxy group or an aryl group) with a dihalogenobutane of the general formula (2):X--CH.sub.2 CH.sub.2 CH.sub.2 CH.sub.2 --X (2)(wherein X is a chlorine or bromine atom) in the presence of a base selected from an alkali metal carbonate or hydroxide, a hexahydropyridazine-1,2-dicarboxy derivative represented by the general formula: ##STR1## (wherein R has the same meaning as R in the above general formula (1)) is obtained efficiently.

Abstract: A method of primary recrystallization annealing grain-oriented electrical steel strip comprises the steps of conducting online measurement of the primary recrystallization grain diameter of the steel after primary recrystallization annealing and, based on the result of this measurement, controlling the primary recrystallization grain diameter of the steel after primary recrystallization annealing by varying either or both of the annealing temperature and the pass velocity during the primary recrystallization annealing. The method enables stable production of grain-oriented electrical steel strip exhibiting good secondary recrystallization and excellent electrical properties.

Abstract: The present invention relates generally to a non-oriented electrical steel sheet usable as a metallic material for cores incorporated in an electrical apparatus, an electrical equipment or the like and the non-oriented electrical steel sheet is produced, by which a steel slab having a composition comprising Si: 0.1% or more but less than 1.5%, Al: 0.3% or more to 2.0% or less and Si+2Al: 2.0% or more is hot rolled; the hot-rolled steel plate is annealed at a temperature ranging from 1000.degree. to 1200.degree. C.; the annealed hot-rolled steel sheet is cold rolled at a reduction ratio ranging from 85 to 95%, and subsequently, the cold-rolled steel sheet is subjected to finish annealing under conditions of a temperature ranging from 750.degree. to 1000.degree. C. and a time longer than 15 seconds but shorter than 2 minutes.

Abstract: A process for producing a grain-oriented electrical steel sheet having a high magnetic flux density, comprising the steps of: heating a steel slab comprising 1.8 to 4.8 wt % Si, 0.012 to 0.050 wt % acid-soluble A1, 0.010 wt % or less N, and the balance consisting of Fe and unavoidable impurities, to a temperature for hot rolling; hot-rolling the heated slab to form a hot-rolled strip; cold-rolling the hot-rolled strip to a final product sheet thickness at a final cold rolling reduction of 80% or more by a single step of cold rolling or by two or more steps of cold rolling with an intermediate annealing step inserted therebetween; primary-recrystallization-annealing the cold-rolled strip; final-annealing the primary-recrystallization-annealed strip so that secondary-recrystallized grains substantially completely grow up in a temperature region of from 1000.degree. to 1100.degree. C. and then purification is effected above 1100.degree. C.