Abstract: An audio data processing means registers one of audio data extracted from a music CD as one of sound sources for an entertainment apparatus. The audio data processing means has an audio data extracting means for sampling desired audio data from the audio data introduced via an optical disk drive based on a control input entered from a manual controller, and an audio data registering means for registering the sampled audio data as one of the sound sources.

Abstract: A music information processing means comprises a music editing means for assigning an arbitrary sound pattern selected from a plurality of sound patterns in a sound buffer to at least one track, a sound presentation trial processing means for outputting the sound pattern assigned to the track on a speaker of a display monitor via SPU when a control input of the user satisfies a predetermined condition, and an audio data processing means for registering audio data extracted from audio data introduced from a music CD (Compact Disc) or the like loaded in an optical disk drive as one of the sound patterns in a sound pattern file in the sound buffer.

Abstract: An image is freely enlarged/reduced in accordance with a user's control instruction to be displayed by reducing noises such as jaggy. An image processing device includes an affine transforming unit for affine transforming coordinates of a control point based on at least an enlarging ratio or a reducing ratio, a number of divisions setting unit for obtaining a ratio of a drawing range of a B'ezier curve after the affine transformation to an actual drawing range and setting the number of divisions of the parameter of the B'ezier curve in accordance with the obtained ratio, a B'ezier curve calculating unit for obtaining the number of curve defining points corresponding to the number of divisions on the basis of the set number of divisions and a coefficient based on a degree and the Bernstein base function, and a B'ezier curve drawing unit for drawing the B'ezier curve to an image memory based on the obtained curve defining point.

Abstract: An entertainment system includes a sound presentation trial processing unit for displaying an object relatively moving on at least one track displayed on a display unit, allowing the user to try to acquire the object with a control input, and outputting a sound assigned to the track on which the object is relatively moving when the acquisition of the object with the control input is detected. The sound presentation trial processing unit includes a program activating unit for activating a control input processing unit to perform a processing depending on a control input from a manual controller, and an image sound output processing means for changing the image of the object when the acquisition of the object is detected and outputting a sound according to a predetermined control action.

Abstract: An image is freely enlarged/reduced in accordance with a user's control instruction to be displayed by reducing noises such as jaggy. An image processing device includes an affine transforming unit for affine transforming coordinates of a control point based on at least an enlarging ratio or a reducing ratio, a number of divisions setting unit for obtaining a ratio of a drawing range of a B'ezier curve after the affine transformation to an actual drawing range and setting the number of divisions of the parameter of the B'ezier curve in accordance with the obtained ratio, a B'ezier curve calculating unit for obtaining the number of curve defining points corresponding to the number of divisions on the basis of the set number of divisions and a coefficient based on a degree and the Bernstein base function, and a B'ezier curve drawing unit for drawing the B'ezier curve to an image memory based on the obtained curve defining point.

Abstract: In a cutting blade made of a titanium carbonitride-base cermet comprising:3 to 20% by weight of a metal binder phase, the principal ingredients of which are Co and/or Ni,3 to 30% by weight of a single-structural hard phase comprising at least one component selected from the group consisting of carbide, nitride and carbonitride compounds of metal elements belonging to Groups 4a, 5a and 6a of the periodic table and a solid-solution comprising at least two said compounds, andthe balance being a double-structural hard phase which comprises a core portion and a shell portion completely surrounding said core portion, wherein said core and shell portions comprise as substituents titanium carbonitride and/or a carbonitride compound of Ti and at least one element M selected from metal elements belonging to Groups 4a, 5a and 6a of the periodic table other than Ti, except that the shell portion must contain a carbonitride compound of at least M, and wherein said shell portion has a lower content of Ti and a higher conte