Abstract: A data processing apparatus and a data processing method easily realizable of a transparent processing of a high-speed serial data. The data processing apparatus (1) including a serial data conversion section for converting serial data to predetermined set of parallel data; a transparent data information detection section (10) for detecting information concerning transparent data, from the parallel data; an effective byte number operation section for operating an effective byte number of the parallel data; a transparent data conversion section (20) for converting transparent data of the parallel data, and moving predetermined data after the transparent data forward, in the parallel data; an address control section (304) for determining addresses at which the parallel data are rearranged; and a data array section (30) for moving predetermined data to one predetermined set of parallel data from another predetermined set of parallel data.

Abstract: A nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery includes a positive electrode, a negative electrode comprising a graphite as a negative electrode active material, and a nonaqueous electrolyte including at least a saturated cyclic carbonic ester and containing a cyclic carbonic ester having a carbon-carbon double bond such that, when a content of the cyclic carbonic ester having a carbon-carbon double bond is x (g), a content of the graphite in the negative electrode is B (g), a specific surface area of the graphite is A (m2/g), a size of the crystallite of the graphite in a direction of the c axis is Lc, and a size of the crystallite of the graphite in a direction of the a axis is La, a condition expressed by

Abstract: In each conversion blocks 10, 20 and 30, pixels adjacent to a subject pixel data are selected in the class tap construction section from SD signals, the detection of level distribution pattern of the pixel data is performed in the class categorization section and a class is determined based on the detected pattern. The pixel data of the subject pixel is generated by reading the prediction coefficient corresponding to classes from the prediction coefficient memory and performing prediction operation in the sum of products operation section using pixel data of the selected pixel selected by the prediction tap construction section and the prediction tap selection section and the read prediction coefficient. According to the selection of the switching sections 41 and 42, a HD signal having a high resolution is obtained and a signal whose tone level of a SD signal is corrected is obtained.

Abstract: An active matrix display device includes a pixel array unit having pixels arranged in a matrix pattern, a scanning circuit which sequentially selects pixels in unit of rows, and a signal circuit which receives a video signal containing serial dot data corresponding to each pixel and which writes the dot data into a selected pixel. The signal circuit receives a video signal which includes dot data corresponding to pixels to be rewritten but does not include dot data corresponding to pixels not to be rewritten and which includes skip data defining a skip amount. The signal circuit sequentially processes the dot data and skip data so as to write the corresponding dot data into pixels to be rewritten by skipping pixels not to be rewritten based on the skip data.

Abstract: Based on a digital recorder/player taken as a basic apparatus and which accommodates a field frequency of 60 fields/sec or a frame frequency of 30 frames/sec, an apparatus is implemented to record or reproduce source video and audio signal originated from the basic apparatus and whose frequency is different from the field or frame frequency. The apparatus includes an input unit (3), processor (4) and a converter (9) provided between the input unit (3) and processor (4). The input unit (3) accepts audio data having a specific field frequency (24 frames/sec or the like) and arranged in a specific format, and make baseband processing of the audio data. The processor (4) is designed to process audio data having a basic field frequency (60 fields/sec) and arranged in a basic format. It operates with a clock corresponding to the sampling frequency to make error-corrective encoding of the audio data adapted to the basic format.

Abstract: The present invention provides a digital signal processing apparatus and a method for controlling the apparatus that allow for a reduction of circuit size to minimize an increase in power consumption and the costs of circuitry and an improvement in signal processing speed. To achieve this, the present invention eliminates a circuit arrangement that was conventionally required for executing a compare instruction, conditional jump instruction, and jump instruction, by adding a relatively small-sized circuit such as an encoder 51 for processing an external signal 10 and a capability of decoding a condition determination data select instruction.

Abstract: A moving walkway is shown having a walkway surface with first and second ends and formed of a series of hinged rigid pallets in an endless loop. A direction-reversing sprocket is at each of the first and second ends. Each pallet is hinged to adjacent pallets along an axis substantially transverse to the walkway at opposite ends of the pallets along a length of the endless loop. Each pallet being transversely subdivided into a plurality of parts, each of the pallet parts being unidirectionally hinged to an adjacent one of the plurality of parts such that each pallet will support vertical loads on the walkway surface as a rigid unit and will hinge separately as the endless loop reverses direction around the sprockets.

Abstract: An integrated circuit internal signal monitoring apparatus comprises an integrated circuit. The integrated circuit comprises a signal change information generating section for detecting changes in a plurality of internal signals to be monitored in a circuit block, and in response to a level of at least one of the plurality of internal signals changing sequentially generating flags indicating the internal signal whose level has been changed, the post-change level, and that the levels of other internal signals have not been changed; a storage section for sequentially storing the flags and a trigger generating section for generating a write stop trigger signal for stopping a write operation of the flags to the storage section The integrated circuit internal signal monitoring apparatus further comprises an internal signal waveform reproduction section for reading the flags from the storage section after the generation of the write stop trigger signal.

Abstract: An echo canceler (34) includes a summing device (104) that subtracts a correction signal from a received signal, the difference of which represents the far-end signal with an error component. Instead of adapting its coefficients using the output of the summing device (104), the echo canceler (34) uses the difference between the input and output of a decision device (108) as an estimate of the error component alone. The estimate of the error component is then used to adapt the coefficients according to the adaptive least mean squares (LMS) algorithm. In one embodiment, the decision device (108) forms discrete multi-tone symbols based on the equalized output of the summing device. In this embodiment, the echo canceler (34) performs an inverse of the equalization step efficiently by replacing a division operation with a multiply operation and a corresponding power-of-two shift operation.

Abstract: A nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery having a positive electrode including a positive electrode active material, a negative electrode and a nonaqueous electrolyte comprising a solute dissolved in a solvent, the positive electrode active material is a mixture of a lithium-manganese composite oxide and a lithium-nickel composite oxide represented by LiNiaM11- aO2 (M1 being at least one element selected from the group consisting of B, Mg, Al, Ti, Mn, V, Fe, Co, Cu, Zn, Ga, Y, Zr, Nb, Mo and In, and a being 0<a≦1) and/or a lithium-cobalt composite oxide represented by LiCobM21- bO2 (M2 being at least one element selected from the group consisting of B, Mg, Al, Ti, Mn, V, Fe, Ni, Cu, Zn, Ga, Y, Zr, Nb, Mo and In, and being 0<b≦1), and the nonaqueous electrolyte contains a phosphoric ester and an ether or an ester having a halogen substituted phenyl.

Abstract: An error correction decoding unit performs error correction decoding of an inputted data series. A first memory is written with the data series subjected to error correction decoding by the error correction decoding unit. When the data series undergoing error correction decoding is written to the first memory, an address generator supplies write addresses and when the data series written to the first memory is read out of the first memory at random, the address generator supplies random read addresses.

Abstract: A moving walkway is shown having a walkway surface with first and second ends and formed of a series of hinged rigid pallets in an endless loop. A direction-reversing sprocket is at each of the first and second ends. Each pallet is hinged to adjacent pallets along an axis substantially transverse to the walkway at opposite ends of the pallets along a length of the endless loop. Each pallet being transversely subdivided into a plurality of parts, each of the pallet parts being unidirectionally hinged to an adjacent one of the plurality of parts such that each pallet will support vertical loads on the walkway surface as a rigid unit and will hinge separately as the endless loop reverses direction around the sprockets.

Abstract: A moving walkway is shown having a walkway surface with first and second ends and formed of a series of hinged rigid pallets in an endless loop. A direction-reversing sprocket is at each of the first and second ends. Each pallet is hinged to adjacent pallets along an axis substantially transverse to the walkway at opposite ends of the pallets along a length of the endless loop. Each pallet being transversely subdivided into a plurality of parts, each of the pallet parts being unidirectionally hinged to an adjacent one of the plurality of parts such that each pallet will support vertical loads on the walkway surface as a rigid unit and will hinge separately as the endless loop reverses direction around the sprockets.

Abstract: A first IR transmission portion is disposed in front of a rear seat of a vehicle while a second IR transmission portion is disposed at the rear of the rear seat. A fellow passenger in the rear seat puts on headphones so as to receive and listen to audio signals. The first and second IR transmission portions optically modulate the same audio information and radiate it spatially. For example, LEDs emitting infrared light are used as devices for the optical conversion. The first IR transmission portion transmits optical signals from the front toward the rear while the second IR transmission portion transmits the optical signals from the rear toward the front. Particularly by the second IR transmission portion, the signals are transmitted to the front including the driver's seat of the vehicle so that any dead zone can be removed from the vehicle interior.

Abstract: A rear entertainment system has a voice synthesis circuit, an OSD unit, a video camera, a DVD playback unit, a rear monitor, a navigation unit, a mixer, an IR circuit, and headphones. The voice synthesis circuit and the OSD unit receive driving information from a handle, a brake, a winker, and so on. The voice synthesis circuit presents the driving condition in an audio form, while the OSD unit presents the driving condition in a video form. The video camera takes a scene in a forward direction. The navigation unit supports the driving of the vehicle. The mixer synthesizes the voice output of the voice synthesis circuit, audio signals from the DVD playback unit and audio signals from the navigation unit. The IR circuit converts the synthesized audio signals into IR signals. The headphones receive the IR signals from the IR circuit and convert the IR signals into audio.

Abstract: A sound volume set-point value set by the variable resistor 1 is converted into a sound volume set-point value signal by a sound volume set-point value detecting section. A control signal generating section rectifies an input signal and adds it to a sound volume set-point value signal, thereby generating a control signal less fluctuated, and the amplification factor of amplifying section is adjusted by the control signal. The input signal is amplitude limited by this, to thereby prevent an output sound from being distorted. When the input signal is low in level, the amplitude limiting operation of the amplifier is stopped, to thereby retain a dynamic range of the original signal. Through the fluctuation suppression of the control signal, the unnatural feeling given to the listener when the amplitude limiting operation starts or stops is also lessened.

Abstract: An electronic blackboard system with a PDP for displaying characters and images. A touch input device with a touch panel surface is provided on the front surface of the PDP. A printer outputs image data onto recording paper. A computer provides control over displays on the PDP as well over the printing operations of the printer according to the input from the touch input device. A frame unit has a board section for holding a display surface and a write-in surface of the electronic blackboard at a specified height. A printer accommodating section accommodates the printer and a computer accommodating section accommodates the computer therein. The computer accommodating section, the printer accommodating section and the board section are arranged in the vertical direction starting from the bottom.

Abstract: Input terminals to which two types of serial data with similar formats are sent are disposed. Video data sent to the normal dubbing input terminal is data that has not been compressed/encoded. Data sent to the straight dubbing input terminal is data that has been compressed and encoded. Data received from the input terminal includes a sync error flag (error flag for each sync block) that is OR output data of data added by a reproducing VTR and transmission error information. The sync error flag is sent to an ECC encoder through a format converter not through an BRR encoder. An output signal of an ECC encoder is recorded to a magnetic tape by recording heads through a recording driver.

Abstract: The coordinate-position inputting/detecting device comprises a lighting device for emitting light into an entry area into which an arbitrary pointing body is inserted to perform an entry operation. At least two image pickup devices are provided with a prespecified space therebetween on a peripheral section of the entry area for picking up images of the pointing body illuminated by the light from the lighting device. Position on the CCD of the image pickup devices where an image of the pointing body is formed is obtained according to output from each of the image pickup devices. Coordinates of the position of the pointing body in the entry area are calculated from these positions.

Abstract: In an interleaver for use in a turbo decoder, a deinterleaver, or an interleaver for use in a turbo encoder, an offset is set based on previously determined thresholds in accordance with symbol numbers generated by a counter. A symbol numbers inputted immediately before generating an address is corrected with the set offset, and the corrected symbol number is converted to generate an interleave read address.