Abstract: When an electronic unit is in a standby state, a standby circuit, such as a control microcomputer which receives a signal from a remote-control transmitter, is operated by an electric power supplied from an electricity accumulating section built in a power-supply circuit to make power consumption to zero in the standby state.

Abstract: When an electronic unit is in a standby state, a standby circuit, such as a control microcomputer which receives a signal from a remote-control transmitter, is operated by an electric power supplied from an electricity accumulating section built in a power-supply circuit to make power consumption to zero in the standby state.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for inspecting a transparent container having a defect on the container bottom by monitoring and analyzing the light energy transmitted through the container bottom. A source of diffused illumination is provided to direct the diffused illumination through the container bottom for monitoring the light energy by camera. The diffused illumination is arranged to be directed in intensity greater through a peripheral region than through a central region of the container bottom so as to positively produce a pair of peak values in light energy distribution received by the camera along at least one dimension corresponding to a line or secant extending in a plane of the container bottom. A corresponding pair of positions having such peak values and spaced along the dimension is obtained as indicative of the opposed peripheral edges of the container bottom, which positions are then processed to provide a true center of the monitored image as corresponding to the center of the container bottom.