Abstract: There is provided a negative dye-containing curable composition, comprising an alkali-soluble binder, an organic solvent-soluble dye, a photopolymerizable compound, a photopolymerization initiator and an organic solvent, wherein: the mass of the organic solvent-soluble dye is greater than the mass of the alkali-soluble binder; the mass of the organic solvent-soluble dye is greater than the mass of the photopolymerizable compound; the mass of the organic solvent-soluble dye is greater than the mass of the photopolymerization initiator; and the ratio of the mass of the photopolymerization initiator to the mass of the photopolymerizable compound is greater than or equal to 0.1 and less than or equal to 7. Also provided are a color filter produced by using the negative dye-containing curable composition and a method of producing the color filter.

Abstract: By using a method for manufacturing a dielectric laminated device, an opening is formed on a first dielectric sheet, a strip line and an input and output line including an input and output electrode are formed by burying electrode materials in said opening, the first dielectric sheet is laminated with the second and third dielectric sheets disposed above and below respectively to form a laminate, a first and second shield electrodes and a ground electrode are formed, an end of the strip line is connected to the ground electrode, the first shield electrode and the second shield electrode are mutually connected through the ground electrode, and the input and output electrode is exposed along the line direction of the strip line. By this constitution of the above dielectric laminated device, the mounting reliability of the dielectric laminated device can be further increased.

Abstract: A high-frequency switch has a first transmission-reception switching circuit for selectively switching between the signal transfer between an antenna terminal and a first transmitting-circuit terminal and the signal transfer between the antenna terminal and a first receiving-circuit terminal; a second transmission-reception switching circuit for selectively switching between the signal transfer between the antenna terminal and a second transmitting-circuit terminal and the signal transfer between the antenna terminal and a second receiving-circuit terminal; a first diplexer disposed between the antenna terminal and the first transmission-reception switching circuit and between the antenna terminal and the second transmission-reception switching circuit; and a second diplexer connected to the second receiving-circuit terminal to selectively switch the signal transfer between the second receiving-circuit terminal and a third receiving-circuit terminal and the signal transfer between the second receiving-circuit

Abstract: A variable resolution decoder of the present invention decodes image data compressed with a compression method such as MPEG-2 supporting interlaced scanning. The decoder performs variable decoding and inverse quantization on the compressed image data and then checks a DCT mode of a frame, performs inverse discrete cosine transform in 4 by 8 pixels when the mode is a DCT mode, acquires image data of full resolution for interlaced scanning in a vertical direction, and thins the image data, thereby performing image reduction of the image data during decoding with field information maintained. The decoder comprises means for performing reduction in a DCT area for resolution of image data in a horizontal direction and means for performing reduction in a pixel area for resolution of image data in a vertical direction.

Abstract: The present invention provides a method and apparatus for growing a single crystal by the Czochralski method, wherein a single crystal is grown with forced cooling of neighborhood of a crystal growth interface by disposing a cooling cylinder formed of copper or a metal having a heat conductivity larger than that of copper at least in the vicinity of the crystal growth interface so as to surround the single crystal under pulling and circulating a cooling medium in the cooling cylinder. Thus, there are provided a method and apparatus for growing a single crystal, which can exert cooling effect on a growing single crystal to the maximum extent so as to realize higher crystal growth rate, even when a silicon single crystal having a diameter of 300 mm or more is grown.

Abstract: A longitudinal mode type surface acoustic wave filter comprising a first IDT electrode, second and third IDT electrodes, and first and second reflector electrodes are formed on a piezoelectric substrate. The upper electrode of the first IDT electrode is connected to one of balanced type terminals, and the lower electrode of the first IDT electrode is connected to the other balanced type terminal. Also, the lower electrode of the second IDT electrode is connected to an unbalanced type terminal, and the lower electrode is grounded. The lower electrode of the third IDT electrode is connected to the unbalanced type terminal, and the upper electrode is grounded.

Abstract: A high frequency switch, has a transmitting terminal, a receiving terminal, an antenna terminal, a first diode having an anode electrically connected to the transmitting terminal and a cathode electrically connected to the antenna terminal, a second diode having an anode connected through a transmission line of ¼ wavelength to the antenna terminal which is electrically connected to the receiving terminal, and having the side of a cathode grounded, and a control terminal provided to a node between the transmitting terminal and the first anode. The first and second diodes have a tradeoff relationship between ON resistance thereof and capacitance between the anode and the cathode, and the ON resistance of the first diode is lower than the ON resistance of the second diode, and the capacitance of the second diode in the OFF state is smaller than the capacitance of the first diode in the OFF state.

Abstract: A high-frequency switch has a first transmission-reception switching circuit for selectively switching between the signal transfer between an antenna terminal and a first transmitting-circuit terminal and the signal transfer between the antenna terminal and a first receiving-circuit terminal; a second transmission-reception switching circuit for selectively switching between the signal transfer between the antenna terminal and a second transmitting-circuit terminal and the signal transfer between the antenna terminal and a second receiving-circuit terminal; a first diplexer disposed between the antenna terminal and the first transmission-reception switching circuit and between the antenna terminal and the second transmission-reception switching circuit; and a second diplexer connected to the second receiving-circuit terminal to selectively switch the signal transfer between the second receiving-circuit terminal and a third receiving-circuit terminal and the signal transfer between the second receiving-circuit

Abstract: A printed wiring board for mounting a semiconductor, which printed wiring board has a taper-shaped through hole connecting an upper surface circuit and a lower surface circuit, and/or an internal layer circuit, the taper-shaped through hole being obtained by plating an inner wall surface and a small-diameter side end of a taper-shaped penetration hole with a metal to plate the inner wall surface and seal the small-diameter side end, wherein a ball pad or a bump pad is formed at at least a small-diameter side end of the taper-shaped through hole.

Abstract: The top field of a coded picture is exclusively decoded. If the decoded field is structured as field picture and the top field of a reference picture is referenced, decoded motion vectors are used to perform a motion compensation. If the nonexistent bottom field of the reference picture is referenced, the decoded motion vectors are corrected so that they extend from the top field of the reference picture to the decoded top field and a motion compensation is performed using the corrected motion vectors. If the decoded field is structured as frame picture and field estimation is used, the same vector correction and motion compensation are repeated, and if frame estimation is used, average values of successive lines of the top field of the reference picture are calculated, the motion vectors are corrected using the average values and a motion compensation is performed using the corrected motion vectors.

Abstract: A high frequency switch, has a transmitting terminal; a receiving terminal; an antenna terminal; a first diode having an anode electrically connected to the transmitting terminal and a cathode electrically connected to the antenna terminal; a second diode having an anode connected through a transmission line of ¼ wavelength to the antenna terminal which is electrically connected to the receiving terminal, and having the side of a cathode grounded; and a control terminal provided to a node between the transmitting terminal and the first anode, wherein the first and second diodes have a tradeoff relationship between ON resistance thereof and capacitance between the anode and the cathode, and the ON resistance of the first diode is lower than the ON resistance of the second diode, and the capacitance of the second diode in the OFF state is smaller than the capacitance of the first diode in the OFF state.

Abstract: A compressed data buffer 21 maintains an image data loaded from a storage device 1, and a decoding section 22 conducts variable length decoding, inverse quantization and inverse discrete cosine transform, and a pixel data shifting section 23 shifts each value of pixel data to right by 1 bit, and a motion compensating section 24 applies motion compensation processing to the data shifted to right by 1 bit, and the frame data buffer 25 stores an image data to be displayed, and a reference data calculating section 24a of the motion compensating section 24 obtains a reference data from a reference buffer based on a motion vector, and a reference data adding section 24b adds the reference data to a data to which decoding processing has been applied, and a reference data storing section 24c leaves in the reference buffer the data to which the motion compensation processing has been applied.

Abstract: A laminated filter includes: a first dielectric layer having a first shield electrode on one principal plane; a second dielectric layer having resonator electrodes on one principal plane; a third dielectric layer having a coupling electrode provided facing part of the above-described resonator electrodes; a fourth dielectric layer having a second shield electrode on one principal plane; a fifth dielectric layer whose at least one principal plane is exposed outside; and a grounding electrode provided on the other principal plane of the above-described dielectric layer and/or the above-described one principal plane of the above-described fifth dielectric layer, and the above-described first grounding electrode and the above-described first shield electrode are electrically connected through a via hole provided in the above-described first dielectric layer.

Abstract: A longitudinal mode type surface acoustic wave filter comprising a first IDT electrode, second and third IDT electrodes, and first and second reflector electrodes are formed on a piezoelectric substrate. The upper electrode of the first IDT electrode is connected to one of balanced type terminals, and the lower electrode of the first IDT electrode is connected to the other balanced type terminal. Also, the lower electrode of the second IDT electrode is connected to an unbalanced type terminal, and the lower electrode is grounded. The lower electrode of the third IDT electrode is connected to the unbalanced type terminal, and the upper electrode is grounded.

Abstract: An inter-digital transducer has a piezoelectric substrate; and an IDT (inter-digital transducer) electrode having a pair of upper bus bar electrode and lower bus bar electrode placed facing each other on the piezoelectric substrate and a plurality of electrode fingers placed on the piezoelectric substrate each being led out from either the upper bus bar electrode or the lower bus bar electrode toward the other bus bar electrode, wherein the IDT electrode is constructed of a plurality of divisional IDT electrodes and connected to a balanced type terminal.

Abstract: A small in-band-flat-group-delay type dielectric filter having low-loss characteristics with a small amplitude deviation and uniform-group-delay frequency characteristics is obtained, which enables broad-band characteristics to be obtained easily. The in-band-flat-group-delay type dielectric filter includes a plurality of dielectric coaxial resonators, a coupling circuit comprising a combination of reactive elements, with which the dielectric coaxial resonators are coupled to one another, and input/output terminals connected to ends of the coupling circuit. The dielectric coaxial resonators coupled to the input/output terminals are allowed to have a different characteristic impedance from that of the inter-stage dielectric coaxial resonators.

Abstract: The present invention comprises baluns 2a, 2b which convert balanced line signals and unbalanced line signals mutually, and filters 3a, 3b which are electrically connected to the baluns 2a, 2b and pass or attenuate the predetermined frequency bands. Electrode layers 15a-22a, 25a, 41, 42, 43 which compose the electrode patterns of the baluns 2a, 2b and the filters 3a, 3b, and the dielectric layers 30-39 are integrally stacked.

Abstract: For example, in a conventional high frequency switch used for a mobile phone and so on, high frequency distortion is caused by a diode which is turned off upon transmission. A high frequency switch includes a switch circuit 2 for switching transmission and reception performed via a transmitting terminal Tx2 and receiving terminals Rx2 and Rx3, said switch circuit having a diode D1 turned off upon transmission, and a low-pass filter 11 for suppressing high frequency distortion caused by the diode D1 upon transmission.

Abstract: An antenna duplexer has a receiving filter having a surface acoustic wave device; a transmitting filter having a dielectric resonator; and a matching circuit for matching the receiving filter and the transmitting filter with an antenna respectively, wherein the transmitting filter, receiving filter, and matching circuit are integrated with each other.

Abstract: A mulitlayer ceramic device improves device functionality, reduces overall device size and profile, makes manufacturing easier, and improves reliability. A first ceramic layer 1 has a first multilayer circuit pattern 2 electrically connected through via holes 3. A second ceramic layer 2 also has a second multilayer circuit pattern 2 electrically connected through via holes 3. A thermosetting resin sheet 17 is disposed between the first and second ceramic layers. The thermosetting resin sheet has through holes filled with a conductive paste for electrically connecting one of multiple circuit pattern layers in the first ceramic layer with one of multiple circuit pattern layers in the second ceramic layer.