Abstract: A game apparatus includes a video game machine. A CPU provided in the video game machine controls movements, etc. of a player character operated by a player. There exist a predetermined number of player characters (e.g., four persons), and all of them are assigned to players depending on the number thereof. For example, four player characters are assigned to one player in a 1P mode, and two player characters each are assigned to two players in a 2P mode. While playing a game, each player may change formations of the four player characters or plunder a player character existing in an array belonging to another player.

Abstract: A powder storage container includes a powder storage unit, a conveying member, and an elastic member. The powder storage unit stores powder. The conveying member is rotatably disposed in the powder storage unit and conveys the powder stored in the powder storage unit to an outlet. The elastic member includes: an upper end portion fixed to the inside of the powder storage unit; and a lower end portion which is a swingable free end and is disposed above the conveying member. A part of the lower end portion along the conveying direction of the conveying member is configured to contact with the conveying member to be elastically deformed.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a process for producing an alkenyl mercaptan (2), comprising reacting an alkenyl halide (1) with an alkali hydrosulfide, wherein the reaction is carried out in the presence of a disulfide (3) in an amount of 0.5 part by weight or more based on 100 parts by weight of the total amount of the alkenyl halide (1) and the alkenyl mercaptan (2).

Abstract: An image display device includes: a display panel including gate lines extending in a horizontal direction, source lines extending in a vertical direction to intersect gate lines, and sub-pixel electrodes arranged in intersections of the gate lines and the source lines; and a drive control section performing a drive control of the display panel using first or second drive mode. In the first drive mode, the drive control section performs display drive such that two sub-pixel electrodes are driven based on different gray scale values and that a combination of adjacent two sub-pixel electrodes is treated as a single pixel, the sub-pixel electrodes being arranged along a gate line and arranged on two respective source lines. In the second drive mode, the drive control section performs display drive such that N sub-pixel electrodes consecutively arranged along a source line are treated as a unit pixel to be driven.

Abstract: [Problem] To provide a prophylactic/therapeutic agent against, for example, nerve diseases and the like such as ischemic brain disease and neurodegenerative disease, or a prophylactic/therapeutic agent against diseases against which antioxidant action is effective, as a cell protecting agent, in particular as an inhibitor of brain cell damage or brain cell death.

Abstract: The present invention provides 1) a complex comprising a mono-anionictridentate ligand, represented by the following general formula (I); 2) a polymerization catalyst composition, comprising the complex; and 3) a cis-1,4-isoprene polymer, a cis-1,4-butadiene polymer, a cis-1,4-isoprene-styrene copolymer, a cis-1,4-butadiene-styrene copolymer, a cis-1,4-butadiene-cis-1,4-isoprene copolymer, and a cis-1,4-butadiene-cis-1,4-isoprene-styrene copolymer, each of which has high-cis-1,4 content in a micro structure and a sharp molecular-weight distribution.

Abstract: There is provided a display device including an array substrate including pixels arranged in a matrix manner and gate control circuits that scan gate lines of the pixels and that are provided on the array substrate such that the gate control circuits correspond to the respective gate lines of the pixels. Each of the gate control circuits includes a first output terminal that outputs a signal to each of the gate lines, and a second output terminal that outputs a signal that is supplied to a gate control circuit in a subsequent stage. When adjacent two of the gate lines are scanned simultaneously from an upper part of a screen by the signal output from the first output terminal of each of the gate control circuits, a gate on period is provided during which outputs from the first output terminals of adjacent two of the gate control circuits are the same.

Abstract: A hand-held game apparatus comprises a pointing device, such as a touch panel or the like. A predetermined program including a letter recognition program is transmitted from a stationary game apparatus to a plurality of hand-held game apparatuses. Players perform handwriting input using the touch panels or the like of the respective hand-held game apparatuses. A letter recognition process is performed in each hand-held game apparatus. A result of letter recognition is transmitted to the stationary game apparatus. In the stationary game apparatus, a game process is executed based on the result of letter recognition received from each hand-held game apparatus.

Abstract: A display system and display method in which a gradation difference between a first frame and a second frame of a video signal is detected, a determination is made as to whether the gradation difference is of a first state or a second state, and a target value of an output of a display is changed based on the result of the determination.

Abstract: In the present invention, through the provision of a tray placing rack for storing trays in multi steps, the trays accommodating electronic parts after inspection are received in the racks and through the provision of a tray stacking rack above the tray placing rack, an empty tray emptied by having been inspected of the electronic parts before inspection at an inspection stage is stacked on the tray stacking rack. When a certain tray is filled with electronic parts after inspection and is discharged, an empty ray is taken out from the tray stacking rack and the empty tray is fed to the rack position of the discharged tray to permit re-use of empty trays.

Abstract: An offset amount between heads is calculated by positioning a head in a designated track under an ON track servo control, obliquely writing test data by moving the head in a radial direction of the magnetic recording medium at a designated moving speed K to cross the designated track and at least one track adjacent to the designated track according to a write start signal, reading the oblique test data by the read head from the adjacent track under the ON track servo control, detecting a peak position of a read voltage by using a read voltage characteristics of the read signal in the adjacent track and calculating the offset amount between the heads by detecting a scan time up to the peak position of the read voltage.

Abstract: A semiconductor device includes a plurality of memories, a sequencer which outputs configuration information, and a memory reconfiguring circuit which reconfigures the memory area in accordance with the configuration information supplied from the sequencer. Since the memory reconfiguring circuit dynamically changes the allocation of the memories, it is possible to reconfigure the memory configuration and freely change the memory size in accordance with the purpose of use.

Abstract: A write sensitive width is calculated by writing a test data by a write head by moving the write head in a radial direction of a magnetic recording medium at a designated speed K to obliquely cross a designated track or a track adjacent to the designated track, reading the test data recorded in the track obliquely by a read head to obtain a read characteristics profile of a read voltage with respect to the track scanning time and obtaining a moving distance in the radial direction of the head by multiplying the test data scanning time of the read head with the designated moving speed K.

Abstract: A liquid crystal shutter glass includes: two shutter mechanisms and a drive section. Each of the shutter mechanisms includes a liquid crystal device and is configured so as to alternately perform an opening action and a closing action in a time-divisional manner, the opening action allowing incident light to pass through corresponding one of the shutter mechanisms, the closing action allowing the incident light to be blocked. The drive section controls a switching operation between the opening action and the closing action for each of the shutter mechanisms, while driving the liquid crystal device in each of the shutter mechanisms by means of a polarity inversion method in which a polarity of a drive voltage is alternately inverted. The drive section inverts the polarity of the drive voltage in a period of the opening action.

Abstract: In a video display device and system, a timing control section performs timing control for right- and left-eye video signals and to each have a blanking period whose length (Duty) is longer than that of a first-time blanking period Tb1 at least once in second-time and later blanking periods, e.g., performs timing control for a second-time blanking period Tb2 to be longer in Duty than the first-time blanking period Tb1. With such timing control, for stereoscopic display video viewing using open-state shutter glasses in the second-time blanking period Tb2 with a sequential write mode, there are advantages that the shutter glasses can remain longer in the open state while the response characteristics of the liquid crystal material being enhanced. As such, with the resulting video display device and system, the occurrence of crosstalk can be favorably prevented at the same time as reducing any reduction in display brightness.

Abstract: An image displaying device includes: a display section cyclically switching a plurality of image streams, thereby time-divisionally displaying the plurality of image streams, each of the plurality of image streams being provided for corresponding one of a plurality of shutter mechanisms performing opening-closing operations at timings different from each other; and a dithering processing section performing a dithering process on a plurality of input images by using a plurality of masks, each of the plurality of masks having a pattern of two-dimensionally-arranged grayscale values, the pattern differing from a pattern of another mask, and then supplying a plurality of resultant images produced through the dithering process to the display section. The dithering processing section controls the dithering process in such a manner that the plurality of masks are sequentially and cyclically switched in synchronization with shutter open timings for each of the shutter mechanisms.

Abstract: A packet communication device, which provides a modular node capable of setting up the operation of the node at a time without updating a program in the node body when a new functional module is installed, sends a process setting content, requested by a configuration file specified by a manager, to functional modules as an offering message and determines whether or not the functional modules can process the content of the offering message. Based on the answers of offering, a configuration processing program of a node determines a functional module, to which processing it to be assigned, according to a predetermined method.

Abstract: A module type node apparatus for packet communication of this invention includes an extension module for executing predetermined processing and a node apparatus main body for forwarding packet data to the extension module, the extension module including a memory for storing connectivity authentication data, and a module controller for transmitting the connectivity authentication data stored in the memory to the node apparatus main body for packet communication when the connectivity authentication data is requested from the node apparatus main body for packet communication, the node apparatus main body for packet communication being characterized by further including a connectivity authentication unit for authenticating permission of connection of the extension module based on the connectivity authentication data received from the extension module, and a connection controller for receiving the packet data from the extension module when the connectivity authentication unit permits the connection.

Abstract: A router with a server incorporated to provide services has a problem in that the server's resource cannot be allocated dynamically according to user requests. Service request packets received at a plurality of network interfaces are controlled such that the total bandwidth of the service request packets does not exceed a preset threshold. This makes it possible to process as many service requests from users as possible while limiting a server resource occupied by one service to a fixed amount. The network interfaces are notified of how much of a server resource is occupied by each service. In the case where one service consumes less than its allocated resource amount, the resultant surplus resource is made available to other services by easing the bandwidth control on other services. The above problem is thus solved.

Abstract: A packet communication apparatus comprising a node management processor for controlling the whole apparatus, network interfaces for transmitting and receiving packets to and from external networks, function enhancement modules for performing predetermined processes on the packets, and a switch for transferring the packets within the apparatus. The network interface includes a CPU and a memory, the memory stores a program executed by the CPU, the CPU processes the packet received from the external networks by executing the program, and the function enhancement module stores the program stored in the memory.