Abstract: In the conventional bump forming method that can be applied to a semiconductor device in which a large number of bumps are required to form, there are various limitations to the material of which the bumps are made, to enough cubic volume of bumps and to small scattering of the bump height. According to the invention, solder balls and a tool having a large number of through-holes are used, and under the condition that the through-holes of the tool are aligned with the pads of the semiconductor device, the solder balls are charged into the through-holes, pressed to be fixed on the pads, and then reflowed to form bumps.

Abstract: A semiconductor device according to this invention, wherein two semiconductor chips are sealed by one resin body using two lead frames, comprises a wide part extending in the width direction of dam bars, the width of one dam bar being narrower than the width of another dam bar, and the two lead frames are joined by soldering outside the resin body after sealing them with resin.

Abstract: It is an objective of the invention to provide a description scheme of summary audio/video data, which is capable of presenting fast and advanced browsing.

Abstract: The present invention provides a method for modifying melamine derivatives that can produce N-substituted melamine derivatives by introducing a substituent group to melamine or N-substituted melamine derivatives. The method is characterized by heating melamine or an N-substituted melamine derivative and an alcohol in the presence of a mixed catalyst comprising a hydrogenation catalyst and a dehydrogenation catalyst and hydrogen to allow reaction or heating melamine or an N-substituted melamine derivative and an alcohol in the presence of a hydrogenation catalyst and hydrogen with addition/coexistence of a metal to allow reaction. The compound groups obtained by introducing a substituent group to the amino group of melamine derivative with an alcohol by the method of the present invention can be used widely as intermediates of fine chemicals such as various agricultural chemicals, medicines, dyes, paints, etc. and as various resin materials and flame retardant materials.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a treating agent for liquid crystal alignment, which comprises a polyamic acid compound having a reduced viscosity of from 0.05 to 5.0 dl/g (in N-methylpyrrolidone at a temperature of 30° C. at a concentration of 0.5 g/dl) and containing repeating units represented by the general formula [I]: (wherein R1 is a tetravalent organic group constituting a tetracarboxylic acid which has an alicyclic structure having from 2 to 5 rings condensed and wherein all the carbonyl groups are directly bonded to the alicyclic structure and said carbonyl groups are not bonded to adjacent carbon atoms in the alicyclic structure, and R2 is a bivalent organic group constituting a diamine), or a polyimide resin obtained by imidizing said polyamic acid compound, and a liquid crystal alignment film and a liquid crystal device employing it.

Abstract: A feature description method capable of high-speed, efficiently searching audio data or grasping a summary of the audio data by giving considerations to elements and characteristics peculiar to the audio data, is provided. Also, an audio video data feature description collection construction method for collecting feature descriptions from multiple pieces of audio video data based on a specific feature type makes it possible to efficiently, clearly describe a feature description collection.

Abstract: An apparatus for decoding coded video data is provided which is capable of decreasing the storage size of its frame memory while attenuating the drift noise and minimizing lowering of the resolution during the reconstruction of the coded video data. The apparatus comprises a data size reducer for reducing the size of a decoded video data reconstructed by subsampling, pixel differential coding, or other methods, a frame memory for saving a reduced video data released from the data size reducer, and a data size recover for recovering the original size of the decoded video data from the reduced data saved in the frame memory. Accordingly, the storage size of the frame memory is decreased by a combination of compression of pixel data and IDCT processing in a reduced block size and will successfully attenuate unwanted drift noise and minimize declination of the resolution.

Abstract: In the conventional bump forming method that can be applied to a semiconductor device in which a large number of bumps are required to form, there are various limitations to the material of which the bumps are made, to enough cubic volume of bumps and to small scattering of the bump height. According to the invention, solder balls and a tool having a large number of through-holes are used, and under the condition that the through-holes of the tool are aligned with the pads of the semiconductor device, the solder balls are charged into the through-holes, pressed to be fixed on the pads, and then reflowed to form bumps.

Abstract: The magnetic head assembly including a magnetic head having a terminal composed of a conductive film and a supporting spring. The supporting spring has interconnecting patterns (lines) on the top thereof and a projective electrode. The terminal of the magnetic head is electrically connected to the projective electrode of the supporting spring by a solderless, direct contact connection. The magnetic head is fixed to the supporting spring by using a non-electrical bonding agent. This structure makes it possible to stabilize the position of the magnetic head assembly and the relative speed variation between the magnetic head element and the magnetic disk, thereby enhancing the reliability of the magnetic disk apparatus.

Abstract: Coding bit rate converting method and apparatus for coded audio data are disclosed to convert input coded audio data to output coded data of a coding bit rate lower than a target coding bit rate. A control output is taken out when the frame size of the input coded audio data is larger than the frame size determined by the target coding bit rate, and the output coded data is provided as a converted output by controlling parameters defining the frame size of the input coded audio data by the use of the control output in a predetermined procedure until the frame size of the input coded audio data becomes smaller than the frame size determined by the target coding bit rate.

Abstract: A video query and editing system which is capable of querying images without fast-forward and playback operations, to specify an editing start or end point easily, and to lower editing cost of compressed data. An edit control window is displayed (11) first, and then a file for query and editing is selected in query and editing file processing 12. In motion picture query processing 13, image query is performed in macro or micro units for the selected file and then the images to be under the query and editing are displayed. In editing section specification 14, a start point and an end point of a section for the editing are specified out of the images displayed in the motion picture query processing. Editing of a plurality of sections or other files are performed in the same manner as for the above processing if desired. After all the editing sections are determined, the editing sections are played back in editing section playback 17 to confirm the editing parts.

Abstract: A system for detecting a moving object in a moving picture, which can detect a moving object by block directly with a highly-accurate, simple process without completely decoding the compressed moving picture data. The picture block coding mode, the motion compensation mode and the motion vector information (information b) decoded in a variable-length decoder 1 and the texture information d detected by a texture information detector 7 are applied to a moving object detection processor 8. The moving object detection processor 8 judges whether the particular block is a moving object or not using the information b or the combined information b and the texture information d. This judgement is effected by a motion vector, a spatial similarity judgement and a temporal similarity judgement. The moving object detection information e resulting from the judgement is sent to a picture image processor 5 for processing the picture information f.

Abstract: The present invention provides a plant disease control agent containing as active ingredient one or more compounds of the formula ?1!A--COOR.sup.1 ?1!whereinR.sup.1 represents a hydrogen atom or a C.sub.1 -C.sub.4 alkyl group, andA represents a group of the formula (A-1) or (A-2) ##STR1## R.sup.2 represents a C.sub.1 -C.sub.4 alkyl group, R.sup.3 represents a C.sub.1 -C.sub.4 alkyl group,R.sup.4 represents a halogen atom or a C.sub.1 -C.sub.4 alkyl group, andR.sup.5 represents a C.sub.1 -C.sub.4 alkyl group.Further, the compound of A-1 in the formula ?1! in which R.sup.3 is a halogen atom is also included in the present invention.

Abstract: To provide a fast video browsing system in which a fast playback suitable for keeping track of the contents can be performed by adaptively determining the number of skipped pictures according to the motion vector of picture, and displaying the picture after the skipped pictures. In step S1, pictures to be fast viewed are sequentially inputted, and in step S2, n pictures are skipped. In step S3, the picture after the n skipped pictures is displayed. In step S4, using the picture before or after the displayed picture with respect to time, a motion vector at one frame interval is detected, and in step S5, the number n of skipped pictures is determined from the motion vector. As a result, the number of skipped pictures can be adaptively determined by the motion vector of a picture.

Abstract: Cyclooctadiene derivative of the following formula (1): ##STR1## wherein A.sup.1, A.sup.2, A.sup.3 and A.sup.4 each independently represent COOR.sup.5 (where R.sup.5 represents a hydrogen atom, a C.sub.1 -C.sub.10 alkyl group, a phenyl group, a C.sub.7 -C.sub.12 aralkyl group or CONR.sup.6 R.sup.7 (where R.sup.6 and R.sup.7 each independently represent a hydrogen atom, a C.sub.1 -C.sub.10 alkyl group or a phenyl group), or A.sup.1 and A.sup.2, and/or A.sup.3 and A.sup.4 may be combined together to represent group(s) of: ##STR2## in which X represents an oxygen atom or NR.sup.8 {where R.sup.8 represents a hydrogen atom, a C.sub.1 -C.sub.10 alkyl group or a phenyl group),R.sup.0, R.sup.1, R.sup.2, R.sup.3 and R.sup.4 each independently represent a hydrogen atom, a halogen atom, a hydroxyl group and an C.sub.1 -C.sub.10 alkyl group,the symbol ------ represents a single or double bond, and when it is a double bond, then R.sup.1 and R.sup.

Abstract: An input image and a reference image which are input to a contracted image processing unit, are converted into contracted image, which are constituted by average values of blocks of the input and reference frames. With respect to the contracted image, an inter-frame difference unit determines the inter-frame difference D.sub.n between the input and reference images and the temporal change .DELTA.D.sub.n in the inter-frame difference. A first judging unit judges, according to the above data, the input frame to be a non-cut frame, a cut frame or a cut frame candidate. When the input frame is judged to be a cut frame, an output unit effects a cut frame output, and then the next input frame processing is performed. With respect to a cut frame candidate, a chrominance histogram correlation unit calculates the correlation .rho. of the color distribution of the chrominance histogram by using contracted image of chrominance signal. A second judging unit makes an overall judgment on the inter-frame difference D.sub.

Abstract: Picture coded data that are obtained by coding at a coding rate R1 that is input via a coded data input terminal 1 are supplied to a variable length decoder. The variable length decoder decodes data for which variable length coding has been performed, and DCT coding information is transmitted to an inverse quantizer. A quantization controller calculates a quantization step that is necessary for re-quantization, and controls a quantizer. The DCT coding information for which the inverse quantization has been performed by the inverse quantizer is recovered into a DCT coefficient. The DCT coefficient is quantized again by a quantizer at quantization step Q that is determined by the quantization controller, and the result is transmitted to a variable length coder. The variable length coder performs variable length coding of the received data at a coding rate R2, and outputs the resultant picture coded data to a coded data output terminal.

Abstract: In picture decoding from compressed data, noise component is predicted for each pixel, and noise-free original picture data is predicted from the predicted noise component and the decoded picture data, thus permitting picture quality improvement to be obtained.Horizontal and vertical picture noise reduction circuits are provided such that they are the same in the process contents and are different in the direction of data processing. An activity calculation circuit derives the activity of block-based decoded picture data, and a block mean noise prediction circuit predicts block mean noise according to the activity obtained in the activity calculation circuit. A pixel noise prediction circuit derives predicted noise in each pixel from the predicted block mean noise obtained in the block mean noise prediction circuit and the activity obtained in the activity calculation circuit. A filter coefficient determining circuit determines filter coefficients.

Abstract: A coder with a motion estimation system, which comprises a same parity field motion estimator, a near field motion estimator, an inter-field interpolated motion estimator, a comparator for selecting the smallest one of prediction errors E1 to E3 output from the respective motion estimators, and a selector for selectively outputting a motion vector from the motion estimator providing the smallest prediction error.

Abstract: A nitrogen-containing heterocyclic compound of the following formula: ##STR1## wherein D represents --N.dbd. or ##STR2## E represents .dbd.N--, ##STR3## G represents --N.dbd., ##STR4## with proviso that when G represents --N.dbd. or ##STR5## the bond of G and E is double bond; and G represents ##STR6## the bond thereof is a single bond, but the case that D represents ##STR7## E represents ##STR8## and G represents --N.dbd. is omitted (R.sup.1, R.sup.2, R.sup.9, R.sup.10, X, Y, A and Q are specified in the specification), as well as compositions for controlling and/or preventing pests and blights, said compositions containing one or two or more of said compounds as an active ingredient.