Abstract: When continuous-zoom-photographing mode is selected, the through image of a subject and first and second continuous-zoom-photographing frames are produced on an image-display section. When a user operates a cross key, recorded information about the trimming position of each of the first and second continuous-zoom-photographing frames is updated according to the cross-key operation and the first and second continuous-zoom-photographing frames are produced at the updated trimming position recorded after the update. After a shutter button is pressed down, still-image photographing is started and image data obtained thereby is stored in a buffer memory. On the basis of the obtained image data, image data is generated for each of the first and second continuous-zoom-photographing frames through trimming processing and stored in the buffer memory. The obtained image data and the generated image data are stored in a flash memory.

Abstract: When an imaging device is set to a BS shooting mode, the imaging device goes into a through-image display state of an object being shot. When a user operates a SET-key, the imaging device is changed to a detailed-screen state in which a sample image, etc., corresponding to each shooting scene is singly displayed. When the user operates a Wide-key of the zoom key in the detailed-screen display state, the imaging device is changed to a multi-screen state of the sample image corresponding to each shooting scene. The user can select a sample image in the detailed-screen state and the multi-screen state. When the user selects a sample image and operates the SET-key, the parameters of the shooting scene corresponding to the selected sample image are set as shooting conditions and the imaging device returns to the through-image display state.

Abstract: An acrylic resin film material comprising at least a multilayer structure polymer with a particular structure prevent a molded item from being whitened during insert- or in-mold molding and meet the requirement for surface hardness, heat resistance, and transparency or matting performance for vehicle applications. It is also possible to use an acrylic resin film material exhibiting a difference of 30% or less between haze values as determined in accordance with the testing method of JIS K7136 (haze measurement method) after and before a tensile test where a test piece with a width of 20 mm is pulled under the conditions of an initial inter-chuck distance of 25 mm, a rate of 50 mm/min and a temperature of 23° C. until an end-point inter-chuck distance becomes 33 mm as well as having a pencil hardness of 2 B or higher as determined in accordance with JIS K5400.

Abstract: A receiver having a frequency-deviation detector which includes: a storage for locating and storing the frequency-domain symbol-signal in a two-dimensional data area on a two-dimensional space corresponding to a carrier frequency and a symbol time; a calculator for calculating the transfer characteristic of a pilot signal; a Fourier transformer for performing two-dimensional Fourier transform on the calculated characteristic to locate the data group after the transform in a two-dimensional Fourier transform data area corresponding to a transmission delay time and path fluctuation frequency; and a calculation portion for calculating the frequency deviation based on the center-of-gravity value.

Abstract: A signal receiving apparatus and method which is high in deduction accuracy of transfer characteristic and less in error rate during signal decoding. For each detection signal of a pilot carrier allotted in an OFDM symbol space, a transfer function thereof is calculated. The transfer function is subjected to two-dimensional Fourier transform as to impulse delay time and symbol frequency thereby generating a two-dimensional data space. A predetermined domain of the two-dimensional data space is extracted by a filter extracting domain. The data included in the extracted domain is subjected to two-dimensional inverse Fourier transform as to carrier frequency and symbol time, thereby generating a deduced transfer function.

Abstract: A signal processing circuit for a digital signal receiving system includes an equalization unit for performing waveform-equalization of a received signal, the equalization unit including a backward equalizer constituted by a feedback loop; and a phase compensation unit for performing phase compensation of the received signal. The phase compensation unit is arranged upstream of the backward equalizer. Thus, it is possible to avoid the deterioration of the phase compensation ability of the phase compensation unit by the affection from the echo in the transmission path.

Abstract: The present invention is to allow display based on the setting positions of devices in selection of a desired device to be used, and facilitate selection considering the setting positions of the devices. The present invention can also display equipments so as to allow discrimination between an equipment included in an image processing apparatus and an equipment connected on a communication line. Equipments in a network environment are placed on the first floor (1F), the second floor (2F), and the third floor (3F) in a building and connected through a network (LAN 1300). For example, a computer (1310) collects device information including status information and setting position information from usable input/output devices. For example, status information representing “BUSY” and setting position information representing “3F-B block” are transferred from a virtual optical scanner (1302).

Abstract: An Automatic Gain Control system (AGC) in which an adder adds a Radio Frequency (RF) signal power of only the low-frequency component of a RF signal and an intermediate-frequency (IF) signal of an output from a variable-gain intermediate-frequency amplifier, which is higher than the frequency of the low-frequency component, and outputs the result to an A/D converter. This construction makes it possible to input power data for the RF stage to a demodulation LSI. The demodulation LSI separates the low-frequency component from the input signal, and by detecting the power of the extracted signal, is able to obtain the output data for the RF signal, and it separates the IF component from the input signal, and by detecting the power of the extracted signal, is able to obtain the output data for the IF signal.

Abstract: Controlling is performed such that image data input from an image readout unit for reading an original or input a computer have been previously stored as plural form images in an image storage unit, the arbitrary form image is read for each page in response to form designation operation at an operation unit, and a form image selection method is set to be different for each of plural operation modes of an image formation apparatus, in order to remarkably improve working efficiency in case of form image synthesis.

Abstract: The adder subtracts the estimated echo from the input symbol to generate the demodulated symbol, and the Trellis decoder applies Trellis decoding onto the demodulated symbol to generate maximum likelihood transmission symbol sequence. The feedback register stores estimated transmission symbol values for a feedback filter, and A coefficient register stores coefficient values for the feedback filter. The feedback register updating unit generates the estimated transmission symbol and the estimated transmission symbol value corresponding to the next time point based on the demodulated symbol, the maximum likelihood transmission symbol sequence and the estimated transmission symbol corresponding to a current time point, and updates the values stored in the feedback register by using the estimated transmission symbol value corresponding to the next time point. The coefficient updating unit updates the values stored in the coefficient register based on the demodulated symbol and the estimated transmission symbol.

Abstract: An image processing apparatus which comprises a RAM acting as a shared memory for storing image data, and an image processing board, connected to the RAM through a PCI bus acting as a general-purpose bus, for performing raster conversion to the image data and performing a necessary image process to the converted data by using a line memory is provided. In this apparatus, in a case where the image processing board can not input or output the data from or to the PCI bus, it is controlled not to generate a sync signal used for a process in the image processing board, whereby a stable operation is possible in an image forming apparatus and an image processing method which include the image processing apparatus.

Abstract: To provide data storage control apparatus and method capable of performing plural processes including processes that data are required to be processed in real time, without increasing cost and decreasing productivity, a RAM for storing data, a hard disk (HD) for storing data, a printer for printing an image, a scanner for reading an image, a facsimile for performing memory transmission/reception, and a CPU are provided. The CPU performs control to use the RAM if high speed is required and capacity is not so required, to use a high-speed accessible area in the HD if predetermined speed is required and capacity is required, and to use a low-speed accessible area in the HD if required speed may be low and capacity is required. In the control unit of a copying machine having the HD including plural storage areas of different access speeds, the predetermined storage area is selected from among these areas according to the purpose of image data to be stored in the HD, and the data is stored in the selected area.

Abstract: The present invention is to allow display based on the setting positions of devices in selection of a desired device to be used, and facilitate selection considering the setting positions of the devices. The present invention can also display equipments so as to allow discrimination between an equipment included in an image processing apparatus and an equipment connected on a communication line. Equipments in a network environment are placed on the first floor (1F), the second floor (2F), and the third floor (3F) in a building and connected through a network (LAN 1300). For example, a computer (1310) collects device information including status information and setting position information from usable input/output devices. For example, status information representing “BUSY” and setting position information representing “3F-B block” are transferred from a virtual optical scanner (1302).

Abstract: The present invention is to allow display based on the setting positions of devices in selection of a desired device to be used, and facilitate selection considering the setting positions of the devices. The present invention can also display equipments so as to allow discrimination between an equipment included in an image processing apparatus and an equipment connected on a communication line. Equipments in a network environment are placed on the first floor (1F), the second floor (2F), and the third floor (3F) in a building and connected through a network (LAN 1300). For example, a computer (1310) collects device information including status information and setting position information from usable input/output devices. For example, status information representing “BUSY” and setting position information representing “3F-B block” are transferred from a virtual optical scanner (1302).

Abstract: To perform a cluster operation of a plurality of multi-function devices, if the number of devices in a stand-by state is smaller than a required number of devices, a device in a sleep state is restored to the stand-by state. In this case, a device that returns to the stand-by state earliest is selected and restored to the stand-by state.

Abstract: An image forming system that does not impair the operability of a standardized external apparatus functions in a standard mode and an individual mode. The mode of the system is selected using a mode-switching switch on an operation unit or a work station. A display screen of the operation unit is switched in correspondence with the selected mode.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a supplier for supplying moving image data obtained by selectively encoding an original image signal using intraframe encoding and interframe encoding. Also provided is a memory for storing the moving image data and an extractor for extracting intraframe encoded image data from the moving image data. The apparatus also includes an instructor unit for instructing the memory to store the extracted image data and a controller for controlling the memory so as to store the image data extracted by the extractor in a predetermined time period in response to an instruction from the instructor.

Abstract: A sampling timing phase error detector in a VSB modulation signal which can realize a high speed transmission. The sampling timing phase error detector for detecting a timing phase error of a sampling from a discrete time sequence obtained by sampling, by a frequency n.multidot.fs (n is a positive integer), a multivalue VSB modulation signal in which transmission symbol sequence of real numbers is processed by a VSB modulation at a symbol frequency fs obtains the timing phase error on the basis of signals obtained by detecting the discrete time sequence at frequencies around a Nyquist frequency fs/2 as a center.

Abstract: A phase locked loop (PLL) circuit performs a frequency pull-in operation with a simple structure. The PLL circuit has an oscillating part which oscillates at a frequency corresponding to a control input signal and a phase comparing part which detects a phase difference between an oscillation output signal of said oscillator and an input frequency signal and produces an error signal responsive to a detection value. The PLL circuit further includes a forcible pull-in part which adds values of the error signal and a forcible pull-in signal, and provides a signal based on a result of addition as the control input signal. The forcible pull-in circuit includes a reference value generating circuit which supplies a reference value determining a unit change width of an oscillation signal of the oscillating part, and a computing part which computes a value of the forcible pull-in signal based on the reference value.

Abstract: The present invention is to allow display based on the setting positions of devices in selection of a desired device to be used, and facilitate selection considering the setting positions of the devices. The present invention can also display equipments so as to allow discrimination between an equipment included in an image processing apparatus and an equipment connected on a communication line. Equipments in a network environment are placed on the first floor (1F), the second floor (2F), and the third floor (3F) in a building and connected through a network (LAN 1300). For example, a computer (1310) collects device information including status information and setting position information from usable input/output devices. For example, status information representing "BUSY" and setting position information representing "3F-B block" are transferred from a virtual optical scanner (1302).