Abstract: A solid-state imaging device includes: a plurality of pixels arrayed in the vertical transfer direction and in the horizontal transfer direction; a vertical CCD shift register disposed between two pixels adjacent in the horizontal transfer direction of the plurality of pixels; a first channel stop portion used for separation between pixels, formed between the two pixels adjacent in the horizontal transfer direction, and pixels adjacent to the two pixels adjacent in the horizontal transfer direction, in the horizontal transfer direction; and a readout gate portion and a second channel stop portion, formed in a direction parallel to the vertical transfer direction between the pixels and the vertical CCD shift register, with the two pixels adjacent in the horizontal transfer direction sharing the vertical CCD shift register, and with an insulating layer which is thicker than the gate insulating layer of the vertical CCD shift register being formed above the first channel stop portion.

Abstract: An image decoding apparatus according to an embodiment includes a decoding section configured to encode an encoded stream and output decoded picture; and a control section configured to control decoding of the decoding section, and perform memory management of a memory section that has memory areas for data of four frames that stores the reference images of two frames, the decoded picture from the decoding section, and the decoded picture used for display, wherein the control section causes the decoding section to decode a number of pictures that is in accordance with a speed multiplying number in one frame period at a time of multiple speed reproduction, and exchanges data stored among the memory areas for data of four frames so that the decoded picture used for the display at a time of multiple speed reproduction is held in the memory area.

Abstract: A manufacturing method includes wiring an electrical cable in a metallic mold, pouring molten resin into the metallic mold and solidifying the molten resin in the metallic mold to produce a wiring body module. The electrical cable is embedded in the solidified resin. The method further includes mounting an electrical component on the wiring body module.

Abstract: A packaging container for acupuncture needles capable of storing a plurality of acupuncture needles is provided. The packaging container (storage containers) in which the acupuncture needles to be used are stored can be opened at one time, according to the number of acupuncture needles to be used. On one end portion side of a packaging container (blister package) including a container body and a sheet member detachably attached to a planar surface of the container body, a free portion in which the sheet member is not attached to an outer frame portion of the container body, is disposed. Further, perforated lines (cut portions and uncut portions) are disposed along center lines of boundary portions from one end portion of the packaging container to the other end portion thereof. Here, the length of the uncut portion on the free portion is made longer than the length of each uncut portion on a portion other than the free portion.

Abstract: A solid-state imaging device includes: a plurality of pixels arrayed in the vertical transfer direction and in the horizontal transfer direction; a vertical CCD shift register disposed between two pixels adjacent in the horizontal transfer direction of the plurality of pixels; a first channel stop portion used for separation between pixels, formed between the two pixels adjacent in the horizontal transfer direction, and pixels adjacent to the two pixels adjacent in the horizontal transfer direction, in the horizontal transfer direction; and a readout gate portion and a second channel stop portion, formed in a direction parallel to the vertical transfer direction between the pixels and the vertical CCD shift register, with the two pixels adjacent in the horizontal transfer direction sharing the vertical CCD shift register, and with an insulating layer which is thicker than the gate insulating layer of the vertical CCD shift register being formed above the first channel stop portion.

Abstract: A packaging container for acupuncture needles capable of storing a plurality of acupuncture needles is provided. The packaging container (storage containers) in which the acupuncture needles to be used are stored can be opened at one time, according to the number of acupuncture needles to be used. On one end portion side of a packaging container (blister package) including a container body and a sheet member detachably attached to a planar surface of the container body, a free portion in which the sheet member is not attached to an outer frame portion of the container body, is disposed. Further, perforated lines (cut portions and uncut portions) are disposed along center lines of boundary portions from one end portion of the packaging container to the other end portion thereof. Here, the length of the uncut portion on the free portion is made longer than the length of each uncut portion on a portion other than the free portion.

Abstract: An image compressor has an input pixel value correction unit, a predicted pixel value generation unit, an error level detection unit, a predicted error computation unit, a predicted error coding unit, a packing unit and a target code amount difference level detection unit. The predicted error coding unit encodes, by variable-length coding, group information indicating a group to which the magnitude of a predicted error belongs and added bit data indicating a particular predicted error value in the group, and performs encoding by removing less significant bit data according to a target code amount difference level in the added bit data for the predicted error if the magnitude of the predicted error is equal to or larger than a predetermined value.

Abstract: An MPEG video playback device for playing back MPEG video streams in the reverse direction, the playback device including MPEG video decoding devices including: a stream buffer configured to have a capacity to store MPEG video streams; an MPEG video stream decoding unit; and frame buffers for receiving picture data; wherein the plurality of MPEG video decoding devices can perform single-speed forward playback; and the stream buffer can be referenced from all of the MPEG video stream decoding units in the MPEG video decoding devices, and the MPEG video stream decoding units can reference and write in all of the frame buffers, and the reverse playback of the MPEG video streams is performed by the MPEG video stream decoding units through decoding two sequential GOPs of the MPEG video stream in parallel and by the MPEG video stream decoding units through referencing the stream buffer and the frame buffers.

Abstract: Disclosed is a gaming machine. According to the gaming machine, when a combination of symbols relating to a winning is displayed on a one line, the symbols constituting the combination of symbols relating to the winning and symbols constituting a combination of specific symbols in accordance with the combination of symbols relating to the winning are respectively arranged on peripheries of reels so that the combination of specific symbols is displayed on a line different from the one line. In addition, an image display unit of the gaming machine displays a specific image representing a corresponding relationship between a prize in accordance with the combination of symbols relating to the winning and the combination of specific symbols in accordance with the combination of symbols relating to the winning.

Abstract: A radial-air-gap induction motor is constituted so as to have two air gaps by setting a rotor between a cylindrical outer stator and inner stator in order to improve an efficiency by increasing the ratio of torque/(square of current) by a two air gaps, apply windings for generating a rotating magnetic field to the outer and inner stators, and form squirrel-cage windings on the rotor.

Abstract: A radial-air-gap induction motor is constituted so as to have a tow-layer air gap by setting a rotor between a cylindrical outer stator and inner stator in order to improve an efficiency by increasing the ratio of torque/(square of current) by a two-layer air-gap structure, apply a winding for generating a rotating magnetic field to the outer and inner stators, and form a squirrel-cage winding on the rotor.