Abstract: A display device comprising: a housing; a plate-shaped display unit having respective side walls; and a fixing means for fixing the display unit to the housing; the fixing means including a Z-direction holding means for holding the display unit in the thickness direction and also including an X-direction holding means and a Y-direction holding means for holding the display unit in the X-direction and the Y-direction perpendicular to the X-direction; at least one of the X-direction holding means and the Y-direction holding means being composed of wall sections, which are opposed to each other, of the housing adjacent to respective side walls of the display unit; a protruding section being formed which protrudes from the side wall of the display unit to the wall section; the wall section having a cutout engaging with the protruding section at a position of the wall section corresponding to the protruding section; and the other of the X-direction holding means and the Y-direction holding means being composed by

Abstract: An information signal reproducing apparatus is capable of forming a suitable reproducing environment and building an easy-handling reproducing system regardless of differences such as signal format or recorded media of audio data to be reproduced. A medium type of an optical disc and signal format information of audio data to be read from the optical disc and to be reproduced are detected by an RF signal processing circuit and a video/audio decoding unit so that a system control unit estimates whether the audio data to be reproduced is a music sound, a movie sound or another type of audio data in accordance with the detected information, and, in accordance with this estimation result, the system control unit and an interface control unit control an audio signal processing unit, an audio volume unit and a speaker amplifier unit so as to carry out signal processing suitable for the audio data to be reproduced.

Abstract: A display device comprising: a housing; a plate-shaped display unit having respective side walls; and a fixing means for fixing the display unit to the housing; the fixing means including a Z-direction holding means for holding the display unit in the thickness direction and also including an X-direction holding means and a Y-direction holding means for holding the display unit in the X-direction and the Y-direction perpendicular to the X-direction; at least one of the X-direction holding means and the Y-direction holding means being composed of wall sections, which are opposed to each other, of the housing adjacent to respective side walls of the display unit; a protruding section being formed which protrudes from the side wall of the display unit to the wall section; the wall section having a cutout engaging with the protruding section at a position of the wall section corresponding to the protruding section; and the other of the X-direction holding means and the Y-direction holding means being composed by

Abstract: A switching regulator in which a ceramic capacitor is used as an output capacitor is provided to secure a stable operation in a control loop system. A phase compensation circuit capable of forming a zero point is inserted between a differential pair of an error amplifier in the control loop system, thereby securing the stable operation in the control loop system.

Abstract: To prevent an electrostatic noise from entering a non-connected power supply pad from a round power supply wiring, there is provided a semiconductor device, including: a round power supply wiring; a plurality of power supply pads that are connected to the same potential through internal power supply wirings; a signal pad; and an input protection circuit that is connected between the signal pad and an internal circuit and connected to the round power supply wiring through a protection circuit power supply wiring, in which a first power supply pad that is bonded by wire is connected to the round power supply wiring through a first round power supply connection wiring, and a second round power supply connection wiring of a second power supply pad that is not bonded by wire has a cut-off semiconductor chip.

Abstract: Provided is a wearable joint driving device in which a plurality of frame members are attached to a wearing body so as to be in contact with the outer surface of the wearing body. Between the frame members, there is mounted a fluid pressure type actuator. The fluid pressure type actuator has an expansion/contraction member and a net-like covering member covering the outer periphery of the expansion/contraction member. The fluid pressure type actuator undergoes a reduction in length through expansion of the expansion/contraction member to thereby generate a driving force. The frame members have a predetermined level of rigidity.

Abstract: A voice output system and method provide a voice of high quality while enabling coexistence with other wireless transmission systems. Compression-encoded voice data accompanying a video displayed on a video display surface is acquired at the side opposed to the video display surface. The voice data is wirelessly transmitted. At least at the video display surface side, the wirelessly transmitted voice data transmitted is received and expanded. Then, the voice based on the acquired expanded voice data is output.

Abstract: A fault detection system detecting malfunctions or deteriorations, which may result in an inverter fault, is provided. The system has a temperature sensor installed on a semiconductor module to monitor a temperature rise rate. It is judged that an abnormal condition has occurred if the thermal resistance is increased by the deterioration of a soldering layer of the semiconductor module or by drive circuit malfunctions and, as a result, the relation between an operation mode and the temperature rise rate falls outside a predetermined range.

Abstract: An operating position select device has a select lever unit, a mode shift unit to shift operation modes of the automatic transmission, and an assist actuator controlled by a control unit. A first connecting member of a select lever and a second connecting member of the mode shift unit are relatively movable to a limit amount to each other and integrally movable beyond the limit amount with each other. The actuator is controlled to decrease a relative displacement of the members. When the turn-on of an ignition key is detected, a start-up threshold value is used for judging the assist control and set larger than a normal value for a predetermined period to prevent miss-assist control when a driver touches the lever.

Abstract: An electronic apparatus including a body having a circuit board; and a display device connected through a connecting portion to the body in an open position or in a closed position with respect to said body. Preferably, the body has two side surfaces which are not parallel to a central axis of the connecting portion. The two side surfaces have a first portion having a first distance between the two side surfaces of the body at the connecting portion of the body and the display device, with the first distance being smaller than a width of the display device; and a second portion having a second distance between the two side surfaces, with the second distance being larger than the first distance, and being approximately equal to the width of the display device. Also, the second portion is preferably a part of the body at a farther position from the connecting portion than the first portion.

Abstract: A trunnion of a toroidal-type continuously variable transmission has a support plate portion for supporting a displacement shaft and a pair of bent wall portions respectively bent toward the inner surface side of the support plate portion. The support plate portion and the pair of bent wall portions cooperates together in defining a pocket portion for storing a power roller therein. Pivot shafts are disposed concentrically with each other on the outer surfaces of the pair of bent wall portions. The pair of bent wall portions are connected together by a connecting member. The connecting member includes a pressure receive portion contactable with the inner surface of the pocket portion in a direction intersecting substantially at right angles to the thrust direction and receiving a pressing force acting on the pocket portion to crush the pocket portion.

Abstract: An image-pickup apparatus for picking up an image using a solid-state image pickup device.

Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes a wavelet transform unit which applies filtering to each of one or more images having a first size into which an original image is divided, thereby producing wavelet coefficients, a quantization unit which scans and quantizes the wavelet coefficients to produce quantization coefficients, and a coding unit which scans and encodes the quantization coefficients, wherein a number of pixels in one line for the filtering and a number of pixels in one line scanned for the quantization and the encoding are selectively changed, thereby encoding an image having a second size relatively small and of frequent use without division thereof into the one or more images having the first size.

Abstract: An image pickup apparatus is disclosed which can remove noise with certainty from an image pickup signal while a high resolution of the image pickup signal is assured regardless of a reading out method of the image pickup signal and achieve reduction of the cost. A light receiving face of a solid-state image pickup device has an image pickup region from which a detection signal corresponding to an image of an image pickup subject formed from light incoming to the light receiving face is outputted as an image pickup signal and a light amount detection region from which a detection signal corresponding to the amount of the light incoming to the light receiving face is outputted as a light amount detection signal. A signal processing circuit of a signal processing section processes the image pickup signal to produce a video signal. A detection circuit detects cyclic variation of the luminosity of a light source from the light amount detection signal.

Abstract: An imaging apparatus is disclosed, that has an auto focus device that controls the position of a focus lens on the basis of an evaluation value that is a signal obtained by passing predetermined band frequency contained in a video signal, the imaging apparatus comprising means for converting information of an object as light that has been entered through a focus lens into a video signal, obtaining a first video signal, rotating the first video signal by a predetermined angle, and obtaining a second video signal and means for detecting predetermined band frequencies of the first and second video signals and obtaining their evaluation values.

Abstract: It is sought to provide a form evaluation system, which permits clear visual comparison of an ideal form and the own form on an image and accurately understanding points to be improved. A database is formed with check points of the form in golf, for instance, as reference data of form evaluation. A predetermined division number of still images are produced from motion picture image data of subscriber, these still images are displayed on a personal computer display screen, the form of the subscriber's still images is evaluated with the database as reference, and on the basis of the evaluation a form evaluation sheet is produced, which contains a predetermined division number of serially changing still images and form guide comments each provided for each of these still images.

Abstract: An ultrasonic imaging arrangement performs tentative scanning of ultrasound to the inside of a living body with delay time corresponding to average sonic velocity, calculates delay time error in a delay time error detecting circuit by using received signals from each channel to which delay control has been performed in a digital delay circuit, compares in a delay time comparing unit the calculated data with a plurality of delay time error data corresponding to various sonic velocities using sound velocity as the parameter stored before hand in a sound velocity-derived delay time error storing unit, selects among those sonic velocities the one matching the delay time error data with a sonic velocity selecting unit, and calculates the sonic velocity within the living body. The calculated sonic velocity is fed back to CPU, and the delay data on the delay applied in the ultrasonic scanning is provided to a delay circuit.

Abstract: An electronic apparatus having a structure in which the inside of a cabinet having a speaker unit incorporated therein is effectively cooled, so that the speaker unit satisfactorily plays back a bass sound in which the speaker cabinet has at least two bass-reflex ducts. One bass-reflex duct is used for air-discharge, through which air in the cabinet is discharged by a fan unit, and another bass-reflex duct is used for air-intake. Thus, the inside of the speaker cabinet is effectively cooled while making use of the bass-reflex effect.

Abstract: A toroidal-type continuously variable transmission has: an input shaft; an input disk and an output disk; a displacement shaft having a support shaft portion and a pivotal shaft portion; a trunnion having a support hole for supporting the support shaft portion; a first radial bearing supporting the support shaft portion within the support hole; a power roller having an insertion hole for receiving the pivot shaft portion; a second radial bearing supporting the pivot shaft portion within the insertion hole; and a thrust bearing including an outer ring and rolling elements, wherein a first bottom plate portion is provided at the support hole so as to close an opening of the support hole, a second bottom plate portion is provided at the insertion hole so as to close an opening of the insertion hole; and the displacement shaft and the outer ring are formed integrally with each other.

Abstract: A lens barrel and imaging device advantageous for making unnatural brightness variation in an image, due to a liquid-crystal light control element, less noticeable, while reducing the size of an optical system, are disclosed. A lens barrel comprises an optical system, a rectangular planar liquid-crystal light control element, and an imaging element. An object image captured by the optical system is guided to the imaging element through the control element comprising a liquid crystal layer sealed in between a pair of alignment layers and containing rod-shaped liquid crystal molecules. A sensor unit of the imaging element has a rectangular imaging area. Light rays guided from the optical system to the imaging element diverge away from an optical axis. An orientational direction of the control element is substantially parallel to the shorter sides of the imaging area.