Abstract:
A drum type washing and drying machine includes a rotary drum provided with drum perforations on the cylindrical surface thereof, a water tub elastically supported in a main body of the machine, for accommodating the rotary drum, a blower unit for circulating air into the rotary drum, a heating unit for heating the air to be circulated into the rotary drum, an air flow passage for directing air, which has been exhausted from the rotary drum into a space between the water tub and the rotary drum through the drum perforations, to the blower unit, a heat exchanging member installed in the air flow passage, and a cooling water supply unit for supplying cooling water to the heat-exchanging member. The heat-exchanging member is slantingly disposed in the air flow passage and has an upper and a lower surface and to form an approximately U-shaped heat exchanging path.
Abstract:
It is an object of the present invention to provide an audio signal encoding method, an audio signal decoding method, a transmitter, a receiver, and a wireless microphone system which can compress an audio signal at a relatively high compression ratio at a relatively high quality with a relatively low delay. The compression encoder 4 of the transmitter includes an audio signal dividing filter bank 4a for dividing the audio signal into four sub-band signals, sampling each of the sub-band signals at a down-sampling rate depending on the number of the sub-band signals, and producing the sub-band signals sampled at the down-sampling rate, LD-CELP encoders 20a to 20d for encoding the sub-band signals on the basis of LD-CELP algorithm, and a multiplexer 4c for producing a multiplexed data stream with the encoded sub-band signals.
Abstract:
A wireless communication apparatus capable of suppressing the reduction in the error correction ability in the wireless communication apparatus at the receiving end even when the propagation path environment is bad and hence the reception quality of received signals is low. This apparatus comprises a turbo encoding part (111) for performing an error correction encoding of transport data; a modulating part (113) for modulating the transport data as error correction coded to generate a modulated signal; a modulation diversity modulating part (120) for generating a modulation diversity modulated signal from the modulated signal; an S/P part (133) for generating a transport signal from one of the modulated signal and the modulation diversity modulated signal; and a deciding part (112) for deciding, in accordance with the propagation path environment of the transport signal as wireless transmitted, from which the transport signal is generated by the S/P part (133), the modulated signal or the modulation diversity modulated signal.
Abstract:
A semiconductor device of the present invention includes a substrate; an imaging region which is formed at part of the substrate and in which photoelectric conversion cells including photoelectric conversion sections are arranged in the form of an array; a control-circuit region which is formed at part of the substrate and in which the imaging region is controlled and a signal from the imaging region is outputted; and a copper-containing interconnect layer formed above the substrate and made of a material containing copper. Furthermore, a first anti-diffusion layer and a second anti-diffusion layer are formed, as anti-diffusion layers for preventing the copper from diffusing into each photoelectric conversion section, on the photoelectric conversion section and the copper-containing interconnect layer, respectively.
Abstract:
One objective of the invention is to simplify a calibration correction operation.According to the present invention, a camera calibration apparatus, which obtains camera parameters based on a correlation between world coordinates, in real space, and image coordinates, in an image recorded by a camera, includes: a calibration unit A113, for obtaining camera parameters by employing a set of coordinates for an index point, for which a coordinate value on the world coordinates is previously known, and a corresponding point on the image coordinates, which is correlated with the index point; a calibration correction unit A114, for detecting a correlation error for a correlation between the world coordinate value of the index point and an image coordinate value of the corresponding point; and a display controller A112, for displaying the detected correlation error on an image display device, by correlating the index point with the corresponding point.
Abstract:
A solid-state imaging apparatus includes a plurality of unit pixels with associated microlenses arranged in a two-dimensional array. Each microlens includes a distributed index lens with a modulated effective refractive index distribution obtained by including a combination of a plurality of patterns having a concentric structure, the plurality of patterns being divided into line widths equal to or shorter than a wavelength of an incident light. At least one of the plurality of patterns includes a lower light-transmitting film having the concentric structure and a first line width and a first film thickness, and an upper light-transmitting film having the concentric structure configured on the lower light-transmitting film having a second line width and a second film thickness. The distributed index lens has a structure in which a refractive index material is dense at a center and becomes sparse gradually toward an outer side in the concentric structure.
Abstract:
An interference analysis device that analyzes interference includes an input unit 2 that inputs design data, a selection unit 3 that selects an analysis region, a division unit 5 that divides a wire into segments, a calculation unit 6 that calculates a circuit matrix regarding a coupled line, and an analysis unit 7 that obtains a degree of electromagnetic interference, wherein the calculation unit 6 calculates a circuit matrix of the coupled line, using a parameter set obtained by adding an asymmetry parameter to RLGC parameters of a transmission line in the coupled line. Thus, a method for analyzing an interference of circuit wiring can be provided, which is capable of shortening a processing time substantially while maintaining high precision.
Abstract:
When a control unit (160) in a storage device (100) detects that a write end command or a data amount to be written has been transmitted from a host device (110), the control unit (160) saves control information required for writing data in a control information save memory (142). The control unit (160) also saves data which has not been written in storage medium into a buffer save memory (152) from a data buffer (151) and releases the busy state for the host device (110). The control unit (160) writes the saved data into a storage medium (120). Even if the power is turned OFF before completion of write, write can be performed into the storage medium (120) by using the saved data when the power is turned ON next time.
Abstract:
A solid polymer fuel cell stack. A fuel cell which can uniformly supply gas in a short time to all stacked cells not only in a steady state operation but also in a transient operation state, such as start, stop, or load variation operation, is provided. In each cell included in the solid polymer fuel cell stack, an intake manifold is divided into a connection space with a separator channel and one more space by forming a protrusion or a bridge portion in the intake manifold, and the structure of the protrusion or the bridge portion is adjusted depending on each cell.
Abstract:
An authentication system includes the following elements: a guide mirror to be used when a subject checks the position of the eye with an image reflected therefrom during imaging the eye of the subject; a lens disposed behind the mirror; and illuminating LEDs that are disposed symmetrically about the optical axis and can be switched for emitting near infrared rays. With this structure, the authentication system takes a plurality of images of the eye of the subject irradiated with illuminating rays from the illuminating LEDs at different lighting angles to the eye of the subject, determines whether the taken eye images are of a living eye or a forgery, and authenticates the iris.