Abstract:
To provide a mouse having a mousse function of being able to input relative position information and a function of being able to input absolute position information while enabling a user to accurately designate a reading position of a code by visual recognition. The mouse is an information input device that reads a dot pattern formed on a medium surface and obtained by patterning XY coordinate values or XY coordinate values and a code value based on a predetermined algorithm, including a casing having a reading hole for reading the dot pattern provided at its bottom, position designation means for designating a predetermined position on the medium surface outside the casing, a dot pattern reading unit for reading the dot pattern on the medium surface just under the reading hole, dot pattern irradiation means for irradiating the medium surface with light to read the dot pattern, and a control unit for calculating the XY coordinate values read by the dot pattern reading unit and a direction of the dot pattern, and correcting the XY coordinate values and the direction of the dot pattern by a predetermined distance and direction, to calculate the predetermined position designated by the position designation means.
Abstract:
Provided is a very usable and flexible broadcast control system that can use content thatdoes not present in a set-top box by having a plurality of communication means, and can be easily operated by a user by using a paper controller printed with a dot pattern and a scanner remote controller. The broadcast control system is provided with a dot code reading device which has at least two communication means and optically reads the dot pattern formed on a medium, a first relay device for receiving the communication signal from the first communication means and controlling the broadcast receiver, and a second relay device for receiving the communication signal from the second communication means and transmitting to a server through a network.
Abstract:
According to one embodiment, a signal processing device comprises a first waveform equalizer, a second waveform equalizer, a first Viterbi decoder, a second Viterbi decoder. The first and the second waveform equalizers equalize a waveform of the input signal according to first and second partial response characteristics and output first and second partial response signals. The first and second Viterbi decoders decode the first and the second partial response signals by means of Viterbi decoding process. The input signal is reproduced based on an output of the first Viterbi decoder and an output of the second Viterbi decoder.
Abstract:
Disclosed is an information processing apparatus. The information processing apparatus includes a first hard disk drive, a conversion circuit and a signal control circuit. The conversion circuit is connected with the first hard disk drive to determine whether a second hard disk drive corresponding to a slave exists when the first hard disk drive serves as a master, and the determine whether a first control signal has a first logic level in a first predetermined time.
Abstract:
A communication system includes a first and a second communication devices, and the first and the second communication devices includes a first and a second transmission units that are disposed respectively on bodies of the communication devices and wirelessly transmits predetermined information to each other. The first communication device further includes a first reception unit that is disposed in a position where the first reception unit is capable of communicating with the second transmission unit and receives second information that has been transmitted from the second transmission unit, and a first control unit that controls the first communication device such that, when communication becomes possible between the first reception unit and the second transmission unit, the first reception unit receives the second information, and such that, when communication becomes possible between the first transmission unit and the second reception unit, the first transmission unit transmits first information.
Abstract:
According to one embodiment, a decoder device includes a decoder configured to decode a to-be-decoded sequence by performing an iterative decoding process and to perform a parity check of a decoding result using a check matrix, a detector configured to detect that the to-be-decoded sequence is a non-code word based on a parity check result for each row of the check matrix by the decoder, and a controller configured to control the decoder according to a detection result of the detector.
Abstract:
An objective of the present invention is to facilitate the acquisition of antibody-producing cells that are infiltrating virus-infected cells, cancer cells, abnormal cells forming a benign hyperplasia, and the like, and to improve the efficiency of the production of antibodies as well as nucleic acids encoding them from the antibody-producing cells.The present inventors discovered that, when cancer tissues comprising infiltrating lymphocytes are transplanted into highly immunodeficient animals that do not have T cells, B cells, and NK cells and further exhibit a low IFN production ability, the differentiation and proliferation of infiltrating lymphocytes are unexpectedly promoted, and the number of plasma cells that produce antibodies recognizing cancer tissues increases dramatically, plasma cells can be separated easily, and antibodies or nucleic acids encoding them can be easily prepared from the plasma cells.
Abstract:
The present invention proposes a dot pattern on which code information and x and y coordinate information can be defined even if the dot pattern is extremely small, and proposes an information reproducing method and an information reproducing device based on the dot pattern. More specifically, a medium such as a printed material on which is formed a dot pattern portion by arranging in accordance with a given rule dots generated by a dot code generating algorithm in order to recognize various kinds of multimedia information is scanned as image data by scanning means. Then, the image data is converted into code data. Multimedia information corresponding to the code data is read out of storing means to be reproduced.
Abstract:
An internal voltage adjusting circuit of a semiconductor memory device processes a period from activation to deactivation of a reset bar signal by dividing the period into a first period to a third period. In the first period, a peripheral circuit voltage is stabilized to a lowest value to suppress power consumption. In the second period in which a power source voltage is stabilized, the peripheral circuit voltage is set to a highest value to read out optimum internal voltage values from a fuse circuit in a stable manner. In the third period after reading out the optimum internal voltage values, the peripheral circuit voltage is returned to the lowest value to suppress the power consumption. When the reset bar signal is deactivated, the peripheral circuit voltage is set based on the optimum internal voltage values read out from the fuse circuit.
Abstract:
With the aim of realizing an easy and inexpensive method of realizing a “stealth” dot pattern, whose presence on a medium surface is not visually recognizable, merely through minor improvements in the existing printing technology, the present invention provides dots which form a dot pattern by printing these dots using an ink of any color reactive in the infrared or ultraviolet wavelength range on a medium surface on which a dot pattern is to be formed, for use with a dot pattern reading system that irradiates infrared or ultraviolet light on a medium surface having a dot pattern provided thereon, recognizes the dot pattern by reading the reflections of the light with an optical reading means, converts the dot pattern into the corresponding data, and outputs the text, voice, images and so forth contained in the data.