Pioneer Corporation

Pioneer Electronic Corporation

Nippon Kayaku Kabushiki Kaisha

Tama Biochemical Co., Ltd.

Hitoshi Sato

Toshiyuki Murata

Yukari Mizumura

Rie Yamashita

Hidetsugu Kubota

Takamasa Yamaguchi

Toshiyuki Kimura

Fumio Endo

Akira Hayama

Kiyoshi Furukawa

Junichi Nishida

Kenji Kaneko

Hiroshi Yoshikawa

Kenji Morita

Yoshinobu Miyazawa

Kouichi Ohkawa

Noriko Tomiyoshi

Isamu Akasaki

Hiroshi Amano

Hideo Watanabe

Hiroyuki Ota

Yoshinori Kimura

Atsushi Watanabe

Mamoru Miyachi

Hirokazu Takahashi

Fumio Futatsuya

Toshiyuki Tanaka

Suguru Takatsuto

Akio Masui

Tatsumi Hayaoka

Hidetoshi Yamaguchi

Yoichi Yamazaki

Akira Kurozumi

Satoshi Ototake

Masashi Iwasaki

Tadamasa Yamanaka

Satoshi Tanabe

Nobuhiro Ozu

Kazuyoshi Kamiyama

A broadcast receiver has a GPS reception section for clocking, a TV tuner for receiving a broadcast wave of TV broadcast, and a display for displaying video information of a program transmitted by a broadcast wave, and displays video information of a plurality of programs received on a single screen of the display at the same time every hour on the hour. Accordingly, the user (viewer) can check the program contents of channels that can be received at the time of day.

Broadcast receiver for displaying video information of a program transmitted by broadcast waves

In a digital acoustic reproducing apparatusfor selecting and outputting one sound information from a sound information sourcehaving plural kinds of sound information with at least the number of channels or different data formats, there are provided sound information readout memberfor reading sound information out of the sound information sourceinformation acquisition memberfor acquiring information about data formats capable of decoding by a decoderto which the sound information read out is supplied or information about the number of speakersto which the sound information decoded by the decoderis supplied, and sound information selection memberfor selecting sound information to be outputted to the decoderbased on the acquired information.

Digital acoustic reproducing apparatus, acoustic apparatus and acoustic reproducing system

A display control apparatus has a display panel, which is placed in its inactive state through a user's operation when not being used, on the one hand, and is placed in is active state when being used, on the other hand. After completing the display of video, the display panel is received automatically, thus ensuring protection of the display panel. It also prevents a beginning part of video from being hidden for a user. All video can be displayed on the display panel that stands up in its prescribed active state. In the display control apparatus, a rotary motor driver and a slider motor driver are used for placing the display panel received in a receiver. An encoder detects whether or not the display panel is placed in its prescribed active state. When the active state of the display panel is detected, an output controller outputs a video signal to the display panel for display.

Display control apparatus, display control method and information recording medium

An image processing apparatus which is capable of displaying moving images with more actions for longer period of time. The apparatus is equipped with: an image data ROMwhich stores a plurality of static image information and moving image information that includes a plurality of element static image information each of which has less amount of information than that of an static image information; and a graphic devicethat reads static and moving image information from the image data ROMand performs image processing.

Method and apparatus for processing both static and moving images

A drive controller for controlling to change the orientation of a display surface of a display in accordance with the seating position of occupants aboard a vehicle. A display unit is rotatably mounted on a vehicle. A controller automatically rotates the display unit to a first position where the display surface is oriented toward a driver seat, when an occupant is seated solely in the driver seat. The controller rotates the display unit to a third position where the display surface is oriented toward a front passenger seat, when an occupant is seated solely in the front passenger seat. The controller rotates the display unit to a second position where the display surface is oriented toward the middle point between the driver seat and the front passenger seat, on detecting both of the occupants are seated respectively in the driver seat and the front passenger seat.

Drive controller and control method

A display controller for controlling display on a display surface of a display unit mounted on a vehicle. The display unit is rotatably mounted on the vehicle. A CPU of a controller recognizing that the vehicle is traveling, that a display surface of a display unit is oriented toward the driver's seat, and that a moving picture is displayed on the display surface, inhibits display of the moving picture on the display unit. The CPU of the controller, recognizing that the vehicle is traveling, that the display surface of the display unit is oriented toward the driver's seat, and that a moving picture is displayed on the display surface rotates the display unit to a position where an occupant of the driver's seat cannot watch the moving picture.

Display controller, display control method, drive controller and drive control method

An information playback apparatus which can perform scan playback capable of being performed with finer settings. When a unit cycle B and a playback time A within the unit cycle B are specified and the start of the scan playback of playback data recorded in a DVD is specified, playback control data having address information and information of the playback order appended to each piece of data in the smallest basic units of the playback data is read out from the DVD, whereby the scan playback of the playback data is performed by managing the playback time A in every unit cycle B. Also, when access-inhibited data is present within the playback data, the scan playback of playback data is performed except the access-inhibited data.

Information playback apparatus for playing back data recorded in an information recording medium

An audio disk/memory disk player. At the time of playing a disk, TOC information in a lead-in area will be read out first after loading of the disk is complete. The player determines whether the disk to be played is an audio disk (CD) or a memory disk (CD-ROM) based on identifying information in the TOC information. If the disk is the memory disk, the operation goes directly to a pause mode so that upon reception of a read command transition to the searching for a designated address is promptly executed to quickly read out the desired data. Only when the disk being played is the audio disk, the audio system is changed to the audio disk from another source, thus permitting a user to view a map while listening to the previous source. When playing for an area having a series of group information recorded is complete in special play mode, the mode is quickly changed to the pause mode in the case of the memory disk to wait for the read command, thus ensuring quick reading of designated map data. If the disk discrimination result indicates the memory disk, a muting process is performed to inhibit a sound generation from a loudspeaker. If in this case there are operation commands originating from erroneous confirmation by the user, at least one of the commands is ignored.

Disk player having automatic control based upon audio disk or memory disk determination

A panel member such as a display panel is rotated with a predetermined shaft as a center of the rotation. The rotation controlling apparatus for controlling the rotation of the panel member is provided with: a signal generating device for generating a position detection signal indicative of an angular position of the panel member around the shaft in response to a rotation of the panel member around the shaft; and a controller for controlling the rotation of the panel member in accordance with the position detection signal generated by the signal generating device, so as to stop the rotation of the panel member by using as a standard a generation timing of the position detection signal, which has a predetermined signal value based on a stop position signal value implying a value of the position detection signal indicative of a stop position at which the rotation of the panel member should be stopped.

Rotation controlling apparatus and electronic apparatus

A process for producing a semiconductor emitting device of group III nitride semiconductor having a crystal layer (Al.sub.x Ga.sub.1-x).sub.1-y In.sub.y N (0.ltoreq.x.ltoreq.1, 0.ltoreq.y.ltoreq.1) includes; a step of forming at least one pn-junction or pin-junction and a crystal layer (Al.sub.x Ga.sub.1-x).sub.1-y In.sub.y N (0.ltoreq.x.ltoreq.1, 0.ltoreq.y.ltoreq.1) to which a group II element is added; and a step of forming electrodes on the crystal layer. The process further includes an electric-field-assisted annealing treatment in which the pn-junction or pin-junction is heated to the predetermined temperature range while forming and maintaining an electric field across the pn-junction or pin-junction for at least partial time period of the predetermined temperature range via the electrodes.

Process for producing a luminous element of group III nitride

A remote control system is provided for remotely controlling at least two electronic devices one of which is a master device and the other is a slave device. Each device has a remote control sensor and both devices are connected with each other by a bus. The master device producers a command signal for commanding the slave device to send a connection confirmation signal representing that the slave device is connected to the bus. The slave device sends a connection information signal representing that the slave device is connected to the bus and is remotely controllable in response to the command signal. The master device makes a remote control signal received by the own remote control sensor ineffective when receiving the connection information signal.

Remote control system for electronic devices

An etoposide phosphate represented by the formula ##STR1## is prepared by blocking the hydroxyl groups of the saccharide moiety of etoposide with halogenoacetyl groups, thereafter phosphorylating the 4'-position, and removing the halogenoacetyl groups from the obtained phosphate in the presence of an amine. This process can give the objective etoposide phosphate in a higher yield than that of the prior art to enable the industrial mass-production thereof.

Process for the preparation of etoposide phosphate and intermediate

A disk selection control device for a multidisk player, in which disk content identifying information and TOC information of the disks are preliminarily stored correspondingly with each other, and the disk content identifying information and disk holding position information of the disks are stored correspondingly with each other according to the TOC information when it is read-out. By inputting the disk content identifying information, the disk holding position information corresponding to the input disk content identifying information can be obtained from the above correspondency therebetween to thereby select a desired disk.

Disk selection control device for multidisk player

An etoposide phosphate represented by the formula (1): ##STR1## is prepared by blocking the hydroxyl groups of the saccharide moiety of etoposide with halogenoacetyl groups, thereafter phosphorylating the 4'-position, and removing the halogenoacetyl groups from the obtained phosphate in the presence of an amine. This process can give the objective etoposide phosphate in a higher yield than that of the prior art to enable the industrial mass-production thereof.

Etoposide phosphate and preparative intermediates

A map display apparatus for displaying a wide area map and an enlarged map is disclosed. When a display mode is shifted from the mode of displaying the enlarged map to the mode of displaying the wide area map, a cursor frame is displayed on a position on a parent screen corresponding to the divided area which has been displayed in an enlarged manner just before the shift of the display mode, so that the position on the parent screen of the area which has been displayed in the enlarged manner so far can be easily discriminated.

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Hitoshi Sato