Funai Electric Company Ltd.

Katsuhiro Morisada

Osamu Maeda

Shinji Yoshida

Toshiaki Irie

Shigeto Sakakibara

This private branch exchange includes a first communication portion acquiring connection target specifying information related to a connection target from a portable terminal, a second communication portion allowing telephone communication between a fixed telephone corresponding to the portable terminal and the connection target, and a control portion making a call to the connection target on the basis of the connection target specifying information and ringing the fixed telephone corresponding to the portable terminal from which the connection target specifying information has been acquired.

Private branch exchange and telephone system

A signal receiver which receives an optical signal from a remote control includes a light guide for guiding a light passing through a front panel window toward a photodetector mounted on a circuit board. The light guide is made of a homogeneous material. A light guiding portion of the light guide extending from an entrance end to an exit end has a substantially circular cross section and is curved gently, not angularly. The exit end is configured to have a concave surface which is coaxial with the axes of both the cross section of the light guiding portion and a light-receptive portion of the photodetector. The exit end is disposed adjacent and opposite to the light-receptive portion.

Signal receiver having light guide for guiding light transmitted from remote control

A front panel for electrical equipment is provided that has a plurality of push buttons formed integrally with the front panel and requires no additional panel for covering around the push buttons while being excellent in appearance. Each of the push buttons is linked to the face plate of the front panel through a button supporting portion and a button arm. The button supporting portion is extended from the back of the face plate at a substantially right angle to the face plate. The button arm is extended from the rear end of the button supporting portion so as to be parallel to the face plate. The face plate and the button arm are arranged, with a space formed by removing a slidable core, to overlap each other when viewed from front. Thus, the front panel does not require any additional cover panel.

Front panel having push buttons formed integrally therewith

A remote controller for a television/video recorder having a function of measuring a body fat includes a display section for displaying a measurement of the body fat and a message questioning whether or not a user to be examined carries a specific medical device such as a pacemaker, a reply entry section for entering a reply to the message, and a control section for controlling the action of a body fat meter. The control section directs the display section to display the message prior to the measurement of the body fat. Then, when receiving from the reply entry section a reply indicating that the user carries a pacemaker, the control section inhibits the measurement of the body fat and directs the display section to display a message of the inhibition. When receiving from the reply entry section a reply indicating that the user carries no pacemaker, the control section enables the measurement of the body fat of the user through registering the physical data including the weight and the height of the user. This safety feature can thus protect and hold the user who carries a specific medical device such as a pacemaker in the safety.

Remote controller for television/video recorder having a function of measuring body fat and body fat meter

A receiver includes a CPU. The CPU, when executing preset registration, in step Sfirst searches for the presence or absence of receivable channels. If there are receivable channels, received data (center frequency, etc.) is registered in step S. If the received channel is a TV channel, filtering is carried out in step Sto count only the channels existing within a range of &#xb1; approximately 200 kHz of a center frequency. If it is a CATV channel, counting is further made in step Son the channels existing within the range of &#xb1; approximately 200 kHz of the center frequency, and a filter process is carried out in order to remove the channels within the range of &#xb1; approximately 200 kHz of the center frequency +2 MHz of a CATV UHF-band channel overlapped with a TV channel.

Receiver having a preset tuner

A remote controller for a television having a function of measuring a body fat includes a physical data setting section for registering a physical data including the weight and the height of a user and an impedance measuring circuit for measuring the impedance across the body to determine the body fat of the user. For determining the body fat of a user to be examined, the body fat meter equipped television remote controller registers the physical data including the weight and the height of the user, measures the impedance across the body of the user, and transmits to a television receiver a body fat measurement signal which carries the physical data and the impedance measurement. The television receiver calculates the body fat of the user from the physical data and the impedance measurement carried on the body fat measurement signal and displays a resultant calculation of the body fat on its display provided for displaying images of the existing television broadcasting.

Remote controller for television having a function of measuring body fat and television receiver with the same

Remote controller

A video processing circuit for receiving a video signal from a tuner or a video recording/reproducing apparatus through a first or second input terminal and for outputting the video signal as it is through an output terminal under one condition and outputting a character signal from a signal source thereof instead of the video signal through the output terminal or outputting the video signal with the character signal superimposed thereon from the output terminal under the other condition. In the video processing circuit, among a plurality of circuits interposing from the first and second input terminals to the output terminal, only circuits related to the signal source of the character signal are formed in one integrated circuit (second integrated circuit) and the other circuits are formed in the other integrated circuit (first integrated circuit).

Video processing circuit for processing character signals

A TV tuner unit uses a frequency-selective element before or after the resonance stage of either a UHF or VHF tuner for separation of UHF signals from VHF signals. Thus, performance is preserved while eliminating the need for circuitry including high and low pass filters and related switches.

TV tuner unit having a resonance network

An automatic time setting apparatus for an electronic device which receives transmission radio wave in which time data is inserted, extracts the time data from the received transmission radio wave and performs a time setting operation of a clock section within the electronic device in accordance with the extracted time data. The automatic time setting apparatus includes a measuring section which starts measuring a constant time period in response to first turning-on of a power source, in which a system controller determines whether or not a first time setting operation of the clock section has been performed when the measuring section has measured the constant time period, and executes the time setting operation when it is determined that the first time setting operation has not been performed yet.

Automatic time setting apparatus and method for electric device

A receiver includes a CPU. The CPU can determine whether a variable N has reached a predetermined value X or not. The variable N is the number of channels over which broadcast signals could have been consecutively received. If &ldquo;YES&rdquo; is determined in the determination, the CPU performs presetting according to a CATV broadcast channel plan.

Video processing circuit

A take-up reel sensor measures a rotation cycle of a take-up reel of a loaded tape cassette in a take-up operation. A changing rate calculating section calculates a changing rate of the rotation cycle measured by the take-up reel sensor. A type discriminating section discriminates the tape cassette as a thick hub type or a thin hub type based on the rotation cycle measured by the take-up reel sensor, while it discriminates the tape cassette as the thin hub type or a VHS-C type based on the changing rate calculated by the changing rate calculating section. A system controller conducts a high speed take-up mode suitable for the type of the tape cassette discriminated by the type discriminating section. Accordingly, the take-up mode can be controlled by employing only the rotation cycle of the take-up reel.

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Osaka, Japan

Katsuhiro Morisada