Hitachi, Ltd.

Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Public Corporation

Hitachi Maxell, Limited

Nobuo Hamamoto

Minoru Nagata

Tadashi Onishi

Masatoshi Ohtake

Kenichi Mizuishi

Kazuo Ichino

Tatsundo Suzuki

Yosuke Tyojamori

Katsutaka Kimura

Toshio Sasaki

Kazuo Watanabe

Toshiaki Masuhara

Naoki Ozawa

Katsuro Sasaki

Kazunari Nakagawa

Hidehito Obayashi

Kiyoshi Aiki

Akira Tonomura

Kazuhiro Kondo

Takeshi Tottori

Setsuo Nomura

Takehiro Ohkawa

Satoshi Ido

Akira Fukuhara

Isamu Orita

Tsuneo Okubo

Hiroshi Kishida

Hisashi Horikoshi

Yutaka Kinebuti

In a digital information system for realizing the sale of information or the like having a commercial value in the form of a digital signal, and an audio processor, and signal processor suitably used with the system, when a digital signal is received/delivered, a digital signal source is connected directly to a player for receiving and storing a specified information, which is reproduced by the player independently. A voice interval of a digital audio signal is processed to realize the slow and fast playback. The system includes a data compressor and a data extender of simple configuration. The value of the digital signal received/delivered can be exhibited directly. A selling system is constructed easily, and the player is simple in configuration and easy to operate by anyone. The fast and slow playback are possible without deteriorating the sound quality, and ripples can be greatly reduced against the digital input signal, thereby making possible a faithful data compression of an acoustic signal or the like by a simple configuration. The self-diagnosis function permits the use of a defective memory chip, thereby leading to a very economical system.

Digital information system, digital audio signal processor and signal converter

A radio paging system with voice transfer function for transmitting a voice message input from an ordinary push-button telephone set to a small-sized receive-only unsophisticated radio pager. A paging station is provided to transmit by radio the message from a telephone network to the radio pager as follows: voice information constituting the message is first converted from analog to digital format, compressed, stored in memory, and scrambled by a privacy function part for transmission. The radio pager in turn demodulates the received information, stores it in memory, retrieves a necessary message therefrom as designated, descrambles the designated message from scrambled state, expands the message from compressed state, and outputs the message as an audible output. In this manner, the user carrying the radio pager is able to get the message from the caller without the risk of being tapped by a third party.

Radio paging system with voice transfer function and radio pager

A contactless parallel data transfer device which is miniature, highly densed, and highly reliable having a coil block consisting of a first coil group installed in a portable memory and a coil block consisting of a second coil group installed in a data server for transferring access data in parallel between the portable memory (memory card, etc.) and the data server by contactless coupling, wherein the opposite coils of the first and second coil blocks are held close and opposite to each other on a contactless basis, and a parallel pulse group which is transferred in parallel between the both coil blocks is divided at least into a first parallel pulse group consisting of the first number of bits and a second parallel pulse group consisting of the second number of bits, and the parallel transfer timings of the both parallel pulse groups are different from each other, and an induced signal to the neighboring coils of each opposite coil pair of the first and second coil blocks is negated in the opposite phase.

Noise reduced contactless parallel data transfer device and method

The present invention provides an electron holography microscope producing an interference pattern having contour moire lines which is displayed on a cathode-ray tube. With the invention the three-dimensional structure of a specimen can be readily observed on the cathode-ray tube. The electron holography microscope of the present invention comprises a television camera which picks up the interference pattern a straight line fringe output means for delivering a straight line fringe pattern the direction and interval of which are selected at will. Outputs of the television camera and the means are added in a multiplier and the result is displayed on the cathode-ray tube.

Electron holography microscope

This invention relates to a method of detecting a mark by an electron beam, the mark being provided on a sample, which includes the steps of scanning the electron beam over an area of the mark in such a manner that the electron beam is subjected to chopping by sampling pulses having a higher frequency than the scanning frequency, eliminating a component of noise from a detected signal representative of the mark, synchronously rectifying the detected mark signal, binary-coding the detected mark signal as compared with a suitable threshold value, and detecting a position of the mark by using the binary-coded signal.

Method of detecting a mark by an electron beam and an apparatus therefor

In an apparatus for driving a motor wherein a carrier or stage carrying a sample thereon is located and moved to a predetermined position by controlling the slow-up and slow-down speed of the motor at the start and prior to the stopping thereof, respectively, this invention provides for speed control of the motor in accordance with a function of arbitrary characteristic slope, the function being stored in the form of a succession of digital values which may be sequentially accessed by a counter control circuit responsive to a control command signal representing the on-off condition for the motor.

Apparatus for driving a motor

An operation control system for a micro-computer comprises a control unit and a register unit. A micro instruction stored in a read only memory of the control unit is fetched, a one word instruction is divided into six time stages and the divided instructions are transmitted to the register unit in a time-multiplexed format with each stage being a fundamental time unit, while the register unit decodes the micro instructions of the fundamental units fed thereto and executes the micro instructions of the fundamental units in a manner to overlap in time.

Processor of micro-computer with division of micro-instruction

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