Sanyo Electric Co., Ltd.

Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.

Kanto Sanyo Semiconductors Co., Ltd.

Noriaki Kojima

Shigeyuki Okada

Hiroshi Hanafusa

Ryosuke Usui

Hideki Mizuhara

Makoto Nagai

Hiroyuki Watanabe

Noriaki Sakamoto

Atsushi Wada

Yusuke Igarashi

Kuniyuki Tani

Shigeto Kobayashi

Hideki Yamauchi

Sadao Yoshikawa

Yoh Takano

Yasuhiro Kohara

Tsuyoshi Watanabe

Masanori Kajitani

Yasuhiro Kobayashi

Shinichiro Okada

Yasuo Ishii

Yoshihiro Matsuo

Tetsu Tarumoto

An extracting unit detects movement from a first area to a second area, the first area and the second area defined as areas having different priorities. When the extracting unit detects the movement, this changes a communication process defined in the first area to the communication process defined in the second area. A notifying unit notifies that the area changed when the movement is detected. Herein, the priority of the first area and the priority of the second area are defined according to importance of a signal, which should be broadcasted from a processing unit.

Radio apparatus transmitting or receiving a signal including predetermined information

In a digital camera, when snapshot shooting is instructed during recording of a moving image, a shot still image is temporarily pushed aside in a memory area for use in pushing aside () in a frame buffer (). A currently shooting motion image and a still image are displayed in parallel on a display (), so that a user can confirm a content of a snapshot. The moving image continues to be recorded even during a push-aside operation. After a moving image processing is completed, the still image is processed by an image correcting circuit (). The frame buffer () comprises a plurality of frame recording areas, and is shared on the occasions of a moving image processing and a still image processing. In a normal moving image processing, these areas are utilized in a cyclic manner, and when the still image is shot, any of areas will be utilized. Thereafter, the rest of areas are utilized in the cyclic manner for the moving images. The recording function for the moving image and still image is improved at low cost, it becomes easy to take a snapshot, and the merchandise size is not increased.

Digital camera for recording a still image while shooting a moving image

An MPEG encoder performs, in compliance with the MPEG-2 standard, intra-image coding compression on thumbnail images, selected by an image selector, whose data amount has been reduced by a data reducing unit. The thus compressed thumbnail images together with a record address recorded as coded data in a coded image data area is recorded in a thumbnail image data.

Method and apparatus for recording images, method and apparatus for recording and reproducing images, and television receiver utilizing the same

An image coding apparatus is provided which satisfies various levels of demands on image distribution, both from image providers and from users. The image coding apparatus includes a coding block which codes predetermined image data. A separation unit separates the coded image data into basic data for reproducing contents of the coded image data as a visible image, and complementary data for complementing the basic data, so that the two pieces of data are distributed on different occasions. An adding unit adds information for independent copyright control to at least either one of the basic data and the complementary data.

Image display method, image coding apparatus, and image decoding apparatus

A circuit board includes: a plurality of wiring layers; an insulating layer which insulates the plurality of wiring layers, the insulating layer containing a fibrous filler and a resin; and a conductor part formed on a sidewall of a via piercing through the insulating layer. The fibrous filler protrudes from the sidewall and is covered with the conductor part, with a length greater than the thickness of the conductor layer.

Circuit board and method of manufacturing circuit board

In a digital camera, when snapshot shooting is instructed during recording of a moving image, a shot still image is temporarily pushed aside in a memory area for use in pushing aside () in a frame buffer (). A currently shooting motion image and a still image are displayed in parallel on a display (), so that a user can confirm a content of a snapshot. The moving image continues to be recorded even during a push-aside operation. After a moving image processing is completed, the still image is processed by an image correcting circuit () The frame buffer () comprises a plurality of frame recording areas, and is shared on the occasions of a moving image processing and a still image processing. In a normal moving image processing, these areas are utilized in a cyclic manner, and when the still image is shot, any of areas will be utilized. Thereafter, the rest of areas are utilized in the cyclic manner for the moving images. The recording function for the moving image and still image is improved at low cost, it becomes easy to take a snapshot, and the merchandise size is not increased.

Digital camera for recording a still image while shooting moving image

The present invention provides a low-profile and light-weight semiconductor device having improved product reliability and higher frequency performance. A multi-layer interconnect line structure is disposed just under circuit devicesandAn Interlayer insulating filmthat composes a part of the multi-layer interconnect line structure is formed of a material having a relative dielectric constant within a range from 1.0 to 3.7, and a dielectric loss tangent within a range from 0.0001 to 0.02.

Semiconductor device, method for manufacturing same and thin plate interconnect line member

An input analog signal is fed to an amplifier circuit and an AD converter circuit. The AD converter circuit converts the input analog signal into a digital value of a predetermined number of bits, and outputs the digital value to an encoder (not shown) A DA converter circuit converts the digital value of a predetermined number of bits output from the AD converter circuit into an analog signal. The amplifier circuit samples and amplifies the input analog signal by a factor of &#x3b1; (greater than 1). A subtracter circuit subtracts an output of the DA converter circuit amplified by a factor of &#x3b1; from an output of the amplifier circuit.

Analog-digital converter with gain adjustment for high-speed operation

A semiconductor device that allows improvement in adhesion between insulation films having a 2-layered structure together with improvement of planarization and film characteristics, and a fabrication method thereof are obtained. In the fabrication method of the semiconductor device, an insulation film of a 2-layered structure having at least an upper layer and a lower layer is formed on a semiconductor substrate. Then, impurities are introduced into the upper insulation film under a condition where impurities arrive at least at the interface between the upper insulation film and the lower insulation film. By improving the adhesion between the upper and lower insulation films, the upper insulation film does not easily peel off.

Semiconductor device including insulation film and fabrication method thereof

A semiconductor memory device is described that has an improved read characteristics. The semiconductor memory device includes a plurality of memory cells, a reference cell, a comparator located between the memory cells and the reference cell, and a discriminator coupled to the comparator. The comparator compares the actual signal equivalent to a value of a current flowing in each of the memory cells and reference signals equivalent to a value of a current flowing in the reference cell with each other to output a comparison result signal in each of data reading operation modes. The discriminator discriminates a value of data stored in each of the memory cells based on the comparison result signal. The discriminator includes a circuit shared for discrimination of a data value in each of the data reading operation modes.

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Ogaki, Japan

Noriaki Kojima