Canon Kabushiki Kaisha

Canon Precision Inc.

Shigeki Sakurai

Tsuguhide Sakata

Yukio Murata

Katsutoshi Hisada

Tatsuo Okano

Shoji Suzuki

Koichiro Nishikawa

Masahiro Ando

Osamu Nagatsuka

Koji Kimura

Takayuki Komine

Naoki Umemura

Isamu Ozawa

Katsuhiro Kakizawa

Shoichi Takashima

Kuniaki Ohtsuka

Yoshihiro Tanigawa

Masatomo Ohuchi

Takuji Okamoto

Nobuaki Kokubu

Hiroki Kobayashi

Katsuyuki Tanaka

Nobuaki Kokuba

A stage apparatus for a microscope includes a first stage provided on a mirror base of the microscope and fixed to a stage member that moves in an optical axis direction, a second stage that relatively moves over a surface of the first stage in a first direction, a third stage that relatively moves over a surface of the second stage in a second direction, the third stage having a placement portion for placing a microscope slide, and an exterior cover for covering at least a portion of the second stage and the third stage, the exterior cover being fixed to the first stage or the stage member. The exterior cover provides a space for the second stage and the third stage to move, and exposes the placement portion of the third stage.

Stage apparatus

A communication system has a communication controller for multiplexing and transmitting a power supply voltage and an audio signal to be played back by a plurality of channels, and a plurality of communication adapters which start in response to reception of the multiplexed/transmitted power supply voltage, and play back the audio signal using a playback device. The communication controller includes an audio data modulation circuit configured to modulate audio data by shifting, based on a first modulation ratio, a modulation carrier clock for modulating the audio data and a data transmission rate for transmitting the audio data in order to set a command transmission frequency bandwidth, and a command data modulation circuit configured to modulate command data by shifting, based on a second modulation ratio, a modulation carrier clock for modulating the command data and a data transmission rate for transmitting the command data in the command transmission frequency bandwidth.

Communication system and control method therefor, program, and storage medium

A card having a communication function which is adaptable for use in various environments. The card includes a plurality of interfaces adapted for a plurality of signal formats, wherein the card can selectively set an interface to use depending on the signal format being used.

Card having communication function

A telephone exchange system accommodates a plurality of central office lines and a plurality of telephones and records a telephonic communication in a recording area shared by the plurality of telephones. When predetermined conditions are satisfied, the recording is played back or transferred. The shared recording area can be utilized effectively by erasing a recording after it has been transferred, and by detecting the presence of a voice during a telephonic communication and starting and stopping the recording operation based upon the results of detection. The time at which a recording has been made can be comprehended in the form of a voice when the recording is played back.

Telephone exchange system

In a telephone exchange apparatus for performing exchange processing by a memory time switch, first tone signals are generated, and second tone signals are generated by sequentially exchange-controlling the memory time switch in synchronism with the zero-crossing points of the generated first tone signals. Furthermore, when the second tone signals are sent to corresponding output time slots, the switching operation is performed in synchronism with the zero-crossing points of the second tone signals, so that high-quality tones including no harmonic component can be sent to an extension telephone set or to another system through an outside line.

Telephone exchange apparatus and tone sending method in telephone

A telephone exchange operating on a volume controller provided with functions for inputting digitized speech data and volume control data, and converting a volume of the inputted speech data. A talker's sound inputted from a first channel has the volume converted and is outputted to a second channel for outputting a listener's sound. A volume of the speech data is converted according to a volume control data and exchanged. An augmenter for a sound level is calculated according to a reference signal sent from a first circuit to a second circuit.

Volume controller

A method of deciding whether an extension terminal is called or not is provided. The kind of communication is recognized on the basis of a set-up message received from the ISDN. Whether the extension terminal is called or not is decided on the basis of the result of comparison between the kind of the extension terminal and the kind of the communication recognized. There is also provided a private branch exchange comprising: a detector to detect a reception from an analog external line; a digital interface to connect a terminal corresponding to a procedure for a digital line; and a judging circuit to judge whether the terminal corresponds to a procedure for an analog line or not, wherein when the judging circuit decides that the terminal corresponds to the procedure for the analog line when the reception is detected by the detector, the digital interface transmits the set-up message to the terminal.

Private branch exchange capable of analyzing information received from

An image signal coding apparatus includes reference and coding line change point detection circuits, reference line shift registers, a coding line shift register, a symbol detection circuit, coding and reference line ROM tables, and a code determination circuit. The coding line change point detection circuit receives a serial reference line image signal in synchronism with a serial coding line image signal. The reference line shift registers receive serial change point data in the reference line image signal and output parallel reference line change point data. The coding line shift register receives serial change point data in the coding line image signal and outputs parallel coding line change point data. The symbol detection circuit monitors output states of the reference and coding line shift registers. A run length counter counts the number of pixels between the change points in the coding line image signal. The ROM tables cooperate with the code determination circuit to code the coding line image signal in response to outputs from the symbol detection circuit and the run length counter.

Image signal coding apparatus

A decoder for two-dimensionally encoded image codes such as modified READ or modified READ codes ensures fast decoding operation by outputting reference codes in parallel while serially discriminating input codes and monitoring the relationship of both codes.

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Yokohama, Japan

Shigeki Sakurai