Canon Kabushiki Kaisha

Mitsubishi Chemical Corporation

Asm Japan K.k.

Toyo Ink Sc Holdings Co., Ltd.

Toyocolor Co., Ltd

Shingo Ikeda

Hidenori Hoshi

Akihiro Oishi

Katsumi Karasawa

Motokazu Kashida

Shinichi Yamashita

Toshiyuki Urano

Ryuichiro Takasaki

Shin Kawana

Atsuki Fukazawa

Mitsugu Tanaka

Yoshiki Ishii

Masahide Hasegawa

Mitsuo Niida

Nobuo Matsuki

Hiroaki Endo

Naoto Tsuji

Shingo Nozawa

Nobuhiro Hoshi

Mitsuru Owada

Hideyuki Watanabe

Yoshinori Morisada

Tameichi Ochiai

Toshihiro Yagisawa

Etsuko Hino

Baiei Kawano

Fumiyuki Matsuo

Takaaki Koike

Yasuyuki Taniguchi

Yasuyuki Moroishi

Yuzuru Chika

Sachiko Kinoshita

Hiromi Yokoyama

Takeshi Ohmori

Noriko Endo

Jiro Kamimura

Koji Mori

Koichiro Miyajima

Yasuhiro Tobe

A binder composition for a non-aqueous secondary battery electrode may comprise functional group-containing crosslinked resin microparticles produced by polymerizing: (A) at least one monomer selected from the group consisting of (a) a monomer having one ethylenically unsaturated group per molecule and also having a monofunctional or polyfunctional epoxy group, (b) a monomer having one ethylenically unsaturated group per molecule and also having a monofunctional or polyfunctional amide group, and (c) a monomer having one ethylenically unsaturated group per molecule and also having a monofunctional or polyfunctional hydroxy group; (B) at least one monomer selected from the group consisting of (d) a monomer having one ethylenically unsaturated group per molecule and also having an alkoxysilyl group and (e) a monomer having at least two ethylenically unsaturated groups per molecule; and (C) (k) a monomer which has an ethylenically unsaturated group and is different from the monomers (a) to (e).

Binder composition for non-aqueous secondary battery electrode

There is provided an audio processing apparatus. An obtaining unit obtains an audio signal. A first audio level controller gives a first gain to the audio signal obtained by the obtaining unit. A second audio level controller gives a second gain to the audio signal output from the first audio level controller. A time constant in processing for increasing the first gain of the first audio level controller is larger than a time constant in processing for increasing the second gain of the second audio level controller.

Audio processing apparatus and method

A reproduction apparatus and method for controlling the reproduction apparatus includes acquiring an image capable of refocusing, acquiring audio associated with image capable of refocusing, and controlling a the timing of an output of the audio in accordance with the refocus position of the image.

Reproduction apparatus and method of controlling reproduction apparatus

The use of sound signals from sounds collected by four non-directional sound collectors facilitates calculation for generating surround sound signals, for example, when multi-channel surround sound signals are generated, and prevents the size of the entire apparatus from increasing. Surround sound signals are generated from sound signals of sounds collected by a microphone unit composed of a first sound collector, a second sound collector disposed posterior to the first sound collector, a third sound collector, and a fourth sound collector.

Image capturing apparatus

A signal processing apparatus includes sound collecting elements, a noise detector for detecting a level of noise in a low-frequency band of audio signals output from the sound collecting elements, a noise reduction unit for reducing the noise in the audio signals in accordance with a signal output from the noise detector, a converter for converting the audio signals output from the noise reduction unit into pieces of audio data corresponding to channels including a low-frequency channel and other channels, a low-frequency channel controller for controlling a level of the audio data corresponding to the low-frequency channel in accordance with the level of the noise detected using the noise detector, and a level controller for controlling the level of the audio data of the low-frequency channel output from the low-frequency channel controller and levels of the pieces of audio data corresponding to the other channels output from the converter.

Audio processing apparatus

There is provided an information recording/reproducing apparatus for recording or reproducing an information to or from an information recording medium having a plurality of recording layers stacked on a substrate which can always perform stable spindle rotation control irrespective of an error of a desired frequency value or the like, and which includes an optical head for recording or reproducing an information to or from the recording layers by use of an optical beam; a spindle motor for rotating the recording medium; and a drive voltage holding circuit for holding a drive voltage of the spindle motor when the optical head performs switching between the recording layers for recording/reproducing.

Information recording/reproducing apparatus having control circuit of spindle motor

A dual-chamber plasma processing apparatus comprises two reaction spaces which are equipped with different gas inlet lines and different RF systems. Each reaction space is provided with an RF wave entry path and an RF wave return path to supply RF power from an RF power source and return RF power to the same RF power source.

Dual-chamber plasma processing apparatus

A silicon-containing insulation film is formed on a substrate by plasma reaction using a reaction gas including (i) a source gas comprising a silicon-containing hydrocarbon compound containing multiple cross-linkable groups, (ii) a cross-linking gas, and (iii) an inert gas, into a reaction chamber where a substrate is placed. The insulation film is then exposed to electron beam radiation, thereby increasing mechanical strength of the film without substantial alternation of its dielectric constant.

Method for forming silicon-containing insulation film having low dielectric constant treated with electron beam radiation

The image processing apparatus of this invention is so constructed as to enter the image signal of which one frame is composed of plural interlaced fields each of which is divided into plural blocks each consisting of plural pixels, to interpolate the image signal of a second field utilizing the image signal of a first field in the image signal outputted in the unit of the above mentioned block, and to output the image signal in the unit of the above-mentioned block.

Image processing apparatus

An image processing apparatus in which an image signal is divided into blocks each comprising a plurality of pixels and a quantization and a variable length encoding are executed so that a code amount of a plurality of blocks lies within a certain range. As a plurality of blocks, the position of the block which is selected at the nth order approaches the periphery of a picture screen with an increase in value of (n).

Encoding image data in blocks read out in a predetermined order

A coding apparatus includes a large block forming unit for forming a large block of sample values of an input signal, a small block forming unit for dividing the large block into a plurality of small blocks, a first coding unit for coding the small blocks of the input signal by using a difference signal obtained by subtracting a predicted value from the small blocks of the input signal, a second coding unit for coding the small blocks of the input signal without using the difference signal, and a selecting unit for selecting the first or second coding unit in units of large blocks.

Coding apparatus

An information transmission system using data compression and/or error detection includes an information compression circuit for compressing digital information to generate compressed information. A record/reproducing device is provided for recording the compressed information on a recording medium, and reproducing the compressed information from the recording medium. Transmission circuitry is provided for transmitting the compressed information reproduced from the record/reproducing device to a transmission channel without expanding the compressed information. An information expansion circuit is then provided for expanding the compressed information which has been transmitted through the transmission channel in order to reproduce the digital information.

Information transmission system using data compression and/or error

An image reproducing apparatus includes a reproduction unit to reproduce an image signal corresponding to a picture having a plurality of image blocks that each include a plurality of pixels. The image signal includes coded image data for each of the image blocks. A decoding nit is provided to decode the image signal reproduced by the reproduction unit. In addition, a replacement unit is provided to replace with a predetermined signal, a portion of the image data for blocks located near an undecodable block, the undecodable block being a block corresponding to image data that cannot be decoded by the decoding unit.

Image reproducing apparatus reproducing coded image signals while

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