Sony Corporation

Fuji Photo Film Company, Limited

Shingo Yamauchi

Hiroyuki Fujita

Masayuki Takano

Masato Yokota

Mamoru Ishiguro

Masakatsu Kaburagi

Masashi Ogawa

Taku Nakamura

Mitsutaka Enomoto

Yukihide Urata

Shinichiro Kuwabara

Yoshikatsu Takagi

Each of the batch processing lines has its exclusive one set material processing line independent from others and is operated according to the special algorithm which changes an amount to be prepared in the batch process in a few batches in the final stage of the downstream process based on a calculated total amount required by the downstream process to complete manufacturing. The method for preparing is capable of easily coping with the change of raw materials or prescriptions for the product without increasing or changing existing pipe lines or chemical liquid stock vessels and almost completely avoiding a waste of material.

Method and system for optimizing batch process of preparing solution

An image editing system having an excellent editing operational efficiency. A recording/reproducing unit where compressed images have been recorded and an editing terminal unit are interconnected through a communication line. The compressed image which is needed at the time of editing is transmitted via the communication line without having recourse to a physical recording medium.

Image editing system

Parallel multiple terminal image editing system and improved image

A system for distributing broadcasting material a source station transmits a material signal representing a series of broadcasting material segments, together with a segment data signal containing segment data, such as the absolute start frame number of each segment and the number of frames in each segment. Each of a number of branch stations receives the transmitted material segments and the segment data signal, records the broadcasting material segments, and then files away the broadcasting material segments, for example in a cart machine, in accordance with the received segment data. The transmission may be by way of an artificial satellite, and it is unnecessary for the transmission from the satellite to the branch stations to be synchronised with the transmission from the source station to the satellite.

System for distributing broadcasting material and identifying segment

A cassette autochanger for automatically supplying and selectively reproducing a plurality of cassettes (C) having programs recorded therein comprises a plurality of recording/reproducing devices (3), a plurality of cassette storage locations (5, 6), a cassette transporter (4, 9) for transporting the cassettes (C) between the locations (5, 6) and the devices (3), a first detector (23) for detecting any one of the programs that is recorded in one only of the cassettes (C) , a second detector (23) for detecting two of the devices (3) which are available for use, and a dubbing controller (24) for controlling the two detected devices (3) so that such one of the programs is automatically dubbed on to another cassette (C) using the two detected devices (3). A cassette autochanger system may comprise two cassette autochangers (41A, 41B), the second autochanger (41B) forming a back-up which takes over reproduction using an up-dated reproduction list derived from the first autochanger (41A) in the event of the first autochanger (41A) becoming out of order.

Cassette autochanger systems

A method of feeding a coating liquid into a path from a tank to a coating apparatus through a filter and a degassing apparatus by a pump, comprising the steps of preparing a cleaning liquid containing degassed warm water in advance and aqueous solution of low surface tension; pouring the cleaning liquid into the path through the filter by the pump to dissolve bubbles contained in the filter into the cleaning liquid; exhausting the cleaning liquid from the path; filling the path as far as the coating apparatus with the new cleaning liquid anew; and substituting a coating liquid for the cleaning liquid sequentially.

Method of removing air bubbles in a coating path before feeding a

A process for performing binary-to-decimal conversion distinguishes between two major subdivisions of the information represented by the binary values and signifies the type of information for each value by a so-called attribute bit. The attribute bits for several binary values can be encoded into a single decimal digit while each binary value is itself converted to a reduced number of decimal digits.

Method and system for binary-to-decimal interconversion

A silver halide photographic light-sensitive material for photo-mechanical process comprising a support having thereon at least one light-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer and at least one light-insensitive upper layer which is positioned above the light-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer, wherein at least one of the light-insensitive upper layers has a melting time longer than a melting time of the light-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer and the light-insensitive upper layer contains a polymer latex. The silver halide photographic light-sensitive material has excellent aptitude for reduction treatment without increasing the amount of silver per unit area. The occurrence of reticulation is prevented with the silver halide photographic light-sensitive material. A method of reduction treatment for a silver halide photographic light-sensitive material for photo-mechanical process comprising the steps of: exposing the silver halide photographic light-sensitive material as described above, development processing the exposed silver halide photographic light-sensitive material to form a silver image, and carrying out reduction treatment of the silver image is also disclosed.

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Kanagawa, Japan

Shingo Yamauchi