Sony Corporation

Nisshin Flour Milling Co., Ltd.

Amada Company, Limited

Takahiro Ichikawa

Shigeharu Sato

Kazuhiro Yasuda

Yoshinori Shimizu

Takayuki Ishida

Yukiyoshi Yamada

Satoshi Akiyama

Satoru Kimura

Hideo Okabe

Kenji Ogawa

Koji Obata

Shozo Masuda

Yoshikatsu Niwa

Shinya Masunaga

Tomoyuki Sato

Tomoaki Takemura

Eisuke Kuroda

Junichi Otani

Yasuo Takeshima

Hiromi Omura

Mitsunobu Fujikawa

Tadashi Nakata

Naoto Tonoike

Taisuke Tanaka

A product sorting apparatus includes a pallet station supporting a pallet on which a product is placed and moves up and down between a base position and a raised position, a transfer device transferring the product to a first area that is on a first side of the pallet station, a first cart movable between the first area and a second area that is on a second side of the pallet station, and a second cart movable between the first area and the second area and able to pass through the inside of the first cart. Through the inside of the pallet station set at the base position, the first cart is unable to pass and the second cart is able to pass, and through the inside of the pallet station set at the raised position, both the first and second carts are able to pass.

Product sorting apparatus

There is provided a receiving device including: a receiving unit that receives a packet stream; an oscillator; a measuring unit that performs a measuring operation; an acquiring unit that reads the newest time stamp read from the packet stream received by the receiving unit and the newest measurement value measured by the measuring unit with a predetermined period, from a point of time when the packet stream starts to be received; a calculating unit that calculates an accumulation value of the time stamps and the measurement values acquired by the acquiring unit; a comparing unit that compares a difference between the accumulation value of the time stamps and the accumulation value of the measurement values calculated by the calculating unit, and a value corresponding to a network jitter; and a frequency control unit that controls the oscillation frequency of the oscillator based on the comparison result by the comparing unit.

Receiving device, clock synchronizing method, and computer program

The objectives of the present invention are to reduce the throughput required for a rapid reproduction or other special types of reproduction and to improve also the data access speed at the time of a rapid reproduction. In order to achieve these objectives, the system controllercontrols so that the address information of the MPEG data reproduced by a pickupmay be used to create the first reproduction control information at a sector detection circuit, that the second reproduction control information corresponding to the starting point of pictures contained in the MPEG data destined to be reproduction signals by the first reproduction control signal and subjected to an error correction in an error correction circuitmay be created in a stream detection circuit, and that some MPEG data out of the entire MPEG data may be outputted for a rapid reproduction by referring to the second reproduction control information, and through these steps, the interval of reproducing I pictures in a rapid reproduction by using for example only I pictures is reduced and a smooth reproduction is achieved.

Data reproduction apparatus and method

A data reproduction apparatus and a data reproduction method can alleviate the workload of a special processing operation of fast forward or reverse data reproduction and improve the data access speed for fast reproduction of data. The data reproduction apparatus comprises an optical pickupfor reproducing data from an optical disk, a sector detectorfor detecting a first piece of data information indicating if a data is to be output as signal or not, a ring buffer memoryfor storing data, an error correction circuitfor correcting errors in the data to be output as signal as indicated by the first piece of data information out of the stored data, a stream detectorfor detecting a second piece of data information indicating the data to be out as signal out of the data corrected for errors, decodersfor decoding the data corrected for errors and stored in the ring buffer memoryas signal to be reproduced and a system controllerfor control the data to be decoded and the data not to be decoded by referring to the first piece of data information and the second piece of data information detected by a second data information detection means.

Data reproduction apparatus and reproduction method

A data decoding apparatus and the method and a data reproduction apparatus which reduces capacity of a memory used for decoding and speedily accesses to data to be read. In a data decoding apparatus ( ) and the method which decodes coded data (S ) which is recorded in a recording medium ( ), the coded data (S ) read from the recording medium ( ) is stored in a memory used for decoding ( ), data information of data to be read is detected from decoded data which is generated in the middle of decoding the coded data (S ), the data information is stored in a data information storage means and the output of decoded data (S ) is controlled on the based on the data information, thereby the output of the decoded data (S ) is controlled based on the data information independent of decoding of the coded data (S ).

Data decoding apparatus and method and data reproduction apparatus

The present invention provides a powder classifier using a classification rotor capable of classifying powder with high efficiency and high accuracy. The classification rotor is attached to a rotating shaft as a body and rotatably supported in a casing. Within the classification rotor, a cavity is formed from the outer edge to the center and classifying vanes are provided around the circumference. The cavity is bent downwardly near the center with the lower end connected through a fine powder passage to a fine powder outlet. The outer edge of the classification rotor is connected to a coarse powder outlet. After feeding powder from a powder supply port, the powder is rotated by the classifying vanes such that coarse powder particles are taken out from the rough outlet by centrifugal force and fine powder particles are taken out by airflow from the fine powder outlet.

Powder classifier

A data decoding apparatus and the method and a data reproduction apparatus which reduces capacity of a memory used for decoding and speedily accesses to data to be read. In a data decoding apparatus (50) and the method which decodes coded data (S2) which is recorded in a recording medium (2), the coded data (S2) read from the recording medium (2) is stored in a memory used for decoding (51), data information of data to be read is detected from decoded data which is generated in the middle of decoding the coded data (S2), the data information is stored in a data information storage means and the output of decoded data (S10) is controlled on the based on the data information, thereby the output of the decoded data (S10) is controlled based on the data information independent of decoding of the coded data (S2).

Digital signal decoder which decodes coded data, for example, a coded digital video signal, that has error-correcting data such as C1/C2 convolutional Reed-Solomon type data added thereto. The decoder stores in a memory the coded data, detects correctable errors in the stored coded data, ascertains positions of the detected errors in the coded data, and supplies error correction patterns that correspond to those errors. A second memory stores the ascertained positions of the errors as well as the error correction patterns, and coded data that correspond to the positions of the errors are read from the first memory and decoded by using the error correction patterns stored in the second memory so as to produce corrected decoded data. A digital signal reproducing apparatus embodying the above decoder also is disclosed.

Apparatus and method for decoding a coded digital signal

Decoding apparatus and method set interpolation flags in units smaller than an ECC block. The PI1 flag indicating an error on a row-by-row basis is generated for the first error correction result, while the PI2 flag also indicating an error on a row-by-row basis is generated for the second error correction result in the ECC block. The PO flag indicating an error on a column-by-column basis is further generated for the error correction result in the ECC block. Following these processing operations, the PI1, PI2 and PO flags are used for generating the interpolation flags.

Apparatus and method for decoding data using flags to indicate decoding

A mechanical grinding apparatus of the present invention, which includes a rotor supported by a rotary shaft and having a plurality of grooves defined on the outer peripheral surface thereof and a liner inserted to the outside of the rotor so as to form a desired gap between the liner and the rotor and having a plurality of grooves defined on the inner peripheral surface thereof for grinding a substance to be ground in the gap, is characterized in that the grooves of at least one of the rotor and the liner incline in a direction preventing the flow of the substance to be ground with respect to a direction parallel with a rotary shaft. Since the mechanical grinding apparatus of the present invention can make a ground substance having a small particle size, no large particles mixed therein and a sharp particle size distribution width at a high efficiency, the grinding apparatus is preferably applicable to powder composed of resin or mainly composed of resin to be finely ground.

Mechanical grinding apparatus

Error correction decoding apparatus decodes error correction encoded data reproduced from a recording medium by decoding the encoded data to produce decoded data in frame units and by generating decoding information in frame units; the decoded data and decoding information are stored in correspondence by frame unit and the decoded data and decoding information are retrieved from storage while frame synchronizing with address data representing a physical location of the encoded data on the recording medium.

Optical disk error-correcting code system correlating error correction

A scanconverter system with a superimposing apparatus for converting an interlaced video signal to a non-interlaced video signal and forming desired image data by superimposing a computer-generated image on another image reproduced from a laser disc or the like. The system comprises a write clock generator for generating a write clock of a predetermined frequency, a read clock generator for generating a read clock of a double frequency, a line memory unit for storing a horizontal line of an interlaced digital video signal and outputting a first non-interlaced digital video signal, a frame memory unit for storing a frame of the interlaced digital video signal and outputting a second non-interlaced digital video signal, a detector for detecting whether the interlaced digital video signal represents a still picture or not, and a selector for selecting one of the first and second non-interlaced digital video signals according to the output of the detector. Selection of the first or second non-interlaced digital video signal depends on whether the interlaced digital video signal represents a still picture or not.

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Saitama, Japan

Takahiro Ichikawa