Hitachi, Ltd.

Hitachi Maxell, Limited

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Victor Company of Japan, Limited

Hitachi Ulsi Systems Co., Ltd.

Hitachi Video Engineering, Incorporated

Hitachi Information Network, Ltd.

Nii Data Communications Systems Corporation

Takashi Takeuchi

Toshiyuki Oda

Tamotsu Ito

Seiji Yonezawa

Ryuichi Koike

Hiroshi Banno

Toshiaki Tsuyoshi

Hiroaki Takahashi

Wasao Takasugi

Masatoshi Ohtake

Tadashi Saitoh

Takao Arai

Hitoshi Akiyama

Masaharu Kobayashi

Masaru Noda

Yukio Fukui

Shigeki Inoue

Takeshi Yamaguchi

Masakazu Hamaguchi

Shinji Tanaka

Mitsunori Tsuchiya

Takeshi Maeda

Hiroyuki Kimura

Masayuki Inoue

Toshimitsu Kaku

Hirotada Ueda

Tadashi Kuwabara

Keizo Nishimura

Masafumi Nakamura

Tomomi Okamoto

Takashi Hoshino

Ikuo Nishida

Kyuichiro Nagai

Tomochika Ozaki

Yoshimi Iso

Harukuni Kobari

Harushige Nakagaki

Yoichi Kaneko

Katsumi Takeda

Katsuyuki Tanaka

Masashi Mori

Masatoshi Tanaka

Junichi Iida

Kazuo Ichino

Tatsumi Nishijima

Kouhei Takita

Toshihiro Matsunaga

Tomochika Yamashita

Shin-ichi Ohashi

Isao Saito

Mika Tahara

Tatsuo Baba

Masami Nishida

Yosuke Katayama

Katsuhiko Izumi

Hiroshi Endoh

Toshiyasu Sawano

Toshiharu Ieki

Hajime Fujiya

Kazumasa Oiso

Toshiya Shinbayashi

Shiyouichirou Funato

Yukari Matsubara

Mika Nishiyama

Jun Miyauchi

Hisato Owatari

Eiji Okubo

A battery module adapted to be replaceably mounted on a mobile phone and capable of forming a part of an outer peripheral surface of the mobile phone. Deformation of the battery relative to a direction of contact of the battery module with the compact electric appliance is accommodated in a gap, defined in an inner surface of a container. In a direction away from the mobile phone, deformation of the container resulting from the deformation of the battery is allowed.

Battery module for compact electric appliance for coping with deformation of the battery

An apparatus for detecting an integrated value of current flow. The apparatus includes an integrator having an integration capacitor, to which a current sensor voltage is inputted, for outputting an output voltage corresponding to an integrated value of the current sensor voltage, and a resetting circuit for clearing integration electric charges accumulated in the integration capacitor to reset the integrator when the output voltage has reached an upper threshold value or a lower threshold value. The apparatus also includes a counter for counting the number of resets of the integrator in an upper direction or in a lower direction, and a connection-polarity inverting circuit for inverting a polarity of inputting of the current sensor voltage to the integrator, a polarity of connecting of the integration capacitor to the integrator and a counting direction of the counter, alternatively, at a regular time interval and synchronously. An integrated value of current flow is obtained on the basis of a count value of the counter.

Means for detecting the integrated value of current flow, a means for detecting the value of current flow and a battery pack employing those means

The present invention provides apparatus for detecting the integrated value of current flow, apparatus for detecting the value of current flow and a battery pack employing those apparatus each of which becomes insensitive to the offset in an operational amplifier. Each apparatus and the battery pack includes: a current sensor resistor inserted in series with a current path; an integrator; an input status selector; an integration capacitor connected to the integrator; and a connection-polarity inverter of the integration capacitor provided between the integrator and the integration capacitor. The input status selector switches alternately so as to provide two statuses of a status a and a status b at intervals of a predetermined time which are equal to one another, and in the status a, introduces therethrough the voltage which corresponds to the battery current value and which is developed across terminals of the current sensor resistor into an input of the integrator, while in the status b, inverts the polarity of the current sensor voltage developed across the terminals of the current sensor resistor to introduce therethrough the resultant voltage into the input of the integrator, or to introduce therethrough the voltage of zero to the input of the integrator.

Means for detecting the integrated value of current flow, a means for

Information obtained through a network and information distributed from a package medium are mixedly displayed. A package medium 3 has a URL (Universal Resource Locator) and information for converting a directory structure in the package medium. A terminal has information for managing correspondence between data of a received electronic mail 6 and a URL of the data. The URL is used for designating data. When the designated URL exists in the terminal, data is read from the terminal. When the designated URL exists in the package medium, data is read from the package medium. The read data is mixedly displayed on one screen.

Package medium system having URL hyper-linked to data in removable

The speed of a disc handling operation by a disc apparatus having disc changer capability is significantly increased and, at the same time, the disc handling operation is performed with stability. In the disc apparatus according to this invention, a plurality of reproducing units loaded with discs are moved independently and disc reproduction is started by returning the reproducing units to their dedicated positions. Simultaneous returning of the plurality of reproducing units is prevented and each reproducing unit moves for refuge while reproducing the disc. This novel setup significantly shortens the time for moving the reproducing units for disc reproduction. When continuously reproducing a plurality of discs accommodated in proximity, the plurality of reproducing units are moved in a stacked state rather than independently. This also contributes to a significant reduction of the time in the disc handling operation. Further, when raising the lower reproducing unit in the stack, it is moved together with the upper reproducing unit; when raising the upper reproducing unit, it is separated from the lower reproducing unit for independent movement. This prevents the reproducing units from colliding against each other. The novel constitution significantly enhances ease of use of the disc apparatus.

Disc auto changer for recording or reproducing information on a desired

An interactive recording/reproducing medium including: image data; image reproduction control data which defines an operation instruction received from operation input apparatus and a reproduction procedure for the image data in correlation with each other, the operation input apparatus performing a reproducing operation for the image data in an interactive manner; image related data related to the contents of the image data; and relation defining information which defines the relation between the image related data and the image data. More particularly, an interactive recording/reproducing system which is interactively responsive to operations made by a user, which defines information such as text data (e.g., ASCII text) in association with an image and reproduces the text data simultaneously with reproduction of the image. An optical disk medium comprises a Video-CD recording area for recording image data (e.g. dynamic images, static images, voice) which conform to a basic Video-CD standard, a PC data recording area for recording text data associated with the image data, and a reproduction application recording area for recording a program to effect reproduction using a PC (personal computer). A Video-CD reproducing system and a PC can be alternatively used to perform reproduction using a content of the optical disk medium.

Interactive recording/reproducing medium and reproducing system

A CD-ROM is provided with an area for forming a character/graphic pattern. The character/graphic pattern is formed in such a way that data, which generate on the CD-ROM two sorts of pit patterns having average reflectances different from each other to a perceptible extent, are respectively recorded inside and outside the character/graphic pattern. Unless an illegal copy disc is produced by duplicating the legal original disc of the CD-ROM at a very high precision, the character/graphic pattern of the copy disc is invisibly deformed by the discrepancy between the arrangements of the pit patterns of the copy disc and the original disc.

Playback system for an optical disc representing a character or a

An interleaved data recording area for recording interleaved file data and a control program record area for recording a program to control the reproduction of the data are provided in an information recording medium, and the interleaved data record area is arranged succeeding the control program record area. Information of a transfer/output destination of the reproduced file data is included in the control program so that a plurality of interleaved and stored file data are continuously reproduced without retrieving control data.

Information reproducing system for reproducing interleaved image data

A character and/or graphics pattern area for recording specific data is provided on a CD-ROM. When an original disk is prepared, a specific pit pattern corresponding to the specific data is recorded at a first predetermined tracking linear velocity controlled by a specific tracking linear velocity control system for each track so that a character and/or graphics pattern cannot be identified. When a copy disk is produced from the original disk, if data is recorded at a second tracking linear velocity controlled by a specific tracking linear velocity control system, the character and/or graphics pattern of visible size appears on the copy disk because of an optical reflection factor difference between areas caused by placement of the specific pit pattern corresponding to the specific data.

Information recording media and optical disk, disk having specific data

Playback system for an optical disc presenting a character or a graphic

A television signal receiving apparatus which can read program information relevant to a television program from an optical disk medium, interlocked with the television program and can reproduce and display the read program information. Program information (broadcasting information including program names, broadcasting channel names and broadcasting dates and times and appendant information relevant to the contents of the programs) relevant to the television programs to be displayed by the television receiver/display is recorded in the optical disk medium. When a user instructs a display of the program information by the selection and decision input unit, the television control unit transmits the display request and time information from the clock apparatus to the control unit of the optical disk unit. The control unit makes the appendant information to be reproduced from the optical disk medium, by using the broadcasting channel name and the time information as retrieval information. The appendant information is sent to the television receiver/display through the interface and is displayed in a picture and sound.

Television signal receiving apparatus incorporating an information

An interactive program selecting system uses a plurality of channels (broadcasting signals) including a channel dedicated to a menu and has a tuner for receiving a broadcasting signal, a menu screen information extractor for extracting menu screen information, a display data memory for storing display data of menu screen information, a control data memory for storing control data such as a menu screen information number and moving information, a decoder for converting digital data into display data, a display unit, an RC (remote controller) for designating a menu selecting operation by a user, an RC receiver for receiving an RC signal, and a menu selection executing controller responsive to a operation command by the user to control the tuner and the menu screen information extractor.

Interactive program selecting system

Digitally-compressed audio and image data of a plurality of programs (logical channels) are distributed and superimposed for every horizontal synchronizing signal period together with identification information of each of the programs in place of a luminance signal of an analog video signal of each of physical channels. Each of the physical channels is superimposed in its frequency and distributed from a signal transmission facility of a broadcasting station. At the receiving side, a desired physical analog channel is tuned and the compressed digital audio and image data superimposed on the tuned video signal are selected and taken as desired logical channel data in reference to program identification information, and the compressed digital audio and image data are decoded to obtain their original audio and moving images. With such an arrangement as above, in an existing CATV system, a mere insertion of an encoder unit into a transmission side and a decoder unit into a receiving side, without improving a characteristic of an analog video signal distribution system such as a cable or the like, respectively, enables a greater number of programs to be supplied correspondingly by the amount of digital compression.

Method of and system for distributing digital audio image data

Information recording media and optical disc presenting a character or a

A portable CD-ROM retrieval apparatus, is provided wherein a CD-ROM drive for loading a CD medium, a display for displaying characters and images, an input specifying section for specifying a desired input operation, an audio section for producing sounds, and a data storage for storing data from the CD-ROM drive and the like are connected together through a control section, these devices being housed in a single cabinet. In accordance with one feature, the apparatus can calculate and display statistical information which depends on frequency of data access to the CD medium.

CD-ROM retrieval apparatus

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Fujisawa, Japan

Takashi Takeuchi