Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba

Yuji Ide

Tetsuhiko Mizoguchi

Toshiro Sato

Toshihiro Morohoshi

Tomoharu Tanaka

Michio Hasegawa

Yuji Iseki

Masafumi Umeda

Kazuhiro Takashima

Yoshitomo Tagami

Kunio Matsukura

Isamu Yanase

Mitsuo Sasuga

Yoshihiko Yamaguchi

Yasunori Iwamoto

Nozomu Harada

Yukio Endo

Takahiro Kokubo

Akihiko Sugikawa

Tomokazu Domon

Takahiro Murata

Tatsuyuki Mikami

Tomiyoshi Fukumoto

Takashi Ishikura

Riyousuke Kumagai

To transfer an image signal from a electronic camera head to a personal computer, a PC card provides the interface between the camera head and the personal computer. The PC card is removably attached to the personal computer. As instructed by the personal computer, the PC card operates the camera head, sets its states, writes image data into a memory, reads the image data from the memory for transmission to the personal computer, generates control signals for a light refracting member, and informs the personal computer of the state of the camera head.

Image input apparatus for capturing images of multiple resolutions

Disclosed is a dc-to-dc converter comprising a switching transistor, a pulse-width modulation controller, a sandwich-type planar inductor, which accumulates an electromagnetic energy at ON state and releases the accumulated electromagnetic energy at OFF state of the switching transistor, a smoothing capacitor, a rectifying element, and a planar search coil for detecting an overcurrent flowing the planar coil, disposed on one of the outer surfaces of the soft magnetic layers constituting the planar inductor.

Magnetic element for power supply and DC-to-DC converter

A spatial motion pattern input system for causing a control target device to perform control according to a spatial motion pattern of a spatial control input device, comprises a move sensing section for sensing at least the amount of movements of the spatial control input device on two axes among the amount of movements of the device on three specific nonparallel axes in space, a conversion section for converting the amount of spatial movements composed of at least two amounts sensed at the move sensing section into a motion vector sequence, an identification section for performing identification by comparing a motion vector sequence corresponding to a basic motion pattern previously entered with the motion vector sequence, and an execution section for controlling the control target device on the basis of the recognition result from the identification section.

Spatial motion pattern input system and input method

Magnetic element for power supply and dc-to-dc converter

A power supply unit including DC-DC converter using a thin and planar inductor arranged in an IC memory card incorporating an EEPROM memory chip, wherein a voltage is adjusted by a dropping regulator, thereby reducing power consumption. The thin and planar inductor includes, stacked on a semiconductor substrate, a planar coil and magnetic thin films formed to sandwich the planar coil, so that an entire area of an IC card can be decreased. The IC card can be driven by a single power supply, thus providing a compact portable information device which can be driven by a battery for a long time.

Power supply unit for an IC memory card

A DC--DC converter using a planar inductor is arranged in an IC memory card incorporating an EEPROM memory chip, and power supply is performed such that a voltage is adjusted by a dropping regulator, thereby reducing power consumption. The power consumption of the IC memory card incorporating the EEPROM can be reduced. The IC card can be driven by a single power supply, thereby providing a compact portable information device which can be driven by a battery for a long time.

Semiconductor memory, memory card, and method of driving power supply

An electronic still camera comprises a solid state image sensor for outputting a color picture signal corresponding an incident optical image, a signal processor for signal-processing the color picture signal from the solid state image sensor to produce a color still picture signal, a recorder for recording the color still picture signal produced by the signal processor, and a driver for moving at least one of the optical image and the solid state image sensor from an original position in a horizontal direction by a pixel pitch and in an oblique axial direction defined by horizontal and vertical lines extending respectively from the original position in the horizontal and vertical directions by half the pixel pitch.

Electronic still camera with improved picture resolution by image

A solid state image sensing device comprises an image sensor for outputting optical images as signal charges, a charge transfer section for transferring signal charges, a first reading section for non-destructively reading transferred signal charges as a plurality of first output signal components, a detecting section for detecting the difference between the first output signal components, a second reading section for adding the signal charges corresponding to the first output signal components which correspond to the difference signal and reading the added signal charges as a second output signal component, an adding section for inserting at least one signal component corresponding to the second output signal component to one or more first output signal components which are canceled due to charge-transfer for addition of signal charges and generating an output signal including a third output signal component, and a level lowering section for lowering the signal levels of the second and third output signal components according to the number of addition stages.

Solid state image sensing device output

A color television pickup system has a single chip imaging device operating in a field integration mode. In this system, a mosaic color filter array disposed on the imaging device is comprised of unit filter arrays arranged in columns and rows. Each unit filter array consists of eight color filter elements arranged in two columns and four rows. The upper and lower four filter-element arrays in the respective unit filter array are each comprised of color filter elements of green (G), green (G), red (R) and cyan (Cy).

Color filter arrays for use in a single chip color television pickup

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Yokohama, Japan

Yuji Ide