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Some embodiments of the invention are directed to, among other things, systems, computer readable media, methods and any other means for using a handheld device to present information to a user. The handheld device and server(s) can be configured to differentiate among inexpensive and expensive information. For example, the handheld device can be configured to present media listings that represent media stored on the server(s). Each media listing can include text (inexpensive information) and thumbnails (expensive information). While the user scrolls through the media listings, the new listings can only include text. Once the scrolling stops, the missing thumbnails can be downloaded and integrated into their corresponding listings. In response to a listing being selected, the corresponding media file can be downloaded and / or played back to the user by the handheld device.

PCT No. PCT / GB97 / 00865 Sec. 371 Date Mar. 31, 1998 Sec. 102(e) Date Mar. 31, 1998 PCT Filed Mar. 26, 1997 PCT Pub. No. WO97 / 37502 PCT Pub. Date Oct. 9, 1997A mobile telephone network stores a list of short dialling codes in association with each user's identity so as to define the short codes which each individual user is permitted to use for providing access to a data conversion device which gives access to a private network. When a short code is dialled on a mobile station, calling data comprising the short code together with caller identification data derived from the mobile station are transmitted over the radio link to the mobile switching center. Prior to routing the call, the identity of the dialling station is authenticated. The short code in the calling data is then compared with the permitted list of short codes to determine whether the user is permitted to make the call. If the caller is permitted to make the call, the call is routed to a destination corresponding to the data conversion device. Thus, only permitted users may access the data conversion device. Furthermore, it is possible for a network operator to configure thee data conversion device such that an operator can offer a subscriber a fixed relationship between a code and a data conversion device. The device can then be configured with subscriber-specific information so as to make onward communications easier and more professional, for example, through personalized welcome pages, simplified access to user-specific data, etc.

An ink jet printer including a carriage which is movable relative to a sheet of paper, a recording head which is mounted on the carriage and records an image on the sheet by ejecting a droplet of ink toward the sheet, one or more ink tanks which store the ink or inks to be supplied to the recording head, a buffer tank which is mounted on the carriage, and one or more ink flow passages in which the inks are supplied from the ink tanks to the recording head via the buffer tank. The buffer tank has, at a height position higher than a height position where the recording head is provided, one or more air buffer chambers which accommodate respective amounts of the inks, and collect air bubbles produced in the ink flow passages. The printer further includes one or more air bubble discharging passages which communicate, at one ends thereof, with upper portions of the air buffer chambers, and discharge, via the other ends thereof, the air bubbles collected by the air buffer chambers.

When the telephone number of digital portable telephone A is notified to reception notifying apparatus 3 (S101), the telephone number is stored (S102), and is forwarded to digital portable telephone B (S103). Next, when digital portable telephone B transmits a CALL SETUP signal and a sending number to digital portable telephone A (S104, S105), digital portable telephone A transmits a CALL PROC signal and an ALERT signal to digital portable telephone B (S106-S109). After that, information indicating that the busy line display is ON is forwarded to reception notifying apparatus 3 (S110), and the telephone number is deleted (S111). Furthermore, reception notifying apparatus 3 transmits a voice guidance to digital portable telephone A (S114).

An ink jet printer including a carriage which is movable relative to a sheet of paper, a recording head which is mounted on the carriage and records an image on the sheet by ejecting a droplet of ink toward the sheet, one or more ink tanks which store the ink or inks to be supplied to the recording head, a buffer tank which is mounted on the carriage, and one or more ink flow passages in which the inks are supplied from the ink tanks to the recording head via the buffer tank. The buffer tank has, at a height position higher than a height position where the recording head is provided, one or more air buffer chambers which accommodate respective amounts of the inks, and collect air bubbles produced in the ink flow passages. The printer further includes one or more air bubble discharging passages which communicate, at one ends thereof, with upper portions of the air buffer chambers, and discharge, via the other ends thereof, the air bubbles collected by the air buffer chambers.

A photography mode selecting section allows a photographer to select continuous photographing. An imaging section captures an image of a subject. An area setting section detects a photographic subject based on a photographic image captured by the imaging section for every photographing in the continuous photographing, and sets the size and position of a photographic subject area including the detected photographic subject, when the continuous photographing is selected by the photography mode selecting section. A memory section stores an image inside the photographic subject area as a photographic subject image. Consequently, in continuous photographing of a moving body, the size of the photographic subject area for every photographing in the continuous photographing can be changed according to change in the size of the image of the moving body with respect to an image screen of the imaging section, thereby preventing wasteful usage of a memory area of the memory section.

A printing head configured to apply white light-blocking ink, specialty gloss ink, and color ink is controlled, and the inks are applied so that the color ink, the specialty gloss ink, and the white light-blocking ink are formed in this order onto a printing medium having light-transmissive properties. When the printing medium is viewed from the surface on which ink has not been formed, a white ink layer is formed behind the color ink layer and the metallic ink layer, and light-blocking properties can be ensured. Because the amount of the metallic ink can be reduced, adequate expression of the color ink can be ensured.

Provided is a device state detecting device hardly requiring a liver to learn a combination of the operating states of all the devices at home and producing few estimation errors even if an unknown device operates. The device state detecting device includes a measuring means (110) for measuring physical quantities of the environment where devices are placed, a feature value calculating means (120) for calculating the feature values of the values measured by the measuring means (110), a storage means (140) for previously storing the feature values of the respective devices and the device states corresponding to the feature values as a reference device entry dictionary (200), and a device state detecting means (130) for searching the reference device entry dictionary (200) for a stored feature value by using the feature value calculated by the feature value calculating means (120) as a search key, and for detecting the device state according to the device state corresponding to the feature value searched for.

A test meter system for testing a characteristic of a fluid, the test meter system including a test meter having a housing with an opening adapted to accept a test strip, an interrogation coil within the housing, a pick-up coil within the housing, and a test strip including at least one magneto-electronic-resonance sensor. When the test strip is within the opening, the interrogation coil may utilize magneto-electronic-resonance technology to interrogate the magneto-electronic-resonance sensor and the pick-up coil may be used to sense a resultant oscillation frequency of the magneto-electronic-resonance sensor, the resultant oscillation frequency associated with the characteristic. The test strip may include a plurality of sensors. The sensors may be coated with a coating sensitive to a characteristic of the fluid, where the interrogation reveals information about the fluid characteristic.

A wireless communication apparatus stores a plurality of cellular phones in an extension, connects a plurality of cellular phones to a base station, and sets up the communication speed of a communication channel to a base station according to the communication speeds of a plurality of the cellular phones. The wireless communication apparatus maintains the communication speed of a communication channel when a total sum of the speed of the communication which one of the plurality of cellular phones starts and the speed of the communication previously performed is equal to or less than the communication speed of the communication channel. An IMT2000 network stores the wireless communication apparatus and the base station corresponding to a plurality of cellular phones in a location registration database and processes incoming calls to a plurality of cellular phones according to the location registration database. Further, the IMT2000 network performs a location registration to a public network corresponding to a plurality of cellular phones (PHS, PDC).

The present invention relates to an image display control unit comprising a screen size information obtaining section, an image information obtaining section for obtaining information on vertical and horizontal sizes of an image, an arithmetic section for calculating an image magnification ratio so that at least one of the vertical and horizontal sizes of the image substantially conforms with at least one of vertical and horizontal display-possible sizes of a display screen, and a display control section for displaying the image at the magnification ratio calculated in the arithmetic section on the display screen. With this arrangement, in displaying an image on a display screen, the image can be displayed automatically at the optimal magnification ratio on the display screen. Accordingly, the wasteful use of the display screen is avoidable, and the image appears on the display screen in an easy-to-see condition.

It is an object of the present invention to provide a mobile communication system capable of shortening a delay time preceding the reception of a multicast packet at a radio base station which has been reached by a movement of a mobile terminal. The mobile communication system includes a multicast router, a data layer link switch, a radio base station, and a mobile terminal. In cases where the mobile terminal detects switching of the radio base station but does not detect switching of the multicast router, a path establishing request, a withdrawal request, and another path establishing request are sequentially output. When the switching of the radio base station and the switching of the multicast router is detected, a path establishing request is transmitted to the new multicast router, and a withdrawal request is transmitted to the previous multicast router thereafter.

A droplet discharge method for discharging a liquid material from a discharge device and arranging the liquid material in a specified quantity on a substrate, the discharge device includes a nozzle for discharging the liquid material in droplets, and the droplet discharge method include the steps of cleaning the nozzle using the liquid material, and arranging at least a part of the liquid material used for cleaning on the substrate.

Provided are a method for a device-to-device (D2D) operation performed by a terminal in a wireless communication system, and a terminal using the method. The method comprises: generating D2D support band information for each band combination, which indicates a frequency band that simultaneously supports cellular communication with a network and D2D operation with another terminal, which are carried out by the terminal, in a frequency band or a frequency band combination for cellular communication; and transmitting the D2D support band information for each of the band combinations to the network.

The invention provides a jetting and agitating construction method and a jetting and agitating device for a pile formed by reusing, as a construction material, a sludge mixed with a medium for improving a ground such as a hardener after excluding solid matters with large grain sizes without treating the sludge as an industrial waste or a general surplus soil. In this jetting and agitating construction method, a compressed air and a water are jetted from a third jetting part while rotating and pulling up a multi-tube rod with a plurality of jetting parts from the ground to cut the improved area of the ground in a cylindrical shape by jetting, the cut sludge is discharged to the surface of the ground through an excavated hole, the medium for improving the ground is jetted from the nozzle of the first jetting part, and a reaction material solidifying the medium for improving the ground is jetted from the nozzle of the second jetting part to construct the pile with a specified diameter. The solid matters with the specified grain size or larger are separably removed from the sludge discharged to the surface of the ground, mixed with the medium for improving the ground to form a mixed medium, force-fed by a force-feed pump, and jetted from the first jetting part.

A water treatment system includes a circulation pump and an electrolytic chamber in fluid communication with a main body of water. Electrolytic plates within the electrolytic chamber generate chlorine. When mineral deposits foul the electrolytic plates, water is isolated within the electrolytic chamber and a minimal amount of a pH-reducing agent is added to the electrolytic chamber to remove the mineral deposits. In a first embodiment, the pH-reducing agent is admitted on a periodic timed basis. In a second embodiment, the pH-reducing agent is added when the pH of the main body of water falls below a predetermined threshold. In both embodiments, cleaning is accomplished by adding the pH-reducing agent when the circulation pump is not operating so that the acid dwells within the electrolytic chamber for a sufficient amount of time. Activation of the circulation pump causes the pH-reducing agent to enter the main body of water.

Provided are a method for a device-to-device (D2D) operation performed by a terminal in a wireless communication system, and a terminal using the method. The method comprises: the terminal generating D2D band information which indicates a frequency band supporting the D2D operation; and transmitting the D2D band information to a network.

There is provided a rolling bearing including an inner ring having an inner ring raceway surface, an outer ring having an outer ring raceway surface and a shoulder portion formed on one axial side of the outer ring raceway surface, a plurality of rolling elements which roll between the inner ring raceway surface and the outer ring raceway surface, and a cage adapted to hold the plurality of rolling elements at predetermined intervals in a circumferential direction and having a guided surface which confronts the shoulder portion of the outer ring in such a manner as to be brought into sliding contact therewith. The rotation of the cage is guided through sliding contact of the guided surface of the cage with a guiding surface of the shoulder portion of the outer ring. A guiding space which is a radial space between the guiding surface of the shoulder portion of the outer ring and the guided surface of the cage is made to increase as approaching the rolling elements.

A semiconductor device includes: a semiconductor substrate including an active element formation face on which an active element is formed, and a rear face that is on a side opposite to the active element formation face; detection electrodes formed on or above the active element formation face, detecting a remaining amount of ink by being wet in the ink; a penetration electrode penetrating a thickness direction of the semiconductor substrate; and a contact electrodes formed on or above the rear face, electrically connected to the detection electrodes via the penetration electrode, and transmitting and receiving information.

A metal recycling separator comprising a shredder having a sloped shaking table disposed entirely within the shredder. The shredder shreds materials into ferrous and non-ferrous materials and the sloped shaking table disperses the ferrous and non-ferrous materials onto a first conveyor belt. Non-ferrous materials are separated from ferrous materials by conveying such through two drum electromagnets, wherein the ferrous material and the remaining non-ferrous materials are transferred to a water receptacle. The water receptacle is filled with water, wherein a part of the remaining non-ferrous materials float out of the water receptacle, and the remaining ferrous materials sink to the bottom of the water receptacle. The ferrous materials and residual non-ferrous materials are then conveyed out of the water receptacle and onto two conveyor belts and a third drum electromagnet. Ferrous material is removed from the two conveyor belts and is also removed via the third drum electromagnet.

An internal voltage generator of a semiconductor integrated circuit includes a first driver that outputs an internal voltage by using an internal reference voltage during an active operation in accordance with a detection signal generated by using an external voltage and an active enable signal activated during an activation mode, and a second driver that outputs an internal voltage by using the internal reference voltage during the active operation in accordance with the active enable signal.

A radio communication terminal has a communication section which communicates with a base station, and a control section which controls a handoff between a plurality of base stations. The communication section receives a control information indicating whether or not a neighboring base station broadcasts a service information from the neighboring base station when the radio communication terminal performs a handoff from a first base station to the neighboring base station while the radio communication terminal receives the service information broadcasted from the first base station. The control section controls to perform a handoff from the neighboring base station to the first base station when the control section decides that the neighboring base station does not broadcast the service information based on the control information, after the radio communication terminal performs the handoff from the first base station to the neighboring base station.

Some embodiments of the invention are directed to, among other things, systems, computer readable media, methods and any other means for using a handheld device to present information to a user. The handheld device and server(s) can be configured to differentiate among inexpensive and expensive information. For example, the handheld device can be configured to present media listings that represent media stored on the server(s). Each media listing can include text (inexpensive information) and thumbnails (expensive information). While the user scrolls through the media listings, the new listings can only include text. Once the scrolling stops, the missing thumbnails can be downloaded and integrated into their corresponding listings. In response to a listing being selected, the corresponding media file can be downloaded and / or played back to the user by the handheld device.

To enable change of a concentration of atmosphere in a process chamber and realize a plasma reaction process required for manufacturing a liquid crystal device and a semiconductor device with a high yield at a low cost.A new flow rate setting value given to a pressure control type flow rate adjusting device of each constituent gas is a value obtained by calculating back from the process gas concentration after an estimated change under the condition that the total flow rate value is identical before and after the concentration change.A pressure controller of an exhaust pipe is switched from a pressure setting mode to a valve open setting mode only for a predetermined small time from the modification start and receives a valve open setting value obtained experimentally so as to mitigate the pressure fluctuation immediately after the change.

A data transmission apparatus and a data transmission method for receiving an input of control frame and a data frame, transmitting or discarding the data frame according to the control frame input, outputting the control frame, and outputting the data frame which has been transmitted. This enables discarding of an error frame in the middle of transmission, thereby preventing waste of a band on the network or the waste of the destination host processing ability by the error frame.

A test meter system for testing a characteristic of a fluid, the test meter system including a test meter having a housing with an opening adapted to accept a test strip, an interrogation coil within the housing, a pick-up coil within the housing, and a test strip including at least one magneto-elastic-resonance sensor. When the test strip is within the opening, the interrogation coil may utilize magneto-elastic-resonance technology to interrogate the magneto elastic-resonance sensor and the pick-up coil may be used to sense a resultant oscillation frequency of the magneto elastic-resonance sensor, the resultant oscillation frequency associated with the characteristic. The test strip may include a plurality of sensors. The sensors may be coated with a coating sensitive to a characteristic of the fluid, where the interrogation reveals information about the fluid characteristic.

An internal voltage generator of a semiconductor integrated circuit includes a first driver that outputs an internal voltage by using an internal reference voltage during an active operation in accordance with a detection signal generated by using an external voltage and an active enable signal activated during an activation mode, and a second driver that outputs an internal voltage by using the internal reference voltage during the active operation in accordance with the active enable signal.

Densities of detecting patches also called control scales printed on prints in a first print job are used to control the feed rate of dampening water in a second print job following the first print job. Specifically, densities of detecting patches on the prints obtained from the first print job are measured, and a feed rate of dampening water is calculated from the densities of the detecting patches. A base feed rate of dampening water is calculated based on the feed rate calculated and a humidity and temperature occurring when the first print job is performed. A proper feed rate of dampening water is calculated based on the base feed rate and a humidity and temperature occurring when the second print job is performed.