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The present invention is directed to obtaining an image having predetermined brightness, while making the degradation of the image as little as possible. A distance (an irradiation distance d) at which a predetermined amount of reflected light can be obtained is obtained from the guide number Gn of a strobe and the f-stop value F (the focal distance f of a zoom lens). When the strobe is used, it is judged whether or not a subject is positioned within the irradiation distance d. When the irradiation distance d of the strobe is shorter than the distance to the subject, that is, the subject is beyond the irradiation distance d of the strobe, an imaging signal is amplified than usual.

An electrode capable of effectively dispersing or relieving the stress generated in association with expansion and contraction of an active material is provided. The electrode is produced by forming an active material layer on a predetermined current collector. This current collector includes a base and a plurality of projections formed so as to extend outwardly from a surface of the base. The cross section of the projections in a thickness direction of the current collector has a tapered shape in which a width in a direction parallel to the surface of the base narrows from the surface of the base along an extending direction of the projections.

PCT No. PCT/EP97/00652 Sec. 371 Date Aug. 6, 1998 Sec. 102(e) Date Aug. 6, 1998 PCT Filed Feb. 12, 1997 PCT Pub. No. WO97/30090 PCT Pub. Date Aug. 21, 1997A process for preparing a material having a high water and salt solutions absorbency, the material containing mainly cellulose that is dissolved in a solvent containing phosphoric acid, a solution is obtained that contains 94-100 wt. % of the following constituents: cellulose, phosphoric acid and/or its anhydrides, and water, the solution is then coagulated and washed in a liquid containing less than 50 wt. % of water. This process can be used to obtain cellulose products, such as fibers or pulp, which have a high water and (isotonic) salt solutions absorbency.

An electric heater for a semiconductor processing equipment according to the present invention consists of multiple zones wherein, the multiple zones include at least one zone which is subject to high loading (e.g. bottom zone), the said at least one zone comprises a non-metal heating element, and the rest of the zones (e.g. middle zone and top zone) comprise metal resistance heating elements of light gauge overbent.

A directional microphone assembly suitable for subsurface mounting. A directional pickup pattern is developed from the outputs of a plurality of omnidirectional microphone elements mounted in an assembly behind a surface such that their acoustic excitation comes from the opposite side of the surface through small openings in the surface. The openings may have varying dimensions and may be covered with acoustically semi-transparent material without significantly degrading the assembly frequency response or polar pattern. Precautions are taken to ensure design robustness considering practical microphone element characteristics and potential high levels of low-frequency excitation.

An adaptive receiver to provide reliable estimates of the symbols for the high-order MQAM and MPSK modulated signals received in the presence of amplitude fading and phase dynamics induced due to time-varying atmospheric or terrestrial multipath fading encountered in wireless communication channels. The adaptive receiver encompasses an adaptive tracking loop comprised of adaptive channel fade envelope estimator derived from the high-order modulated signal, a novel phase detector to separately estimate the phase due to the fading channel and the reference oscillator from that due to the data modulation present in the received signal without the need of any pilot symbol or pilot carrier, and a Kalman filter, a fixed-lag smoother and a smoothed symbol detector.

The present invention provides a composition for forming a liquid crystal layer which enables to achieve takt time reduction and high display quality. The liquid crystal display device according to the present invention includes a liquid crystal material, and a monomer, the monomer being a compound having a structure that generates ketyl radicals when undergoing a hydrogen abstraction reaction caused by exposure to light.

A wideband harmonic trap includes a first resonant tank in the form of a parallel LC circuit, and a second resonant tank in the form of a series LC circuit. The LC circuits are connected to it common input, an output of the parallel LC circuit is connected to a load and to ground via a shunt capacitor, and an output of the series LC circuit is connected to the ground.

The invention provides a fan casing for a gas turbine engine, the casing having a substantially cylindrical portion that terminates at one end in an annular flange made of composite material. The flange includes at least one setback in a fraction of its thickness and at least one bolt for fastening pieces of equipment passing right through the flange in the axial direction, the bolt for fastening pieces of equipment having a head that presents a flat that is to bear flat against a rim of the setback, and a shank forming a stud for fastening pieces of equipment on the casing.

An engine ECU diagnoses the presence or absence of abnormality during execution of the fuel cut. The engine ECU is configured to restrict the fuel cut according to the temperature of a catalyst when the temperature is higher than a fuel-cut-restriction temperature of the catalyst. The engine ECU is configured to set the fuel-cut-restriction temperature is lower when the diagnosis has been completed than when the diagnosis has not been completed. Furthermore, the engine ECU continues the fuel cut if the diagnosis is completed during execution of the fuel cut while the temperature of the catalyst is between the fuel-cut-restriction temperature set prior to the completion of the diagnosis and the fuel-cut-restriction temperature set after the completion of the diagnosis.

A system within a circuit is disclosed. The system comprises a first shield and a device above the first shield. The system also includes a plurality of conductive walls coupled to and extending from the first shield to block electromagnetic (EM) waves to other parts of the circuit. A system and method in accordance with the present invention adds metal walls on the edge of a sliced shield. The walls block the electromagnetic wave from coupling to other parts of the circuit from a sideways direction. The use of this structure allows for more compact layout placement with insignificant degradation.

In an ultrasonic imaging device having an image synthesizing unit, correlation between images to be synthesized is computed for balancing between an improvement in contrast resolution and an improvement in spatial resolution, and an amount of displacement between the images is computed. When the amount of displacement is large, the signals after envelop detection are synthesized. When the amount of displacement is small, RF signals are synthesized. Alternatively, the mixing frequency may be variable according to the amount of displacement, and the balance between an improvement in spatial resolution and that in contract resolution is achieved according to a degree of the positional displacement.

A cooked rice food product reduced in the degradation in taste, texture, and aspects of quality due to distribution in the refrigerated or frozen state and thawing at a low temperature or at room temperature as a method rendering it into a consumable state, by the addition of water-soluble soybean polysaccharides, a sugar alcohol, and amylase.

A method of achieving reduced modulation range requirement in a Digitally Controlled Oscillator (DCO) which is deployed as part of a DRP (Digital Radio Processor) and tuned to a tuning frequency range having operating-channel center-frequencies, wherein phase difference between consecutive samples is termed as FCW (Frequency Control Word), uses the steps of digitally modifying and limiting the FCW so that the FCW does not exceed known FCW thresholds, e.g., chosen from π/2, π/4, π/8, and redistributing the FCWs while maintaining a cumulative sum of phases and without significant EVM (Error Vector Magnitude) degradation. The FCW threshold can be chosen arbitrarily and need not be in the form of π/2ⁿ. The method uses a FCW limiting algorithm which reduces supply voltage sensitivity of the DCO and enables significant reduction in area of capacitor bank which would be otherwise needed.