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The media inherent key storing unit 220 prestores an inherent key Ki, the conversion unit 230 generates an encrypted inherent key Ji from the inherent key read from the media inherent key storing unit 220, the random number generating unit 331 generates a random number R1, the encryption unit 252 generates an encrypted random number S1, the decryption unit 333 generates a random number R′1 from the encrypted random number R1, and the mutual authentication control unit 334 compares the random number R′1 with the random number R1 and, if the random number R′1 matches the random number R1, judges that the memory card 200 is an authorized device. If the memory card 200 and the memory card writer have successfully authenticated each other, the memory card writer encrypts a content using a decrypted inherent key. If the memory card 200 and the memory card reader have successfully authenticated each other, the memory card reader decrypts an encrypted content using the decrypted inherent key.

An A / D converter includes a resistor ladder for generating a plurality of reference potentials, a comparing section for comparing each of the reference potentials against an input analog signal to output a thermometric code, and a dynamic encoder composed of a combinational circuit to encode the thermometric code to a binary code by responding a clock signal. The A / D conversion is finished in a single clock cycle at a high speed, with a reduced number of elements and reduced power dissipation.

In a parallel pulse signal processing apparatus including a plurality of pulse output arithmetic elements (2), a plurality of connection elements (3) which parallelly connect predetermined arithmetic elements, and a gate circuit (5) which selectively passes pulse signals from the plurality of connection elements, the arithmetic element inputs a plurality of time series pulse signals, executes predetermined modulation processing on the basis of the plurality of time series pulse signals which are input, and outputs a pulse signal on the basis of a result of modulation processing, wherein the gate circuit selectively passes, of the signals from the plurality of connection elements, a finite number of pulse signals corresponding to predetermined upper output levels.

In a pixel circuit 10, TFTs 12 and 13 are turned on while a TFT 14 is turned off, and a voltage (VDD+Vx) which depends on a threshold voltage Vth of a driving TFT 11 is read onto a data line Sj. Moreover, switches 21 and 22 in a source driver circuit are turned on, and a voltage Vx is held at a capacitor 26. Next, the TFT 13 is turned off, states of switches 21 to 24 are switched, and a voltage (Vdata+Vx) is applied to the data line Sj. Further, the TFT 12 is turned off while the TFT 14 is turned on. An amount of an electric current flowing through an organic EL element 15 after the turn-on of the TFT 14 is determined from the voltage (Vdata+Vx) of a gate terminal of the driving TFT 11. Thus, it is possible to efficiently utilize an amplitude of a data voltage and compensate variations in threshold voltage of the driving TFT 11 with high accuracy, without increasing a scale of the pixel circuit 10.

An energy corrector (105) for correcting a target energy for high-frequency components and a corrective coefficient calculator (106) for calculating an energy corrective coefficient from low-frequency subband signals are newly provided. These processors perform a process for correcting a target energy that is required when a band expanding process is performed on a real number only. Thus, a real subband combining filter and a real band expander which require a smaller amount of calculations can be used instead of a complex subband combining filter and a complex band expander, while maintaining a high sound-quality level, and the required amount of calculations and the apparatus scale can be reduced.

A method for real time video transmission over networks with varying bandwidth is described. Image quality is maintained even under degrading network performance conditions through the use of image scaling in conjunction with block based motion compensated video coding (MPEG2 / 4, H.264, et. Al.). The ability to quickly switch resolutions without decreasing reference frame correlation is shown enabling a fast switch to reduce the required bandwidth for stable image quality.

In a display driving circuit according to the present invention, not all the pixel values (example : 0˜255) but only the values (example : 179˜255) of the significant partial range (N˜100%) have data of histogram of pixels of an image as a partial histogram, and when the pixel (Ds) at the significant t% rank order of the entire histogram is within the range of the partial histogram, the display driving circuit performs its operation in the same manner as in the case where it has the entire histogram, and when the pixel (Ds) is out of the range, the display driving circuit uses the range minimum value (N) in the place of the pixel of the significant t% rank order and performs its operation.

A device and method that serve to generate an accurate evaluation-value table and to detect a correct motion vector are provided. A weight coefficient W is calculated on the basis of correlation information of a representative-point pixel and flag-correlation information based on flag data corresponding to pixel-value difference data between a subject pixel and a pixel in a neighboring region of the subject pixel. A confidence index is generated on the basis of the weight coefficient W calculated and an activity A as an index of complexity of image data, or a confidence index is generated on the basis of similarity of motion between the representative point and a pixel neighboring the representative point, and an evaluation value corresponding to the confidence index is accumulated to generate an evaluation-value table. Furthermore, correlation is checked on the basis of positions or pixel values of feature pixels neighboring the subject pixel to determine a motion vector.

A video coding system receives as input a video sequence including a series of picture frames. One or more long term references are selected from the input video sequence, at least one of the long term references is a long term look-behind reference frame. Short term reference frames are also selected according to the standards. The frames are then re-ordered for encoding such that the long term look-behind reference is encoded first, followed by the remaining frames according to the conventional order dictated by the standards. Each frame is encoded according to motion estimation and motion compensation, and an intra prediction method that incorporates the use of the long term look-behind reference frame. Further, encoding of each long term look-behind reference frame includes quantization according to a controlled bit-rate. The bit-rate is increased for quantization of each long term look-behind reference frame, thereby increasing its quality. For each other frame, the bit rate is maintained at a normalized level.

A fixed pattern detection device in which the device is fed as a received signal with a pattern of a length of N chips. The received signal is obtained by dividing and re-arraying each of K (integer) symbols in terms of a chip period as a unit, each symbol being spread with the spread code (PN) at a rate of M (integer) chips per symbol, and on repeatedly inserting into the re-arrayed symbols a signature pattern of a length K having one chip period as a unit, by M times, where N=K×M. The device includes first-stage correlators taking correlation between M received signals and M spread code sequences obtained on decimating a spread code sequence of a length N, and a second stage correlators taking correlation between the correlation values associated with K signatures output by the first-stage correlators and a pre-defined signature pattern.

A threshold agent composition and methods of using the same to produce hypochlorite and other effluent streams from an electrochemical cell without the detrimental effects of hard water scaling are disclosed. The invention further discloses use of chemistries to prevent hard water scale formation in various electrochemical cells to enhance cell longevity without decreasing chlorine, hypochlorite or other effluent production.

A base station comprises a directional antenna configured to transmit a directional beam to a mobile station, an omnidirectional antenna configured to transmit an omnidirectional beam to the mobile station, and an antenna controller configured to determine whether or not the mobile station is capable of receiving the directional beam, and select the directional antenna as an antenna for transmitting individual data in a case of being capable of receiving the directional beam, or select the omnidirectional antenna as an antenna for transmitting the individual data in a case of being incapable of receiving the directional beam.

A vehicle motor-generator apparatus based on a field winding type of synchronous machine coupled to a power inverter and a battery, wherein the synchronous machine is controlled to operate as a motor to perform engine starting and thereafter be driven by the engine as an electrical generator, wherein during a short time interval at the commencement of engine starting, the armature winding of the synchronous machine is driven by a current such that magnetic flux is produced by the armature winding acting in the same direction as magnetic flux produced by the field winding, to thereby achieve increased torque during the time when maximum torque is required. In addition, the supplied field current is set at a maximum value during only an initial period when engine starting begins, until the first compression stroke of the engine has been completed, and thereafter set to a reduced value until the completion of engine starting, thereby reducing the amount temperature rise within the field winding during engine starting, while ensuring a sufficiently high value of initial torque.

An energy corrector (105) for correcting a target energy for high-frequency components and a corrective coefficient calculator (106) for calculating an energy corrective coefficient from low-frequency subband signals are newly provided. These processors perform a process for correcting a target energy that is required when a band expanding process is performed on a real number only. Thus, a real subband combining filter and a real band expander which require a smaller amount of calculations can be used instead of a complex subband combining filter and a complex band expander, while maintaining a high sound-quality level, and the required amount of calculations and the apparatus scale can be reduced.

An apparatus for reducing noise includes a comparator for generating a noise timing signal corresponding to a noise producing period of noise introduced from a noise source and contained in an audio signal, a gap time generator for generating a gap period in which to remove noise from the audio signal, a selector switch for selectively outputting the audio signal and a noise-removed signal, a level detector for detecting a signal level of the audio signal, and a masking degree determining unit for determining from the signal level detected by the level detector a gap period for which the audio signal is masked by the human auditory system. The selector switch outputs the noise-removed signal in a period corresponding to the gap period within the noise producing period of the noise timing signal, and outputs the audio signal in other than the gap period.

An arithmetic process of a quadratic formula that is contained in an exponent of a CAZAC sequence-defining expression is converted to an arithmetic process of a recursion formula to find the above-described exponent, the above-described exponent that was found is used to generate a CAZAC sequence, and the above-described CAZAC sequence that was generated is taken as the reference signal for transmitting and receiving or as a random access preamble signal.

A data converter (1) capable of reducing a size of the total implementation in a device is a processing apparatus that performs secret converting processing predetermined to input data with 64 bits, the data converter including a finite field polynomial cubing unit (10), data integrating units (11a) to (11d), (12) and (13), a first converter (14), a second converter (15), a data splitting unit (16), and a data integrating unit (17). The finite field polynomial cubing unit (10) performs cubing, on the 32 bits data, in the polynomial residue class ring with a value in the finite field GF (28) as a coefficient and respectively outputs data with 32 bits.

Hence, the invention is a contribution to the field of designing computer implemented systems that test how different trading algorithms work when fed historic data (‘backtesting’). It teaches an efficient and effective data representation that comprises two elements. First, an object-based representation of each trading strategy; each object is instantiated as a ‘strategy instance’. Secondly, a pairing between any tradable instrument and any strategy instance; the pairing is called an ‘account’. A key advantage of the data representation is that the data in each account is held in a matrix format; these are easily and efficiently stored in standard relational databases. Further, operating the method involves large scale matrix operations, which are fast and computationally efficient within a matrix based language. Conventional approaches do not store data in a matrix format and hence fail to achieve the computational efficiency possible with the present invention.

In a high speed image capturing state, a camera signal processing circuit is not needed to perform a signal process at a high screen rate, but at a regular screen rate. In the high speed image capturing mode, raw data of 240 fps received from an image sensor 101 are recorded on a recording device 111 through a conversion processing section 201 and a recording device controlling circuit 210. Raw data that have been decimated and size-converted are supplied to a camera signal processing circuit 203 through a pre-processing circuit 202 and an image being captured is displayed on a display section 112 with a signal for which a camera process has been performed. In a reproducing state, raw data are read from the recording device 111 at a low screen rate according to a display performance of the display section 112 and the raw data that have been read are processed are processed by the pre-processing circuit 202 and the camera signal processing circuit 203 and a reproduced image is displayed by the display section 112.

A method for making structural automotive components and the like provides a strip of high strength steel having a selected thickness. A predetermined thickness of a metal coating, such as nickel, is applied to the opposite faces of the steel strip. The coated steel strip is cut to form a blank. The blank is heated in a generally open atmosphere to a temperature in the range of 800° C. to 1000° C. within less than ten minutes, thereby diffusing at least a portion of the metal coating a predetermined distance into the faces of the steel strip portion of the blank to alleviate scale formation, and simultaneously raise the temperature of the blank for hot forming the same. The heated blank is hot formed in a pressing tool, and cooled therein to heat treat the formed component through microstructure phase change, without substantial scale formation, such that the component need not be descaled prior to post-form processing and / or assembly in a vehicle.

The invention simultaneously solves building the contact organization, the performance is uneven question. The invention has provides a kind of gas spray cooling system and the method, namely after the spinning machine, style touches in front of the air blower a section of air cooled table place above, two sides symmetrical establishes the gas spray chiller, first builds above the contact from the coil, key to builds the contact to leave the atomization to cool, then style touches the forced-air cooling line again from the underneath forced-air cooling, and uses the' good spirit installment concentratly blowing the contact place. The intensity difference between the line material build contact through the gas spray cooling system and the no build contact is fall to 5~7MPa; The overall intensity of the line material may enhance 20~25MPa; Improves the surface quality; Simultaneously decreases the ambient temperature, improves the operating environment.

The present invention is composed of a computer positioned at a basal portion of an apparatus for conducting image processing and counseling processing; a first image display means for displaying a computer-processed image to a subject, mounted upright in the computer, a second image display means for displaying the computer-processed image to a counselor, mounted upright in the computer so that a display screen thereof is directed in a direction opposite the first display means; and photographic means, positioned near the first image display means, for photographing a subject directed in a direction of the first display means and feeding a facial image of the subject into the computer, thus making the apparatus small in scale and simple in composition, and suitable for a counselor to provide counseling on make-up to a subject.

In the motion picture data converter, an MPEG-2 decoding unit decodes motion picture data in an MPEG-2 format into motion picture data in an non-compressed format, a motion vector extraction unit extracts motion vector information from the motion picture data being decoded in said MPEG-2 decoding unit, a motion compensation unit generates the motion vector information in the MPEG-4 format, by causing the extracted motion vector information to be reflected in the motion compensation processing for the MPEG-4 format, and executes the motion compensation processing based on the motion vector information, and an MPEG-4 encoding unit encodes motion picture data in the MPEG-4 format, using the motion compensation processed data and the motion picture data in the non-compressed format.

The invention relates to a brazing sheet product comprising a core sheet made of an aluminum alloy, an aluminum clad layer cladding at least one of the surfaces of said core sheet, and a layer comprising nickel on the outersurface of one or both said clad layer or layers, and wherein the brazing sheet product is devoid of a layer comprising zinc or tin as a bonding layer between said outersurface of said aluminum clad layer or layers and said layer comprising nickel, and wherein the aluminum clad alloy layer comprises, in weight percent: Si 2 to 18, Mg up to 8.0, Zn up to 5.0, Cu up to 5.0, Mn up to 0.30, In up to 0.30, Fe up to 0.80, Sr up to 0.20, at least one element selected from the group consisting of: (Bi 0.01 to 1.0, Pb 0.01 to 1.0, Li 0.01 to 1.0, Sb 0.01 to 1.0), impurities each up to 0.05, total up to 0.20, balance aluminum.

The present invention provides a physical water treatment (PWT) method and apparatus to treat liquid coolants. Electrodes (22, 24) are provided in a coolant stream (21), and an alternating voltage is applied across the electrodes (22, 24) to produce an electric field through the coolant. The alternating voltage creates an oscillating electric field in the coolant that promotes the collision of dissolved mineral ions. The ions collide to form seed particles that precipitate out of solution. Bulk precipitation of seed particles decreases the availability of ions in solution which can crystallize on heat transfer surfaces. The seed particles adhere to additional ions that separate out of solution and form larger particles that may be removed from the coolant stream (21) using a variety of treatment measures. In addition to precipitating mineral ions, the electric field may be applied to destroy bacteria, algae and microorganisms that accumulate in the coolant stream (21).

The present invention relates to compositions and methods employing a water soluble magnesium compound. In certain embodiments, the composition includes water and water soluble magnesium compound, but lacks other materials commonly used in cleaning compositions. The methods and compositions can provide magnesium ion at predefined ratios to calcium ion in water, such as magnesium ion in a molar amount equal to or in excess over a molar amount of calcium ion. A water soluble magnesium salt including an anion of a water soluble calcium salt is more effective than a magnesium salt with an anion of a water insoluble calcium salt. These compositions can be used for reducing lime scale or precipitate formation from hard water, removing soap scum, or the like.

The invention discloses a manufacturing method of high alloy seamless steel tube, comprising the following technical steps: (1) producing a high alloy hollow shell with centrifugal casting technology; (2) heating the hollow shell and plugging the opening of the hollow shell when heating; (3) reaming and wall thinning for the hollow shell after being heated by using a perforating machine so as to form a blank; (4) tube rolling for the bland by using a pipe and tube mill so as to form a pierced billet; (5) sizing and reducing for the pierced billet by using a sizing and reducing machine so as to obtain the high alloy seamless steel tube. The blank with the manufacturing method uses centrifugal casting for the hollow shell and lubricant is added by using the characteristic of hollow shell, thereby avoiding the problems of high alloy material in the technologies of forging, rolling and punching such as low metal yield and high rejection rate due to difficult deformation, thereby greatly reducing the manufacturing cost.

An image scaling system for converting a sampling rate of an input video signal comprising input pixel data to produce a magnified or reduced output video image comprising output pixel data includes a first one-dimensional image scaler comprising a single-stage finite-duration impulse response (FIR) filter structure with poly-phase filter responses that receives and scales the input pixel data by a scaling factor in either a horizontal or vertical direction to produce output pixel data and a second one-dimensional image scaler comprising a single-stage FIR filter structure that is coupled in tandem to the first one-dimensional image scaler and scales by the scaling factor the output pixel data from the first one-dimensional image scaler in a direction perpendicular to that of the first one-dimensional image scaler to produce the magnified or reduced output video image. Each of the first and second one-dimensional image scalers includes a reconfigurable interpolation unit that allows each single-stage FIR filter structure to switch back and forth between operating in a direct-form FIR filter mode and a transposed-form FIR filter mode while using a fixed set of system resources such that a wide range of image magnification and reduction scaling factors can be achieved using the fixed set of system resources.

A semiconductor device including a program voltage supply circuit that supplies a drain of a memory cell with a program voltage, a detection circuit that refers to an output voltage of the program voltage supply circuit and detects a decrease of the program voltage supplied thereby, a frequency converting circuit that generates the clock signal by converting a frequency of a clock signal generated by an oscillator circuit into a lower frequency when the program voltage supplied by the program voltage supply circuit becomes equal to or lower than a given voltage, and a voltage generating circuit that generates a voltage supplied to a gate of the memory cell by using a clock signal, the frequency of which is converted by the frequency converting circuit. It is therefore possible to make the best use of the ability of the program voltage generating circuit in programming.