A picture reproducing apparatus transmits coded picture data and an algorithm for reproducing (decoding) the coded picture data and reconfigures a decoding processor in accordance with the received algorithm. The apparatus includes a unit for receiving the picture reproducing algorithm described in a logical description language, performing picture reproduction in accordance with the received algo...

The spill resistant bubble solution container is an invention that because of its unique geometry and design, prevents spillage of liquid when filled to the fill line or below, and oriented in any position. It is principally intended for use by young children in avoiding the spillage of bubble solution.

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To realize reduction in size and cost of an entire device and also increase operation reliability. SOLUTION: On a circuit chip 10 having a sensor output processing circuit, bump electrodes 11 and rectangular frame-shaped sealing bumps 12 are located so as to surround the bump electrodes 11 formed from Sn-Pb solder. On a sensor chip 1 having a sensing section 5 including a bea...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a method for mounting an output semiconductor chip with high efficiency. SOLUTION: An output semiconductor chip has a first and a second surface and at least one output contact pad 141 or 142 formed on the second surface. The first surface is jointed to a base 170, which is mounted on a frame 150 installed on an insulating substrate (rid) 110. Therefore, the output...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To reduce processing by an MPEG 2 decoder system in which an MPEG 2 transport stream is received from an ATM channel and decoded. SOLUTION: A packet storage processing section 9 has a means to inform a transport stream TS packet storage destination address of a TS packet stored in a RAM 10 to a packet selection processing section 11 and the packet selection processing section...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a facsimile equipment excellent in handleability by judging whether or not the time of facsimile communication and the time of connecting a provider overlap and giving the facsimile communication priority in the case both of the time overlap. SOLUTION: Whether or not it is a connection timing to the provider is judged, and in the case it is the connection timing, w...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To significantly extend the scale of a data recording/reproducing device by reproducing and outputting a 1st data based on a 2nd data which are reproduced from a recording medium and then given via a network. SOLUTION: Compressed encoded data D2 are cyclically reproduced from four hard disk drives 9A to 9D by an amount equivalent to one frame via the 1st and 2nd server comput...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a rewritable optical disk having inter exchange-ability with a DVD-ROM reproducing device and adopting a groove recording method. SOLUTION: This optical disk has a recording layer in which an information signal is recorded/reproduced by a light beam having a prescribed wavelength and a land 10 and a groove 9 are formed, by making the average width of groove 9, repr...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To effectively constitute a redundant circuit with respect to the redundant cell arrays of plural-bit prefetch circuit constitutions by comparing the redundant address of an address group side with the address of an address group to be accessed and validating the selecting of the redundant cell array of the address group side at the time when both addresses coincide. SOLUTION...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a semiconductor storage device capable of detecting the normality or defect of a fuse blow in a molded state. SOLUTION: A characteristic change circuit 51 is connected to a signal line 31 transmitting an output control signal OEM. When the fuse blow is normal, a fuse F1 is blown together with a redundancy replacing fuse (unshown in the figure) and when the fuse blo...

The present invention refers to compounds of general formula (I), the pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof, the processes for their preparation, and the pharmaceutical compositions containing them.

The invention relates to new anthracycline derivatives having cytostatic activity and the general formula I, which are optionally in the form of a salt of an inorganic or organic acid, in which the substituents have the following meaning: R1 is hydrogen or a hydroxyl group, R2 is hydrogen or a hydroxyl or a methoxy group, R3 is hydrogen or a hydroxyl group, R4 is hydrogen or a hydroxyl group...

A computer workstation runs an application 10 to participate in a video conference. The workstation contains a video adapter card 18 which converts a video signal produced by a camera 20 into a hardware specific format. Likewise, the video adapter card can also be used to display incoming video signals that are in the same hardware specific format. The workstation also contains software support mo...

A semiconductor laser package and method of fabrication including a vertical cavity surface emitting laser and a power monitoring system, such as a photodetector mounted on a mounting base. An optical element, such as a beam splitter, formed integral with the mounting base or as a separate element positioned on the mounting base in optical alignment with an emission generated by the vertical cavit...

A register file backup system for with a computer which processes instructions to generate results which thereby change the visual state of the computer. The computer has a register file with a plurality of addressable locations for storing data. The backup system is adapted to return the visual state of the computer to a previous state if an instruction generates an exception. The backup system u...

In one embodiment, the invention includes a method of tracking events in a microprocessor that can retire more than one instruction during a clock cycle. A set of match results is generated during each clock cycle, one match result for each retiring instruction. Each of the match results indicates whether the corresponding retiring instruction matched a criterion. Then, the total number of retirin...

Apparatus and accompanying methods for use preferably in a multi-system shared data (sysplex) environment (100), wherein each system (110) provides one or more servers (115), for dynamically and adaptively assigning and balancing new work and for new session requests, among the servers in the sysplex, in view of attendant user-defined business importance of these requests and available sysplex res...

A processing system includes sequential entries for storing operations of different types and a scan chain which can identify an operation of a first type which follows after an operation of a second type. The first and second types can be identical so that the scan chain identifies the second operation of a particular type in the sequence. The scan chain includes single-entry "generate", "propaga...

A pipeline control system is distributed over the functional units (15, 17, 20, 25) in a processor (10). Decoder logic (12) issues operations, each with an associated tag, to the functional units, with up to n operations allowed to be outstanding. The units execute the operations and report termination information back to the decoder logic, but do not irrevocably change the state of the machine. B...

A microprocessor comprising an instruction pipeline (36) comprising a plurality of successive instruction stages. An instruction passes from a beginning stage (38), through a plurality of intermediary stages (40 through 52), and to an ending stage (54) of the plurality of successive instruction stages. The microprocessor also comprises a storage circuit (58) coupled to receive program thread infor...