PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To enable an information processor, on which a special instruction for subroutine return is not prepared, to correctly recognize an instruction equivalent to subroutine return. SOLUTION: The register number of a link register specified by the instruction equivalent to a subroutine call is recorded in a link stack 33 and a comparing circuit 32 compares the number of a branch d...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To perform a faster instruction processing by correctly controlling a branch instruction for changing an address mode in an out-of-order processing system. SOLUTION: Address mode information of each instruction is added as a part of an instruction address and in each cycle of instruction processing, the address mode information is held. A branch history 15 stores the address ...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To reduce the disordering of pipeline processing by successive branch instructions while suppressing an increase in the hardware of an instruction buffer, etc. SOLUTION: The information processor which reads an instruction out of an instruction storage part, and holds, decodes, and executes it through pipeline processing has an instruction readout request part which supplies ...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide the method and device for identifying hardware. SOLUTION: A microprocessor (digital device) having micro-codes is integrated in a mechanical device. The mechanical device has an analog electric signal line for sending a digital signal including the identification data of the device itself to a central computer. Since the digital signal includes an operation range a...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an information output device and connection relation management method that can flexibly cope with it, when either of an analog single and a digital signal is received when analog connection and digital connection are intermingled. SOLUTION: An IEEE 1394 I/F circuit 12 detects specific information of electronic devices connected to a digital bus through a digital i...

The invention concerns a metatarsal implant (6) consisting of a body (12) and a bone anchoring rod (13), a phalangeal implant (7) and an intermediate plate (8) adapted to be arranged on the phalangeal implant and provided with an articular surface (17) co-operating with a matching articulation surface of the metatarsal implant body; the phalangeal implant (7) comprises a base (24) having the shape...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a semiconductor memory provided with a defective column relieving circuit in which a redundant column can be used efficiently without increasing the chip area. SOLUTION: This device is provided with a replacement IO program circuit RIP1-RIPn corresponding to respectively memory blocks BK1-BKn coupling commonly to data buses DB1, DB2 of plural bits and one replaceme...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a semiconductor memory in which a circuit can be effectively arranged on a chip by efficient layout of fuses. SOLUTION: Rows including a defective memory cell are replaced by redundancy memory cells independently in each of a pair of memory block interposing a pair of row decoder 11. A redundancy discriminating circuit 1 for performing this replacement is provided ...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To enhance the user-friendliness of a mobile phone by cooperating a telephone function with an Internet connection function. SOLUTION: The mobile phone provided with an Internet information transmission reception means 1 and a speech means 2, is provided with a phone connection request reception means 3 and with a system control means 5 to attain a speech during connection to...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a web using an Internet set-top box, a television channel interlocking device and its method. SOLUTION: The web includes an A/V input selection means (10) that selects one of outputs from set-top boxes connected respectively to a plurality of input terminals in response to an externally received control signal and giving the selected output to a television RF input...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To efficiently deliver a received digital satellite broadcast signal. SOLUTION: A front end circuit 11 selects a DSS broadcast signal from an antenna, a descramble circuit 12 descrambles the signal and discriminates whether the broadcast signal is an SD broadcast signal or an HD broadcast signal. An MPEG decode circuit 15 decodes the SD signal, an NTSC encode circuit 16 conve...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To reproduce a video signal synchronously with an audio signal, without giving a sense of incongruity in the case of reproducing the audio signal jumped to a temporally discontinuous position. SOLUTION: An audio PTS(presentation time stamp) is monitored in a step 31 to discriminate whether an audio signal has jumped to a temporally discontinuous position. When the audio signa...

Disclosed herein are a L-ascorbic acid derivative having an improved water-in-stability, represented by a following general formula (I): and a method for preparation thereof, and to a skin-whitening cosmetic composition containing the same as an active ingredient.

Sulfoquinovosyl diacyl glycerol (SQDG; 3-(6-sulfo- alpha -D-quinovopyranosyl)-1,2-diacyl-sn-glycerol) is purified from a total glycolipid extract of a natural product by centrifugal partition chromatography.

Production of low-sulfur gasoline comprises: (A) hydrogenating unsaturated sulfur compounds; and (B) decomposing saturated sulfur compounds.

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To shorten a makeup time for cooling operation. SOLUTION: This air conditioner comprises an outdoor unit 10 for cooling and compressing refrigerant R-404A, being set on a roof of a building and the like, a booster tank 12 into which the liquid R-404A that has been compressed by a heat control portion 11 of the outdoor unit 10 flows with its self- weight, a pump 13 for control...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To obtain a specimen conveyance system which eliminates a defect that labor and time required for a position adjustment in a setup operation become enormous by a method wherein a conveyance mechanism part and an enclosure are not constituted integrally as different from a conveyance line in conventional cases so that the labor and the time are not required in the position adj...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a parallel processing processor which actualizes efficient parallel processes. SOLUTION: The parallel processing processor is a parallel processing processor executing one ore more basic instructions included in instruction words delimted with instruction delimiter information in parallel, and equipped with instruction execution parts EU0 and EU1 performing process...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To distribute servers without turning each server to a high load state or an overload state. SOLUTION: The loads of respective servers are predicted by setting up a model for servers and service from the record of a monitored packet and simulating the model and a client to which service is to be distributed is determined from the predicted result so that the loads of respecti...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a data processing unit that can reproduce a recorded transport stream(TS) while recording a TS. SOLUTION: An input PID parser 51 records a 1st packet to be only recorded from TS packets being components of a TS from a descrambler and extracts a 2nd packet used for control and a 3rd packet used for only control. Then the 1st and 2nd packets are fed to a receiver 22 ...