Abstract:
A keyboard structure permitting the interconnection of several hundred flexible key structures in a compact area. The structure includes a matrix of key cells disposed on an insulating surface, the row elements being commonly connected by conductive paths on the surface while the column elements are electrically separate. A contact point for each row and each column element extends to the opposite side of the insulating surface. These contact points are so disposed that parallel conductive paths which run only in the vertical direction may be used to provide row-select and column-select indications.
Abstract:
A color pattern and alphanumeric character generator for use with raster-scanned CRT display devices wherein the color background patterns and the characters are generated in an integrated manner. As a result, the apparatus utilized is considerably simplified and the color pattern display obtainable is more complex and more easily varied than hitherto was possible in an apparatus of this type. The viewing area of the raster-scan CRT is divided into a matrix of character cells. Each character cell is in turn divided into a plurality of color cells, each color cell being a matrix of dot positions on the display area of the CRT. The relationship of the number of color cells in each character cell and the number of dot positions in each color cell is an even integer. A display RAM, addressed by a microprocessor, stores display information therein. The RAM is addressed by the display circuitry during the display cycle. Each address location in the RAM has a plurality of bytes associated therewith which define a particular character cell on the CRT, both as to the color pattern therein and the character therein, if any. This information is used by the color and video network of the raster-scan display to generate the composite character and color pattern signal for each scan line.
Abstract:
A television-connected microprocessor system designed for use primarily as a television game or education system. The system is designed to accept source programming from cartridges that are interchangeable. The cartridges utilize either a ROM or a RAM to store the source programming. The source program is stored in the cartridge ROM or RAM in a higher level language, such as BASIC and interpreted for use by the microprocessor. Each ROM cartridge comes with a keyboard entry device as an integral part thereof which is uniquely adapted to the programming in the cartridge and the games or training sequence dictated thereby. By using a RAM cartridge, the user may enter his own source program by way of a general purpose keyboard or a tape recorder. Keyboard overlays are utilized to adapt the general purpose keyboard to the particular game or training sequence dictated by the source program entered into the cartridge RAM by the user.
Abstract:
Binary patterns that define alphanumeric characters for display are stored in a character pattern memory in a size that is smaller than the pattern that will be needed for display purposes. Each such stored character pattern is expanded to the size of a display character pattern, at a time when that character is to be displayed, on a point by point basis of the stored pattern. The expansion of each point in a stored character pattern is accomplished by a relationship that takes into consideration the points surrounding the point to be expanded.When a character requires a binary pattern that is not readily susceptible of this type of expansion, the full display size pattern must be stored in memory. This display size pattern is broken up into a plurality of smaller stored patterns and stored in memory as a plurality of adjacent smaller patterns. In effect, then, two different character pattern sizes are stored in memory. The display size patterns in memory are identified by indicia such as a flag in the first line of the stored pattern, or by a flag in the memory address codes. When such flag is detected, the display size pattern is read from memory, and displayed without being expanded. When such flag bit is not detected, the pattern is read from memory and expanded, prior to display. Use of the word "display" in this document refers to not only the visual display but also the printer device.
Abstract:
An automatic printer assembly capable of printing a large number of characters from a plurality of replaceable printing members and valuable in printing characters in a foreign language, such as Japanese Kanji, and the like. The printing member support carriage can align with a storage device, such as a carousel holder, to exchange printing members. A character memory storage receives an appropriately coded signal indicating a predetermined amount and location of characters that are to be printed on a predetermined area of a medium. A controller addresses the memory storage to select the appropriate character printing member. The input character information can be appropriately coded to minimize the scan time of the printing members by a sequential selecting of the printing members based on the respective character use of each printing member. The controller controls the position of the paper, the carriage, and the striking of a hammer so that the characters on the printing member are coordinately printed as a first group across the predetermined area of the medium. The controller can then sequentially activate the exchange device to replace the first character member with a second character printing member for rescanning the same predetermined area of the medium to interpolate the printing of a second group of characters. Subsequent printing members can be utilized in a similar fashion until all the stored characters are printed out.
Abstract:
To provide a sheet shutter in which an urging member for urging an unwound, sheet toward the left and right outer side is provided so that the sheet is made to smoothly slide in the left and right direction and the wear of the urging member is suppressed. The sheet shutter according to the present invention is configured such that a rail groove is provided in each of left and right support posts, such that an inner rail is accommodated and supported in the rail grooves, such that engagement guides for guiding the lifting and lowering of the sheet formed in the inner rails, and such that, when the urging member is provided in the rail groove, an elastic sheet section for partitioning the inside of the rail groove into front and rear portions is provided at the urging member.
Abstract:
An active gas plasma arc torch and a method of operating the same, said torch including a rod-shaped cathode, a first gas passage formed around said cathode to feed a protecting gas or shielding gas, a second gas passage formed around said first gas passage to feed a plasma gas and a constricted port for discharging the plasma gas, characterized in that at least a part of the shielding gas which flows out from the first gas passage is removed from the inside of the torch at the position short of said constricted port of the torch, whereby the working quality and the working speed are substantially improved while the rod-shaped cathode is satisfactorily protected by the shielding gas.
Abstract:
A speech recognition method makes it possible to improve the accuracy of recognition of input speech and is capable of operating on a real time basis. This is accomplished by generating from the input speech signal a difference signal which indicates whether the speech power of the input speech is increasing or decreasing for each frame. The similarity between the input speech and a standard pattern is then calculated for each frame, and this is then followed by correcting the similarity calculation on the basis of the generated difference signal and a difference signal relating to the standard pattern obtained from storage. The matching of the input speech and the standard pattern is then effected by using the corrected similarity, and the input speech is then recognized from the result of this matching. Thus, a spectrum matching distance weighted by power information of speech can be obtained in real time.
Abstract:
The present invention is to facilitate the attachment and maintenance work of left and right sheet guides of a shutter and to facilitate the return of the disengaged sheet. A sheet guide of a sheet shutter according to the present invention is a mechanism configured such that a sheet 2 is lifted and lowered by being wound and unwound around a sheet drum 5 supported between left and right support posts 3 and 3 according to the rotation of the sheet drum 5, and such that both the left and right ends of the sheet 2 are lifted and lowered by being guided by sheet guide sections 11 and 11 respectively installed in the support posts 3 and 3. The sheet guide section 11 is configured by an outer rail 14 having a U-shaped cross section which is provided with a pair of front and rear side walls 14a and is opened toward the inner side in the horizontal cross section of the left and right support posts 3, and an inner rail 16 accommodated and detachably attached in the outer rail 14 along the inner surface of the outer rail 14. An inward-facing engagement guide 21 configured to vertically slidably and engagingly accommodate each of guide projections 10 respectively attached to both ends of the sheet 2 is provided in the inner rail 16.
Abstract:
A magnetic sensor includes a pair of serially-connected magneto-resistive elements (1a, 1b), one of which serves as a sensing portion (6) made to face a magnetic detecting medium (S), and the other of which serves as a temperature-compensating portion (7). The magnetic sensor also includes a magnet (5) that gives magnetic biases having different types of magnetism to the magneto-resistive elements (1a, 1b), and a detection circuit (8) that applies DC voltage to between ends of the serially-connected magneto-resistive elements (1a, 1b) and detects a potential change of the common connection point of the magneto-resistive elements (1a, 1b).