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PURPOSE:To lighten the load on the software of AV center equipments of an AV system and to facilitate adaption to a new system feature. CONSTITUTION:Plural AV equipments 11-14 are properly connected by AV signal lines L11-L15 and also equipped with control circuits which control their operations; and the control circuits of the AV equipments are connected by a bus to the AV system. An AV center equipment 11 which performs centralized control over the whole system is provided. The AC equipment 14 serves as a subordinate AV center equipment when AC equipments 15 and 16 of the 2nd generation which are connected to only the equipment 14 by AV signal lines L14 and L15 are present and there is a system feature which operates associatively with those AV equipments 15 and 16. The system feature is executed in the centralized control of this subordiante AV center equipment.
Abstract:
PURPOSE:To improve the reliability of communication by outputting an acknowledge signal representing it that only a prescribed equipment among plural equipments receives data so as to preclude the possibility of malfunction due to transmission of the acknowledge signal. CONSTITUTION:An AV center 2 comprising a television receiver is connected to a VTR 6 via a D2B bus 4. A VTR 6 is connected to an LDP 10 via a D2B bus 8. Then a multiple address communication signal sent from the VTR 6 is delivered to the AV center 2 via a D2B bus 4 and to the LDP 10 via a D2B bus 8, but an acknowledge signal (low impedance) is sent from the AV center 2 only. The VTR 6 and the LDP 10 not the AV center 2 keep the buses 4, 6 to a high impedance state. Thus, even when the AV center 2 outputs an acknowledge signal, that is, the bus is set to a low impedance, no malfunction is caused.
Abstract:
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To improve the planarity of a first flattening layer formed in the upper layer of a first wiring layer on a semiconductor substrate, and a second flattening layer formed in an upper layer of a second wiring layer formed on the first flattening layer. SOLUTION: The first wiring layer 6a is formed on the perimeter region of the light-receiving section in the first flattening layer 5a provided on the semiconductor substrate 3, and a first dummy pattern 10a is formed on the light-receiving section of the first flattening layer. Next, a second wiring layer 6b is formed on the non-light-receiving section of the second flattening layer 5b provided on the first wiring layer and the first dummy pattern, and a second dummy pattern 10b is formed on the light-receiving section of the second flattening layer. COPYRIGHT: (C)2007,JPO&INPIT
Abstract:
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To simplify the connection setting in an AV apparatus. SOLUTION: An AV system is constructed so that a plurality of AV apparatuses are hierarchically connected, e.g. an AV amplifier 200, a VCR 30, and an LDP 50 are connected to a TV 100 at a first hierarchical level, and a tape recorder 210 and a compact disc player 220 are connected to the AV amplifier 200 at a second hierarchical level, and a connection is selected for each hierarchical level. Further, the TV 100 and the AV amplifier 200 store a plurality of connection patterns for a plurality of AV apparatuses beforehand, and display the stored connection patterns. The connection of the AV apparatuses is set up by selecting a predetermined connection from among the displayed connection patterns. The setting method can be applied to an AV system comprising a plurality of AV apparatuses. COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO
Abstract:
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an information processor capable of reading a configuration ROM using AV/C commands. SOLUTION: The configuration ROM, in which the characteristic information of a device connected to an IEEE1394 bus is stored, is executed by using the AV/C commands, that can be generated at an application level. According to this configuration, characteristic information of another device connected to the IEEE1394 bus can be read easily at an application execution level, to realize the simplification of configuration ROM reading of a transaction layer and a control program about transfer of read data from the transaction layer to an application layer. COPYRIGHT: (C)2003,JPO
Abstract:
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To obtain a semiconductor integrated circuit device, in which an internal microcomputer can place limit access on a register through an external microcomputer. SOLUTION: This semiconductor integrated circuit device has an internal microcomputer 2, a register (or RAM) 3, which is accessed by the microcomputer 2, and a system-on-chip function for enabling an external microcomputer 5 to access the register (or RAM) 3. The device is provided with a switching means 6 which is made to lie in the data transmission path between the register (or RAM) 3 and the microcomputer 5 and controls the access of the microcomputer 5 to the register (or RAM) 3, by controlling the switching means 6 with the microcomputer 2.
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To simplify software constituting the frame of a transmission signal by transmitting and receiving the transmission signal obtained by inserting and fixing the routing code of a fixed length to the prescribed position of a data field between devices. SOLUTION: The routing code is assigned to the prescribed position of the data field 55 such as data #1 to #3 of three bytes from the top to designate a control command to data #4. The routing code is formed of a text header, a header operand showing communication between a sub-device and another device and communication between devices, SSDA and DSDA showing the addresses of the sub-devices of a transmission source and a transmission destination. In the case of sending a control command for playing a VTR from a TV, the text head is designated to data #1, HDOPR showing transmission to a sub-device from the device is prescribed to #2, the address DSDA of VTR is designated to #8, a play code OPC is designated to #4 and a code showing advance is designated to #5 to transmit to VTR through a bi-directional bus.
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To enable a user to recognize the detailed information on an equipment by generating a display icon which shows the equipment with combination of icons corresponding to plural subunits and displaying the equipment on a screen. SOLUTION: When an equipment has plural subunits, a display control means generates an icon which combines the icons corresponding to those subunits and displays the equipment on a screen. For instance, an equipment connected to a 1394-bus 6 and its constitution are displayed on a monitor screen by means of the generated icons of every equipment. In other words, a a 1st VTR 3 and a 2nd VTR 4 consist of a VTR subunit and a tuner subunit respectively. Therefore, the icons showing both VTR 3 and 4 are generated with combination of subunit icons corresponding to the VTR subunits.
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PURPOSE: To attain the obtaining of correct editions by setting timings of edition reproducing and recording commands according to responce delay times while measuring responce delay times of video recorders and video reproducers. CONSTITUTION: A reproducing temporary stopping command is transmitted from the controller 14 of a television receiver 1 to respective AV equipments 2 to 7. When AV equipments are judged to become temporary stoppage states, an edition reproducing command is transmitted to them and then a delay Ts is fetched into the controller 14 by measuring a time until the reproducing completion notices come. Next, a video recording temporary stopping command is transmitted from the controller 14 to AV equipments 2 to 5. Then, when they are judged to be temporary stoppage states an edition video recording command is transmitted to them and a delay Td is fetched into the controller 14 by measuring a time until recording completion notices come. When the AV center 1 receives triggers of edition startings, the controller 14 compares the Td with the Ts and then transmits edition reproducing and recording commands to AV equipments by controlling the time difference between delay times to execute editions correctly.
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PURPOSE:To simplify the after-recording operation by allowing a controller for a television receiver being an AV (audio video) center to recognize the types of AV equipments and the operation of the Av equipments based on an address. CONSTITUTION:When an AV center being a television receiver 1 has an execution function, one of video recorders VTR2-5 being after-recording execution equipments is a VTR having an after-recording function. Upon the receipt of a trigger for starting after-recording, the AV center 1 sends an input output changeover command to each equipment in the system to form an after- recording. When the after-recording path is forded, an after-recording command is sent to an after-recording execution equipment and a reproduction start command is sent to a source equipment (other one in the VTR 2-5). The after- recording execution equipment is set to the after-recording mode by the after- recording command and the source equipment starts reproduction by the reproduction start command. Thus, the after-recording operation is simplified by the one-touch after-recording function.