Abstract:
There is provided an information delivery apparatus including a receiving portion to receive location information of a mobile communication terminal at a given time and acquired date and time of the location information from the terminal, an event information storage portion to store event information including an event place, date and time, a delivery terminal selecting portion to select the mobile communication terminal to which the event information is to be delivered based on the location information and the acquired date and time of the location information and on the event place, date and time, and an event information delivery portion to deliver the event information to the selected mobile communication terminal. The delivery terminal selecting portion selects the mobile communication terminal whose location indicated by location information is within a predetermined range and whose acquired date and time of the location information are before the event date and time.
Abstract:
Information delivery apparatus (120) receives from a mobile communication terminal (140) information about its location at a given time, and the date and time at which the terminal acquired the information (e.g. from a GPS system (12)). The apparatus (120) stores information regarding the place, date and time of various events. It compares this information with the different times and places received from a plurality of mobile communication terminals, and selects those to which stored information is to be delivered based on the comparison. The mobile communication terminals selected are those whose location is within a predetermined range of the place of the event, and whose acquired date and time of the location information are before the date and time thereof.
Abstract:
A control circuit for controlling the position of a rotary head in an optical tape recording/reproducing apparatus controls the position of the head at the instant that it comes to face a tape (T) based upon a desired head position derived from a preceding period in which it was facing the tape. A head position error signal (ef) is sampled (28) and added (30) to a sample of a head position signal (Sy) obtained (27) during a period when the head was facing the tape and held during the time the head is not facing the tape. The instant the head begins to face the tape (T) once again, the desired value that has been held is applied to drive means (24, 25) for the head in order to reduce the pull-in time of the control circuit and provide more time for information recording/reproduction during the time the head is facing the tape.
Abstract:
An image-pickup apparatus includes an image-pickup section that picks up images to obtain picked-up-image-data items, a temporarily retaining section that temporarily retains the picked-up-image-data items, a storage-process section that performs a storage process on the picked-up-image-data items, a movement-detecting section that detects a movement of the image-pickup apparatus, an operation section that performs a shutter operation, and a control section that causes the temporarily retaining section to retain picked-up-image-data items in a shutter-operation period, that selects, on the basis of detection results obtained by the movement-detecting section in the shutter-operation period, a picked-up-image-data item from among the retained picked-up-image-data items, and that causes the storage-process section to perform the storage process on the selected picked-up-image-data item.
Abstract:
A control circuit for controlling the position of a rotary head in an optical tape recording/reproducing apparatus controls the position of the head at the instant that it comes to face a tape (T) based upon a desired head position derived from a preceding period in which it was facing the tape. A head position error signal (ef) is sampled (28) and added (30) to a sample of a head position signal (Sy) obtained (27) during a period when the head was facing the tape and held during the time the head is not facing the tape. The instant the head begins to face the tape (T) once again, the desired value that has been held is applied to drive means (24, 25) for the head in order to reduce the pull-in time of the control circuit and provide more time for information recording/reproduction during the time the head is facing the tape.
Abstract:
A control circuit for controlling the position of a rotary head in an optical tape recording/reproducing apparatus controls the position of the head at the instant that it comes to face a tape (T) based upon a desired head position derived from a preceding period in which it was facing the tape. A head position error signal (ef) is sampled (28) and added (30) to a sample of a head position signal (Sy) obtained (27) during a period when the head was facing the tape and held during the time the head is not facing the tape. The instant the head begins to face the tape (T) once again, the desired value that has been held is applied to drive means (24, 25) for the head in order to reduce the pull-in time of the control circuit and provide more time for information recording/reproduction during the time the head is facing the tape.
Abstract:
A helical scan magnetic recording/reproducing device having an MR reproducing magnetic head wherein data to be recorded on a magnetic tape is converted through a modulation circuit (42) into a DC-free code sequence. The device comprises a high-pass filter for attenuating the low frequency components of a reproduced signal picked up by an MR head (6), and a circuit (58) for demodulating the reproduced signal from the high-pass filter to produce data before being converted into th DC-free code sequence. The low band noise (thermal asperity) produced due to the contact of the magnetic tape with the MR head is removed and a noise-suppressed reproduction output can be obtained. A rotary transformer (25) mounted on a rotary drum is employed as the high-pass filter.
Abstract:
A servo control circuit for an image rotator (5) used in an optical tape recording apparatus that employs a rotary tape drum (6). Pairs of pulse generators (17,24) and frequency generators (18,22) are provided on the image rotator (5) and on the tape drum (6), respectively, Initially, the pulse generators (17,24) are used for servo control and, upon detecting a phase lock, servo control is subsequently switched over to be controlled by the frequency generators (18,22).
Abstract:
A helical scan magnetic recording/reproducing device having an MR reproducing magnetic head wherein data to be recorded on a magnetic tape is converted through a modulation circuit (42) into a DC-free code sequence. The device comprises a high-pass filter for attenuating the low frequency components of a reproduced signal picked up by an MR head (6), and a circuit (58) for demodulating the reproduced signal from the high-pass filter to produce data before being converted into th DC-free code sequence. The low band noise (thermal asperity) produced due to the contact of the magnetic tape with the MR head is removed and a noise-suppressed reproduction output can be obtained. A rotary transformer (25) mounted on a rotary drum is employed as the high-pass filter.