The invention discloses an image processing apparatus for adjusting the saturation of an input image. The input image also has a lightness and a hue. The image processing apparatus includes a look-up table, a processing unit, and a multiplier. The look-up table is used for recording M lightness ranges, N hue ranges, and M*N corresponding gains. The processing unit is used for storing the look-up table and, according to the look-up table, for judging that the lightness of the input image is locat...

A magnetic recording device which can write magnetic information with high density. The device uses, for a magnetic recording layer of a magnetic recording medium, a magnetic material whose anisotropy energy varies with an applied electric field. The head has an electrode for applying an electric field to a recording area of the magnetic recording medium. Magnetic recording is performed by applying an AC electric field from the electrode while a DC magnetic field is applied to the recording area...

The present invention discloses a new process for the preparation of 1,4-benzoquiones of formula (II) ##STR00001## wherein R.sup.1, R.sup.2, R.sup.3 and R.sup.4 are independently selected from the group consisting of branched or unbranched C.sub.1-C.sub.6 alkyl, phenyl and benzyl, wherein phenyl and benzyl is optionally substituted by one or more substituent independently selected from the group consisting of C.sub.1-C.sub.6 alkyl and halogen, and wherein C.sub.1-C.sub.6 alkyl is optionally subs...

The invention provides an optical disk that enables high-speed reproduction of address signals. A wobble address system for optical disk supports various types of synchronization, such as phase synchronization, bit synchronization, word synchronization, etc., to be established easily with high detection reliability with the use of an self-orthogonal code. Thus, the invention provides a method for easily synchronizing an address signal, i.e., high-speed reproduction of the address signal. Further...

A storage system and an undo processing method that can facilitate undo processing for configuration change operations that have been performed for storage apparatuses by different administrators. A management server manages the history of configuration change operations it performs for storage apparatuses while a storage apparatus manages the history of configuration changes it makes in itself in accordance with the configuration change operations performed by the management server. When the st...

An object of the present invention is to simplify manufacturing process of an n channel MIS transistor and a p channel MIS transistor with gate electrodes formed of a metal material. For its achievement, gate electrodes of each of the n channel MIS transistor and the p channel MIS transistor are simultaneously formed by patterning ruthenium film deposited on a gate insulator. Next, by introducing oxygen into each of the gate electrodes, the gate electrodes are transformed into those having high ...

A magnetic shielding apparatus having a high shielding effect. With the magnetic shielding apparatus having an opening (for example, a cylindrical magnetic shielding apparatus provided with a door), the door covering the opening is electrically and/or magnetically connected to a main body by means of electrically and/or magnetically connecting members. The magnetic shielding apparatus is higher in magnetic shielding factor than the conventional magnetic shielding apparatus, and a magnetic field ...

A near-field optical probe and optical near-field generator are provided. A problem of a probe having a scatterer in which optical near-field noises are generated at the parts other than for a point at which an intense optical near-field is generated, is solved. In one example of the probe, a surface of the parts except for a vertex of the scatterer at which the intense optical near-field is generated is etched so that an etching depth becomes not less than a penetration depth of the optical nea...

A method for storage management is provided which displays the materials on which it is determined which of the thin provisioning volume or the logical unit (LU) is to be used for storage promotion. The method is executed in a computer system having one or more host computers, one or more storage subsystems, and a management computer. The storage subsystem includes a physical disk and a disk controller. The disk controller provides the host computer with the thin provisioning volume. The managem...

In a storage control apparatus employed in a storage system arranged by containing a plurality of storage control apparatus connected via an IP (Internet Protocol) network to each other, the storage control apparatus stores thereinto necessary storage expiration equal to such an expiration during which data is required to be stored under safe condition, this data being stored in a first storage area of the storage control apparatus; stores thereinto first guarantee expiration equal to such an ex...