A length measuring probe that includes a base body, a guide element and a probe pin having a touch scanning element for touch scanning a measuring object, the probe pin is seated, displaceable in relation to the base body in a measuring direction opposite a spring force F via the guide element. A detection device detects a position of the probe pin with respect to the base body and a first spring element and a second spring element arranged behind the first spring element in the measuring direct...

A length separator comprising at least one rotational member, e.g. a disc or a cylinder, having cells for lifting seeds and other particles from a lower position to a higher position, and a trough for receiving the lifted material. The rotatable member is associated with at least one sensor located in the flow of the lifted material supplied to the trough, for generating an electric signal in dependence on impingement of material particles leaving the rotatable member and falling down into the t...

Apparatus for measuring the length of a moving elongate element (1), such as a cable, comprises first and second rotative members (2), (3), rotatable by frictional contact with the element. The second member (3) responds to changes in the velocity of the element (1) to a differing extent to that of the first member (2). The rotation of each member is measured by detectors (11), (12), and data fed to a microprocessor (13) which compares the rotation of the two members to give an indication of the...

A length decoder that rapidly calculates the group lengths of groups of variable length data words is provided. In accordance with one embodiment, a length decoder includes a length estimator and a length selector. The length estimator, estimates a length for each data word assuming the data word is the first member of a group. The length selector then selects the proper estimate based upon the actual length of the data word. Specifically, one embodiment of the length decoder can be used to calc...

The present invention relates to a method and apparatus for measuring the length of long length materials, whose accuracy in detecting a magnetic mark is improved by having the magnetic mark, used in measuring a long material containing a magnetic constituent unit by passing the periodic magnetic marks through an A.C. magnetic field. The apparatus for measuring the length of long length materials according to the present invention forms a magnetic powder layer locally on the surface of a long le...

A game comprising a box-like housing having a substantial amount of interior open area opening through a plurality of equal sized apertures in a wall thereof and a plurality of rods of identical cross sectional shape projecting one through each aperture from the outside of the housing into the open area, the rods having identical heads mounted on their outer ends but being of various lengths and each having length indicating indicia spaced therealong.

A variable length decoder comprises: a first storage unit that stores encoded data; a variable length decoding unit; a second storage unit that stores coefficient data; a reverse quantizing unit; and a reverse DCT unit. The variable length decoding unit includes a control unit, a decoding unit, and an address generating unit. The second storage unit includes an initializing mechanism and is initialized all at once by the control unit in advance of decoding in a macro block unit. Only non-zero qu...

The present invention relates to an apparatus for precise measurement of the length of long length materials which measures the length of a long length material such as electric wire, cable, etc. basically unit length by unit length in an inchworm manner by applying magnetic marks on said material and sensing them downstream while making correction for elongation of the material due to temperature and tension, and which measures only an odd length less than the unit length by means of, for examp...

When encoding and decoding bit planes, a decision is made in the clean up pass if zero coding or run length coding should be performed. Embodiments of the invention provide a zero coding or run length coding decision instruction. The instruction will determine whether significance state variables associated with selected coefficients bits and their immediate neighbors are zero. If all the significance states are determined to be zero, then run length coding is performed. Else, zero coding is per...

Control apparatus has a double-acting hydraulic cylinder and a piston reciprocable in the cylinder in response to application of suitable hydraulic pressures to the piston. The ends of the cylinder are connected to a source of hydraulic pressure by means of two-position valves. The piston is connected to one rod and the cylinder to another rod -- the two rods forming part of a linkage between a gas pedal and a fuel injection pump. An electronic apparatus controls the valves to change the overall...