The circuit scale and power consumption of timing correcting sections of the delay correcting circuit or timing correcting circuit are reduced.

The receiver eliminates the frequency offset components by means of the correcting circuit.

A corrector circuit is coupled to receive both the delayed versions of the clock signals.

The corrector circuit generates a clock output signal with a corrected duty cycle.

The sensor output signal is fed to a filter circuit and a correction circuit to carry out said correction.

The digital controlled oscillator is preferably adapted to generate a signal representing a remainder, wherein a correction circuit is arranged for deriving a correction signal from the remainder.

An error-code-adding error correcting circuit (60) error-corrects the EFM demodulated signal and adds error codes.

An AC/DC converter front end with a full-wave bridge, a RF filter, and a power factor correction circuit may also be added.

The correction circuit is connected to a combination circuit connected to one of the inputs of the phase detector or to a combination circuit incorporated in the phase-locked loop.

The parameters, which are required to carry out a tapering process, are decoded by the decoder, and applied to a corrective circuit (CPS).

As a front end power factor correction circuit in a rectifier a boost conversion topology is often used.

In accordance with the judgement results, the degree of gradation correction performed by a gradation correcting circuit is determined.

The apparatus includes an error corrector circuit that combines the range from one offset estimation with the precision of the other.

A gradation correcting circuit which corrects the gradation of the luminance level of video signals.

A delay correcting circuit for a semiconductor testing device provided with a plurality of stations on which objet devices are mounted.