An apparatus and method for generating a desired smell by processing smell information through a combination of a computer system and a perfume generating means. The current image is transformed with a predetermined transform to provide a set of transform coefficients, which are divided into blocks. The maximum-likelihood sequence detector includes a metric computation unit that employs the plurality of IIR filters in the filter bank and the plurality of prediction error variances in the variance bank to adaptively compute detector branch metrics. The vector is linked to a nuclear localization signal sequence, and preferably, a bait peptide that binds to RAD51, to facilitate homologous recombination. In addition, the media application may display additional information that is particular to members of the fantasy sports team of the user. The bias circuit includes a first bipolar transistor having an emitter, a base and a collector, and at least one Schottky diode connected to the base of the first bipolar transistor, and the at least one Schottky diode is provided for supplying a base potential for suppressing a collector current of the first bipolar transistor from changing in accordance with temperature change.