Abstract: A chat system in which conversations by characters in plural channels are displayed, and of these conversations, a conversation in a main channel and conversations in other channels are displayed in individual regions 23, 24 on a display screen, and an inputted statement is displayed in an intermediate region 22 of the individual regions 23, 24. The chat system hence realizes a display method having a notice function for use while working in an office, and information extracting function enabled by electronic expression of conversations, along with a recording medium used for execution thereof.

Abstract: A communication device transmits to a relaying device a transmission right grant request for requesting a grant of a transmission right to a transmitting device, and the relaying device determines whether the received transmission right grant request is a command associated with the transmission right of the communication device or a command associated with the transmitting device, and if it determines that it is the command associated with the transmitting device, it grants the transmission right to the transmitting device, and starts broadcasting of data being transmitted from the transmitting device. In addition, when receiving from the communication device an operation command for operating the transmitting device, the relaying device determines a type of the command and transmits it to the transmitting device.

Abstract: A program product stored on a recordable medium for linking operations between multiple connected devices connected to each other via a network.

Abstract: To provide a rudder angle sensor with high accuracy, it is constituted such that a storage means capable of storing a correction value to correct a rotational delay of a driven gear relative to a main drive gear caused by a backlash at a time of reverse of a steering shaft is provided, a calculation means corrects a measured result of a measuring mechanism based on the correction value stored in the storage means, and thereby, a rotation angle of the steering shaft can be calculated. The measured result of the driven gear obtained by the measuring mechanism is corrected based on the correction value, and therefore, the backlash existing between the main drive gear and the driven gear can be matched completely or approximately. Namely, the high accuracy of the rudder angle sensor is realized.

Abstract: A memory in a controller device stores a current function information list, which is a list of function information of each target device currently connected to an IEEE 1394 serial bus network, and also stores a past function information list which is a list of function information of each target device having been connected to the network in the past. When the controller device gets a GUID from a target device after bus reset, the controller device searches for a record of the target device corresponding to the gotten GUID from the records in the current function information list and the past function information list prior to the bus reset. As a consequence, if the controller device finds a record of the target device corresponding to the gotten GUID, the controller device copies such record in the current function information list or the past function information list prior to the bus reset, and stores the copied record in a current function information list made after the bus reset.

Abstract: In a network system, a resources using device which uses the resources in the resources holding device sends to the resources holding device a command to confirm whether the resources in the resources holding device are available. When receiving from the resources holding device a response showing that the resources are unavailable, the resources using device sends to the resources holding device a notification request command to request to send to the resources using device a derestriction notification showing that the resources have become to be available. After receiving the notification request command from the resources using device, the resources holding device sends to the resources using device the derestriction notification as soon as the unavailable resources have become to be available. Thus, the resources using device can either notify a user that the digital contents have become to be available or automatically start using the digital contents.

Abstract: A telephone set and an information terminal are connected by a packet switched network. The information terminal has a control target list in which a predetermined telephone set information is stored, and a terminal controller. The terminal controller generates, based on an instruction from a user, a control command in which an instruction related to multimedia phone communication is recorded, and sends that command to the predetermined telephone set. The predetermined telephone set has a terminal list storing information about the information terminal, and a telephone controller. The telephone controller generates, based on the control command received from the information terminal, a call control command for performing multimedia phone communication with another telephone set on the packet switched network, and sends that command to the other telephone set.

Abstract: If it becomes necessary to add, to a past device information list (past list), a record of device information of a target removed from a network, and if the number of records in the past list is already at its maximum so that it is impossible to store any more records in the past list, a microprocessor of a controller decides the priority of the removed target, based on device information of the removed target and on information of the kind of controller as stored in a configuration ROM in the controller. From records stored in the past list, the microprocessor searches for a record having a priority lower than the priority of the removed target, one by one in order from the first record therein. If the microprocessor finds a record having such a lower priority, the microprocessor deletes from the past list such record having been first found, and adds to the past list a record of the device information regarding the removed target.

Abstract: An active-matrix substrate includes first and second trunk lines which are arranged so as to be spaced apart from, but adjacent to, each other and are supplied with signals electrically independently. First and second groups of lines include portions that are substantially parallel to each other. A first group of connecting pads for the first trunk line is located near the second trunk line such that each line of the first group is electrically connected to the first trunk line at an associated one of the connecting pads belonging to the first group near the second trunk line. A second group of connecting pads for the second trunk line is provided near the first trunk line such that each line of the second group is electrically connected to the second trunk line at an associated one of the connecting pads of the second group near the first trunk line.

Abstract: The title of a program with a recording duration longest among all recording durations is recorded as the program title of a relevant program file. Thereby, even when a user has performed an operation to record a program on a hard disk recorder by a method other than a timer recording, the program title of a program that is most likely to be a program a user really desires to record can be recorded as the program title of a program file created by the recording. Accordingly, a DTV or a STB can display on its display appropriate program titles in a program file list at the time of playback of a previously recorded program.

Abstract: When a user issues a bookmark setup instruction, bookmark information, which includes identification information for a reproduction point whereat video and audio data for currently reproduced content are recorded, identification information for the pertinent content and position information indicating the current reproduction point are generated and stored in a storage unit. And when a user issues a bookmark display instruction, the bookmark information is read from the storage unit and a list of bookmarks is displayed. When one of the bookmarks on the list is selected and its reproduction is instructed, a command is transmitted to a reproduction apparatus, indicated in bookmark information that corresponds to the selected bookmark, to reproduce content, indicated in the bookmark information, beginning at a reproduction point designated in the bookmark information.

Abstract: A memory in a controller device stores a current function information list, which is a list of function information of each target device currently connected to an IEEE 1394 serial bus network, and also stores a past function information list which is a list of function information of each target device having been connected to the network in the past. When the controller device gets a GUID from a target device after bus reset, the controller device searches for a record of the target device corresponding to the gotten GUID from the records in the current function information list and the past function information list prior to the bus reset. As a consequence, if the controller device finds a record of the target device corresponding to the gotten GUID, the controller device copies such record in the current function information list or the past function information list prior to the bus reset, and stores the copied record in a current function information list made after the bus reset.

Abstract: If it becomes necessary to add, to a past device information list (past list), a record of device information of a target removed from a network, and if the number of records in the past list is already at its maximum so that it is impossible to store any more records in the past list, a microprocessor of a controller decides the priority of the removed target, based on device information of the removed target and on information of the kind of controller as stored in a configuration ROM in the controller. From records stored in the past list, the microprocessor searches for a record having a priority lower than the priority of the removed target, one by one in order from the first record therein. If the microprocessor finds a record having such a lower priority, the microprocessor deletes from the past list such record having been first found, and adds to the past list a record of the device information regarding the removed target.

Abstract: In a boiling water reactor controlling each control rod hydraulically by driving a solenoid valve, the control system comprises an operation control means 41 having a duplicated data processing unit for generating sequence patterns based on the timing of the driving sequence based on the control information provided manually, a transmission control means 42 for creating a command word corresponding to each control rod being controlled based on said sequence pattern, and mutually communicating each command word between duplicated data processing units and computing the AND logic of said data within a predetermined time difference, and when the computed result coincide, transmitting the selected command word serially; a transmission unit 32 for receiving said command word and performing protocol conversion thereto, and transmitting the same to a plurality of transmission branch units positioned downstream as the control command; and a solenoid valve drive circuit 31 for driving the control rod drive unit corres

Abstract: In a boiling water reactor controlling each control rod hydraulically by driving a solenoid valve, the control system comprises an operation control means 41 having a duplicated data processing unit for generating sequence patterns based on the timing of the driving sequence based on the control information provided manually, a transmission control means 42 for creating a command word corresponding to each control rod being controlled based on said sequence pattern, and mutually communicating each command word between duplicated data processing units and computing the AND logic of said data within a predetermined time difference, and when the computed result coincide, transmitting the selected command word serially; a transmission unit 32 for receiving said command word and performing protocol conversion thereto, and transmitting the same to a plurality of transmission branch units positioned downstream as the control command; and a solenoid valve drive circuit 31 for driving the control rod drive unit corres

Abstract: A feed forward type distortion compensation amplification apparatus, which includes a distortion detection loop and a distortion compensation loop, cancels a first distortion element generated from the distortion detection loop by a second distortion element generated from the distortion compensation loop to generate an output signal, and controls bias levels of the main amplifier and the error amplifier based on a level of the output signal. An adaptive pre-distortion type distortion compensation amplification apparatus includes a detection unit for detecting an input power level, a control unit for storing the input power level and a bias level corresponding thereto and generating the bias level in response to the input power level, and a bias control unit for applying a bias to an amplifier unit in response to the bias level.

Abstract: A gateway apparatus connects a packet-switched network to a PSTN, the packet-switched network having a plurality of information terminals connected thereto. The gateway apparatus includes a recognition operation, an incoming call notification operation and a connection operation. The gateway operates (or is configured) to recognize information terminals on the packet-switched network. The incoming call notification operation notifies all the recognized information terminals of an incoming call upon reception of an incoming call from the PSTN. The connection operation connects the PSTN to an information terminal that has responded to the incoming call notification first. An incoming call notification may be sent to all or a plurality of the information terminals on the packet-switched network in a point-to-multipoint communication using a broadcast address or a multi-cast address.

Abstract: A feed forward type distortion compensation amplification apparatus, which includes a distortion detection loop and a distortion compensation loop, cancels a first distortion element generated from the distortion detection loop by a second distortion element generated from the distortion compensation loop to generate an output signal, and controls bias levels of the main amplifier and the error amplifier based on a level of the output signal. An adaptive pre-distortion type distortion compensation amplification apparatus includes a detection unit for detecting an input power level, a control unit for storing the input power level and a bias level corresponding thereto and generating the bias level in response to the input power level, and a bias control unit for applying a bias to an amplifier unit in response to the bias level.

Abstract: An active-matrix substrate includes first and second trunk lines which are arranged so as to be spaced apart from, but adjacent to, each other and are supplied with signals electrically independently. First and second groups of lines include portions that are substantially parallel to each other. A first group of connecting pads for the first trunk line is located near the second trunk line such that each line of the first group is electrically connected to the first trunk line at an associated one of the connecting pads belonging to the first group near the second trunk line. A second group of connecting pads for the second trunk line is provided near the first trunk line such that each line of the second group is electrically connected to the second trunk line at an associated one of the connecting pads of the second group near the first trunk line.

Abstract: In a boiling water reactor controlling each control rod hydraulically by driving a solenoid valve, the control system comprises an operation control means 41 having a duplicated data processing unit for generating sequence patterns based on the timing of the driving sequence based on the control information provided manually, a transmission control means 42 for creating a command word corresponding to each control rod being controlled based on said sequence pattern, and mutually communicating each command word between duplicated data processing units and computing the AND logic of said data within a predetermined time difference, and when the computed result coincide, transmitting the selected command word serially; a transmission unit 32 for receiving said command word and performing protocol conversion thereto, and transmitting the same to a plurality of transmission branch units positioned downstream as the control command; and a solenoid valve drive circuit 31 for driving the control rod drive unit corres