Abstract: This invention relates to a method an apparatus for measuring traffic flows or in other words, the flows of vehicles, inside and near a crossing, and is directed to provide method and apparatus capable of extracting vehicles with a high level of accuracy.Overlap of vehicles can be avoided by setting the field of a camera not to a range from the inflow portion to the vicinity of center of the crossing, but to a range from the center to the vicinity of the outflow portion (151) of the crossing. Accordingly, accuracy of traffic flow measurement can be improved.

Abstract: An input/output device has a processor which processes data strings received by the device. When a data string is received, it is passed to a serial interface and a timing means. The serial interface generates a signal which interrupts the existing processing by the processor and causes the process to start processing of the newly received data string. At the same time the timing means measures the length of the data string and compares it with a predetermined length set by user-controllable data setting means. If the data string length reaches the predetermined length, the processor is triggered to stop processing the new data string and to recommence the processing it was performing prior to interruption. The unprocessed part of the new data string is stored in a memory.In this way, urgent data strings, which are generally short, are processed rapidly and longer data strings are processed after the urgent data strings.

Abstract: A mail system includes a selector selectively composing character information, image information and/or audio information; a printer printing the composite information as optically readable bit information in a plurality of recording mediums; a first storage device storing specific information for specifying the receivers of said recording media; a second storage device storing the required items of said receivers; a third storage area storing the information related to the required items of said receivers; a selector selecting information corresponding to the required items of said receivers from the information related to the required items of said receivers; a recorder recording the selected information corresponding to the required items of said receivers as optically readable bit information in at least one of said recording media; and a recorder recording the specific information specifying said receivers in at least one of said recording media.

Abstract: A pattern recognizing device is disclosed, in which the pattern recognition is effected by classifying all the parts of a stroke of an inputted pattern into three groups, those which are clearly arcs, those being clearly segments of line and those which are ambiguous, for which it is not possible to determine whether they are arcs or segments of line; forming a plurality of patterns of stroke structure, each of which is represented by data of a series of elements, which are arcs or segments of line, i.e.

Abstract: A method of extracting an image of a moving object comprises the steps of extracting edge-enhanced input image from an input image taken by an image pick-up element moving in a plane perpendicular to an optical axis, recollecting a background edge-enhanced image from the input edge image, transfer in parallel horizontally and vertically the background edge-enhanced edge image so to correspond to an input edge-enhanced image forwarded successively; extracting an edge image of a moving object by extracting the background edge-enhanced image from the input edge-enhanced image, and renewing the background edge enhanced image based on weighted mean of the background edge enhanced image and the input edge image.

Abstract: A computer control system utilizing mathematical formula processing and more broadly knowledge engineering is characterized by a man-machine processing unit for defining a mathematical formula model, a program generation unit for converting the defined mathematical formula model to an intermediate code program, a storage device for storing usage conditions (rules) of the defined mathematical formula models and a unit for selecting a mathematical formula model which meets the stored usage condition based on data from a control unit of a plant under control, selecting a program corresponding to the selected mathematical formula model from the programs generated by the program generation unit, and supplying an operation result by the selected program to the control unit.

Abstract: A set-up method for unequal speed circumferential rolling. The setting values of the circumferential speeds of a higher speed roll and a lower speed roll and the roll position are obtained by using, as rolling parameters in a rolling schedule, the inlet and outlet thicknesses, the forward and backward tensions, the radii of the rolls, the frictional coefficients and the ratio of the circumferential speeds of the rolls. The setting values are computed such that these values meet the rolling conditions within both the load limit value and the tension limit value.

Abstract: A combustion control method wherein manipulated variables or the amounts of fuel and air in at least one combustion zone of a boiler are regulated so that both the amount of nitrogen oxides and the amount of unburned coal in the ash at an outlet of a burner furnace or at least one of them passes the regulation standards and satisfies the requirements for operating a plant.

Abstract: A method of symptom diagnosis by continuously detecting vibration of the shaft of a rotary machine and monitoring a signal indicative of detected shaft vibration for the diagnosis of the operating condition of the rotary machine. In the method, a symptom of unusual operation of the rotary machine is diagnosed. The rotation speed range of the rotary machine is classified into a safety region, an alarm region and a trip region depending on the level of the shaft vibration signal. According to the disclosed method, symptom diagnostic regions are established within the safety region at time intervals of a symptom diagnostic period, and whether or not the level of the detected shaft vibration signal deviates from that of the symptom diagnostic regions is continuously monitored for the diagnosis of a symptom of unusual operation of the rotary machine.

Abstract: From the viewpoint of the preventive maintenance operation of a rotary machine, it is a very important subject to monitor the shaft vibration of the rotary machine and grasp the operating state of the machine. This invention relates to input processings in the case of executing the frequency analysis of a shaft vibration signal by digital processings.This invention describes the rotational frequency synchronization of a sampling frequency, the phase synchronization of the rotary machine to a reference phase, the relationship between an analytical wave number and a sample nunber, etc. in that case.

Abstract: An improved system and method for controlling the interstand tension in a tandem rolling mill by computing the interstand tension on the basis of detected process data, computing the difference or error between the computed interstand tension and the desired value, and controlling the speed of the rolling stand drive motors so as to cancel the error. A shear is generally disposed upstream of the tandem rolling mill to shear the leading and trailing ends of a workpiece. When the shear is cutting the trailing end of the workpiece, a backward tension is produced between the shear and the first rolling stand of the tandem rolling mill, resulting in abrupt variations of the process data used for the computation of the interstand tension. The system operation will become unstable when such abruptly varying process data are used to compute the interstand tension for the purpose of the motor speed control.

Abstract: A temperature controlling method for heating, with a heating furnace having at least one heating zone provided with a controllable heating means, materials charged into the heating furnace such that an aimed temperature of the material is reached by the time when the materials leave the heating furnace. The characteristic feature of the invention resides in that the instructions for changing the operating condition of the heating furnace in response to a change in the rolling condition of the rolling line connected to the heating furnace is treated as a change in the period of stay of the material in the heating furnace. In the controlling system in accordance with the invention, determination of the material temperature rise pattern in response to the change in the staying period of the material in the furnace is made to minimize the supply of fuel to the heating means, and the set temperature of each heating zone is calculated from the thus determined temperature rise pattern.

Abstract: This invention relates to a method of controlling the temperature of a heating furnace which has at least one furnace zone capable of being controlled by heating means and which conveys materials to be heated, that are introduced thereinto, by conveyor means such as a walking beam or a pusher so that the materials are heated to a predetermined temperature until they are withdrawn from the discharge side.More specifically, the present invention relates to a method of controlling set furnace zone temperature of the heating furnace when the materials to be heated, that are introduced into the heating furnace, have different temperature elevation patterns. The method of the invention is specifically characterized in that the predetermined set temperatures of each zone is used when the temperature elevation patterns of slabs are different with each other.

Abstract: A gauge and tension control system for a tandem mill comprises a delivered strip thickness deviation calculating unit for detecting output strip thickness at each of rolling stands, a tension calculating unit for arithmetically determining interstand tensions between two adjacent rolling stands on the basis of armature currents of drive motors and rolling loads at every rolling stand, a memory unit supplied with the output from the delivered strip thickness deviation calculating unit and detecting rolling speed values to thereby produce input strip thicknesses at every rolling stand, an optimal control unit for arithmetically determining optimal speed control quantity and press-down control quantity on the basis of the outputs from the delivered strip thickness deviation calculating unit, the tension calculating unit, the memory unit and a rolling schedule, a speed controller for controlling the speeds of the roll drive motors in dependence on the speed control quantities and a press-down controller for contr

Abstract: A method for controlling furnace temperatures of a multi-zone heating furnace having a feedback control system for detecting and inputting a furnace temperature and a furnace temperature setting device or a combustion control computer of the type for determining an optimum furnace temperature for each slab and outputting it as a set point to said feedback control system, the method comprising the steps of determining, under predetermined limit conditions which are required for the operations of the furnace, a furnace temperature pattern or a slab temperature rise curve which may minimize the overall flow rate of fuel, heating the furnace along the furnace temperature pattern or the slab temperature rise curve which is determined, reducing, in response to the instruction for suspending the discharge of slabs from the furnace, the flow rate of fuel to be supplied to the furnace to a predetermined level, and heating the furnace along a new slab temperature rise curve which is obtained by shifting the steady stat

Abstract: The present invention provides a method and a system for controlling strip thickness in rolling mill, especially adapted in the case where material is rolled by a tandem rolling mill. According to the present invention, the change in the strip thickness from one sampling epoch to another is calculated on the basis of two sampling values, i.e. strip thickness and strip thickness deviation, at the entrance side of a mill stand; the press-down speed and the workpiece tension are determined according to such a condition as to minimize the calculated change during the sampling period; and the press-down speed and the interstand tension are regulated by the thus determined mill speed and tension when a certain portion of the strip reaches the stand bite of the next mill stand.

Abstract: In the control of the tension of a workpiece which is rolled by a tandem rolling mill, a tension control method for a rolling mill wherein the tension of a workpiece is controlled by a looperless tension control method employing no looper at the threading stage of the top end and at the tail-out stage, and it is controlled by a tension control method employing a looper during the steady rolling.

Abstract: The rolling force, rolling torque, incoming workpiece thickness and roll gap at a first rolling stand are detected when a workpiece is fed into the nip between the rolls of the first rolling stand to provide their reference values P.sub.10, G.sub.10, H.sub.10 and S.sub.10 which are stored in a memory, and the reference torque arm l.sub.10 is computed on the basis of the reference values G.sub.10 and P.sub.10 of rolling torque and rolling force. The rolling force, rolling torque, incoming workpiece thickness and roll gap at a second rolling stand are detected when the workpiece is fed into the nip between the rolls of the second rolling stand to provide their reference values P.sub.20, G.sub.20, H.sub.20 and S.sub.20 which are stored in a memory, and the reference torque arm l.sub.20 for the second rolling stand is computed on the basis of the reference values G.sub.20 and P.sub.20 of rolling torque and rolling force. The torque arms l.sub.1 and l.sub.

Abstract: This invention relates generically to an automatic strip width control method in a hot rolling mill. More specifically, the present invention relates to a method for controlling a strip width to a predetermined width in a rolling mill equipped with edging rolls which seeks the deviation of strip width by estimating the temperature of a roll material under the edging rolls and controls the roll gap of the edging mill by means of the deviation of strip width thus estimated in order to control the width of the strip to a predetermined level on the basis of the technical conception that there is a certain relation between the temperature of the roll material and the deviation of strip width.

Abstract: Gage control apparatus and methods for tandem rolling mills are disclosed which are based on the low of constancy of mass flow. The apparatus and methods are attained by the discovery of the fact that the forward slip ratio of a mill stand varies as a linear function of the reduction ratio particularly when a plate material is rolled under relatively low tension. A ratio between thicknesses of the plate at the output and input sides of a particular stand of the tandem rolling mill and a ratio between circumferential speeds of rolls of the adjacent stands are used to calculate a thickness of the plate at the ouput or input side of each of the stands other than the particular stand. Each of the stands other than the particular stand is adjusted in its roll gap in accordance with a deviation of the calculated thickness from a desired thickness so as to cancel the deviation.