Abstract: According to one embodiment, an ultrasound diagnostic apparatus can be connected with an ultrasound probe including a plurality of elements adapted to transmit ultrasound signals and to receive reflected wave signals from a subject or from the air. The ultrasound diagnostic apparatus includes processing circuitry. The processing circuitry diagnoses states of the elements based on a feature value of the reflected wave signal. The processing circuitry also prepares, based on the states, deterioration degree information indicative of the deterioration degrees of the elements. The processing circuitry superimposes the deterioration degree information onto an ultrasound image of the subject and causes a display to display a resultant image.

Abstract: An output controlling device for reducing a processing time and substantially reducing erroneous determinations. In an image recording apparatus or the like, when a control language describing input data sent from a higher level apparatus is determined, determining rules set for respective control languages are consecutively applied. Since an optimum determining rule can be applied with respect to each control language, it is possible to simultaneously attain a reduction in the processing time and a lowering of the possibility of erroneous determination as compared with a case where the same determining rule is applied uniformly. In addition, if command groups are classified, and different determining rules are used for respective groups, the case is equivalent to a case where a plurality of determining rules are applied with respect to each control language, so that a further reduction in the processing time and a further lowering of the possibility of erroneous determination can be attained.

Abstract: A wireless video terminal (17) creates a control signal for requesting video data. This control signal includes the type of the requested video data, a method of transmitting the video data, a position registration request and the like. The wireless video terminal (17) requests the video data by transmitting this control signal to a video server (11) through a base-station for control-data (19) and a network (13). The video server (11) transmits the requested video data to the wireless video terminal (17) requesting the video data through a designated channel, via the network (13), a router for video-data (14) and a base-station for video-data (15).

Abstract: A ring network concentrator for dynamically changing the design of a network system depending on conditions of a ring network attached to the network concentrator. The ring network concentrator partitions traffic of a ring trunk network into a plurality of ring networks by dynamically changing connection patterns at configuration switches. The configuration switches connect ports, media access control units, and internal paths according to a communication protocol of a packet to be transferred and a traffic amount.