Abstract: A device controller is provided between a plurality of processors and a plurality of input/output devices each having a plurality of input/output terminals. The device controller manages mapping data defining a mapping of the input/output devices and terminals to the processors as well as their state data indicating a mounted state, a not-mounted state, etc., and controls the transmission/reception of information between the processors and the input/output devices by referring to the mapping data and state data. The device controller includes a data change controller which performs data addition, deletion, or updating on the mapping data to accommodate a system change.

Abstract: A tone generation device includes a computation unit which consists of multiple computation devices, a sheet music data analysis unit which reads data from a sheet music data holding unit and a waveform data holding unit and computes the sum total of the amount of processing based on this data. The tone generation device further includes a computation processing allocation instruction unit, a computation unit processing procedure holding unit and a processing routine holding unit. Based on the computed sum total of the amount of processing, the computation unit processing allocation instruction unit determines the amount of processing for each computation device so that it is an amount of processing that matches the capacity of each computation device, and sets a processing procedure in accordance with the determined amounts of processing. The set processing procedure is held in the computation unit processing procedure holding unit.

Abstract: Outgoing trunks of a switch are divided into reserved trunks and non-reserved trunks. A controller seizes reserved trunks equally for calls from subscriber terminals regardless of whether a call is a reserved call or a non-reserved call in an uncongested condition in which rate of reserved-trunk utilization is low and seizes reserved trunks preferentially for reserved calls in a congested condition in which rate of reserved-trunk utilization is high.

Abstract: An image processing system which efficiently generates a desired special effect with a simple circuit. In order to add special effects to a given source picture, a target area specifying unit first specifies a target area, as part of the given source picture, which is to be subjected to a special effect generation process. The source image is coded by an image data coding unit, and the resultant coded data is then modified by a target data relocation unit, Here, part of the coded data, or target data in the target area, is extracted and relocated from its original field to a different field of the coded data. An image data transmission unit transmits the coded bitstream which contains the relocated target data. At the receiving ends, a target data extraction unit extracts the target data from the received coded bitstream, which is then saved into a target data storage unit.

Abstract: A dual system has system buses that are connected to each other through bus interchange apparatuses and a cross bus to transfer information between the system buses. Each of the bus interchange apparatuses has a first bus controller (1) having a reception controller (6) and a transmission controller (8) that are connected to one (10) of the system buses, a second bus controller (2) having a reception controller (7) and a transmission controller (9) that are connected to the cross bus (11), buffers (3, 4) for relaying information between the first and second bus controllers (1, 2), and a register (5) directly accessible from the first and second bus controllers (1, 2) to write fault information thereto.

Abstract: A super-resolving imaging apparatus employs diffractive optical elements placed on the imaging lens. This element, and the use of a modified Scheimpflug arrangement allow the conversion of degrees of freedom in one axis of a field of view to a larger degree of freedom in another axis in order to obtain a high resolution image with a wide depth of focus and large field of view. Replicas created by the diffractive elements are mutually shifted by subpixel amounts, and are combined using a Gabor transform, which is facilitated by a spatial mask placed over the detector array. The apparatus is suitable for performing distance estimation on an object within the field of view.

Abstract: A foldaway electronic device includes a base unit having opposing lateral surfaces and an end portion, a cover unit having opposing lateral surfaces, each of which corresponds to one of the lateral surfaces of the base unit, and an end portion that is rotatably attached to the end portion of the base unit, whereby the cover unit may be rotated between a folded position relative to the base unit and an unfolded position relative to the base unit, a locking mechanism in the base unit and cover unit that locks the cover unit in the folded position, a lock release mechanism in the base unit that releases the locking mechanism when the cover unit is in the folded position, and impelling means in the base unit for impelling the cover unit from the folded position to an unfolded position after the lock release mechanism has been actuated, wherein either lateral surface of the base unit has a guard portion that extends over and prevents contact by a user's thumb and fingers with a portion of the corresponding la

Abstract: A communication management node checks a condition of a complex communication terminal apparatus when the complex communication terminal apparatus is connected with a real-time-processing-system network, selects and generates control software and setting information data in accordance with the condition of the complex communication terminal apparatus, and downloads the control software and setting information data into the complex communication terminal apparatus via the real-time-processing-system network, so that the complex communication terminal apparatus acts as a terminal in the real-time-processing-system network.

Abstract: A peripheral device cable, connected to a peripheral device, integrally incorporates a subscriber link that is a physical line for transmitting subscriber information in synchronization with a highway clock and a control link that is a physical line for transmitting control data in synchronization with the highway clock. A control data converter controls interfacing between the control data transferred over the control link synchronously with the highway clock and control data that a control unit transmits/receives asynchronously with the highway clock. The subscriber link is connected to a switch.

Abstract: The invention provides an optical fiber amplifier which assures stable operation of a pump light source and efficiently makes use of residual pump power to achieve improvement in conversion efficiency. The optical fiber amplifier includes a rare earth doped fiber. Pump light from a pump light source is introduced into one end of the rare earth doped fiber by way of a first optical coupler, and residual pump light originating from the pump light and arriving at the other end of the rare earth doped fiber is applied to the other rare earth doped fiber amplifier or the loss compensation of a dispersion compensating fiber by Raman amplification.

Abstract: A digital portable telephone device includes a receiver section which receives a signal within one of an analog receiving frequency band and a digital receiving frequency band. A received signal is converted into one of a digital-band first intermediate-frequency signal and an analog-band first intermediate-frequency signal by using a first local signal. A transmitter section transmits a signal within one of an analog transmitting frequency band and a digital transmitting frequency band, wherein a modulation signal is generated by using the first local signal. A radio-frequency local signal generating section generates the first local signal within one of a digital local signal frequency band and an analog local signal frequency band, and supplies the first local signal to one of the receiver section and the transmitter section.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a guard apparatus for avoiding the malfunction of a communication apparatus due to an error in the received data in the specific location of a frame on the receiving side of an optical communication system using a SONET/SDH network. If a B2 error, a frame pattern error or an out-of-frame is detected for a received frame, this guard apparatus stops the operation for tri-stage protection for the data of the K1 and K2 bytes, and outputs data outputted for a received frame received one frame before the above-mentioned received frame. If these errors are not detected, the guard apparatus selects and outputs the non-protected data of the K1 and K2 bytes in the above-mentioned received frame. Thus, the extraction of data with an error due to an optical degradation can be avoided and thereby the malfunction of a communication apparatus in an optical communication system can be avoided.

Abstract: A method, in a data transmission system, for optimizing an equalizer used to equalize a signal transmitted through a distorting channel, where the method comprises the calculation of a maximal projection from one subspace of a vector space upon another subspace of that vector space. These projections may be carried in either direction, and the preferred direction from which subspace should the projection be carried out, is determined from the dimension of each of the two subspaces.

Abstract: An apparatus that is convertible between walker and a wheelchair has one pair of wheels that are continually engaged with the ground and a second pair of wheels that are movable from a first position out of engagement or disengaged with the ground, in which the apparatus is used as a walker, to a second position into engagement with the ground, in which the apparatus is used as a wheelchair. The movable wheels are controllable by the operator through the use of handle members connected such wheels. The handle members rotate the wheels into and out of engagement with the ground along a path that is at an angle from the vertical, thereby assuring disengagement of the wheels from the ground.

Abstract: A method and system for controlling data delivery and reception, which alleviate the processing workloads imposed on management systems and reduce the hardware and software resources required in management systems. Each time a status message arrives from network subsystems, a data storage unit in a management system stores the received information, together with a reception timestamp. At regular intervals, or on an on-demand basis, a data requesting unit in a terminal station issues a data delivery request message to the management system, including a reception time specification to qualify the data records to be delivered. In response to the request, a data retrieval unit in the management system searches its local data storage to extract the requested data records whose reception timestamps are not earlier than the given reception time specification. The data records found are then supplied to a data transmission unit.

Abstract: An information transfer equipment executes a monitoring control of channel portions by transmitting/receiving plural kinds of monitoring control information between the channel portions and a common portion. A multiplexer of the common portion multiplexes the monitoring control information into a TDM frame to be transmitted to the channel portions. A demultiplexer of each of the channel portions receives the monitoring control information from the common portion based on a channel number preset to its own to be demultiplexed. A multiplexer of each channel portion multiplexes the monitoring control information into the TDMA frame based on the number. A demultiplexer of the common portion receives the monitoring control information from each channel portion to be demultiplexed from the TDMA frame according to kinds of the monitoring control information.

Abstract: Device for feeding material from a pressurised space to a space at a lower pressure, said device comprising a frame (2) with an admission port (5) and a discharge port (6), and a feed element (1) rotatably mounted inside the frame, said feed element containing at least one chamber space (3, 4) opening at the surface of the feed element, as well as means (7, 8) for turning the feed element between at least one first position, in which the chamber space (3, 4) communicates with the admission port (5), and at least one second position, in which the chamber space communicates with the discharge port (6), as well as at least one sealing element (9, 10) fitted against the surface of the feed element. The device is provided with a passage from the side of the admission port (5) to the side of the discharge port (6), said passage being open in at least one position of the feed element (1).

Abstract: A data extractor system for extraction, deformatting, and postformatting of data available on the WWW. A user, connected to the Internet/Web, contacts a fee-based intermediate data service which provides an interface to determine various aspects of the user's query, including output format. The intermediate data service generates a Java stripping agent which is sent to the user's browser to interface with a third party data provider. The Java stripping agent contains the knowledge to strip away the formatting of user interfaces.

Abstract: It is provided an automatic MDF control system comprising: a plurality of matrix boards provided with openings in locations where a plurality of first wires and second wires cross without electrical connections; a robot which inserts electrically conductive connecting pins into the openings and connects the first wires with the second wires where the pins are inserted; a path data conversion unit converting connection requests from an operating terminal into path data having a plurality of addresses of the openings; a robot command conversion unit receiving the path data and converting the path data into robot commands for controlling activity of the robot as a distance moved by the robot moving between the plurality of addresses being reduced by a selected sequence of the converted path data; and a robot control unit controlling the activity of the robot based on the robot commands.