Abstract: A system for improving the level of service to the user, and billing according to user intentions while making effective use of telephone lines. The system includes a host computer (3) that controls communication services provided by telecommunications carriers, a base terminal (1) having base ID information which the host computer can identify, and a plurality of remote terminals (2A-2n.) having remote terminal ID information which the host computer can identify, to which control is transferred from the base terminal, and which communicate with the host computer.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a slave communication device which received control delegation from a master communication device and performs communication with an originating telephone apparatus through a host station based on a call originated from that originating telephone apparatus, and has a master communication device 1 having a unique master ID set therefor for using a wireless telephone line provided by a host station 3 and one or more slave communication devices 2 receiving control delegation from the master communication device 1 to perform communication using the wireless telephone line for the master communication device 1.

Abstract: An analog calculation circuit in a filter circuit is corrected in the calculation error by estimating the error from a calculation result of known inputs and known multiplier. A multiplier is changed according to the estimated error. The filter circuit has a voltage to current converter at an input side and a current to voltage converter at an output side and a calculation of current is performed therein.

Abstract: A plurality of sets of spreading code sequences are stored in registers and selectively supplied to matched filters. The soft-handover, multi-code processing and long-delay paths can be processed by a small circuit.

Abstract: A matched filter bank including a plurality of matched filters and a sampling and holding units commonly used by the total matched filters. Therefore, the circuit size is diminished. An inverting amplifier for the matched filter with a variable gain includes an input capacitance, an inverting amplifier connected to an output of the input capacitance, and a plurality of feedback capacitances connected between an input and output of the inverting amplifier. A plurality of switches are connected to input side of the feedback capacitances for alternatively connecting the feedback capcitanec to the input of the inverting amplifier or a reference voltage. The feedback capacitances connected to the reference voltage are invalid with respect to a composite capacitance of the feedback capacitance and have no influence to the amplifier.

Abstract: A signal reception apparatus for DS-CDMA communication system having a complex matched filter for despreading a received signal into I- and Q-components Di and Dq of despread signal. Dj and Dq are input to a path selection portion 13 for extracting a phase error in a pilot symbol block of the despread signal. A phase compensation signal is calculated according to the phase error in the portion 13. An information symbol is compensated according to the phase compensation signal. An electrical power is calculated from an average of the phase compensation signal of several slots for selecting paths to be received. The selected paths are combined with phase synchronized by a rake combiner 14.

Abstract: Within a building, wireless communications can be carried out by using signals at millimeter wavelengths. The building is, for instance, arranged by employing: a first antenna mounted on the side of one surface of a door or a wall, for sensing a signal having a millimeter wavelength; a second antenna mounted on the side of the other surface of the door or the wall, for radiating a signal having a millimeter wavelength; a first receiver for receiving the millimeter-wave signal sensed by the first antenna, and for converting the received millimeter-wave signal into an electric signal; and a first transmitter for converting the electric signal which is received and converted by the first receiver into the millimeter-wave signal and for transmitting the converted millimeter-wave signal via the second antenna.

Abstract: Within a building, wireless communications can be carried out by using signals at millimeter wavelengths. The building is, for instance, arranged by employing: a first antenna mounted on the side of one surface of a door or a wall, for sensing a signal having a millimeter wavelength; a second antenna mounted on the side of the other surface of the door or the wall, for radiating a signal having a millimeter wavelength; a first receiver for receiving the millimeter-wave signal sensed by the first antenna, and for converting the received millimeter-wave signal into an electric signal; and a first transmitter for converting the electric signal which is received and converted by the first receiver into the millimeter-wave signal and for transmitting the converted millimeter-wave signal via the second antenna.

Abstract: For transmitting transmission data generated by a transmission data generator of a communication terminal device, a packet unit determining unit 17 determines a packet unit for a lowest data communication rate for the transmission of the transmission data, among packet units (packet sizes) that can be recognized by a destination communication terminal device and that can be transmitted from the communication terminal device. A packet generator 18 packetizes the transmission data according to the packet unit determined by the packet unit determining unit 17, and transmits the packetized transmission data to the destination communication terminal device.

Abstract: The refrigerator has a reader/writer for writing information in and reading information from a contactless memory medium, an information holding device for storing information read by the reader/writer, and an information display device for displaying the information stored by the information holding device. As a result of the invention of the refrigerator, the number of items such as foods that can be unconsumed and discarded because of the arrival of their consume-by dates is reduced in a refrigerator, and items such as foods stored in the refrigerator can be confirmed without opening the door.

Abstract: A browser apparatus, a server apparatus, a computer-readable medium, a search system and a search method are provided which enable a user to readily execute a search on a network particularly even if the user is a computer illiterate. In other words, for instance, the browser apparatus, the server apparatus, the computer-readable medium, the search system and the search method of the present invention perform as follows: searching sites and/or pages on the network; obtaining the values of access counters in sites and/or pages found in the search; and arranging the sites and/or the pages found in the search in accordance with the obtained access counter values so that the site or the page having the larger access counter value is ranked higher, and for outputting the information on the arrangement of the sites and/or pages as the result of the search.

Abstract: A matched filter and signal reception apparatus having a low power consumption and small circuitry size. In the matched filter, an analog input signal is converted to digital data by an analog to digital (A/D) converter, digital multiplication, as a correlation calculation, is executed by a plurality of exclusive-OR circuits, and an addition of outputs of the exclusive-OR circuits is performed. In the digital multiplication, the digital data is multiplied by a spreading code of one bit. The outputs from the exclusive-OR circuits are added for each weight of bits, and the addition output results are weighted and summed together.

Abstract: The present invention offers a method and a circuit for generating codes enabling transmission of long-codes to start on a reverse channel in a shorter waiting time. The method involves corresponding a shift quantity between the beginning of a sequence M or long-codes cycle, and each timing to a combination of a plurality of masking data; determining a combination of masking data for timing to start generation of long-codes in response to a transmission request at a point of time as soon as possible; and shifting of an initial value of a vector according to the masking data.

Abstract: A method of efficiently collecting a charge for the payment of money for an article of merchandise that are purchased is used in a charge collection system having a contactless storage medium in an article tag which has recorded product information therein, a contactless storage medium in a customer terminal which has recorded customer ID information therein, and a charging device in a store. The method comprises the steps of reading the product information from the contactless storage medium in the article tag into the charging device (step 71), calculating a total amount of money with the charging device based on the read product information (step 72), settling the payment of the calculated total amount of money with the charging device by receiving corresponding cash or reading the customer ID information from the contactless storage medium in the customer terminal (steps 74-78), and recording information of the settled payment in the contactless storage medium in the article tag (steps 79, 80).

Abstract: A receiver for spread spectrum communication system receives a traffic channel and common control channel by a plurality of matched filters at least one of which is selectively available for the traffic or the common control channel. At the initial acquisition, a plurality of matched filters are used for receiving the common control channel. At the hand-over, a plurality of matched filters are used to receive traffic channels of the current base station and the base stations in the adjacent cells.

Abstract: An analog to digital converter comprises a differential input portion that receives an input voltage and a reference voltage and has a first and second output terminals, a positive feedback portion connected to said first and second output terminals, a buffer if CMOSFETs connected at its input to the first output terminal, a second buffer connected at its input to the second output terminal, and a comparison circuit including a first switching portion connected between the first and second output terminals for connecting and disconnecting the first and second output terminals in response to a comparison clock signal. The comparison circuit is connected at its output to the first or second buffer. The input voltage and the reference voltage are compared when said switching portion changes from the connecting condition to the disconnecting condition in response to the comparison clock signal.

Abstract: A filter circuit comprises a plurality of sampling and holding circuits for sampling and holding analog input signal with a predetermined sampling period, a calculation circuit for multiplying each the analog input signal by a predetermined multiplier, and for summing the multiplication results. The sampling and holding circuits are controlled in an electrical power such that the electrical power is decreased when holding.

Abstract: There is provided a tag IC that radio waves transmitted from the tag IC is intensified, so that information stored in the tag IC can be read even if the distance between the tag IC and a reader is increased. The tag IC comprises an antenna that receives/transmits signals from/to the reader with AC electromagnetic energy, an IC chip that decodes received data from the reader, calculates transmitting data based on stored data, and transmits data, and a solar cell that directly converts optical energy to electrical energy to supply power to the IC chip.

Abstract: An A/D converter having a plurality of thresholding circuits corresponding to bits of output digital data, each of which includes odd number of inverters serially connected from a first stage to a last stage. The first stage inverter of the thresholding circuits have thresholds equal to a weights of the bits. The inverters of the last stage are of thresholds different from those of the first stage.

Abstract: The present invention has an object to provide a filter circuit for communication generative an effective digital output as well as an analog output in a filter circuit of low electric power consumption. The function speed of an A/D converting circuit is minimized by intermittently holding an analog output signal according to an experience that peak detection can be performed by partially sampling the signal after the acquisition.