Abstract: An automated procurement system, in which a buyer workstation is in communication with a mainframe database that stores global data relevant to procurement documents and reports. The workstation is programmed with an interactive buyer interface that displays procurement documents, provides support data to aid in decision-making, and provides various document attachments. Data is uploaded and downloaded to and from the mainframe and the workstation in a manner that is transparent to the buyer.

Abstract: A data collection system is disclosed for use with a panel of human respondents who answer a series of questions, and their answers are analyzed and displayed on video monitors in real time. The respondents use "smart" keypads to enter their answers using a numerical value from zero (0) through ten (10), inclusive. The numerical values from up to twenty (20) of the keypads are communicated to an intelligent junction box, at which time the numerical values are temporarily stored in memory, retaining the identity of the keypad from which each answer was derived. Up to ten (10) intelligent junction boxes can be connected to a central computer, which is a standard DOS-based personal computer, thereby allowing up to two hundred (200) keypads to be in use in a single data collection system. The numerical values from the junction boxes are communicated to the central computer and analyzed, using statistical techniques.

Abstract: The present invention provides a system capable of scheduling conventional tournaments. The system may also be made universal in that the system may be adapted for use in different types of tournaments such as single or double elimination tournaments for any type of tournament event. The tournament management system includes a digital computer having a processor operating under a set of instructions, memory, at least one input port, and at least one output port. Also included is a data entry device such as a keyboard for entering and converting tournament information into machine readable data signals. The data entry device is connected to the computer via a first data transfer device. Tournament information data signals are received and stored in computer memory for processing by the processor.

Abstract: The invention concerns a text translation system, wherein the memory of a computer system stores the word type, the semantic type, a juncture code, a position code, a transfer code, as well as the associated translation into the target language for each word of the source language. By means of the juncture code and the position code, the compounds of the source language are decomposed into the words of which they consist. For these words the associated translations into the target language are read from the memory. The translations are then compounded following standard translation rules. For this purpose, translation peculiarities of compounds are taken into account by the transfer code. The invention eliminates storing compounds in the memory of the computer system. Instead, only the individual words of which the compounds consist are stored.

Abstract: Three-dimensional models are constructed from two-dimensional tomographic data collected from contiguous, substantially parallel, cross-sectional tomographic slices through an imaged object. The scan angle of each cross-sectional tomographic slice is variably disposed at a predetermined, non-perpendicular angle with respect to a longitudinal axis through the scanner/imaged object to better depict certain structures and/or shapes of the scanner/imaged object. Optimum scan angle generated two-dimensional tomographic data is selected to reconstruct three-dimensional images depicting the surface and/or interior structure of the imaged object. The optimum two-dimensional data set is supplied to a three-dimensional model generator to form a three-dimensional model of the imaged object.

Abstract: A system for mapping and/or displaying spatio-temporal features of underlying event-related neural activity involves measuring the event-related evoked potential values at a limited number of points over the region of interest, deriving a first grid of potential values at points over the area of interest representing at least a tenfold increase in the number of points by a Kriging-type of spatial statistical interpolation, and using the first grid to derive for the region of interest a second grid of points current density values by a Laplacian conversion. A plurality of second grids of current density values spaced apart in time are derived and displayed on a monitor in cartoon-type fashion to provide a cartoon-type display of the features of the event-related evoked response over the region of interest varying with time. Various other displays are possible for highlighting specific features.

Abstract: A customer self ordering system is provided for a retail sales store that reduces labor costs, increases efficiency, facilitates managerial tasks and improves customer service. The system provides one or more clusters, each of which is usually operated by a single employee. At least two customer ordering terminals are included with each cluster. A customer enters an order by manipulating a touch screen at each customer ordering terminal. Software for running the customer ordering terminals is designed to be self-teaching, while the proximity of the customer terminal to a cashier terminal at the cluster permits easy customer access of employees for assistance. Terminals may be provided in order preparation areas for displaying customer orders. Additionally, the system operates several managerial subroutines, and the system can accumulate all order data quickly and efficiently for accounting purposes.

Abstract: A communication apparatus comprises a memory for storing telephone numbers of a plurality of communication destinations together with destination data including character information such as abbreviations; a search unit for searching the destination data stored in the memory; a selection unit for selecting a language; and a set unit for setting an order of search for the destination data by the search unit in accordance with the language selected by the selection unit.

Abstract: An apparatus housed in a booth for automatically producing printed postcards incorporating a self-portrait of the user integrated into a pictorial background including a cash-receiving device, a computer triggered by cash received in the device, a video camera in the booth to view the user, a video monitor on which the video camera image of the user is displayed, a series of pictorial backgrounds in digitized electronic form stored in the computer for selective withdrawal therefrom by the user to be integrated with their image and a printer for obtaining the integrated user's pose and pictorial background and printing it on a postcard for immediate use.

Abstract: A computerized urological diagnostic method and system for use, for example, in preoperative assessment of prostatectomy candidates and other therapeutical measures in patients (males and females) with voiding complaints. The system includes a digital processor, a database, suitable input/output devices, and pressure and flow rate trandsucers for measure the patient's isometric detrusor pressure immediately before voiding and detrusor pressure and flow rate during micturition. These signals are processed and displayed to provide the clinician with objective data of bladder contractility and urethral resistance. With such data, the clinician can make informed treatment decisions.

Abstract: An endoscope image signal photoelectrically converted by an image sensing device in an endoscope is compressed by an image compressing apparatus and then recorded in a recording apparatus, whereby the number of image frames recordable in the recording apparatus can be increased. Also, the image compression is effectively performed, for example, by changing a compression ratio dependent on a quantity of respective image information contained in plural components of the endoscope image signal, whereby a quantity of information actually recorded can be reduced.

Abstract: The disclosed technique and apparatus utilizes the different characteristic responses of a plurality of signals from a propagation or induction well logging device to determine the vertical and horizontal resistivity of formations surrounding a borehole.

Abstract: An image filing apparatus comprises a drive device which is loaded with an optical disk capable of storing a plurality of signals, and with which image signals representing images and subsidiary information belonging to each of the images are stored on the optical disk and read therefrom. When the image signals and the subsidiary information corresponding to each of the image signals are stored on the optical disk loaded into the drive device, a data base constructing device constructs an image signal retrieving data base from the subsidiary information such that an image signal corresponding to the subsidiary information may be retrieved. A storage device stores the data base such that it can be rewritten. A data base construction preventing device inspects the subsidiary information when an image signal and the subsidiary information corresponding to the image signal are stored on the optical disk loaded into the drive device.

Abstract: A method and system for graphic representation of the availability of desired meeting attendees, meeting sites and elements of equipment for use in a data processing system having a display and a calendar database listing scheduled calendar events. A graphically distinctive object is associated with each desired meeting attendee, meeting site and/or element of equipment for use in a data processing system having a display and a calendar database listing scheduled calendar events. A graphically distinctive object is associated with each desired meeting attendee, meeting site and element of equipment.

Abstract: A memory structure and related method for collecting and maintaining data descriptive of a multiplicity of interrelated process flows is disclosed. A complex memory structure includes job entities, operation entities, and process entities. Operation entities are subordinate to job entities, and process entities are subordinate to operation entities. These entities are represented by tables which are linked together to indicate their position in the hierarchy and their sequencing within a process flow. The process entities describe specific activities accomplished by an organization in achieving organizational goals. Typically, resources are either consumed or released, or both, during a process. Bill-of-resource tables are subordinate to process entities and populated with data which identify resources consumed by corresponding processes in the process flow.

Abstract: An interactive golf game information system receives, stores, analyzes and outputs a plurality of different types of information related to golf. The system generates a golf play recording card for every hole on a golf course. The recording cards can be customized to display information on how previous rounds of golf on the same course were played or how the system recommends to play the course. A golfer uses these recording cards to record a single character for each stroke on each hole. Each single character represents one of a number of golf clubs used and a golf ball location on the actual golf course. After the golfer is finished playing, the cards are inserted into the system which reads the marks recorded on the golf play recording cards by recognizing each of the characters marked on each card. After the system reads and processes the information recorded on the cards, the system compiles statistical information and analyzes a golfer's performance based on information recorded read.

Abstract: An infusion management and pumping system is disclosed. Infusion prescriptions are generated and monitored by a pharmacy management system. Labels for each infusion to be given to a patient are generated and printed in a bar code format. Each label contains data regarding a prescribed infusion program, including the drug or drugs to be infused, the infusion regimen, the expiration date, and the patient to whom the infusion is to be administered. The management system checks for incompatibilities between drugs that are being prescribed for simultaneous infusion. Each label generated by the management system is attached to the container which holds the infusion solution. The data on the label is transferred to an infusion pumping system by a bar code reader at the infusion pumping system. The pumping system checks that all necessary data has been entered. During operation, the pumping system checks for a variety of alarm conditions and stores any alarms in a ranking according to urgency.

Abstract: A computer program is described which makes it easier for a computer programmer to view and understand the source code of other programs. The user can look up the definition of, or references to, a name without typing the name. After the name has been looked up, the user can return automatically to his original location in the text. Multiple return locations are saved. The invention incorporates knowledge of the syntax of the programming language and creates an internal cross-reference. As a result, lookups are rapid and accurate.

Abstract: An energy subtraction processing method and apparatus for radiation images includes irradiating radiation, which has a predetermined energy range, into an object in a recording unit, and irradiating the radiation, which has passed through the object, to a recording medium capable of recording a plurality of radiation images during its exposure to radiation with different energy distributions. A plurality of radiation images of the object are thereby recorded on the recording medium. From the recording medium on which the radiation images have been recorded, a plurality of image signals are obtained by a read-out unit. The image signals represent the radiation images of the object. A modulation transfer function (MTF) correcting process is carried out on the image signals in an operation unit such that differences between MTF's of the radiation images of the object may be eliminated.

Abstract: An electronic cash register includes a cash drawer, a memory for storing upper limits of the total amount of cash to be received in the cash drawer for different periods of time, and a processing section for generating total amount data indicating the total amount of cash stored in the cash drawer, comparing the generated total amount data with the upper limit of the total cash amount set for the current time and generating a warning to require the collection of cash when the total amount data is equal to or larger than the upper limit of the total cash amount.