Abstract: A test mode switching system includes a register for storing test signal data and for outputting the test signal data to a self testing circuit for checking whether or not the LSI operates correctly. A memory stores a test inhibiting signal and a test allowing signal received from a CPU through the control signal terminal of the LSI. The register is enabled to output test signals depending on the condition of the output of the memory whereby the LSI can operate either under a normal operation mode or under a test mode.

Abstract: A method of reconciling a first list (a bank statement) formed of a first number of first records and a second list (bank customer's list of records) formed of a second number of second records where the records affect the account balance for the bank statement. For each unmatched record in the first list, a corresponding record from the second list is selected based upon a match value. Whenever the match value exceeds a threshold value, the corresponding records from the first and second lists are paired and thereafter, are removed from further reconciliation processing. The highest match value resulting from comparing record elements and other attributes of records from the first and second lists is determined as a probable match for reconciliation.

Abstract: In an inventory control method and system, changes of sales for individual goods are forecasted and the excess or deficiency of a stock of each of the goods at the present point of time is estimated from the results of forecast. In order to facilitate an inventory control, merchandise information is sorted and displayed in accordance with the degree of urgency, the degree of importance or the like of inventory adjustment on the basis of the results of estimation.

Abstract: A system for automating the dump analysis process includes a remotely located host computer system which, in response to requests from a local expert computer system, retrieves only relevant values from one or more physical memory dumps. The expert system reconstructs from these values the operating system control structures represented in the dump, and applies expert knowledge on these control structures to determine the symptom of the problem occurring on the computer system which stopped operating and generated the dump.

Abstract: Error reporting circuitry interrupts the CPU on the occurrence of a single bit memory error only when the chip member causing the error is different from the chip number that caused the previous error.

Abstract: An integrated MRP system for distributors, manufacture and job shops is provided. The MRP system of the present invention is specifically directed to an user which manufactures and sells products that have a wide variety of options. In particular, the MRP system of the present invention provides two key features. The first feature allows the user to define items which uniquely characterize the product for a customer order, purchase order, to work order. The second unique feature of the MRP system of the present invention is the application of user-defined formulas which allow the user to include user-defined formulas which determined the quantity and/or size of a part based on the selected options. Thus, the MRP system of the present invention allows the user who manufactures and sells a number of styles with a wide variety of options to employ an MRP system without a correspondingly high manintenance overhead.

Abstract: An error collection method for a sorter system having n pipelined sort elements Pi (i=1-n) of the same type and n local memories Mi (i=1-n) each connected to the corresponding sort element and having a memory capacity of at least 2.sup.i-1 record length, which includes the steps of sorting in said sort elements when one of the sort elements detects a fault; reporting contents of an error to the upper structure; analyzing the error; and restarting sorting.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method for management of an electronic memory representing predetermined homogenous units, of the generic type comprising inscribing in memory a stop indicating the balance at the end of a transaction. In this method, the memory is divided into elements including a non-specific number of cells, and at the time of a transaction, the search for the stop is performed by determining at the outset the element in which it is located, and then the precise position that it occupies in this element. A new stop is then inscribed starting at the position of this previous stop, and then this previous stop is neutralized so that it will be ignored in later transactions. The invention is applicable to electronic payment devices.

Abstract: In an MRI system, a region including a portion of interest is selectively excited in a predetermined pulse sequence to acquire 3 dimensional MR data. When the portion of interest is shifted from the center position of imaging, i.e., the center position of a gradient field, the 3 dimensional MR data is phase-corrected in accordance with the shift. The phase-corrected 3 dimensional MR data is 3-dimensional Fourier-transformed to obtain an MR image of a predetermined slice portion.

Abstract: Input signals supplied to a plurality redundant subsystems are input to an output selecting circuit after an output of a subsystem is changed from an output signal of a subsystem having a most reliable output signal to another output signal of another subsystem having a lower reliable output signal in turn using self-diagnoses and cross-diagnoses in each subsystem according to an algorithm as follows:if any subsystem has Syndrome 1 then select the subsystem(s) which has Syndrome 1,else if any subsystem has Syndrome 2 then select the subsystem(s) which has Syndrome 2;else if any subsystem has Syndrome L-1 then select the subsystem(s) which has Syndrome L-1;else output fail safe signal.The output selecting circuit outputs a selected signal by a method of majority voting based on the output signals from the subsystems.

Abstract: A method for recognizing an irradiation field on a recording medium comprises the steps of, on each of radial lines each of which connects a point located in the irradiation field with an edge of the recording medium, detecting prospective contour points, each of which is considered to be an intersection of each line and a contour of the irradiation field, together with their prospectiveness ranks, based on the image signal components corresponding to the picture elements arrayed along each line. When the prospective contour points thus detected are present in both peripheral and center regions of the recording medium, and a prospective contour point standing in the first rank is present in the peripheral region, the first rank is given to a prospective contour point which is in the highest rank among the prospective contour points located in the center region. The irradiation field is recognized based on the first-ranking prospective contour points thus determined on the lines.

Abstract: A detector and locator system monitors sequential signals to detect and locate events. In a fault detector and locator embodiment, the system monitors the sequential states of multiples signals to detect a fault and to locate the source of a fault. A Hamming encoder compresses the sequential signal to reduce the number of signature generators. Signature generators further compress the encoded signals to reduce an enormous number of states contained in the sequence of monitored signals to a relatively small set of signatures. A parity detector monitors the signature signals to generate a fault detection signal. A location circuit monitors the signature signals to generate a fault location signal.

Abstract: A matching system for trading instruments is provided in which bids are automatically matched against offers for given trading instruments for automatically providing matching transactions in order to complete trades for the given trading instruments in which controllable subsets (110, 112) of a distributable system trading book (118) may be selectively provided to trading keystations (24) in the matching system from the host computer (20) or central system for dynamically controllably masking the available trading market.

Abstract: A translation communication system having memory means for storing past communication information and past translated information including as original word/translated word pair obtained from the communication information, and supply means for supplying the translated information useful for determining the translated word candidate to the translation means. With this construction, when the translation means translates a first language into a second language in conversation, the supply means retrieves the communication information in the first language from the memory means in accordance with the input original sentence in the first language, and supplies an original word/translated word pair in accordance with the retrieval result. Therefore, as the translated word in the second language, the present system uses the same word as the original word previously input by the other side's operator who uses the second language.

Abstract: A cost estimation system estimates the cost of supplying parts to a manufacturing facility. The system comprises a first database for storing cost information for various supply methods including air freight, ocean freight, land freight, warehouse storage, plant storage and material handling costs. A user selects a supply method for the parts, and has the option to select a percentage of one type of transportation and a percentage of an alternate type of transportation to serve as a back-up. A user also enters delivery frequency data indicating one or more frequencies of delivery to base a cost estimation. A computer processor then estimates the cost of supplying the parts at the one or more frequencies of delivery and the selected supply method. Finally, the cost estimates are presented to a user.

Abstract: A portable computer terminal device. The terminal device includes data input means which is psychologically acceptable to physicians, lawyers and other professionals and includes a carrying case of unusually lightweight and compact construction. Data stored in the terminal device can be printed on multiple sheet business forms. The data can also be displayed by projecting a CRT light beam on a collapsible, high resolution screen carried in the terminal device.

Abstract: A method of reducing image artifacts in tomographic projection imaging systems where the projection data is acquired using continuous gantry motion and using a variable table velocity to transport the imaged object past the rotating gantry. The table velocity is decreased when the projections are being acquired near the slice plane and increased when the projections being acquired are further from the slice plane. The table position is coordinated with the acquisition of projections so that the middle projections of the tomographic projection set are acquired close to the slice plane and the beginning and end projections are acquired when the projections are taken furthest from the slice plane. Interpolation procedures are used to further reduce image artifacts resulting from the taking of projection data at points removed from the slice plane.

Abstract: An x-ray CT system acquires attenuation data over a field of view which is larger than the field of view of the reconstructed image. The data used to reconstruct the image is compensated for the shading effects otherwise caused by objects outside the image, but within the x-ray path. This compensation is accomplished with minimal impact on computation time by using a first order estimation of the convolution of the acquired attenuation data outside the image field of view.

Abstract: The method of detecting the direction of insertion of an endoscope includes the steps of a) forming a system of images made of a plurality of picture images which have a different number of pixels from the same endoscope image, and b) extracting a spatially largest region including an average gray level and variance of gray level within predetermined ranges by examining the average gray level and variance of the gray level of respective pixels in a plurality of picture images formed by the forming step. The region extracted by the extracting step is considered to be an endoscope insertion direction.

Abstract: A computer aided software engineering tool is disclosed which is particularly well adapted to identify potential Assembly language source code errors resulting from incorrectly used symbolic and literal address constructs. This objective is achieved by providing a debugging program which has a complete awareness of the specific machine interfaces, conventions and symbol sets. By essentially stepping through the Assembly language statements (without regard to neighboring statements), the debugging program is able, through such examination, to identify, in the Assembly language program under study, specific instances of the use of statements containing possibly incorrect symbolic or literal address constructs and to run closely related additional tests. The programmer may then examine the denoted Assembly language code to determine if a genuine error exists.