Abstract: In a receiver computer 100, a transmission controller 111 transmits user interface data 171 to a transmitter computer 200. In the transmitter computer 200, a display processing unit 213 causes a user interface for inputting print settings information to be displayed on the screen of a monitor 250, based on the transmitted user interface data 171. When the print settings information is input via an input device 240, a transmission controller 211 transmits color image data 271, color-correction source data 272, and the input print settings information to the receiver computer 100. In the receiver computer 100, a print processing unit 114 carries out a variety of processing operations with respect to color image data, based on the print settings information. A color correction element 118 in the print processing unit 114 carries out a color correction of the color image data using the color-correction source data 272 and color-correction destination data 172 read from a hard disk 170.

Abstract: In an image data server 200, a preview data generation unit 218 generates preview data corresponding to image data, and a transmission controller 211 transmits the preview data to a computer system 100 in an image receiver apparatus. In accordance with another possible application, the preview data is not generated by the image data server 200, but is generated by a computer system 300 in an image transmitter apparatus, which transmits the image data to the image data server 200, and transmitted to the image data server 200. In the computer system 100 in the image receiver apparatus, a display controller 113 causes the contents of the preview data to be displayed on the screen of a monitor 150. The user determines whether or not the image data corresponding to the displayed preview image is required. In response to an instruction for transfer of the image data input from the user, a transmission controller 111 transmits a request for transfer of the image data to the image data server 200.

Abstract: In an image data server 200, a preview data generation unit 218 generates preview data corresponding to image data, and a transmission controller 211 transmits the preview data to a computer system 100 in an image receiver apparatus. In accordance with another possible application, the preview data is not generated by the image data server 200, but is generated by a computer system 300 in an image transmitter apparatus, which transmits the image data to the image data server 200, and transmitted to the image data server 200. In the computer system 100 in the image receiver apparatus, a display controller 113 causes the contents of the preview data to be displayed on the screen of a monitor 150. The user determines whether or not the image data corresponding to the displayed preview image is required. In response to an instruction for transfer of the image data input from the user, a transmission controller 111 transmits a request for transfer of the image data to the image data server 200.

Abstract: A management agent ME1 of a target T1 receives a request of log-in from an initiator of interest and determines whether or not a number of initiators that currently log in the target T1 reaches a predetermined allowable number of simultaneous log-in (steps S210 and S212). In the case of an affirmative answer, the management agent ME1 reads an ordinal number of precedence ‘n’ allocated to a GUID of the initiator of interest from a queue (step S213) and reads a time constant mapped to the input ordinal number of precedence ‘n’ from a time constant table (step S214). The management agent ME1 subsequently sends a status packet, which includes a log-in error status and the time constant, to the initiator of interest (step S216). The initiator of interest receives the status packet, reads the time constant included in the input status packet, and outputs another request of log-in to the target T1 at a timing specified by the time constant.

Abstract: In a receiver computer 100, a transmission controller 111 transmits user interface data 171 to a transmitter computer 200. In the transmitter computer 200, a display processing unit 213 causes a user interface for inputting print settings information to be displayed on the screen of a monitor 250, based on the transmitted user interface data 171. When the print settings information is input via an input device 240, a transmission controller 211 transmits color image data 271, color-correction source data 272, and the input print settings information to the receiver computer 100. In the receiver computer 100, a print processing unit 114 carries out a variety of processing operations with respect to color image data, based on the print settings information. A color correction element 118 in the print processing unit 114 carries out a color correction of the color image data using the color-correction source data 272 and color-correction destination data 172 read from a hard disk 170.

Abstract: Device abstraction units 28a and 28b respectively transmit various pieces of control information and data to and from devices 34a and 34b, and carry out abstraction of the devices 34a and 34b (that is, abstraction of the hardware) with respect to upper constituents. Interface units 22a and 22b transmit various pieces of control information and data to and from the device abstraction units 28a and 28b, and provide an application unit 20 with an identical interface. Communications path abstraction units 24a and 24b carry out abstraction of communications paths 26a and 26b in the process of transmission of various pieces of control information and data via the communications paths 26a and 26b across a process boundary or a network boundary. This arrangement of the present invention enables a substantially fixed control according to an applications program, regardless of the type of the device or the type of the communications path.

Abstract: Noise adding unit 700 reads the downloaded target JPEG image from memory and adds designated noise to that JPEG image. Reverse DCT transformation unit 710 performs reverse discrete cosine transformation on the noise-added JPEG image, and transforms it from space frequency to spatial coordinates. Binarization unit 720 binarizes the image that has been expanded to spatial coordinates. This makes it possible to achieve the same processing as half-tone processing on images that have undergone normal orthogonal transformation without putting a large burden on the CPU, etc. and with a small data volume even when transferring via a communication path.

Abstract: A temperature information detecting device for an angle sensor is provided for detecting only temperature-dependent components based on middle-point potentials when a constant current is supplied to a bridge circuit for an angle sensor, for acquiring a temperature of the angle sensor from the temperature-dependent components, for employing compensating information corresponding to the acquired temperature without separately providing any additional temperature sensor, and for making temperature compensation of the output of the temperature sensor in automatically controlling the valve opening of a flow control valve.

Abstract: Noise adding unit 700 reads the downloaded target JPEG image from memory and adds designated noise to that JPEG image. Reverse DCT transformation unit 710 performs reverse discrete cosine transformation on the noise-added JPEG image, and transforms it from space frequency to spatial coordinates. Binarization unit 720 binarizes the image that has been expanded to spatial coordinates. This makes it possible to achieve the same processing as half-tone processing on images that have undergone normal orthogonal transformation without putting a large burden on the CPU, etc. and with a small data volume even when transferring via a communication path.

Abstract: Device abstraction units 28a and 28b respectively transmit various pieces of control information and data to and from devices 34a and 34b, and carry out abstraction of the devices 34a and 34b (that is, abstraction of the hardware) with respect to upper constituents. Interface units 22a and, 22b transmit various pieces of control information and data to and from the device abstraction units 28a and 28b, and provide an application unit 20 with an identical interface. Communications path abstraction units 24a and 24b carry out abstraction of communications paths 26a and 26b in the process of transmission of various pieces of control information and data via the communications paths 26a and 26b across a process boundary or a network boundary. This arrangement of the present invention enables a substantially fixed control according to an applications program, regardless of the type of the device or the type of the communications path.

Abstract: A field apparatus (1a) comprises a diagnosis unit (11) diagnosing abnormality of oneself or a controlled element and a bidirectional digital communication means (22) to send a digital signal which shows a diagnosis result to outside and to receive the digital signal from outside in order to execute a control of controlled element and other predetermined functions based on a command signal received by a analog communications means (17) that can receive a analog signal from outside. A electric power for operation is supplied through a switching means (18, 53) that can switch either a electric power that is supplied by the analog communications means (17) or a electric power that is supplied by the bidirectional digital communication mean (22).

Abstract: An annotation database section 232 of a hard disk drive 208 stores annotation data corresponding to each file separately from the file. The annotation data include attribute information, history information, and location information regarding each file. In response to input of desired conditions of an object file to be extracted, a data management module 226 reads out annotation data that meet the input conditions. An annotation information analyzer module 224 analyzes the syntax of the annotation data to gain location information. A data management module 226 obtains the object file from a location identified by the location information. Even when the object file is located at a remote place, for example, in a server on a network, this arrangement enables the object file to be readily extracted. The object file may be an image file or any other file.

Abstract: An image display system transmits and receives supplied data which can be converted by a virtual machine among plural processing devices which are connected via a transmission line, and creates and displays an image. At least two processing devices among the plural processing devices each includes an image display device. At least one of the image display devices includes a conversion device, in which a virtual machine is provided, that converts the supplied data into a data format in which an image can be displayed, a communication interface section that receives the supplied data from another processing device, and a storage device in which created images are stored and which can be accessed from another processing device via the communication interface section.

Abstract: A correlation element 134 correlates a source device with a destination device according to an instruction given by the user. A decision element 122 determines whether or not a certain combination of device classes is operable as a composite device. In the case of the affirmative answer, a determination element 136 identifies the type of the composite device and specifies a user interface for operating the composite device. A data output element 132 then displays the specified user interface in a window on a monitor 170 at a specific timing. This arrangement effectively improves the operatability of the device control.

Abstract: When a user drags and drops a digital camera category icon 705 onto a printer category icon 702, an application unit 112 detects the drag and drop action (S106). The application unit 112 gains access to a server 400 (S108), and obtains data regarding the names of individual digital cameras and the names of individual printers present on a network 500 and corresponding icons, out of pieces of information stored in a common database 410 (S110). The application unit 112 subsequently opens a digital camera category window 601 and a printer category window 602 on a screen 182 of a monitor 180, based on the obtained data, and causes device icons of the digital cameras and device icons of the printers to be displayed simultaneously but separately in the window 601 and in the window 602 (step S112). This arrangement ensures the user good usability and operatability when the user requires some operation between an arbitrary set of devices.

Abstract: An information processing system 1 of the present invention includes an information processing terminal 2, an external storage device 3, and a data communication bus 4. The information processing terminal 2 has an I/O control circuit 20, a RISC-type CPU 21, and a code morphing module 22. A code conversion selection sub-module 22a of the code morphing module 22 selects either one of code conversion sub-modules 22b and 22c, based on predetermined information stored in a configuration ROM 30b, which is set in a data memory area 30 of the external storage device 3. The code conversion selection sub-module 22a also switches over the setting used for operations of the information processing terminal 2 to an operating system corresponding to the predetermined information.

Abstract: In the case of a series of connectionless transactions starting from a target, a management agent of the target writes an own GUID into a log-in inducement register provided in a common memory via an IEEE1394 bus, so as to induce an initiator to log in. A controller of the initiator checks the log-in inducement register. In the case where the GUID is written in the log-in inducement register, the controller determines that it has received an inducement of log-in and sends a log-in packet to the target with a view to logging in the target. The management agent receives the log-in packet and sends a status packet, which represents a response of accepted log-in, to the initiator. This arrangement of the present invention enables the data transmission starting from the target by the series of connectionless transactions.

Abstract: Device abstraction units 28a and 28b respectively transmit various pieces of control information and data to and from devices 34a and 34b, and carry out abstraction of the devices 34a and 34b (that is, abstraction of the hardware) with respect to upper constituents. Interface units 22a and 22b transmit various pieces of control information and data to and from the device abstraction units 28a and 28b, and provide an application unit 20 with an identical interface. Communications path abstraction units 24a and 24b carry out abstraction of communications paths 26a and 26b in the process of transmission of various pieces of control information and data via the communications paths 26a and 26b across a process boundary or a network boundary. This arrangement of the present invention enables a substantially fixed control according to an applications program, regardless of the type of the device or the type of the communications path.

Abstract: A base station 4 is located in a coffee shop. Each customer of the coffee shop can gain access to and freely use the Internet via a local server 3 in the coffee shop. As the coffee shop automatically provides the free Internet connection service, a certain Web page specified by the local server 3 is bound to be displayed as an initial window on a browser of a communication terminal 10. The specified Web page includes, for example, a menu and advertisement of the coffee shop. This technique ensures commercial effects by providing each customer with the Internet connection service.

Abstract: A temperature information detecting device for an angle sensor is provided for detecting only temperature-dependent components based on middle-point potentials when a constant current is supplied to a bridge circuit for an angle sensor, for acquiring a temperature of the angle sensor from the temperature-dependent components, for employing compensating information corresponding to the acquired temperature without separately providing any additional temperature sensor, and for making temperature compensation of the output of the temperature sensor in automatically controlling the valve opening of a flow control valve.