Abstract: A photographic apparatus, system and related method is disclosed to prevent overexposure at the time of upper-body photography. Strobe lights are incorporated in the photographic system, where the strobe lamps are offset from a directional line leading from the photographic apparatus to the user. The lights are activated in a sequence to minimize the incidence of shading. A photograph print system associated with the photographic system includes a photographic device for capturing a photograph of a user. An image output device forms an image on the basis of the photograph for output to a print sheet.

Abstract: The present invention relates to an image printing apparatus, devised such that numerous users can reliably and efficiently input editorial input. A first user utilizes operating panel 13-1, and a second user utilizes operating panel 13-2, respectively. Because an image photographed by CCD camera 15 is displayed on operating panel 13-1 and operating panel 13-2, each user selects an image he likes, and inputs image editing such as additional images by operating a control button displayed on the operating panel that he is using with a touch pen 14-1 or 14-2.

Abstract: In a fuzzy control apparatus in which a rule is capable of being changed during operation, a fuzzy reasoning output which prevails immediately prior to a rule change is stored when a rule change is made, and a fuzzy-control output is generated by combining, after the rule change, the stored fuzzy reasoning output which prevailed immediately prior to the rule change and a fuzzy reasoning output which prevails following the rule change. The ratio of the combination is altered in such a manner that, with the passage of time from the moment at which the rule change is made, there is a gradual decrease in a percentage of the fuzzy reasoning output which prevailed immediately prior to the rule change, and a gradual increase in a percentage of the fuzzy reasoning output which prevails following the rule change, in the fuzzy-control output.

Abstract: A control system for detecting a potentially faulty detector which may be causing faulty actuation of an actuator of a controlled system has an input-signal memory for storing the state of an input signal from the detector, an auxiliary input-signal memory for storing the state of an input signal provided by an auxiliary-signal generator, an arithmetic-logic unit for generating an output signal to be applied to the actuator in accordance with predetermined logic in conformity with the states of the input signals stored in the input-signal memory and auxiliary input-signal memory, and an output-signal memory for storing the state of an output signal generated by the arithmetic-logic unit. An identification code of an abnormal output signal corresponding to the abnormal actuator which is designated, and an input signal that has influenced a logical operation, performed by the arithmetic-logic unit, and which gave rise to the designated abnormal output signal, is extracted.

Abstract: In a fuzzy control apparatus in which a rule is capable of being changed during operation, a fuzzy reasoning output which prevails immediately prior to a rule change is stored when a rule change is made, and a fuzzy-control output is generated by combining, after the rule change, the stored fuzzy reasoning output which prevailed immediately prior to the rule change and a fuzzy reasoning output which prevails following the rule change. The ratio of the combination is altered in such a manner that, with the passage of time from the moment at which the rule change is made, there is a gradual decrease in a percentage of the fuzzy reasoning output which prevailed immediately prior to the rule change, and a gradual increase in a percentage of the fuzzy reasoning output which prevails following the rule change, in the fuzzy-control output.

Abstract: A plurality of rules each constituted by providing pairs of input variables and membership functions in its antecedent and a pair of an output variable and a membership function provided in its consequent are set in a RAM. Antecedent processing is executed for each input variable in such a manner as to perform antecedent processing, when input data is received, with regard to all rules to which an input variable of the received input data is related. Then antecedent processing is performed when another input data for another input variable received with regard to all rules to which such another input variable of the received input data is related. Consequently, fuzzy reasoning processing is efficiently performed.

Abstract: In the antecedents of a group of fuzzy reasoning rules, a proposition x1=PL which appears the most frequently is extracted, and one group consisting of Rules 1, 2, 6, 8, 9 which contain this proposition is formed. Rule 8, in which only the proposition x1=PL is contained in its antecedent, is placed at the beginning of an array of rules. In the Rules 1, 2, 6, 9 which remain, a proposition x2=PM which appears the next most frequently is extracted, and a sub-group consisting of Rules 1, 6, 9 which contain this proposition is formed. The rules of this sub-group are arranged in a fixed order following the Rule 8. The remaining Rule 2 is placed next in the array. Processing is performed in similar fashion with regard to other Rules 3, 4, 5, 7, 10. By thus rearranging rules in accordance with a sequence which includes propositions having a high frequency of appearance, redundant processing regarding redundant propositions is eliminated and processing is made more efficient.

Abstract: In a fuzzy control apparatus in which a rule is capable of being changed during operation, a fuzzy reasoning output which prevails immediately prior to a rule change is stored when a rule change is made, and a fuzzy-control output is generated by combining, after the rule change, the stored fuzzy reasoning output which prevailed immediately prior to the rule change and a fuzzy reasoning output which prevails following the rule change. The ratio of the combination is altered in such a manner that, with the passage of time from the moment at which the rule change is made, there is a gradual decrease in a percentage of the fuzzy reasoning output which prevailed immediately prior to the rule change, and a gradual increase in a percentage of the fuzzy reasoning output which prevails following the rule change, in the fuzzy-control output.

Abstract: The invention relates to a signal processor to be built into a controller or the like for receiving various input signals and generating control signals according to the input signals. The signal processor includes an internal bus interconnecting various components of the signal processor. The invention also includes a first input-output controller for controlling the application of input signals to the signal processor and the output of control signals from the signal processor. The first input-output controller operates under the control of a switch in which the switching criteria for the switch is whether or not the signal processor is using its internal bus. Accordingly, the first input-output controller is allowed access to the signal processor depending on whether or not the internal bus of the signal processor is being used.