Abstract: A device for recording positions within an electronic document and capable of recreating those recorded positions afterwards even if the electronic document has been changed to some extent. An index data creation unit in an information terminal creates index information for a page to display from the electronic document, and records it along with time information in an index database. When a time is specified, the index data search unit searches the index database for index information recorded near that time, and identifies the page position of that electronic document from the searched index information. A data display unit displays the beginning of the electronic document at the identified position. The information terminal is capable of managing information by linking electronic data from handwritten information written on paper with a digital pen, with the display page the electronic document by utilizing a stroke set database and a pen data processor.

Abstract: A command interpretation means is provided to allow any arbitrary combination of the method of specifying a character string or an area on a paper or a monitor display with a pen or a mouse, and the method of writing a character string or a symbol which means a command element by a pen, a keyboard, or the like. Furthermore, a command interpretation means is provided to allow an imperfect character in command element extraction.

Abstract: When a filling person fills in a document using an electronic pen, a system refers to a document information file forming a history information file and an electronic pen information file. A judging part of the system judges the presence or absence of an entry authority over the document on the basis of the pen ID of the electronic pen and the electronic pen information file. The judging part judges an entry sequence to the document on the basis of the pen ID, a document ID applied to the document, and the document information file. A judged result is transmitted from a creating part via a communication controller to the electronic pen.

Abstract: A method and a machine for generating a dictionary of address phrase expressions. One embodiment of the invention includes an apparatus for generating a dictionary of target phrases that includes an input interface for receiving as its input a first address phrase included in a list of address phrase expressions, a memory for storing a dictionary of address phrase variants, including rules for generating variants of address phrase expressions, and a processing device for generating variants of address phrases which generates a second address phrase which is different in expression from the first address phrase to output the second address phrase to a storage device holding the dictionary of target phrases, based on the input first address phrase, and the knowledge of rules about variants included in the dictionary of address phrase variants.

Abstract: A digital pen-based application form filling system with a modification prevention function, which eliminates a possibility that digital information initially written in digital paper using a digital pen may be modified deliberately or accidentally. The system prints a new fine pattern over areas in already written digital paper whose contents one wishes to protect against being modified. This printing adds a fine pattern to an original dot pattern already present on the digital paper to make it theoretically impossible to enter information into these areas using the digital pen.

Abstract: A mail system for executing a mail service has a user management part for managing the information that the user previously registered, and a unit for utilizing the registered information as the destination of mails, so that the addresses of recipients can be efficiently managed. The sender acquires an address card that has printed with a pattern linking with the information of recipients. This address card is used when the sender writes a mail, and thus it serves to reduce the load on the sending operation. If a pattern linking with usage history information is printed on the mail, it also reduces the burden on the reply operation in which the recipient sends a reply back to the sender. The use of this usage history information for grasping the usage serves to efficiently adjust and calculate the cost for the service.

Abstract: There is provided a means for allowing a computer to process modifications of entered contents such as deleting, adding, replacing, and emphasizing entered characters by maintaining the same work feeling as for ordinary writing using paper and a pen as much as possible when a tablet or an electronic pen is used as an entry means.

Abstract: When a filling person fills in a document using an electronic pen, a system refers to a document information file forming a history information file and an electronic pen information file. A judging part of the system judges the presence or absence of an entry authority over the document on the basis of the pen ID of the electronic pen and the electronic pen information file. The judging part judges an entry sequence to the document on the basis of the pen ID, a document ID applied to the document, and the document information file. A judged result is transmitted from a creating part via a communication controller to the electronic pen.

Abstract: A sign language telephone device is offered which enables an aurally handicapped person who uses the sign language to converse with a normal person at a distant place who does not know the sign language. The sign language telephone device is placed on the side of the aurally handicapped person, and hand gestures of the sign language inputted from a sign language input means are recognized as the sign language, and the recognized sign language is translated to Japanese. The translated Japanese word train is converted to synthesized voices and it is transmitted to a videophone on the side of a normal person. The voices from the videophone are recognized, and the recognized Japanese is translated to the sign language to generate sign language animations and they are displayed on the screen of a TV set on the side of the aurally handicapped person.

Abstract: A sign language telephone device is offered which enables an aurally handicapped person who uses the sign language to converse with a normal person at a distant place who does not know the sign language. The sign language telephone device is placed on the side of the aurally handicapped person, and hand gestures of the sign language inputted from a sign language input means are recognized as the sign language, and the recognized sign language is translated to Japanese. The translated Japanese word train is converted to synthesized voices and it is transmitted to a videophone on the side of a normal person. The voices from the videophone are recognized, and the recognized Japanese is translated to the sign language to generate sign language animations and they are displayed on the screen of a TV set on the side of the aurally handicapped person.

Abstract: A sign language editing apparatus includes a glove-type sensor for converting movement of fingers in the sign language into an electrical signal to produce time series data of sign language words, a sign language word data editing device for adding predetermined additional data to the time series data inputted from the glove-type sensor to process the time series data, a sign language word dictionary for storing the time series data of sign language words processed by the sign language word data editing device, a sign language sentence data editing device for reading out the time series data of sign language words stored in the sign language word dictionary in accordance with the predetermined characters inputted from the input unit and adding predetermined additional information to the time series data of sign language words to produce time series data of sign language sentence, a sign language animation synthesizing device inputted with the time series data of sign language sentence produced by the sign lan

Abstract: A cushion material and method of making the same, in which a soft polyurethane foam is cut into a slab in a predetermined form; applied to or injected into this polyurethane foam slab at a predetermined portion thereof a bonding agent or forming keeping binder which has a property to be solidified in reaction under certain conditions; said slab is shaped as compressed in a pair of forming dies into a predetermined cubic form, or integrally bonded on a cushion layer constituted by said slab of polyurethane foam another cushion layer made of polyurethane foam chips shaped in a predetermined cubic form by chopping or comminuting soft polyurethane foam scrap into chips, applying a bonding agent to them, and compressing them in a pair of forming dies.

Abstract: A cushion material and method of making the same, in which a soft polyurethane foam is cut into a slab in a predetermined form; applied to or injected into this polyurethane foam slab at a predetermined portion thereof a bonding agent or forming keeping binder which has a property to be solidified in reaction under certain conditions; said slab is shaped as compressed in a pair of forming dies into a predetermined cubic form, or integrally bonded on a cushion layer constituted by said slab of polyurethane foam another cushion layer made of polyurethane foam chips shaped in a predetermined cubic form by chopping or comminuting soft polyurethane foam scrap into chips, applying a bonding agent to them, and compressing them in a pair of forming dies.

Abstract: A method of abating nitrogen oxides in waste gases resulting from a combustion process comprises the steps of introducing the nitrogen oxides-(NOx-)containing waste gases into an enclosed furnace body having surrounding wall, at an opening of a reduced cross sectional area formed in the bottom of the furnace body, while feeding fuel and ground raw material into the furnace portion above the gas inlet opening, thus forming a jet zone, producing a reducing atmosphere in the jet zone as a result of incomplete combustion of the fuel caused by insufficient supply of air (or oxygen) for the combustion, and then bringing into mutual contact and mixing the combustion waste gases and thermal decomposition of the material, and thereby reducing the NOx in the combustion waste gases through the catalytic action of the thermal decomposition products, and an apparatus for practicing the method.