Abstract: A multicolor image-forming material comprising: an image-receiving sheet comprising a support and an image-receiving layer; and at least four (yellow, magenta, cyan, black and the like) thermal transfer sheets each comprising a support, a light-to-heat converting layer and an image-forming layer, wherein image-recording is performed by the method comprising superposing each one of the at least four thermal transfer sheets on the image-receiving sheet to be in a state of the image-forming layer being in contact with the image-receiving layer; and irradiating the thermal transfer sheet with laser beams in two-dimensional array to transfer an image in an area of the image-forming layer subjected to irradiation onto the image-receiving layer, and a recording area of a multicolor image in each of the thermal transfer sheets is a size of 515 mm×728 mm or more, a resolution of the transferred image is 2,400 dpi or more, and each of the light-to-heat converting layers comprises from 1 to 20% by weight of a substance

Abstract: A connection setting apparatus having a connection information acquiring unit for acquiring first connection information from a plurality of apparatus connected to a network, each apparatus having at least one line, and a generating unit for generating second connection information in accordance with the acquired first connection information.

Abstract: In a communication system capable of establishing synchronization among a plurality of communication apparatuses, a master node transmits a WC packet including a system time and a sample count to a transmission node and a reception node. The transmission node transmits a data packet to the reception node while establishing synchronization by using the WC packet. The reception node processes the received data packet while establishing synchronization by using the WC packet.

Abstract: To provide a white heat transfer recording material having a high hiding power and a high recording sensitivity, and a heat transfer recording material which shows no hue change after image formation and which can provide a hue equal to that of printed matters, can provide a high sensitivity and can be used for package and print color proof, the heat transfer recording material includes a support; a light-to-heat conversion layer containing a light-to-heat conversion material and a matting agent having an average particle diameter of more than 0.5 ?m and less than 5 ?m; and an image-forming layer containing titanium oxide, or the heat transfer recording material includes a light-to-heat conversion layer having a absorbance of 1.0 to 2.0 at a peak wavelength of laser light; and a ratio of the absorbance to a thickness of the light-to-heat conversion layer of 2.5 to 3.2.

Abstract: A command synchronization establishment system using a network wherein data is transferred by an isochroous transfer, a command is transferred by an asynchronous transfer, and a synchronized clock is shared by apparatuses connected to the network, the system comprising a controller connected to the network, comprising a transmitter that transmits a command including a time-stamp to a target apparatus by using the asynchronous transfer, and the target apparatus connected to the network, comprising a receiver that receives the command, a storage device that temporally stores the received command in order not to execute the received command instantly, and a executing device that executes the received command in accordance with the time-stamp included in the command to be executed.

Abstract: An image receiving sheet having a high transfer rate and high sensitivity, and a heat transfer recording method using the image receiving sheet. The image receiving sheet is formed by an image receiving layer disposed on a support. A surface energy of the image receiving layer is 23 to 35 mj/cm2. A cushion layer is preferably formed between the support and the image receiving layer. In the heat transfer recording method, a heat transferable sheet is set in close contact with the image receiving sheet to form an ink image on the image receiving sheet by heat transfer. The ink image is then transferred to a permanent support. The heat transfer recording method uses the image receiving sheet having the image receiving layer with the surface energy of 23 to 35 mj/m2.

Abstract: An authorized node has a normal data input/output mode for directly inputting and outputting digital data without performing thereon specific data processing such as an encrypting process, and a protected data input/output mode forpreventing digital data from being received by an unauthorized node. The protected data input/output mode is executed in one of two different forms: one form which causes the digital data, having undergone an encrypting process, to be input and output to and from a communication network; and the other form which does not involve input/output of the digital data via the communication network. A plurality of such authorized nodes are inter-connected to build a communication network which permits free data communication only between the authorized nodes. Upon detecting that any unauthorized node is newly connected to the communication network, a monitor node instructs the authorized nodes to conduct a data input/output operation in the protected data input/output mode.

Abstract: The present invention provides an image forming method comprising the steps (1) to (5): (1) forming a first negative photosensitive resin layer on a substrate; (2) forming a barrier layer on the first negative photosensitive resin layer; (3) forming a second negative photosensitive resin layer on the barrier layer; (4) exposing the substrate, on which the first and second negative photosensitive resin layers are formed, to light via a photo mask having at least two types of light transmissible patterns; and (5) developing the exposed first and second negative photosensitive resin layers, wherein a photosensitivity ratio of the first negative photosensitive resin layer to the second negative photosensitive resin layer (the first/the second) is more than 1. The invention also provides a color filter, a spacer for a liquid crystal display device, and a projection for orientation control, each of which is formed by the method.

Abstract: A multicolor image-forming material comprising: an image-receiving sheet comprising a support and an image-receiving layer; and at least four (yellow, magenta, cyan, black and the like) thermal transfer sheets each comprising a support, a light-to-heat converting layer and an image-forming layer, wherein image-recording is performed by the method comprising superposing each one of the at least four thermal transfer sheets on the image-receiving sheet to be in a state of the image-forming layer being in contact with the image-receiving layer; and irradiating the thermal transfer sheet with laser beams in two-dimensional array to transfer an image in an area of the image-forming layer subjected to irradiation onto the image-receiving layer, and a recording area of a multicolor image in each of the thermal transfer sheets is a size of 515 mm×728 mm or more, a resolution of the transferred image is 2,400 dpi or more, and each of the light-to-heat converting layers comprises from 1 to 20% by weight of a subs

Abstract: Dominated nodes A, B and C equip only with lower layers 1a, 2a and 3a, and upper layers for the lower layers are not equipped. Each of the lower layers 1a, 2a and 3a comprises a preset device, and managing information for managing a communication function of the lower layer is read from the preset device and set to a function device of the lower layer. The dominated nodes A, B and C can execute isochronous transmission without a dominating node equipped with an upper layer for managing the lower layers. The dominating node is not always necessary on an IEEE1394 bus.

Abstract: A communications apparatus having: a communication cable receptacle having signal terminals and power supply terminals for connection to a communication cable having signal lines and power supply lines; a communication interface for transferring a signal to and from an external via the signal terminals of the communication cable receptacle; and one or a plurality of light emitting elements capable of emitting light, the light emitting element being disposed near the communication cable receptacle, being selectively connected to the power supply terminals of the communication cable receptacle, and being capable of displaying at least one of a communication state, a state of the apparatus, an alarm state, and a connection state of the apparatus while receiving a power from the communication cable via the power supply terminals.

Abstract: A multicolor itage-forming material comprising: an image-receiving sheet comprising a support and an image-receiving layer; and at least four thermal transfer sheets each comprising a support, a light-to-heat converting layer and an image-forming layer, and each having a different color, wherein an image is formed by the method comprising the steps of: superposing each one of the at least four thermal transfer sheets on the image-receiving sheet to be in a state of the image-forming layer being in contact with the image-receiving layer; and irradiating the thermal transfer sheet with a laser beam to transfer an image in an area of the image-forming layer subjected to irradiation onto the image-receiving layer, the image-receiving sheet has both lengthwise and breadthwise lengths of 50 cm or more, and an area (length×breadth) of 3,000 cm2 or more, and a spectral reflectance of a surface of the image-receiving layer to the laser beam is 65% or more.

Abstract: A communication system comprises: a dominated node comprising a lower layer having a communication device that transmits/receives a signal to/from another node connected to a network, a notifying device that notifies said another node that the dominated node does not have an upper layer when the communication device receives a signal to an upper layer, and a processor that executes a process in accordance with the received signal corresponding to the lower layer; and a dominating node comprising a lower layer having a communication device that transmits/receives a signal to/from another node connected to the network, a first upper layer that manages the lower layer, and a second upper layer that manages the lower layer of the dominated node connected to the network.

Abstract: In transmitting a plurality of data arranged in a time series of a first period (T), there is formed, every predetermined second period (SF) longer than the first period (T), a packet containing a plural number (x) of data supplied within a given cycle of the second period (SF). At that time, one data is specified from among every group consisting of a fixed number (M), not smaller than two, of the data, and time information indicative of a time position of the specified data is attached to the packet which the data belong to. A receiving-end unit reproduces the data, by reproducing the respective time positions, i.e., the first period (T), of the individual data on the basis of the time information contained in the received packet.

Abstract: One or more nodes on a communication network are selected and set as one node group. In each of the nodes, group identification information representing the node group to which the node belongs is stored in advance. The group identification information is attached to the header of a data packet to be transmitted, so that nodes constituting a node group that should commonly receive data can be readily identified by comparing the group identification information imparted to the transmitted data packet and the group identification information stored in each receiving node. Given node can choose to become a node of a particular function, such as a clock master node, in which case control is performed to delete, from the node group, a node having so far played the role of the node of the particular function in such a manner that there exists only one node of the particular function per node group.

Abstract: In a network which includes at least a transmission-side apparatus having a plurality of logical plugs and a reception-side apparatus having a plurality of logical plugs, correspondence between transmission-side logical plugs (e.g., P2 to P4) and reception-side logical plugs (e.g., P4 to P6) is established. The reception-side apparatus stores therein plug data Splug (P2) representing one of the transmission-side logical plugs, plug data Dplug representing a logical plug corresponding to the plug data Splug, among the plurality of reception-side logical plugs, and connection number Nconn representing the number of logical plugs to be connected. The transmission-side apparatus adds to control data a plug number PluNO (P3) representing the logical plug which has output the control data and transmits the control data.

Abstract: For data packet communication between a plurality of nodes via a communication network, a data communication interface device is used in at least one of a transmitting end and a receiving node. The interface device includes a plurality of interface chips each including a storage section of a predetermined capacity for buffering a data packet to be transmitted or having been received via the communication network, and a control section for controlling each of the interface chips to thereby control transmission or reception of the data packet to or from the communication network. The number of the interface chips to be connected to the control section is optionally selectable in such a manner that an overall buffer storage size in the interface device can be freely adjusted by just increasing or decreasing the number of the interface chips.

Abstract: An authorized node has a normal data input/output mode for directly inputting and outputting digital data without performing thereon specific data processing such as an encrypting process, and a protected data input/output mode for preventing digital data from being received by an unauthorized node. The protected data input/output mode is executed in one of two different forms: one form which causes the digital data, having undergone an encrypting process, to be input and output to and from a communication network; and the other form which does not involve input/output of the digital data via the communication network. A plurality of such authorized nodes are inter-connected to build a communication network which permits free data communication only between the authorized nodes. Upon detecting that any unauthorized node is newly connected to the communication network, a monitor node instructs the authorized nodes to conduct a data input/output operation in the protected data input/output mode.

Abstract: An image receiving sheet having a high transfer rate and high sensitivity, and a heat transfer recording method using the image receiving sheet. The image receiving sheet is formed by an image receiving layer disposed on a support. A surface energy of the image receiving layer is 23 to 35 mj/cm2. A cushion layer is preferably formed between the support and the image receiving layer. In the heat transfer recording method, a heat transferable sheet is set in close contact with the image receiving sheet to form an ink image on the image receiving sheet by heat transfer. The ink image is then transferred to a permanent support. The heat transfer recording method uses the image receiving sheet having the image receiving layer with the surface energy of 23 to 35 mj/m2.

Abstract: A musical tone generating apparatus includes a position information generating device to generate musical instrument position information (PS) as plane coordinates coordinate values. This information (PS) is stored in a memory device, or selectively determined by a manual operation. The apparatus also includes an information converting device to converter information (PS) into musical tone parameter control information (PD). This control information (PD) controls musical tone source signals (S11, S12, and S13) to generate a sound field corresponding to the position of musical instruments arranged on a stage. This enables an operator to verify the musical instrument positions on a stage, thereby providing a feeling of being at a live performance.