Abstract: It is an object of the present invention to provide a security system and security apparatus with excellent user-friendliness. A receiver 5 acquires the phone number of a cellular phone carried by a visitor, the transfer function unit 204 checks the phone number thus acquired against the phone number of an anticipated visitor to identify the visitor, and transfers the information to a personal digital assistant (PDA) unit to be redirected if the transfer is judged to be necessary.

Abstract: A data processing system used for a net-order sale or the like includes a host apparatus connectable to a terminal apparatus via a network. The host apparatus includes a database in which cryptographic keys are registered in being caused to correspond to user IDs. The cryptographic keys are caused to be related in a one-to-one manner to appliance manufacture numbers of domestic electrical apparatuses onto which terminal apparatuses are integrated. The host apparatus retrieves, from the database, a cryptographic key corresponding to a user ID that accompanies a transaction request from the terminal apparatus. Using the retrieved cryptographic key, the host apparatus performs encryption/decryption processings of information data transmitted/received between the terminal apparatus and the host apparatus. Information having a one-to-one correspondence relationship with the appliance manufacture number of the domestic electrical apparatus is utilized as the whole of the cryptographic key.

Abstract: A support member for supporting a plurality of vertically-arranged Fresnel sheets is fixedly mounted on a lower end portion of a reinforcing sheet. A hanging mechanism hangs the reinforcement sheet and the Fresnel sheets vertically adjustably. An elongated screen is constituted by a plurality of vertically-arranged unit screens, and the overall screen is constituted by a plurality of elongated screens arranged horizontally. A mechanism for preventing the relative displacement of the opposed edges of the elongated screens from each other in a direction perpendicular to the plane of the elongated screen is provided at an effective projection light-absent region where the light projected from projectors onto the screen is not hindered. A mechanism for limiting the absolute displacement of the elongated screens in a direction perpendicular to the plane of the elongated screen is provided at the right and left edges of the elongated screens and is disposed at the effective projection light-absent region.

Abstract: A code signal detector for detecting a code signal included in signals of a broadcast with characters superimposed in which character signals are superimposed during the vertical blanking line period, said code signal detector comprising one or more shift registers for converting serial data into parallel data, priority encoder elements for detecting the most significant or the least significant bit represented by positive or negative logic level out of parallel data supplied from said shift register, and exclusive-OR gates.

Abstract: A method of and an apparatus for securely and precisely extracting from a received television signal a start pulse signal which is a binary signal provided at the beginning of an information signal multiplexed in the vertical blanking period of the television signal is disclosed.