Abstract: An electronic device centralized management apparatus manages a device connected through a network remotely. The apparatus stores information received from the device; extracts information based on a designated attribute of the device from the stored information; and compares a tendency held by the extracted information to a tendency held by the stored information to extract a difference therebetween.

Abstract: To ensure consistency with a structure of a schema set stored in a database, i.e., an original source of an update request, the following processing is performed: storing reference relation for specifying another database storing a related schema set to be updated in accordance with an update of a structure of a schema set stored in a database, i.e., a request source of the update request; deciding whether a content of an update request is related to a structure change of the schema set; extracting, when the content of the update request is related to the structure change of the schema set, based on the reference relation, the other database storing an associated schema set to be updated to ensure consistency; deciding whether to update the extracted database; and sending an update approval/disapproval decision result to the database, i.e., the original source of the update request.

Abstract: An electronic device centralized management apparatus manages a device connected through a network remotely. The apparatus stores information received from the device; extracts information based on a designated attribute of the device from the stored information; and compares a tendency held by the extracted information to a tendency held by the stored information to extract a difference therebetween.

Abstract: A version control device comprises an entire-generic information storage object for storing version control information common to data under the application of a version control, version-generic information storage objects which are managed by the entire-generic information storage object and stores version control information corresponding to each piece of the data and common to all versions of the data, and version-specific information storage objects which are managed by one of the version-generic information storage object and stores version control information corresponding to each of the versions of the data and specific to each version.

Abstract: A pickup device for picking up vibration transmitted through bones or solid members in human, in which a piezoelectric element is mounted like a cantilever within a substantially rigid liquid-tight case filled with a viscous liquid in such a way that the free end of the piezoelectric element can vibrate with respect to the liquid-tight case. The viscosity of the viscous liquid ranges from 30 to 10,000 cs so that the sharpness of resonance of the piezoelectric element can be suitably suppressed.

Abstract: A system for automatically controlling the changeover of transmission and transmission stop, and being employed in the transmitting device provided with a vibration pick-up type microphone for picking up bone-conducted voice sounds. The automatic changeover of transmission and transmission stop is attained by control signals corresponding to impact vibrations except voice signals uttered by a microphone wearer himself, transmitted through his bones and picked up by the microphone or another controlling microphone.

Abstract: A system to automatically control the changeover of recording and recording stop, or transmission and transmission stop, and being employed in the recording or transmitting device provided with a vibration pick-up type microphone for picking up bone-conducted voice sounds. The automatic changeover of recording and recording stop or transmission and transmission stop is attained by control signals corresponding to impact vibrations except voice signals uttered by a microphone wearer himself, transmitted through his bones and picked up by the microphone or another controlling microphone.

Abstract: A fluid supplying device having a peristaltic pump with a depression and delivery system that includes an elastic tube (17) for receiving fluid and an assembly of depressing members (15) for alternately constricting and relaxing the elastic tube. A drive shaft (10) connects the depression and delivery systems to an electric motor (24). A rotary member (21) is provided on the drive shaft to rotate with the drive shaft and a plurality of discharge-amount transmitting devices (22) are provided on the rotary member in such a manner that the distances between the discharge-amount transmitting devices can be changed as desired. A detector (23) is disposed at the position of passage of the discharge-amount transmitting devices for detecting the discharge-amount transmitting devices and a switch (40) is connected between the detector and the electric motor to deenergize the electric motor.

Abstract: An electronic musical box is disclosed in which a musical score can be readily stored and reproduced and the musical score can be easily changed to another. The musical box includes a pulse generator for generating a unitary pulse for a note whose duration is the shortest in the musical score and generating integer numbers of unitary pulses for other notes in the musical score. A tone pitch generating circuit generates tone pitch signals coded by a plurality of tone pitch switches so as to correspond to the tone pitches of the notes in the musical score. The coded tone pitch signals are stored in a memory, and a musical tone generating circuit reads data stored in the memory and generates musical tones.