Abstract: There has been a problem in that original image data should be saved with another name so as not to be altered, resulting in complexity and an increase in a necessary storage region. Image data are housed in a folder managed as a film metaphor and a database of photographic data 30b corresponding to each image data is prepared. When a desirable image processing is selected for desirable image data, the selected image processing is updated as modification information in the database structure. When display, output or print is actually required, various image processings are executed by referring to modification information on only a work area with original image data left. Therefore, it is possible to easily enjoy image modification or the like with the original image data left as they are.

Abstract: An apparatus for displaying other ship targets is provided that displays the positions and detailed information concerning substantially all vessels present in a predetermined region around the own ship in a manner that is easy to grasp for the operator. A display screen includes Graphical Position Display Area 11, Target List Display Area 12 and Vessel Detail Information Display Area 13. A selected vessel of interest is displayed on Graphical Position Display Area 11 with Icon 102, and non-selected vessels are displayed by Icons 103 thereby making it possible to tell them apart. In conjunction with this, a portion of Target List Display Area 12 corresponding to the selected vessel is subjected to Emphasized Display 121, and the detailed information about the selected vessel is displayed in Vessel Detail Information Display Area 13.

Abstract: A TDMA communications apparatus is provided with a central processor and a control circuit for resetting or fine-adjusting a count value of a slot timing generating counter which generates slot timing pulses used for establishing synchronization of communication. The central processor switches the apparatus to coarse adjustment mode upon detecting RSSI level of a signal received from specific one of other stations. Then, the central processor switches the apparatus to verification mode to verify that data of individual slots are correctly received for a specific period of time and proceeds to fine adjustment mode, in which the central processor fine adjusts the count value of the slot timing generating counter so as to track the signal from the specific station using it as a tracking station.

Abstract: There has been a problem in that original image data should be saved with another name so as not to be altered, resulting in complexity and an increase in necessary storage region. Image data are housed in a folder managed as a film metaphor and a database of photographic data 30b corresponding to each image data is prepared. When a desirable image processing is selected for desirable image data, the selected image processing is updated as modification information in the database structure. When display, output or print is actually required, various image processings are executed by referring to modification information on only a work area with original image data left. Therefore, it is possible to easily enjoy image modification or the like with the original image data left as they are.

Abstract: There has been a problem in that original image data should be saved with another name so as not to be altered, resulting in complexity and an increase in a necessary storage region. Image data are housed in a folder managed as a film metaphor and a database of photographic data 30b corresponding to each image data is prepared. When a desirable image processing is selected for desirable image data, the selected image processing is updated as modification information in the database structure. When display, output or print is actually required, various image processings are executed by referring to modification information on only a work area with original image data left. Therefore, it is possible to easily enjoy image modification or the like with the original image data left as they are.

Abstract: A navigational aid for use as an AIS apparatus includes a memory for storing information about previous use of individual time slots synchronized with transmission schedules of other stations and a signal detector for judging whether an information signal exists in a time slot specified in accordance with a synchronization timing signal based on the information stored in the memory and a result of monitoring of the behavior of a baseband signal obtained from a received signal on an IQ-plane. The navigational aid transmits information about own station based on a result of judgment by the signal detector. The monitoring of the behavior of the received baseband signal plotted on the IQ-plane can be accomplished by performing pattern recognition operation, for which a carrier sense technique, such as a support vector machine, subspace method or neural network, can be used.

Abstract: There has been a problem in that original image data should be saved with another name so as not to be altered, resulting in complexity and an increase in a necessary storage region. Image data are housed in a folder managed as a film metaphor and a database of photographic data 30b corresponding to each image data is prepared. When a desirable image processing is selected for desirable image data, the selected image processing is updated as modification information in the database structure. When display, output or print is actually required, various image processings are executed by referring to modification information on only a work area with original image data left. Therefore, it is possible to easily enjoy image modification or the like with the original image data left as they are.

Abstract: A CPU of a TDMA communications apparatus examines whether a slot to be allocated for a next transmission is a first slot (S1). If the slot to be allocated is the first slot, the CPU examines whether there are any slots already allocated by other stations within a Selection Interval SI in a frame in which the next transmission of own station is to be allocated referring to a slot map in a memory and finds out a free slot within Selection Interval SI (S11). Then, the CPU allocates the free slot as a next transmit slot of the own station and sets the slot number of the free slot as the slot number of the next transmit slot (S12). Then, the CPU examines whether a slot adjacent to the next transmit slot of the own station is allocated to any of the other stations (S13).

Abstract: The technique of the invention enables the user to readily refer to the details of efficient image processing performed on input image data. On completion of each selected image processing option performed on input image data Dpi, the details of an efficient series of image processing operations sequentially performed for conversion of the input image data Dpi to final retouched image data are updated by taking into account latest settings of relevant parameters of the selected image processing option. The updated details are stored in the form of a work memo file FL2. The work memo file FL2 includes data DT11 ‘execution order’, data DT12 ‘retouching option’, and data DT13 ‘parameters’. The concrete procedure of the invention for ‘efficiency’ updates the parameters of each image processing option to be performed multiple times to the latest settings, while maintaining the user's specified work sequence of the respective image processing options.

Abstract: In a computer system of the invention, a menu button BT2 ‘Retouching Pre-Process’ clicked to activate a retouching pre-process and a menu button BT3 ‘Retouching Post-Process’ clicked to activate a retouching post-process are vertically downward aligned in a processing menu window MN corresponding to an order of operation procedure. The retouching pre-process includes 16-bit color support image processing options, for example, ‘brightness adjustment’ and ‘contrast adjustment’. The retouching post-process includes 8-bit color support image processing options, for example, ‘unsharp mask’ and ‘light irradiation’. When the operator clicks the menu button BT2 ‘Retouching Pre-process’ to execute any image processing option included in the retouching pre-process after execution of any image processing option included in the retouching post-process with regard to input image data, the computer system opens a message box to notify the operator of prohibition of a return to the retouching pre-process.

Abstract: There has been a problem in that original image data should be saved with another name so as not to be altered, resulting in complexity and an increase in a necessary storage region.

Abstract: If own station detects that a slot S2 previously reserved for own transmission has been occupied by another station when transmitting a message at a current slot S3, the own station sets the occupied slot to a time-out value of zero S0 upon transmitting the message at the current slot S3. At the same time, the own station re-reserves a new slot S5 within an SI in a succeeding frame so that transmission from the own station at the new slot S5 does not conflict with transmission from the other station at the occupied slot, now reserved by other station as slot A.

Abstract: A TDMA communications apparatus is provided with a central processor and a control circuit for resetting or fine-adjusting a count value of a slot timing generating counter which generates slot timing pulses used for establishing synchronization of communication. The central processor switches the apparatus to coarse adjustment mode upon detecting RSSI level of a signal received from specific one of other stations. Then, the central processor switches the apparatus to verification mode to verify that data of individual slots are correctly received for a specific period of time and proceeds to fine adjustment mode, in which the central processor fine adjusts the count value of the slot timing generating counter so as to track the signal from the specific station using it as a tracking station.

Abstract: A user I/F unit 200 transmits an instruction given by a user to an access management unit 100 and displays data on a monitor 76. The access management unit 100 transfers requirements to a communication control unit 300 and a data management unit 400 in response to the instruction from the user, transfers data from a communications host to the data management unit 400, and outputs data from a database 410 to the user I/F unit 200. The data management unit 400 writes data into the database 410 and reads storage data from the database 410 in response to the requirement from the access management unit 100. Data transmitted from the communications host are sorted out according to communication services and stored in the database 410. The communication control unit 300 translates the requirement from the access management unit 100 to a menu number representing each communication service available from the communications host or a command and sends the translated requirement to a communication I/F unit 500.

Abstract: An ultrasonic diagnostic apparatus for diagnosing a characteristic of a body to be examined by passing ultrasound through the body to be examined which is placed between a pair of ultrasound transducers.The apparatus comprises a pair of ultrasound transducers which are fixedly disposed facing to one another, with one of the ultrasound transducers (5) having a first standoff on the transmitting/receiving surface thereof, with the other ultrasound transducer (4) being housed in a movable tank having a second standoff at its front end, and moves the movable tank so that the body between the front end surface of the first standoff and the front end surface of the second standoff are brought into contact thereto and diagnoses a characteristic of the body based on signals emitted and received by the ultrasound transducers.

Abstract: A user I/F unit 200 transmits an instruction given by a user to an access management unit 100 and displays data on a monitor 76. The access management unit 100 transfers requirements to a communication control unit 300 and a data management unit 400 in response to the instruction from the user, transfers data from a communications host to the data management unit 400, and outputs data from a database 410 to the user I/F unit 200. The data management unit 400 writes data into the database 410 and reads storage data from the database 410 in response to the requirement from the access management unit 100. Data transmitted from the communications host are sorted out according to communication services and stored in the database 410. The communication control unit 300 translates the requirement from the access management unit 100 to a menu number representing each communication service available from the communications host or a command and sends the translated requirement to a communication I/F unit 500.