Abstract: An image processing method is performed by an image supply device storing image data and an image output device performing image processing with respect to the image data, which are connected via a communication path through which the image data is communicated. A control information item including a script for image processing, which is described by a markup language, is communicated between the image supply device and the image output device. The image data is transmitted to the image output device, based on the script.

Abstract: It is generated a control information item including a script for the image processing which is described by a markup language. The control information item is communicated between an image supply device and an image output device connected via a communication path. A control protocol for communicating the control information item is interpreted by a first entity which executes processing for a first hierarchic layer of a communication protocol. A management protocol for managing an image data file including the image data is interpreted by a second entity which executes processing for a second hierarchic layer of the communication protocol which is lower than the first hierarchic layer. A physical layer of the communication path is controlled by a third entity which executes processing for a third hierarchic layer of the communication protocol which is lower than the second hierarchic layer. A command in the control information item is translated between the control protocol and the management protocol.

Abstract: At one of an image supply device storing image data and an image output device performing image processing with respect to the image data which are connected via a communication path through which the image data is communicated, one of a text command described by a markup language and a binary command described by a binary is selected as a command including a control information item for the image processing. From one of the image supply device and the image output device to the other, the selected one of the text command and the binary command is transmitted. At the other one of the image supply device and the image output device, it is performed processing specified by the control information included in the selected one of the text command and the binary command.

Abstract: An image processing method is performed by an image supply device storing image data and an image output device performing image processing with respect to the image data, which are connected via a communication path through which the image data is communicated. A control information item including a script for image processing, which is described by a markup language, is communicated between the image supply device and the image output device. The image data is transmitted to the image output device, based on the script.

Abstract: In response to insertion of a memory card with recorded image data into a memory card slot and setting of a writable medium on an external storage unit, the printing device of the invention backs up image data from the memory card to the writable medium set on the external storage unit. On completion of image data backup, the printing device prints an index sheet including backup images arranged as index images. The technique of the invention is preferably applied to the printing device having the backup function of backing up image data recorded in a memory card and enables easy management of recording media as backup destinations of image data.

Abstract: A printing device of the invention is capable of directly reading and printing images recorded in a recording medium. The printing device of the invention first selects one representative image from each of multiple folders set in a medium and prints a representative image order sheet where the selected representative images are arranged as image indexes. After the user's selection of a desired representative image in the printed representative image order sheet, the printing device prints a print image order sheet where images in a specified folder including the user's selected representative image are arranged as image indexes. The user selects one or multiple desired images for printing among the images printed on the print image order sheet. The printing device of the invention uses the two different order sheets and thereby facilitates the user's selection of desired images in a hierarchical manner.

Abstract: At one of an image supply device storing image data and an image output device performing image processing with respect to the image data which are connected via a communication path through which the image data is communicated, one of a text command described by a markup language and a binary command described by a binary is selected as a command including a control information item for the image processing. From one of the image supply device and the image output device to the other, the selected one of the text command and the binary command is transmitted. At the other one of the image supply device and the image output device, it is performed processing specified by the control information included in the selected one of the text command and the binary command.

Abstract: An image processing method is performed by an image supply device storing image data and an image output device performing image processing with respect to the image data, which are connected via a communication path through which the image data is communicated. A control information item including a script for image processing, which is described by a markup language, is communicated between the image supply device and the image output device. The image data is transmitted to the image output device, based on the script.

Abstract: An image processing method is performed by an image supply device storing image data and an image output device performing image processing with respect to the image data which are connected via a communication path through which the image data is communicated. It is confirmed whether an extended function for a predetermined function is valid in both of the image supply device and the image output device. It is generated a control information item including a script for image processing which is described by a markup language, in a case where it is confirmed the extended function is valid. The control information item is communicated between the image supply device and the image output device. An extension tag corresponding to the extended function is inserted into the script while remaining an existing tag corresponding to the predetermined function.

Abstract: It is generated a control information item including a script for the image processing which is described by a markup language. The control information item is communicated between an image supply device and an image output device connected via a communication path. A control protocol for communicating the control information item is interpreted by a first entity which executes processing for a first hierarchic layer of a communication protocol. A management protocol for managing an image data file including the image data is interpreted by a second entity which executes processing for a second hierarchic layer of the communication protocol which is lower than the first hierarchic layer. A physical layer of the communication path is controlled by a third entity which executes processing for a third hierarchic layer of the communication protocol which is lower than the second hierarchic layer A command in the control information item is translated between the control protocol and the management protocol.

Abstract: An information medium collecting unit receives and collects information media to be recycled. An inspection unit inspects the information media collected at the information medium collecting unit. An electronic-data recording unit transfers and records electronic data stored in a storage unit onto the information media that are determined to be recyclable as a result of the inspection. A product holding unit holds the information media on which the electronic data is recorded. A product discharging unit discharges the information media held in the product holding unit, in accordance with a distribution request. Since the information media collected at a vending machine are processed inside of the vending machine for recycling and are turned into products inside of the vending machine for direct sale, information media to be discarded are reduced and thus cost to customers to obtain information can be reduced.

Abstract: Information collecting means 9 collects provided information 27 which is added by a user operation to a container 1 storing electronic book data 26 in a storage unit 10 of a host computer 5. Editing means 11 edits the entirety or part of the collected provided information and adds the provided information to the electronic book data. Distribution means 15 adds the edited provided information to the electronic book data published by a publisher 6 and distributes the data.

Abstract: An information-medium collecting unit 2 receives and collects information media to be recycled. An inspection unit 3 inspects the information media collected at the information-medium collecting unit 2. An electronic-data recording unit 5 transfers and records electronic data 15 stored in a storage unit 9 onto the information media that are determined to be recyclable as a result of the inspection. A product holding unit 6 holds the information media on which the electronic data is recorded. A product discharging unit 7 discharges the information media held in the product holding unit 6, in accordance with a distribution request.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a method of driving an active-matrix type of liquid crystal display device that has a plurality of row electrodes to which a scanning signal is applied, a plurality of column electrodes to which a data signal is applied, and a plurality of picture elements (pixels) formed at a plurality of intersections between these row and column electrodes, each of these pixels comprising a liquid crystal layer and a two-terminal element having non-linear resistance characteristics connected in series therewith by means of applying a voltage of a difference signal between a scanning signal and a data signal to the pixels. A compensatory voltage is applied to each pixel immediately before a data write period during which the liquid crystal layer of the pixel is charged with a data charge voltage corresponding to a display gradation.

Abstract: In a method for driving an active matrix type liquid crystal display device having a liquid crystal panel having the structure that a set of liquid crystal layers and two-terminal active layers are connected in series between a set of column electrodes and a set of row electrodes, a display operation being carried out by applying a difference signal between each column electrode and each row electrode, the difference signal is set so as to have a voltage having an inverse characteristic to the I-V characteristic of the two-terminal active element and is applied between the column and row electrodes to thereby depress occurrence of flicker.

Abstract: In a method for driving an active matrix type liquid crystal display device having a liquid crystal panel having the structure that a set of liquid crystal layers and two-terminal active layers are connected in series between a set of column electrodes and a set of row electrodes, a display operation being carried out by applying a difference signal between each column electrode and each row electrode, the difference signal is set so as to have a voltage having an inverse characteristic to the I-V characteristic of the two-terminal active element and is applied between the column and row electrodes to thereby depress occurrence of flicker.

Abstract: A method of activating a matrix liquid crystal display formed with column electrodes intersecting row electrodes and liquid crystal material therebetween in which liquid crystal pixels are defined at the intersections of the row and column electrodes. The column electrodes are provided with voltage waveforms of high and low magnitude corresponding to display data. The row electrodes are supplied with a sequential scanning signal of activating magnitude. During one data output period, a signal for the data about the selected rows is delivered with one polarity and then switches to the opposite polarity N number of times (where N is a positive integer) during the same data output period to prevent crosstalk in the column electrodes.

Abstract: A person to whom a telephone call is directed is called at an extension either by voice only or by voice during each silent period of an audible ringing signal. A plurality of telephone sets are provided where each telephone set includes a receiver for receiving a telephone call and a called person signal representative of a called person to whom the telephone call is directed. A telephone call and the corresponding called person signal can be transferred to another telephone set by placing the caller on hold and accessing a base unit which transmits the call and the corresponding called person signal to the appropriate portable unit. Each unit in the system includes a voice signal amplifier and an audible ringing signal generating circuit to output the ringing and voice calls through a speaker.

Abstract: A video display for a liquid crystal display and a method for displaying a complex video signal thereon is provided. A line memory stores one line of video data of a complex video signal. A field memory stores one field of video data of the complex video signal. A signal driving circuit generates a signal driving signal in response to the video data stored in the line memory and the field memory. A multiplexer selectively transmits the video date from the line memory and field memory to the signal driving circuit. One horizontal period of the video signal is sequentially written in the line memory. During the first half of the horizontal period of the video signal, video data of the previous field which is stored in the field memory is transferred to the signal driving circuit. During the second half of the horizontal period, the video data stored in the line memory is transferred to the signal driving circuit.

Abstract: The present invention provides, in an active matrix liquid crystal display device of the type including non-linear elements, for the application of an ON pulse-width modulation signal by the data line driving circuit at the rearward end of each selected period, during which the voltage corresponding to the duty-cycle of the selected signal is applied to the liquid crystal layer. The result is accurate reproduction of gray-scale images in the display under conditions of high duty-cycle driving. Further, cross-talk between columns caused by the data signal is controlled by supplying a signal voltage which eliminates the residual charges in the liquid crystal layer at the end of each selected period.