Abstract: In case a security abnormality has been detected in a control system, ensuring the safety of the control system is accomplished. In a control system including field equipment that executes a controlled process and a controller that controls execution of a controlled process by the field equipment, the controller detects a security abnormality in the control system and determines and executes a security countermeasure method against the security abnormality based on a status of a controlled process when the security abnormality has been detected in the control system.

Abstract: A plurality of wireless communication methods are combined, networks to be used are dynamically selected by evaluating each network quality, and a packet format is changed adaptively to realize necessary reliability. The wireless communication apparatus has a network interface, a data interface, a quality interface, an allocation control part, a quality database, a quality update part, communication units and antennas. The wireless communication apparatus receives data and a requested quality from an application apparatus, selects the communication unit and communication method suitable for the requested quality, and transmits the data and requested quality. The communication unit receives a communication quality of the communication partner, and the quality update part updates the communication quality state in the quality database.

Abstract: A technique is offered which is adapted for optimization computations and which makes it possible to carry out an estimation of the state of propagation of radio waves quickly and accurately during a search for the locations of wireless stations. During the optimization computations, sending points and receiving points are set using a parameter search technique. Propagation paths are computed using a far-field approximation technique for Maxwell's equations. A propagation path leading to a local area where the accuracy is low with the far-field approximation technique is extracted from the computed paths. The state of scattering previously calculated using a numerical analysis technique for Maxwell's equations is reflected in the extracted path to modify the propagation path. The communication characteristics of the modified path are evaluated. The steps S101-S105 are performed repeatedly a given number of times. A sending point and a receiving point producing optimum communication characteristics are output.

Abstract: A radio propagation path from a transmitting point to a receiving point is estimated accurately with a relatively small amount of calculation. A predetermined-size receiving area including the receiving point is set, radio propagation paths from the transmitting point to the receiving area is estimated by a ray launching method, object surfaces existing in the paths are extracted, and a radio propagation path from the transmitting point to the receiving point is estimated by an imaging method using only the extracted object surfaces.

Abstract: A weighted gain generator sets a high frequency information detecting frame in an imaging screen of an image sensor, after that, sets a reference point in the high frequency information detecting frame, and sets such a weighting that has correspondence to a distance between a position of a targeted pixel in the imaging video signal and the reference point to a gain of the targeted pixel. A gain adjuster makes the gain weighted by the weighted gain generator act on the high frequency component of the imaging video signal.

Abstract: A plurality of wireless communication methods are combined, networks to be used are dynamically selected by evaluating each network quality, and a packet format is changed adaptively to realize necessary reliability. The wireless communication apparatus has a network interface, a data interface, a quality interface, an allocation control part, a quality database, a quality update part, communication units and antennas. The wireless communication apparatus receives data and a requested quality from an application apparatus, selects the communication unit and communication method suitable for the requested quality, and transmits the data and requested quality. The communication unit receives a communication quality of the communication partner, and the quality update part updates the communication quality state in the quality database.

Abstract: A technique is offered which is adapted for optimization computations and which makes it possible to carry out an estimation of the state of propagation of radio waves quickly and accurately during a search for the locations of wireless stations. During the optimization computations, sending points and receiving points are set using a parameter search technique. Propagation paths are computed using a far-field approximation technique for Maxwell's equations. A propagation path leading to a local area where the accuracy is low with the far-field approximation technique is extracted from the computed paths. The state of scattering previously calculated using a numerical analysis technique for Maxwell's equations is reflected in the extracted path to modify the propagation path. The communication characteristics of the modified path are evaluated. The steps S101-S105 are performed repeatedly a given number of times. A sending point and a receiving point producing optimum communication characteristics are output.

Abstract: A CCD solid-state image sensor alternately outputs, pixel by pixel, N (where N is an integer of 2 or more) lines of image signal and a line of smear signal for correcting the N lines of image signal by switching an output line from one to another. an AD conversion section performs an AD conversion on the output signal from the CCD solid-state image sensor. A smear data separation section separates smear data from the sensor output data output from the AD conversion section and converts the separated smear data to corrective smear data corresponding to each image data. A subtraction circuit performs a smear correction by subtracting, from each image data, the corrective smear data corresponding to the image data. Smear correction is appropriately performed even if a high-brightness object moves.

Abstract: A radio propagation path from a transmitting point to a receiving point is estimated accurately with a relatively small amount of calculation. A predetermined-size receiving area including the receiving point is set, radio propagation paths from the transmitting point to the receiving area is estimated by a ray launching method, object surfaces existing in the paths are extracted, and a radio propagation path from the transmitting point to the receiving point is estimated by an imaging method using only the extracted object surfaces.

Abstract: A weighted gain generator sets a high frequency information detecting frame in an imaging screen of an image sensor, after that, sets a reference point in the high frequency information detecting frame, and sets such a weighting that has correspondence to a distance between a position of a targeted pixel in the imaging video signal and the reference point to a gain of the targeted pixel. A gain adjuster makes the gain weighted by the weighted gain generator act on the high frequency component of the imaging video signal.

Abstract: In a method of controlling a buffer device, data are received from a communication transmission line, and the received data are written in a buffer device at a predetermined write rate. The data written from the buffer device are started to be read at a predetermined read rate. The quantity of data written and accumulated in the buffer device is compared with a predetermined threshold for a predetermined period from the read start point of time. When it is found as the result of comparison that the quantity of accumulated data is the same as or less than the threshold, the buffer device performs only write of data from the communication transmission line and, when the quantity of accumulated data is larger than the threshold, the buffer device performs both write of data from the communication transmission line and read of data out of the buffer device at the same time during a predetermined period.