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A digital television broadcast system with transmission and / or reception of digital television signals for improved mobile reception. The communication layers in the transmit and receive portions of the transmission system can be dynamically modified, e.g., based on usage patterns or current channel characteristics. The transmission system also provides for cross layer control, whereby parameters in various of the communication layers are analyzed to determine appropriate updates to the system configuration.

Food preferences for a particular customer are requested from a universally accessible database, wherein a key for the particular customer is required to access the food preferences for the particular customer. The food preferences for the particular customer are compared with multiple previously stored food menu items. A food menu comprising only said food menu items that satisfy the food preferences for the particular customer are selected, such that an electronic food menu is specified for a particular customer.

Multiple food menu items are retrieved from a data storage medium by a data processing system with access to the data storage medium via a communications medium. The multiple food menu items are compared with previously stored food preferences for a particular customer. A food menu is selected, wherein the food menu items that satisfy said food preferences for said particular customer are distinguished, such that an electronic food menu is specified for a particular customer.

An electro-optical device, which has a display area and a plurality of sensing areas for detecting capacitance in the display area, includes a black matrix that is provided in the vicinities of display pixels in the display area, pixel electrodes that individually form the display pixels, a common electrode, a liquid crystal layer that is interposed between the pixel electrodes and the common electrode, a plurality of pixel circuits that individually drive the pixel electrodes, a capacitance detection element that is provided in a corresponding one of the sensing areas to convert a change in thickness of the liquid crystal layer caused by external pressure into a change in capacitance, and a sensing circuit that outputs a sensing signal on the basis of the change in capacitance obtained by the capacitance detection element. The capacitance detection element overlaps the black matrix in plan view.

Apparatus and methods for integrated circuit (IC) design, including management of the configuration, design parameters, and functionality of a design in which custom instructions or other design elements may be controlled by the designer. In one exemplary embodiment, a computer program rendered in an object-oriented language implementing the aforementioned methods for designing user-customized digital processors is disclosed. Design iteration, component encapsulation, use of human-readable file formats, extensible dynamic GUIs and tool sets, and other features are employed to enhance the functionality and accessibility of the program. Components within the design environment comprise encapsulated objects which contain information relating to interfaces with other components in the design, hierarchy, and other facets of the design process.

The present invention provides a data processing apparatus and method for a telecommunications system, the apparatus being operable to pass data packets between a first interface connectable to a first transport mechanism and a second interface connectable to a second transport mechanism. The data processing apparatus comprises a plurality of processing elements including the first and second interfaces, and operable to perform predetermined control functions to control the passing of data packets between the first and second interfaces, predetermined connections being provided between the processing elements. A plurality of buffers are provided, with each buffer being operable to store a data packet to be passed between the first and second interfaces, and a plurality of connection queues are also provided, each connection queue being associated with one of the predetermined connections, and being operable to store one or more queue pointers, each queue pointer being associated with a data packet by providing an identifier for the buffer containing that data packet. Each processing element is then responsive to receiving a queue pointer from an associated connection queue to perform its predetermined control functions in respect of the associated data packet, whereby the passing of a data packet between the first and second interfaces is controlled by the routing of the associated queue pointer between a number of the connection queues.

A reference image is displayed by processing spatial distribution to image data recording. A screen for inputting a corresponding command is displayed when requested. A corresponding slab is a three-dimensional slab rendered according to an input of a slab control command on a displayed screen. The three-dimensional rendered slab is also displayed. When the slab control command is designated among the Sagittal image, the Coronal image, and the Axial image on the displayed screen, the image designated on the basis of the reference image is displayed. When the slab control command is designated as a request to Rotate on the displayed screen, it is checked whether a new rotation center is designated. When the new rotation center is designated, volume or interest (VOI) planes are rotated on the basis of the new rotation center and the image is generated and displayed.

A digital television broadcast system with transmission and / or reception of digital television signals for improved mobile reception. The communication layers in the transmit and receive portions of the transmission system can be dynamically modified, e.g., based on usage patterns or current channel characteristics. The transmission system also provides for cross layer control, whereby parameters in various of the communication layers are analyzed to determine appropriate updates to the system configuration.

A fluroescene detecting device irradiates an object to be measured with a laser beam, receives fluroescene generated from the object and processes a fluorescence signal generated when receiving the fluroescene. The device includes a laser light source section outputting the laser beam for irradiating the object, a light receiving section outputting the fluorescene signal of the fluorescene generated by the irradiated object, a light source control section generates a modulatioon signal having a frequency in order to time-modulate an intensity of the laser beam, and a processing section that calculates a flurescene relaxation time of the fluorescene of the object based on the fluorescene relaxation time of the fluorescene of the object based on the fluorescene relaxation time of the fluorescene of the object based on the fluorescene signal output from the light receiving section. From the detection values acquired by the device including the phase information on the fluorescene, the intensity of the fluorescene is calculated.

A spectroscopic analysis apparatus includes a spectrum measurement unit that measures an optical spectrum of a measurement target, a storage unit that stores reference data in which an intrinsic wavelength with respect to a known component is recorded, a feature specification section that specifies a feature point corresponding to the intrinsic wavelength in the optical spectrum which is measured by using the reference data, and a wavelength correction section that corrects a wavelength of the feature point in the optical spectrum as the intrinsic wavelength.

Among a plurality of parameters concerning a film forming condition, different parameter values are set for one parameter and the same predetermined values are set for other parameters to manufacture two pieces of film structures including a high-dielectric constant film or ferroelectric film formed on a substrate. The film characteristics of the respective film structures are analyzed by a spectroscopic ellipsometer, a film structure in which the ratio of the presence of an accompanying dielectric film is smaller, is determined to be good by comparing the analysis results, and a parameter value set for the manufacture of the good film structure is determined. Then similar processing is performed, to specify an optimal parameter value for one parameter, and similar processing is also performed for other parameters to specify an optimal parameter value for the other parameters.

In the present invention, a matrix display area for displaying m×n elements arranged in matrix form and a graph display area for displaying a graph image are set on an identical display screen. The m×n statistics between m variates belonging to a first data group and n variates belonging to a second data group are computed and displayed as matrix elements arranged in n rows and m columns in the matrix display area. A graph image representing a relation between two variates, one of which belongs to the first data group and the other of which belongs to the second data group, and corresponding to one matrix element specified by the matrix element specification section, is formed and displayed in the graph display area on the display screen.

In a terminal that communicates with a base station, in the case where a physical downlink control channel or an enhanced physical downlink control channel, which is associated with a physical downlink shared channel on a first cell, and an enhanced physical downlink control channel associated with a physical downlink shared channel on a second cell are detected, one physical uplink control channel resource is selected from a physical uplink control channel resource configured for the physical downlink shared channel on the first cell and a physical uplink control channel resource configured for the physical downlink shared channel on the second cell.

In a printing apparatus, individual positional data for positions of four object marks provided on a plurality of FPCs held on a conveyance tray are acquired by a mark position acquisition section based on an image acquired by an image acquisition unit. In a displaced mark specifying section, relative positional relations of four object marks are determined, and compared with a reference positional relation, by which a displaced object mark is specified. Then, in a reference position determining section, a reference position for a plurality of FPCs on a conveyance tray is determined based on a plurality of object marks resulting from excluding the displaced object mark out of the four object marks. Thus, a reference position in execution of printing in a printing unit can be determined with high precision.

An information input-output system comprises a mobile communication terminal, and a host computer that performs communications with the terminal over a radio transmission line and has a database relating to services that can be provided to the user of the terminal. This system also comprises an input-output gateway server that verifies whether the user is a subscriber who can be provided with a variety of services, and an input-output control unit that receives data from the database over an established line and then outputs the data.

A wireless communication system including a wireless terminal, a plurality of base stations and a call processing control unit is disclosed. The wireless terminal, upon reception of the notification information from any of the base stations, judges whether the area included in the notification information is contained in the location registration area list stored in a storage unit, and in the case where the particular area is not so contained, sends a location registration request to the call processing control unit. On the other hand, the call processing control unit creates a new location registration area list based on the area included in the notification information and the neighboring areas, and sends the location registration area list to the wireless terminal thereby to execute the paging process.

An information input-output system comprises a mobile communication terminal, and a host computer that performs communications with the terminal over a radio transmission line and has a database relating to services that can be provided to the user of the terminal. This system also comprises an input-output gateway server that verifies whether the user is a subscriber who can be provided with a variety of services, and an input-output control unit that receives data from the database over an established line and then outputs the data.

A developing roller has a surface layer which can effectively inhibit the bleeding of a low-molecular-weight component from an elastic layer, and can efficiently impart a high electric charge to a negatively chargeable toner, and is excellent in toner-releasing properties. The developing roller has a mandrel, at least one layer of an elastic layer provided on the mandrel and a surface layer provided on the elastic layer, carries and conveys a toner, and develops an electrostatic latent image on an opposing photosensitive member with the toner. The surface layer comprises a silicon compound film containing Si, N, C and H having specific total amounts of the existing elements Si, N, C and H, and specific ratios N / Si, C / Si, and H / Si.

An adjusting apparatus includes a judging unit that receives a characteristic value of an article processed by one of processing machines from one of measuring machines and, on the basis of the characteristic value, judges whether or not the processed article meets regular quality, and an abnormality estimating unit that, when the processed article does not meet regular quality, specifies an device to be adjusted on the basis of whether a characteristic value out of the regular range appears for every two cycles or three cycles.

A forming simulation method of an elastic-plastic material, which includes: calculating an element equivalent nodal force vector from stress tensor using a finite element method for one or a plurality of finite elements of a target configuration of the elastic-plastic material; and calculating the total equivalent nodal force vector of areas by integrating the element equivalent nodal force vector for the calculated one or more finite elements over all the areas or specified areas of the elastic-plastic material.

A region extraction apparatus, comprising:an image acquisition device that acquires an image;a temporary initial region specifying device that specifies a plurality of temporary initial regions in the acquired image;a separation calculation device that calculates a separation that is an indicator indicating how much pixel values of all pixels of the inside of the specified temporary initial region and pixel values of all pixels of the outside of the region are different from each other, on each temporary initial region;an initial region specifying device that specifies the temporary initial region having the highest calculated separation as an initial region; anda region extraction device that performs a region extraction process on the basis of the specified initial region.

In an apparatus having a display for supplying parameters to a mixing system, a first display control section controls the display to present a scene list containing identifications of each scene and configuration data of the mixing system specified by first specification data contained in each scene. A scene selection acceptance section accepts selection of a scene from the scene list presented on the display. A second display control section controls the display to present operation data of the mixing system specified by second specification data contained in the selected scene, such that the display presents each portion of the operation data. Each portion contains one option of the operation data specified by the second specification data in manner distinguishable from another option not specified by the second specification data.

A system and method enables animators to pose character models' feet. An initial foot model position is received. The initial foot model position specifies a foot model contact point. One or more foot roll parameters are specified that change the relative angle between at least a portion of the foot model and an initial orientation of an alignment plane. Foot roll parameters specify the rotation of the foot model around foot model contact points. Foot roll parameters can include heel roll, ball roll, and toe roll, which specify the rotation of the foot model around contact points on the heel, ball, and toe, respectively, of a foot model. To maintain the position of the foot model contact point, the foot model position is adjusted based on the foot roll parameter. The repositioned foot model is realigned with alignment plane, which restores contact at the foot model contact point.

A network system, management server, and OAM test management method for grouping the virtual networks, selecting a test target for each group, and lowering the network load and the operating load in the OAM testing. Grouping the multiple virtual networks based on their physical topology and selecting a representative virtual network for each group, allows selecting a test target virtual network from among the representative virtual networks for the virtual network selected by the operator and executing tests.

A disclosed network communication device having plural addresses includes an address obtaining unit configured to obtain plural addresses corresponding to a name or an identifier of another network communication device by address resolution, and an address specifying unit configured to specify one or more of the obtained addresses as security communication addresses with which security communications can be performed by comparing the obtained addresses to a setting of the security communications.

A fluorescence detecting device irradiates an object to be measured with a laser beam, receives fluorescence generated from the object and processes a fluorescence signal generated when receiving the fluorescence. The device includes a laser light source section outputting the laser beam for irradiating the object, a light receiving section outputting the fluorescence signal of the fluorescence generated by the irradiated object, a light source control section generates a modulation signal having a frequency in order to time-modulate an intensity of the laser beam, and a processing section that calculates a fluorescence relaxation time of the fluorescence of the object based on the fluorescence signal output from the light receiving section. From the detection values acquired by the device including the phase information on the fluorescence, the intensity of the fluorescence is calculated.

A mapping between virtual processing units and physical processing units allows for an increase or decrease in the number of physical processing units installed in a computing device without disrupting the computing device's network communications. At startup, each of the virtual processing units can be allocated the necessary network communication management structures for supporting network communication. The networking subsystem can continue to use the virtual processing units as it would physical processing units, namely packets can be routed through the appropriate processing unit. However, because the networking subsystem is only aware of the virtual processing units, the mapping between the virtual processing units and the physical processing units can continually adjust for changes in the number of physical processing units installed, allowing the number of installed physical processing units to be modified without affecting the operation of the networking subsystem or ongoing network communications.

A configuration is adopted for including in key specifying information, being the configuration data of a key specifying code, subset division identifying information (partition bit) indicating whether or not cryptograms to which subset keys corresponding to divided subsets obtained by division of a dividable subset into a plurality of subsets are applied are included in a cryptogram block. With such a configuration, a cryptogram to which a subset key corresponding to a divided subset is applied can be generated and transmitted to an information processing apparatus. The information processing apparatus accepting the cryptogram and the key specifying code judges whether or not the accepted cryptogram is one to which the subset key corresponding to the divided subset is applied. Then, the information processing apparatus can select the cryptogram that is a target of decoding on the basis of the key specifying code.