Nec Corporation

Akihisa Kenmochi

Jun-ichi Yamato

Toshimasa Yamazaki

Satoshi Onodera

Hiroshi Matoba

Hidetaka Hane

Shinichi Fukuzumi

Takuya Nishibayashi

Shin'ichi Fukuzumi

A broadcast storage system is disclosed which is easily controllable by the user for setting programs for timer recording and playing back recorded programs. The broadcast storage system has one or more slave apparatus and a master apparatus. The master apparatus grasps programs set for timer recording by each of the slave apparatus. When a program to be recorded is determined by the user or an automatic timer recording process, the master apparatus selects an apparatus to record the program such that a plurality of timer recording settings are not made at one time in one apparatus, and instructs the selected apparatus to set the program for timer recording. When instructed to set the program for timer recording, a slave apparatus sets the program for timer recording, and records the program at the time when the program is broadcast.

Broadcast storage system with reduced user's control actions

A program processing apparatus and system is disclosed by which an electronic program guide can be used to confirm a condition of each program readily and perform various operations for a program. The program management apparatus is formed from a personal computer having functions for performing recording and playback of a program, a video tape recorder having a function for acquiring an electronic program guide, or a like apparatus. The program management apparatus includes a program recording section, a program playback section, a program guide displaying section which issues an instruction to perform a suitable program process in response to an operation of an electronic program guide displayed thereon, a recording reservation management section, and a program guide preparation section for preparing an electronic program guide. The program management apparatus further includes a program guide database, a program recording reservation database and a recorded program database.

Program processing apparatus, program processing system, and program

The present invention provides a network contents managing system on a network comprising: a contents database retaining locations and attributes of contents and data; a retrieval request detection unit for detecting a retrieval request to the contents database and outputting a retrieval request information; a network monitoring unit for monitoring a change of an apparatus connection state to the network and, upon occurrence of a change of the connection state, outputting a new apparatus connection state as a connection state information; a contents monitoring unit for outputting a contents modification information when a location and an attribute of contents and data is modified; a database retrieval unit for retrieving the contents database upon reception of the retrieval request information and outputting a retrieval result information; a database managing unit for performing registration and modification in the contents database upon reception of the connection state information and the contents modification information; and a retrieval result output unit for outputting the retrieval result information to the apparatus which has made the retrieval request. Thus, it is possible to dynamically grasp the client apparatus connection state and the contents modification.

Network contents managing system

A program recording devicecompresses data of program recorded in a hard disk, at a user's desirable timing in a user's desirable compression level. A recording unitrecords data of a program, and a re-compression schedulerincludes a compression setting table having a re-compression condition and an encoding method used in a compressing process. The re-compression condition and the encoding method are, in advance, established for each compressing timing. Then the scheduleris activated in a predetermined interval and selects a program satisfying the re-compression condition among programs recorded by the recording unit. The re-compressing unitcompresses data of the selected program.

Program recording device and method of recording program

A wavelet conversion means ( ) for subjecting brain wave data in a single trial to wavelet conversion, a wavelet coefficient window means ( ) for extracting a predetermined area by a wavelet coefficient window from a wavelet coefficient surface obtained by the wavelet conversion, and a brain wave data discriminating means ( ) for discriminating brain wave data by judging whether or not the predetermined area is extracted are provided to automate the work to extract distinguishing patterns from individual (in a single trial) brain wave data and to obtain averaging of the brain wave data. By considering whole of wavelet conversion coefficients, averaging and extraction of a vertex latency of distinguishing patterns can be executed without significantly losing the information of original waveform data.

Brain wave data processing device and storage medium

An antenna for receiving a satellite broadcast can adjust orientation at higher precision than a method based on a compass and a level, without being influenced by environmental magnetic field generated by magnetic body or electromagnetic sources, can perform adjustment of orientation even before a radio wave from the satellite is not catched, can monitor the deviation during the fixation of the antenna orientation to improve the workability in adjustment of antenna orientation. The antenna for receiving a satellite broadcast has a reflector for reflecting a radio wave from a satellite on a reflecting surface for convergence and a receiving portion for receiving the radio wave reflected by the reflector. The antenna further includes a light blocking portion forming a shadow by the sun light, a scale determining a direction of the sun by the shadow formed by the light blocking portion. The light blocking portion and the scale are provided at an upper end portion of the reflector.

Antenna for reception of satellite broadcast

A ski training apparatus includes footboards a movable portion, an apparatus body, a braking section, a movement estimating section, a braking control section, and a braking section. The movable portion supports the footboards to allow them to rotate, and displaces the footboards in accordance with ski-sliding movement. The apparatus body supports the movable portion to allow it to swing. The measuring section measures the loads of the feet of a trainee on the footboards to output load information, while measuring the displacement amount of the movable portion and the rotational angles of the footboards to output displacement information. The movement estimating section estimates a sliding velocity, the position of the trainee on a slope, and an edging strength representing the magnitude of a reactive force received from a snowy surface and corresponding to the load of the trainee on the snowy surface on the basis of the load information, the displacement information, and geographical information, and outputs movement information. The braking control section calculates a braking amount from the pieces of above information to output braking information. The braking section applies a braking force to the movable portion in accordance with the braking information.

Ski training apparatus

An evoked potential measuring apparatus by which an evoked potential which reflects a variation in internal condition of a human being such as a feeling of strain, a feeling of irritation or a feeling of stress can be measured in a high quality with a high degree of reliability. The apparatus comprises a sensory stimulus application section, an evoked potential measurement section for measuring and amplifying an evoked brain potential, an evoked potential recording control section for controlling recording of a brain potential signal, an evoked potential recording section for recording the brain potential signal, an internal condition estimating physiological measure measurement section for measuring a physiological measure, a physiological measure signal recording control section for controlling recording of a physiological measure signal, a physiological measure signal recording section for recording the physiological measure signal, an internal condition estimation section for estimating the internal condition of the subject using the physiological measure signal, an evoked potential adding and averaging section for adding and averaging the brain potential signal in accordance with the internal condition of the subject to obtain an evoked potential, an evoked potential adoption determination section for estimating a quality of the evoked potential to determine whether or not the evoked potential may be adopted, and an evoked potential measurement procedure control section.

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Tokyo, Japan

Akihisa Kenmochi