Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha Corporation

Hiroaki Niwamoto

Atsushi Aoki

Toshiyuki Iwai

Masahiro Esashi

Tsukasa Kaminokado

Norimasa Yamaguchi

Katsuya Nakagawa

Yasuo Ozawa

Ikuo Keshi

Yumi Shiraishi

A measurement data communication device for measuring a health condition of an examinee and transmitting a plurality of measurement values representing a result of the measurement, to an information acquiring device managing the measurement values, includes: communication information generating means for generating communication information in accordance with (i) an attribute definition column defining attributes of the plurality of measurement values, and (ii) a code value uniquely corresponding to the attribute definition column; measurement data generating means for generating measurement data in accordance with the code value and the plurality of measurement values; and transmitting means for transmitting the communication information and the measurement data to the information acquiring device. This makes it possible to realize a measurement data communication device and an information acquiring device, each of which (i) expresses, with one code, attributes to a plurality of measurement items of measurement data, for each measurement device; (ii) employs a different code system according to a type of measurement device; (iii) allows for free addition of a new measurement item; and the like.

Measurement data communication device, information acquiring device, and system

A gateway device includes a third block communicating information, and a control unit controlling the third block so as to generate second information representing an operation of an air conditioner and to transmit the second information to the air conditioner based on first information representing control contents of the air conditioner received by the third block. Accordingly, an apparatus connected to a network and absent of a high-level circuit can be controlled at high level.

Control device, communication device for control, relay device, control system, control method, control program to realize control method thereof, and computer-readable recording medium having program thereof recorded

A digital information recording carrier has a planar recording surface having an information recording area in which cells corresponding to bits are virtually set in a matrix form, each cell being provided with an optically recognizable mark corresponding to digital information so that the digital information is recorded in the information recording area as a two-dimensional pattern. The carrier also has specific patterns each consisting of a plurality of cells which are linked together and which are given marks in a given pattern. Some of the specific patterns are placed in an inner portion apart from a perimeter of the information recording area.

Method and apparatus for recording digital information in two-dimensional pattern, carrier of digital information recorded thereby, and a method and apparatus for decoding such digital information

A color solid-state image-pickup camera system is provided with a color solid-state image-pickup unit for acquiring image information by picking up an image of a subject, a vector quantization section, a first code-book storage section that stores code-book vectors for compressing image information, a vector decoding section and a second storage section that stores a plurality of kinds of code-book vectors for decompressing the image information. The vector quantization section outputs information for identifying code-book vectors that correspond to the respective blocks of the image information that has been acquired to the vector decoding section. Based upon the information, the vector decoding section selects code-book vectors that represent the luminance signal and color-difference signals, and reconstructs the respective blocks. Therefore, it is possible to carry out a color-separation process on image information by merely conducting decompression by the vector quantization method in the vector decoding section, and consequently to eliminate the necessity of providing a specific circuit for a color-separation process. This makes it possible to minimize the circuit scale and reduce the manufacturing costs.

Color solid-state image-pickup camera system

A digital information recording carrier has a planar recording surface having an information recording area in which meshes corresponding to bits are virtually set in a matrix form, each mesh being provided with an optically recognizable mark corresponding to digital information so that the digital information is recorded in the information recording area as a two-dimensional pattern. The carrier also has specific patterns each consisting of a plurality of meshes which are linked together and which are given marks in a given pattern. Some of the specific patterns are placed in an inner portion apart from a perimeter of the information recording area.

An image filming and compression system includes a color complementary filter having a predetermined color arrangement; a CCD for generating image data for output according to the light of an object received via the color complementary filter; block forming circuit for dividing the image data into blocks; and image data converter circuit for calculating spatial frequency components of a luminance signal and color difference signals for each block according to the image data. The image data converter circuit directly calculates the spatial frequency components of the luminance signal and the color difference signals by conducting the only linear transformation on the image data. This obviates the need for a means to generate the luminance signal and the color difference signals according to which the spatial frequency components of the luminance signal and the color difference signals are calculated. Consequently, it becomes possible to conduct the processes from the image filming of the object to the compression of the image data with high efficacy, and hence to reduce the size of the system.

Image filming and compression system, image filming and compression

There is provided a method for recording digital information that, when digital information is recorded as a two-dimensional pattern on a planar recording surface, the digital information can be easily coded and decoded. A specific pattern for representing a location within the recording surface is made up by giving marks in a specified pattern to a plurality of meshes which are adjoined to one another into a specific shape. A rectangular block is composed of a plurality of meshes adjoined to one another longitudinally and transversely into a rectangular shape and has longitudinal and transverse dimensions larger than those of the specific pattern. A segment in which the specific patterns are overlaid in the units of meshes or circumscribed to the rectangular block is set. An information recording area for expressing the two-dimensional pattern is composed by arraying a plurality of the segments without clearances on the recording surface. The digital information to be recorded is divided according to the number of the segments and then resulting pieces of unitary information are recorded into the segments.

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Hiroaki Niwamoto