Hitachi, Ltd.

Avix Inc.

Other

Hiroshi Yajima

Hiroyuki Okuda

Maki Tamano

Shunsuke Akifuji

Toyotaro Tokimoto

Noritsugu Kagaya

Shoichi Masui

Yugo Kashiwagi

Tadashi Hirose

Osamu Akita

Tetsushi Tomizawa

Sadamichi Mitsumori

Isoji Tabushi

Noritugu Kagaya

Tetsuya Ushio

Shinichi Yoshioka

Susumu Horiuchi

Kazuhiro Kawashima

Koichi Homma

Norihisa Komoda

Mitsuhiko Yoshimura

Yoji Taniguchi

Yoshiaki Yoshikawa

Maki Mori

Rei Itsuki

Osamu Chinone

Shuji Kitazawa

Hideaki Shinohara

Nobuyuki Ishimoto

Yuji Ogiwara

Fumio Arakawa

Akinori Ishibashi

Kikuo Yoshimura

Chigusa Hamada

Hiroko Tanabe

Hiroshi Sugimoto

Yoshiya Nakatani

Spatial information search system

In a DB retrieval method, a two-step retrieval including quantitative and qualitative retrievals is interactively performed so that, through the operation of image information (e.g. map information) having a correspondence to a DB having text information such as attribute information stored therein, attribute information corresponding to the map information is retrieved from the DB. The quantitative retrieval includes a DB information reading process for reading image information, attribute information and information relevant thereto, and a quantitative retrieval process for making a quantitative retrieval including the partial overlaying of another information for retrieval on the original image information (or map information) or a rough retrieval with the other information used as a retrieval key called information lens, and storing the result of retrieval into a work file. The qualitative retrieval includes a DB information reading process for reading image information, attribute information and information relevant thereto, which are stored in the work file, and a qualitative retrieval process for making a qualitative retrieval in which the original image information (or map information) is overlaid with a retrieval key called a function sheet including the composition of a qualitative retrieval condition and an image indicative of a range of application of the retrieval condition, and displaying the result.

Methods for retrieving database with image information

In a DB retrieval method, a two-step retrieval including quantitative and qualitative retrievals is interactively performed so that, through the operation of image information (e.g. map information) having a correspondence to a DB having text information such as attribute information stored therein, attribute information corresponding to the map information is retrieved from the DB. The quantitative retrieval includes a DB information reading process for reading image information, attribute information and information relevant thereto, and a quantitative retrieval process for making a quantitative retrieval including the partial overlaying of another information for retrieval on the original image information (or map information) or a rough retrieval with the other information used as a retrieval key called information lens, and storing the result of retrieval into a work file. The qualitative retrieval includes a DB information reading process for reading image information, attribute information and information relevant thereto, which are stored in the work file, and a qualitative retrieval process for making a qualitative retrieval in which the original image information (or map information) is overlaid with a retrieval key called a function sheet including the composition of a qualitative retrieval condition and an image indicative of a range of application of the retrieval condition, and displaying the result of retrieval on terminal.

Methods for retrieving text information in a database through image

For retrieving attribute information through image information which is not linked with the attribute information: displaying on a display screen the first image information corresponding with attribute information and second image information that has a common attribute with the first image information; and storing a correspondence between the first image information and the second image information in response to an input of an instruction to confirm the correspondence between the first image information and the second image information, and retrieving and displaying the attribute information on the basis of the stored correspondence between the first image information and the second image information as well as correspondence information between the first image information and the attribute information, in response to an input for object choice indicated by the second image information.

Retrieval method using image information

The present invention generates a plurality of rules comprising a consequence including records having the characteristics of the target attribute and record items and a precedence including at least one record item in an attribute appearance area decided by at least one record item in a database comprising a plurality of records having at least one record item for the database, calculates the similarity between the rules decided by the rate of records common to two rules among the plurality of rules among respective records satisfying the consequences, and obtains inclusive relations between the rules from the rate of matched record items to mismatched record items in the respective attribute appearance areas of the two rules.

Data mining method and apparatus using rate of common records as a

Method of retrieving in a database through image information

A scan type display device has a device body carrying a light emitting cell array, in which a plurality of light emitting cell arrays are aligned on a line, for scanning aerial plane to display a desired image by residual image effect. The light emitting cells are selectively illuminated according to an image data stored in a memory in synchronism with motion of the device body. The display device also has at least one light receiving element provided on the device body in a positional relationship with the light emitting cell array in such a manner that, when an image carrying medium containing an image to be sampled is placed in close proximity to the light emitting cell array in opposition and the light emitting cells in the light emitting cell array are selectively illuminated, a reflected light from the image carrying medium is received by the light receiving element for sampling the image on the image carrying medium. When an image carrying medium is placed in close proximity to the light emitting cell array in opposition, each individual light emitting cell is illuminated in order for locally irradiating light on the image carrying medium for reading output the light receiving element for sampling image data of a linear image fraction, and by relatively shifting the image carrying medium and the light emitting array for repeating sampling of image data for other linear image fraction to establish an image data of the two-dimensional image.

Scan type display device with image scanning function

An executable program is stored in compressed form in a ROM, from which compressed program data is fetched to be expanded by an expandor to a pre-compression form. The expanded data is then decoded by an instruction decoder for execution. This novel setup reduces a memory usage amount in main storage including the ROM. If a branch instruction appears, a controller converts a pre-compression branch destination address to a corresponding post-compression branch destination address and sets a value thereof to a program counter.

Microcomputer executing compressed program and generating compressed

A compiler incorporates obtained information for controlling the data-processor hardware, such as the position of the branch destination of a branch instruction and the used states of registers into object codes (NOP instruction) including a no-operation instruction code to post it to the data processor. The data processor is so constituted as to effectively use the data-processor resource not practically used by the no-operation instruction code and reflect the hardware control information included in the object code on data processing.

Data processor and method utilizing coded no-operation instructions

A swing type aerial display system is adapted to aerially display a desired visual image utilizing a residual image effect of a moving light emitting array. In order to establish synchronization of the motion of said moving light emitting array and illuminating timing of individual cells in the light emitting array, the motion behavior of the system is monitored and timing to drive each individual cell is controlled in relation to the monitored motion behavior of the light emitting array, so that the desired image becomes visible at a desired position and desired configuration.

Swing type aerial display system

A business monitoring system and method having a supervisory work station and a staff work station as well, having a judgment condition storage function having stored therein a condition described for selecting and extracting contents of a business process transaction, having a judgment function for extracting a transaction having contents to be processed on the basis of the condition, and having a transaction-to-mail converting function for converting the transaction to a mail form according to the judgment result before sending it as electronic mail. The system and method allow a supervisor to register his problem concerned in the judgment condition storage function in a computer language suitable for end users or delete or change the already registered problem. The transaction-to-mail converting function allows the electronic mail converted to mail form to be sent to and stored in a mail box for the supervisory work station. The supervisor can then receive a report related to business processes of concern to him in the mailbox at his convenience.

Business monitoring system and method

A planning support system and process in a workstation having an operator interface, planning process feature, a data file server, and memory feature therein, characterized in storing a planner model having data indicating a plurality of planning actions in the data file server and indicating flow among the planning actions and having process times of the planning actions, and in processes executed by the planning process feature including setting an operator model on the basis of a planning request input through the operator interface, and including determining action of a first planning action to be executed according to the planner model on the basis of the operator model and for determining a second planning action to be executed following the first planning action, and including storing data needed for process of the second planning action into the memory feature until the process of the second planning action is started after process of the first planning action ends on the basis of the planner model. Parts of a model of the planning work usually made by man can be carried out by computer, and necessary data can be predicted according to process of the planning work of the planner to prepare in advance. This makes it possible that data supply time for the planner is made at a pace of his or her working process.

System and method for planning support

An enterprise information system in which personal work stations, personal data bases which are held in the work stations, a processor only for use in a division, and intradivision data and interdivision data which are held in the processor are provided. An informal communication path directly connects the work stations in an enterprise among the divisions and an intradivision formal communication path mutually connects the work station in the division to the processor to hold the intradivision data base or the interdivision data base corresponding to the division or both of them. An interdivision formal communication path mutually connects the processors to hold the interdivision data bases. The intradivision data base can only be accessed by the intradivision formal communication path of the division.

Enterprise information system having three level hierarchy of data bases

A method and apparatus for processing a knowledge which divides a knowledge base into at least two knowledge portions, that is, rule groups so as to permit the rule groups to be processed independently of one another, and selects, as a portion to be processed, only a corresponding divided knowledge portion based on characteristics of knowledge required for a knowledge processing in a scheduling problem which includes a large number of planning data to be processed and a plurality of restricting conditions, thereby enabling a highly efficient and high speed scheduling.

Method and apparatus for processing knowledge

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Hiroshi Yajima