Hitachi, Ltd.

Kiyoshi Kozuka

Yasuharu Namba

Shunichi Tano

Taminori Tomita

Hirokazu Aoshima

Kazuhiko Sakamoto

Hideki Sakao

Takashi Ohkoda

Etsuko Yamada

Takahiro Seki

An input device which includes plural inputting units, each accepting external information, including a unit for recognizing an input time of input information accepted via each of the plural inputting means; a unit for dividing or merging the input information into a predetermined primitive analysis unit, to obtain a recognition result; a unit for estimating the input time of a unit recognition result, by using an estimating method predetermined for each of the inputting units; and a unit for collecting some of the recognition results whose estimated input times are close to one another, and outputting the collected information as a semantic analysis unit. An input content is specified by collecting plural pieces of input information being signals input from plural inputting units.

Input device, inputting method, information processing system, and input

It is an object to provide a computer system including a practical input device which can be operated with more natural sense. The present input pen which is used in combination with a tablet includes: a speech recognition unit for analyzing a speech sound, which is fetched in through a microphone, as a command or the like; an image reconfiguring unit for composing, after correcting image distortion generated due to inclination of the pen body for each image in the vicinity of a pen head which is photographed along with the strokes of the input pen by a CCD camera, the series of images into a general image; and a reference line generating circuit for lasing a laser beam with which a projected image utilized to calculate an angle of inclination is formed onto a face of an object of photographing. In addition, since an oscillation circuit generates a magnetic field corresponding to the data forming the general image on the basis of control by an a.c. magnetic field control circuit, the data can be transferred to the information processor side through the tablet. Further, a CPU executes the processing corresponding to the result of analyzing a sound.

Information processor

A functional relation between components which can be extracted from an already existing program in advance is automatically extracted by a computer, or such a functional relation which cannot be extracted is defined by a developer, so that the preparation of a program by combining the components is assisted. A dictionary registration unit reads a source code file, analyzes, extracts a component definition, and extracts from the component definition information a counterpart component name, interface name, and interface definition, and registers component name, counterpart component name, interface information of the interface name, and interface definition body in a dictionary. Furthermore, when there is no source codes, the developer inputs the interface information from an input-output device, and registers in the dictionary. A program editing processing unit, on the basis of a user's indication, retrieves and displays a list of interfaces between components, and also extracts the interface definition from the dictionary, thereby to assist the user in preparing a program by combining the components.

Software development tool for combining software components/modules

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Yokohama, Japan

Kiyoshi Kozuka