Hitachi, Ltd.

Hitachi Engineering Co., Ltd.

Kotaro Hirasawa

Soshiro Kuzunuki

Masumi Imai

Yasushi Fukunaga

Hiroshi Shojima

Jushi Ide

Kenji Yoneda

Takeshi Katoh

Yoshio Sakai

Hiromi Inaba

Kiyoshi Nakamura

Tadaaki Bandoh

Yoshiki Kobayashi

Takanori Yokoyama

Takashi Kaneko

Takeo Yuminaka

Atsuya Fujino

Tadashi Fukushima

Toshimitsu Tobita

Kazuhiro Sakata

Tatsuo Iwasaka

Yuji Toda

Yuzo Morita

Takaaki Ueshima

Yoshiyuki Okuyama

Kanji Yoneda

Shinichi Kawada

Kazuyoshi Koga

Toshio Furuhashi

Yasunori Katayama

Osamu Abe

Takuji Hamada

Seiichi Yasumoto

Masahiro Takahashi

Nobuhiro Hamada

Hidekazu Matsumoto

Hiroaki Nakanishi

Kazuyoshi Asada

Hitoshi Fushimi

Shuuichi Miura

Ryosei Hiraoka

Yutaka Kubo

Kunio Nakanishi

Shigeo Abe

Tetsuya Kawakami

Minoru Hatada

Yukio Kawamoto

Horishi Yoshiura

Hiroshi Tamura

Seijo Suda

Elevator group supervisory control method and system for group supervisory control of a plurality of elevators serving a plurality of floors. The method and apparatus of the invention permits the inputting of qualitative requests (guidance), from the user, concerning elevator operation into the group supervisory control system. Qualitative requests concerning elevator operation are set in the form of guidance (or request) targets. The thus set request targets are converted into control targets for the elevators. Actual group supervisory control is executed using the control targets.

Method and system of controlling elevators and method and apparatus of

Elevator group supervisory control method and system for group supervisory control of a plurality of elevators serving a plurality of floors. The method and apparatus of the invention permits the inputting of qualitative requests (guidance), from the user, concerning elevator operation into the group supervisory control system. Qualitative requests concerning elevator operation are set in the form of guidance (or request) targets. The thus set request, targets are converted into control targets for the elevators. Actual group supervisory control is executed using the control targets.

An LSI parallel image processor in which line buffers and data-flow switching circuits each requiring a larger amount of hardware in the prior art are incorporated into an LSI circuit, the image data delayed by the line buffers is output from an image data output port, shift registers each having a variable number of steps for preserving local image regions are intermittently shifted-in in accordance with applied clocks, and the contents of the shift registers are sequentially read out.

Parallel image processor for performing local neighboring image

A natural language including Japanese, Korean, Chinese, etc., is suitably processed when an undefined word which is not registered in a dictionary appears in an input character train. When the undefined word appears, a semantic analysis processor decides a semantic concept of the undefined word by using a case dictionary. Further, by using a vocabulary hierarchy dictionary, which registers vocabularies in a hierarchy structure, the semantic analysis processor extracts a group of vocabularies (synonyms) corresponding to a lower concept of the semantic concept of the undefined word. The natural language processing can be achieved practically and efficiently with dictionaries of a limited storage capacity.

System for processing natural language including identifying grammatical

In a vector processor including pipeline processors and means for synchronously controlling each component, there is provided an FIFO memory for temporarily storing the output of each pipeline processor and for outputting the stored data, in the order of storing, to at least one of the pipeline processors. Since intermediate result of operation is temporarily stored in the FIFO memory, a simple microprogram can be used and thus the capacity of the memory for microprogram can be reduced even if the successive intermediate results for calculation of vector elements are overlapped within the loop of the microprogram.

Vector processor

A loop transmission system having a plurality of data processor connected through respective transmission station with a common loop transmission line is disclosed. This system has a concentrator connected with a plurality of transmission stations through respective loop transmission lines. The concentrator changes the order of connection said loop transmission lines thereby to change the order of connected of said transmission stations on said loop transmission lines.

Loop transmission system having plural stations connected in a variable

A multifunctional image processor capable of executing a variety of image processing functions such as a spatial convolution and a color image processing at a higher speed includes an image data distribute unit for distributing the gray-scale and color image data externally supplied by use of programs in accordance with the operation of the image processing and a parallel image data processing unit for conducting a parallel operation on distributed image data in accordance with the operation of the image processing.

Multifunctional image processor

A hand-written character/graphic is recognized in a character recognition mode or a graphic recognition mode designated in accordance with stroke information supplied from a tablet input device which samples the hand-written character/graphic and converts it to the stroke information. The recognition mode is automatically designated by comparing a longer one of projection lengths on x-axis and y-axis of stroke coordinates with a predetermined threshold for a hand-written character input.

Method for designating a recognition mode in a hand-written

Coordinates of a handwritten pattern drawn on a tablet are sequentially sampled by a pattern recognition unit to prepare pattern coordinate data. Based on an area encircled by segments created by the sampled pattern coordinate data of one stroke and a line connecting a start point and an end point of the one-stroke coordinate data, the sampled pattern coordinate data of the one stroke is converted to a straight line and/or curved line segments. The converted segments are quantized and normalized. The segments of the normalized input pattern are rearranged so that the input pattern is drawn in a predetermined sequence. Differences between direction angles for the rearranged segments are calculated. Those differences are compared with differences of the direction angles of the dictionary patterns read from a memory to calculate a difference therebetween. The matching of the input pattern and the dictionary pattern is determined in accordance with the difference. If the matching fails, the first or last inputted segment of the input pattern is deleted or the sampled pattern coordinate data of the next stroke is added, to continue the recognition process.

On-line recognition method and apparatus for a handwritten pattern

An apparatus for recognizing and displaying handwritten characters and figures in which input stroke information on a handwritten input character or figure is read out by an electromagnetic tablet, recognition means performs character/figure recognition on the basis of the feature of the input stroke information, display means displays the input stroke information and the result of recognition, and when the result of recognition is displayed on a display screen of the display means, stroke information having been used for recognition is erased from the display screen, and stroke information which is not yet used for recognition, is left on the display screen.

Apparatus for recognizing and displaying handwritten characters and

A central processing unit for executing instructions of variable length in which an operand specifier for specifying the addressing mode of an operand is independent of an operation code for ascertaining the kind of an operation and the number of operands. Each operand specifier is formed of one or more data bytes, and has a stop bit flag indicating whether or not the particular operand specifier is the last operand specifier. By adding the stop bit flag, the operand specifier can be shared, and different processing can be executed with an identical operation code. In a case where, when operation code decoding means has provided an output indicative of the last operand, the stop bit flat is not detected in the corresponding operand specifier, the corresponding instruction is detected as an error.

Central processing unit for executing instructions of variable length

An elevator group control system in which, in response to origination of a new hall call, a floor-stop call evaluation factor indicative of the degree of saving of power consumption is computed besides a serviceability evaluation factor indicative of the passenger serviceability, for example, the waiting time. One of these evaluation factors is weighted relative to the other to compute an allocation evaluation factor indicative of the suitability of allocation of the new hall call to one of the elevator cars, and the new hall call is allotted to the elevator car which is decided to be most suitable for the service in respect of the value of the allocation evaluation factor.

Elevator group control system

In an elevator system in which an elevator car serves a plurality of floors in response to hall calls and cage calls, the number of, for example, up hall calls originated from, for example, the 2nd floor is counted, and the number of cage calls, classified by destination floors, registered in the elevator car after the elevator car has served each of the up hall calls is also counted. The count of the hall calls and the count of the cage calls classified by destination floors are compared with each other, and, on the basis of the result of comparison, the probabilities of origination of cage calls, classified by destination floors, which will be registered in the elevator car after the elevator car has subsequently served a new up hall call which would be originated from the 2nd floor, are calculated for forecasting future cage calls.

Apparatus for calculating elevator cage call forecast

For controlling an internal combustion engine for the acceleration of an automobile, a change in the amount of air passing through an intake manifold is detected and a correction for the fuel injection time is performed on the basis of the change. After the amount of air has reached a substantially constant value, the corrective control is continued for a certain period of time.

Method and apparatus for adjusting the supply of fuel to an internal

An elevator control apparatus in which a three-phase AC output from a three-phase AC generator rotating with running movement of an elevator car is converted into a train of pulses, and the number of such pulses is counted by a counter which provides a count indicative of the position of the elevator car. When the elevator car is actuated to start from its standstill condition, the running direction of the elevator car is detected on the basis of the direction of phase rotation of the three-phase AC output from the generator, and a predetermined correction data is added to or subtracted from the count depending on the detected running direction of the elevator car so as to correct the count error appearing in the starting stage of the elevator car.

Elevator control apparatus

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Kotaro Hirasawa