Nec Corporation

Toshiba Tec Kabushiki Kaisha

Ncr Corporation

Nippon Electric Co., Ltd.

Nec Research Institute, Inc.

Kyocera Corporation

Kousuke Takahashi

Akira Suzuki

Tsuyoshi Sanada

Kiyotaka Nihashi

Takeshi Hiyoshi

Toshiharu Sekino

Kenji Eoka

Tetsuya Yamazaki

Hachiro Yamada

Karvel K Thornber

Keiichi Nagoshi

Ryuichi Takahashi

Haruki Kohara

According to an aspect, a device includes a touch screen display and a controller. The touch screen display displays a screen. The controller controls an orientation of the screen based on a gesture detected through the touch screen display and a state of the device.

Device, method, and storage medium storing program

According to an aspect of the present invention, a thermal printer includes a housing in which a space is formed, printing means disposed in the housing, a cover disposed in the housing and which comes into contact with and separates from the housing when rotated, thereby opening and closing the space, urging means for urging the cover in a direction away from the housing, an engaging part which is disposed in the housing and which prevents the movement of the cover in a direction away from the housing when engaged with the cover, a pressed part which is disposed rotatably in the cover and which moves the engaging part when pressed, thereby releasing engagement between the cover and the engaging part, and elastic means arranged to urge the pressed part in a direction away from the engaging part.

Thermal printer and printing device

Thermal printer and locking device

A thermal printer has a main body, a cover body, a hinge mechanism, a first locating mechanism, and a second locating mechanism. At the time of a shift from a second state where the cover body is opened with respect to the main body to a first state where the cover body covers the main body, the first locating mechanism locates a first platen roller of the cover body with respect to a first thermal head of the main body, and arranges a second thermal head of the cover body in the vicinity of a second platen roller of the main body. The second locating mechanism locates the second thermal head arranged in the vicinity of the second platen roller by the first locating mechanism with respect to the second platen roller of the main body.

Printing apparatus including a cover holding a thermal head and a platen roller on a hinged frame

The results of a full-text, document search by a character string search processor are treated as vector patterns whose elements become a term match grade by use of a membership function of the term match frequency. The closest pattern to the query pattern is found by the similarity between the query pattern and each of the filed sample patterns. The similarity is calculated by use of fuzzy-logic. The similarity is ranked in order of similarity magnitude, thereby reducing the search time. The search time can be shortened by categorizing the filed patterns by term set and similarity to a cluster center pattern. If the cluster center patterns are stored, the closest cluster address can be inferred by fuzzy logic inference from the match between the query document and the term set or the similarity of the query to the cluster center.

Document retrieval using fuzzy-logic inference

In a token train retrieval device including a memory device (24) for memorizing a plurality of tokens each of which starts at a starting address and ends at an end address and each of which has a nest level selected from a plurality of nest levels and comprises a header and a data set where header comprises a data length code and a data identifier code including a nest bit, a retrieval condition memory (25) memorizes a retrieval condition including a plurality of designated nest level codes and a plurality of designated identifier codes. A header register (26) holds the data length code, the data identifier code, and the nest bit as a held data length code, a held data identifier code, and a held nest bit. Responsive to the held data length code, a supplied header, and a decided nest level code, a checking circuit (27) produces a matching signal when the retrieval condition is satisfied. An intra-train address generating circuit (29) generates an intra-train address variable in accordance with the matching signal and the held data length code. Supplied with the intra-train address and the held data length code, an end address calculating circuit (30) calculates the end address of each token as a calculated address. Responsive to the intra-train address, the calculated address, and the held nest bit, a nest level decision circuit (31) supplies the checking circuit with the decided nest level code indicative of one of the nest levels.

Token train retrieval device for simultaneously determining nest level

A fuzzy syllogistic system that provides the confidence value of a chain of inferences based on the concept that the truth or confidence value of the major premise of a syllogism connecting the minor premise and a major premise can serve as the confidence value of the syllogism so long as this confidence value is larger than the complement or negation of the truth or confidence value of the minor premise. By the use of storage cells and a switch appropriately clocked, a single pair of basic elements is made to handle a multilink chain of inferences.

Fuzzy syllogistic system

In a token train retrieval device including a memory device (24) for memorizing a plurality of tokens as stored tokens each of which starts at a starting address and ends at an end address and each of which has a nest level selected from first through N-th nest levels and comprises a header and a data set where the header comprises a data length code and a data identifier code including a nest bit, a retrieval condition memory (25) memorizes a retrieval condition as a stored condition. Supplied with the header, a header register (26) holds the data length code, the data identifier code, and the nest bit as a held data length code, a held data identifier code, and a held nest bit. Responsive to the held data identifier code and a decided nest level, a checking circuit (27) checks whether or not the stored condition is satisfied to produce a matching signal when the stored condition is satisfied. An intra-train address generating circuit (29) generates an intra-train address variable in response to the matching signal, the held nest bit, and the held data length code. By using the intra-train address and the held data length code, an end address calculating circuit (30) calculates the end address of each token as a calculated address. By using the calculated address, the intra-train addresses, and the held nest bit, a nest level decision circuit (31) decides the decided nest level indicative of one of the first through the N-th nest levels.

System for retrieving token having a selected nest level and satisfying

When a nest level judging device is supplied with tokens each of which has a nest level selected from first through N-th nest levels as a selected level and each of which comprises a header and a data set where the header comprises a data length code and a data identifier code including a nest bit, a counter (31) produces an address signal for specifying starting and end addresses of each of the tokens and a varying address varying from the starting address to the end address. Supplied with the header, a header register (32) produces a data length signal representative of the data length code and a nest bit signal which represents that the each of the tokens is nested in the data set thereof. Supplied with the address signal and the data length signal, an end address calculator (33) calculates the end address of the respective tokens and produces an end address signal representative of the end address. Responsive to selection signals, a selector (34) delivers the end addresses of the respective tokens as first through N-th end addresses. Supplied with the nest bit signal, the address signal, and the first through the N-th end addresses, a decision unit (35) decides a decided nest level, indicative of one of the first through the N-th nest levels that is selected as the selected level. The level decision unit delivers the decided nest level as one of the selection signals to the selector.

Nest level judging device for judging the starting and the end addresses

An apparatus for retrieving or searching character strings which can be fabricated with a simplified structure and operate at a high speed. A memory circuit storing a standard character string is employed. The memory circuit includes a plurality of input lines each corresponding to one of the characters in the standard character string, a plurality of output lines and memory cells. Each of output lines of the memory circuit is used to enable transfer operation of one stage of a sequential logic circuit, and a detection output is derived from the sequential logic circuit when all the stages are enabled in a predetermined order.

Apparatus for retrieving character strings

In a character identification device for identifying an input character to produce an identified code, a memory circuit (40) decides a match between the input character and stored characters preliminarily stored therein to produce a character match signal. An encoder (50) encodes the character match signal into the identified code. The memory circuit (40) includes a plurality of memory areas (41 to 44). A memory area selector (54) selects a specific memory area in response to a selection signal produced from a signal producing circuit (52) to supply the input character to the specific memory area. In a character string identification device, a processing circuit (90) uses the character match signal to generate a string match signal which is encoded into the identified code by the encoder (51). The processing circuit (90) may include several processing sections (91 to 94) equal in number to the memory areas. An activating arrangement (182) activates a particular one of the processing sections that corresponds to the specific memory area. The identified code may be provided to the memory circuit as the input character through an interruption switch circuit (226).

Character string identification device with a memory comprising

A nest level judging device is operable in response to tokens each of which is given a nest level selected from first through N-th nest levels as a selected level and each of which comprises a data length code and a data identifier code including a nest bit. A detecting circuit (50) detects the nest bit to produce a nest bit detection signal. Responsive to selection signals, a selecting circuit (30) delivers the data length codes of the respective tokens as first through N-th data codes. A processing circuit (40) processes the first through the N-th data codes into a processed signal which is N bits long. Responsive to the nest bit detection signal and the first through the N-th data codes, a level decision circuit (60) decides a decided nest level indicative of, as the selected level, one of the first through the N-th nest levels that is selected as the selected level. The level decision circuit (60) supplies the decided nest level as one of the selection signals to the selection circuit.

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Tokyo, Japan

Kousuke Takahashi