Nec Corporation

Nec Display Solutions, Ltd.

Sharp Nec Display Solutions, Ltd.

Masayuki Terao

Masakatsu Takizawa

Akira Sakai

Shuuji Yamaguchi

Kazuma Mifune

Kazushi Ueda

Mitsuhiro Tagami

A management apparatus includes: a data holding part that holds a function management table for storing information associating apparatus identification information identifying an expansion apparatus and function identification information for identifying a function that is set in the expansion unit; a function management part that specifies an expansion apparatus in response to an instruction to start up a virtual machine, that sets, in the expansion unit, function identification information corresponding to a function satisfying a functional requirement of the virtual machine, that sets the function satisfying the functional requirement as an internal function in the expansion unit, and that stores function identification information in the function management table; and a function setting part that determines driver software necessary for an internal function of the expansion apparatus based on function identification information set in the expansion unit.

Management apparatus, management system, method for controlling management apparatus, and program

A coordinate detection system includes a camera configured to capture an image of a face opposite to a display face of a transmissive display panel including a plurality of luminous parts and to thereby produce video information, and a video processor configured to detect coordinates instructed on the display face of the transmissive display panel based on the luminance or chromaticity of reflected light, which occurs when reflecting light emitted from each luminous part of the transmissive display panel, according to the captured video information.

Coordinate detection method, coordinate detection program, and coordinate detection system

A display device includes a network unit including a first port that is connectable to a control computer or a display device on a prior stage in a daisy chain manner and a second port that is connectable to a display device on a subsequent stage in the daisy chain manner, and a storage unit that stores addresses of display devices, as transmission sources, transmitted from one or each of the display devices at subsequent stages of a daisy chain connected via the second port in response to a request to search for a plurality of display devices as targets for determining display device IDs thereof the plurality of display devices being connected to the control computer in the daisy chain manner, the request being transmitted from the control computer to the plurality of display devices, where the addresses are received by the network unit.

Display device, multi-display system, and ID determination method for display device

Provided are a network unit whose first port is connectable to a control computer or a display device on a prior stage in a daisy chain manner and whose second port is connectable to a display device on a subsequent stage in the daisy chain manner; a storage unit wherein in response to a request to search for display devices as targets for determining display device IDs thereof, the request being transmitted from the control computer to the display devices, the storage unit stores addresses of display devices connected to the second port as transmission sources, where the addresses are transmitted from the individual display devices on subsequent stages and received by the network unit; and a control unit that receives a total number which is the total number of the display devices and transmitted from the control computer, where the control unit determines the display device ID to be assigned to its own display device according to the received total number and the number of the addresses stored in the storage unit.

When assigning display IDs to displays which form a multi-screen system, the displays are arranged such that short distance radio communication is possible and an ID setting apparatus which can perform the short distance radio communication is employed. After each display ID is set in the ID setting apparatus, the ID setting apparatus and each of the displays are placed near each other in a contactless manner so as to transfer the display ID set in the ID setting apparatus to the display and assign the display ID to the display.

Multi-screen display system, display device, ID setting apparatus, and ID setting method

A communication device which can be freely inserted into and extracted from a slot of a terminal device has its part exposed from the terminal device when inserted into the slot applied a color according to a kind of the communication device and includes a radio unit adapted to a predetermined mobile communication service, applied a color according to a kind of the mobile communication service and storing information necessary for the connection to a specific provider.

Communication device, communication device set, authentication method and method of wireless-connecting terminals

An electronic computer with a file bay cover includes an electronic lock unit for selectively opening and closing the file bay cover and a sensor responsive to the locked state of the lock. The electronic lock unit is controlled by electronic control. The computer enhances the efficiency of a centralized control system and security.

Electronic computer with a file bay cover including an electronic lock and method of controlling the same

To place a desktop computer effectively on a desk, a desk fastening member is located so that it encloses an edge of a top of the desk and the desk fastening member is fastened to the desk by tightening screws. Hooks of a computer holding member are engaged in holes of an extending member of the desk fastening member from an inside I of a kneehole of the desk, and then, the computer's main body is held in a space outside of the kneehole.

Computer fastening device

The password input apparatus of the present invention comprises: a database for storing feature data of a previously registered master fingerprint and a password of an authorized user in a related manner; a camera for obtaining a fingerprint being inputted from the user's finger; an extractor for extracting feature data of the fingerprint; a controller for reading the password from the database based on the feature data extracted by the extractor; and an interface for outputting the password to another device.

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Tokyo, Japan

Masayuki Terao