Hitachi, Ltd.

Hitachi Microsoftware Systems, Inc.

Hitachi Information Systems, Ltd.

Michihiro Mese

Takafumi Miyatake

Seiji Kashioka

Toshimitsu Hamada

Masakazu Ejiri

Toshio Kamimura

Yoshihiko Kunimori

Shigeyuki Nishitani

Tadashi Kuwabara

Yasumasa Matsuda

Tomochika Ozaki

Shigeto Oeda

Tsukasa Yamauchi

Isamu Yamazaki

Haruo Yoda

Hiroshi Shimizu

Akira Nakajima

Toshikazu Yasue

Muneaki Yamaguchi

Tsukasa Hasegawa

Hiroyuki Kumai

Sadahiro Ikeda

Takeyuki Endo

Tomohiro Esaki

Hitoshi Yonenaga

Toshiharu Kawasaki

Akira Naito

Shigeto Oheda

Hirohide Endo

Tooru Yokozawa

Takao Iwatani

Manabu Sasaki

Kazuhide Nishiyama

Sayuri Oshima

Kimiyoshi Ohno

Tsuneaki Amanuma

Kouichi Hibi

Yukie Yamazaki

Shunichi Itoh

In the handheld terminal device, when a message reception unit receives from a host computer a new arrival message indicating a new arrival of a file (or electronic mail), a control unit analyzes the new arrival message to obtain identifier information for identifying the file (or electronic mail) and a telephone number of the host computer. After a line connection to the host computer is established by a handheld phone transceiver unit, a fetch request command for fetching the file (or electronic mail) is transmitted to automatically fetch the file (or electronic mail) from the host computer and make the user know the contents of the file (or electronic mail) by using a display unit. A FAX transmitting user designates a destination handheld terminal device and transmits FAX image data to a communication server (CS). CS stores the received FAX image data and transmits a FAX arrival message to a pager connected to the destination handheld terminal device. A user of the handheld terminal device informed of a FAX arrival by the pager confirms the FAX brief image data contained in the message, and if necessary, calls CS by a handheld phone connected to the handheld terminal device to make CS transmit the FAX image data and refer to the detailed contents thereof.

Data transfer system and handheld terminal device used therefor

A schedule management system which can display a schedule on a screen and enables the user to enter schedule topics promptly and accurately without performing complicated operation is provided. An external voice is input through a microphone or a network control unit and is converted into a digital signal by an A/D converter and a coder. An identifier related to the digital signal is generated. The identifier is displayed on a schedule on a display unit. The digital signal is stored in a memory in relation to the identifier. A user specifies the displayed identifier through an operation section, whereby the digital signal related to the identifier is extracted from the memory by a CPU, the extracted digital signal is converted into an analog signal by a D/A converter, and the analog signal is output as a voice through a loudspeaker or the network control unit to the outside. Like a voice, an image can also be handled.

Information processing system which can handle voice or image data

An information processing apparatus having speech and non-speech communication functions for communicating with another party in a non-speech mode in which data information is transferred and communicating with another party in a speech mode in which voice information is transferred. The information processing apparatus includes a speech and non-speech communication detecting apparatus for detecting whether the other party communicates with the information processing apparatus in a speech mode or a non-speech mode and transferring speech and non-speech data between the information processing apparatus and the other party, a non-speech communication unit for receiving non-speech data from the speech and non-speech communication detecting apparatus and supplying non-speech data to the speech and non-speech communication detecting apparatus when the non-speech mode has been detected, and a voice recognizing unit for converting voice information included in speech data from the speech and non-speech communication detecting apparatus into data information when the speech mode has been detected. The invention further includes a voice synthesizing unit for converting data information into speech data including voice information and supplying the speech data to the speech and non-speech communication detecting apparatus when the speech mode has been detected.

Information processing apparatus having speech and non-speech

An information processing system which includes at least one terminal having input apparatus for inputting data to the system and transmission apparatus for outputting the data inputted from the input apparatus, a display for displaying data, a communication line for transmitting data outputted from the terminal, and a control unit having at least one receiver buffer for storing data transmitted from the terminal via the communication line. The control unit is operable to display the data, which is stored in the receiver buffer, on the display.

Information processing system

An integrated information processing apparatus is provided with a display device and a generally transparent input tablet having an input surface placed on a display surface of the display device for outputting a pointing coordinate which is a coordinate on the input surface pointed by a user's finger or an indicator. The apparatus includes a circuit for determining an indication direction extended point coordinate from the pointing coordinate output by the input tablet and a predetermined value, and a display processing section for displaying a point on the display surface of the display device corresponding to the determined indication direction extended point coordinate so that it is distinguishably displayed on the display device.

Pointing information processing apparatus with pointing function

An information processing apparatus can save an electric power when it is not in use and can be made active immediately after an operation medium such as a pen and a finger or the user approaches or comes in contact with the apparatus, the arrangement being such that a housing portion of the apparatus includes therein a sensor for detecting the approach or contact of a user operation medium or user and a state display unit for informing the user that the apparatus is in the active state or in the standby state, a power saving control unit controls a controlled object concerning a power consumption in response to the approach, contact or separation of the operation medium or user, and a timer included in the electric power saving control unit determines whether or not the operation medium or user is separate from the apparatus.

Information processing apparatus including arrangements for activation

A graphic generating apparatus ane method in comprising a plurality of reference figures are stored and a plurality of figure parts are stored. One of the stored reference figures is selected and displayed and at least one of the plurality of figure parts is selected.

Method and apparatus for generating graphics

A speech recognition system comprising a speech input device an analyzer for analyzing input speech to produce analyzed parameters and a discriminator for recognizing the input speech based on lthe analyzed parameters, has store/matching circuit at an input or output port of the analyzer for adjusting write time and read time. The store-matching circuit acts as a buffer with independent read and write addressing.

Speech recognition system

An apparatus for detecting the position of an object. The apparatus has an optical device for magnifying or enlarging a plurality of portions on the object, a photoelectric converter adapted for converting the enlarged portion image into electric signals, a plurality of thresholding circuits adapted for changing analogue signals from the respective photoelectric converter into binary signals with a threshold value determined by a signal level given by a first signal holding circuit, a circuit for calculating the threshold value from the analogue signals, a circuit for detecting the approximate position of a specific pattern in the enlarged portion images through a coarse sampling of the binary signals. A circuit for detecting the exact position of the specific pattern through measuring the area of a specific brightness in a plurality of regions in the enlarged portion images, by a fine sampling of the binary signals, and a controller for controlling the operations of respective circuits.

System for detecting the position of an object

A variable thresholding circuit for converting an analog signal to a binary signal comprises a comparator to which signals to be converted are applied and a threshold circuit coupled with the comparator in order to provide the threshold level of the comparator, so that the signals applied to the comparator are converted into binary signals in accordance with the threshold level. The threshold level corresponding to the output of the threshold circuit is compensated in accordance with the variations of the levels of the signals applied to the comparator. The threshold level of the comparator is changed to a compensated level when the result calculated from the threshold level and the signals applied to the comparator is smaller than a predetermined value, whereas the threshold level of the comparator is not changed to the compensated one when the result calculated from the threshold level and the signals applied to the comparator is larger than that and the compensation is repeated until the calculated result becomes smaller than the predetermined value.

Variable thresholding circuit for converting an analog signal to a

A pattern position detecting system comprising first means to sequentially fetch local images in a two-dimensionally arrayed form from a video signal in accordance with the scanning of an image and at sampling intervals which are variably instructed independently in the vertical and horizontal directions, second means to hold two-dimensional patterns having the same array as the local images, third means to evaluate the degree of non-coincidence between the image of the first means and the pattern of the second means, fourth means to store the position of an image scanning point at the time when the degree of non-coincidence becomes the minimum in a predetermined range within a picture frame, fifth means to calculate the position of an object from the position obtained by the fourth means, and sixth means to store the vertical and horizontal sampling intervals necessary for the operation of the first means, the two-dimensional patterns for use in the second means and numerical values necessary for the positional calculation of the fifth means, and to select required ones and send them to the first, second and fifth means.

Pattern position detecting system

An analog-digital converter comprises a comparator to which signals to be converted are applied, and a threshold circuit coupled with the comparator in order to control the threshold level of the comparator, so that the signals applied to the comparator are converted into binary signals based upon a predetermined threshold level. The threshold level corresponding to the output of the threshold circuit is compensated in accordance with the variations in the levels of the signals applied to the comparator. The threshold level of the comparator is changed to a compensated level when the result, calculated from the average level of the signals approximately corresponding to a predetermined area in a field of the object and that of the signals approximately corresponding to plural areas which are in the vicinity of the predetermined area, is different from that of the preceding frame.

Analog-digital converter with variable threshold levels

A pattern recognition system in which an image plane is divided into a large number of micro-regions, the image of the background has been stored in advance by a unit of the micro-region as invariable information independent of the brightness of the image plane, inputted images and the stored information are successively compared, and the proportion of occupation of the image plane by an object getting in the field of vision is detected.

Pattern recognition system

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Chigasaki, Japan

Michihiro Mese