Brother Kogyo Kabushiki-kaisha

Norihisa Fujii

Sunao Kawai

Kazuma Aoki

Ryuji Yamada

Kenji Miyata

Hideaki Teshima

Yoshihiko Horibe

Atsuhiko Kurachi

A discontinuous position detecting device for detecting a discontinuous position at which date and time information indicative of date and time of recording on a recording medium is discontinuous, the discontinuous position detecting unit including, a scanning unit that scans the recording medium in a first direction and in a second direction that is different from the first direction, a first detecting unit that detects a temporary discontinuous position located in a vicinity of the actual discontinuous position while the scanning unit scans the recording medium in the first direction, a second detecting unit that detects the actual discontinuous position while the scanning unit scans the recording medium in the second direction, and a scan controller that controls the scanning unit to scan the recording medium at a first scan speed except while the second detecting unit detects the actual discontinuous position, and to scan the recording medium at a second scan speed while the second detecting unit detects the actual discontinuous position, the second scan speed being slower than the first scan speed.

Discontinuous position detecting device and method for detecting a discontinuous position

An information preparation device, such as a personal computer, detects non-consecutive position information, such as times and dates, based on parameters (S), such as preinputted non-consecutive point detection margins, and prepares (S) an information table with image information for each non-consecutive position. Based on editing parameters, the device synthesizes and edits (S) the information in the information table by date and the like. Then the device divides the information into objects, which is a data format, by data The device retrieves contents information and the like that corresponds to the divided information, and generates (S) and outputs (S) scenario information. The date and the like indicated by the divided regions serve as an index on buttons of menus that the user operates to easily select and display a desired images.

Device for processing recorded information and storage medium storing program for same

A video image edit device for editing video image contents recorded on a video tape. The video tape is rewound to its leading end and a start point time code and a maximum video image content period are stored in a RAM. Then, a video reproduction is started and a time code and time information for a video image content are retrieved. A difference between the present time and a precedent time is compared with a predetermined period to detect discontinuity of the video image content. If discontinuity cannot be detected, judgment is made as to whether or not a difference between the present time code and a start point time code exceeds the maximum video image content period to determine a subdivision point. If discontinuity is detected, or if the difference exceeds the maximum video image content period, a present end point time code and next start point time code are stored for again detecting the discontinuity or judging the next subdivision point.

Video image edit device

An information generating apparatus of the invention generates disk information by a playback control information generating device based on scenario information input by a scenario information input device and stores the disk information on a storage device. The information generating apparatus also generates video file management information based on information that is found from the scenario information and stores the video file management information on the storage device. On the other hand, video or audio data that are input by a video data input device or an audio data input device are encoded by a video data encoding device or an audio data encoding device and are multiplexed by a multiplexing device. By doing so, a system stream is generated and stored on the storage device. Every one system stream is generated, the rest of the video file management information is generated and stored on the storage device. Then, the disk information, the video file management information, and the system streams are output by an output device in the order according to the format of the multimedia optical disk. Therefore, information that is structured so that it can be recorded on the multimedia optical disk, such as a DVD, can be efficiently generated in a short time.

Information generating method and apparatus

An image output system having a preview function for displaying a preview image corresponding to an output image before the output image is outputted, the image output system having: an output data generating apparatus having: an output data generating device for generating output data; an output data sending device for sending the generated output data to a converting apparatus; a preview data receiving device for receiving preview data from the converting apparatus; and a display device for displaying a preview image made from the received preview data, the converting apparatus having: an output data receiving device for receiving the output data from the output data generating apparatus; a converting device for converting the received output data into data suitable for an output apparatus by using converting data which includes predetermined data necessary to a process for converting; a preview data generating device for generating the preview data by using the received output data and the converting data; and a preview data sending device for sending the generated preview data to the output data generating apparatus, and the output apparatus for outputting the output image made from the output data converted by the converting apparatus.

Image output system having preview function and method of displaying preview image in image output system

A multilingual transmission system includes a server device and a client device. The server device analyzes the meaning and grammatical significance of a source text in a natural language. When vagueness exists in the source text, the server device displays different candidates corresponding to different interpretations of the vague source text, so that the user can select which interpretation is correct. The server device produces pivot language data accordingly and stores it. When the client device requests text data, the server device retrieves pivot language data corresponding to the requested text data. Based on the retrieved pivot language data, the server device generates target language text data in the language requested by the client device and transmits the generated target language text data to the client device. When the client device sands a key word to the server device, the server device converts the key word into a pivot language expression and searches for pivot language data containing the pivot language expression. When the server device finds pivot language data that contains the pivot language expression, the server device converts the pivot language data into the target language or the language of the key word and sands it to the client device.

Server device for multilingual transmission system

In an image processing apparatus comprising an image reading device, a control unit, a display unit and a print device, the entire image data read by the image reading device is displayed on the display unit. The periphery of the image data is arbitrarily trimmed on the display unit by operating a mouse controlled by the control unit. Next, the dividing position of the trimmed image is arbitrarily selected by operating the mouse controlled by the control unit so that the dividing position should not pass through an important part of the image. Each portion of the divided image data is printed out by the print device, and then all divided images are manually adhered by the operator. Therefore, a maximum size of the print image can be obtained, even when the size exceeds the possible print size of the print device.

Image processing apparatus for dividing images for printing

A data converting apparatus having a memory for storing original outline data indicative of an outline of each stroke of a plurality of characters, which characters include characters each having at least one special stroke whose outline consists of ordinary segments, and a special chain of segments which defines a specific pattern. The original outline data indicative of the outline of the special stroke include ordinary segment data representative of the ordinary segments and special segment data indicative of the special chain of segments. The apparatus includes a generating device for generating a group of segment chain data representative of all the segments of the special chain of segments, based on the special segment data, and further includes a device for outputting normal outline data consisting of the ordinary segment data of the original outline data, and the group of segment chain data generated by the generating device. The special segment data preferably include data used for converting basic pattern data into the segment chain data.

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Norihisa Fujii