Sony Corporation

Oki Electric Industry Co., Ltd.

Japan Cash Machine Co., Ltd.

Sony Olympus Medical Solutions Inc.

Nec Access Technica, Ltd.

Nec Engineering, Ltd.

Japan Cash Machine, Ltd., Co.

Nec Platforms, Ltd.

Takayuki Takeda

Yasumasa Suzuki

Atsumu Soda

Koji Kuroiwa

Shinichi Itoh

Tatsuya Kubota

Atsushi Iwasaki

Taichi Sato

Youichi Matsumura

Atsushi Isobe

Paul Pechinko

Yuichiro Tsutsui

Masanobu Fujita

Masayasu Sato

Isamu Nose

Ichiro Munakata

Kazuhiko Iwaki

Hiroshi Masaki

Masayasu Satoh

Shigeru Kuroe

Katutoshi Ookawa

Jeremy Brayley

An automated machineis provided to comprise a communications devicefor receiving remotely operable signals emitted from a mobile terminalto produce monetary signals corresponding to money amount data in the remotely operable signals, a bill acceptorfor validating bills inserted from the outside to produce the monetary signals when bill acceptorjudges the inserted bill to be genuine and for relaying the monetary signals from communications device, a control devicethat has built-in program software to produce drive signals of the amount corresponding to the monetary signals in accordance with the program software when control devicereceives the monetary signals from bill acceptor. In another aspect, communications devicemay receive the remotely operable signals emitted from mobile terminalto produce the monetary signals corresponding to the money amount data in the remotely operable signals and receive the monetary signals from bill acceptorand send them to control device

Automated machine provided with a bill acceptor for driving a drive device

A medical signal processing devicereceives a picture signal imaged by a medical observation deviceand processes the picture signal. The medical signal processing deviceincludes: a signal input unitthat receives the picture signal; a first signal converting unitthat converts the picture signal received by the signal input unitfrom an RGB signal into a luminance signal and a color difference signal by performing a matrix calculating process; an identification information appending unitthat appends color gamut identification information related to a color gamut of the picture signal and corresponding to the matrix calculating process, to the picture signal resulting from the conversion; and a signal output unitthat outputs the picture signal to which the color gamut identification information has been appended, to either a medical display deviceor a medical recording device provided externally.

Medical signal processing device, medical display device, and medical observation system involving appending color gamut identification information to the picture signal resulting from conversion

There is provided a medical observation device including: an imaging control unit configured to control an imaging function of an imaging device. The imaging control unit controls an exposure function of the imaging device on a basis of a detection result of a line of sight of a recognition target so that luminance of a predetermined region in a medical captured image obtained by the imaging device capturing an observation target is changed.

Medical observation device and medical observation system

An electronic payment system is provided to comprise a mobile terminalfor emitting remotely operable signals, and a printing machinethat comprises a communications devicefor receiving the remotely operable signals emitted from mobile terminalto drive automated machine, an automatic payment deviceconnected to communications deviceand a financial databaseof a banking depository system, and a printerconnected to communications devicefor printing information on a record radium for the real-time electronic transaction without credit transaction to offer goods, services or amusement to users from automated machineand to dispense recording medium for users to confirm the transaction fee amount that was withdrawn from the account at financial database

Electronic payment system for operating automated machine

An electronic payment system is provided to comprise a mobile terminalfor emitting a remotely operable signal, a communications deviceconnected to an automated machinefor receiving remotely operable signal emitted from mobile terminal, and an automatic payment devicelinked to a financial database. Communications deviceretrieves from remotely operable signal an account number of a holder of the account at financial database. Payment devicereceives a monetary signal indicative of a transaction fee, withdraws the amount of transaction fee from the correct holder's account to produce an authorization signal to communications devicethat drives automated machinewithout credit transaction.

Electronic payment system for automated machine

A transmitting/receiving system includes a transmitting apparatus that transmits, to another apparatus, first encrypted data obtained by encrypting stream data including consecutive unit data items in accordance with a first encryption technique prescribing that, when the stream data is encrypted for each item, keys used for encrypting the items are updated, and a receiving apparatus that receives and decrypts the first data from the transmitting apparatus in accordance with a first decryption technique. The transmitting apparatus includes an encryptor that outputs second encrypted data obtained by generating data including a predetermined number of keys, and encrypting the data in accordance with a second encryption technique, a transmitter that transmits the second data from the encryptor to the receiving apparatus. The receiving apparatus includes a key receiver that receives the second data from the transmitter, and a key decryptor that decrypts the second data in accordance with a second decryption technique.

Transmitting/receiving system and method, transmitting apparatus and method, receiving apparatus and method, and program used therewith

An edge detecting device for detecting a position of an edge of an object includes a measuring circuit for emitting an inspection light to a linear inspecting area including the object, and measuring first light quantity of a reflected light of the inspection light reflected from the inspecting area in a first state and second light quantity of a reflected light of the inspection light reflected from the inspecting area in a second state, a calculation circuit for calculating a difference of the first light quantity and the second light quantity measured by the measuring circuit for each pixel with a first predetermined length, calculating first total differences of reflected lights from pixels with a second predetermined length located adjacent to an objective dot in one direction by totalizing differences between the first and the second light quantity reflected from each of the pixels, and calculating second total differences of reflected lights from the other pixels with the second predetermined length located adjacent to the objective dot in the other direction by totalizing differences between the first and the second light quantity reflected from each of the other pixels and a judgment circuit for judging the objective dot with the largest variation between the first total differences and the second total differences to be a position of the edge.

Edge detecting device, electronic equipment, and edge detecting method using the same

Disclosed herein is an information processing system including: a first information processing apparatus for transmitting a content including video and audio signals; and a second information processing apparatus for receiving the content. The first apparatus includes: a first key generator configured to generate a first key; a video encryptor configured to encrypt the video signal with the first key; an audio encryptor configured to encrypt the audio signal with the first key; and a transmitter configured to transmit the content including the encrypted video and audio signals. The second apparatus includes: a receiver configured to receive the content; a second key generator configured to generate a second key corresponding to the first key; a video decryptor configured to decrypt the encrypted video signal with the second key; and an audio decryptor configured to decrypt the encrypted audio signal with the second key.

Information processing system, method, and apparatus, and program

A digital video signal is transmitted via a communication system which can transmit digital data through an asynchronous communication line (ATM communication line) or the like and, at the same time, voice information for the working communication and information such as computer information are transmitted by using the communication system. The user of a first data transmitting apparatus sets up the character data etc. for communication on the terminal. The set character data is multiplexed in the predetermined transmission packet together with the audio and video data output from the VTR device and transmitted via an ATM communication line 2 to a second data transmitting apparatus. In the second data transmitting apparatus, the character data is demultiplexed from the transmission packet and displayed on for example the display device of the personal computer. In place of the character information, also voice information can be transmitted by a telephone set. In this way, the users of both data transmitting apparatuses transmit and receive the working communication information by using the communication line for transmitting the digital video signal.

Data transmitting system

A data shuffling method for shuffling data for rearranging predetermined data which are contained in a plurality of data units in predetermined numbers each and can be interpolated by using adjoining data in a two-dimensional array comprised of these data units so as to facilitate concealment of data errors occurring during transmission.

Data shuffling method and apparatus for same

A data shuffling method for shuffling data for rearranging predetermined data which are contained in a plurality of data units in predetermined numbers each and can be interpolated by using adjoining data in a two-dimensional array comprised of these data units so as to facilitate concealment of data errors occurring during transmission. The method includes the steps of: dividing the two-dimensional array into a plurality of processing units each containing a predetermined number of the data units; establishing correspondence between each of the predetermined data and each serial number indicating the position of each of the predetermined data in each the processing units for every processing unit; calculating for every processing unit each of the sums or differences of each of the serial numbers corresponding to each of the predetermined data with a predetermined coefficient; calculating for every processing unit each of the values of the remainder system of each of the sums or the differences with respect to the maximum value of the serial numbers; and arranging each of the predetermined data corresponding to each of the values of the remainder system at a position in the processing unit indicated by each of the values of the remainder system to shuffle the predetermined data for every processing unit and, a data shuffling apparatus for the same.

A de-shuffling circuit of a first audio processor 21 performs the following signal processing. When an audio signal is to be reproduced from a video tape 1 in which an audio signal having 4004 samples in consecutive 5 fields is recorded on a helical track, with the number of effective samples for one field equal to 800 or 801, all samples of at least one reproduction among audio signals produced by two or more reproductions of an image signal of the same field are outputted and samples of other reproductions are adaptively controlled in a variable speed reproduction mode for reproducing an arbitrary field twice or more with a dynamic tracking head 2A. Thus, the total number of samples for the 5 fields is limited to not more than 4004.

Audio signal reproducing apparatus

An audio rate converter converts a sampling rate for audio data into a fixed rate. In the audio rate converter, an input audio data DAin at a sampling rate of PFS (48 kHz.+-.x%) are stored in the memory in accordance with a write address WAD which is synchronized with the rate PFS. Audio data are read from the memory in accordance with a read address RAD which is synchronized with a rate FS (48 kHz), and coefficient data determined based on a sampling point in output audio data are read from a ROM table in accordance with a read address Coef.AD which is synchronized with the rate FS. A data arithmetic and logic circuit performs multiplying and adding operations using these data in order to produce the output audio data DAout. If the sampling rate PFS at which the input audio data are provided changes, the audio rate converter can provide the output audio data DAout at the fixed sampling rate FS.

Audio rate converter

A video signal processing apparatus includes a discrete cosine transform circuit for generating a DC component and an AC component by processing image data in a discrete cosine transform fashion, a motion detecting circuit for generating a coincidence detection level based on an energy ratio between the DC component and the AC component generated by the discrete cosine transform circuit, comparing a difference between a DC component of a first field or frame and a DC component of a second field or frame continuing the first field or frame of the image data with the coincidence detection level and detecting on the basis of a compared result whether the image data indicates a moving picture or a still picture, and an image inserting and extracting circuit for inserting an image into or extracting an image from image data at field or frame unit based on a detected result of the motion detecting circuit, wherein the image inserting and extracting circuit inserts an image into or extracts an image from image data at the field unit when the motion detecting circuit detects that the image data indicates a moving picture and inserts an image into or extracts an image from image data at the frame unit when the motion detecting circuit detects that the image data indicates a still picture.

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Kanagawa, Japan

Takayuki Takeda