Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba

Hitachi, Ltd.

The Center for Political Public Relations, Inc.

Takayuki Tsuchida

Akira Shimizu

Shinji Fujiwara

Kunio Ueda

Takayoshi Miyagawa

Katsutoshi Ishikawa

Naoko Shimojima

Yoshiyuki Miura

Shigenori Matsushita

Kazuhiko Mogi

Yuki Yamada

Michiko Tanaka

Shinsuke Hamada

Wataru Kawai

A database includes a plurality of data blocks. Each of the plurality of data blocks includes a plurality of data pages in which a plurality of column values recorded in one or more records corresponding to the data block are stored. Each of the plurality of data pages has two or more column values in one column corresponding to the data page stored therein. A database server selects a data block from the plurality of data blocks and specifies a data page to be scanned from the selected data block.

Database management system, database server, and database management method

A database management system receives a new data table input to a database; and executes unique constraint determination processing of determining whether each comparison-subject value as each value registered in a target column in the new data table is different from each comparison reference value as each value registered in a target column in a stored data table in the database, and stores the new data table in a second database area different from a first database area storing the stored data table in the database when a determination result obtained in the unique constraint determination processing is true.

Database management system and database management method

An election terminal apparatus includes an integral-type display/input unit constituted by a liquid crystal display unit and a tablet unit for input data. The display unit displays a first screen including icons corresponding to candidates. A voter operates the tablet unit to designate a candidate for whom he/she wants to vote. The election terminal apparatus discriminates the candidate designated by the voter, and causes the liquid crystal display unit to display an image for allowing the voter to input the candidate name or the like with handwriting. When the voter handwrites the candidate name or the like on the table unit, the election terminal apparatus performs character recognition with respect to the handwritten pattern. When a candidate specified by the recognized characters coincides with the candidate designated first, the election terminal apparatus increments the vote count of the candidate by one.

Election terminal apparatus

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Tokyo, Japan

Takayuki Tsuchida