Canon Kabushiki Kaisha

Takeshi Kawazome

Yoshihiro Ishida

Nobuyuki Shigeeda

Shinichiro Koga

Tsuneyoshi Takagi

Toshiaki Minami

Yuichi Bannai

Kenichiro Tanaka

In a semiconductor process system having a semiconductor process apparatus for performing various jobs to manufacture a semiconductor device, a material convey unit for conveying materials used in the jobs to the semiconductor process apparatus, and a host computer for monitoring the operation state of the semiconductor process apparatus, instructing the material convey unit to convey a material used in a required job, and instructing the semiconductor process apparatus to execute the job, the host computer makes a job reservation that informs the semiconductor process apparatus of the job to be executed simultaneously with the convey instruction of the material used in the required job, and the semiconductor process apparatus confirms in accordance with the job reservation if job data required for the reserved job is present in the apparatus, and takes a predetermined measure such as requesting a job data transfer means to transfer job data required, or outputting a predetermined warning, if the job data is not present.

Semiconductor process system, its control method, computer readable memory, and device manufacturing method

A contour-information extraction system which includes performing raster scanning of a document, detemining a position of an interpixel grid of image data in the document, detecting contour vectors for the interpixel grid in a main scanning direction, and detecting contour vectors for the interpixel grid in a sub-scanning direction. The contour vectors are detected based on a state of a group of pixels in a vicinity of the position of the interpixel grid. The system further includes determining a connection state of the detected contour vectors and extracting contour information for the interpixel grid based on the connection state of the contour vectors.

Contour-information extraction apparatus and method

Contour vectors are extracted by an outline extraction unit from a binary image acquired by a binary image acquisition unit. An outline smoothing/zooming unit smoothes and zooms the image expressed by the contour vectors. The zoom ratio at this time is controlled by a zoom controller in such a manner that a zoom ratio obtained by combining this zoom ratio with the zoom ratio of a second zooming unit will become a desired zoom ratio. The smoothed and zoomed image data is converted to a binary image by a binary image reproducing unit. This binary image is zoomed by the second zooming unit. The zoom ratio here preferably is selected in such a manner that the zoom ratio of the smoothing zoom unit becomes unity or greater. As a result, zooming of image data expressed by vectors is no longer limited to enlargement, images can be reduced in size while still remaining faithful to the original image, and it is unnecessary to process extra data.

Image processing apparatus, and method of controlling same, using a combination of enlargement and fixed ratio reduction processing

Semiconductor process system, its control method, computer readable

The contour vectors of an image are stored in a small storage capacity, and are enlarged/reduced in correspondence with a desired variable-magnification factor to be faithful to an input image. For this purpose, when a binary image is input from a binary image input unit (11), a contour vector extraction unit extracts contour vectors, and detects the positions of isolated points. The contour vectors are enlarged/reduced by a vector variable-magnification/smoothing unit (13), and a binary image is reproduced by a binary image reproduction unit (15). On the other hand, each of the isolated points is subjected to variable-magnification processing by an isolated point variable-magnification processing unit (14), so that its position is converted into a position corresponding to the variable-magnification factor, and points corresponding in number to the variable-magnification factor form the isolated point. Thus, the storage capacity of the isolated points can be reduced, and the isolated points are subjected to variable-magnification processing at an appropriate variable-magnification factor corresponding to the desired variable-magnification factor.

Image processing apparatus and method

There is provided an information processing apparatus in which an efficiency of a work that is being executed by a client application during the activation at present doesn't deteriorate, a recording process for recording the contents of the work so that they can be smoothly reconstructed can be executed, and a reproducing process which corresponds to the recording process and is provided to reconstruct the work contents can be efficiently executed. In the recording process, an event message which is generated by an input of the user is recorded into an event message memory. In the reproducing process, the event message is read out from the event message memory, the event message is stored into a transmission message buffer through a reproduction message buffer, and the event message is transmitted from the transmission message buffer to a client application.

System for reproducing contents of work operable in digest reproducing

A window sharing system of a server client method in which a client application communicates with a plurality of servers by distributing a message and an operation is executed by switching an operation right for the client application. The system includes a window ID obtainer for obtaining a window ID of a common window formed by the client application and storing the window ID into a first memory; an operation right information obtainer for obtaining information of the operation right for the client application and storing the information into a second memory; an operation pointer display controller for displaying an operation pointer to operate the client application to the common window on the basis of the window ID stored in the first memory; an operation right information display controller for adding the operation right information stored in the second memory to the operation pointer and displaying the information; and an operation right information switching unit for storing information regarding the user who performed a click operation by a mouse-cursor on the operation pointer into the second memory and switching the operation right.

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Utsunomiya, Japan

Takeshi Kawazome