Brother Kogyo Kabushiki-kaisha

Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha and Xing, Inc.

Takuma Kuno

Masashi Ueda

Hideo Ueno

Masashi Suzuki

Yasuhiro Funahashi

Takahiro Hosokawa

A method to configure a service providing system having a service providing device and a service requesting device in a network is provided. The method includes steps of obtaining function parameters, which indicate specific values configurable in the service requesting device for receiving the data processing service, when the service requesting device becomes connected to communicate with the service providing device, determining service receiving parameters, which indicate parameters to configure the service requesting device to become receivable of the data processing service, configuring the service receiving device with the service receiving parameters determined in the service receiving parameter determining step, registering the service receiving parameters in association with the service requesting device, and implementing the data processing service for the service requesting device based on the service receiving parameters being associated with the service requesting device, when the service requesting device accesses the service providing device.

Method to configure a network device, service providing system, service providing device, and computer usable medium therefor

A packet transmission control device includes a socket detecting system that detects addresses and ports of a first device and a second device, which perform a packet communication in a network by transmitting/receiving data packets, a socket storing system that stores addresses and ports detected by the socket detecting system, a session information detecting system that detects session information regarding the packet communication according to a communication protocol of the packet communication between the first device and the second device, a session information storing system that stores the session information detected by the session information detecting system, a terminal capability detecting system that detects terminal capability of each of the first device and the second device prior to the packet communication according to the communication protocol, and a terminal capability storing system that stores the terminal capabilities detected by the terminal capability detecting system.

Packet communication control device and packet communication control method

A method of evaluating the quality of an image includes a step of determining at least a parameter concerning a zone or a parameter concerning a distribution pattern of sampling points within the zone. This step is performed based on the image. For each zone, Fourier analysis is performed using the optical characteristic values of the respective sampling points within the zone, and the image quality of each zone is obtained. The quality of the image is then determined based on the image quality of each zone within the image. A suitable zone and distribution pattern of sampling points are employed in evaluating the quality of an image.

Method of evaluating quality of image and use thereof

The first auxiliary memory,stores background image information in the form of digital data, and the second auxiliary memory,stores sound information in the form of digital data. When a request is transmitted from the terminal,to the information supplying device,, a background image information of a genre, to which the requested song belongs, is retrieved from the first auxiliary memory,, packetized by the video packetizer,, and outputted to the multiplexer,. A sound information for the requested song is retrieved from the second auxiliary memory,, packetized by the audio packetizer,, and outputted to the multiplexer,. The background image information and the sound information are combined into a single packet data train and outputted to the terminal

Information supplying device that can store multiple types of information and supplies composite information in response to a request

In a sound/moving picture reproduction system,, a main data transferring device,includes a sound/moving picture data storing portion storing sound/moving picture data. A plurality of auxiliary data transferring devices,are connected in parallel to the main data transferring device,. The auxiliary data transferring devices,are arranged in one or more stages along a data transfer direction defined from the main data transferring device toward a plurality of data reproducing devices,. Each of the plurality of auxiliary data transferring devices,includes a copied data storing portion storing copied data of received sound/moving picture data. The main data transferring device reads sound/moving picture data from the is sound/moving picture data storing portion and transfers the read sound/moving picture data to either one of the plurality of auxiliary data transferring devices. Upon receipt of the sound/moving picture data, the auxiliary data transferring device copies the received sound/moving picture data into the copied data storing portion and transfers the copied sound/moving picture data to a desired data reproducing device.

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Nagoya, Japan

Takuma Kuno