Hitachi, Ltd.

Renesas Technology Corp.

Hitachi Chubu Software, Ltd.

Hitachi Software Engineering Company, Ltd.

Hitachisoftware Eng. Co., Ltd.

Tomohisa Kohiyama

Nobukazu Kondo

Masataka Okayama

Kazuaki Tanaka

Yoshihiro Harada

Kazutoshi Katoh

Jun Kitahara

Takeo Tomokane

Naoko Iwami

Akio Hayashi

Takahiro Yamada

Shigeto Oeda

Ichiro Ote

Masami Yamagishi

Tetsuya Kawahara

Junji Nakata

Sunao Hirata

Munekazu Kamo

Takumi Soen

Seiji Oyama

Setsuko Kojima

Kenji Watanabe

Hiroyuki Sakai

Takahiro Nakano

Hiroyuki Mano

Motoyasu Tsunoda

Kazushi Kobayashi

Makoto Nohmi

Koki Noguchi

Hitoshi Suzuki

Yukihiro Seki

Takashi Maruyama

Yuji Kimura

Takeshi Igarashi

Hironori Oikawa

Taminori Tomita

Koichi Inoue

Tetsuya Suzuki

Masakazu Hamaguchi

Harumi Morino

Yoshiaki Kitazume

Yukinobu Mizoguchi

Shigeru Murasaki

Kohichi Nakatani

Takao Shimada

Goro Ohnishi

Mitsuo Hayashi

Naohisa Koizumi

Masahiro Konno

Yasuyuki Kuwahara

A remote machine uses a process control unit to monitor a process for a Web browser program. When the process for the Web browser program starts to operate, an operating time therefor starts to be measured. When the operating time reaches a predetermined time, the process for the Web browser program is forcefully terminated. After that, unless the remote machineis rebooted, that is, unless a RAM is cleared, the process for the Web browser program is forcefully terminated immediately after its start.

Information processing device and process control method

An agent computer system, acting on behalf of the user, provides the personal information to various wide area network sites for conducting online transactions. A user has a secure device with a built-in device identifier. A backup center has a computer system to be coupled to the secure device during backup of the personal information. The personal information is encrypted with a unique user ID as a key. The user ID is entered by the user. The user ID is irreversibly encrypted to a unique irreversibly encrypted user identifier. The secure device includes data executable to establish a new account, renew an old account, and transmission of the encrypted information along with the unique device identifier and the unique irreversibly encrypted user identifier to the backup center. The unique device identifier and the unique irreversibly encrypted user identifier are used for indexing the storage of the encrypted information.

Hidden data backup and retrieval for a secure device

An object is to provide a video recording/playing apparatus for facilitating recording/playing of motion pictures. The configuration is provided with, at least, a video input device for inputting analog motion pictures (video), a video capture device for digitizing the motion pictures inputted through the video input device and recording the digitized motion pictures and, at the same time, for converting the motion pictures inputted through the video input device into compressed motion pictures capable of being played in a high compression ratio and in a high picture quality and recording the compressed motion pictures, an information extracting device for extracting arbitrary information from the non-compressed motion pictures captured by the video capture device, a correspondence information generating device for associating the information extracted by the information extracting device with the compressed motion pictures captured by the video capture device, an input device for designating a result of the correspondence, and a compressed video playing device for playing the compressed motion pictures.

Video capture device

A surveillance image is acquired from a surveillance camera. Supplement information (such as date and time, and surveillance camera number) relating to the surveillance image is acquired. By imaging the supplement information, supplement information image data is generated. A quantized discrete cosine transform coefficient block obtained by conducting discrete cosine transform and then quantization on surveillance image data of the surveillance image is added to a quantized discrete cosine transform coefficient block obtained by conducting discrete cosine transform and then quantization on the supplement information image data. A resultant sum is subjected to Huffman encoding. The result is recorded.

Surveillance system

A data conversion apparatus included an information input device, a holder for holding information designating a method of the conversion processing from input portion when the kind of the input information is examined and is judged as predetermined data for executing a data conversion processing, a convertor for executing the data in accordance with a predetermined rule, a synthesizer for generating new data by combining the input information with a predetermined data content, and an information output device for outputting the new data so generated. When the kind of the data is screen configuration data describing configuration of the screen output of an information processing unit, the predetermined rule adds a display area of the screen configuration and converts it to a screen configuration data capable of displaying a plurality of screen configurations on the same screen.

Data conversion method and apparatus

An image pickup apparatus certifies unchanged image data by photographing a person using the image pickup apparatus. Two steps are carried out with the image pickup apparatus, coding image data and enciphering the coded image data, which includes changing the original data to encryption data. The enciphering also includes adding a watermark to the coded data. The coding of the image data and enciphering of the coded data are performed before the coded data is stored in a medium or is transferred to another device.

Digital camera storing and outputting encrypted digital image data

For improving data efficiency of a bus in a system using address/data multiplex bus, in a processor for information processing equipment, there are provided buffers which store plural sets of write addresses and data for a system bus, a comparator for deciding whether write addresses in succession forming a continuous write address exist in the write addresses stored in the buffers, and apparatus for converting access corresponding to writing operations for the continuous write addresses into a fixed length burst transfer protocol which can be transferred with a series of continuing data cycles following one address cycle, when the comparator 27 decides that write addresses in succession exist.

Method and apparatus for converting non-burst write cycles to burst write cycles across a bus bridge

An information processing system is configured such that which when an application handling multimedia, especially, moving images is performed by an information processor such as a personal computer, a sufficient processing performance is realized with the conventional CPU and bus capabilities. The information processing system includes a bus adaptor or bus converter for connecting a CPU bus and a system bus. The bus converter includes an operation processing unit (ALU) capable of performing a portion of an operating function performed by the conventional CPU or a portion of an operating function performed by an image processing board connected to the system bus, whereby the bus converter takes over a portion of a processing to be performed by the CPU or I/O module. Thereby, an overhead time for data transfer through the buses is reduced so that the total performance of the system is improved. Also, since a processing unqualified for the CPU, for example, a bit operation can be performed by a dedicated hardware, the information processing performance is improved.

Information processing system

An apparatus for information display for displaying not only periodic information in accordance with schedule, but also non-periodic information regardless of the schedule, to passengers and passersby in stations, airports, harbors, bus terminals and streets, and the like. The apparatus comprises an information-storing section for storing a plurality of non-periodic information to be displayed regardless of the schedule, an input circuit for receiving a plurality of input signals transmitted from an external device or a remote place and display control section for simultaneously displaying the non-periodic information and periodic information which correspond to the kind of an input signal, when the apparatus receives this input signal from the external apparatus or the remote place. The apparatus may be a multi-screen display type having a plurality of screens. In this case, a combined screen data consisting of a non-periodic information and a periodic information can be displayed, or the non-periodic information or the periodic information can be displayed, on at least one of the screens.

Apparatus and method for information display

Video capture device, video recording/playing apparatus having the video

Compressed image data of a desired picture is read out from a memory having compressed image data of a sequential format stored therein and then subjected to an examination with respect to a plurality of frequency components of the read-out compressed image data. Part of the plurality of frequency components is deleted to obtain compressed image data of a quality lower than an original quality of the compressed image data. The obtained compressed image data of the lower quality is decoded and displayed on a display. The plurality of frequency components are deleted in a stepwise manner according to a traffic state of a transmission line through which the compressed image data is to be transmitted. For maintaining a picture frame rate to be constant, the plurality of frequency components may be deleted in a stepwise manner. For obtaining a desired decoding rate, the plurality of frequency components may be deleted in a stepwise manner.

Method and apparatus for creating less amount of compressd image data

A graphic display processing apparatus which includes a CPU, a VRAM and a display controller, a data operation unit, an access cycle generator, an address generator and a sequential transfer sequencer. The graphic display processing apparatus also includes a mask pattern generator, dot mask generator and data position transformer. In the graphic display process apparatus block transfer and character drawing are reformed at high speeds, thereby making a window system more practical and offering comfortable operational environment to the user.

Graphic display processing apparatus for improving speed and efficiency

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Yokohama, Japan

Tomohisa Kohiyama