Abstract:
A portable terminal with the function of walking navigation. The portable terminal displays information on its narrow screen so as to make it easy for the user (walker) to understand and realize an interface that enables the user to understand inputs of retrieving conditions intuitively, thereby saving the input labor. Assume now that a user (walker) 10 is lost while walking towards a destination 11. In such a case, the present invention enables necessary information to be compressed, for example, so as to display both direction and distance to the destination from a present place with an orientation and a length of an arrow on a small screen and further so as to match the orientation of the arrow with the direction of the destination in the actual space. If the user (walker) 10 specifies a compressed information item 12, 13, or 14 for inquiry, the present invention controls so that the arrow always points the direction of the destination corresponding to each of those compressed information items 12, 13, and 14. The condition of retrieval can also be set by turning, for example, the tip of the portable terminal directly in the desired direction 12, 13, or 14.
Abstract:
A portable terminal has a function of walking navigation. The direction of the destination is displayed by an indicating arrow that always points in the direction of the destination. In the navigation processing, the user enters data to select a menu and/or set retrieving conditions on the setup screen. At first, the user gets the location information of the portable terminal, represented by a latitude/longitude or coordinates and an altitude, for example. Then, the user gets the direction information of the portable terminal, which is the direction of the tip of the portable terminal as determined by a compass, a gyro, or a clinometer. The location information and the direction information are set as terminal information for the retrieving conditions. The system controls retrieving of the database and retrieves the information corresponding to the selected menu, such as route guidance.
Abstract:
An object of the present invention is to generate a vector or data from inputted drawing data interactively by suppressing the input cost.When an unknown process occurs in the system during data processing, an inquiry to a user is generated in the case of interactive operation. However, when drawings are handled, the number of inquiries to a user increases and the system operability lowers inversely. The present invention executes the drawing recognition method by cooperation and and competition of a multi-agent on the basis of the basic property of a figure such as adjacent relation. When blurring or a problem portion such as in interruption part or a junction part appears during recognition of a drawing, the linkage relation of line paths is automatically decided by making the recognition agent adjacent to the problem portion cooperate and compete. An inquiry to a user is not made. By doing this, vector data is obtained.The input cost of figure information in a data base can be reduced remarkably.
Abstract:
There is disclosed a method for producing organoplatinum polymers by reacting 5,6,11,12-tetradehydrodibenzo a,e!cyclooctenes with platinum complexes. The organoplatinum polymer thus obtained has .pi.-coordinated acetylene in the main chain, and is expected to be used as electronic materials, nonlinear optical materials, and polymer platinum complex catalysts, that can be used in air.
Abstract:
In extracting parameters for use in circuit simulation of an IC device having a plurality of insulated gate field-effect transistors (IGFETs), layout data for patterns for the IC device are prepared. The patterns include gate patterns for the IGFETs, at least one of which is a bent gate pattern such that drain and source regions are defined on opposite sides of the bent gate pattern. An index symbol data is added to the layout data, which is for the bent gate pattern, to thereby form designed pattern data. For higher accuracy of the circuit simulation, the index symbol data in the designed pattern data is detected and used to produce parameters concerning the gate patterns for the IGFETs, thereby contributing to determination of a capability of controlling electric current in the IGFETs.
Abstract:
A method for displaying information and system includes the steps of displacing map data on the screen of a display unit, displaying layout data representing one or more segments of a certain floor in each of the one or more structure elements of the map data displayed on a first designated portion, on a second designated portion of the screen in response to a layout display instruction, and displaying attribute data corresponding to each of the one or more segments of the floor.
Abstract:
In a method of designing cells applicable to different first and second design automation systems, first and second cells circuit-designed by the first and second design automation systems, respectively, are demarcated into a logic function portion and an input/output portion. A plurality of sets of common lithography patterns for the logic function portions of the first and second cells are determined such that each common lithography pattern set is shared by those of the first and second cells which have same logic function in the first and second design automation systems. A first set of lithography patterns for the input/output portions of the first cells in the first design automation system and a second set of lithography patterns for the input/output portions of the second cells in the second design automation system are determined, respectively. The first and second sets of lithography patterns are, at their external ends, in an arrangement satisfying requirements of the first and second design automation systems, respectively. The logic function portion of one or more of the first cells in the first design automation system having the determined set of common lithography pattern is combined with the input/output portion of the second cells having the second set of lithography pattern in the second design automation system.
Abstract:
In a database system for map information, matching and retrieving operations are carried out between an attribute database associated with a business and a map database. A matching key word is separated into a common noun part and a proper noun part, a synonym and an abbreviated word are inferred by employing rules respectively. Furthermore, a candidate key word is inferred by employment of a rule for combining these results at an optimum state, whereby a matching process is performed. Another address database is employed so as to realize a mutual retrieving operation even when the attribute database is not matched with the map database.
Abstract:
A magnetic recording medium, produced by preparing a resin solution for magnetic paint having as a main component thereof a copolymer of (A) vinyl chloride, (B) a vinyl carboxylate, (C) an unsaturated carboxylic acid, (D) an unsaturated carboxylic anhydride and (E) vinyl alcohol, containing 50 to 90% by weight of (A) based on the total of the amounts of (A), (B) and (E), 1 to 15% by weight of (E) based on the total of the amounts of (A), (B) and (E), 0 to 30% by weight of (D) based on the total of amounts of (C) and (D), and 1 to 5 parts by weight of the total of (C) and (D) based on 100 parts by weight of the total of (A), (B) and (E) and having an average polymerization degree of 100 to 400, mixing 10 to 80% by weight of said resin solution with 90 to 20% by weight of a radiation curable resin, blending the resultant mixture as a main component with a magnetic powder, applying the resultant magnetic paint to a non-magnetic substrate, and curing the applied layer of paint with radiation.
Abstract:
An alternative method for efficiently producing lactic acids from a carbohydrate-containing raw material such as cellulose is provided. The method for producing lactic acid and/or lactic acid ester comprises performing heat treatment on a carbohydrate-containing raw material in a solvent containing a catalyst, wherein the catalyst is at least one type of compound selected from the group consisting of a tin compound, an indium compound, and a rhenium compound, and the solvent contains water and/or alcohol.