The present invention relates to a building material design support system for supporting design of a building material capable of exhibiting a random texture pattern as a whole in a state in which the building materials are installed on a building portion and exhibiting continuity of the texture of adjacent building materials, such building material and a program for use in such building material...

Dynamic sampling systems for fabrication with inspection control are provided. In embodiments of a fabrication system comprising a processing tool, inspection tool, and a controller, the processing tool performs a fabrication process on a workpiece associated with identification information. The inspection tool performs an inspection step on the workpiece. The controller, coupled to the processing...

The present invention provides an electronic device and its keyboard system that includes a plurality of keys, a keyboard matrix and a program. The keys include a plurality of first type keys and a plurality of second type keys; the keyboard matrix includes a plurality of keyboard positions. By scanning the keyboard positions, a character or a command typed by a user can be obtained; the program i...

The present invention provides a method to control printing that can preset printing quantity to limit printing quantity of computers. Managers also can be informed of computer printing quantity through the accumulated printing quantity recorded in the printing information. Thus printing cost can be estimated and allocated to units or organizations that own the computer clusters. It is flexibly de...

An un-simultaneous briefing system and a execution method thereof is provided, and it includes transmitting a briefing information N to a display of a speaker, transmitting a briefing information N+1 to the display of the speaker while a page switch message is received by the system and transmitting the briefing information N to the display of the audience. Therefore, the shown briefing informatio...

A video annotation method by integrating visual and speech features is disclosed. This method is featured in integrating a statistical model based on visual features with a speech association model constructed by data mining skills for automatically annotating unknown videos. This method takes both of visual and speech features into consideration simultaneously through the combination of two diffe...

The present invention discloses a video summarization system and the method thereof. A similarity computing apparatus computes the similarity between each frame to obtain multiple similarity values. A key frame extracting apparatus chooses the key frames from the frames wherein the sum of the similarity values between the key frames is a minimum. A feature space mapping apparatus converts the sent...

A printer driving method for fast release of control privilege provides a printer processor processing a render module and a filter module in the background. After processing the print command by an application program, a printer driver converts the print command of an output object into a particular meta file using a kind of printer language. Meanwhile, the meta file is submitted to the printer p...

At least one identification (ID) number is used to effectuate communication between a radio frequency (RF) number and a radio frequency identification (RFID) base station. In accordance with a first embodiment of the present invention, at least a first ID number and a second ID number are stored on an RF transponder. Upon receipt of a write request, the RF transponder compares an ID number portion...

A biometrical feature inputting apparatus includes a 1-dimensional or quasi 1-dimensional image sensor. When a finger and the image sensor are relatively slid, a finger sliding guide keeps a finger and an effective pixel unit of the image sensor to a constant distance without any contact between them. An image processing section sequentially generates partial images by imaging emission light that ...

A system and method for capacity management. The system includes at least an order management module and a pull-in engine. The order management module receives at least a first order having a period delivery demand directing a supplier to deliver products corresponding to the order before the end of the period. The pull-in engine pushes out the first order, and directs capacity reserved for the fi...