1994 Volume 3 Issue 1 Pages 1-12
The process of cultivation of snap bean was taken of a photograph with a video camera. Three following systems were constructed by using the video photograph, and "MS-WINDOWS Ver.3.1" and multimedia operation systems ("MS-VIDEO FOR WINDOWS" AND "MS-SOUND SYSTEM").
1) The first system, "Half forcing culture method of snap bean", was arranged as an experimental report. Animation and still pictures were embedded and pasted into the word processors ("Write" and "Amipro"). This system was composed of two animations, eight still pictures, a sound object, a figure, and two tables. Two animation files were captured with "MS-VIDEO FOR WINDOWS" and embedded by OLE (Object Linking and Embedding) function of "Write" and "Amipro". As for eight still pictures, after some video pictures had been converted into JPEG form by using "Video Capture Board" (Canopus Photopaq-98, Canopus Videopaq-98), the JPEG files were displayed on "Power View" and then stored into the word processor files through the clipboard.
2) The second system, "Variety information of Snap Bean", was a simple data base, in which data were stored in "Card file" annexed to "MS-WINDOWS" as an accessory. Two files of animation and still pictures were captured into this data base system. The plant types of eight varieties of snap bean were linked and embedded as the animation pictures. The pod forms of ten varieties were pasted as the still pictures.
3) The last system, "Seedling information of Snap Bean grown in cell pots" was produced, which displays still pictures one after another. In this system, video pictures were converted into the JPEG form, and thirty JPEG files of the still pictures were made in total. The size of them was 94KB in the maximum, 40KB in the minimum, and 59KB on the average.
The characteristics of these systems were discussed from the viewpoint of utilization of image and sound in a crop-culture information system. Animations, still pictures, sounds and diagrams could be easily captured into the system without any handling trouble, using the software mentioned above. A harddisk driver of 500MB or more in size was necessary to make use of these systems. If a network system with such mutiple objects is constructed, users (ex. farmers) can easily obtain much information with few mistakes at any time by a personal computer.
