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20090177619 | INFORMATION PROVIDING APPARATUS AND INPUT INFORMATION RECEIVING METHOD - An information providing apparatus receives a user ID read by an IC card reader, and stores therein the user ID. The user inputs booking information by using an input screen that receives booking information, and then, the information providing apparatus further receives the user ID read by the IC card reader. The information providing apparatus then determines whether the received user ID matches the user ID stored therein. The information providing apparatus confirms reception of the booking information that is input by using the input screen if the user IDs are determined to match each other. | 07-09-2009 |
20090187487 | ADVERTISEMENT DISPLAY METHOD - An advertisement display method for providing advertisements from a display device, includes acquiring advertisement information which is endowed with an advertisement display right for displaying one or more advertisements, the advertisement information identifies an advertisement displayable by an advertisement display right, deciding whether the advertisement identified by the acquired advertisement information is to be displayed on the display device, on a basis of one or more advertisement points to be consumed by a display of the advertisement on the display device, displaying on the display device, summary data of the identified advertisement once it is decided to be displayed, and displaying detailed data of the identified advertisement on the display device, and consuming the advertisement points of the identified advertisement as displayed, based on a browsing request for details of the advertisement. | 07-23-2009 |
20090187940 | VIDEO BROADCASTING METHOD, APPARATUS, AND SYSTEM - A video broadcasting method includes assigning channels to a video content based on a total number of channels usable for broadcasting the video contents and a playback time of the video content, calculating a broadcast start time interval of the channels assigned to the video content based on the playback time of the video content and number of the channels assigned to the video content setting broadcast start time per channel of the channels assigned to the video content, and broadcasting the video content at the broadcast start time set per the channel. | 07-23-2009 |
20090243806 | INTEGRATED CIRCUIT PROCESSING DEVICE AND INTEGRATED CIRCUIT PROCESSING METHOD - An electric signal is allowed to reach loop antennas disposed adjacently to one another from an RFID antenna as a starting point by electromagnetic induction, which permits one IC chip processing device to exert a function equivalent to that exerted by a plurality of IC chip processing devices. Further, the loop antennas are superimposed on a display screen of a display system of an information providing apparatus, and the display screen is transparently visible, and therefore it makes possible to utilize a display surface of display contents on the display screen as an IC chip reading surface and dispose a plurality of reading surfaces showing different services provided. | 10-01-2009 |
20100050201 | ADVERTISEMENT PROVIDING SYSTEM, ADVERTISEMENT DISPLAYING APPARATUS, ADVERTISEMENT MANAGING APPARATUS, ADVERTISEMENT DISPLAYING METHOD, ADVERTISEMENT MANAGING METHOD, AND COMPUTER PRODUCT - An advertisement providing system includes a storage unit storing plural advertisements; a pull-type display managing unit that displays on a display, an advertisement designated by a viewer, from among the advertisements; a counting unit that counts, for each of the advertisements, frequency of display on the display; a generating unit that, based on the frequency of display for each of the advertisements, generates a display schedule for the advertisements; and a push-type display managing unit that displays the advertisements on the display, according to the display schedule. | 02-25-2010 |
20110012811 | Content display system and content display method - A display control device includes: a priority order searching unit that searches a priority order management table to retrieve the priority level corresponding to the standby content screen that has stopped being displayed on a display device related to a usage starting operation when the usage starting operation is detected from any of display devices in the standby state; a switch display target designating unit that retrieves display devices displaying standby content screens of lower priority levels than the retrieved standby content screen, and designates a display device as the switch display target that is the display device displaying the standby content screen of the lowest priority level; and a display control unit that causes the designated display device of the switch display target to switchingly display the standby content screen that has stopped being displayed on the display device related to the usage starting operation. | 01-20-2011 |
20110227800 | DISPLAY DEVICE HAVING AN ANTENNA AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING SAME - A display device and a method of manufacturing the same, the display includes: an electrode plate operable to have a radio-frequency wave to pass therethrough; a light-emitting portion disposed in a direction of one surface of the electrode plate, the light-emitting portion including the electrode plate serving as a back electrode; and an antenna disposed in a direction of another surface of the electrode plate, the antenna having a stripline structure or a microstrip line structure and using a potential of the electrode plate as a reference potential. | 09-22-2011 |
20130004081 | IMAGE RECOGNITION DEVICE, IMAGE RECOGNIZING METHOD, STORAGE MEDIUM THAT STORES COMPUTER PROGRAM FOR IMAGE RECOGNITION - An image identifying device includes: a setting unit which sets a section having at least one image in a video; a first recognizing unit which calculates a plurality of feature amounts related to at least the one image and which acquires a plurality of identification results corresponding to each of the feature amounts from an identifier which may identify a plurality of objects belonging to a first category; a selecting unit which selects, based on the identification results, a second category of a third category ; and a second recognizing unit which calculates another feature amount related to an image included in another section and acquires another identification result corresponding to the feature amount from another identifier which may identify the objects included in the second category. | 01-03-2013 |
20130156263 | VERIFICATION METHOD, VERIFICATION DEVICE, AND COMPUTER PRODUCT - A verification device | 06-20-2013 |
20130188880 | COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM STORING IMAGE ACCUMULATING PROGRAM, METHOD AND APPARATUS - A computer-readable recording medium storing a program for causing a computer to execute an image accumulating procedure, the procedure includes: specifying a second image similar to a first image that is associated with text information; displaying the second image in an identifiable manner, and the text information on a display device; and storing the text information associated with image information that is related to the second image, based on instruction information that instructs a use of the text information with respect to the second image. | 07-25-2013 |
20130191407 | COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM STORING SYSTEM MANAGEMENT PROGRAM, DEVICE, AND METHOD - A computer-readable recording medium storing a program for causing a computer to execute a procedure for managing a system that retrieves a image corresponding to a first type specified by a retrieval request received from a terminal device and another image corresponding to a second type associated with the first type, from an image database storing a plurality of images associated with at least a number of a plurality of types, the procedure includes: referring to a learning state representing whether feature values of images corresponding to each of the plurality of the types have been obtained; retrieving an unlearned type in which the feature value has not been obtained, among the plurality of types; specifying an association type associated with the unlearned type; and outputting the unlearned type in accordance with the learning state of the association type. | 07-25-2013 |
20130308867 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD - An image processing apparatus includes: a storage configured to store, for a plurality of areas in a target image, attributes and patterns associated with the attributes, each the attributes being assigned to each the plurality of areas, and each the pattern being created from areas having an identical attribute among the attributes; and a processor configured to: obtain an area that is specified in the target image and an attribute that is assigned to the specified area, search the storage for a pattern based on similarity between the pattern and a pattern created from a certain number of areas having the assigned attribute; and search for an area in the target image based on similarity between the area and the certain number of areas in accordance with the searched pattern. | 11-21-2013 |
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20090136759 | Active Energy Ray-Curable Resin Composition for Plastic Films, and Plastic Labels - Disclosed is an active energy ray-curable resin the composition for plastic films which contains an oxetane compound, an epoxy compound, and at least one silicone compound selected from epoxy-modified silicones, fluorine-modified silicones, amino-modified silicones, (meth)acrylic-modified silicones, and polyether-modified silicones. The resin the composition has excellent printability such as gravure printability and flexographic printability and cures rapidly to attain high productivity. After curing, it gives a cured layer which excels in adhesion to the plastic base film and in toughness and has good recoatability. A plastic label using the resin the composition excels in surface scratch resistance and crumpling resistance. This label is hence useful especially as a label to be applied to plastic containers, metallic containers such as bottle cans. | 05-28-2009 |
20100178438 | SHRINKABLE LABEL HAVING A HOLOGRAM LAYER AND CONTAINER WITH THE LABEL - Provided is a shrinkable label having a hologram layer that suffers no whitening even after shrink processing with relatively large shrinkage. The label therefore fits even complicated dimensions of an article and, in addition, provides a superior holographic expression. | 07-15-2010 |
20100279133 | SHRINK FILM AND CYLINDRICAL SHRINK LABEL - [Object] To provide a multilayer shrink film which is composed of different polymers, i.e., a polypropylene resin and an aromatic polyester resin and which does not suffer from delamination even in a center-sealed portion during shrinking process; and a cylindrical shrink label using the shrink film. | 11-04-2010 |
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20080229212 | Screen data generating apparatus, image processor, screen data generating method, and computer program product - Structure definition information defining element layout positions on the screen, element definition information defining contents of the display elements, and layout definition information defining which of the display elements is to be laid out on which of the element layout positions are acquired. The screen data is generated by laying out the display elements in the element layout positions on the screen according to the layout definition information. | 09-18-2008 |
20090064002 | Image Forming Apparatus, Display Screen Customizing Method and Computer-Readable Storage Medium - An image forming apparatus includes a plurality of programs to be utilized via corresponding display screens, a screen structure information managing part to manage screen structure information of the display screens, and a customizing information managing part to manage customizing information which records customizing contents with respect to the display screens. The image forming apparatus further includes a screen generating part to generate each display screen corresponding to the plurality of programs, based on the screen structure information and the customizing information related to each display screen. | 03-05-2009 |
20130321312 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION DISPLAY SYSTEM AND INFORMATION DISPLAY METHOD - An information processing apparatus include a position detecting unit that detects positions of a plurality of users existing in a detection target area; a calculating unit that calculates a plurality of feature quantities representing a relation between the positions of the users detected by the position detecting unit and a projection plane on which a projection image is projected; and a determining unit that determines display control processing for the projection image depending on the feature quantities calculated by the calculating unit. | 12-05-2013 |