Patent application number | Description | Published |
20080212443 | Information processing apparatus, information processing method, program recording medium, and data recording medium - A management center registers user information that includes user identification information for identifying a user terminal and improvement-information identification information for identifying improvement information recorded in an optical disk and processed by the user terminal. When a user terminal requests improvement information through a network, the management center searches for another user terminal that can provide necessary information, according to user information, and obtains the improvement information from the another user terminal searched for, through the network. The management center then provides the obtained improvement information for the user terminal that requested it, through the network. | 09-04-2008 |
20080215662 | COMMUNICATION APPARATUS, COMMUNICATION METHOD, ELECTRONIC APPARATUS, CONTROL METHOD FOR CONTROLLING ELECTRONIC APPARATUS, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - Value-added information is generated by collecting information relating to apparatuses from a plurality of users, and service is automatically and adaptively provided in a manner that satisfies each user's own preference. | 09-04-2008 |
20080244119 | Information processing apparatus, information processing method, and information processing program - An information processing apparatus includes a communication unit that transmits/receives data to and from an external device; a detection unit that detects communication connection with the external device by the communication unit; an operation input unit that accepts an operation input; a command allocation unit that, when the detection unit detects communication connection with the external device, allocates a data transmission command with respect to a one-click operation to a symbol corresponding to a data storage place to be displayed on a display unit, which is accepted by the operation input unit; and a control unit that, when the operation input unit accepts the one-click operation to the symbol, in case the data transmission command is allocated with respect to the one-click operation, controls so that the communication unit transmits data stored in the data storage place corresponding to the symbol to the external device. | 10-02-2008 |
20080291197 | INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD AND INFORMATION PROCESSING PROGRAM - An information processing device includes: a control section that displays, in response to an operation of an operation section, a piece of map information on a display section and acquires, in accordance with the piece of map information displayed on the display section, a list of content related to the piece of map information. | 11-27-2008 |
20130138256 | POWER CONTROL APPARATUS, POWER TRANSMISSION APPARATUS, AND POWER CONTROL SYSTEM - There is provided a power control apparatus including an input unit to which attribute information regarding a type of generation of power is input, a determination unit configured to determine the type of generation of the power corresponding to the attribute information according to the attribute information, and a power control unit configured to control use of the power according to a determination result by the determination unit. | 05-30-2013 |
20130222612 | CLIENT TERMINAL, SERVER AND PROGRAM - There is provided a client terminal including a determination unit configured to determine whether an overhead view image is associated with a position indicated by a user, and a display control unit configured to perform control so that the overhead view image is displayed on a display unit in accordance with a determination result obtained by the determination unit. | 08-29-2013 |
20130229535 | CLIENT TERMINAL, SERVER, AND PROGRAM - There is provided a client terminal including a determination unit that determines, based on position information associated with a particular object, whether the particular object is included in an angle of view visually recognized by a user, and a guidance unit that guides the user when the determination unit determines that the particular object is not included in the angle of view visually recognized by the user. | 09-05-2013 |
20130262565 | SERVER, CLIENT TERMINAL, SYSTEM, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - There is provided a server including a database configured to store position information and priority of a landmark, a reception unit configured to receive, from a client terminal, position information of the client terminal, and a transmission unit configured to transmit, to the client terminal, the position information of the landmark corresponding to the position information received by the reception unit, and the priority of the landmark. The reception unit receives position information of a subject captured by the client terminal. Based on the position information of the subject received by the reception unit, the server further includes a control unit configured to perform control in a manner that the priority of the landmark stored in the database is updated. | 10-03-2013 |
20130271285 | INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - There is provided an information processing device including a characteristic detection unit that detects a characteristic of a battery and a characteristic of an operating device that operates using electric power obtained from the battery, a symbol setting unit that sets one symbol on which information corresponding to the detected characteristics is reflected, and a display control unit that causes the set symbol to be displayed. | 10-17-2013 |
20130293727 | SYSTEM, ELECTRONIC APPARATUS, AND RECORDING MEDIUM - There is provided a system including a housing configured to be grasped by a hand, a determination unit configured to determine whether an object point is present in a vicinity of an electronic apparatus, a recognition unit configured to recognize a relative relationship between the object point and a position of the electronic apparatus when the determination unit has determined that the object point is present in the vicinity, and a stimulation control unit configured to perform control in a manner that a stimulus is provided to a hand in accordance with the recognized relative relationship. | 11-07-2013 |
20130332530 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, COMPUTER PROGRAM, AND TERMINAL APPARATUS - There is provided an information processing apparatus including a condition determining unit that changes, when information of a first user and information of a second user satisfy a predetermined condition, a state from a first state in which information sharing on a communication network is disabled between a first terminal apparatus used by the first user and a second terminal apparatus used by the second user to a second state in which the information sharing is enabled, and a restricting unit that restricts the change of the state from the first state to the second state, on the basis of restriction information that is acquired from the first terminal apparatus and is used to restrict the change of the state from the first state to the second state. | 12-12-2013 |
20130336544 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS AND RECORDING MEDIUM - There is provided an information processing apparatus including a first managing unit that manages specific person information, the specific person information being information regarding a specific person, a second managing unit that manages attention object information, the attention object information being information regarding an attention object candidate, a searching unit that searches for the specific person information, using the attention object information as a search key, an evaluating unit that evaluates an attention object, on the basis of a search result obtained by the searching unit, and a storage control unit that stores the specific person, the attention object, and an evaluation value obtained by the evaluating unit in association with each other. | 12-19-2013 |
20140009644 | SERVER, CLIENT TERMINAL, AND PROGRAM - There is provided a server including a reception section which receives, from a client terminal, present position information showing a position of the client terminal, and direction information showing an orientation of the client terminal, a retrieval section which retrieves sensory data to which detection position information is added corresponding to a position in a vicinity of an axial line extending in a direction shown by the direction information from the position of the client terminal, and a transmission section which transmits the sensory data retrieved by the retrieval section to the client terminal. | 01-09-2014 |
20140012095 | STORAGE CONTROL APPARATUS, STORAGE CONTROL SYSTEM, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - There is provided a storage control apparatus including a detection section which detects a body sound inside a body cavity, and outputs the body sound as an audio signal, and a storage control section which performs control in a manner that the audio signal output from the detection section is stored. | 01-09-2014 |
20140037106 | INFORMATION DISTRIBUTING SYSTEM, INFORMATION PROCESSING TERMINAL DEVICE, INFORMATION CENTER, AND INFORMATION DISTRIBUTING METHOD - The invention relates to an information distributing system for distributing data to at least one information processing terminal device from an information center storing data. The information distributing system of the invention is structured such that character data, audio data, and both the character data and the audio data are selectively downloaded from the information center to the information processing terminal device on the basis of request information from the information processing terminal device, so that a user makes selection according to a congested state of communication, and effective information collection becomes possible. | 02-06-2014 |
20140037262 | DATA STORAGE DEVICE AND STORAGE MEDIUM - There is provided a data storage device that conducts at least one of audio recording and video recording, the data storage device including a trigger signal transmitter that transmits a given trigger signal to an external device, a storage controller that applies control to conduct the at least one of audio recording and video recording, and a marking unit that marks stored data acquired by the at least one of audio recording and video recording at a time of transmitting the trigger signal. | 02-06-2014 |
20140046505 | MOBILE OBJECT, SYSTEM, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - There is provided a mobile object including an input detection unit configured to detect an input from an outside, an acquisition unit configured to acquire environmental information detected by a sensor in a remote location, in accordance with a content of detection performed by the input detection unit, and a control unit configured to control an actuator other than a driving actuator in accordance with the environmental information acquired by the acquisition unit, the driving actuator relating to movement of the mobile object. | 02-13-2014 |
20140066808 | SIGNAL PROCESSING SYSTEM, SIGNAL PROCESSING APPARATUS, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - There is provided a signal processing system including a first detection section which detects, from outside a body cavity, first audio signals of a prescribed part inside the body cavity, a second detection section which detects, from inside the body cavity, second audio signals of the prescribed part inside the body cavity, and a generation section which generates third audio signals based on the first audio signals and the second audio signals. | 03-06-2014 |
20140078242 | INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM AND STORAGE MEDIUM - There is provided an information processing system including an identifying unit that identifies a user and a target with whom the user requests to converse based on a signal detected by a first sensor arranged around the user, a signal processing unit that performs predetermined signal processing on signals detected by the first sensor and a second sensor arranged around the target, an output control unit that causes the signal detected by at least the second sensor and processed by the signal processing unit to be output to a first output unit arranged around the user, and a recognizing unit that recognizes, when a plurality of the targets are identified by the identifying unit, a selection request for selecting a specific target from among the plurality of targets based on the signal detected by the first sensor. | 03-20-2014 |
20140079212 | SIGNAL PROCESSING APPARATUS AND STORAGE MEDIUM - There is provided a signal processing apparatus including a recognition section configured to recognize at least one of a state of a first user, a state of a second user, and a relationship between the first user and the second user, a signal processing unit configured to perform signal processing on voice information corresponding to voice articulated by the first user, or voice information corresponding to voice that is transmitted from a remote location and articulated by the second user, and a control unit configured to control the signal processing unit to perform signal processing on at least one of the voice information corresponding to the voice articulated by the first user, and the voice information corresponding to the voice that is transmitted from the remote location and articulated by the second user, in accordance with a recognition result of the recognition section. | 03-20-2014 |
20140106815 | TERMINAL APPARATUS AND STORAGE MEDIUM - There is provided a terminal apparatus including a search unit configured to search for an apparatus group including an input apparatus or an output apparatus, the input apparatus and the output apparatus being wirelessly connectable to the terminal apparatus, a recommendation unit configured to recommend, to a user, a predetermined input apparatus or a predetermined output apparatus from the apparatus group that has been searched for by the search unit, in accordance with current time, a place in which the user is currently present, or an attribute of the user, and a setting unit configured to set the predetermined input apparatus or the predetermined output apparatus as an input unit or an output unit of the terminal apparatus, respectively, the predetermined input apparatus and the predetermined output apparatus having been recommended by the recommendation unit. | 04-17-2014 |
20140112534 | INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE AND STORAGE MEDIUM - There is provided an information processing device including a detection unit that detects a face image region in an image, a determination unit that determines a human attribute of at least one face image in the face image region detected by the detection unit, and a face image replacement unit that replaces the at least one face image with a natural face image of another person according to the human attribute determined by the determination unit. | 04-24-2014 |
20140123015 | INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM, INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - There is provided an information processing system including a database in which at least one of a name, position information, and an image identifying a predetermined location is associated with specific content, a position identification part configured to identify a current position, a determination part configured to determine whether content corresponding to the current position is present in the database, a notification part configured to, when the determination part determines that the content corresponding to the current position is present, send to a user a notification that the content corresponding to the current position is present, and a controller configured to start playback of the content in accordance with an action of the user with respect to the notification by the notification part. | 05-01-2014 |
20140125451 | AUDIO ILLUMINATION APPARATUS AND STORAGE MEDIUM - There is provided an audio illumination apparatus including an illumination unit, an audio output unit, a setting unit configured to set a parameter of at least one of illumination of the illumination unit and audio output of the audio output unit in accordance with a recognized user who is in a neighborhood, a transmission unit configured to transmit the parameter set by the setting unit to an audio illumination apparatus in the neighborhood, and a control unit configured to control the at least one of the illumination of the illumination unit and the audio output of the audio output unit in accordance with the set parameter. | 05-08-2014 |
20140125558 | IMAGE DISPLAY DEVICE, IMAGE DISPLAY METHOD, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM - An image display device which is used by being mounted on the head or face of a user includes a display unit which displays an image; an information maintaining unit which maintains user information of the user; a region specifying unit which specifies an attention region from a field of vision of the user based on the user information; an image processing unit which performs image processing with respect to the attention region; and a display control unit which displays the attention region after being subjected to the image processing on the display unit. | 05-08-2014 |
20140126782 | IMAGE DISPLAY APPARATUS, IMAGE DISPLAY METHOD, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM - An image display apparatus used while it is mounted on a user's head or facial area includes a display unit configured to display an inside image viewable from the user; an input unit configured to input an identification pattern from the user; a checking unit configured to check the identification pattern; and a control unit configured to control the image display apparatus on the basis of a result of the checking by the checking unit. | 05-08-2014 |
20140140703 | COMMUNICATION APPARATUS AND STORAGE MEDIUM - There is provided a communication apparatus including a communication unit having an optical communication scheme and a different communication scheme from the optical communication scheme, a level setting unit configured to set a security level in data communication, and a communication scheme switching unit configured to switch communication schemes of the communication unit in accordance with the security level that is set by the level setting unit. | 05-22-2014 |
20140146093 | DISPLAY CONTROL DEVICE AND RECORDING MEDIUM - There is provided a display control device including a determination unit configured to determine a type of input information, and a display controller configured to switch modes of a display unit capable of being switched to a mirror surface mode and a display mode in accordance with a result of determination by the determination unit. | 05-29-2014 |
20140160129 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS AND RECORDING MEDIUM - There is provided an information processing apparatus including a display control unit configured to include a first display control mode in which control is performed in a manner that a first image from a user viewpoint, which is captured by a first imaging unit, is displayed on a display unit or control is performed in a manner that the display unit is transmissive, and a second display control mode in which control is performed in a manner that a second image captured by a second imaging unit including a user within an angle of view is displayed on the display unit, and a switching control unit configured to perform control in response to an instruction from the user in a manner that a display control mode of the display control unit is switched from the first display control mode to the second display control mode. | 06-12-2014 |
20140176599 | DISPLAY CONTROL SYSTEM AND RECORDING MEDIUM - There is provided a display control system including a plurality of display units, an imaging unit configured to capture a subject, a predictor configured to predict an action of the subject according to a captured image captured by the imaging unit, a guide image generator configured to generate a guide image that guides the subject according to a prediction result from the predictor, and a display controller configured to, on the basis of the prediction result from the predictor, select a display unit capable of displaying an image at a position corresponding to the subject from the plurality of display units, and to control the selected display unit to display the guide image at the position corresponding to the subject. | 06-26-2014 |
20140176764 | INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE AND RECORDING MEDIUM - There is provided an information processing device including a recognition unit that recognizes a face area from a captured image, a storage controller that causes a storage unit to store face recognition information indicating a face area recognized by the recognition unit, and a display controller that superimposes onto a display unit a display indicating, as a face area candidate in a current captured image captured by an image capture unit according to an external instruction, an area that is among areas corresponding to a first face area indicated by face recognition information from another captured image stored in the storage unit, but is not included in a second face area recognized by the recognition unit from the current captured image, distinguishably from a display indicating the second face area. | 06-26-2014 |
20140181989 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, COMMUNICATION TERMINAL APPARATUS, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - There is provided an information processing apparatus including a storage controller configured to perform control in a manner that a log of a user is stored in a storage, a determination part configured to determine whether a position of the user is within a set area, and an erasure controller configured to substantially erase, when the determination part determines that the position of the user is not within the set area, at least data capable of identifying the user individually among the log of the user stored in the storage. | 06-26-2014 |
20140186002 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS AND RECORDING MEDIUM - There is provided An information processing apparatus including a perspective switching control unit configured to switch a perspective when playing back content acquired by a content acquisition unit to at least one of a first-person perspective and a third-person perspective, an editing unit configured to edit a part of the content, and a playback control unit configured to play back the content edited by the editing unit in the at least one of the first-person perspective and the third-person perspective to which the perspective has been switched by the perspective switching control unit. | 07-03-2014 |
20140191974 | INPUT APPARATUS, OUTPUT APPARATUS, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - There is provided an input apparatus including an estimation unit configured to automatically estimate an attribute of a user, a setting unit configured to set an input mode based on the attribute of the user estimated by the estimation unit, and a control unit configured to control input based on the set input mode. | 07-10-2014 |
20140214860 | DATA GENERATION DEVICE, CONTENT REPRODUCTION DEVICE, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - There is provided a data generation device including a content specifying unit configured to specify content, a period estimation unit configured to estimate a period in which the content specified by the content specifying unit attracts interest, and a metadata generation unit configured to associate as metadata the period estimated by the period estimation unit with the content. | 07-31-2014 |
20140240336 | SIGNAL PROCESSING APPARATUS AND STORAGE MEDIUM - There is provided a signal processing apparatus including a setting unit configured to set a perceptual property parameter for changing perceptual data to desired perceptual data, and a conversion unit configured to convert currently acquired perceptual data to the desired perceptual data in real time in accordance with the perceptual property parameter that has been set by the setting unit. | 08-28-2014 |
20140247272 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, METHOD AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT - An information processing apparatus, method and computer program product identify a local region of an image, and changes the content of the local region into one of other image data and text. A special process is performed on the local image data of the local region that changes the local image data to different visually recognizable image data. The image data or text is then inserted into the local region of the image. | 09-04-2014 |
20140257802 | SIGNAL PROCESSING DEVICE, SIGNAL PROCESSING METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - There is provided a signal processing device including a voice pickup unit that picks up a user's voice and generates an audio signal, a signal processing unit that generates a masking voice signal for masking the user's voice according to the audio signal, and a first speaker that reproduces the masking voice signal. | 09-11-2014 |
20140300633 | IMAGE PROCESSOR AND STORAGE MEDIUM - There is provided an image processor including a recognition part configured to recognize a captured target on the basis of a captured image, and an image generation part configured to generate an additive image for decorating the target depending on a user circumstance of a user seeing the target and a recognition result by the recognition part. | 10-09-2014 |
20140303885 | NAVIGATION APPARATUS AND STORAGE MEDIUM - There is provided a navigation apparatus including an estimation section which estimates first environmental information in a movement route candidate of an object based on observation information observed in real time in the movement route candidate, an acquisition section which acquires second environmental information of a surrounding of the movement route candidate, and a guidance section which guides a movement direction for the object based on the first environmental information estimated by the estimation section and the second environmental information acquired by the acquisition section. | 10-09-2014 |
20140315160 | INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE AND STORAGE MEDIUM - There is provided an information processing device including a detection unit configured to detect a plurality of pieces of food which are eating targets from an image obtained by imaging eating of a user, and a recommendation unit configured to recommend at least the food to be subsequently ingested in real time among the plurality of pieces of food so that the user ingests the plurality of pieces of food detected by the detection unit in an order satisfying a predetermined purpose. | 10-23-2014 |
20140315161 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS AND STORAGE MEDIUM - There is provided an information processing apparatus including a determination unit configured to determine whether a user is consuming food and drink or whether food and drink is present in a periphery of the user, and a control unit configured to carry out control to output a control signal to an adding unit that adds a lighting effect to one of the food and drink present in a real space and picked-up images of the food and drink in accordance with a determination result of the determination unit. | 10-23-2014 |
20140351191 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS AND STORAGE MEDIUM - Provided is an information processing apparatus, including a calculation section which calculates a proficiency level of a user for operations performed by the user for achieving a prescribed objective based on history information related to the operations and attribute information related to physical features of the user, and a generation section which generates advice for achieving the objective based on the proficiency level calculated by the calculation section. | 11-27-2014 |
20140368671 | IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE, SERVER, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - There is provided an image processing device including an extraction nit configured to extract an object from an image picked up by use of a certain imaging parameter, a ranging unit configured to acquire distance information indicating a distance between an image pickup unit that has picked up the image and the object that has been imaged, a communication unit having a first transmission function, a second transmission function, and a reception function, and a composition unit configured to combine the object candidate image received by the communication unit in a region of the object included in the second image. | 12-18-2014 |
20140368695 | CONTROL DEVICE AND STORAGE MEDIUM - There is provided a control device including a focus control unit configured to perform control so as to sequentially bring multiple subjects within a captured image into focus, and a recording control unit configured to perform control in response to a trigger from a user so as to record, onto a storage medium, captured images of the multiple subjects sequentially brought into focus by the focus control unit. | 12-18-2014 |
20150018612 | MEDICAL DEVICE, MEDICAL SYSTEM, AND PROGRAM - Provided is a medical device including a plurality of storage units each configured to store a different medicine, and a medicine discharge unit configured to selectively discharge at least one of a first medicine and a second medicine, each of which is stored in the plurality of storage units, when the medical device reaches a periphery of a predetermined site of an intracorporeal site of a subject. | 01-15-2015 |
20150032330 | MOBILE OBJECT, SYSTEM, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - There is provided a mobile object including an input detection unit configured to detect an input from an outside, an acquisition unit configured to acquire environmental information detected by a sensor in a remote location, in accordance with a content of detection performed by the input detection unit, and a control unit configured to control an actuator other than a driving actuator in accordance with the environmental information acquired by the acquisition unit, the driving actuator relating to movement of the mobile object. | 01-29-2015 |
20150040166 | CONTROL DEVICE, CONTROL METHOD, PROGRAM, AND CONTROL SYSTEM - Provided is a control device including a detector configured to detect use of an application on a communication terminal, and a controller configured to control recording processing related to content that is being output from a content output device associated with the communication terminal in accordance with a detection result obtained by the detector. | 02-05-2015 |
20150045658 | MEDICAL SYSTEM - Provided is a medical system including a first capsule type medical device, and a second capsule type medical device. The first and second capsule type medical devices operate in cooperation with each other in a body. | 02-12-2015 |
20150051589 | CAPSULE TYPE MEDICAL DEVICE AND MEDICAL SYSTEM - Provided is a capsule type medical device which is able to be suspended in a body cavity. The capsule type medical device performs continuous treatment while being suspended at a predetermined site. | 02-19-2015 |
20150074441 | POWER CONTROL DEVICE AND POWER CONSUMING DEVICE - A power control device | 03-12-2015 |