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20100228970 | Public key certificate issuing system, public key certificate issuing method, digital certification apparatus, and program storage medium - A public key certificate issuing system is disclosed which comprises a certificate authority for issuing a public key certificate used by an entity, and a registration authority which, on receiving a public key certificate issuance request from anyone of entities under jurisdiction thereof, transmits the received request to the certificate authority. The certificate authority, having a plurality of signature modules each executing a different signature algorithm, selects at least one of the plurality of signature modules in accordance with the public key certificate issuance request from the registration authority, and causes the selected signature module to attach a digital signature to message data constituting a public key certificate. | 09-09-2010 |
20100254781 | SHEET BINDING DEVICE AND BINDING METHOD - A sheet binding device and a binding method capable of binding stable sheets independently of sheet shape dimensions. The device operates by feeding a paper strap by strap feed rollers and a tape catcher, whereby the paper strap is clamped and rotated along a locus. In synchronization with this rotation, one hundred sheets are conveyed from left to right. The paper strap is wound round the one hundred sheets. A strap has a contact portion at its end, and the contact portion is permitted to make contact with the paper strap, and a cylindrical body is rotated at an angle formed between the one hundred sheets and the paper strap can be adjusted. If the angle of the binding portion exceeds one hundred sheets, the excess page count is equalized to an allowable value by the strap, thus preventing the curling of the sheets. | 10-07-2010 |
20120329557 | Game Device - Provided is a game device capable of displaying, when presenting a plurality of reproduction data items to a user, a selection screen that allows the user to easily recognize a relationship among the reproduction data items. The game device displays, on a display device, a selection screen that presents a plurality of reproduction data items for reproducing a state of a point in time during execution of a game and allows a user to select one of the reproduction data items, the selection screen presenting a first reproduction data item, which is one of the plurality of reproduction data items, in association with a second reproduction data item, which reproduces a state of a point in time at which the game has progressed from the state reproduced by the first reproduction data item. | 12-27-2012 |
20130031118 | INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, PROGRAM, AND NON-TRANSITORY INFORMATION STORAGE MEDIUM - Provided is a technology that enables detection of a change in a feature of a page. An analysis unit identifies a content of a page whose content changes with a lapse of time. A feature change determination unit determines based on contents of the page identified at different timings whether or not a feature of the identified page has changed. | 01-31-2013 |
20130066894 | INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, PROGRAM, AND NON-TRANSITORY INFORMATION STORAGE MEDIUM - A cluster value identifying unit identifies a value of a parameter representing a level of a ground swell of interest related to provided information, which is determined in accordance with registration of information related to the provided information. A period identifying unit identifies, based on the value of the parameter, a period in which the ground swell of interest related to the provided information grows with a lapse of time. A user feature identifying unit identifies, based on the identified period, a feature of a user who registers the related information. Accordingly, the feature of the user may be identified based on the registration of the information related to the provided information. | 03-14-2013 |
20130073618 | Information Providing System, Information Providing method, Information Providing Device, Program, And Information Storage Medium - An information providing system for accurately providing a user with information that matches the user at a small calculating cost. The system includes a feature vector generating unit for generating a feature vector of each of a plurality of persons, and a user cluster generating unit for classifying the plurality of persons into a plurality of clusters based on the feature vector of each of the plurality of persons. The system selects at least one of the plurality of clusters based on a feature vector of a specified person, and outputs information related to the selected cluster. | 03-21-2013 |
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20130337079 | METHOD FOR PRODUCING OYSTER MEAT ESSENCE CONTAINING LARGE AMOUNT OF ANTIOXIDANTS HAVING HIGH ANTIOXIDATIVE POWER AND HIGH ORAC VALUE - To provide a method for producing an oyster meat essence that more amply incorporates an antioxidant substance with high ORAC value as follows. A portion of an oyster meat extract more amply incorporating an antioxidant substance with high ORAC value is selected. An extraction method that allows incorporating further large amount of antioxidant substance with high ORAC value is employed. The beneficial oyster meat extract can be efficiently extracted in large amounts. | 12-19-2013 |
20150031453 | SERVER, TERMINAL, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, INFORMATION PROCESSING PROGRAM, AND COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM STORING INFORMATION PROCESSING PROGRAMS - A delay is suppressed that occurs in a period of time from the actual inputting of operation information into a terminal by a user to the forming of image information corresponding to this operation information in a server and the displaying of this image information on the terminal. Provided is a server having: operation information acquisition means configured to sequentially acquire each piece of operation information sequentially transmitted from a terminal through a network; execution means configured to execute an application by executing processing corresponding to the each piece of operation information in accordance with a timing with which the operation information acquisition means acquired the each piece of operation information; execution control means configured, if a first predetermined interval has passed from a moment when the execution means started processing corresponding to first operation information of the each piece of operation information without acquiring second operation information acquired after the first input information, to make the execution means execute processing in accordance with the first input information again; and transmission means configured to transmit image information based on the execution of the application by the execution block to the terminal. | 01-29-2015 |
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20110216863 | RECEIVING APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR SETTING GAIN - A receiving apparatus includes: a clock-data recovery circuit to generate a clock based on receive data and a setting circuit to set a gain of a filtering process to filter a phase difference between the receive data and the clock. | 09-08-2011 |
20120183021 | COMMUNICATION DEVICE, COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, AND COMMUNICATION METHOD - A communication device includes a transmission circuit that transmits a transmission signal under a certain transmission condition, a reception circuit that receives a reception result of the transmission signal under a certain reception condition and the certain reception condition, and an adjustment circuit that transmits information used to adjust the reception condition based on the reception result and the reception condition from the transmission circuit. | 07-19-2012 |
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20120044073 | ELECTRONIC EQUIPMENT HAVING ANTITHEFT FUNCTION, AND EXTERNAL SERVER - An electronic equipment with Internet connection function includes a storage portion that stores product identification information assigned uniquely to each product, and a control portion that reads out the product identification information from the storage portion, generates a stolen item identification request signal containing the product identification information, and sends the stolen item identification request signal to an external server via the Internet. The control portion checks whether or not the electronic equipment is a stolen item, using a return signal from the external server that responds to the stolen item identification request signal. | 02-23-2012 |
20120218472 | DISPLAY DEVICE - A display device includes: a switching portion that switches a content signal to be received according to a predetermined switching operation such that display content is switched; a menu screen display portion that displays, on a display, a menu screen representing a list of operation items; and a display control portion that controls a display form of the display, in which, when the image and the menu screen are displayed on the display side by side, the display control portion reduces the image, and turns the display form into a first display form in which the reduced image is displayed at a predetermined position on a small screen, and, when the switching operation is performed with the display form being the first display form, the display control portion switches the display content while the first display form is being maintained as the display form. | 08-30-2012 |