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20080198315 | Liquid crystal display device and method of fabricating the same - A liquid crystal display device including a first substrate, a second substrate facing and spaced away from the first substrate, a liquid crystal layer sandwiched between the first and second substrates, a switching device formed on the first substrate, a first electrically insulating film randomly patterned on the first substrate, a second electrically insulating film covering the first electrically insulating film therewith, and having a wavy surface, and a reflection electrode formed on the second electrically insulating film, and electrically connected to an electrode of the switching device, wherein a light passing through the second substrate and the liquid crystal layer is reflected at the reflection electrode, and the second electrically insulating film extends outwardly from the first electrically insulating film by a certain length at an end of a display region in which images are to be displayed, such that a step formed by the first and second electrically insulating films in the vicinity of the end of the display region is smoothed. | 08-21-2008 |
20080286890 | LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY DEVICE AND METHOD OF FABRICATING THE SAME - A liquid crystal display device including a first substrate, a second substrate facing and spaced away from the first substrate, a liquid crystal layer sandwiched between the first and second substrates, a switching device formed on the first substrate, a first electrically insulating film randomly patterned on the first substrate, a second electrically insulating film covering the first electrically insulating film therewith, and having a wavy surface, and a reflection electrode formed on the second electrically insulating film, and electrically connected to an electrode of the switching device, wherein a light passing through the second substrate and the liquid crystal layer is reflected at the reflection electrode, and the second electrically insulating film extends outwardly from the first electrically insulating film by a certain length at an end of a display region in which images are to be displayed, such that a step formed by the first and second electrically insulating films in the vicinity of the end of the display region is smoothed. | 11-20-2008 |
20090079918 | Liquid crystal display device and method of fabricating the same - A liquid crystal display device including a first substrate, a second substrate facing and spaced away from the first substrate, a liquid crystal layer sandwiched between the first and second substrates, a switching device formed on the first substrate, a first electrically insulating film randomly patterned on the first substrate, a second electrically insulating film covering the first electrically insulating film therewith, and having a wavy surface, and a reflection electrode formed on the second electrically insulating film, and electrically connected to an electrode of the switching device, wherein a light passing through the second substrate and the liquid crystal layer is reflected at the reflection electrode, and the second electrically insulating film extends outwardly from the first electrically insulating film by a certain length at an end of a display region in which images are to be displayed, such that a step formed by the first and second electrically insulating films in the vicinity of the end of the display region is smoothed. | 03-26-2009 |
20110285946 | LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY DEVICE - A liquid crystal display device including a first substrate, a second substrate facing and spaced away from the first substrate, a liquid crystal layer sandwiched between the first and second substrates, a switching device formed on the first substrate, a first electrically insulating film randomly patterned on the first substrate, a second electrically insulating film covering the first electrically insulating film therewith, and having a wavy surface, and a reflection electrode formed on the second electrically insulating film, and electrically connected to an electrode of the switching device, wherein a light passing through the second substrate and the liquid crystal layer is reflected at the reflection electrode, and the second electrically insulating film extends outwardly from the first electrically insulating film by a certain length at an end of a display region in which images are to be displayed, such that a step formed by the first and second electrically insulating films in the vicinity of the end of the display region is smoothed. | 11-24-2011 |
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20090217359 | CONNECTION AUTHENTICATION SYSTEM, TERMINAL APPARAUS, CONNECTION AUTHENTICATION SERVER, CONNECTION AUTHENTICATION METHOD, AND PROGRAM - The first terminal apparatus includes a key information acquiring unit that acquires key information from a connection authentication server, a key information notifying unit that notifies the first user of the key information, and a connection information acquiring unit that acquires connection information from the connection authentication server. The second terminal apparatus includes a key information input unit that receives the key information transmitted to the second user and an information providing unit that provides the key information and the connection information to the connection authentication server. The connection authentication server includes a key information providing unit that provides the key information to the first terminal apparatus, an information acquiring unit that acquires the key information and connection information of the second terminal apparatus from the second terminal apparatus, and a connection information providing unit that provides the connection information to the first terminal apparatus. | 08-27-2009 |
20090240766 | INFORMATION PROCESSING UNIT, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, CLIENT DEVICE AND INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM - An information processing unit includes an application data receiving buffer to temporarily store data transmitted from a client device for initiating a connection, an application data receiving section to acquire the data transmitted from the client device from the application data receiving buffer and transmit the data to an upper layer application, and a flow control reception management section to transfer the data transmitted from the client device to the application data receiving buffer and monitor a free space in the application data receiving buffer and supply a data size receivable by the application data receiving buffer to the client device. | 09-24-2009 |
20090240785 | Information Processing Unit, Information Playback Unit, Information Processing Method, Information Playback Method, Information Processing System and Program - An information processing unit includes a location information transmission section to transmit, to a further information processing unit connected, location information indicating a location of a connection target unit to which the further information processing unit is to be connected, a location information determination section to determine whether the further information processing unit and the connection target unit exist in the same LAN by referring to the location information before being transmitted, and a location information conversion section to convert the location information to be transmitted into location information explicitly specifying a remote access connection according to a determination result of the location information determination section. | 09-24-2009 |
20090240819 | INFORMATION PROCESSING UNIT, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, REMOTE SERVER, AND INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM - There is provided an information processing unit including an application execution section to execute an application to request establishment of an HTTP tunneling connection with a connection target unit, a connection establishment section to set a maximum content length settable with the connection target unit, establish an HTTP tunneling connection with the specified content length with the connection target unit via a connected proxy server and update the HTTP tunneling connection with the specified content length a plurality of times upon closure of the established connection, and a connection management section to manage connection status of each of a plurality of HTTP tunneling connections and make the application execution section recognize the plurality of HTTP tunneling connections as one virtual HTTP tunneling connection. | 09-24-2009 |
20100138396 | Information Processing Apparatus, Divided Management Server, Information Processing Method, Divided Management Method, Program and Information Processing System - There is provided an information processing apparatus including a blocking unit that acquires holding block information, which is information about blocks to be held by a local apparatus, about a data file divided into a plurality of blocks among other information processing apparatuses excluding the local apparatus for divided management and held by the local apparatus and divides the data file to be held by the local apparatus based on the holding block information; and a storage unit that records the blocks of the data file identified by the holding block information with the blocks associated with data file identification information, which is information to identify the data file. | 06-03-2010 |
20100235428 | INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM - There are provided a device and a method enabling execution of recording of content uploaded from a client with specific storage means of a server being specified. In a content upload process from the client to the server, the client obtains storage destination identifiers corresponding to respective storage means of the server from the server and transmits a content storage request including the storage destination identifier of the storage means desired by the client to the server. The server selects the storage means specified by the storage destination identifier received from the client and stores the uploaded content. With this configuration, the client can arbitrarily specify the specific storage means of the server and allows recording of the content to be executed. | 09-16-2010 |
20110222474 | Content output apparatus, content playback system, content output method, and program - There is provided a content output apparatus including a wireless communication unit for transmitting an acquisition request for content data based on a position of the content data in an output order, a communication control unit for investigating whether or not acquisition of the content data is possible, before transmitting the acquisition request, and an output control unit for rearranging the output order according to a result of the investigation. | 09-15-2011 |
20110246689 | Content transmission apparatus, content playback system, content transmission method, and program - There is provided a content transmission apparatus including a reception unit for performing a receiving process for receiving, from a content output apparatus, a transmission instruction that is based on an output order of pieces of content data, a transmission unit for starting transmission of content data to the content output apparatus in response to the transmission instruction, and a control unit for controlling a time interval for causing the reception unit to perform the receiving process, according to wait information indicating a status of wait until transmission of the content data to the content output apparatus is to be started. | 10-06-2011 |
20110267648 | Information Processing Apparatus, Information Processing Method, Program, Information Providing Apparatus, and Information Processing System - Systems and methods for managing form data representing a form are disclosed. In one embodiment, an information-providing apparatus has a communication unit configured to communicate with an information-processing apparatus over a network, a storage unit storing a container, and a processing unit. The processing unit is configured to receive, via the communication unit, a request to access the container from the information-processing apparatus, to retrieve, from the container, form data representing a form, to send, via the communication unit, the form data to the information-processing apparatus, and to receive, via the communication unit, a form execution request from the information-processing apparatus, the form execution request including an identification of the container and user-supplied information added to the form date. The processing unit is further configured to execute the form execution request based on the identification of the container and on the user-supplied information. | 11-03-2011 |
20110270954 | Information Providing Apparatus, Information Providing Method, Program, Information Processing Apparatus, Service Providing Apparatus, and Information Processing System - Systems and methods for managing an electronic content list over a network are disclosed. In one embodiment consistent with the disclosure, an information-providing apparatus has a communication unit configured to communicate with an information-processing apparatus over the network and a processing unit. The processing unit is configured receive, via the communication unit, a request from the information-processing apparatus for a list of electronic content items stored at a service-providing unit, to determine, based on information associated with the request, whether the information-processing apparatus supports processing of a list of electronic content items containing at least one null value, and to send, via the communication unit, the list of electronic content items to the information-processing apparatus, only if it is determined that the information-processing apparatus supports processing of a list of electronic content items containing at least one null value. | 11-03-2011 |
20110271200 | INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, PROGRAM, INFORMATION PROVIDING DEVICE, AND INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM - Systems and methods for controlling presentation of a menu over a network are disclosed. In one embodiment, an information processing apparatus has a communication unit configured to communicate with an information-providing apparatus over the network, an input unit configured to receive input from a user of the information-processing apparatus, a storage unit storing one or more menus, and a control unit. The control unit is configured to receive, via the input unit, a selection of information for processing, to retrieve, from the storage unit, a first menu associated with the selected information, to receive, via the communication unit, a second menu associated with the selected information from the information-providing apparatus over the network, and to generate a third menu associated with the selected information based on the first menu and on the second menu. | 11-03-2011 |
20110302300 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - An apparatus and method provide logic for formatting electronic content. In one implementation, an apparatus includes an identification unit configured to identify a plurality of devices associated via a network, and a receiving unit configured to receive information corresponding to the associated devices. The information includes a function provided by the associated devices and performance data corresponding to the associated devices. A generation unit is configured to generate a first value of an execution metric describing at least one of an execution of the function by the associated devices or the performance data corresponding to the associated devices, based on at least the received information, and an output unit is configured to output the first metric value. | 12-08-2011 |
20120106376 | COMMUNICATION DEVICE, COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, PROGRAM, AND COMMUNICATION METHOD - A communication device includes a communication unit that receives a reception window size from a reception side communication device and transmits a packet of a transmission amount corresponding to a transmission window size to the reception side communication device; and a control unit that determines whether a channel with respect to the reception side communication device is in a broad band and high delay circumstance, changes a first state where the transmission window size is a first window size which is not larger than the reception window size to a second state wherein the transmission window size is a second window size which is larger than the reception window size when the channel is determined as the broad band and high delay circumstance, and transmits the packet of the transmission amount larger than the reception window size in the second state. | 05-03-2012 |
20120110194 | DATA COMMUNICATION METHOD AND INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE - Provided is a data communication method of establishing a plurality of TCP (Transmission Control Protocol) connections between a first information processing device and a second information processing device and communicating each piece of data, which is divided for each prescribed unit, through the plurality of established TCP connections. In the method, the first information processing device dynamically changes the number of TCP connections with the second information processing device by notifying connection-upper-limit information, which represents the upper limit of the number of TCP connections to be established with the second information processing device, to the second information processing device, and by changing the connection-upper-limit information to be notified. | 05-03-2012 |
20120229095 | CONTROL APPARATUS, CONTROL METHOD, AND EXECUTION APPARATUS - A control apparatus includes: a detection section configured to detect whether a rechargeable battery is in a fully charged state or not, and if the detection section detects that the rechargeable battery is in the fully charged state, an execution control section configured to give an instruction to an execution apparatus to execute a holdable task using electric power supplied from the rechargeable battery. | 09-13-2012 |
20120280827 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - There is provided an information processing apparatus including a control section which performs control of selecting, based on a state of a user, an ecological action capable of being carried out by the user from among a plurality of ecological actions, and of presenting the selected ecological action to the user. | 11-08-2012 |
20120306882 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - There is provided an information processing apparatus including a control section which performs control of presenting, in association with each other, actual energy consumption representing an amount of energy consumed by a device in a case where a user performs any one of user actions, the user actions each being capable of being carried out by the user, and estimated energy consumption representing an amount of energy consumed by the device in a case where the user does not perform the user action. | 12-06-2012 |
20130031606 | INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD AND PROGRAM - There is provided an information processing device, including: an acquisition unit for acquiring information transmitted from terminals; and a generation unit for generating a community according to a similarity degree between the information transmitted from a plurality of terminals, wherein, when a plurality of different types of information are transmitted from one terminal, the community generation unit counts, for each of the plurality of types of information, the number of terminals transmitting information similar to the information, and generates a community in which a user of a terminal is permitted to participate, the terminal transmitting information similar to information which the greatest number of terminals transmit information similar to. | 01-31-2013 |
20130262468 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - An information processing apparatus includes a communication unit and a control unit. The control unit is configured to control the communication unit to receive a plurality of pieces of post information sent from a first user, to obtain a plurality of pieces of evaluation information of another user with respect to the received plurality of post information, to classify the plurality of pieces of post information into a plurality of clusters, and to determine, as an advantage cluster of the first user, a cluster with the highest evaluation in the plurality of pieces of evaluation information out of the plurality of clusters. | 10-03-2013 |
20130304858 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, PROGRAM, INFORMATION PROVIDING APPARATUS, AND INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM - Systems and methods for managing form data representing a form are disclosed. In one embodiment, an information-providing apparatus has a communication unit configured to communicate with an information-processing apparatus over a network, a storage unit storing a container, and a processing unit. The processing unit is configured to receive, via the communication unit, a request to access the container from the information-processing apparatus, to retrieve, from the container, form data representing a form, to send, via the communication unit, the form data to the information-processing apparatus, and to receive, via the communication unit, a form execution request from the information-processing apparatus, the form execution request including an identification of the container and user-supplied information added to the form date. The processing unit is further configured to execute the form execution request based on the identification of the container and on the user-supplied information. | 11-14-2013 |
20130305161 | INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, PROGRAM, INFORMATION PROVIDING DEVICE, AND INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM - Systems and methods for controlling presentation of a menu over a network are disclosed. In one embodiment, an information processing apparatus has a communication unit configured to communicate with an information-providing apparatus over the network, an input unit configured to receive input from a user of the information-processing apparatus, a storage unit storing one or more menus, and a control unit. The control unit is configured to receive, via the input unit, a selection of information for processing, to retrieve, from the storage unit, a first menu associated with the selected information, to receive, via the communication unit, a second menu associated with the selected information from the information-providing apparatus over the network, and to generate a third menu associated with the selected information based on the first menu and on the second menu. | 11-14-2013 |
20140012946 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS AND METHOD, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM - An apparatus and method allowing for high-quality data acquisition and playback processing based on content information transmitted from a server to a client are provided. Property information constituting meta-information corresponding to content-associated attribute information stores data-scheme information on original content held by the server, such as file format information, codec information representing an encoded-data scheme, and reformation information. In response to a content information acquisition request from the client, content information including the data-scheme information on the original content is generated and is transmitted to the client. This structure allows the client to output a content transmission request in which the optimum data scheme is determined based on the data scheme of the original content. Therefore, high-quality data acquisition and playback can be achieved. | 01-09-2014 |
20140067972 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS AND METHOD, TERMINAL APPARATUS, AND INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM - Methods and apparatus of managing a community site. Upon execution of processor-executable instructions by a processing unit, the processing unit manages the community site in accordance with management data so as to permit access to the community site by a plurality of terminal apparatuses based at least in part on terminal data from each of the plurality of terminal apparatuses. The terminal data indicates at least one of a time or a location associated with the terminal apparatus. The processing unit further stores content uploaded from at least one of the plurality of terminal apparatuses to at least one storage device, the content being accessible via the community site. In response to at least one predetermined condition relating to the usage of the community site being satisfied, the processing unit sends a signal to delete the content from the at least one storage device. | 03-06-2014 |
20140195696 | INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM - There is provided an information processing device including a communication unit that transmits a domain name of a server belonging to a first network, and receives, from a mapping device that maps an IP address on a first network corresponding to the domain name to an IP address on a second network, an IP address on the second network that corresponds to the domain name, an estimator that, from the IP address on the second network received by the communication unit and the IP address on the first network of the server, estimates a mapping rule that maps an IP address on the first network to an IP address on the second network, and a generator that, on the basis of an estimated mapping rule, generates an IP address on the second network from an arbitrary IP address on the first network. | 07-10-2014 |