Patent application number | Description | Published |
20110197262 | NETWORK APPARATUS, ASSESSMENT METHOD, PROGRAM, AND INTEGRATED CIRCUIT - A network device restricts functions thereof in a special case such as theft, and comprises: an acquisition unit for acquiring one or more identification information pieces corresponding to one or more local devices in a communicable state; a calculation unit for calculating an index value for each local device; a holding unit for holding, for each local device whose identification information piece was acquired in the past, the identification information piece of the local device and the index value thereof; a difference specifying unit for specifying a difference between (i) one or more identification information pieces currently acquired and (ii) the one or more identification information pieces acquired in the past, thereby specifying a local device as the difference; and a judgment unit for judging whether to restrict the access based on the index value of the local device specified as the difference. | 08-11-2011 |
20120150893 | CONTENT MANAGEMENT APPARATUS, CONTENT MANAGEMENT METHOD, CONTENT MANAGEMENT PROGRAM, AND INTEGRATED CIRCUIT - When registering content in a data storage unit ( | 06-14-2012 |
20120154419 | IMAGE OUTPUT DEVICE, IMAGE OUTPUT METHOD, AND IMAGE DISPLAY APPARATUS - An image output device includes a receiving unit which receives first input information including position information indicating a position on a display image, an attribute information selecting unit which selects first attribute information corresponding to the position indicated by the position information and is one of pieces of attribute information associated with the displayed image from among the pieces of attribute information, an image selecting unit which selects images having attribute information corresponding to the first attribute information from among images including the displayed image, a display sequence determining unit which determines the display sequence of the images based on the attribute information of each of the images selected by the image selecting unit, and an output unit which acquires and outputs the images such that the selected images are displayed in the determined display sequence on a display device. | 06-21-2012 |
20120170847 | OBJECT MAPPING DEVICE, METHOD OF MAPPING OBJECT, PROGRAM AND RECORDING MEDIUM - A device stores therein contents and time information pieces each indicating time at which the corresponding content was generated; categorizes, into first and second groups, objects included in contents corresponding to time information pieces indicating times within a first period and a second period that partially overlap, the first group composed of objects that are included in contents corresponding to time information pieces indicating times within the first period and are similar to each other, and the second group composed of objects that are included in contents corresponding to time information pieces indicating times within the second period and are similar to each other; and when a number of objects belonging to both the first and second groups is greater than or equal to a predetermined number, associates the objects belonging to the first group with the objects belonging to the second group as objects indicating a same entity. | 07-05-2012 |
20120268485 | Visualization of Query Results in Relation to a Map - A method is provided for visualizing query results in relation to a map. The method includes: specifying a geographic location of interest around which query results are to be clustered; querying a data source using a search query; constraining entities that satisfy the search query to form a subset of entities having a predefined number of entities that are geographically proximate to the specified location of interest; displaying an indicia for each of the entities in the subset of entities in a content area of a display; displaying a map of a geographic area on the display, where the geographic area includes the specified location of interest; and designating a boundary on the map whereby each of the entities in the subset of entities reside in the boundary and other entities that satisfy the search query reside outside the boundary. | 10-25-2012 |
20120296978 | CONTENT MANAGING APPARATUS, CONTENT MANAGING METHOD, CONTENT MANAGING PROGRAM, AND INTEGRATED CIRCUIT - A content managing apparatus includes: an obtaining unit which obtains (i) a first content item held by a first user, (ii) a metadata item that indicates attribute information for classifying the first content item, and (iii) information on a sharing state, between the first user and a second user who is a user other than the first user, of a second content item having a metadata item identical to the metadata item held by the first content item; a degree of interest calculating unit which calculates a degree of interest that is an index indicating an interest of the second user on the metadata item; and a managing unit which manages the first content item based on the degree of interest of the second user. | 11-22-2012 |
20130022244 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD - An image processing apparatus comprises: an acquisition unit configured to acquire a plurality of image data items; an object detecting unit configured to detect a plurality of objects from the acquired image data items; a characteristic value calculation unit configured to calculate a characteristic value of each of the objects; a cluster information generating unit configured to, when the characteristic value of at least one of the objects meets a predetermined condition, generate first cluster information indicating a first cluster to which the at least one object belongs; a selecting unit configured to select an object for which a thumbnail is to be generated from among the at least one object indicated in the first cluster information; and a thumbnail generating unit configured to generate the thumbnail of the object using one of the image data items indicating the selected object. | 01-24-2013 |
20130094718 | AREA SEARCH DEVICE AND AREA SEARCH METHOD - A dynamic area search device includes: a search condition obtainment unit that obtains information on search objects and a condition for a search scope for searching for the search objects; an on-map operation detection unit that detects a first user-specified point on a map displayed on a display; a content search unit that searches for elements associated with locations on the map, based on the information on the search objects; a display area determination unit that determines a first area that has the user-specified point at the center, and includes, among the elements searched for by the content search unit, elements that meet the condition for the search scope; and an area boundary display unit configured to dynamically display, on the map, the user-specified point and the first area determined by the display area determination unit. | 04-18-2013 |
20130103773 | INFORMATION PRESENTATION CONTROL DEVICE AND INFORMATION PRESENTATION CONTROL METHOD - An information presentation control device includes: an acquisition unit which acquires information items; an information total amount calculation unit which calculates a total amount of the information items; a sender importance level determining unit which determines sender importance levels each of which indicates how important a different one of senders is; an information total amount determining unit which determines whether or not the total amount of the information items is greater than a predetermined value; a filtering unit which performs, when it is determined that the total amount of the information items is greater than the predetermined value, at least one process on an information item having a lower sender importance level, among the information items, so that an amount of the information item is reduced more; and an output unit which outputs the information items after the filtering unit performs the process. | 04-25-2013 |
20130108241 | INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, PROGRAM, RECORDING MEDIUM, AND INTEGRATED CIRCUIT | 05-02-2013 |
20130138673 | INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - Provided is an information processing device for extracting a comment having additional information and posted to a program, the information processing device comprising: a program information acquisition unit; a search word determination unit which determines a search word which is a candidate for a term indicating relation between the search word and the program; a comment acquisition unit which searches through comments each having the additional information and already posted, using the search word to acquire a search result as a comment group; a search word relation determination unit which determines whether there is a relation between the search word and the program, using the broadcast time and a time at which each comment included in the comment group is posted; and an input/output unit which outputs information indicating the search result if there is the relation between the search word and the program. | 05-30-2013 |