MARKET PRICE ADAPTIVE SYSTEM OF SEA FOOD ELECTRONIC TRANSACTION

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a capital-saving sea food electronic transaction system for surely allowing the electronic purchase at a proper price in accordance with a market price without having an auction each time by daily coming to a market in the early morning, reducing an operation cost, and causing no error and mischief even in transactions. SOLUTION: A market price adaptive system adopts a processing means for passing through a process of waiting for order reception by notifying a selling menu in a home page of a sponsor by temporarily predetermining a selling price of advance sale on the basis of information on various sea food commodities expected to arrive in the transaction day obtained from a wholesaler, a process of delivering the sea food commodities to respective members by transmitting an order from a customer member written in the home page to the wholesaler and a delivery dealer by making a calculation by a table, and a process of adjusting and processing an adjusted ...

IMAGE PROCESSING UNIT AND METHOD, AND PROGRAM STORAGE MEDIUM

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an image processing unit that can decide whether or not a photographed image is corrected. SOLUTION: When image data are entered in step S1, check sum is calculated for a prescribed number of pixels in step S2. The calculated check sum is imbedded to image data as an electronic watermark in step S3. The image data to which the check sum is imbedded is recorded on a recording medium in step S4. When the image data recorded on the recording medium are reproduced, the imbedded check sum is compared with a check sum calculated from the reproduced image data to discriminate whether or not the photographed image is corrected. COPYRIGHT: (C)2001,JPO ...

COMMUNICATION CONTROL DEVICE, COMMUNICATION CONTROL METHOD AND PROGRAM

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an intuitive user interface for transmitting data between devices. SOLUTION: The communication control device includes:a data storage unit storing feature data representing features of appearances of one or more communication devices; an environment map building unit for building an environment map representing positions of communication devices present in a real space based on an input image obtained by imaging the real space and the feature data stored in the data storage unit; a detecting unit for detecting a user input toward a first communication device designating any data provided in the first communication device and a direction; a selecting unit for selecting a second communication device serving as a transmission destination of the designated data from the environment map based on the direction designated by the user input; and a communication control unit for transmitting the data provided in the first communication device from the first communication ...

APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR PROCESSING INFORMATION, AND PROGRAM

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To rapidly and easily execute functions desired by a user in an information processing apparatus that is operated by touch. SOLUTION: A position acquisition part 101 obtains a touch position detected by a touch panel monitor, and a finger type recognition part 102 recognizes the type of a finger touching a touch panel on the basis of the touch position and the image of the touch panel. A function recognition part 103 retrieves a function corresponding to the touch position obtaind by the position acquisition part 101 and the type of a finger recognized by a finger type recognition part 102 from a function table wherein the touch position and type of one finger and the function allocated to the combination of the touch position and the type are made to correspond. An execution part 104 executes the retrieved function. This invention is applicable to the information processing apparatus that is operated by touch. COPYRIGHT: (C)2011,JPO&INPIT ...

画像処理装置、画像処理方法及びプログラム

情報処理システム、情報処理装置、情報端末装置、情報処理方法、情報処理プログラム

SYSTEM, METHOD AND PROGRAM FOR COLLECTING INFORMATION

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To collect a reply message from an agent without connecting a device of a transmission source to a network all the time and to correspond to a request. SOLUTION: While an user device 3-1 transmits an agent in which a script for inquiring attendance/absence to an event is described to an user device 3-2, a parent process in which a script for collecting attendance/absence situation from the agent of the user device 3-2 is described is moved to a parent process performance server 1 connected to the network 4 all the time. The parent process performance server 1 corresponds to the inquiry of the participate situation from the user device 3-2 in which the agent is performed by performing the parent process and collects the answer of the attendance/absence. When a prescribed staying time passes, the parent process moves to the user device 3-1 of the transmission source. COPYRIGHT: (C)2003,JPO ...

IMAGE PROCESSOR AND METHOD, IMAGE PROCESSING SYSTEM, AND PROGRAM STORAGE MEDIUM

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an image processor and its method by which a user can judge whether or not a photographed image is corrected. SOLUTION: When image data are received in a step S1, stored ID data are read in a step S2. The read ID data are written in the received imaged data in a step S3. An ID on the basis of the ID data is displayed in a prescribed area on an image on the basis of the image data at reproduction. A user references the displayed ID to judge a photographer, and when the judged photographer differs from a substantial photographer, the user can judge that any correction is applied to the image after the image is photographed. COPYRIGHT: (C)2001,JPO ...

INFORMATION PROCESSOR, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a device and a method for causing an information processor to execute various processing according to user's voice or gesture. SOLUTION: User's voice is analyzed or image analysis is performed for analyzing user operation (gesture), to determine processing to be executed by an information processor, on the basis of the results of analysis. Furthermore, information including a recognition result of the information processor with respect to the user voice or the user operation is displayed or output by voice as feedback information. Moreover, the response of the information processor to a request from the user or the processing status of the information processor is displayed or output via an avatar substitute for the information processor. Thus, the user executes accurate processing with less error by acquiring the feedback information. COPYRIGHT: (C)2012,JPO&INPIT ...

IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE, OBJECT SELECTION METHOD, AND PROGRAM

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To discriminate a plurality of electronic apparatuses from one another to be easily selected as remote control objects. SOLUTION: This image processing device includes: a data storage unit storing object identification data for identifying an object operable by a user, and feature data representing the feature of appearance of each object; an environment map storage unit storing an environment map representing positions of one or more objects existing in a real space and generated based on an input image obtained by imaging the real space using an imaging device, and the feature data stored by the data storage unit; and a selection unit for selecting at least one object recognized to be operable based on the object identification data out of the objects included in the environment map stored by the environment map storage unit as a candidate object being a candidate of an object of operation by the user. COPYRIGHT: (C)2011,JPO&INPIT ...

IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, PROGRAM, AND IMAGE PROCESSING SYSTEM

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To suppress mismatching between the state of a real world and the state of a virtual object in the case of providing a composite sense of reality. SOLUTION: Provided is an image processing apparatus including: an input image acquisition unit for acquiring an input image generated by taking an image of a real space; an image recognition unit for recognizing a manipulator used for manipulating a virtual object where the manipulator appears in the input image when a first user input representing a start of manipulation is detected; a calculation unit for calculating a position on a screen of a display device at which the virtual object is to be displayed according to a result of the recognition of the manipulator provided by the image recognition unit; a display control unit for displaying the virtual object at the position of the screen of the display device calculated by the calculation unit; and a communication unit for transmitting a first notification signal for ...

INFORMATION PROCESSOR, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD AND PROGRAM

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a configuration for displaying a cursor or the like having moved out of a display part as a virtual object, for observation. SOLUTION: The cursor or an object having moved out to an area outside the display part of a PC or the like is displayed as the virtual object. For example, an image of a display device of the PC or the like and the area outside the display device are displayed on a display of glasses worn by a user. A three-dimensional position of the cursor or the object that is assumed to have moved according to a user operation is calculated, and the virtual object is displayed at the calculated position. Furthermore, object information corresponding to the object designated by the cursor is acquired and presented. COPYRIGHT: (C)2011,JPO&INPIT ...

ACCOUNTING DEVICE AND METHOD AND PROGRAM STORAGE MEDIUM

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To attract many free and charged users to a community and to charge a price corresponding to an application state to each charged user while maintaining action in the community. SOLUTION: Although login to the community is not charged, an item or a function for providing a differential factor to a user in community service is charged. Since the login itself is maintained free of charge, each user can join the community without hesitation, so that the number of participants is increased and the community itself is formed. Since a property that items or functions should be optionally prepared by each user is strong, there is no objection or incompatibility in almost of users with respect to charging. COPYRIGHT: (C)2001,JPO ...

INFORMATION PROCESSOR, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD AND PROGRAM

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To remotely operate the device of an operation target with more ease. SOLUTION: In the information processor 1 carried by a user U, what an object that the user U is viewing is recognized by object recognition on the basis of an image photographed by a camera 11. In the information processor 1, data for object recognition are stored. Also, when it is detected that the user U is viewing the operation target device 21, on the basis of the GUI data of the operation target device 21, the operation image of a button or the like is displayed on a display 12. In the information processor 1, the GUI data for displaying the operation image to be used in the operation of the device are stored. The user can operate the operation target device 21 by virtually pressing the button displayed on the display 12. This invention is applicable to a portable computer. COPYRIGHT: (C)2012,JPO&INPIT ...

INFORMATION PROCESSOR, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD AND PROGRAM

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To allow only the person(s) looking at a certain object, to hear the reproduced sound of audio data prepared in association with the object. SOLUTION: Each user wears an HMD provided with a camera and a headphone. The camera is attached to a position where it can capture the scene in front of the user. In the information processor carried by the user, which poster is seen by the user is recognized by object recognition, based on the image captured by the camera. Also, the audio data associated with the poster being seen by the user are reproduced, and the reproduced sound is output from the headphone. In the information processor, the data for recognition of each of the posters P1-P4 to be used for recognizing which poster is seen by the user and the audio data associated with each of the posters P1-P4 are stored. The present invention is applicable to portable computers. COPYRIGHT: (C)2012,JPO&INPIT ...

INFORMATION PROCESSOR, METHOD FOR PROCESSING INFORMATION, INFORMATION MANAGEMENT SYSTEM, AND PROGRAM STORAGE MEDIUM

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To receive an E-mail to which a file of large capacity is attached by a portable terminal. SOLUTION: A CPU in a mail server receives the input of an E mail in a step 1, and when judging the existence of an attached file of data capacity more than a threshold in a step 2, generates key information (or a URL and a password) in a step S3 and outputs and records the key information and the attached file name in a file ID table stored in a storage device in a step S4. Then the CPU substitutes the key information for the attached file in a step S5, sets a counter value N for counting the application frequency of service to N=N+1 in a step S6, and outputs and stores the attached file in an attached file storage area of each user in a step S7. When judging that there is no attached file of data capacity more than the threshold in the step S2 or after the end of processing of the step S7, the CPU transmits the E mail to a mail server of a transmitted party in a step S8 to end ...

画像処理装置、物体選択方法及びプログラム

IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To enable a user to intuitively and easily understand a work procedure executed in a real space by applying an environment map. SOLUTION: An image processing device includes: a data storage unit for storing feature data indicating a feature of the appearance of one or more physical objects; an environment map building unit for building an environment map based on an input image obtained by imaging a real space by using an imaging device and the feature data stored by the data storage unit, the environment map representing a position of a physical object present in the real space; a control unit for acquiring procedure data for a set of procedures of operation to be performed in the real space, the procedure data for defining correspondence between a direction for each procedure and position information designating a position at which the direction is displayed; and a superimposing unit for generating an output image by superimposing the direction for each procedure ...

INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE AND METHOD THEREFOR, AND PROGRAM

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To easily input a sentence at a high speed. SOLUTION: A sentence input program 104 has synonym similar to the conception of a determined word, or highest conception common to the determined word, and retrieves the word having abstractiveness same as the determined word from a synonym/narrow sense word dictionary. The sentence input program 104 retrieves the candidate words which are estimated to be inputted continuously from the retrieved synonym and the like on the basis of the retrieved synonym or the word having the abstractiveness same as the determined word. The sentence input program 104 controls the display of the retrieved candidate words, and indicates the determination of the input of one of the displayed candidate words. COPYRIGHT: (C)2003,JPO ...

METHOD AND DEVICE FOR GENERATING VIEWPOINT OF WORD IN SENTENCE

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a method and device for generating the viewpoint of a word in a sentence for obtaining the viewpoint of a word suitable for a context without manual aid. SOLUTION: This method refers to a dictionary to generate an associative table generated from the entry of a word and its explaining sentence within the dictionary S1, extracts words near a designated word in the sentence to make situation words S2, refers to the frequency of the word associated from each of the situation words to accumulate the appearing frequency of the associative word associated from the situation words S3, and outputs the word to be the viewpoint based on the appearing frequency of accumulated associative word S4. COPYRIGHT: (C)1998,JPO ...

INFORMATION PROCESSOR, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a device and method for outputting feedback information when processing cannot be continued in an information processor that accepts an utterance or motion of a user as input. SOLUTION: An utterance or motion(gesture) of a user is analyzed, to determined processing of an information processor on the basis of the analytic result. Furthermore, when there is a hindrance to continuation of the processing, during processing of the information processor using the utterance or motion of the user, feedback information corresponding to a processing stage including the hindrance is generated and output. Thus, the user can spontaneously acquire an error occurrence status corresponding to the processing stage by acquiring the feedback information. It is possible to spontaneously execute error handling processing such as re-utterance without any unnecessary wait processing or the like. COPYRIGHT: (C)2012,JPO&INPIT ...

INFORMATION PROCESSOR, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD AND PROGRAM STORAGE MEDIUM

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To effectively recognize the handwritten characters. SOLUTION: When a button 161-1 is touched after the handwritten characters are inputted to a handwrite input area 151-1 by a user, these handwritten characters are recognized as English. Meanwhile, the inputted handwritten characters are recognized as numeric characters when a button 162-1 is touched, recognized as Chinese characters when a button 163-1 is touched, recognized as Katakana (square form of Japanese syllabary) when a button 164-1 is touched and recognized as Hiragana (cursive form of Japanese syllabary) when a button 165-1 is touched, respectively. COPYRIGHT: (C)2001,JPO ...

INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, MAP UPDATE METHOD, PROGRAM, AND INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To quickly share a change in the position of an object in a real space among users. SOLUTION: An information processing apparatus includes: a global map obtaining part for obtaining ate least a part of a global map that represents the position of an object in a real space in which a plurality of users operate; a local map generating part for generating a local map that represents the position of an ambient object detectable by a device of one user among the plurality of users; and an update part for updating the global map on the basis of position data of an object included in the local map. COPYRIGHT: (C)2011,JPO&INPIT ...

IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To display the state of communication in a communication means used by a user as if communication accompanied by entity has been performed in a real space. SOLUTION: The image processing device includes: a data storage unit for storing feature data indicating a feature of the appearance of one or more physical objects; an environment map building unit for building an environment map based on an input image obtained by imaging a real space by using an imaging device and the feature data stored in the data storage unit, the environment map representing a position of a physical object present in the real space; an information generating unit for generating animation data for displaying the state of communication via a communication interface on a screen by using the environment map built by the environment map building unit; and an image superimposing unit for generating an output image by superimposing an animation according to the animation data generated by the information ...

情報処理装置、情報処理方法、およびプログラム