Patent application number | Description | Published |
20090055904 | Distributed Authentication System and Distributed Authentication Method - [Subject] In a distributed authentication system, if a terminal including a plurality of communication devices changes a communication device to another communication device during using a service, the service under use can be used in succession, and the number of times for execution by the user can reduced. | 02-26-2009 |
20090276825 | SHARING MANAGEMENT SYSTEM, SHARING MANAGEMENT METHOD AND PROGRAM - In a policy-change input unit ( | 11-05-2009 |
20100316218 | PERSONAL INFORMATION MANAGING DEVICE FOR FALSIFICATION PREVENTION OF PERSONAL INFORMATION AND NON REPUDIATION OF PERSONAL INFORMATION CIRCULATION - Falsification and repudiation of personal information ransmitted/received for circulation cannot be prevented when there is no trusted third party. A personal information managing device issues a personal information registration certificate corresponding 1:1 to personal information and sends the certificate to a service providing device through a user terminal. When personal information is transmitted/received, the user terminal and the service providing device check the relationship between the certificate and the personal information, thus the user terminal and the personal information receiving device can confirm whether or not the personal information has been falsified. When the personal information is transmitted/received, the personal information is always encrypted. After the encrypted personal information is transmitted/received, the decryption key is transmitted/received. By using the transmission/reception of the decryption key between the personal information managing device and the service providing device as a personal information reception confirmation message, repudiation of personal information transmission/reception can be prevented. | 12-16-2010 |
20100319061 | PERSONAL INFORMATION MANAGING DEVICE, SERVICE PROVIDING DEVICE, PROGRAM, PERSONAL INFORMATION MANAGING METHOD, CHECKING METHOD AND PERSONAL INFORMATION CHECKING SYSTEM FOR FALSIFICATION PREVENTION OF PERSONAL INFORMATION AND NON REPUDIATION OF PERSONAL INFORMATION CIRCULATION - A personal information managing device issues a personal information registration certificate corresponding to personal information one to one and sends the issued personal information registration certificate to a service providing device through a user terminal. The user terminal checks the personal information registration certificate, so that the user terminal confirms that the personal information managing device has not falsified the personal information. Further, when personal information is transmitted/received, the user terminal and the service providing device check the relationship between the personal information registration certificate and the personal information, so that the service providing device confirms that the personal information managing device has not falsified personal information. Moreover, when sending personal information, the personal information managing device attaches its signature, so that the personal information managing device confirms that the service providing device has not falsified the personal information. | 12-16-2010 |
20110004753 | CERTIFICATE GENERATING/DISTRIBUTING SYSTEM,CERTIFICATE GENERATING/DISTRIBUTING METHOD AND CERTIFICATE GENERATING/DISTRIBUTING PROGRAM - In a certificate generating/distributing system, an authentication apparatus includes token transmitting means transmitting, to a service mediating apparatus, a certificate generation request token, which is information corresponding to a first certificate valid in the service mediating apparatus, together with the first certificate. The service mediating apparatus includes mediating apparatus token forwarding means forwarding the certificate generation request token to a service providing apparatus. The service providing apparatus includes certificate requesting means transmitting the certificate generation request token to the authentication apparatus when requesting a second certificate valid in the service providing apparatus. The authentication apparatus includes certificate transmitting means transmitting, to the service providing apparatus , the second certificate generated based on the first certificate in response to the request of the second certificate by the certificate requesting means. | 01-06-2011 |
20130346214 | INFORMATION PROVIDING APPARATUS, ADVERTISEMENT DELIVERY SYSTEM, INFORMATION PROVIDING METHOD, AND INFORMATION PROVIDING PROGRAM - There is provided an information providing apparatus including a reception unit, a provision determining unit, and a request reply unit. The reception unit receives provision availability information indicating whether provision of user information for an advertisement delivery apparatus is permitted from a user terminal accessing any one of a plurality of site providing apparatuses or the like. The provision determining unit determines whether the provision availability information corresponding to the user terminal represents a provision permission in a case where an acquisition request for the user information relating to the user terminal is received from the advertisement delivery apparatus. The request reply unit replies to the advertisement delivery apparatus with the user information of the user terminal in a case where the provision permission is determined to be represented by the provision determining unit. | 12-26-2013 |
20130346215 | ADVERTISEMENT DISTRIBUTION APPARATUS, DISTRIBUTION METHOD, AND DISTRIBUTION PROGRAM - An advertisement distribution apparatus according to an embodiment includes a user information table, a determining unit, a request unit, and a distribution unit. The user information table stores user information about a user. When the advertisement distribution apparatus is accessed by a user terminal, the determining unit determines whether the user information of the user of the user terminal has been stored in the user information table. When the determining unit determines that the user information has not been stored in the storage unit, the request unit requests an information provision apparatus to transmit the user information. When the determining unit determines that the user information has not been stored in the storage unit, the distribution unit distributes advertisement content to the user terminal using the user information which is acquired from the information provision apparatus by the request unit. | 12-26-2013 |
20140081746 | PERMISSION MANAGEMENT APPARATUS AND PERMISSION MANAGEMENT METHOD - A registration accepting unit accepts registration of a card. A storage unit stores use permission information indicating a disabled state of use permission of the registered card. An instruction accepting unit accepts a use permission enabling instruction of the card from a user terminal. A providing unit provides the user terminal with code information associated with the card for which the use permission enabling instruction has been issued. A changing unit enables the use permission of the card, for which the use permission enabling instruction has been issued and which is stored in the use permission information, for a predetermined period. When receiving the code information from an in-store device installed in a stored, a notifying unit notifies the facility device of whether the use permission of the right that is stored in the use permission information in association with the code information is enabled or disabled. | 03-20-2014 |
20140082748 | USER INFORMATION MANAGEMENT APPARATUS AND USER INFORMATION MANAGEMENT METHOD - A user information management apparatus stores various types of user information on a user in a storage unit, causes a providing unit to provide a user with an access code used to access the user information on the user stored in the storage unit, and when receiving the access code from the facility device installed in a facility that provides a service, causes the transmitting unit to transmit the user information corresponding to the service provided by the facility having the facility device among the various types of the user information stored in the storage unit. | 03-20-2014 |
20140143040 | MEMBERSHIP REGISTRATION SYSTEM AND MEMBERSHIP REGISTRATION METHOD - A membership registration system according to embodiments includes an information management apparatus and a store membership management apparatus. The information management apparatus receives user information from the terminal apparatus, and stores the user information in a user information storage unit. When the terminal apparatus makes a membership registration request, the store membership management apparatus transmits to the information management apparatus a transmission request of user information corresponding to a user of the terminal apparatus and sets the user information acquired from the information management apparatus in association with a member ID as member information in a store membership management storage unit. | 05-22-2014 |
20140157433 | MANAGEMENT APPARATUS, MEMBERSHIP MANAGING METHOD, SERVICE PROVIDING APPARATUS, AND MEMBERSHIP MANAGING SYSTEM - A management apparatus stores a usable or non-usable state representing whether a right is usable or non-usable by a user in a facility in which a service is provided by a service provider using a service providing apparatus. And, the management apparatus updates the use usable or non-usable state to a non-usable state in a case where a use request of the right is received and transmits the use request to a terminal apparatus. And, the management apparatus permits the use of the right to the user by updating the usable or non-usable state to a usable state in a case where a notification of satisfaction is received from the terminal apparatus or the service providing apparatus, the notification of satisfaction indicating that the user, who requests the use of the right in the use request, satisfies a use requirements of the right. | 06-05-2014 |
20140234823 | ASSIGNMENT SHARING DEVICE, ASSIGNMENT SHARING METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM - An assignment sharing device includes an assignment-related information storage unit configured to store assignment-related information including assignment information, challenger identification information, assignment approval information, and assignment achievement status information; an assignment information receiving unit configured to receive the assignment information and so forth; an assignment-related information accumulating unit configured to accumulate the assignment information and so forth as a single piece of assignment-related information; an assignment information transmitting unit configured to transmit corresponding assignment information to a challenger; an assignment approval receiving unit configured to receive assignment identification information identifying an assignment approved by the challenger; an assignment approving unit configured to set assignment approval information; and an assignment result information receiving unit configured to receive assignment result information, which is information regarding an execution result of an assignment represented by the assignment information corresponding to the set assignment approval information. | 08-21-2014 |
20150149322 | INFORMATION TRANSACTION APPARATUS AND INFORMATION TRANSACTION METHOD - Provided is an information transaction apparatus including a receiving unit, a storage unit, and a transaction unit. The receiving unit receives user information on an information provider or a provider terminal from the provider terminal used by the information provider. The storage unit stores the user information received by the receiving unit in a user information memory unit. In the case of accepting an acquisition request for the user information from a user terminal used by an information user, the transaction unit controls a transaction process of providing the user information corresponding to the acquisition request to the user terminal and paying a reward to the information provider which is a transmission source of the provided user information based on factor information which affects a value of the user information stored in the user information memory unit. | 05-28-2015 |
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20120300996 | IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, PROGRAM, AND RECORDING MEDIUM - An epidermis pattern detection unit detects epidermis patterns in an epidermis image captured from the epidermis of skin by an epidermis image capturing unit. An acquired element analysis unit analyzes uniformity of shapes of the epidermis patterns in the epidermis image. A texture evaluation unit evaluates a texture state of the skin based on the uniformity of shapes of the epidermis patterns. The present technology, for example, may be applied to systems that evaluate the texture state of the skin. | 11-29-2012 |
20120307032 | IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, IMAGE PROCESSING SYSTEM, PROGRAM, AND RECORDING MEDIUM - Provided is an image processing device including a specifying unit configured to specify a part of a living body within a first image on the basis of a characteristic amount of the first image capturing skin of the living body, and a setting unit configured to set a capturing condition under which a second image indicating a state of the skin of the part is captured in response to the specified part. | 12-06-2012 |
20130242141 | IMAGING COMPOSITIONS OF MULTIPLE IMAGES HAVING DIFFERENT IMAGE RANGES - The present invention relates to an imaging apparatus and method and program whereby composition can more readily be confirmed. | 09-19-2013 |
20130243281 | IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - There is provided an image processing device including a body hair detection unit that detects a body hair region corresponding to body hair from a process target image that includes skin, a texture structure estimation unit that estimates a structure of skin texture in the process target image, and an interpolation unit that interpolates the body hair region detected by the body hair detection unit based on the structure of the skin texture estimated by the texture structure estimation unit. | 09-19-2013 |
20130256505 | IMAGING DEVICE, IMAGING METHOD, PROGRAM, IMAGING SYSTEM, AND ATTACHMENT DEVICE - There is provided an imaging device including a lighting unit whose lighting directions to a subject are able to be switched, and a control unit that performs focus adjustment on the subject for every lighting directions to calculate evaluation values in accordance with focus states, and determines a direction in which a focus state becomes best as a lighting direction based on the evaluation values to capture the subject. | 10-03-2013 |
20140191872 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - There is provided an information processing apparatus including a user state detector configured to detect a state of each of a plurality of users based on sensing data provided from the plurality of users together with position information, a user state integration unit configured to integrate the detected state for each user group defined based on the position information to generate integrated state information, and a state display generator configured to generate information for displaying the integrated state information in association with a position. | 07-10-2014 |
20150062380 | IMAGING APPARATUS AND IMAGING METHOD THEREOF, IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD THEREOF, AND PROGRAM - An imaging apparatus includes: an unpolarized light-emitting portion configured to emit light having an unpolarized component; a polarized light-emitting portion configured to emit light having a predetermined polarized component via a first polarization filter; and an imaging element configured to image a subject, which is irradiated with light by one of the unpolarized light-emitting portion and the polarized light-emitting portion, through a second polarization filter, the first polarization filter and the second polarization filter having polarization directions in an orthogonal relationship to each other, the imaging element being further configured to image the subject irradiated with light by the unpolarized light-emitting portion and the subject irradiated with light by the polarized light-emitting portion in a time division manner and output an unpolarized light image and an orthogonal polarized light image that are obtained as a result of imaging. | 03-05-2015 |
20150104099 | IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - There is provided an image processing device including a body hair detection unit that detects a body hair region corresponding to body hair from a process target image that includes skin, a texture structure estimation unit that estimates a structure of skin texture in the process target image, and an interpolation unit that interpolates the body hair region detected by the body hair detection unit based on the structure of the skin texture estimated by the texture structure estimation unit. | 04-16-2015 |
20150125030 | IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE, IMAGE PROCESSING SYSTEM, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - The present technique relates to an image processing device, an image processing system, an image processing method, and a program that enable simple and accurate detection of regions showing a detection object such as a body hair in images. | 05-07-2015 |
20150199819 | IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, PROGRAM, AND IMAGE PROCESSING SYSTEM - Provided is an image processing device including a dividing unit which divides a captured image of skin into regions in a multidimensional manner, a feature value calculating unit which calculates a feature value of a color property in each region divided by the dividing unit, and an evaluating unit which calculates an evaluation value of the skin using the feature values calculated by the feature value calculating unit. | 07-16-2015 |
20150213619 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, PROGRAM, AND IMAGE PROCESSING SYSTEM - There is provided an image processing apparatus including a feature value calculation unit configured to calculate, as feature values, a polarity related to gradation of a skin image and a scale indicating image areas each having a pixel value that is similar to each other and that are different from surroundings of the image areas, and a feature section extraction unit configured to extract a feature section of the skin image on a basis of the feature values calculated by the feature value calculation unit. | 07-30-2015 |
20150254847 | IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, PROGRAM, AND RECORDING MEDIUM FOR DETECTION OF EPIDERMIS PATTERN - An epidermis pattern detection unit detects epidermis patterns in an epidermis image captured from the epidermis of skin by an epidermis image capturing unit. An acquired element analysis unit analyzes uniformity of shapes of the epidermis patterns in the epidermis image. A texture evaluation unit evaluates a texture state of the skin based on the uniformity of shapes of the epidermis patterns. The present technology, for example, may be applied to systems that evaluate the texture state of the skin. | 09-10-2015 |