Patent application number | Description | Published |
20080270922 | Image browsing device, image browsing method, image browsing program, and image browsing system - The present invention relates to an image browsing device that, in an amusement park, shoots a user who is riding a ride-on, and makes the user browse the shot image at a place where the user gets off the ride-on. Firstly, when plural users direct their ID cards to the ID readers ( | 10-30-2008 |
20080294424 | INFORMATION DISPLAY SYSTEM, INFORMATION DISPLAY METHOD, AND PROGRAM - An information display system has an information display unit which displays information in a large screen display device in a predetermined standard language; a user information input unit which inputs user information including information of a language desired by a user; and a language switch display unit which, when the user desired language input by the user information input unit is different from the standard language, switches the standard language of the screen display device to and displays the desired language of the user. The information display unit displays guide information, which comprises a public area common to all users and a plurality of individual areas dependent on respective users, in the standard language. When the input user desired language is different from the standard language, the language switch display unit displays the public area by time division or space division by the standard language and the user desired language and switches the individual area from the standard language to and displays in the user desired language. | 11-27-2008 |
20090032582 | INFORMATION PROVIDING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROVIDING METHOD, AND COMPUTER PRODUCT - An information providing apparatus provides a menu to a portable terminal and, when an item is selected from the menu by the user of the portable terminal, provides detailed information about the item. The information providing apparatus has an IC-tag reader that corresponds to a menu item and performs short-distance wireless communication with the portable terminal held thereover. Upon receiving, from the portable terminal that has received input information, the input information via the IC-tag reader through short-distance wireless communication, the information providing apparatus performs a predetermined process corresponding to the menu item based on the input information and predetermined identification information. | 02-05-2009 |
20090036110 | Connecting apparatus, connecting method, and computer product - A large-screen display apparatus recognizes an ID (e.g., user telephone number information) from terminal information, and transmits a telephone connection request to an IC card portable terminal corresponding to the ID. The large-screen display apparatus also transmits an IP telephone connection request to a hotel reception system of a hotel selected by the user of the IC card portable terminal. The large-screen display apparatus connects the user and the hotel system through an IP telephone according to, for example, call control by a third party (3PCC: 3rd Party Call Control). | 02-05-2009 |
20090177619 | INFORMATION PROVIDING APPARATUS AND INPUT INFORMATION RECEIVING METHOD - An information providing apparatus receives a user ID read by an IC card reader, and stores therein the user ID. The user inputs booking information by using an input screen that receives booking information, and then, the information providing apparatus further receives the user ID read by the IC card reader. The information providing apparatus then determines whether the received user ID matches the user ID stored therein. The information providing apparatus confirms reception of the booking information that is input by using the input screen if the user IDs are determined to match each other. | 07-09-2009 |
20090187487 | ADVERTISEMENT DISPLAY METHOD - An advertisement display method for providing advertisements from a display device, includes acquiring advertisement information which is endowed with an advertisement display right for displaying one or more advertisements, the advertisement information identifies an advertisement displayable by an advertisement display right, deciding whether the advertisement identified by the acquired advertisement information is to be displayed on the display device, on a basis of one or more advertisement points to be consumed by a display of the advertisement on the display device, displaying on the display device, summary data of the identified advertisement once it is decided to be displayed, and displaying detailed data of the identified advertisement on the display device, and consuming the advertisement points of the identified advertisement as displayed, based on a browsing request for details of the advertisement. | 07-23-2009 |
20090187940 | VIDEO BROADCASTING METHOD, APPARATUS, AND SYSTEM - A video broadcasting method includes assigning channels to a video content based on a total number of channels usable for broadcasting the video contents and a playback time of the video content, calculating a broadcast start time interval of the channels assigned to the video content based on the playback time of the video content and number of the channels assigned to the video content setting broadcast start time per channel of the channels assigned to the video content, and broadcasting the video content at the broadcast start time set per the channel. | 07-23-2009 |
20090243806 | INTEGRATED CIRCUIT PROCESSING DEVICE AND INTEGRATED CIRCUIT PROCESSING METHOD - An electric signal is allowed to reach loop antennas disposed adjacently to one another from an RFID antenna as a starting point by electromagnetic induction, which permits one IC chip processing device to exert a function equivalent to that exerted by a plurality of IC chip processing devices. Further, the loop antennas are superimposed on a display screen of a display system of an information providing apparatus, and the display screen is transparently visible, and therefore it makes possible to utilize a display surface of display contents on the display screen as an IC chip reading surface and dispose a plurality of reading surfaces showing different services provided. | 10-01-2009 |
20100050201 | ADVERTISEMENT PROVIDING SYSTEM, ADVERTISEMENT DISPLAYING APPARATUS, ADVERTISEMENT MANAGING APPARATUS, ADVERTISEMENT DISPLAYING METHOD, ADVERTISEMENT MANAGING METHOD, AND COMPUTER PRODUCT - An advertisement providing system includes a storage unit storing plural advertisements; a pull-type display managing unit that displays on a display, an advertisement designated by a viewer, from among the advertisements; a counting unit that counts, for each of the advertisements, frequency of display on the display; a generating unit that, based on the frequency of display for each of the advertisements, generates a display schedule for the advertisements; and a push-type display managing unit that displays the advertisements on the display, according to the display schedule. | 02-25-2010 |
20110012811 | Content display system and content display method - A display control device includes: a priority order searching unit that searches a priority order management table to retrieve the priority level corresponding to the standby content screen that has stopped being displayed on a display device related to a usage starting operation when the usage starting operation is detected from any of display devices in the standby state; a switch display target designating unit that retrieves display devices displaying standby content screens of lower priority levels than the retrieved standby content screen, and designates a display device as the switch display target that is the display device displaying the standby content screen of the lowest priority level; and a display control unit that causes the designated display device of the switch display target to switchingly display the standby content screen that has stopped being displayed on the display device related to the usage starting operation. | 01-20-2011 |
20110166965 | SYSTEM FOR SELLING BUYING, LENDING, AND RENTING VIRTUAL REGION AND METHOD THEREOF - The right for correlating a region or an existence with a virtual region in a virtual world structured in for example the Internet is sold, bought, lent, or rented. For example, when a buyer bought a virtual region from a seller, the virtual region of the seller is correlated with a virtual region of the buyer in a link method, a paste method, or a projection method. | 07-07-2011 |
20110227800 | DISPLAY DEVICE HAVING AN ANTENNA AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING SAME - A display device and a method of manufacturing the same, the display includes: an electrode plate operable to have a radio-frequency wave to pass therethrough; a light-emitting portion disposed in a direction of one surface of the electrode plate, the light-emitting portion including the electrode plate serving as a back electrode; and an antenna disposed in a direction of another surface of the electrode plate, the antenna having a stripline structure or a microstrip line structure and using a potential of the electrode plate as a reference potential. | 09-22-2011 |