Patent application number | Description | Published |
20080260074 | Symbol Analyzing Device, Symbol Analyzing Method, and Information Storage Medium - To provide a symbol analyzing device capable of carrying out post hoc analysis of the meaning of a symbol used in communications. The symbol analyzing device comprises a symbol acquiring section ( | 10-23-2008 |
20090013023 | Process Management Apparatus, Computer Systems, Distributed Processing Method, and Computer Program - When performing distributed processing in processing devices connected to a network and a processing managing device for managing the processing devices, it is possible to eliminate the overhead of the processing management device. The processing management device (PU) ( | 01-08-2009 |
20100040297 | Image Processing Device - A compression format identifying unit identifies the compression format of image data stored in a main memory. A transfer function determining unit determines a transfer function in accordance with the compression format of a tile image thus identified. A convolution operation unit subjects a modification request signal and the transfer function thus determined to convolution operation so as to generate a modification direction signal. A read ahead processor reads a tile image from the main memory using the modification request signal, decodes the image, and writes the decoded image in a buffer memory. A display image processor generates a display image using the modification direction signal. | 02-18-2010 |
20100115025 | CONTENT REPRODUCTION APPARATUS, CONTENT DELIVERY APPARATUS, CONTENT DELIVERY SYSTEM, AND METHOD FOR GENERATING METADATA - Metadata for a content delivered from a content server is generated while suppressing an increase in the network traffic. A content delivery system includes a content server and a client communicatively connected to the content server. The content server includes a content transmission unit for sending a content to the client. The client includes a content reception unit for receiving the content from the content server, a content reproduction unit for reproducing the received content, a metadata generation unit for applying predetermined analysis processing to the received content to generate metadata that indicates a result of the analysis processing, and a metadata transmission unit for sending the generated metadata. | 05-06-2010 |
20100115521 | MEDIATION SERVER, TERMINALS AND DISTRIBUTED PROCESSING METHOD - A highly convenient data processing technique is provided. | 05-06-2010 |
20100131740 | DATA PROCESSING SYSTEM AND DATA PROCESSING METHOD - The workload is heavy in the development of an application program that controls the task distribution in consideration of the variety of the execution environment. In a system where the processing is distributed to SPUs serving as plural processing entities so as to execute the computer program, the data processing is broken into plural units of processing by referring to the script code in which the content of the data processing is written, and the units of processing are assigned to the plural SPUs. Then, the whole computer program is executed when the SPUs execute the assigned process. | 05-27-2010 |
20100138769 | Distributed Processing Method, Distributed Processing System, Server, Program for the Same, Computer, And Program for the Same - A distributed processing management server receives resource operating status information from a terminal apparatus and generates based upon the information a whole resource operating status information which indicates operating statuses of other terminal apparatuses and feeds the information back to the terminal apparatuses. Users of terminal apparatuses can grasp how other terminal apparatuses are involved in a distributed processing project and motivation can be enhanced for participating in the distributed processing project. | 06-03-2010 |
20100156891 | INFORMATION PROVIDING SYSTEM, PROVIDING INFORMATION UPDATING METHOD, INFORMATION TERMINAL DEVICE, INFORMATION TERMINAL DEVICE CONTROL METHOD, INFORMATION UPDATING SERVER, INFORMATION UPDATING SEVER CONTROL METHOD AND INFORMATION MEMORIZING MEDIUM - Provided is an information providing system that is capable of precisely grasping actual situations of use of provided information and effectively updating the provided information. A space management server ( | 06-24-2010 |
20100169782 | CONTENT AND/OR SERVICE GUIDING DEVICE AND GUIDING METHOD, AND INFORMATION RECORDING MEDIUM - To facilitate finding of content or a service suitable for a user from a large amount of content sets and services. An image of a virtual three dimensional space ( | 07-01-2010 |
20100185964 | Content And/Or Service Presentation Device And Method And Information Storage Medium - To effectively arouse a user's interest in new content and service, or content and service not used on a daily basis. Images of a plurality of display elements associated with respective content sets and/or service ( | 07-22-2010 |
20110010767 | Server System, Communication Method, Computer, Program And Recording Medium - Establishment of communication between client apparatuses and an arithmetic function unit is performed based on communication information acquired by communication using HTTP between the client apparatuses and the arithmetic function unit through a firewall function unit, where the client apparatuses download encrypted contents data from the arithmetic function unit by P2P without passing a firewall. | 01-13-2011 |
20110050684 | INSPECTING APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR INSPECTION - An inspection apparatus inspects an application that is executed in a game device and displays a virtual space. The inspection apparatus comprises: an exposure indicator acquiring unit that acquires a first index relating to the exposure of an advertisement displayed in the virtual space from the game device, the index being calculated by the application that displays the virtual space from a user's point of view; an inspection image acquiring unit that acquires the virtual space, which is actually displayed on a screen on a frame by frame basis; an advertisement region extracting unit that extracts an advertisement displaying region from the image of the virtual space; an exposure indicator calculating unit that calculates a second index relating to the exposure of the advertisement based on the advertisement displaying region; and a verification unit that verifies the application by cross-checking the first index and the second index. | 03-03-2011 |
20110119151 | Mediation of Online Trading Services - Systems and methods for mediation of online trading services are provided. Supplemental content related to a content title may be listed in a market or store for content. A client device sends a mediated communication to a trading server; the mediated communication may include mediation data and a request concerning the transfer of supplemental content. A user account associated with the client device is identified and the supplemental content may then be assigned to the user account. A report regarding activity associated with the assignment of the supplemental content may be generated in accordance with mediation data. | 05-19-2011 |
20110119345 | Mediation of Content-Related Services - Systems and methods for mediation of content-related services are provided. A client device playing content may send a request for a service related to the content. Configuration information is generated for the client device, reflecting a set of permissions that are determined based on a market segment of the client device. Once the client device is configured according to the set of permissions, the client device can communicate with a service provider of the requested service. Such communication and any further activity regarding the service is governed by the set of permissions, as is reporting regarding such communication and activity | 05-19-2011 |
20110273470 | IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE, INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD - When a single page of a newspaper article or a magazine is displayed using hierarchical data, a guidance area (indicated by a line in the hierarchical data) for each article is defined in a scenario definition file. A plurality of guidance areas are defined in the layer below, i.e., the layer having a resolution of a level that allows characters to be legible, so that the viewer can track the article from start to end. The displayed image is initially guided to the guidance area upon a user request for enlargement. Upon a further request for enlargement, the displayed image is guided to the guidance area at the head of the article. When the user having read the sentence in the guidance area provides an input by indicating a direction or pressing a predetermined button, the displayed image is guided to the guidance area showing the continuation of the sentence. | 11-10-2011 |
20110316869 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD - An inspection apparatus specifies a region for displaying an advertisement from an image of a virtual space. The inspection apparatus comprises: an image mapping unit that maps an image, which uses a color that is not used in the virtual space and where the display status of the advertisement varies in accordance with a viewpoint of a user, on a region where the advertisement is to be displayed in the virtual space; an inspection image acquiring unit that acquires a virtual space that is actually displayed on a screen on a frame-by-frame basis; and an advertisement region extracting unit operative to extract, by color-filtering the acquired image of the virtual space, a region that is rendered with a color that is not used in the virtual space, as a region for displaying the advertisement perceived by a user. | 12-29-2011 |
20120038677 | Information Processing Device And Information Processing Method - A range having a predetermined width close to a display margin is defined in an image as a restriction area. When the display area enters the restriction area, the moving speed determination unit reduces the speed of moving the display area in accordance with the extent that the display area enters the restriction area. When the request for moving the display area is suspended while the display area enters the restriction area, the bouncing speed determination unit determines the moving speed so that the display area is bounced in a direction away from the restriction area at a speed determined by the extent that the display area enters the restriction area. A frame coordinate computation unit computes frame coordinates of a display area that should be newly displayed, based on the moving speed determined by the moving speed determination unit and the bouncing speed determination unit. | 02-16-2012 |
20120195570 | Broadcast Program Processing Device, Broadcast Program Processing Method and Program Product - A broadcast program processing device is provided. The device includes a recording unit configured to record content including an advertising video and a recorded data analysis unit configured to obtain an attribute of the advertising video that is included in the recorded content. The device further includes a CM replacing unit configured to obtain an attribute of each of a plurality of advertising videos to be inserted and select one or more of the plurality of advertising videos to be inserted, based on the attribute of the advertising video that is included in the recorded content and the attribute of each of the plurality of advertising videos to be inserted, and a reproduction unit configured to insert the selected one or more of the plurality of advertising videos to be inserted into the recoded content. | 08-02-2012 |
20120216110 | INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE - A data acquiring unit acquires provided data from an information providing server. A format retaining unit retains configuration format data of a page. The page reconfiguration unit generates page data wherein the acquired provided data is arranged in accordance with configuration format data. The hierarchical data generating unit generates a page image from the generated page data, and generates hierarchical data where page images of a plurality of resolutions are hierarchized by using the generated page image. | 08-23-2012 |
20130073618 | Information Providing System, Information Providing method, Information Providing Device, Program, And Information Storage Medium - An information providing system for accurately providing a user with information that matches the user at a small calculating cost. The system includes a feature vector generating unit for generating a feature vector of each of a plurality of persons, and a user cluster generating unit for classifying the plurality of persons into a plurality of clusters based on the feature vector of each of the plurality of persons. The system selects at least one of the plurality of clusters based on a feature vector of a specified person, and outputs information related to the selected cluster. | 03-21-2013 |
20130198334 | INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, INFORMATION PROCESSING PROGRAM, COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM ON WHICH INFORMATION PROCESSING PROGRAM IS STORED - Provided is an information processing system with which a new function can be added without altering an application program itself. The information processing system includes: a first execution information obtaining unit configured to obtain first execution information which indicates an execution state of a first execution unit configured to execute an application program; an execution information storing unit configured to store the first execution information; and the first execution unit or a second execution unit configured to execute the application program, in which the first execution unit or the second execution unit uses the stored first execution information to execute the application program. | 08-01-2013 |
20140099040 | IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD - There is provided an image processing device including a renderer configured to generate a frame image in real time, an encoder configured to encode the frame image to generate an encoded data, a sender configured to transmit the encoded data to a client device over a network, the client device being configured to decode the encoded data and output the frame image, and a controller configured to predict an increase of delay incurred in receiving the encoded data in the client device and control a generation interval of the frame image by the renderer based on the prediction. | 04-10-2014 |
20140101327 | SERVER DEVICE AND INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD - There is provided a server device including a streaming processing unit configured to generate a frame image in real time, encode the frame image to generate encoded data, and transmit the encoded data to a client device over a network, the client device being configured to decode the encoded data and output the frame image, and a controller configured to receive information related to an output timing of the frame image in the client device from the client device and control a process timing of the frame image in the streaming processing unit so that a predetermined relationship is maintained between the output timing and the process timing. | 04-10-2014 |