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20080310340 | Communication System, Communication Method, Communication Terminal Device, Control Method Thereof, and Program - The present invention proposes a highly reliable communication system and communication method, a communication terminal device used for the communication system, a control method thereof, and a program installed on the communication terminal device. In communication system and communication method, the communication terminal device used for the communication system, the control method thereof, and the program installed on the communication terminal device, a first communication terminal originates a first message. In response to the first message, a third communication terminal originates a second message. Based on these messages, the first through third communication terminals create routes to the first or third communication terminal. The first communication terminal transmits a route request composed of a request for a route used for communication with the third communication terminal. The second and third communication terminals create multiple routes to the first or third communication terminal. A communication route is established between the first and third communication terminals using a route that belongs to the created routes and satisfies the route request transmitted from the first communication terminal. | 12-18-2008 |
20090016281 | Wireless Communication Device and Wireless Communication System - A wireless communication device configured to perform communication with another wireless communication device which exists outside the wireless communication range by performing communication through a path via a neighboring wireless communication device includes: a communication control unit configured to compute the number of links until a signal from the other wireless communication device is received; a device information holding unit configured to associate the number of computed links with information relating to the other wireless communication device and holding therein; and a display control unit configured to control the information relating to the other wireless communication device associated to the number of links based on the number of links, so as to be displayed. | 01-15-2009 |
20090154398 | WIRELESS COMMUNICATION DEVICE, COMMUNICATION STATE NOTIFICATION METHOD, WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM AND PROGRAM - There is provided a wireless communication device forming an autonomous distributed wireless network by intermittently transmitting and receiving a predetermined communication management signal, which includes a reception portion to receive the communication management signal, an evaluation portion to evaluate a communication state of the wireless communication device in the wireless network based on a history of receiving the communication management signal by the reception portion, and a notification portion to provide a notification corresponding to an evaluation result of the communication state by the evaluation portion. | 06-18-2009 |
20090207792 | WIRELESS COMMUNICATION TERMINAL, WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, COMMUNICATION MANAGEMENT METHOD AND COMPUTER PROGRAM - A wireless communication terminal, which forms a wireless network with a plurality of other wireless communication terminals, includes a detection portion to detect a first communication management signal periodically transmitted via broadcast from another wireless communication terminal prior to communication of a data signal, a communication control portion to determine whether to transmit a second communication management signal to the wireless communication terminal to transmit the first communication management signal based on a detection status of the first communication management signal, and a wireless communication portion serving as a transmission portion to transmit the second communication management signal via unicast to the wireless communication terminal as a transmission source of the first communication management signal and as a reception portion to receive an acknowledge signal transmitted via unicast in response to the second communication management signal. | 08-20-2009 |
20100020740 | Wireless Communication System, Wireless Communication Device, Wireless Communication Method, and Program - A set-N table ( | 01-28-2010 |
20100185936 | INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, AND PROGRAM - There is provided an information processing method, including the steps of: obtaining a first format document described using a mark-up language; and generating, based on definition data defining a hierarchical relationship of at least two types of tags of the mark-up language in a document structure, a second format document representing a tree structure having at least a node thereof corresponding to the tag or to a text related to the tag from the first format document. | 07-22-2010 |
20100192093 | COMMUNICATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, COMMUNICATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - There is provided a control unit of an information processing apparatus for causing a display unit to display selected information stored in a storage unit at a selected information display position, as well as causing the display unit to display a first selection candidate information, which is one of object information and relationship information correlated with the selected information, at a first candidate information display position which is a position departing a predetermined distance from the selected information display position in a predetermined first direction, and to display a second selection candidate information, which is one of the object information and the relationship information correlated with the selected information other than the first selection candidate information, at a second candidate information display position which is a position departing a predetermined distance in a predetermined second direction opposite from the first direction. | 07-29-2010 |
20100262994 | CONTENT PROCESSING DEVICE AND METHOD, PROGRAM, AND RECORDING MEDIUM - A content processing device includes: a keyword acquiring means for acquiring a keyword for specifying content; a title acquiring means for acquiring a content title; a processing means for processing the acquired title on the basis of a predefined processing rule; a similarity calculating means for calculating similarity between the processed title and the keyword; and an identifying means for identifying content having a title specified by the keyword on the basis of the calculated similarity. | 10-14-2010 |
20110019540 | WIRELESS AD HOC COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, TERMINAL, PROCESSING METHOD IN TERMINAL AND PROGRAM TO MAKE TERMINAL EXECUTE PROCESSING METHOD - A wireless ad hoc communication system is provided in which in the case where an alternative route can not be discovered in a certain node, a restoration is attempted in an intermediate node instead of deleting all routes up to a transmission source. | 01-27-2011 |
20110099003 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - An information processing apparatus includes a category classifying unit configured to classify a document into one or more categories, a word extracting unit configured to extract one or more words from the document, a word score calculating unit configured to calculate a word score for each of the one or more words extracted from the document on the basis of an appearance frequency of the word in each of the one or more categories, the word score serving as an index of interest of the word, a sentence-for-computation extracting unit configured to extract one or more sentences from the document, and a sentence score calculating unit configured to calculate a sentence score for each of the extracted one or more sentences on the basis of the word score calculated by the word score calculating unit, the sentence score serving as an index of interest of the sentence. | 04-28-2011 |
20110113046 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION EXTRACTING METHOD, PROGRAM, AND INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM - There is provided an information processing apparatus including a data storage unit storing at least two rules for extracting information from a document written using a markup language, a selecting unit selecting, in accordance with an appearance frequency of a specific character string in at least one part of an input document written using the markup language, a rule to be applied to the part from the at least two rules stored in the data storage unit, and an extracting unit extracting information from the part using the rule selected by the selecting unit. | 05-12-2011 |
20110119602 | WEB SERVER, WEB BROWSER AND WEB SYSTEM - A Web browser includes an extraction unit that extracts a link destination displayed in a display area from among one or two or more link destinations contained in a page displayed in a display screen, a request creation unit that creates a request to acquire content of the link destination, and a transmission unit that transmits the request to a Web server, and the Web server includes a reception unit that receives the request, a content creation unit that creates content in accordance with the request received, and a cache unit that caches the content created by the content creation unit in a storage apparatus. | 05-19-2011 |
20110125731 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, PROGRAM, AND INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM - There is provided an information processing apparatus including a structure analysis section that analyzes display control data in which information related to display control is written and which includes a plurality of structural units, and that extracts the structural unit included in the display control data, a layout setting section that sets layout information which is used when displaying the display control data on a display screen based on the structural unit extracted by the structure analysis section, a keyword extraction section that extracts a keyword from a display content corresponding to the structural unit, and a content search section that searches image content corresponding to the keyword extracted by the keyword extraction section. The layout setting section places the image content searched by the content search section in a display region, in which the structural unit including the keyword corresponding to the image content is displayed. | 05-26-2011 |
20110126105 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, BOOKMARK SETTING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - There is provided an information processing apparatus including a content display unit for displaying movie content on a display screen, and a bookmark setting unit for setting a bookmark in which a display position where a display subject is displayed on the display screen and a temporal position within the movie content where the display subject is displayed on the display screen are mutually related to each other, to the display subject of the movie content displayed on the display screen by the content display unit. | 05-26-2011 |
20110271303 | INFORMATION PROVIDING METHOD, CONTENT DISPLAY TERMINAL, PORTABLE TERMINAL, SERVER DEVICE, INFORMATION PROVIDING SYSTEM AND PROGRAM - A method, apparatus, and computer-readable storage medium for providing information to a user is provided. The method includes providing, on an output device, program content, generating, by a processor, descriptive data including identification information corresponding to the program content, and providing a notification to a user based on the descriptive data, the notification corresponding to the program content. | 11-03-2011 |
20110280246 | COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, COMMUNICATION METHOD, COMMUNICATION TERMINAL DEVICE, CONTROL METHOD THEREOF, AND PROGRAM - A communication system includes a plurality of communication terminals including a first communication terminal to broadcast a route request message to a third communication terminal via a second communication terminal, the second and third communication terminals create a route to the first communication terminal. The second and third communication terminals include a route creation device for creating a plurality of the routes to the first communication terminal by broadcasting the route request message to each terminal included in the plurality of terminals to duplicatively receive the route request message. The second and third terminals further include a route management device for storing and managing the plurality of routes. The second and third terminals further include a route management device that establishes one of the created routes as a communication route to the first communication terminal. | 11-17-2011 |
20110292282 | INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM - A method is provided for controlling devices. The method comprises receiving user input indicating a request to connect to a controllable device. The method further comprises transmitting information to a plurality of controllable devices having indicators, the transmitted information including a command for causing the controllable devices to display, on the indicators, identifiers corresponding to the controllable devices. | 12-01-2011 |
20110314363 | INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, PROGRAM, AND INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM - In a case where a link to jump to a destination page is included within a source page, when movement information indicating that the link is moved to a predetermined position while being selected is input via an input section, a control section determines whether or not the link is moved to a predetermined region within a display surface based on the movement information and region information, and, when determining that the link is moved to the predetermined region within the display surface, the control section acquires from a storage section and causes a display section to execute processing of displaying on the source page, a page analysis result associated with the region information for specifying the predetermined region of a movement destination of the link. | 12-22-2011 |
20120005628 | Display Device, Display Method, and Program - A method is provided for displaying thumbnail images corresponding to portions of content. The method comprises identifying a thumbnail image representing a portion of content. The method further comprises identifying an importance level of the content represented by the thumbnail image. The method further comprises selecting a display mode of the thumbnail image according to the determined importance level. The method further comprises displaying the thumbnail image according to the selected display mode. | 01-05-2012 |
20120110509 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, PROGRAM, AND SURVEILLANCE SYSTEM - An electronic apparatus includes a thumbnail preparation unit configured to retrieve thumbnail images, each thumbnail image representing a scene of a different time of one or more moving images, a first thumbnail line display unit configured to time sequentially display a first plurality of thumbnail images corresponding to at least a part of one of the moving images as a first thumbnail line, a second thumbnail line display unit configured to display a second plurality of thumbnail images corresponding to a marked part of the moving images as a second thumbnail line, and a thumbnail shifting unit configured to shift a selection of a thumbnail along the second thumbnail line and update the first thumbnail line to display at least one thumbnail image of a temporally adjacent part of the marked part of the moving image corresponding to the newly selected thumbnail in response to a user instruction. | 05-03-2012 |
20120141088 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - An information processing apparatus that includes a processor that reproduces video data, and an interface that receives an instruction to perform a fast forward operation or a rewind operation on the reproduced video data. The processor, upon receiving the instruction, controls a display to display a first line of thumbnail images each corresponding to a frame of the video data selected at a first time interval, and subsequently controls the display to display a second line of thumbnail images each corresponding to a frame of the video data selected at a second time interval. | 06-07-2012 |
20120147200 | IMAGE DISPLAYING APPARATUS, IMAGE DISPLAYING SYSTEM, IMAGE DISPLAYING METHOD AND IMAGE DISPLAYING PROGRAM - The present disclosure provides an image displaying apparatus connected to a first camera and a second camera, on both of which pan/tilt control can be carried out, the image displaying apparatus including: an information acquisition section for acquiring information used for moving a display area over a virtual area obtained by combining a first area with a second area by making the first and second areas adjacent to each other; a control section for monitoring the position of the display area in the virtual area, requesting the first camera to carry out pan/tilt operations when the display area is positioned in the first area before and after a movement of the display area, and requesting the second camera to carry out pan/tilt operations when the display area has been moved from the first area to the boundary with the second area; and an image displaying section for displaying an image. | 06-14-2012 |
20120149295 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, SERVER APPARATUS, GROUP CREATION SYSTEM, GROUP CREATION METHOD, AND PROGRAM - Disclosed herein is a group creation system for readily creating a group of nearby information processing apparatuses to let data be exchanged easily within the group. Portable terminals A and B exchange their ID's using hello messages being broadcast to create a nearby device list each. To request creation of a group with the portable terminal B, the portable terminal A transmits a group request including the ID of the portable terminal B to a server while sending an invitation to the portable terminal B. If the portable terminal B consents to the invitation and transmits a group request to the server within a group participation allowable time, the participation of the portable terminal B in the group is finalized, and a grouping notification to that effect is transmitted from the server to the portable terminals A and B. | 06-14-2012 |
20120201299 | IMAGING APPARATUS, RECEIVING APPARATUS, VIDEO TRANSMISSION SYSTEM, AND VIDEO TRANSMISSION METHOD - An imaging apparatus includes: an encoded-data generating section configured to generate encoded data including a first picture that can be decoded without referring to other pictures and one or more second pictures that can be decoded referring to other pictures; a transmission-data generating section configured to combine the first picture of the encoded data and the one or more second pictures of encoded data immediately preceding the encoded data to generate transmission data; and a radio communication section configured to intermittently transmit, in a unit of the transmission data, a plurality of the transmission data included in a video stream. | 08-09-2012 |
20120223898 | DISPLAY CONTROL DEVICE, DISPLAY CONTROL METHOD, AND PROGRAM - Provided is a display control device including an operation display unit for detecting operation positions, on a display screen, in accordance with a user operation on the display screen, a state determination unit for determining, based on a detection result of the operation positions, a first operation state where two operation positions are detected, a process determination unit for determining, based on a change in the operation positions in the first operation state, a process related to display that is to be performed, and a display control unit for performing, based on a determination result of a process, a process which has been determined to be performed, and causing the display screen to perform display corresponding to the process. The display control unit continues the display corresponding to the process which has been determined to be performed, according to a duration of determination for the process which has been determined. | 09-06-2012 |
20120296958 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - Methods and apparatus for processing a request for image data. One exemplary embodiment is directed to an apparatus comprising at least one storage device configured to store a plurality of processor-executable instructions and at least one processing unit communicatively coupled to the at least one storage device. Upon execution of the processor-executable instructions, the processing unit receives from a client computer one or more requests for image data, generates at least one coupled-image file and a conversion layout file based, at least in part, on information in the one or more requests for image data, wherein the at least one coupled-image file includes image data for a plurality of images to form a combined image and the conversion layout file includes identifying information identifying the plurality of images in the combined image, and sends the at least one coupled-image file and the conversion layout file to the client computer. | 11-22-2012 |
20130016108 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAMAANM Isozu; MasaakiAACI TokyoAACO JPAAGP Isozu; Masaaki Tokyo JP - An information processing apparatus includes: a communication unit to receive, from another information processing apparatus, image data in an imaginary region having a first area, first tree information indicating a tree structure of the image data, and layout information indicating a layout of the image data; a cache memory to cache at least a part of the received image data; a display including a display region having a second area smaller than the first area, and to display a part of the cached image data in the display region; and a controller to divide the imaginary region into regions based on the second area and the received layout information, generate second tree information indicating a tree structure of the image data in accordance with the regions, and control the cache memory to cache the at least a part of the image data based on the second tree information. | 01-17-2013 |
20130024792 | INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - Provided is an information processing device including a first detection unit configured to detect a movement of an operation device having a user interface that can be operated by a user, a second detection unit configured to detect a user operation on the user interface, and a processing unit configured to perform a process based on one of a detection result obtained by the first detection unit or a detection result obtained by the second detection unit. The processing unit, when, while performing a process based on a detection result obtained by one of the first detection unit or the second detection unit, a detection result obtained by the other detection unit is detected, selectively changes content of the process being performed based on the detection result obtained by the one of the detection units, based on the detection result obtained by the other detection unit. | 01-24-2013 |
20130147844 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - An information processing apparatus may include at least one processor, at least one interface from the at least one processor to at least one sensor configured to detect an orientation of the apparatus, and at least one interface from the at least one processor to at least one display. The at least one processor may be configured to, in response to receiving input from the at least one sensor that indicates a change in the orientation of the apparatus within a time limit from an occurrence of an event, cause the at least one display to display one or more previously created photographs. An information processing method may include detecting an orientation of an apparatus having a display, and in response to detecting a change in the apparatus's orientation within a time limit from an occurrence of an event, displaying one or more previously created photographs on the display. | 06-13-2013 |
20130159884 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - An information processing apparatus may include at least one communication interface configured to receive notification of one or more other apparatuses in proximity to the apparatus; and at least one processor configured to, in response to the notification and based at least in part on a calculated sharing recommendation degree, cause at least one display to display a prompt to share content with at least one of the other apparatuses. An information processing method may include determining that one or more other apparatuses are in proximity to a first apparatus; calculating a sharing recommendation degree; and in response to determining that the one or more other apparatuses are in proximity to the first apparatus, and based at least in part on the calculated sharing recommendation degree, displaying on a display of the first apparatus a prompt to share content with at least one of the other apparatuses. | 06-20-2013 |
20130179540 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - An information processing apparatus includes a first communication unit, a second communication unit, and a control unit. The first communication unit is configured to be capable of communicating with a first apparatus via a predetermined communication path. The first apparatus has a predetermined sensing function and does not have an Internet connecting function. The second communication unit is configured to be capable of communicating with a second apparatus via the Internet. The control unit is configured to be capable of controlling the first communication unit to receive sensed data from the first apparatus and controlling the first communication unit to transmit the received data to the second apparatus. | 07-11-2013 |
20130257715 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - An information processing apparatus includes a communication unit, a storage, and a controller. The storage is configured to store rule information indicating a rule for calculating points of a user in accordance with a type of an operation by the user. The controller is configured to calculate, based on a detected operation of a first user and the rule information, points of the first user in accordance with a type of the detected operation, to control the storage to store first point information indicating the calculated points, and to control the communication unit to perform one of transmission of the stored first point information to another information processing apparatus and reception of second point information from the other information processing apparatus, the second point information indicating points of a second user and being stored in the other information processing apparatus. | 10-03-2013 |