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20080229407 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND MEDIA STORING A PROGRAM THEREFOR - A disclosed information processing apparatus makes it possible for a user to perform a desired operation easily by displaying operation candidates based on an operation history. The apparatus comprises a storage unit in which an operation history table is stored, the table associating tasks with operations. A user who performs an operation is authenticated by a user authentication unit. Task information concerning the authenticated user is acquired by a task acquisition unit. Based on the acquired task information, an operation candidate presenting unit presents operation candidates by referring to the operation history table. The operation history table is updated by a history management unit in accordance with an operation designated by the user. | 09-18-2008 |
20080235776 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, INFORMATION PROCESSING PROGRAM, AND COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIUM - An information processing apparatus is disclosed that includes a user authentication unit that identifies a current user, a task acquiring unit that acquires task information of a relevant task associated with a file to be processed by the current user, and a file information storage unit that stores file information of the file to be processed in association with the task information of the relevant task. | 09-25-2008 |
20090073488 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, OPERATION SUPPORTING METHOD, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT - An information storing unit stores file information on an electronic file on which a user's operation is to be performed. An operation-candidate storing unit stores content information on contents of the operation. A selection-probability storing unit stores a probability value of selecting the operation. A similarity storing unit stores a similarity value of the operation between different users. A probability calculating unit calculates a function-selection-probability value for selecting an operation candidate for the electronic file, by using the file information, the content information, the probability value, and the similarity value. | 03-19-2009 |
20090231637 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SCANNING/ACCUMULATING IMAGE, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT - An image scanning/accumulating system including an information issuing unit that acquires image data; and an information managing unit that includes an image-data database for storing therein the image data acquired by the information issuing unit, and manages the image data. The information managing unit includes a task-information database, and manages task information stored in the task-information database. The information issuing unit includes an image pickup unit that scans a paper-based document thereby obtaining image data, and registers the image data in the image-data database; an information display unit that acquires task information from the task-information database to be associated with the image data obtained by the image pickup unit, and displays acquired task information on a task-information setting screen; and a notifying unit that notifies a contact address included in the task information that the image data associated with the task information is registered in the image-data database. | 09-17-2009 |
20120219140 | CONFERENCE PROGRESS SUPPORTING APPARATUS - A disclosed conference progress supporting apparatus includes a unit to store information indicating each agenda of the conference and information indicating each participant of the conference, a unit to acquire information via an input device, the information indicating a start and an end of a speech of the participant of the agenda, a unit to store progress information in the conference information storage unit, the progress information associating the agenda, the participants, a start time when the information indicating the start is acquired, and an elapsed time since the start time with each other in response to the acquisition of the information indicating the start, and update the progress information by measuring the elapsed time until the information indicating the end is acquired, and a unit to present information indicating a speech status of each of the participants of each of the agendas based on the progress information. | 08-30-2012 |
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20130335369 | INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD - An information processing device includes an input operation function identification unit configured to identify an input operation and a function performed on a display screen including at least two areas; an area determination unit configured to determine an area among the at least two areas of the display screen to which the input operation belongs; a function process unit configured to execute a process of the function corresponding to the input operation, with respect to the area determined by the area determination unit; and a display output unit configured to display, on the display screen, a result obtained by the process executed by the function process unit. | 12-19-2013 |
20140253670 | INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, DISPLAY CONTROL SYSTEM, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT - An information processing device displays a first image and a second image, which is obtained by an image capturing unit by capturing the image in front of a display screen of a first display device capable of displaying the first image, on a second display device that is installed at a different location than the first display device. The information processing device includes a display control unit that displays the first image and the second image on the second display device in such a way that a display position of the first image in a left and right direction with reference to a display position of the second image when facing the second display device is opposite to a display position of the first image in the left and right direction with reference to the position of the image capturing unit when facing the display screen. | 09-11-2014 |
20150029301 | TELECONFERENCE SYSTEM AND TELECONFERENCE TERMINAL - A teleconference terminal includes a positional relationship determining unit, a video switching unit, a first video output unit, and a second video output unit. The positional relationship determining unit sets relationship information indicating a displaying position relationship between a location video received from another teleconference terminal and shared information shared among a plurality of locations on the local teleconference terminal based on relationship information indicating a displaying position relationship between the location video and the shared information set on the other teleconference terminal. The video switching unit displays the location video received from the other teleconference terminal and shared information on a first display unit and a second display unit in the displaying position relationship specified in the relationship information set by the positional relationship determining unit. | 01-29-2015 |
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20100241829 | HARDWARE SWITCH AND DISTRIBUTED PROCESSING SYSTEM - A hardware switch to which a plurality of processing elements are connected, wherein for sending side processing elements and receiving side processing elements different from the sending side processing elements selected from among the plurality of processing elements, the hardware switch interconnects one output selected from outputs that the sending side processing elements have and one input selected from inputs that the receiving side processing elements have, thereby selectively switching paths between the plurality of processing elements, and at least one of the number of outputs of the sending side processing element connected to the hardware switch and the number of inputs of the receiving side processing elements connected to the hardware switch is more than one. | 09-23-2010 |
20100250898 | PROCESSING ELEMENT AND DISTRIBUTED PROCESSING UNIT - A general-purpose processing element has a program holding portion that can hold a program by which a specific function is implemented in the general-purpose processing element. A distributed processing system according to the invention includes a control unit, a plurality of processing elements connected to the control unit, and a client, wherein the plurality of processing elements include the above-described processing element. | 09-30-2010 |
20100250899 | DISTRIBUTED PROCESSING SYSTEM - A distributed processing system includes a plurality of processing elements each having one or more inputs and one or more outputs, and a control unit to which the plurality of processing elements are connected, wherein based on a service execution request from a client, the control unit creates execution transition information in which the processing elements that are necessary to execute a specific service and an order of execution are specified. | 09-30-2010 |
20110083136 | DISTRIBUTED PROCESSING SYSTEM - A distributed processing system for executing an application includes a processing element capable of performing parallel processing, a control unit, and a client that makes a request for execution of the application to the control unit. The processing element has, at least at the time of executing the application, one or more processing blocks that process respectively one or more tasks to be executed by the processing element, a processing block control section for calculating the number of parallel processes based on an index for controlling the number of parallel processes received from the control unit, a division section that divides data to be processed input to the processing blocks by the processing block control section in accordance with the number of parallel processes, and an integration section that integrates processed data output from the processing blocks by the processing block control section in accordance with the number of parallel processes. | 04-07-2011 |
20110238959 | DISTRIBUTED CONTROLLER, DISTRIBUTED PROCESSING SYSTEM, AND DISTRIBUTED PROCESSING METHOD - A distributed controller is connected to two or more processing elements and controls the two or more processing elements to execute distributed processing. The distributed controller comprises a plurality of control modules, each of which is connected to at least one other control module. The distributed controller determines a processing path between processing elements using at least two of the plurality of control modules. | 09-29-2011 |
20110238960 | DISTRIBUTED PROCESSING SYSTEM, CONTROL UNIT, PROCESSING ELEMENT, DISTRIBUTED PROCESSING METHOD AND COMPUTER PROGRAM - A distributed processing system has a control unit and a plurality of processing elements and includes a control line through which control information is sent and received between the control unit and the processing elements, and a data line through which data to be processed is transmitted from at least one selected from the control unit and the processing elements to the processing element connected thereto. The data line is independent from the control line. The processing element has a processing content changing section that changes the content of processing in the processing element using processing content changing information received through the control line when a monitored processing context of the processing element meets a processing content changing condition received through the control line. | 09-29-2011 |
20120030307 | NETWORK SYSTEM - There is provided a network system which is capable of carrying out a communication process most efficiently all the time, when a portable terminal has moved. | 02-02-2012 |
20140139621 | IMAGE PROCESSING SYSTEM, INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, INFORMATION STORAGE DEVICE, AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD - An image processing system includes an image acquisition section that consecutively acquires still images, a direction determination section that determines a camera moving direction that is a moving direction of an imaging section during capture, and a panoramic image generation section that performs a synthesis process of the consecutively acquired still images to generate a panoramic image. The direction determination section determines whether the camera moving direction is a first camera moving direction or a second camera moving direction that differs from the first camera moving direction when the imaging section is moved during capture. The panoramic image generation section performs the synthesis process of a still image among the consecutively acquired still images based on the camera moving direction when the consecutively acquired still images were captured to generate the panoramic image. | 05-22-2014 |
20140139624 | IMAGE PROCESSING SYSTEM, INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, INFORMATION STORAGE DEVICE, AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD - An image processing system includes an image acquisition section that consecutively acquires still images, a direction determination section that determines a camera moving direction, a slit image generation section that generates slit images based on the consecutively acquired still images, and a panoramic image generation section that performs a synthesis process of the slit images to generate a panoramic image. The direction determination section determines whether the camera moving direction is a first camera moving direction or a second camera moving direction when the imaging section is moved during capture. The panoramic image generation section performs the synthesis process of each slit image based on the camera moving direction when the consecutively acquired still images were captured to generate the panoramic image. | 05-22-2014 |
20140218565 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING SYSTEM, AND IMAGE READING APPARATUS - An image processing apparatus is configured comprising a necessary/unnecessary determination data generating unit configured to generate necessary/unnecessary determination data; an image encoding unit assigning identification information respectively to, and recording, in a recording unit, each piece of data after division of each moving image of a moving image after encoding, a necessary/unnecessary determining unit configured to determine an unnecessary moving image frame based on necessary/unnecessary determination data; and a moving image file managing unit configured to rewrite information indicating a state of data at a recording unit in the recording unit corresponding to a moving image frame determined as unnecessary moving image frame by the necessary/unnecessary determining unit into information that there is no data. | 08-07-2014 |