Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha Corporation

Pioneer Corporation

Akira Tojima

Junichi Shirakawa

Akihiro Tozaki

Kazunori Hashimoto

Takehiko Shioda

Kunihiro Minoshima

Syuji Daioku

Nobuo Kusumoto

Toru Ueda

Akihiro Azuma

Masaki Takeuchi

Taichiro Morishita

Masafumi Hirata

Azusa Umemoto

Yuri Iwano

Mitsunori Nojima

Shinichi Kitabayashi

Tohru Sugayama

Yohhei Iwami

Taichi Andoh

In an information processing apparatus, a question information acquisition unit acquires question information from a user terminal apparatus. A chat data acquisition unit acquires chat data including one or more pieces of second question data and one or more pieces of second answer data. Each piece of second question data is a collection of one or more pieces of similar first question data selected from FAQ data including the pieces of first question data and first answer data thereto. The second answer data is data obtained by simplifying corresponding one or more pieces of first answer data. An answer data acquisition unit acquires a piece of second answer data corresponding to a piece of second question data identical or similar to the question information. A transmission unit transmits the piece of second answer data acquired by the answer data acquisition unit to the user terminal apparatus.

Information processing apparatus, user terminal apparatus, and control method

A voice recognition terminal is provided to be able to communicate with a server capable of voice recognition for recognizing voice, and includes a voice input acceptance portion accepting voice input from a user, a voice recognition portion carrying out voice recognition of the voice input accepted, a response processing execution portion performing processing for responding to the user based on a result of voice recognition of the voice input accepted, and a communication portion transmitting the voice input accepted by the voice input acceptance portion to the server and receiving a result of voice recognition in the server. The response processing execution portion performs the processing for responding to the user based on the result of voice recognition determined as more suitable, of the result of voice recognition by the voice recognition portion and the result of voice recognition received from the server.

Voice recognition terminal, server, method of controlling server, voice recognition system, non-transitory storage medium storing program for controlling voice recognition terminal, and non-transitory storage medium storing program for controlling server

A mobile phone () in accordance with the present invention includes: a transmission setting database (); a transmission setting section () for registering, on the transmission setting database (), a piece of image data to be transmitted to a data receiving device; and an image data transmitting section () for transmitting, to the data receiving device, the piece of image data registered on the transmission setting database (), the image data transmitting section () transmitting the piece of image data to the data receiving device in response to a transmission request received from the data receiving device. Therefore, according to a data transmission device in accordance with the present invention, it is possible to transmit a desired piece of additional-information-containing data to the data receiving device without forcing a user to again carry out operation of transmitting the piece of additional-information-containing data to the data receiving device, even in a case where the user cannot transmit the desired piece of additional-information-containing data to the data receiving device.

Data transmission device, data transmission method, data communication system, program, and recording medium

A mobile phone () of the present invention includes a mobile phone storage section () configured to store both of (i) data including positional information and (ii) data including no positional information, a positional information extraction section () for identifying the data including the positional information from among the data stored in the mobile phone storage section () and extracting the positional information to be used as a standard for setting a predetermined area, a mobile phone determination section () for setting the predetermined area on a basis of the positional information extracted by the positional information extraction section (), and a mobile phone notification section () notifying the user of the mobile phone when the current position of the mobile phone enters within the predetermined area set by the mobile phone determination section (). Hence, the user can easily register the positional information.

Notification device, notification system, method for controlling notification device, and computer readable recording medium having a control program recorded thereupon

An input system, a portable terminal, a data processor, and an input method are provided that can be used to easily input a character of the type permitted to be input. The input system includes the data processor and the portable terminal. The data processor stores an input permitted character type that is a type of characters permitted to be input to a corresponding one of not less than one input box, in association with the corresponding input box. The data processor transmits to the portable terminal the input permitted character type associated with a character input enabled input box. The portable terminal sets the type of characters to be input, to the input permitted character type as received, and transmits to the data processor an input character that is of the input permitted character type as set.

Input system, portable terminal, data processor, and input method

It is possible to present identification information of a sender in such a manner that the identification information is easily understood by a user. Included are: a wireless communication section () for carrying out data communication with the navigation device (); and a line communication section () for carrying out data communication with the communication device (), and an address sending section () for sending, to the navigation device () via the wireless communication section (), first identification information for identifying the communication device (); a position receiving section () for receiving position information from the communication device () via the line communication section (); a position sending section () for sending the position information to the navigation device () via the wireless communication section (); a message receiving section () for receiving a message from the navigation device () via the wireless communication section (); an address adding section () for adding, to the message, second identification information for identifying the communication device (); and a message sending section () for sending, to the communication device () via the line communication section (), the message to which the second identification information is added.

Communication device, information presentation device, communication method, program, and recording medium

There is provided a communication system, a data terminal apparatus, a server apparatus, and a menu screen updating method that succeed in enhancing the ease-of-use of a menu screen with additional functions. The service server transmits to the receiving apparatus additional menu data for permitting selection of additional functions. In the receiving apparatus, on the basis of initial menu data for permitting selection of initial functions and the additional menu data obtained as the second menu data, menu display data is produced. On the basis of the menu display data, a menu screen is created. The menu screen is outputted to the display device so that it shows up on the display section of the display device.

Communication system, data terminal apparatus, server apparatus, and menu screen updating method

A service providing device () includes: one-time PW generating processing section () which generates, for each operation device (), authentication information for use in authentication processing carried out by the service providing device () in a case where the service providing device () is accessed by a display processing device (); and an image data generating processing section () which (i) generates operation data including the authentication information generated and processing specifying information specifying the authentication processing, and (ii) transmits the operation data thus generated to the operation device ().

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Osaka, Japan

Akira Tojima