Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.

Chikako Tada

Masaru Tochishita

Kouji Miura

Toshio Horiki

Hidetoshi Takeda

Yoshifumi Yanagawa

Hiroshi Kutsumi

Tetsuya Imamura

Takeshi Imanaka

Kunio Yamada

Shinichi Sugihara

Tetsuji Abe

Shouichi Araki

Yutaka Kohno

Hiroyuki Uenaka

Tadashi Ano

An information forwarding system and method including an information input device for inputting search conditions to a remote data base. The remote data base includes a search device for searching the data base based on the search conditions so as to gain search results. The information forwarding system includes an information display for displaying the search results; a selector for selecting one, or more, search results from among the search results; and an output device for sending the designated contents selected by the selector to a separate supply device so as to designate the operation of the separate supply device.

E-mail preparation device, terminal device, information forwarding system, and program recording medium

An icon display apparatus reduces data to icons and displays those icons. The data corresponds to items classified into a plurality of groups and to apparatus for processing the data. A storage stores the data; a graphic generator produces a graphic data for visualizing those data as icons each representing an object in a multi-dimensional space; and a display displays those icons arranged in respective groups corresponding to attributes of data in the multi-dimensional space.

Icon display apparatus and method used therein

Liquid crystal display

Electronic copying machine with facsimile

Video game machine

Growing community of inventors

Osaka, Japan

Chikako Tada