Ricoh Company, Ltd.

National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology

Hideo Itoh

Yoshiyuki Nakamura

Tetsuya Ikeda

Takuya Hiraoka

Takeshi Kurata

Takuichi Nishimura

Hideyuki Nakashima

Shiro Horibe

An apparatus, system, and method of searching are disclosed. When a search result includes a plurality of images being obtained from the same document, the plurality of images being obtained from the same document is displayed, one by one, in the order determined based on priority order information.

Apparatus, system, and method for information search

An information processing apparatus is disclosed which determines, based on fitness to a specified condition, an order of displaying multiple to-be-searched information items which are pre-stored. The apparatus includes a specifying-condition information obtaining unit, an index-information obtaining unit, a population-limiting information obtaining unit, an index-information modifying unit, and a fitness calculating unit.

Information processing apparatus, information processing method, information processing program and recording medium for determining an order of displaying search items

A data search device to extract relevant data matching a specified requirement from multiple pieces of data to be searched stored in a database. The data search device includes a specified requirement data acquisition unit to acquire specified requirement data including the specified requirement, a data extraction unit to extract the relevant data based on the specified requirement data, an extracted data counter to count a number of pieces of the relevant data for each piece of classification data provided for the data to be searched, a display data generation unit to generate data to display the number of pieces of the relevant data counted for each piece of classification data on a coordinate space based on the classification data, and a positional data storage unit to store positional data including coordinates for specifying a position in the coordinate space and the classification data associated with the coordinates.

Data search device, data search method, and recording medium

A search option input by a user is obtained through a user interface and a search term is determined based on the search option. A document database is searched to obtain a document that matches the search term and a search result is generated, including document information identifying the document that matches the search term and relevancy information indicating a degree of relevancy between the search term and the document. A display device displays the search result in a format indicating the correspondence relationship of the document information, the search term, and the relevancy information.

An information delivering apparatus is disclosed. The information delivering apparatus includes a condition information obtaining section which obtains delivering destination information, a conforming information extracting section which extracts new document information stored in an information database based on the delivering destination information obtained by the condition information obtaining section in a profile information generating process which determines whether the new document information stored in the information database is to be delivered to the delivering destination, an information analyzing section which analyzes contents of the newly stored document in the information database and forms characteristic information of the newly stored document, a profile storing section which stores the characteristic information by its being related to the delivering destination information, and a new information delivering section which delivers the newly stored document information which is determined to be delivered to the delivering destination.

Information delivering apparatus, information delivering method, and computer-readable recording medium storing information delivering program

A battery-less terminal () has means () for photoelectrically converting an optical signal from an information transmission device (), means () for outputting the electric signal generated by the photoelectric conversion means () as sound, means () for reflecting infrared light for position emitted by a position detection device (), a light source () for infrared light for ID, means () for storing ID data, and means () for modulating the infrared light for ID in accordance with the ID data. The information transmission device () has a light source () for an optical signal and means () for modulating the strength of the optical signal in accordance with the electric signals of sound information. The position detection device () has a light source () for the infrared light for position, means () for imaging the infrared light for position reflected by the battery-less terminal (), and means () for detecting the position of the battery-less terminal () based on the infrared image by the infrared imaging means (). An ID detection device () has an infrared sensor () receiving infrared light for ID from the battery-less terminal () and outputting ID data.

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