Ricoh Company, Ltd.

Nec Corporation

The Furukawa Electric Co., Ltd.

Rakuten Group, Inc.

Koji Kinoshita

Satoru Yamada

Yoichiro Bekki

Akio Urabe

Ken-ichi Ogura

Hideaki Kitagawa

Yoshinari Kubo

Akihito Tabara

Noriyuki Kaneyasu

Yohichiroh Higashizaki

Akira Nihei

Akio Hiraoka

A behavioral analysis device acquires designated location information regarding a location of a place designated in advance. The behavioral analysis device acquires a history of terminal location information regarding a location of terminal, user identification information associated with the terminal location information, and a history of operation information indicating at least one operation behavior taken through at least one terminal operation of a user having the identification information. The behavioral analysis device identifies identification information associated with the terminal location information being substantially the same as the designated location information, and outputs tendency information indicating a tendency of at least one operation behavior taken by a user having the identified identification information and taken before a time when a terminal is located at a location indicated by the terminal location information substantially the same as the designated location information, for distribution of information regarding the place designated in advance.

Behavioral analysis device, advertisement distribution device, behavioral analysis method, advertisement distribution method, behavioral analysis program, and advertisement distribution program

An information processing apparatus includes a latent image generating unit and a background image generating unit. The latent image generating unit generates a latent image using both of a first color component to be printed with a first color material and second color components to be printed with second color materials having an optical property different from an optical property of the first color material, or generates the latent image using only the second color components. The background image generating unit generates a background image, which serves as the background of the latent image, using only the second color components when the latent image generating unit uses both of the first color component and the second color components, or generates the background image using both of the first color component and the second color components when the latent image generating unit uses only the second color components.

Information processing apparatus, image generating method, and storage medium

An image data generating device includes an original image acquirer that acquires original image data of a subject. The image data generating device also includes a controller that generates image data. The controller includes a monochrome image data generator that generates monochrome image data from the original image data. The controller also includes a color image data generator that generates color image data from the original image data. Further, the controller includes a text data acquirer that acquires recognition result data from the monochrome image data generated by the monochrome image data generator. In addition, the controller includes a recording unit that associates and records the color image data generated by the color image data generator and the recognition result data acquired by the text data acquirer.

Image data generating device, image data generating method, and computer-readable storage medium for generating monochrome image data and color image data

A leak-prohibited image to be subjected to leak prohibition is comprised of dots DT so that two dots are included in an 8&#xd7;8 matrix at a resolution ofdpi. The leak-prohibited image is formed as a computer terminal acquires image data, converts the image data to an image comprised of discrete microdots DT which cannot be resolved by copying, and outputs the converted image. Because the leak-prohibited image cannot be copied even if an image including the leak-prohibited image is copied, copy-originated information leak can be prohibited. Synthesizing a concealment image having a regularly discrete pattern with such a leak-prohibited image makes it difficult to view the leak-prohibited image from other directions than a front, thus prohibiting information leak by peeping.

Image generating apparatus, image generating method, image display medium, and computer readable recording medium

An image displaying medium, a method of generating composite image displaying data, and an image generating system are disclosed. A color image on the image displaying medium is composed of plural mesh points whose shape is an ellipse having linearity. The mesh point has, for example, a color of cyan, magenta, yellow, or black in the CMYK system. The color image is a composite image composed of a displaying image and a latent image. When the composite image is viewed through a lenticular lens, a moire pattern having thick vertical lines corresponding to the displaying image and a moire pattern having thin oblique lines corresponding to the latent image appear.

Image displaying medium, method of generating composite image displaying data and image generating system

An image display medium displays an image including a first region having a first composite image. The first composite image includes a first display image and a first latent image. The first display image includes at least one of a first halftone dot image and a first line image having a first linearity. The first halftone dot image and the first line image have such densities as are not reproduced by copying. The first latent image includes at least one of a second halftone dot image and a second line image having a second linearity. The second halftone dot image and the second line image have such densities as are not reproduced by copying. The first and second linearities produce different moir&#xe9; patterns when the first display and the first latent images are enlarged by a first common optical system.

Image display medium, method and system for preparing composite image display data

An information providing server has information on plural printers. The information providing server provides a user of a portable terminal with the information on the plural printers by sending the information on the plural printers to the portable terminal. The portable terminal sends an e-mail to which a file to be printed is attached to a printer selected by the user. Each of the plural printers has a plurality of print conditions to which different e-mail addresses are respectively assigned. The printer that has received an e-mail specifies a print condition from an e-mail address indicating the destination of the e-mail. The printer then prints the file attached to the received e-mail under the specified print condition.

Remote e-mail printing

A user sends a printing request of a cost estimate to an electronic file management server, applying a user terminal. The electronic file management server that received the printing request, generates printing data of the cost estimate. Next, the electronic file management server allots URL to the generated printing data, and stores the printing data, and URL in a document data storing unit. Then, the electronic file management server generates a two-dimension bar code including the URL, allotted to the printing data, and the data concerning the printing condition, and sends it to the user terminal. Then, a printing apparatus obtains via a bar code reader, the read data of the two-dimension bar code output to a display unit, obtains printing data from the electronic file management server, applying the URL extracted from the two-dimension bar code, and performs printing.

Printing management system and electronic file printing method

An image is generated by performing area coverage modulation to express a halftone color according to a gross area of dots displayed in a pixel of the image. The image is generated in such a manner that the halftone color is expressed with a selected one of dither patterns corresponding to respective predetermined densities, each of the densities being determined by the gross area of dots calculated in view of shapes of the dots.

Image generation such that halftone colors are expressed with dither patterns selected based on densities of gross areas of dots

A printing method for printing an electronic file using a printing device is disclosed. The printing device is connected via a network to a user terminal and to a file server in which electronic files accompanied by respective identifiers are stored. The method includes the steps of enabling the printing device to receive a print request from the user terminal via the network, the print request containing the identifier of the electronic file, to retrieve the electronic file from the file server via the network using the identifier of the electronic file and to print the retrieved electronic file.

Printing method, storage medium and program for performing a printing operation and a printing device

The present invention relates to an aluminum alloy for a magnetic disk substrate having a composition consisting of, by percent by weight, 2.0 to 6.0% of Mg, 0.05 to 0.15% of Cu, 0.10 to 0.30% of Zn and 0.05 to 0.12% of Zr, wherein the contents of Cu, Zn and Zr satisfy the relationship: 0.15%.ltoreq.2Cu+6Zr-3Zn.ltoreq.0.32% (wherein Cu, Zr, and Zn respectively represent their contents in terms of percent by weight), and the composition further consists of one or both of 0.01 or more to less than 0.05% of Cr and 0.01 or more to less than 0.05% of Mn, impurities consisting of Si, Fe and Ti, which are respectively regulated to be 0.05% or less, 0.05% or less, and 0.02% or less, and other inevitable impurity elements respectively regulated to be 0.02% or less, with the remainder being Al. The present invention also relates to a clad material for a magnetic disk substrate, in which one or both surfaces of a core material, consisting of at least less than 3.0% of Zn with the remainder being Al and inevitable impurity elements, are clad with a surface material consisting of the aluminum alloy having the above composition. The above aluminum alloy composition makes it possible to manufacture a large storage memory capacity magnetic disk in which there is much less formation of micropits or nodules.

Aluminum alloy sheet for magnetic disk substrate aluminum alloy clad

In a multiprocessor system having a plurality of processors and main memory common to the processors, each processor includes at least one vector calculation unit which is specific to a vector calculation and which is independent of the vector calculation units in the other processors. A register holds a configuration signal representative of configuration of the vector calculation units in each processor. An access control unit controls access operations of the processors on the basis of the configuration signals in the processors to make the processors selectively access the main memory. Thus, the processors individually carry out the vector calculations to individually access the main memory.

Multiprocessor system with vector pipelines

A data processing system which is capable of performing simultaneously multiple address translation of logical addresses of different page sizes into corresponding physical addresses. The system includes a processor, a main storage area, which is logically partitioned into a number of partial spaces, and an address translation controller for translating logical addresses output by the processor to physical addresses which correspond to partial spaces of the main storage area.

Data processing system simultaneously performing plural translations of

A device for processing vector data for a memory device into indirect memory input data and an indirect address signal or stride vector input data and a stride address signal depending on whether in an indirect vector processing mode or a stride vector processing mode. The vector processing device comprises a vector data control unit for receiving, when in the indirect mode in response to an indirect register select command, first and second selected data of the vector data from first and second registers. A buffer unit holds the first and the second selected data. As the indirect memory input data and the indirect address signal, an access control unit supplies the memory address and the memory device with the second and the first selected data held in the buffer unit. The same supplying circuitry can supply stride vector data to the memory device when in the stride mode.

Vector processing device comprising a single supplying circuit for use

A method for generating character pattern data includes steps of providing contour information of a character having m.sub.1 .times.m.sub.2 coordinate values in a coordinate space; and making and outputting gradated character pattern data of l.sub.1 .times.l.sub.2 picture elements for an output device having n gradiations per picture element (where m.sub.1, m.sub.2, l.sub.1, l.sub.2, and n are positive integers). In an image making method, picture subelements provided by dividing an original picture element are set as a scanning unit and an image is made by scanning conversion using the picture element having a gradation to perform a coloring operation with respect to the interior of a two-dimensional contour line. The image making method includes representing and processing a numeric value such as a coordinate value of a line segment constituting the contour line as a virtual real number having a decimal point in a word; providing positions for starting and completing the coloring operation easily by the representation of the virtual real number; and providing a brightness of a displayed picture element at a high speed by only adding an integer value to a region on one line in an output device.

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Tokyo, Japan

Koji Kinoshita