Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha Corporation

Makoto Sakuta

Takayuki Nagamatsu

Noriyuki Koyama

Chie Hideishi

Yoshihisa Waki

Hirokazu Sasamoto

The agent server of the present invention includes (i) a conversation monitoring section for monitoring, based on a conversation log saved in a family message board server, comments made by members belonging to a community, (ii) a status information collecting section for collecting status information of the community which information corresponds to (i) a specific member or a combination of specific members and (ii) a specific keyword or a combination of specific keywords which have been detected based on the conversation log, and (iii) a comment making section for outputting, to the server, a comment message which conforms to an event of the community which event is indicated by status information.

Comment processing device, comment processing method, and storage medium

An operation instruction detecting section detects an operation instruction from a message and specifies, as an instruction provider, a member who has posted the message. A report message displaying section causes a message, which (i) reports a result of an operation executed in accordance with the operation instruction and (ii) is explicitly directed to the instruction provider, to be displayed on a family message board.

Message notifying device, control method, and storage medium storing control program

A character display apparatus of the present invention is a character display apparatus for displaying a character on a screen based on stroke data containing character information, comprising a control section for setting a color element level for a subpixel overlapping a basic portion of the character, based on both or either a distance between a center of the subpixel and at least one dot contained in a stroke or a line width set for the stroke. According to the present invention, the resolution of subpixels can be apparently improved and the line width of a character can be freely changed without a large amount of working memory.

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Osaka, Japan

Makoto Sakuta