International Business Machines Corporation

Sony Corporation

Masao Hara

Motoharu Inoue

Koichi Nakamura

Tetsuro Nakata

Hisatoshi Adachi

Noboru Fujii

Yasuo Sakura

A method for displaying an image of a map using a processing system, the method including: dividing a first map image obtained from a map widget into sections wherein the first map image is displayed by the processing system; recording the location of each marker to be represented in a second map image; calculating a weight factor for each section; moving and deforming each section according to the weight factor of each section to form the second map image; placing a new marker on the second map image wherein the new marker represents at least one marker with a recorded location; and displaying the second map image in place of the first map image.

Methods for deforming map widgets on the browser

A history acquisition unit acquires a history of operations with a web browser by a user and stores the history in a storage device. A search unit accesses the storage device to search a history of a first operation for inputting a parameter and a history of a second operation performed after the first operation. A generation unit generates a service program that provides services that the user has received through the operations with the web browser, and stores it in the storage device. The service program makes a computer function as: an input acceptance unit that accepts input of a new parameter instead of the parameter input through the first operation; and a processing unit that performs, in response to the new parameter, inputting the new parameter in the web page and processing associated with the second operation beforehand in this stated order with respect to the web browser.

Technology for generating service program

A context menu including a group copy function is displayed and, when the function is selected, all parent nodes of a node corresponding to the input field the pointing device is positioned over are displayed as alternatives to be copied. In response to selection of a parent node for copying by the pointing device, data in all nodes lower than the parent node are copied into a memory. In response to clicking by the pointing device in the input field selected as a pasting destination, a data type of the input field selected as the copying destination and the data type of the data copied into the memory are compared, and if the same, all of the data copied into the memory are pasted in the fields lower than the input field previously selected as the pasting destination.

Copying and pasting a plurality of data items as a group

In a color video signal processing circuit for use in processing two chrominance component signals produced on the reproduction side of a video tape recorder, in which two chrominance component signals have been time compressed and successively recorded in cyclically repeated fashion as one series of chrominance signal, such a signal is time expanded and made into two series of chrominance signals on the reproduction side. Each of the two series of chrominance signals, i.e., the current signal, and the signal 1H before each are subjected to digital processing for detection of a correlation therebetween and an arithmetical mean value of both the signals is output when there is such a correlation and also the level of the current signal is higher than a reference level, whereas the current signal is output as it is when the level of the current signal is lower than the reference level or when there is no such correlation even if the level of the current signal is higher than the reference level.

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Kanagawa, Japan

Masao Hara