Sony Corporation

Hitachi High-tech Corporation

Nec Corporation

Mitsuhiro Miyazaki

Noriyuki Yamamoto

Mari Saito

Hiroyuki Koike

Motohiro Yamazaki

Yasuharu Asano

Tatsuki Kashitani

Kei Tateno

Ryusuke Kimura

Taro Nakazawa

Masahiro Morita

Hiroyuki Masuda

Takuya Fujita

Takehiro Hagiwara

Katsuyoshi Kanemoto

Hiroshi Usuda

Takahito Migita

Ayaka Okuno

Yoshiharu Dewa

Tatsuya Narahara

Tomohiro Tsunoda

Yoshihiro Nagaoka

Shingo Takamatsu

Nobuyuki Fujiwara

Motohiro Kobayashi

A capillary cartridge achieves both improvement of attachability and improvement of heat dissipation performance for realizing short-time analysis. A heat dissipation body is provided between a capillary having a detection unit provided in a part thereof and a plate-like support body that supports the capillary, and temperature increase inside the capillary is suppressed by the heat dissipation body, and thereby, electrophoresis can be performed under a high voltage application condition where the amount of heat increases and analysis time is reduced. In addition, it is possible to redress complexity of an operation by reducing a fixing place at the time of attachment to only a detection unit and an electrode holder by using an integration structure in which the capillary, the supporting body, and the heat radiating body are integrated.

Capillary cartridge and electrophoresis apparatus

Provided are a bubble eliminating structure and a bubble eliminating method which eliminate bubbles in a liquid by agitating the liquid, and an agitating method using the same. A first groove, which is an upstream bubble eliminating groove, and a second groove, which is a downstream bubble eliminating groove, are branched from a mixing well. After starting suction of the liquid from mixing wellinto the first groove, suction of the liquid from the mixing wellinto the second grooveis started, and after completion of discharge of the liquid from the first grooveinto the mixing well, discharge of the liquid from the second grooveinto the mixing wellis completed. This operation is repeated to eliminate bubbles.

Bubble eliminating structure, bubble eliminating method, and agitating method using the same

The present disclosure relates to information processing device, method, and program for allowing support of shared content/real world event viewing. A user recommendation module is configured to determine C. proposer for a user group and recommendation content. The user recommendation module performs, for example, calculation of the Active degree of a user A in the group=the individual Active degree of the user A+&#x3a3;(b*the Active degree of the user A with respect to other users in the group) (the degree of relationship among the user A and other users may be reflected in a weighting coefficient b). Moreover, the user recommendation module determines, as a proposer, a user with the highest Active degree in the group. The present disclosure is applicable to an information processing system configured to perform shared viewing for music, for example.

Information processing device, method, and program

Systems, methods and devices to provide recommendation information. A server, server system or server-implemented method can comprise circuitry that collects pieces of information via the Internet, determines recommendation information from the collected pieces of information, and determines an information search degree associated with the recommendation information. Data regarding the recommendation information and data regarding the information search degree can be output to provide an indication of the recommendation information. An apparatus, system or method can control display of recommended information and can comprise or be implemented using circuitry that receives, from a source external to the apparatus or system, data regarding recommended information and data regarding a generated information search degree associated with the recommended information. The apparatus or system can control display of an indication of the recommended information based on the received data regarding the generated information search degree and the received data regarding the recommended information.

Information processing device, information processing method, and program

An information processing apparatus includes: importance calculation means configured to calculate an experience importance degree of content for a user based the basis of a relationship among a reaction analysis result obtained by performing predetermined analysis on a reaction (attitude) of the user to the content at the time when the user experiences the content, an environment analysis result obtained by performing predetermined analysis on an external environment of the user at the time when the user experiences the content, a signal analysis result obtained by performing predetermined analysis on a video signal or voice signal of the content, and a language analysis result obtained by performing predetermined language analysis on language information described about the content; and determination means configured to, if the experience importance degree of the content calculated by the importance calculation means is high, determine the content as recommendation content to be recommended to the user.

Apparatus, method, and program for processing information

A program vector can represent attributes of a program to be generated. EPG data can be received, and metadata necessary for generation of a program vector PP can be extracted from the EPG data. A morphological analysis can be carried out on contents and title included in the metadata to disassemble the contents and the title into words. Items included in the metadata can be subjected to a vector creation process to generate the program vector PP. An effect vector can be extracted on the basis of a genre of a program associated with the metadata. The extracted effect vector can be associated with the generated program vector PP and the processing can be ended. This can be applied to a distribution server for distributing contents.

Information-processing apparatus, method, system, computer-readable medium and method for automatically recording or recommending content

There is provided an information processing apparatus including a setting unit that sets a search character string, a searching unit that searches information including the set search character string, and a determining unit that extracts a co-occurrence character string candidate group other than partial character strings appearing as only a part of other partial character strings, among all partial character strings appearing in a plurality of pieces of the information obtained as a search result, and determines a co-occurrence character string from the co-occurrence character string candidate group, on the basis of the extracted co-occurrence character string candidate group and kinds of characters used in characters before and after the co-occurrence character string candidate group.

Information processing apparatus, information processing method, and program for extracting co-occurrence character strings

Disclosed herein are an information processing apparatus and method, a program, and a recording medium, in which a content is recommended to each user on the basis of even the metadata that is assigned with no classification. A metadata analysis block resolves metadata acquired by a metadata acquisition block into components. A dictionary data generation block generates dictionary data in which genre is correlated with keyword and each component. An associated-information database generation block references the dictionary data to assign genre to the metadata which are assigned with no genre, thereby generating an associated-information database of content. An associated-information search block references the dictionary data to identify a genre from a keyword of interest data to search for associated information, thereby recommending content to the user. The present invention is applicable to personal computers or HDD recorders.

Information processing apparatus and method, program, and recording medium

An information processing device is connected to multiple information processing terminals wherein multiple types of expressions exhibited by a user during playback of content are detected, evaluation of each played-back content is obtained, of the detected plurality of types of expressions a predetermined expression serving as a high evaluation index indicated by the user during playback of high evaluation content is identified, and the expression information serving as a identified high evaluation index and the information expressing evaluation as to each content are transmitted. The information device includes a receiving unit to receive expression information serving as the high evaluation index from multiple information processing terminals; a user identifying unit to identify a user indicating an expression of similar high evaluation index for the same content; a recommended content identifying unit to identify recommended content having a high evaluation to other similar users; and a transmitting unit.

Information processing device, information processing terminal, information processing method, and program

An information processing apparatus performs topic analysis on one or more collected documents to calculate a probability indicating the degree of fitness of each sentence constituting the collected document for each item of a local topic, performs linguistic analysis on the collected document to detect a unique expression pattern in each item of the local topic, sets topic usefulness for each sentence constituting the collected document on the basis of evaluation of the sentence by an evaluator, sets a total evaluation value with respect to each item of the local topic on the basis of the topic analysis result and the topic usefulness, selects an item of the local topic on the basis of the total evaluation values, and extracts an appropriate sentence for a unique expression pattern in the selected item of the local topic from the collected document as a profound text candidate.

Information processing apparatus, information processing method, and program

The present invention relates to an information processing apparatus, a feature extraction method, a recording media, and a program that are adapted to easily and correctly extract features of classes in which a plurality of elements are classified. Of all combinations of metadata for each piece of content belonging to each class subject to feature extraction, a combination extraction blockextracts a metadata combination that does not exist in any metadata combinations for each piece of content belonging to another class, as the feature of the class in which a content classification blockclassifies a plurality of pieces of content as instructed by the user. The present invention is applicable to recommendation systems.

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Kanagawa, Japan

Mitsuhiro Miyazaki