Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha Corporation

Mitsuru Minakuchi

Naoki Urano

Toshiyuki Masui

Masafumi Hirata

Azusa Umemoto

Koichi Kashiwagi

Kouichi Kashiwagi

Kentaro Sakakura

Tadahide Shibao

Hirotaka Ueda

A selection set evaluation device comprises selection item storage means () where information concerning selection items are stored, selection item presenting means () for presenting selection items to a user, selection item selection means () for allowing the user to select one or more of the presented selection items, evaluation criterion storage means () where evaluation criterion used for evaluating a selection set constituting of the one or more selection items selected by the user; and selection set evaluating means () for evaluating the selection set on the basis of the evaluation criterion stored. Thus a selection set evaluation device for evaluating a selection set which is a combination of selection items selected by the user on the basis of predetermined evaluation criteria.

Selection set evaluation device and sale management device

A selection set evaluation device comprises selection item storage means () where information concerning selection items are stored, selection item presenting means () for presenting selection items to a user, selection item selection means () for allowing the user to select one or more of the presented selection items, evaluation criterion storage means () where evaluation criterion used for evaluating a selection set consisting of the one or more selection items selected by the user; and selection set evaluating means () for evaluating the selection set on the basis of the evaluation criterion. Thus a selection set evaluation device for evaluating a selection set which is a combination of selection items selected by the user on the basis of predetermined evaluation criteria.

An editing device includes a feature point detecting unit detecting a position of a feature point for specifying an operation target, a feature point projecting unit projecting into a display region the feature point positioned outside the display region, and a feature point displaying unit displaying the feature point at a position where it is projected. Therefore, even if the operation target is located outside the display region, the user can know the position of the operation target.

Editing device, editing method, editing program and computer-readable recording medium with editing program recorded thereon

A data communication device for data communication through radio among a plurality of devices includes a reception circuit receiving data, a storage circuit connected to the reception circuit to store received data, a transmission circuit connected to the storage circuit to search for one data communication device capable of communication therewith, and transmitting the data stored in the storage circuit into the found data communication device, and a control unit connected to the storage circuit, controlling the storage circuit to delete the data transmitted to the found data communication device in response to receiving reception complete data representing reception of data from the found data communication device.

Data communication device and method of processing transmitted data

When reproducing animation data stored in a data storing section (), a data evaluation section () evaluates the complexity of the animation data before reproducing the animation data, and judges whether or not an animation reproducing section () can reproduce the animation data without problem. When the data evaluation section () judges that, because of insufficient function or throughput, the animation reproducing section () cannot directly reproduce the evaluated animation data, the data evaluation section () does not allow the animation reproducing section () to reproduce the animation data, and instead notifies a user that the reproduction is not possible. With this, it is possible to prevent defects that animation in which data of some types are missing and animation having many missing frames are reproduced, even when animation reproducing terminals having a variety of throughputs reproduce animation data having various complexities.

Animation reproduction terminal, animation reproducing method and its program

An information presentation apparatus is provided presenting an interface suitable for selecting desired information from a plurality of information. The apparatus has three methods of presenting information. The first method is to present information by sequentially playing and presenting a plurality of audio information related to the information in turn. The second method is to present the plurality of audio information at the same time wherein each sound has its directivity. The third method is a combination of the first and second methods wherein user can select desired method between the two depending on kinds of information presented.

Information selection apparatus selecting desired information from plurality of audio information by mainly using audio

In an information presentation apparatus, a documents parser reads out and analyzes desired document data from a documents storage unit to obtain attributes data of the document data, which is stored in a document attributes storage uni. A displaying attributes setting unit uses the document attribute information, or attributes data, stored in the document attributes storage unit to retrieve data from tables of document attributes and displaying attributes, and, based on the retrieval result, sets a displaying attribute for the relevant document data. A displaying data generator determines a displaying manner of the document data according to the displaying attribute thus set, and the document data is displayed on a displaying unit in the determined manner. Accordingly, a user can quickly estimate a document attribute suggested by the content of the document data, not by reading the document data, but only at a glance of the manner in which the document data is being displayed. This allows easy comprehension of the content.

Method and apparatus for presenting information in accordance with presentation attribute information to control presentation thereof

In an information retrieval method that allows the user to retrieve information in an intuitive way even when the user only has a vague requirement, information is retrieved from a memory device in which a plurality of information are stored. The information retrieval method includes the steps of determining whether any of a predetermined number of sub-information displayed in advance is selected or not: setting selected information as main information when any of the sub-information is selected; calculating the level of relationship with the main information for each information other than the main information stored in the memory device when any of the sub-information is selected and selecting the predetermined number of sub-information according to the level of relationship; displaying the main information; and displaying the predetermined number of sub-information.

Information retrieval method and apparatus displaying together main information and predetermined number of sub-information related to main information

A data management method of obtaining accurately the number of data satisfying a retrieval condition and the number of data not satisfying a retrieval condition is employed in a data management apparatus including: a storage device storing a plurality of data, each data having an attribute and an attribute value associated with each attribute; a display device; a control circuit for displaying on the display device a region for each attribute value of a certain attribute and a plurality of icons representing the plurality of data, respectively, on each region; and a circuit to retrieve data by a filter to which an attribute and an attribute value are related. The data management method includes the steps of displaying the plurality of icons on a region provided for every attribute value as to a certain attribute; generating a filter overlapping the region; moving or modifying the configuration of the filter on the region arbitrarily; entering a retrieval condition as to an attribute and an attribute value related to the filter; detecting whether the region has an overlapping section with the filter; and detecting data that meets the retrieval condition when the region has an overlapping section with the filter.

Method and apparatus for data retrieval and modification utilizing graphical drag-and-drop iconic interface

A method for enabling a user to interactively manipulate data retained in a computer system includes the steps of: comparing a variable value with a predetermined threshold value, the variable value varying in accordance with a predetermined instruction which is input to the computer system; selecting one of a plurality of interaction tools in accordance with the result of comparison of the variable value with the predetermined threshold value, each of the plurality of interaction tools providing a different method for manipulating the same data; and displaying the selected one of the plurality of interaction tools.

Method for enabling interactive manipulation of data retained in

An information processing apparatus includes: an input device for receiving input information; a display device for displaying information on a display screen; and a database for storing words and information related to the words to allow information related to a related word related to an input word be retrieved. The apparatus further includes: a display region setting section for setting a size of a related word information display region for displaying the information related to the related word on the display screen depending on an input via the input device; a relation level range setting section for setting a range of a relation level between the word and a related word related to the word; a display controller for displaying the related word information display region of which size has been set on the display screen; and a display information determining section for determining a type of a related word to be displayed on the related word information display region and an information amount of the related word.

Method for retrieving related word information, information processing

The information display apparatus of this invention, includes: an information storing section for storing information to be displayed; a display section for displaying the information on a display screen; an attention point setting section for setting an attention point defining a specified point to which a user desires to direct attention on the display screen; an importance degree calculating section for calculating an importance degree of the information; a display color changing section for changing a color in which the information is displayed on the display screen in accordance with the importance degree of the information calculated by the importance degree calculating section and a distance between the information and the attention point set by the attention point setting section.

Information display apparatus

The data search apparatus includes: a data storage section for holding and storing data about all of the plurality of data items in a state where each of the plurality of data items is represented as a row, on which a plurality of attribute values about the data item are arranged in line, and the rows corresponding to the plurality of data items are sorted in a predetermined order decided by a designated attribute; a display control section for selectively displaying a predetermined number of data items from the plurality of data items in the predetermined order decided by the designated attribute on the display screen of the display device such that the attribute values of each of the displayed data items are arranged in line and that a designated data item row and a designated attribute value column are displayed in a different state from the other data item rows and the other attribute value columns; a designation change section for changing the designated row and the designated attribute value column; and a data item sorting section for sorting all of the plurality of data items which are stored in the data storage section in a new order determined by the newly designated attribute when the attribute is changed.

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Kyoto, Japan

Mitsuru Minakuchi