Fujitsu Corporation

Takahiro Kii

Hirohisa Naito

Toru Ozaki

Kazumi Kubota

Akira Miyazaki

Kazuhiro Ohishi

Kyoko Okuyama

Yuji Takahashi

Masanobu Hatanaka

Naomi Iwayama

Satoru Watanabe

Hitoshi Matsumoto

Kiyohiko Ikeda

Fumio Honda

Seiki Shibata

Yuji Kijima

Takefumi Horie

Hayuru Ito

Hitomi Baba

An advertisement providing system includes a storage unit storing advertisements; a pull-type display managing unit that displays an advertisement designated by a viewer, a counting unit that counts the frequency an advertisement is displayed, a generating unit that generates a display schedule for the advertisements based on the frequency the advertisements are displayed, and a push-type display managing unit that displays the advertisements according to the display schedule.

Advertisement providing system, advertisement displaying apparatus, advertisement managing apparatus, advertisement displaying method, advertisement managing method, and computer product

A display device and a method of manufacturing the same, the display includes: an electrode plate operable to have a radio-frequency wave to pass therethrough; a light-emitting portion disposed in a direction of one surface of the electrode plate, the light-emitting portion including the electrode plate serving as a back electrode; and an antenna disposed in a direction of another surface of the electrode plate, the antenna having a stripline structure or a microstrip line structure and using a potential of the electrode plate as a reference potential.

Display device having an antenna and method of manufacturing same

The present invention relates to an image browsing device that, in an amusement park, shoots a user who is riding a ride-on, and makes the user browse the shot image at a place where the user gets off the ride-on. Firstly, when plural users direct their ID cards to the ID readers () respectively, users ID, ride-on number, seat numbers are made to correspond to each other to be stored in an image management device (). When an image photographing device () shoots an image including a ride-on () and the plural users, the image management device () stores the image shot by the image photographing device (), and relates the ride-on number, users ID, seat numbers to the image to store thus related information as image information. When the user browses the image, the user sets the ID card close to radio communication units (), and, in the previously shot image, the image of a seat position related to the ID card is highlighted to be displayed. Accordingly, it becomes possible to easily specify the user who is shot in the previously shot image.

Image browsing device, image browsing method, image browsing program, and image browsing system

A video broadcasting method includes assigning channels to a video content based on a total number of channels usable for broadcasting the video contents and a playback time of the video content, calculating a broadcast start time interval of the channels assigned to the video content based on the playback time of the video content and number of the channels assigned to the video content setting broadcast start time per channel of the channels assigned to the video content, and broadcasting the video content at the broadcast start time set per the channel.

Video broadcasting method, apparatus, and system

A display control device includes: a priority order searching unit that searches a priority order management table to retrieve the priority level corresponding to the standby content screen that has stopped being displayed on a display device related to a usage starting operation when the usage starting operation is detected from any of display devices in the standby state; a switch display target designating unit that retrieves display devices displaying standby content screens of lower priority levels than the retrieved standby content screen, and designates a display device as the switch display target that is the display device displaying the standby content screen of the lowest priority level; and a display control unit that causes the designated display device of the switch display target to switchingly display the standby content screen that has stopped being displayed on the display device related to the usage starting operation.

Content display system and content display method

An information display system has an information display unit which displays information in a large screen display device in a predetermined standard language; a user information input unit which inputs user information including information of a language desired by a user; and a language switch display unit which, when the user desired language input by the user information input unit is different from the standard language, switches the standard language of the screen display device to and displays the desired language of the user. The information display unit displays guide information, which comprises a public area common to all users and a plurality of individual areas dependent on respective users, in the standard language. When the input user desired language is different from the standard language, the language switch display unit displays the public area by time division or space division by the standard language and the user desired language and switches the individual area from the standard language to and displays in the user desired language.

Multi-lingual information display system comprising public area and individual areas

An electric signal is allowed to reach loop antennas disposed adjacently to one another from an RFID antenna as a starting point by electromagnetic induction, which permits one IC chip processing device to exert a function equivalent to that exerted by a plurality of IC chip processing devices. Further, the loop antennas are superimposed on a display screen of a display system of an information providing apparatus, and the display screen is transparently visible, and therefore it makes possible to utilize a display surface of display contents on the display screen as an IC chip reading surface and dispose a plurality of reading surfaces showing different services provided.

Integrated circuit processing device and integrated circuit processing method

The user's waiting time in a dialogue system is effectively utilized. A dialogue apparatus makes a first dialogue with a user and judges whether a second dialogue should be started when a user's waiting time occurs during the first dialogue, For example, when information necessary to further continue the first dialogue is acquired via a network during the first dialogue, a waiting time occurs, If the waiting time is expected to be long, the second dialogue is made during the first waiting time, After this dialogue ends, the first dialogue is resumed, Thus, the waiting time during the dialogue becomes shorter, so that the connection time is effectively utilized.

Dialogue apparatus for controlling dialogues based on acquired information, judgment result, time estimation and result transmission

There is provided a voice Interactive system for inputting user's voice information, conducting voice recognition with respect to the voice information, analyzing the contents of the voice information, controlling a transmission path of the voice information in accordance with the contents of the voice information, outputting a synthesized voice, extracting the contents of a response corresponding to the voice information by referring to a knowledge database, and creating the synthesized voice in accordance with the contents of a response, wherein in the case where it is monitored at all times whether or not use's interaction is being smoothly conducted, and when it is determined that the user's interaction is not being smoothly conducted, a third-party user is allowed to participate,as a helper, in the users interaction.

Voice interactive system and voice interactive method

The system enables a user to dispose information such as an icon to identify the article that the user posts from the client computer, on the display screen thereof, for example, at the position closer to an icon of an article that another user posted if the former user intends to express the opinion positively to the latter user's posted article. The server computer where many client computers can post articles and read the articles posted from other client computers, manages the coordinate data of the icons respectively disposed at the client computers according to the respective intentions of the articles and reproduces the icons on the display screen of a client computer, at the respective disposed positions so that a user at the client computer can instantly understand the intentions of the posted articles without reading the contents thereof.

Article posting apparatus, article relationship information managing apparatus, article posting system, and recording medium

An article retrieval support apparatus which is capable of limiting the number of identification data of articles among which retrieval is to be executed through displaying images of the identification data of the articles at varied transparency rates or miniaturizing rates corresponding to the novelty of the article or attribute data of the article such as repute of the article.

Apparatus for supporting retrieval of articles by utilizing processed image thereof

A communication apparatus which enables a user to have a more concrete image of a communication partner and to experience the fun of communication through a personal computer, wherein upon receipt of an article, a material representing a person who sent the article or a sending place is reproduced by means of a still picture, animation or sound corresponding to the person who sent the article, to the sending place or to the geographical relationship between the sending place and receiving place.

Communication apparatus for associating multimedia files with electronic

An electronic communication which gives a user a sense of affinity to the system and occasions the user's interest and participation will in the communication, by preparing a sentence filled with the user's attribute information such as a name, hobby, and scheduled events of the belonging group, and information which changes with time such as weather, then outputting the sentence as characters, or by offering news selected by the user from among automatically displaying miniature images, for example, as identification information of the news which is presumed to highly interest the user based on the information such as a hobby included in the user's attribute information.

Electronic communication system and recording medium

An apparatus for controlling article distribution end which provides vague communication manners to casually distribute an article to unspecified readers with no designation of distribution and addresses from a user, even if there is no designation of distribution end address by the user, and also provides flexible communication manners to induce a formation of communication between users in such a way as to surprise a reader to whom an article is distributed that the article is distributed accidentally as well as to allow the reader to reply casually and almost anonymously because the users do not known each other, and further provides the flexible communication manners to give a joy to a distributor that he has received a reply to the article distributed to an unspecified distribution end even if the reply is a casual one such as impression or the like, by automatically obtaining a random distribution end address to which the user is irrelevant in selection, from data base of distribution end addresses.

Apparatus of article distribution end control

A device comprises a look-up table translating unit, a region dividing unit and a reduced image generating unit to reduce the size of a color image using look-up tables and a reference look-up table. Each of the look-up and reference look-up tables has as many entries as there are the pixel values. The look-up table translating unit creates an entry check table. The entry check table is for translating the table entries of the look-up table into the those of the reference look-up table. The region dividing unit divides the original color image into a plurality of regions. The reduced image generating unit accesses the entry check table and the reference look-up table to selectively determine a representative pixel of the region based on the RGB values thereof to generate the reduced color images.

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Kawasaki, Japan

Takahiro Kii