Canon Kabushiki Kaisha

Jgc Corporation

Takashi Hirata

Kenichi Fujii

Masaki Shitano

Kunio Hirose

Hideo Fushimoto

Kazuyoshi Odagawa

Junichi Motoyoshi

Takashi Yomo

Hirohiko Katayama

Masahiro Rachi

Yuzuru Kakutani

Yoshihiro Kobata

Naoyuki Takezawa

Kei Kubota

Yoshihisa Wakamatsu

Masahito Seiwa

Keiji Akiyama

Kunio Hirase

Takahiro Kitabayashi

Ken-ichi Fujii

A liquefied gas production facility includes a plurality of liquefied gas producers which produce liquefied gas by removing an unnecessary substance and liquefying feed gas containing methane as a main component.

Liquefied gas production facility

A display apparatus of the present invention includes a reception unit configured to receive an image captured by an imaging apparatus from the imaging apparatus and a switching unit configured to switch the display mode of the captured image to a single shooting display mode for displaying the image captured by the imaging apparatus in the single shooting mode or a continuous shooting display mode for displaying the image captured by the imaging apparatus in the continuous shooting mode based on an interval at which the captured image is received by the reception unit.

Image display apparatus and image display method for switching a display mode

In an image processing apparatus, a shooting scene and shooting parameters for each image pickup apparatus that is to be used to pick up an image are set in accordance with a user input. A picked-up image is received from an image pickup apparatus. In accordance with the shooting scene that is set for the image pickup apparatus which has picked up the received image, a threshold of the likelihood of detecting a face region that is included in the shooting parameters for the shooting scene is obtained. A face region is detected from the picked-up image using the obtained threshold of the likelihood of detecting a face region. An image of the detected face region is highlighted and displayed on a display screen.

Image processing apparatus and image processing method

A network device obtains capability information of a device existing on a network, activates/inactivates one of a plurality of types of communication middleware on the basis of the obtained capability information, and executes communication between devices across the network by using the communication middleware. The network device also analyses a protocol used by communication middleware of another device on the network, and corrects the corresponding communication middleware in accordance with the result of analysis.

Network device and control method of the same

A data-processing device which receives data transmitted from at least one other data-processing device on a network is provided. The data-processing device acquires information about a state of the other data-processing device, and outputs data items provided by the other data-processing device and information about a relation between the data items provided by the other data-processing device according to the acquired state information.

Data-control device and method of controlling same

If a program is to be transmitted/received by message transmission/reception using SOAP, the program description part goes out of the framework of XML, and the message contents contain an uninterpretable part. A SOAP message (M) includes a data part (D), a virtual service part (R) indicating specifications to process the data part (D), and a program part (P). A server (S) processes the data part (D) by the specifications indicated by the virtual service part (R) if the virtual service part (R) in the SOAP message (M) indicates the specification of processing to be executed by the instruction executed when executing the instruction contained in the program part (P) of the SOAP message (M).

Data processing method, program, device, message structure, message generation method, and message transmission method

When a transmission source apparatuswants information of another apparatus, it forwards a document to all apparatuses connected to a network. During the forwarding processing, the apparatus appends its information to the document. The transmission source apparatusfinally receives the document to acquire the information of another apparatus.

Information acquiring method, information appending apparatus, information acquiring apparatus, and program

There are provided an apparatus and method for transmitting commands in a network to which a plurality of communication protocols may be applied. A first command that supports a plurality of communication protocols is input. One of the plurality of communication protocols is selected in accordance with the input first command. The first command is converted into a corresponding second command in the selected communication protocol. The converted second command is transmitted using the selected communication protocol.

Apparatus and method for transmitting command

A printer () manages profile information and communicates with another device across a network (). The printer () receives an acquisition request () of the profile information, issues an acquisition request () of profile information of a display (), and receives a result response () as the profile information from the display (). The printer () processes the acquisition request () of the profile information in accordance with the profile information managed and the profile information of the display (), and returns a processing result as a result response ().

System for managing and acquiring device profile information

Corresponding respective security policies are applied to a discovery protocol (a protocol used in the discovery phase) and a control protocol (a protocol used in the control phase) of a device control protocol when communications are made.

Communication apparatus and method, and program for applying security policy

The communication apparatus obtains through a first protocol a status of a first device connected to the communication apparatus via a network, and receives a message of a second protocol between the first device and a second device that are connected to each other via the network. Then, the communication apparatus generates and transmits a command of the second protocol to the second device, in accordance with the statuses of the first device obtained before and after the reception of the message.

Communication apparatus, command transmission method, and program for networked devices using different protocols

A UPnP device proxy apparatus () recognizes a device connected to a network () and transmits information regarding the recognized device to UPnP device proxy apparatus () The UPnP device proxy apparatus () receives the information transmitted from the UPnP device proxy apparatus () and transmits, based on the received information, a message indicating that the recognized device is available onto a network

Notification method, connection apparatus, communication method, and program

A communication apparatus communicates a first message via a network, extracts a difference between the first message and a second message that has been received, and applies the extracted difference to further communication.

Communication apparatus and method

An information output apparatus which is capable of limiting a range for outputting information based on a position. A position information acquiring section acquires first position information, a message receiving section receives information including second position information, and a message transferring section transfers the received information. The message transferring section transfers the received information when the first position information acquired by the position information acquiring section falls within a predetermined range of the second position information received by the message receiving section.

Information output apparatus, information output method, information output program, information transmitting apparatus, information transmitting method, information transmitting program, and information output system

In a system for receiving a television broadcast, when a printer is connected to a receiving apparatus for use, a printer driver which controls the printer is automatically registered. For this purpose, a television broadcast receiving apparatus includes a unit for setting download information for a printer driver to be retrieved, a unit for retrieving a printer driver file which is specified by the set download information with the television broadcast, and a unit for installing the printer driver file into a storage unit so as to be executable.

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Yokohama, Japan

Takashi Hirata