Sony Corporation

Kao Corporation

Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.

Nec Corporation

Panasonic Corporation

Sony Group Corporation

The University of Tokyo

Blue Innovation Co., Ltd.

Konica Minolta, Inc.

Takashi Matsuo

Masahiko Ogawa

Hiroyuki Fujinuma

Tomohito Koshika

Kazuhiro Okada

Hajime Miyabe

Kazuyuki Yahagi

Shunsuke Suzuki

Takeshi Iizaki

Masahiro Oba

Hiroki Murakami

Makoto Kubo

Akio Higashi

Daisuke Kawakami

Kohshiro Sotoya

Kunihide Fujii

Hiromoto Mizushima

Tohru Nakahara

Junichi Sato

Shinji Suzuki

Kenichi Matsunaga

Yoshiaki Ito

Masahiro Sueyoshi

Yasushi Uesaka

Kusunoki Higashino

Fumio Kubono

Kouji Miura

Takeshi Tsuchiya

Kazuya Sakai

Hideyuki Kobayashi

Akihiko Yamagata

Masachika Sasaki

Yasuki Ohtawa

Daisuke Misu

Toshiharu Takemura

Akira Yamamuro

Masaki Iwasaki

Kazuyuki Sakamoto

Mitsuhiko Ueda

Hiromi Saimiya

Yosuke Tsuda

Makoto Iijima

Takaaki Namba

Yutaka Shibata

Masakatsu Takahashi

Yuko Nobuto

Naohiro Ando

Tadanori Yoshimura

Koji Yui

Keiji Monda

Masayuki Kumada

Tsuyoshi Chiba

Masanori Nakanishi

Yasuki Iizuka

Kouichi Sameshima

Eiichi Nishizawa

Koshiro Sotoya

Hiroe Tanahashi

Hiroyuki Imoto

Shoji Mitsuhashi

Yukiyasu Fukami

Christopher Thomas Raabe

Shigeki Yokoi

Hironobu Yamaguchi

Takao Nishiyama

Takashi Mitoh

Kumiko Adachi

Kumiko Yamada

Yasuo Suzuki

Mitsushige Suzuki

Toru Nakahara

A wireless communication system includes an access point, a master communication apparatus, and a slave communication apparatus, and the master communication apparatus and the slave communication apparatus perform wireless communication through the access point. The master communication apparatus stores setting information necessary for accessing the access point; performs wireless communication through the access point using the stored setting information; and performs near field communication with the slave communication apparatus to transmit the stored setting information to the slave communication apparatus in response to a setting information request received from the slave communication apparatus via near field communication. The slave communication apparatus performs near field communication with the master communication apparatus to transmit the setting information request to the master communication apparatus; receives the setting information from the master communication apparatus via near field communication; stores the setting information; and performs wireless communication through the access point using the setting information.

Wireless communication system, communication apparatus, setting information providing method, setting information obtaining method, and computer program

There is provided an information processing apparatus including an acquisition control unit configured to acquire information on function extension from an external object, the information on the function extension including attribute information indicating a function of a device and connection information relating to a connection to the device, and a function control unit configured to extend a function of the information processing apparatus based on the acquired attribute information, connect to a device corresponding to the extended function based on the acquired connection information, and enable the extended function.

Information processing apparatus, information processing method, program, and information processing system

There is provided a flight management system for managing a flight plan of flying objects that fly among ports. The flight management system includes a plurality of port management apparatuses and a flight management apparatus that manages a flight plan of a plurality of flying objects that autonomously fly among the ports, in which each of the port management apparatuses includes determination means for determining whether or not landing or takeoff of the flying objects on or from the corresponding port is possible, and possibility information output means for transferring to the flying objects possibility information about the possibility, and the flight management apparatus includes flying object information reception means for receiving flying object information including flying object position information about a position of each of the flying objects, flight plan registration means for registering the flight plan for flying between the port as a start point and the port as a target point, flight plan change means for changing the flight plan based on the received flying object position information or changed another flight plan, and instruction information output means for outputting instruction information for instructing the flying object about the flight plan.

Flight management system

An information processing apparatus is provided and operates as a managing server that distributes incentive using transfer device information with respect to content. A communication unit receives inter-device transfer information with respect to output content from an information providing device, the information being in the form of device identifiers for at least the information providing device and one or more user devices that executed content transfers. A controller then executes processing to designate the incentive recipients as being the device managers associated with the acquired device identifiers. In so doing, incentive can be distributed to the managers or users of user devices that relay content between an information providing device and a product purchaser.

Information processing system, information processing apparatus, and information processing method to designate incentives for content transfer

There is provided a service providing apparatus including a determination unit configured to determine a service to be provided for an information processing apparatus based on apparatus-related information acquired from the information processing apparatus, the apparatus-related information including spatial information and function information, the spatial information being related to a space in which a function of the information processing apparatus is extended and being acquired from an external object by the information processing apparatus, the function information indicating the function of the information processing apparatus, and a processing unit configured to execute a process for the service determined to be provided.

Service providing apparatus and service providing method

An information providing system includes the following elements. An IC card stores card ID. An information providing terminal reads out the card ID of the IC card, provides information to the IC card, and transmits the card ID and the information provided to the IC card or the ID of the provided information to a management server. The management server receives the card ID and the information provided to the IC card or the provided information ID from the information providing terminal, has a database to manage the card ID and the provided information such that the card ID is associated with the provided information, acquires the information provided to the IC card from the database in response to an information request from a client terminal, and supplies the provided information to the client terminal. The client terminal displays the provided information supplied from the management server.

Information providing system, apparatus and method for information processing, and computer program product

A system effectively performs content information acquisition processing and content purchase processing in which it is necessary to access different servers. If a user views information provided by an information providing server, for example, television program table information, and acquires content related to information selected from among pieces of information included in the television program table information, the user can transmit a content acquisition request including content specification information to a content providing server simply by dragging and dropping the selected information displayed on a display screen onto a toolbar included in a display unit or onto another server information display area. As a result, the user can effectively perform the selection and acquisition of content without switching between connections to various servers.

Information processing system, information processing apparatus, and information processing method

A communication device includes a control unit that establishes a wireless communication between a communication unit and an external device by using setting data received from the external device. The device also includes a data processing unit that stores the setting data in a storage unit before the wireless communication is released. Further, the device includes a power input unit that receives power from outside. A communication releasing unit releases the wireless communication between the communication unit and the external device. The control unit uses the setting data stored in the storage unit at a time of re-performing a wireless communication between the communication unit and the external device. The communication releasing unit does not release the wireless communication when the power is being supplied via the power input unit even when a predetermined time has passed.

Wireless communication system, wireless communication device, wireless communication method and program

A data acquisition device includes a wireless communication unit for performing wireless communication of data with a data accumulation device in which data is accumulated, a type registration unit wherein data types of necessary data are registered beforehand, a type comparison unit for comparing the data type of data received via the wireless communication unit with data types registered in the type registration unit, a data extracting unit for extracting only data of which the data type matches, and a data holding unit for holding the extracted data.

Data transfer system, data acquisition device, data acquisition method, data accumulation device, data transmission method, and program for the same

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