Ricoh Company, Ltd.

Information Broadcasting Laboratories, Inc.

Takayuki Kunieda

Yuki Wakita

Jun Murata

Hidenobu Kishi

Tetsuya Ikeda

Masajiro Iwasaki

Tatsuo Miyachi

Yoshikazu Azuma

Hiroshi Yamaguchi

Takeshi Koyama

Atsushi Itoh

Fumihiro Hasegawa

Koji Suzuki

Tetsuya Sakayori

Shogo Hyakutake

Yukinaka Uchiyama

Nobuyuki Kishi

Hideki Ishii

Miyuki Oda

Takako Hashimoto

Takanobu Tanaka

Michiko Fujii

Junichi Yamagata

Hideaki Kitagawa

Yuko Nagashige

Yuji Morioka

Keiya Shibata

An information processing apparatus includes processing circuitry. The processing circuitry processing circuitry is configured to acquire information sequentially in accordance with a first timeline; set, to the first timeline, a first timepoint and a second timepoint that is subsequent to the first timepoint on the first timeline; and present target information over a period between the second timepoint and a third timepoint that is subsequent to the second timepoint on the timeline, in accordance with a second timeline having a unit time shorter than a unit time of the first timeline. The target information is included in a period between the first timepoint and the third timepoint out of the acquired information.

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

A communications system includes a first communications part configured to perform communications with a terminal apparatus, a second communications part configured to perform communications via a network, a connection controller configured to start establishing a connection or release a connection between the first communications part and the second communications part, a display part configured to display authentication information transmitted from the terminal apparatus, an input part configured to receive an input from a user, and a connection manager configured to manage a time to allow the user to have a connection to the network in accordance with an instruction input by the user when the authentication information displayed by the display part matches authentication information reported in advance to the user who has been allowed to have the connection to the network.

System and method for managing and authenticating communications connections

An electronic seal includes a detector configured to detect contact of a contact surface; a generator configured to generate a pattern on the contact surface in response to detection of the contact by the detector, the pattern being detectable by an object surface that detects a contact position.

Electronic seal, authentication system, and computer-readable recording medium

A collective output system includes an information processing device and a plurality of terminal devices. The information processing device holds content containing multiple elements in association with time information, generates a map that associates each piece of position information with each of the elements, receives output position information from a terminal device, acquires, on the basis of the map, an element associated with the position information corresponding to the output position information, acquires the time information associated with the content, and transmits the element and the time information to the terminal. Each of the terminal devices acquires the output position information, transmits the output position information to the information processing device, receives the element and the time information that are transmitted from the information processing device according to the transmitted output position information, and outputs the element at the timing indicated by the time information.

Collective output system, collective output method and terminal device

In the present invention, a connection controller controls opening/closing of connection between a first communication unit that communicates with a terminal device and a second communication unit that communicates via a network. A connection setting unit instructs opening/closing of the connection to the connection controller in accordance with a user input received by an input unit in accordance with first identification information output from the terminal device displayed on a display unit.

Communication system and communication method

An image processing apparatus includes: a first acquiring unit that acquires a first pattern image including a prespecified pattern for being displayed on a display medium by a display unit; a second acquiring unit that acquires, as a second pattern image, a captured image obtained by capturing an image obtained by displaying the first pattern image on the display medium from a desired position except the front of the display medium; and an image processing unit that compares the first pattern image with the second pattern image, and deforms a target image according to a result of the comparison.

Image processing system, image processing apparatus, and image processing method to respectively display images obtained by dividing one image on first and the second display media

A searching apparatus comprising: a storage unit that stores therein indexes for searching for an object included in an image and cooperative information indicating a function of cooperating with the object in association with each other; a receiving unit that receives a captured image; an extracting unit that extracts an object included in the captured image; a calculating unit that calculates a degree of similarity between the object searched for by an index stored in the storage unit and the object extracted from the captured image by the extracting unit; a searching unit that searches for one or more objects based on the degree of similarity from the storage unit; and a presenting unit that presents the cooperative information associated with the index corresponding to the object as a search result of the searching unit to a source of the captured image.

Searching apparatus, searching method, and searching system

An information processing system includes: a terminal device; and an information processing apparatus. The information processing apparatus includes: a holding unit that holds a plurality of pieces of workflow information each including information that specifies a process constituting a service; a receiving unit that receives service identification information, device identification information, and an image transmitted from a terminal device; a selecting unit that selects a piece of the workflow information corresponding to the service identification information and the device identification information from the pieces of the workflow information; and an executing unit that executes a service in which the image is processed into an image including a movie in accordance with the workflow information selected by the selecting unit.

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

A search apparatus includes a storage unit configured to store indexes for searching for an object included in an image, link information indicating a function of providing a link for the object, and first supplementary information in association with each other; a receiving unit configured to receive a captured image through a network; a searching unit configured to search for an index for searching for an object included in the received captured image from among the indexes stored in the storage unit based on the object included in the received captured image and second supplementary information for the received captured image, the index being identified based on the first supplementary information and the second supplementary information for the received captured image; and a presenting unit configured to present the link information associated with the index searched for by the searching unit to a source that has transmitted the captured image.

Search apparatus configured to utilize supplemental information to identify an index associated with a captured image, search method, and search system configured to perform the same

According to an embodiment, provided is a mobile terminal, that includes: an operation display unit that displays information and receives operation input; an operation detection unit that detects operation of the operation display unit; a motion detection unit that detects a motion of the mobile terminal; a data selection unit that selects data to be output; an output destination determining unit that determines an external apparatus serving as an output destination of the selected data; and an output instruction unit that gives an instruction of outputting the data to the external apparatus when the motion is detected by the motion detection unit.

Mobile terminal, output control system, and data outputting method for the mobile terminal

An information editing device includes an index generating unit that generates, in a plurality of different formats, a plurality of pieces of index information indicative of a list of the pieces of screen image information each for one scene; and a display controlling unit that switches the pieces of index information generated by the index generating unit based on an input instruction of a user.

Information editing device, information editing method, and computer product

A contents management apparatus that manages contents including a plurality of contents elements representing information to be provided to a user includes a contents request acquiring unit that acquires contents request information from the user, a contents element extracting unit that extracts the contents elements based on the contents request information when the contents request acquiring unit acquires the contents request information from the user, and a contents restructuring unit that restructures new contents from the contents elements extracted.

Contents management apparatus, contents management system, contents management method, computer product, and contents data

The video index information has a tree structure comprising frame information, sound information, segment information, and package information each as a structure element object. The segment information manages package information for managing a plurality of other segment information as a group, and in the tree structure, the package information is allocated in addition to the frame information and sound information under one segment information, and the video information is managed by using the tree structure of the video index information and structure element objects therein.

Recording medium with video index information recorded therein video information management method which uses the video index information, recording medium with audio index information recorded therein, audio information management method which uses the audio index information, video retrieval method which uses video index information, audio retrieval method which uses the audio index information and a video retrieval system

An external storage medium storing a computer readable access control program and a plurality of files. The access control program performs a first accessing process permitting a computer to access only the access control program when the computer attempts to access any of the files. A file view process is performed so as to display a view of the files when the computer accesses the information via the access control program. A second accessing process is performed when the computer accesses the information via the access control program while a user designates a prescribed file from the file view. The access control program stores information related to accessing executed by the second accessing process in the storage medium as access usage information.

Access usage data storing and transmitting program and storage medium

RECORDING MEDIUM WITH VIDEO INDEX INFORMATION RECORDED THEREIN VIDEO INFORMATION MANAGEMENT METHOD WHICH USES THE VIDEO INDEX INFORMATION RECORDING MEDIUM WITH AUDIO INDEX INFORMATION RECORDED THEREIN AUDIO INFORMATION MANAGEMENT METHOD WHICH USES THE AUDIO INDEX INFORMATION AND A VIDEO RETRIEVAL SYSTEM

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Tokyo, Japan

Takayuki Kunieda