Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha Corporation

Takayuki Nagamatsu

Masaki Hashiura

Chie Hideishi

Makoto Sakuta

Yoshihisa Waki

Hirokazu Sasamoto

In a remote control system that causes a controlled appliance to perform a function specified with use of a terminal device, a function managing device manages functions including a first function and a second function associated with the first function.

Function managing device, remote control system, method for controlling function managing device, and recording medium storing control program therein

The agent server of the present invention includes (i) a conversation monitoring section for monitoring, based on a conversation log saved in a family message board server, comments made by members belonging to a community, (ii) a status information collecting section for collecting status information of the community which information corresponds to (i) a specific member or a combination of specific members and (ii) a specific keyword or a combination of specific keywords which have been detected based on the conversation log, and (iii) a comment making section for outputting, to the server, a comment message which conforms to an event of the community which event is indicated by status information.

Comment processing device, comment processing method, and storage medium

An agent server determines a posting timing of a message on a family message board on the basis of urgency associated with situation information based on which a message is generated and a posting state, which is obtained by the posting state obtaining section, on the family message board.

Message notification device, control method, and recording medium storing control program

A smartphone includes: an image display section for displaying images in such a manner as to be selectable by a user, each of the images being associated with (i) specifying information for specifying a cleaning robot and (ii) instruction information for instructing the cleaning robot to execute a predetermined process; and a process instruction section for transmitting, in a case where the user selects at least one of the images thus displayed, image information (2) indicative of said at least one of the images to a server, so as to cause the cleaning robot specified by specifying information associated with said at least one of the images to execute a predetermined process that is instructed by instruction information associated with said at least one of the images.

Control apparatus, method for controlling control apparatus, server, controlled apparatus, control system, and storage medium storing control program

An operation instruction detecting section detects an operation instruction from a message and specifies, as an instruction provider, a member who has posted the message. A report message displaying section causes a message, which (i) reports a result of an operation executed in accordance with the operation instruction and (ii) is explicitly directed to the instruction provider, to be displayed on a family message board.

Message notifying device, control method, and storage medium storing control program

To add new additional content to the reproduction schedule on the basis of reference content scheduled in a time slot in the reproduction schedule, a digital television in accordance with the present invention includes: an additional content extracting section for identifying, as the additional content, content associated with content information which meets conditions determined on the basis of content information of the reference content; and a placement position determining section for determining, based on time slot determining procedure information based on which a time slot is determined for the additional content related to the reference content, a time slot for the additional content identified by the additional content identifying means. The digital television therefore produces an optimal reproduction schedule to the user.

Content processing device, content processing method, control program, and storage medium

A digital television in accordance with the present invention includes: a state sensing section and a state information update section. The state sensing section senses the process execution state of a process target content in a process executed in accordance with user manipulation. The state information update section updates, in accordance with a sensed process execution state, content state information based on which processing of at least one of the process target content and related content relevant to the process target content is controlled. Therefore, the television does not require the user to perform complex manipulation, but is still capable of controlling content processing.

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Osaka, Japan

Takayuki Nagamatsu