Sony Corporation

Tomoki Shiono

Takahiko Sueyoshi

Hirohito Kondo

Yoshihiro Yamaguchi

Takaaki Sakai

Takaomi Kimura

Hiroshi Nagatani

Atsushi Hashizume

Yosuke Kaneda

A system and method for making menu items easily adjustable on the setting screen of a camera with regard to the predetermined object to be operated. The camera setting utility screen for the CCD camera is displayed on the liquid crystal display any one of the plural number of menu items is selected from said camera setting utility screen displayed according to the rotation operation and the push operation of the jog dial. The setting condition with regard to the menu item selected is adjusted corresponding to the rotation operation and the push operation of the jog dial. The CCD camera is set to the setting condition adjusted, such that operation of selection of menu item to the adjustment of setting condition can be conducted merely by the rotation operation and the push operation of the jog dial.

Menu selection using a rotating dial and button

A display displays a capture mode displaying source image data and a send mode displaying processed image data, which is to be sent. The display simultaneously displays, upon a switch from the capture mode to the send mode, the processed image data and a manipulation. The manipulation includes pixel values of the source image data and dummy values. An input inputs an address of a terminal to which the processed image data is to be transmitted. A transmitter transmits an address of a terminal together with the processed image data over a network to a server such that the server executes a processing for providing the processed image data to the terminal. An image data processor determines an image processing capacity of the terminal and converts an image size of the source image data such that the processed image data is commensurate with the image processing capacity of the terminal.

Information processing apparatus and program for providing image data to a terminal

A system is disclosed by which the load when a user tries to selectively communicate through a network with a person having information useful to the user from among a large number of persons can be distributed suitably on the network without the necessity for a large-scale network server. The user transmits profile information from a user apparatus to a plurality of different apparatus of different users. Each different apparatus uses the profile information and profile information of the user of the different apparatus to calculate correlativity between the users and sends back a result of the calculation. The user apparatus selects, from the results of the correlativity calculation from the different apparatus, an apparatus of a communication opposite party who exhibits a comparatively high correlativity, and issues a notification of or receives utilization information to or from the selected apparatus by communication.

Information transmission system by collaborative filtering, information processing apparatus for use with information processing system and program for use with information processing apparatus

The present invention relates to an information processing apparatus, an information processing method and a recording medium. The information processing apparatus of the present invention includes a hardware-dependent input means having a normal mode in which an event information associated with a user operation is supplied to an application program through an operating system and a quick action mode in which the event information is directly supplied to another hardware-dependent means previously specified by the application program, and a hardware-dependent output means for executing real-time control on hardware associated with the event information upon reception of the event information directly supplied from the hardware-dependent input means.

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Kanagawa, Japan

Tomoki Shiono