Fujitsu Corporation

Yamaha Corporation

Toru Kamiwada

Takushi Fujita

Takashi Imai

Takashi Ohno

Katsuhito Fujimoto

Yutaka Katsuyama

Takuya Sakamoto

Eiji Hasegawa

Yoshinobu Hotta

Hisatoshi Yamaoka

Yousuke Nakamura

Noboru Iwamatsu

Manabu Nakao

Hironori Sakakihara

Miwa Okabayashi

Jun Kawai

Toshihiro Azami

Junichi Yura

Hiroki Uchida

Yukio Tada

Takuya Sato

Shinta Kimura

Toshihiro Sonoda

Jun Usui

Masashi Urushihara

Takahiro Asano

Takashi Terasaki

Tomomi Yokoyama

A speech providing device includes a memory that stores instructions, and a processor that executes the instructions. The instructions cause the processor to perform acquiring a position of a user and a direction that the user is facing, and providing a speech corresponding to an area existing in a direction that the user is facing on the basis of the position of the user, to the user.

Speech providing device, speech reproducing device, speech providing method, and speech reproducing method

A load balancing method executed by an information processing apparatus, the load balancing method includes identifying, in first determination processing for determining circumstances based on an event acquired by a sensor included in the information processing apparatus, a type of an event that another information processing apparatus coupled to the information processing apparatus is able to acquire by using a sensor included in the another information processing apparatus; determining whether a logic tree representing the first determination processing is able to change to another logic tree that includes a partial logic tree determined based on an event of the identified type and is equivalent in condition to the logic tree; and assigning second determination processing represented by the partial logic tree included in the another logic tree to the another information processing apparatus, when determining that the logic tree is able to change to the another logic tree.

Load balancing method, information processing apparatus, and storage medium

A mobile terminal device receives a request for a sensing operation from an application program, specifies candidate processors that are to perform condition determination to determine whether an event output from a sensor performing the sensing operation of the received request satisfies conditions for notification, the conditions being designated by the application program, calculates an evaluation value of electricity consumed by each of the candidate processors in the condition determination, using frequency of the event of the sensing operation of the received request in frequency data, the frequency data linking an event output from a sensor to frequency of generation of the event, and selects a candidate processor having an optimal evaluation value.

Sensing operation control method and mobile terminal device

A function extension method is executed by a terminal device. The function extension method includes connecting a first plug-in, which is common to one or more peripheral devices, to an execution environment of an application for controlling the one or more peripheral devices; arranging a second plug-in, which corresponds to each of the one or more peripheral devices, to be connected to the execution environment of the application via the first plug-in; and connecting the second plug-in corresponding to another peripheral device to the execution environment of the application via the first plug-in while maintaining the connection relationship between the execution environment of the application and the first plug-in, when the another peripheral device controlled by the terminal device is to be added.

Function extension method and terminal device

A method of controlling a communication device executed by a processor included in the communication device, the method includes intermittently receiving, via a receiver of the communication device, at least two radio signals intermittently sent from a sending device; specifying a sending interval between the at least two radio signals, based on the at least two radio signals; and controlling the receiver so as to cause the receiver to be set, at each of timings at which a plurality of radio signals intermittently sent after the at least two radio signals from the sending device are received, to be in an operating state where the receiver is capable of receiving the plurality of radio signals, based on the specified sending interval.

Method of controlling communication device, communication device, and recording medium

An apparatus includes an obtaining unit configured to obtain an atmospheric-pressure value measured by each of a plurality of electronic devices, the plurality of electronic devices being located at corresponding floors in a building and having atmospheric-pressure sensors, respectively, a setting unit configured to perform processing, the processing including calculating a frequency of an atmospheric-pressure value having a same value on the basis of the obtained plurality of atmospheric-pressure values and, classifying the atmospheric-pressure values on the basis of the frequencies, and generating association information associating the classified atmospheric-pressure value with a floor of the building; and a transmission unit configured to transmit information on a floor of the building associated with the atmospheric-pressure value on the basis of the generated association information when an atmospheric-pressure value is received together with identification information identifying the electronic device from any one of the electronic devices.

Information processing apparatus, information processing method, and electronic device

A first video-recording reservation management apparatus which communicates with a second apparatus and can receive the same channels. The first apparatus includes a video-recording reservation processing unit which registers video-recording reservation information of the first apparatus in a storage unit and notifies the second apparatus of such registration via a network when a video-recording reservation is made with respect to the video-recording function of the first apparatus, and a substitutional video-recording reservation processing unit which acquires registered video-recording reservation information from the second apparatus and registers the information in the storage unit when such a registration notification is received from the network, and executes a substitutional video-recording reservation by using the video-recording function of the first apparatus when the video-recording reservation of the second apparatus corresponding to the substitutional video-recording reservation information is not executed when video-recording cannot be performed due to power outage or failure.

Video-recording reservation management apparatus, method, program, and system

A content processing apparatus includes an extracting part extracting undownloaded contents from a list of downloadable contents, a providing situation storage part that stores a providing situation of the contents that content processing apparatus provided to other apparatuses, a priority order determining part determining the priority order of download in the extracted undownloaded contents based on the providing situation stored in the providing situation storage part, and a downloading part downloading the contents in accordance with the priority order determined by the priority order determining part.

Content processing apparatus, content processing method, and recording medium

A communication terminal device includes: a communication unit configured to connect to a network to transmit and receive contents among a plurality of nodes; a memory configured to accumulate a history table that stores a search history of a content search; and a processor configured to execute a process comprising: storing the search history of the content search in the history table; comparing metadata attached to a search object content that is a content search object with metadata attached to a content stored in the history table; determining whether the content stored in the history table is similar to the search object content based on the comparing of the metadata; and making the transmission unit transmit information inquiring about possession of the search object content to a node that possesses a content determined to be similar to the search object content.

Communication terminal device, computer program, and content search method

A plurality of video-recording devices are connected via a network. A video-recording reservation processing unit registers video-recording reservation information in a video-recording reservation management table of a storage unit and notifies the other devices of the video-recording reservation registration via the network when a video-recording reservation is made with respect to the video-recording function thereof. When a registration notification of a video-recording reservation of the other devices is received from the network, the substitutional video-recording reservation processing unit acquires registered video-recording reservation information from the other device so as to register substitutional video-recording reservation information in the substitutional video-recording reservation management table of the storage unit, and executes a substitutional video-recording reservation by using the video-recording function of the apparatus per se when a video-recording reservation execution notification of the other devices corresponding to the substitutional video-recording reservation information is not received.

Video-recording reservation management apparatus, method, program and system

An apparatus including a section acquiring the information as to the information processor of the delivery destination in the second network, a section alternatively providing service to an access from the first network by using the acquired information, a section receiving and delivering the information from the first network by using the alternatively supplied service, a section changing the information processor of the delivery destination in the second network to the service providing state, when the apparatus receives the information including the contents from the first network and the information processor of the delivery destination in the second network is not in the service providing state, it is possible to change the information processor of the delivery destination to the service providing state and deliver information including the contents to the information processor of the delivery destination.

Information processing control apparatus, method of delivering information through network, and program for it

A gateway apparatus () is capable of connecting to an internal network () and an external network (), and includes an information management unit () for managing a global IP address of the gateway apparatus and identification information for a device to be permitted to connect to the internal network. The information management unit transmits the global IP address and the identification information over the external network to an external apparatus. In response to a request received over the external network, the information management unit transmits a one-time password over the external network to the external apparatus. The gateway apparatus further includes: a connector unit () permitting the device to connect to the internal network, when it receives a URI containing the global IP address and the one-time password from the device to be permitted to connect over the external network; and an address converter unit () for converting between an IP address for the external network into an IP address for the internal network and converting an IP address for the internal network into an IP address for the external network.

Secure virtual private network having a gateway for managing global ip address and identification of devices

The object of the present invention can be achieved by a display controlling apparatus for displaying a plurality of information objects including an information object shown by a three-dimensional shape in a three-dimensional virtual space. In the display controlling apparatus, a view to display is determined based on a shape of the information object to observe by corresponding to a view movement instruction input by a user as if the view traces a surface of the shape. And display images of the plurality of information objects linked each other are generated based on the view. Then, the display images are displayed at a display unit so as to display the information objects corresponding to the view movement instruction.

Display controlling apparatus, information terminal unit provided with display controlling apparatus, and viewpoint location controlling apparatus

An information processing apparatus displays a plurality of linked items of content in a virtual space in accordance with field-of-view data. The information processing apparatus includes: first capturing means (S, S) for capturing link description data; second capturing means (S) for capturing content data associated with the description of an item of content contained in the captured link description data; image generating means (S, S) for generating an image of the item of content to be disposed in the virtual space, in accordance with the captured content data; and determining means for determining further data to be captured next in accordance with a condition contained in the captured link description data.

Efficient downloading of content data via network

The object of the present invention is, in a device control system that controls devices within a house, to reduce the effort required of a user during authentication, as well as to prevent unauthorized access by a third party. A device control system access restriction method includes the steps of accepting registration of terminal information for associating an identifier unique to an operating terminal with operating terminal access right, of accepting instruction information including operating terminal identifier and instruction signals relating to operations of a device, of determining the access right of an operating terminal based on the operating terminal identifier included in instruction information, and of controlling the device based on operating terminal access right and instruction signals relating to that device.

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Kawasaki, Japan

Toru Kamiwada