Sony Corporation

Toru Konishi

Junichi Rekimoto

Takahiko Sueyoshi

Keigo Ihara

Hiroshi Yamaguchi

Kenichi Ono

Tomohiro Tsuyuhara

Manabu Yasumi

An information processing apparatus is provided which includes an acquired information storage unit capable of storing acquired information that associates one or a plurality of pieces of mutually different position information and an acquisition count of each of one or the plurality of pieces of position information, an acquisition unit that acquires the position information indicating a position of a local apparatus, an acquisition count measuring unit that, when the acquisition unit acquires the position information, adds a predetermined value to the acquisition count associated with the acquired position information, and a control unit that sorts the acquired information stored in the acquired information storage unit in descending order of the acquisition count.

Combined location and frequency information processing apparatus, method, and program

A switcher, residing in a memory, detects a connectable network when a terminal is powered on. When a network is detected, a communication unit issues a message to a processor. The processor detects whether the terminal has ever been connected to the detected network and whether the profile of the network is registered. If the processor determines that the profile of the network is registered, a connection to the network is established in accordance with the profile. If the processor determines that no profile of the network is registered, a new profile of the network is produced, and then registered. The present invention is applicable to personal computers.

Method, apparatus, and computer program for processing information

Disclosed herein is an information processing apparatus comprising: an image acquiring means for acquiring an objective image; an identification information recognizing means for recognizing, of the objective image acquired by said image acquiring means, identification information corresponding to a specific image pattern; a decision means for deciding whether said identification information recognized by said identification information recognizing means is local identification information for starting processing previously registered for each terminal or global identification information for starting processing common to all terminals; a local executing means for executing, if said identification information is decided as the local identification information by said decision means, the processing previously registered for each terminal; a global processing requesting means for requesting, if said identification information is decided as the global identification information by said decision means, a specific server to execute the global processing corresponding to said identification information; and a global processing result acquiring means for acquiring the result of said global processing by said specific server.

Information processing apparatus, an information processing method and a medium

Disclosed is an image processing apparatus comprising: an image acquiring element for acquiring an object image; a displaying element for displaying the object image acquired by the image acquiring element; a captured position information recognizing element for capturing a predetermined image pattern from within the object image acquired by the image acquiring element in order to recognize position information about the image pattern relative to the object image; a menu display controlling element for displaying a menu image in overlaid relation to the object image displayed by the displaying element in accordance with an outcome of the recognition by the captured position information recognizing element; and a starting element for starting a previously related process based on the menu image displayed by the menu display controlling element as well as on the position information recognized by the captured position information recognizing element.

Image processing apparatus, image processing method and image processing program storage medium

Information processing apparatus and method in which an objective image is acquired, and indentification information corresponding to specific image pattern is recognized from the objective image. It is determined whether the identification information recognized in local identification information for starting processing previously registered for each terminal, or any one of a plurality of code representing global identification information for starting processing common to all terminals. If the identification information is determined to be local identification information, the processing previously registered for each terminal is locally executed. If the identification information represents the global identification information, a request is made to a global code server that searches an associated global database having a plurality of stored codes and corresponding information, to execute the global processing corresponding to the identification information.

An image processing apparatus including: an image acquiring element for acquiring a target image; an identification information recognizing element for recognizing identification information corresponding to a specific image pattern from the target image acquired by the image acquiring element; and an activating element for activating selectively from among a plurality of previously stored processes a specific process corresponding to the identification information recognized by the identification information recognizing element so as to start execution of the specific process.

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Kanagawa, Japan

Toru Konishi