Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha Corporation

Pioneer Corporation

Kaneka Corporation

Tamaikasei Co., Ltd.

Computer Basic Technology Research Corp.

Toru Ueda

Fumio Togawa

Yasushi Ishizuka

Takashi Nishimura

Satoshi Terada

Kazuyuki Sumi

Yuji Ichikawa

Akihiro Tozaki

Kazunori Hashimoto

Takehiko Shioda

Kunihiro Minoshima

Masafumi Takahashi

Masahiro Chiba

Masafumi Hirata

Katsuya Nakagawa

Yoshihiro Ohtani

Srinivas Kandala

Keisuke Iwasaki

Kazuhito Nagura

Kazuyuki Nako

Katsuo Doi

Hiroyuki Iwahashi

Akira Tojima

Junichi Shirakawa

Ken Nakashima

Takuya Kinoshita

Azusa Umemoto

Shin Kamiya

Mitsuhiro Hakaridani

Hitoshi Hirose

Tomohiro Nagano

Masaki Hashiura

Tatsuya Yoshida

Tsukasa Kaminokado

Daisuke Nakano

Hirohisa Wakai

Syuji Daioku

Nobuo Kusumoto

Takashi Aramaki

Yasuko Matsuoka

Kenichi Kimura

Shuji Daioku

Kazuhiro Miki

Hiroyuki Nakaoka

Ryota Yagi

Makoto Shinkai

Kazuya Oyama

Hideki Nishimura

Ryutaro Mashiko

Shuichiro Ono

Hidekazu Fujii

Minoru Takemoto

Tadamichi Atsumi

Taisuke Hara

Kyohichiroh Sawachika

Atsushi Maehara

Koji Osaki

Hiroaki Zaima

Keiji Sato

Yoshio Tokuhashi

Osamu Tsumori

Junko Mikata

Rei Tokunaga

Srinivas Sharp Lab Of Americainc Kandala

In the present disclosure, an appropriate control-target device is caused to carry out an operation without the control-target device being designated. A linking system () includes: a linking server (); a device controlling server (); one or more devices (); and an information providing server (). In a case where the device controlling server () has received from the linking server () an instruction for carrying out an operation in accordance with a linking rule, the device controlling server transmits () a command to carry out the operation to at least one device, the at least one device having been identified by the device controlling server () from among the one or more devices () in accordance with a user specified in the linking rule. The information providing server () transmits, to the linking server (), notification of a trigger for the operation.

Linkage system and device control server

A heat storage material composition having a melting temperature utilized for control of an optional management temperature, providing no variation in melting behavior and solidification behavior, and having a constant melting temperature. The heat storage material composition consists primarily of a mixture of a higher alkane having carbon number of 9 to 24 and a higher alcohol having carbon number of 6 to 20, and the mixture has a substantially single melting peak in DSC curve measured by a differential scanning calorimeter (DSC).

Heat storage material composition, heat storage material and transport container

A dialog content is generated using information that is unique to a user and information that is not unique. The processing executed by a dialog system includes a step of identifying a person based on a dialog with a user, a step of acquiring personal information, a step of analyzing the dialog, a step of extracting an event, a step of searching for a local episode and a global episode based on the personal information and the event, a step of generating dialog data using the search result, a step of outputting a dialog, and a step of accepting user evaluation.

Interactive system, terminal, method of controlling dialog, and program for causing computer to function as interactive system

One or more embodiments of the present invention provide (i) a novel heat storage material composition, (ii) a heat storage material containing the heat storage material composition, and (iii) a transport container including the heat storage material. A heat storage material composition in accordance with one or more embodiments of the present invention may contain sodium sulfate 10-hydrate, sodium bromide, and sodium chloride, and have a melting point and a solidifying point within a range of 0&#xb0; C. to 10&#xb0; C.

Heat storage material composition and use thereof

A home-appliance system is provided that may alleviate user's stress or fatigue. The interactive home-appliance system includes an utterance unit, a voice input unit for accepting input of a reply to voice, a storage unit for storing an assessment criterion for assessing stress or fatigue based on conversation with an utterer and data for outputting voice alleviating stress or fatigue, a determination unit for determining the utterer's stress or fatigue based on the assessment criterion and the reply, and a drive mechanism for performing an operation for assisting in the utterer's life. The utterance unit is configured to output an utterance based on the determination result and the data.

Interactive home-appliance system, server device, interactive home appliance, method for allowing home-appliance system to interact, and nonvolatile computer-readable data recording medium encoded with program for allowing computer to implement the method

A network system includes a plurality of terminals including at least a first terminal and a second terminal, one or more devices including at least a first device, and a server adapted to refer to group information. The server refers to the group information and determines whether to accept a request for the first device from the second terminal, when in a state of accepting a request for the first device from the first terminal.

Network system, server, terminal, and information processing method

Disclosed is a television () that outputs a content supplied from a source apparatus, which television includes an address acquiring section () that acquires a logical address from the source apparatus, a device type acquiring section () that acquires a device type from the source apparatus, and a UI section () that identifies which kind of apparatus the source apparatus is, based on a combination of the logical address and the device type.

Output device, source apparatus, television set, system, output method, program, and recording medium

A mobile phone () in accordance with the present invention includes: a transmission setting database (); a transmission setting section () for registering, on the transmission setting database (), a piece of image data to be transmitted to a data receiving device; and an image data transmitting section () for transmitting, to the data receiving device, the piece of image data registered on the transmission setting database (), the image data transmitting section () transmitting the piece of image data to the data receiving device in response to a transmission request received from the data receiving device. Therefore, according to a data transmission device in accordance with the present invention, it is possible to transmit a desired piece of additional-information-containing data to the data receiving device without forcing a user to again carry out operation of transmitting the piece of additional-information-containing data to the data receiving device, even in a case where the user cannot transmit the desired piece of additional-information-containing data to the data receiving device.

Data transmission device, data transmission method, data communication system, program, and recording medium

It is possible to present identification information of a sender in such a manner that the identification information is easily understood by a user. Included are: a wireless communication section () for carrying out data communication with the navigation device (); and a line communication section () for carrying out data communication with the communication device (), and an address sending section () for sending, to the navigation device () via the wireless communication section (), first identification information for identifying the communication device (); a position receiving section () for receiving position information from the communication device () via the line communication section (); a position sending section () for sending the position information to the navigation device () via the wireless communication section (); a message receiving section () for receiving a message from the navigation device () via the wireless communication section (); an address adding section () for adding, to the message, second identification information for identifying the communication device (); and a message sending section () for sending, to the communication device () via the line communication section (), the message to which the second identification information is added.

Communication device, information presentation device, communication method, program, and recording medium

A data transfer apparatus includes an attribute collecting unit collecting attribute of data managed by an equipment connected to a network, a transfer control unit selecting a method of data transfer based on the attribute information of data collected by the attribute collecting unit, a data receiving unit receiving data by the method of transfer selected by the transfer control unit, and a data transmitting unit transmitting data by the method of transfer selected by the transfer control unit. As the transfer control unit selects the method of data transfer based on the data attribute information collected by the attribute collecting unit, it becomes possible for a user or an application program to receive data by the same operation.

Method and apparatus of data transfer controlling data transfer among a plurality of equipments connected to a network and medium recording the program thereof

An information server apparatusincludes a communication portionreceiving a request for getting information including a set of information source specifying information and time specifying information from a client, a user request information analyzing portionand a table reference portionanalyzing the request for getting information and selecting information to be transmitted to the client terminal apparatus based on the result of analysis. Further, communication portionreturns the selected information to the client.

Information server apparatus, client terminal apparatus, sub-client apparatus, information processing method and storage medium having stored program therefor

A service providing system, including a service using device; a service providing device for providing a service to the service using device, the service providing device being communicably connected to the service using device; and a template transmitting device for transmitting a template to the service using device, the template containing: transmission destination information indicating a transmission destination to which the service using device transmits data for use in authentication; and user input assisting information based on which display device either provided in the service using device or communicably connected to the service using device displays an interface for use by a service user entering data to the service using device.

Service providing system, service using device, and template transmitting device

When a transmission station having a voluntary transmission right transmits FINALL FRAME as a TXOP ending frame to HC, the HC transmits an acknowledgement frame ACK after SIFS following the reception of FINAL FRAME. Here, when the transmitting station has detected that no frame transmission is performed over the communication network from any other ESTAs in PIFS after the transmission of FINAL FRAME, FINAL FRAME is retransmitted in DIFS after the transmission of FINAL FRAME. By performing such a communication management, it is possible to accurately manage a voluntary transmission right even when the communication medium has a low reliability in a network in which one network pathway is time-shared by a plurality of communication apparatuses.

Communication management method, communication terminal, communication management program, recording medium containing the communication management program, and communication system

Control commands are sent from communication stations (A, B) to devices (D to F), such as a VTR, connected to a communication station (C) via radio networks (NW) provided between the communication stations (A, B) and the communication station (C), thereby controlling the devices (D to F). As a result, video signals outputted from the devices (D to F) via analog wirings (W) are sent from the communication station (C) to the communication stations (A, B) so that videos based on the video signals are displayed in display devices (A, B) via the communication stations (A, B). In the communication station (C), identifiers for specifying controllers (A, B) which have sent the control commands to the communication stations (A, B) and identifiers for specifying the devices (D to F) controlled are made to respectively correspond to each other, and are stored so that a controller which can be allowed to control is specified. When the control command is sent from the controller (A), the communication station (C) adds a control right for the device (D) for example to the controller upon confirming that the controller (A) can be allowed to control the device (D).

Device control management apparatus

An electric appliancehas a code correspondence data table that accommodates the correspondence among the control signals of the remote control units belonging to recording medium drive apparatuses-to-and signal reception apparatuses-to-and a code correspondence data table that accommodates the correspondence between those control signals and the various operations performed by the electric applianceto select contents. With reference to these code correspondence data tables, contents are selected and reproduced according to control signals transmitted from any remote control unit

Electronic appliance

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Kyoto, Japan

Toru Ueda