Olympus Corporation

Olympus Optical Company, Ltd.

Olympus Imaging Corporation

Sibata Scientific Technology Ltd.

Toshiaki Wada

Yasuyuki Suzuki

Nagaaki Ohyama

Masatoshi Shibata

Norio Fukuoka

Yutaka Mashiyama

Isamu Hiruta

Tetsuo Tomoda

Masaya Honma

Koichi Ito

Tatsuo Nagasaki

Yasuhiro Komiya

Kenji Nakano

Kazuhiko Shimura

Masahiro Yamaguchi

Tsuyoshi Yaji

Yoshinobu Omata

Takashi Obi

Takafumi Yoshihara

Kangda Wang

Hiroto Nishiyama

Kyosuke Ono

Naoki Morita

Xiaohui Kimura

A server device includes a print history database; an information adding unit for adding, as invisible information, first information for specifying image data and second information about a server address; a first print data transmitting unit for transmitting, to a print server, the image data to which the invisible information is added; an image storage unit for storing image data which corresponds to the first information; a list generating unit for generating a list of the print product based on a print history of the image data specified by the first information read from the invisible information by a terminal device; a selected information receiving unit for receiving product specifying information that specifies the print product selected from the list of the terminal device; and a second print data transmitting unit for transmitting the print data on the print product specified by the product specifying information.

Server device, system, and order accepting method

Image data obtained by photographing an object using a camera is stored in a storage medium that can be attached to and detached from the camera. The camera includes a device program storage unit and an information writing unit. A device program that can be executed by an information processing device, which is different to the camera, is stored in the device program storage unit. The information writing unit is constituted to be capable of writing the device program to the storage medium attached to the camera. While writing the device program to the storage medium, the information writing unit writes the device program in a format enabling the information processing device to read and execute the device program automatically when the storage medium is attached to the information processing device.

Electronic camera, storage medium, and data transfer method

To provide an organic synthesizer that can conduct a pressure reaction and an atmospheric reaction in one organic synthesizer. An organic synthesizer comprising a reaction vessel support part (), which can support two or more reaction vessels, and pressure regulation means () for regulating the pressure within the reaction vessel supported by the reaction vessel support part () by supplying/discharging gas. Two or more pressure regulation means () are provided for each reaction vessel supported by the reaction vessel support part (). At least one pressure regulation means (A) in the two or more pressure regulation means () is constructed so as to be detachable from and attachable to the other pressure regulation means (B). The gas supply/discharge pipes (to) are constructed so that a part near the front end can be flexed in a vertical direction and in a lateral direction.

Organic synthesizer

An information acquisition device for acquiring digital Information includes: a first transmission unit () having directivity and transmitting by wireless an information request signal to be transmitted in a direction of the directivity; an information addition unit () adding at least one piece of address information to the information request signal to be transmitted; a reception unit () receiving a radio signal transmitted by wireless in response to the information request signal transmitted by the first transmission unit, and acquiring information contained in the signal; an information storage unit () which is built in the information acquisition device or attached to the device as removable from the device, and can store all or a part of information acquired by the reception unit; and an operation unit () issuing an instruction to start an information requesting operation. The reception unit () has no directivity or has broader directivity than the first transmission unit.

Information acquisition device, information providing device, and information providing system

An information terminal device and method for upgrading a program simply and flexibly and an upgraded program is described. In many cases, a program running on a computer has additional functions prepared separately so that they can be added to that program as necessary. To use the additional functions, a user may purchase a new version of that program and install it on their computer by selecting icons which link to the new version of the program.

Information terminal device and method for purchasing and adding additional program functions

To provide an organic synthesizer that can conduct a pressure reaction and an atmospheric reaction in one organic synthesizer and can realize attachment of reaction vessels to the organic synthesizer and detachment of the reaction vessels from the organic synthesizer without applying any load to gas supply/discharge pipes. An organic synthesizer comprising a reaction vessel support part (), which can support two or more reaction vessels, and pressure regulation means () for regulating the pressure within the reaction vessel supported by the reaction vessel support part () by supplying/discharging gas. Two or more pressure regulation means () are provided for each reaction vessel supported by the reaction vessel support part (). At least one pressure regulation means (A) in the two or more pressure regulation means () is constructed so as to be detachable from and attachable to the other pressure regulation means (B). The pressure regulation means () comprises gas supply/discharge pipes (to) and openings (to) for supporting the gas supply/discharge pipes (to). The gas supply/discharge pipes (to) are constructed so that a part near the front end can be flexed in a vertical direction and in a lateral direction and are connected to the supported reaction vessels for gas supply and discharge.

There is disclosed an information managing method in which a plurality of information files are set as managing objects, the method includes (a) acquiring one or two classification standards which are standards to classify the information files, (b) selecting one of classification units of each of the acquired classification standards, (c) classifying the information files objects for each of the acquired classification standards and the selected one of the classification units, (d) producing a file object which represents each classified information file, (e) disposing and displaying the file object produced for each classification unit in another one-dimensional direction on a display screen, in a case where one classification standard is acquired, and (f) disposing and displaying the produced file object of the information file in each of two-dimensionally divided regions in a case where two classification standards are acquired.

Information managing method, information managing apparatus, information managing program and storage medium

An information terminal device includes an acquisition unit acquiring language identification information concerning a language used on a display screen, a storage unit storing address information of a server, a language identification information synthesizer synthesizing the language identification information into the address information, and a transmitter transmitting the address information to the server.

Adding a predetermined program to a program operating on an information terminal device

An information displaying apparatus includes a mark displaying unit which displays on a display a file mark to identify each of files stored in a file memory and a folder mark to identify a folder by which the files are grouped, a viewer generating unit which generates on the display a viewer to display one of information about the files included in the folder and information included in the files, a viewer moving unit which moves the viewer on the display in accordance with an operation of an operating member, and a preview displaying unit which displays a file mark included in the folder when the viewer overlaps the folder mark displayed on the display and displays information included in the file as an image when the viewer overlaps the file mark.

Information displaying apparatus, information displaying program and storage medium

A control apparatus is connected to at least one terminal device to control the terminal device. The apparatus includes a communication unit which communicates with the terminal device, a display unit which displays an operation window, an information acquisition unit which acquires, from the terminal device through the communication unit, information concerning operation of the terminal device and operation object for operation, an arranging unit which arranges the operation object to produce an operation window and is stored in the control apparatus, and a command generating unit which generates a control command in accordance with operation on an operation window, wherein when the operation object is operated, the command generating unit generates information which specifies the operation object which has been operated and a control command including information concerning an operation amount, and the communication unit transmits the control command to the terminal device.

Terminal control apparatus, terminal control method, terminal control program and storage medium

An image-processing method to be performed in a server that can communicate with a terminal device. In the method, an original image from the terminal device is received, image-identifying data identifying the original image is stored in association with the original image, the image-identifying data is transmitted to the source from which the original image has been transmitted, a sample-image request is received from the terminal device, a prescribed process is performed on the original image, in response to the sample-image request, sample images smaller than the original image are formed by performing the prescribed process, process-identifying data identifying the process performed on the original image is stored, the sample images and the process-identifying data are transmitted to the terminal device, an image-process request including the image-identifying data and the process-identifying data is received, and an image identified by the image-identifying data and the process-identifying data is transmitted.

Image processing method, image processing apparatus and image processing program

An information providing apparatus includes, a communication section configured to transmit and receive to and from the terminal apparatus, a command analysis section configured to specify a command from the terminal apparatus, a user specifying section configured to specify a user transmitting the command, a keyword system providing section configured to transmit all or part of the keyword system to the terminal apparatus when a specified command is a keyword list request command, a content preview select section configured to specify at least one content based on the keyword, the user personal information and the history information when a specified command is a content preview request command, and select the preview data and content specifying data, and a content preview providing section configured to transmit the content preview data and the content specifying data to the terminal apparatus.

Information providing apparatus, terminal apparatus, information providing system and information providing method

There is disclosed a shooting apparatus includes a shooting portion which shoots a subject to generate an original image, an index image generating portion which generates an index image from the original image, an image memory which stores at least an image, a communicating portion which performs transmission/reception of information with a managing server which manages images by radio, a transmitting portion which transmits the original image shot by the shooting portion to the managing server through the communicating portion, and an original image specifying information storage portion which stores in the image memory the index image of the original image and original image specifying information which specifies the original image in the managing server in association with each other.

Shooting apparatus and servers, systems and methods for managing images shot by the shooting apparatus

An operation input unit designates an image to be compared via a thumbnail image or the like. A photographing-information extracting unit extracts, from an image file of the image stored in an image memory, photographing information including the size and the number of pixels of CCD in an image pickup apparatus having captured the image, the distance to an object, and the focusing distance of an image pickup lens. A resizing processing unit automatically enlarges or reduces at least one image to be compared so as to set substantially the same display size of the same object included in a plurality of images, serving as comparison targets, on the basis of the photographing information and display information including resolution of a display, obtained from a display setting unit. A displaying control unit displays the resized image on the display.

Image display apparatus, image display program, image display method, and recording medium for recording the image display program

An image search program allowing a computer to execute a reference-image retrieving step of retrieving at least one second image selected from first images stored in a storage section, which is similar to a reference image, an image-displaying step of displaying an index image obtained by reducing the second image retrieved, an image-selecting step of causing a person who wants to retrieve images to select at least one third image similar to the reference image, in accordance with the index image displayed, and a symbol-providing step of storing symbols in data regions which are categories provided for the reference image, in association with the third image selected, each symbol representing similarity or dissimilarity.

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Toshiaki Wada