Hewlett-packard Company

Ntt Docomo, Inc.

Hewlett-packard Development Company, L.p.

Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation

Toshiki Iso

Toshiaki Sugimura

Shinya Nakagawa

Marc McEachern

Hironori Bouno

Taro Sugahara

Fumitoshi Ukai

Hidenori Shimizu

Shoji Kurakake

Kiyotaka Otsuji

Hiroki Suzuki

Kei Yuasa

Masaji Katagiri

Akira Tomono

Kenichiro Ishii

Hideki Koike

Motohiro Machida

Satoshi Shimada

An information management apparatusaccording to the present invention comprises: a databasefor storing information relevant to a printertherein; output request reception meansfor receiving an output request transmitted from a portable terminal; inquiry signal transmission meansfor transmitting an inquiry signal on the printerbeing an output destination to the portable terminal; communication means for receiving image data transmitted from the portable terminal; recognition meansfor recognizing the identification information of the printerby analyzing the image data transmitted in response to the inquiry signal; retrieval meansfor retrieving the information relevant to the printerfrom the data baseon the basis of the acquired recognition information; and printing meansfor outputting the information to the printeron the basis of the information relevant to the printerretrieved by the retrieval means

Information management apparatus, information output system, portable terminal, and information outputting method

A guide apparatusaccording to the present invention is provided with a service information DBstoring service information containing a service providing place and attribute information of a target user; a recognizing devicefor acquiring an ID from image data transmitted from a cell phone; a retrieving devicefor retrieving service information from the service information DBon the basis of the acquired ID and for retrieving such service information that attribute information of the user of cell phonecoincides with attribute information of a target user, out of service information provided at service providing places near the service providing place; and a route retrieving devicefor retrieving a route between the information about the service providing place retrieved and the cell phone; and transmits the route information and service information as guide information to the cell phone

Guide apparatus, guide system, and guide method

Data and/or services associated with a given object are easily searched by using a search system having a global unique object identifier, a metadata store, an input for entering the global unique identifier, a metadata reader for reading a set of metadata including the input global unique identifier from the metadata store, and a metadata search engine for searching for specific metadata by searching for a specific description sentence included in each metadata of the read set of metadata.

Data search system and data search method using a global unique identifier

Method and computer program product stored on a tangible medium that store instructions including providing a procedure file, storing and managing a plurality of tickets, each ticket including a first identifier given to a commodity, and searching, based on the first identifier and a ticket request submitted by a user, a ticket of the plurality of tickets corresponding to the first identifier. The method and computer program product then presents information about the commodity included in the ticket, information about a service that provides the commodity, and service provision content information acquired during the search.

System and method for searching and retrieving information regarding related goods and services

In a dictionary image generating section, images of objects each belonging to any one of L categories are taken by a camera from predetermined M directions, a matching region of the object to be recognized is extracted from each of the object images, and dictionary images (N&equals;L&times;M, n&equals;1, 2, . . . , N) which are the representatives of combinations of direction and category are generated and stored together with the directions of the objects. When a test image is given, the degree of similarity r(n, X, Y) between an n-th dictionary image and the image region at the matching position (X, Y) in the test image is computed by a matching section. This matching process is repeated with the matching position (X, Y) and the number n of the dictionary image being varied, and the matching position (X,, Y,) where the degree of similarity r(n) becomes the highest is detected.

Object image detecting method and system

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Yokosuka, Japan

Toshiki Iso