Nec Infrontia Corporation

Nec Corporation

Nec Electronics Corporation

Mitutoyo Corporation

Nihon University

Sumitomo Forestry Co., Ltd.

Nec Coproration

Yoshikazu Kobayashi

Takayuki Tsutsumi

Hideo Kitami

Masato Hori

Shigeru Kurita

Shinsuke Shiota

Hidehiko Fujiwara

Yasuomi Ooki

Hideo Maki

Fidol Joaquin Parra

Junichi Yamagishi

Naoki Hashimoto

Tomoyuki Miyazaki

Sadao Omata

Naoki Mori

Masaru Wada

Yukiji Yoda

Kenji Shirai

Yutaka Nishitsuji

Nobuhiro Monai

Ryo Soda

Bunichi Inagi

Yumiko Suzuki

Keiji Akagi

Ryouichi Ochi

Toshiaki Zen

Harumi Satoh

Hironori Hosoda

Yasunori Tsunomoto

Kenji Matsune

This information processing system inputs/outputs data normally, even when a serial communication bus is extended by network communication. The information processing system is provided with: a device; a device control unit for controlling the device; a device interface unit which interfaces with the device control unit; an information processing device provided with an application interface unit which interfaces with an application; a channel establishment unit which connects, via a communication unit, the application interface unit and the device interface unit, and establishes a control channel and a data channel between the application and the device; and an error suppression unit which suppresses the occurrence of error in data transfer over the channel established by the channel establishment unit.

Information processing system, information processing method, and information processing device

There is provided an information processing apparatus that readily supports to provide hardware resources for implementing ICT education in the field of education. The information processing apparatus includes a device information receiver that receives, via a network, device information for identifying a device connected to a portable terminal, an education application selector that selects, based on the device information, an education application to be provided to the device, and an education application provider that provides the education application to the device via the network and the portable terminal.

Supporting popularization of information and communications technology in the field of education

The information processing system includes: a plurality of operation devices respectively connected to a plurality of communication terminals; operation integration means that inputs information about an operation on the plurality of operation devices; a display device that has a communication function; control means that controls generation of a screen related to information about an operation from the plurality of operation devices; and display control means that causes the display device to display the screen.

Information processing system, information processing method and information processing device

An embodiment of this invention is directed to an information processing system including a communication apparatus including an IP interface and a non-IP interface and capable of connecting to the Internet, an input device, and an output device, and a server capable of communicating with the communication apparatus via the IP interface. The server stores the combination of the input device and the output device connected to the non-IP interface of the communication apparatus and an operation to be performed by the input device or the output device in association with each other, detects the input device and the output device connected to the non-IP interface of the communication apparatus, decides the operation to be performed by the input device or the output device upon detecting the input device and the output device connected to the non-IP interface of the communication apparatus, and instructs the input device or the output device to do the decided operation.

Information processing system, information processing method, server, and control method and control program of server

To attempt to extend a providing service by allowing collection of various kinds of information and early restoration of a defective function in a disaster response infrastructure network, in a disaster information system, a disaster information management apparatus for collecting disaster information via a network includes a terminal information acquirer that acquires terminal information including the current position and identification information of a portable terminal, a need information generator that generates, from received disaster information, need information including information about a need which can be satisfied by the operation of an apparatus, and a request information generator that generates, based on the terminal information and the need information, request information for requesting the portable terminal existing within a range of a predetermined distance from the occurrence location of the need to operate the apparatus necessary for satisfying the need, and transmits the request information.

Disaster information management apparatus, disaster information system, disaster information management method, disaster information management program, portable terminal, control method of portable terminal, and control program of controlling operation of portable terminal

A system of this invention is directed to an information processing system in which a server processes a file unprocessable by a communication terminal and the communication terminal outputs the processed file. The information processing system includes the communication terminal and the server. The communication terminal includes a loader that loads a file, a determiner that determines whether the communication terminal has an application used to process the loaded file, a requester that transmits a request, to the server connected via a wireless communication network, to supply output data having the same contents as the unprocessable loaded file, for which it is determined that the communication terminal has no application, and being to be output for a user at the communication terminal, a receiver that receives the output data from the server, and an output unit that performs output for the user based on the received output data. The server includes an executer that executes an application used to process a file in response to the request, and a transmitter that transmits an execution result by the application to the receiver as the output data.

Information processing system, information processing method, communication terminal, server, and control methods and control programs thereof

A system of this invention is directed to an information processing system that allows a client to enjoy the execution result of a program acquired or to be acquired by the client, even if the program cannot be installed or executed in a client apparatus. In the information processing system, a first information processing apparatus and a second information processing apparatus are connected via communication media. It is requested, from the first information processing apparatus to the second information processing apparatus, to install a program acquired but inexecutable by the first information processing apparatus into the second information processing apparatus. Execution of the program installed in the second information processing apparatus in response to the request is synchronized with an operation for the program in the first information processing apparatus.

Synchronizing installation and execution of a program on a second information processing apparatus with a first information processing apparatus which failed installation of the program

An information processing system includes a controller that controls the supply route of electric power in a house, a determining unit that determines, based on the driving schedule of an electric vehicle, necessary energy with which the car battery of the electric vehicle should be charged, and a detector that detects first charge energy with which the car battery is charged. The controller selects, based on the necessary energy and the first charge energy, which one of electric power supplied from a power company and electric power supplied from the car battery is to be consumed in the house.

Information processing apparatus, information processing system, control method of information processing system, information processing method, and information processing program

An apparatus of this invention is directed to an information processing apparatus that continues detection of an instruction of an operator even if the reliability of instruction information detection has lowered due to a device fault, degradation of the environment, and the like. The information processing apparatus includes an instruction history accumulator that accumulates a history of at least two different pieces of instruction information detected from a user and an instruction of the user in association with each other, an instruction information receiver that receives the instruction information, an instruction recognizer that recognizes the instruction of the user from the received instruction information by referring to the history of the instruction information, a reliability determiner that determines the reliability of the received instruction information by referring to the history of the instruction information, and an instruction information changer that changes the instruction information to be received to another instruction information by referring to the history of the instruction information when the reliability determiner determines that the reliability of the received instruction information has lowered.

User instruction recognition system and methods

An apparatus of this invention is directed to an information processing apparatus that selects an appropriate combination of a device connected to a mobile terminal and a program used in the information processing apparatus to operate the device via a network and the mobile terminal, based on a history of the combination. The information processing apparatus accumulates the history of the combination of the device connected via the network and the mobile terminal, and the program used in the information processing apparatus to operate the device. When receiving information about the device connected to the mobile terminal from the mobile terminal via the network, the information processing apparatus selects the combination of the device and the program based on the history of the combination of the device and the program accumulated in an accumulator.

Information processing system, information processing method, mobile terminal, information processing apparatus, and control methods and control programs thereof

To readily and effectively take a crime and disaster prevention countermeasure, there is provided an information processing apparatus including an acquirer that, when a crime and disaster prevention assistant device is connected to a portable communication terminal, acquires specifying information for specifying the crime and disaster prevention assistant device from the crime and disaster prevention assistant device via the portable communication terminal, a driver executor that executes a driver program corresponding to the specifying information to control the crime and disaster prevention assistant device, and an application executor that executes a crime and disaster prevention application program corresponding to the specifying information to acquire status detection information detected by the crime and disaster prevention assistant device connected to the portable communication terminal, specifies countermeasure processing corresponding to the acquired status detection information with reference to a management database, and controls the crime and disaster prevention assistant device via the portable communication terminal based on the countermeasure processing.

Information processing system, information processing apparatus, information processing method, information processing program, portable communication terminal, and control method and control program of portable communication terminal

An apparatus of this invention is directed to an information processing apparatus that aims to improve the quality of the ITC education based on the history of reactions or evaluations to education conducted by different educators to different educatees in different education site environments in education using education application software. An information processing apparatus includes an education site history accumulator that accumulates the history of pieces of education site information representing the reactions or evaluations of education site participants including an educator and an educatee at an education site using an education application software, and the education application software in association with each other, an education site information receiver that receives, from a communication terminal, the pieces of education site information acquired by the communication terminal or a device connected to the communication terminal, and an analysis information generator that generates analysis information of the education site from the received pieces of education site information and the history of the pieces of education site information.

Education site improvement support system, education site improvement support method, information processing apparatus, communication terminal, and control methods and control programs of information processing apparatus and communication terminal

When an input device is connected via a communication interface, a mobile phone determines whether a local device can control the input device. When it is determined that the local device cannot control the input device, the mobile phone requests a server connected via a wireless communication network to control the input device. The mobile phone controls signal transfer between the input device and the server via the communication interface and the wireless communication network so that the server can control the input device by establishing communication between the input device and the server. In response to the request from the mobile phone, the server controls the input device via the established communication with the input device.

Information processing system, information processing method, mobile phone, server, and control methods and control programs thereof

An information processing apparatus includes an acquisition unit that, when a medical measurement device is connected to a portable communication terminal, acquires specifying information for specifying the medical measurement device via the portable communication terminal, a first receiver that receives, via the portable communication terminal, measurement result information of a measurement target person measured by the medical measurement device by executing a driver program corresponding to the specifying information, a second receiver that receives, from the portable communication terminal, measurement target person information for specifying the measurement target person measured by the medical measurement device, an accumulator that accumulates the measurement target person information and the measurement result information in association with each other, and a transmitter that transmits accumulated information to one of the portable communication terminal and a medical care worker communication terminal.

Information processing apparatus, portable communication terminal, and control methods and control programs thereof

An apparatus of this invention is directed to an information processing apparatus that predicts the necessity of device connection to a mobile terminal and instructs a user to perform the predicted device connection. The information processing apparatus includes a device connection predictor that predicts device connection to the mobile terminal, and a device connection instruction information transmitter that transmits via a network, to the mobile terminal carried by the user, device connection instruction information for instructing the user to perform the device connection predicted by the device connection predictor.

Information processing system, information processing method, information processing apparatus, and control method and control program of information processing apparatus

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Kanagawa, Japan

Yoshikazu Kobayashi