Abstract:
A communication system that transmits and receives combinations of paper mail and electronic mail. The communication system permits a user of the system to send an internet message via post mail including the mailing address for delivery. The post mail office forwards the internet message via e-mail to the internet post office that is the closest to the addressee. This post office that is local to the addressee downloads this message, prints a hard copy on a paper, encloses it in an envelop and sends the hard copy to the addressee via usual local mail. The communication system also permits a user of the system to send paper mail to the post office. The post office scans the paper mail and forwards the scanned information data either to the addressee directly via internet or via a post office that is local to the addressee.
Abstract:
A method and system for forming a virtual network. The method comprises the steps of providing each of a plurality of mobile objects (102, 105) with a transceiver (104), and transmitting a cellular/radio signals from a source (101). At least a first (105) of the mobile objects is located in an area (100) where the transceiver (104) of the first mobile object (105) does not receive the signal directly from the source (101), while a second (102) of the mobile objects is in a position where the transceiver (104) of the second mobile object (102) receives the signal directly from the source (101). The transceiver (104) of the second mobile object (102) is used to receive the signal directly from the source (101) and to transmit the signal to the transceiver (104) of the first mobile object (105).
Abstract:
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a web page adaptive system and method for editing display data related to a web site corresponding to a display and window for displaying a home page. SOLUTION: Various display access strategies are provided for a visual device in the wide range such as a standard PC monitor 113a, lap-top screen, perm top, web phone 113d and display of digital camera, and large window to small window, for example. In the new web site design, a mechanism is taken in for automatically displaying the contents of the home page through the easiest method for a user for displaying contents on the screen or the window in the prescribed size. A link is displayed together with any text or picture to become the link destination when it is allowable for the size of display screen or window, for example.
Abstract:
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a substitute driver located at a designated server over the Internet. SOLUTION: When a substitute driver having compatibility over the Internet converts a floppy disk incompatible with a computer, a special general purpose bit reader has to be prepared in a server. Instead of this, a bit reader can be arranged in a user computer and connected to a global server. In this case, all files can be accessed via the Internet. Thus, data can be read and written to/from a disk formatted by a different operating system. In order to carry out an application incompatible with an operating system on a computer, where the disk is inserted, a database server which stores the database for applications of different kinds of operating systems retrieves a similar application with a general-purpose driver on the server.
Abstract:
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an electronic photographic device that automatically transmits an authentication signal which allows receivers of the authentication signal to use a likeness captured in a photographic image. SOLUTION: The electronic photographic device includes an image capture mechanism for capturing a photographic image, a controller for starting photographic authentication by generating an authentication signal at the capture of the photographic image by the image capture mechanism and a transmitter for transmitting the authentication signal generated by the controller towards a physical location at which the photographic image is captured. The authentication signal identifies a website URL at which information relating to the captured photographic image can be accessed to allow a person who has received the authentication signal to access the website and provide or deny an authentication for its use. COPYRIGHT: (C)2010,JPO&INPIT
Abstract:
In one exemplary embodiment, a storage medium embodying a program of instructions for performing operations includes: storing raw information for primary properties of primary nodes within a primary network; in response to receiving a query, transforming the raw information into transformed information using keyes and based on the query, the query is in relation to a queried property, the transformed information is transformed data for the queried property, the transformed information represents a surrogate network having surrogate nodes corresponding to a portion of the primary nodes, the transformed information enables performance of operation without specific knowledge of and without revealing the entirety, the transformed information further enables one having the keyes to relate an output of the operation to the raw information; and generating a solution that relates a transformed query to the transformed information, the transformed query is a transformed representation of the query obtained by using the keyes.
Abstract:
An improved apparatus and method is provided for operating devices and systems in a motor vehicle, while at the same time reducing vehicle operator distractions. One or more touch sensitive pads (112) are mounted on the steering wheel (114) of the motor vehicle (100), and the vehicle operator (104) touches the pads (112) in a pre-specified synchronized pattern, to perform functions such as controlling operation of the radio or adjusting a window. At least some of the touch patterns used to generate different commands may be selected by the vehicle operator (104). Usefully, the system of touch pad sensors and the signals generated thereby are integrated with speech recognition (304) and/or facial gesture recognition systems (306), so that commands may be generated by synchronized multi-mode inputs.
Abstract:
Techniques for electronic communication warning and modification. A method includes automatically detecting an emotional state of a sender of an electronic communication, encoding the detected emotional state of the sender, using input from at least one additional source, as metadata, embedding the metadata in the electronic communication to create an annotated version of the electronic communication, and transmitting the annotated version of the electronic communication to a recipient.
Abstract:
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a method of generating a virtual image according to a relative position of one or more of persons as objects browsing an existing image, for a special effect, to be superimposed to the existing image. SOLUTION: The image is generated to browse intensified reality. The objects are the persons existing in the vicinity of a transparent support body such as a screen and a window. The persons browse the intensified reality through the screen/window. A virtual object on the screen is prepared by a method to impart a real impression to the persons different each other browsing the same screen/window, and the virtual reality is generated to prepare the intensified reality for the one or plurality of browsing persons browsing the same real object. COPYRIGHT: (C)2008,JPO&INPIT
Abstract:
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an information processing and displaying system which is embedded or house in a compact and portable article and projects data of high image quality or an image to be expressed to a separate screen or surface. SOLUTION: This processing device is a compact device including a device for expressing a text, image information and the data, incorporating the information processing and displaying system for projecting the video to the separate display surface, and incorporating a data display function. And also a method for using the compact information processing device incorporating a projector for projecting data to a separated surface is provided.