Abstract:
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an incentive award providing device, an incentive award providing method, a computer readable program which records an incentive award providing program, and an incentive award providing program in which more useful knowledge information needed by an information receiver is circulated and an information provider can receive the useful knowledge information. SOLUTION: The incentive award providing device 1 provides incentive award for the information provider as a fee for the knowledge information provided from a terminal of the information provider, and it is provided with an information providing means 5 with which the information provider provides the knowledge information, a circulation means 3, 11 which circulates the knowledge information among the information receivers, an information value estimate means 19 which estimates the value of the circulated knowledge information, and an incentive award providing means 7, 11, 17, 21 which provides the information provider with awards appropriate to the estimation. COPYRIGHT: (C)2003,JPO
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide field of mediation between a contents producer and a contents user and effectively utilize a contents resource. SOLUTION: A service body 1 registers and keeps contents, based on the request from the contents producer 2 of images, voices, or the like, prepares a catalog for the contents so that a contents user 3 can read the catalog via a network; and when contents delivery is requested from an optional contents user, conducts service to deliver the contents to the requested contents user 3.
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To easily manage software and to enable a user to use provided newest software, without failing to notice it. SOLUTION: Additional software provided is stored in an additional software storage means 20b built in a software supply device 20. An additional software list extracting means 10f extracts an additional software list stored in the means 20b, a software list extracting means 10g extracts software stored in a software storage means 30, an additional software selection means 10h compares the additional software list extracted by the means 10f with the software list extracted by the means 10g, selects an additional software to be acquired and extracts the selected additional software from the means 20b, and an additional software writing means 10j stores the extracted additional software in the means 30.
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To enable a user to easily and effectively read the operation of equipment including an operation screen produced by a GUI and also the action that is caused by the said operation of the equipment. SOLUTION: The operation know-how, etc., concerning equipment including an operation screen produced by the GUI are animated and registered on an operation know-how data base 6 as animation data via an operation knowledgeable person terminal 1 and an expert terminal 3. The registered animation data are read by means of a Web browser, etc., provided with plug-in software that reproduces the animation data via the terminal 1, a user terminal 2 and the terminal 3. A media production system 7 prints the animation data on a storage medium 8 and distributes them to users.
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To allows the easy file conversion of a plurality of videos stored at a recording medium with an inexpensive device. SOLUTION: Time codes are extracted from reproduced picture recording videos 40 by a time code extracting means 11; the discontinuous positions of the time codes are detected by a discontinuous position detecting means 12; file names to the sets of the frames segmented by the discontinuous positions are formed by a file name forming means 13; the reproduced picture recording videos 40 are converted to digital signals by a digital signal converting means 14 and the picture recording videos 40 converted to the digital signals are stored by each of the frames segmented in the discontinuous positions into an edited video storing means 15 by imparting the file names formed by a file name forming means 13 to the frames.
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To realize the grasp of progress of students attending a lecture, a speedy change in contents, an efficient joint work by many producers, and timely information services. SOLUTION: In an additional information input device 3, additional information is inputted to a proper point while an information material 1 is being reproduced, and is stored in an additional information server 5. A continuous information reproducing device 4 starts reproducing the information material 1 on students' sides, and displays the reproduced video at any time. Then, when the additional information reaches a preset reproduction position, the reproducing device stops reproducing, and displays the additional information from the additional information server 5 with the reproduced video. As the additional information, for example, tests for grasping the progress of students can be mentioned. The additional information server 5 manages storage of additional information, marking processing of tests, storage of marking results, a reproduction start position in the continuous information reproducing device 4, a position for inserting the additional information, etc.
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To easily realize scrupious education and training, utilization of video, understanding of education and training contents from low order to high order, and inter-attendants information exchange. SOLUTION: A server device 5 of a supplemental information service entrepreneur controls and monitors transmission and reception of the questions and answers mailed between the terminals of attendants 4 and the terminal of an instructor 20, and also stores the information on the questions and answers useful for a knowledge database 15, the supplemental information or the like for supplementing the education and training. When reproducing the contents 3 of the education and training recorded in a recording medium, the attendant terminals 4 display a picture for making access to the accompanying information. The attendant terminals 4 make access to the server device 5 of the accompanying information service entrepreneur via the Internet 2 by a prescribed operation to the above picture, and obtains the accompanying information from the knowledge database 15 to visually and audibly display it to the attendants.
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To realize a transaction mediating method and transaction mediating apparatus for mediating production transaction, which meets the demands of both the contents production commission side and the contents production consignee side. SOLUTION: The production concept of a consignor 3 is registered in an original plan data base 12c. When a consignee 2 gains access to a service entrepreneur 1 to find a production concept to be entrusted among the production concepts registered in the data base, the service entrepreneur 1 mediates the transaction between the consignor 3 having the production concept and the consignee 2, and manages the contract execution, when the consignor agrees with transaction and both of the consignor and the consignee conclude the production entrust contract, whereby the transaction which matches both demands of the contents production commission side and the contents production consignee side can be mediated.
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a contents evaluation supporting method, a contents evaluation supporting device, and a storage medium storing a program for the contents evaluation supporting method, capable of paying for consideration, corresponding to the evaluation of the audience for the contents provided via the media to a contents producer. SOLUTION: This contents evaluation supporting device 10 is equipped with a first data base DB1 (an identification information data base 12, an audience information data base 13), in which the identification information of the specified contents, deposited evaluation amount of money, and audience information are mutually correlated, registered and stored; and a second database (producer information database) in which the information of the deposited evaluation amount of money and the producer information of the contents are correlated, registered and stored according to the evaluation of the audience 30 to the contents. The evaluation of the audience 30 to the contents is fed-back to the contents producer 40 in the form of paying to the deposited evaluation amount of money.
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a material processing providing system, in which a user can appropriately request the processing of a material and labor for the material processing is not required. SOLUTION: A material processing information is produced along the requirement of material processing received from a user 1 via the Internet 2 at an enterprise main body 4. The material is processed, according to the material processing information produced, and the material 7 processed is delivered to the user 1 by a home-delivery service agency.