Abstract: In content distribution, even if a reservation for a distribution channel and a distribution time slot is not performed before a predetermined time is reached, in response to a real-time distribution reservation request from a user PC, a predetermined time period including a current time at which the request is received is reserved in a channel which is unoccupied at the current time. A reservation setting information file concerning the reservation is also transmitted to the user PC, and reservation data is sent to a server-use reservation management center. Thus, the content received from the user PC is immediately distributed to clients via a streaming server according to the reservation setting information file.

Abstract: The present invention is intended to provide a data providing system including a data providing apparatus having provision image data generating means for generating provision image data of a provision image which is reusable by inlaying a predetermined advertisement image into a predetermined template image into which a predetermined user image can be inlaid as superimposed upon the predetermined advertisement image and providing-side transmitting means for transmitting the provision image data via a network.

Abstract: Provided are a III/V group nitride semiconductor causing an oxidation-reduction reaction at a high photoconversion efficiency by irradiation of light, a photocatalytic semiconductor device, a photocatalytic oxidation-reduction reaction apparatus, and an execution process of a photoelectrochemical reaction. In the III/V group nitride semiconductor, the full width at half maximum of an X-ray rocking curve on a catalytic reaction surface thereof is 400 arcsec or less, and a carrier density in a surface layer portion having the catalytic reaction surface is 1.5×1016 cm?3 or more, but 3.0×1018 cm?3 or less. The photocatalytic semiconductor device has the III/V group nitride semiconductor laminated on a substrate.

Abstract: The present invention is intended to provide a data providing system including a data providing apparatus having provision image data generating means for generating provision image data of a provision image which is reusable by inlaying a predetermined advertisement image into a predetermined template image into which a predetermined user image can be inlaid as superimposed upon the predetermined advertisement image and providing-side transmitting means for transmitting the provision image data via a network.

Abstract: The present invention is intended to provide a data providing system including a data providing apparatus having provision image data generating means for generating provision image data of a provision image which is reusable by inlaying a predetermined advertisement image into a predetermined template image into which a predetermined user image can be inlaid as superimposed upon the predetermined advertisement image and providing-side transmitting means for transmitting the provision image data via a network.

Abstract: A server for providing to a user terminal an additional service on a web page during setting a predetermined service including a determining unit configured to determine whether a request for provision of the additional service is received from the user terminal; a receiving unit configured to receive presentation information for introducing the predetermined service from the user terminal when the determining unit determines the request for provision of the additional service is received; a creating unit configured to create the web page including the presentation information; a posting unit configured to post the web page; and a fee charging unit configured to charge a fee for the additional service.

Abstract: A content distribution system, content distribution control apparatus, content distribution control method, content distribution control program and content distribution control program storage medium realizes the distribution of content to much more clients.

Abstract: The present invention is intended to provide a data providing system including a data providing apparatus having provision image data generating means for generating provision image data of a provision image which is reusable by inlaying a predetermined advertisement image into a predetermined template image into which a predetermined user image can be inlaid as superimposed upon the predetermined advertisement image and providing-side transmitting means for transmitting the provision image data via a network.

Abstract: The present invention is intended to provide a data providing system including a data providing apparatus having provision image data generating means for generating provision image data of a provision image which is reusable by inlaying a predetermined advertisement image into a predetermined template image into which a predetermined user image can be inlaid as superimposed upon the predetermined advertisement image and providing-side transmitting means for transmitting the provision image data via a network.

Abstract: The present invention is intended to provide a data providing system including a data providing apparatus having provision image data generating means for generating provision image data of a provision image which is reusable by inlaying a predetermined advertisement image into a predetermined template image into which a predetermined user image can be inlaid as superimposed upon the predetermined advertisement image and providing-side transmitting means for transmitting the provision image data via a network.

Abstract: A data providing system including a data providing apparatus having a provision image data generating device for generating data of a provision image that is reusable by inlaying an advertisement image into a template image into which a user image is inlaid and a providing-side transmitting device for transmitting the provision image data via a network. A data acquisition apparatus has an acquiring-side receiving device for receiving the provision image data via the network, a transmission image data generating device for generating data of a transmission image for displaying the provision image onto a display device, inlaying the user image into the template image of the provision image, and displaying the user image with the template image in preference to the advertisement image until the user image is detached from the template image, and a acquiring-side transmitting device for transmitting the transmission image data to a destination.

Abstract: In a semiconductor light-emitting device including a substrate, a first compound semiconductor layer including an active layer formed on the substrate, a second compound semiconductor layer of a ridge type formed on the first compound semiconductor layer, and a protective film formed above the first compound semiconductor layer on both sides of the second compound semiconductor layer, the disclosed semiconductor light-emitting device has a current blocking layer formed above the first compound semiconductor layer outside the protective film. This semiconductor light-emitting device is with a high production yield since readily cleaved and assembled, with adequately squeezed currents, and with, when assembled in the junction-down type, a high output and a longer life span.

Abstract: A semiconductor light-emitting device comprising a substrate having a surface having an off-angle to a crystallographic plane of low-degree surface orientation, the substrate having thereon: compound semiconductor layers including an active layer; a selective growth protective film formed on the compound semiconductor layers and having an opening at the region corresponding to a stripe region to which a current is injected; and a ridge-shaped compound semiconductor layer fomred to cover the opening. This semiconductor light-emitting device with stable laser property can be manufactured in a simplified way.

Abstract: A semiconductor light-emitting device comprising a substrate having a surface having an off-angle to a crystallographic plane of low-degree surface orientation, the substrate having thereon: compound semiconductor layers including an active layer; a selective growth protective film formed on the compound semiconductor layers and having an opening at the region corresponding to a stripe region to which a current is injected; and a ridge-shaped compound semiconductor layer formed to cover the opening. This semiconductor light-emitting device with stable laser property can be manufactured in a simplified way.

Abstract: A user PC sends an extension request for extending a time slot to a server-use reservation management center while distributing content to client PCs via a streaming server in a distribution channel and in the time slot. The server-use reservation management center sends a new reservation setting information file in which an extended time is set in response to the extension request to the user PC, and also sends extension information to the streaming server. Accordingly, the user PC is allowed to continue to send the content to the streaming server based on the new reservation setting information file, and the streaming server is allowed to continue to distribute the content. Thus, even when it is desired that the time slot be extended while the distribution is being performed, the content can be continuously distributed without suspending the distribution or making a new reservation.

Abstract: In content distribution, even if a reservation for a distribution channel and a distribution time slot is not performed before a predetermined time is reached, in response to a real-time distribution reservation request from a user PC, a predetermined time period including a current time at which the request is received is reserved in a channel which is unoccupied at the current time. A reservation setting information file concerning the reservation is also transmitted to the user PC, and reservation data is sent to a server-use reservation management center. Thus, the content received from the user PC is immediately distributed to clients via a streaming server according to the reservation setting information file.

Abstract: A content distribution system, content distribution control apparatus, content distribution control method, content distribution control program and content distribution control program storage medium realizes the distribution of content to much more clients.

Abstract: In a service providing system, a live-distribution service for live-distributing contents supplied according to a reservation, and a chat service for providing the use of a chat space corresponding to the reservation for live distribution are provided. After the live distribution finishes, a communication server sends the whole or a part of the contents of chatting performed in the chat space corresponding to the reservation for the live distribution, to a personal computer. With this, even if the user of the personal computer, who supplies the contents, could not participate in a chat with a user of another personal computer while capturing the contents, for example, the user of the personal computer can check the contents of the chat later.

Abstract: In a service providing system, a live-distribution service for live-distributing contents supplied according to a reservation, and a chat service for providing the use of a chat space corresponding to the reservation for the live distribution are provided.

Abstract: In a semiconductor light-emitting device including a substrate, a first compound semiconductor layer including an active layer formed on the substrate, a second compound semiconductor layer of a ridge type formed on the first compound semiconductor layer, and a protective film formed above the first compound semiconductor layer on both sides of the second compound semiconductor layer, the disclosed semiconductor light-emitting device has a current blocking layer formed above the first compound semiconductor layer outside the protective film. This semiconductor light-emitting device is with a high production yield since readily cleaved and assembled, with adequately squeezed currents, and with, when assembled in the junction-down type, a high output and a longer life span.