Abstract: A communication system includes a management server, a plurality of master stations, and a plurality of slave stations, where a first slave station transmitting a search signal identifying a first master station which corresponds to the first slave station, each of the plurality of master stations, when having received the search signal, transmitting a report to the management server, the report including identification information of the master station, identification information of the first slave station, and signal information related to the search signal, and the management server determining the first master station, from among the plurality of master stations, which corresponds to the first slave station, based on a plurality of the reports respectively received from the plurality of master stations, and associating the first slave station and the first master station with each other.

Abstract: In a communication system in which a plurality of master stations wirelessly communicate with a plurality of slave stations in a predetermined cycle, each of the plurality of slave stations being associated with one of the plurality of master stations, and the communication system includes: an allocation processor that allocates the plurality of master stations respectively to a plurality of temporal intervals resulting from time-division of the predetermined cycle, in a predetermined channel; and a communication processor that, in each of the plurality of temporal intervals, causes the master station to communicate with a plurality of slave stations associated with the master station, within that temporal interval.

Abstract: A body motion detection section (2) for continuously detecting the frequency of a user's activity as an activity level is provided. The activity level detected by the body motion detection section (2) is outputted to a fatigue detection section (3) for estimating a user's fatigue level on the basis of the activity level.

Abstract: A remote code reader system sends a code read by a code reader to an appropriate function by utilizing identification information assigned specific to a client in order to select a function. A barcode reader and a host computer connected to a network are included therein. An ID (pen ID) of the barcode reader 1 and a barcode as read are transmitted to the host computer through a terminal connected to the network. The host computer decodes the received pen ID to select a CGI which conforms to the pen ID, and sends the barcode to the CGI 9 as selected in order to make the CGI process it.

Abstract: A remote code reader system sends a code read by a code reader to an appropriate function by utilizing identification information assigned specific to a client in order to select a function. A barcode reader and a host computer connected to a network are included therein. An ID (pen ID) of the barcode reader 1 and a barcode as read are transmitted to the host computer through a terminal connected to the network. The host computer decodes the received pen ID to select a CGI which conforms to the pen ID, and sends the barcode to the CGI 9 as selected in order to make the CGI process it.

Abstract: In step S260, a center server 31 accesses a search engine 98 to search for each of a company name and a commodity name corresponding to a barcode 11 as received in step S254, on a network 33. In step S262, the center server 31 acquires URLs which appear at the highest positions in the search ranking of the respective search results, and regards them as an address of an web site of the company and an address of an web site of the commodity. In step S264, the center server 31 transmits an individual portal screen, which includes link buttons for accessing the acquired URLs (the home page of the company and the web site of the commodity), to a PC 43.

Abstract: A remote code reader system sends a code read by a code reader to an appropriate function by utilizing identification information assigned specific to a client in order to select a function. A barcode reader and a host computer connected to a network are included therein. An ID (pen ID) of the barcode reader 1 and a barcode as read are transmitted to the host computer through a terminal connected to the network. The host computer decodes the received pen ID to select a CGI which conforms to the pen ID, and sends the barcode to the CGI 9 as selected in order to make the CGI process it.

Abstract: Each time stepping motion of a player by a stepper 1 is detected, one firework object 214 appears on a television monitor 100 and then disappears. Each a predetermined number of times of the stepping motion of the player is detected, a more spectacular firework object than that of one step is displayed. If the player performs the stepping motion by frequency as a quota shown in a quota display section 212, this screen is finished.

Abstract: A stroboscope is utilized as an input device of a golf game system (10), for example. The golf game system includes a game machine (12) as an information processing apparatus and a golf-club-shaped input device (14), and within a housing of the game machine, an imaging unit (28) is housed, and the imaging unit is provided with an image sensor (40) and an infrared-LED. By utilizing the infrared-LED, an infrared ray is intermittently emitted to a predetermined range of an upper portion of the imaging unit. Accordingly, the image sensor intermittently images a reflective body provided in the golf-club-shaped input device moving within the range. Such the stroboscope image processing of the reflective body enables calculation of a velocity, and so on as an input of the game machine.

Abstract: A service providing apparatus 100 capable of providing a service while effectively managing execution codes and screen configuration information stored in the apparatus includes: a display apparatus 108; a communication unit 101; an obtaining unit 151 for obtaining an execution code for providing the service through communication unit 101; an execution code storage 102 for storing the obtained execution code; a screen configuration information storage 103 for storing screen configuration information defining screen configuration to be displayed at the time of execution of the execution code; and a management unit 104 managing these units such that by the time the service is provided, the execution code and screen configuration information necessary for providing the service are stored in the execution code storage 102 and screen configuration information storage 103, and executing, in response to a service providing instruction, the execution code stored in the execution code storage 102 using the screen conf

Abstract: A measurement data communication device for measuring a health condition of an examinee and transmitting a plurality of measurement values representing a result of the measurement, to an information acquiring device managing the measurement values, includes: communication information generating means for generating communication information in accordance with (i) an attribute definition column defining attributes of the plurality of measurement values, and (ii) a code value uniquely corresponding to the attribute definition column; measurement data generating means for generating measurement data in accordance with the code value and the plurality of measurement values; and transmitting means for transmitting the communication information and the measurement data to the information acquiring device.

Abstract: A number of various and arbitrary local barcode readers 7 read barcodes 11 and transmit the barcodes 11 to a host computer 1 through communication terminals 5f or 5m corresponding thereto and the Internet 3. The host computer 1 performs a predetermined process by the use of the barcode 11 which is transmitted by the local barcode reader 7. The host computer 1 transmits HTML information to the terminal 5 for showing a display on the terminal 5. The terminal 5 can show a various display in accordance with the HTML information which is received.

Abstract: A terminal 5 to which a USB device 7 is connected accesses a host computer 1 firstly to transmit a serial number of the USB device 7. The host computer 1 accesses a database 11 with the serial number as an index to retrieve a URL related to the serial number, and instructs the terminal to access the URL. Hence, a WEB page is sent from a WEB server W-2 addressed by the URL to the terminal 5, and is displayed on the terminal 5. In this way, the host computer 1 can subsequently determine the WEB server to be accessed in accordance with the serial number because of the fact of absolutely passing through the host computer 1.

Abstract: A stroboscope is utilized as an input device of a golf game system (10), for example. The golf game system includes a game machine (12) as an information processing apparatus and a golf-club-shaped input device (14), and within a housing of the game machine, an imaging unit (28) is housed, and the imaging unit is provided with an image sensor (40) and an infrared-LED. By utilizing the infrared-LED, an infrared ray is intermittently emitted to a predetermined range of an upper portion of the imaging unit. Accordingly, the image sensor intermittently images a reflective body provided in the golf-club-shaped input device moving within the range. Such the stroboscope image processing of the reflective body enables calculation of a velocity, and so on as an input of the game machine.

Abstract: A body motion detection section (2) for continuously detecting the frequency of a user's activity as an activity level is provided. The activity level detected by the body motion detection section (2) is outputted to a fatigue detection section (3) for estimating a user's fatigue level on the basis of the activity level.

Abstract: Each time stepping motion of a player by a stepper 1 is detected, one firework object 214 appears on a television monitor 100 and then disappears. Each a predetermined number of times of the stepping motion of the player is detected, a more spectacular firework object than that of one step is displayed. If the player performs the stepping motion by frequency as a quota shown in a quota display section 212, this screen is finished.

Abstract: A stroboscope is utilized as an input device of a golf game system (10), for example. The golf game system includes a game machine (12) as an information processing apparatus and a golf-club-shaped input device (14), and within a housing of the game machine, an imaging unit (28) is housed, and the imaging unit is provided with an image sensor (40) and an infrared-LED. By utilizing the infrared-LED, an infrared ray is intermittently emitted to a predetermined range of an upper portion of the imaging unit. Accordingly, the image sensor intermittently images a reflective body provided in the golf-club-shaped input device moving within the range. Such the stroboscope image processing of the reflective body enables calculation of a velocity, and so on as an input of the game machine.

Abstract: A photo-transistor 31 is arranged to overlap with a light emitting diode 33 in a longitudinal direction of a barcode reader 7 and on a side, to which the light emitting diode 33 emits light. In this case, the photo-transistor 31 and the light emitting diode 33 are arranged on the same optical axis. As the result, since depth of focus and depth of field overlap with each other in the optical axial direction, it is believed that resolution in reading a bar-code is secured in wide range in the optical axis direction. The depth of focus includes an image point when the light emitting diode 33 is positioned at an object point. The depth of field includes an object point when the photo-transistor 31 is positioned at an image point.

Abstract: The content data output device of the present invention includes: an IrDA receiving section (13) for receiving content data; and a second input switching section (14) for storing the content data received by the IrDA receiving section (13) and implementing such control as to output the recorded content data in preference to other data. Therefore, the content data can be output by simply transmitting the content data to the data output device. The user is required no operation at all on the data output device.

Abstract: A content transmission device (11) transmits communications data by infrared. The content transmission device (11) includes: a one-way communications section (48) for transmitting the communications data by one-way communications; a two-way communications section (49) for transmitting the communications data by two-way communications; and a control section (40) for selecting which of the one-way communications section (48) and the two-way communications section (49) transmits the communications data.