Abstract: A robot includes a spherical housing, a frame disposed in the housing, and a display that displays at least a facial feature of the robot. The robot further includes a set of driving wheels that are in contact with an inner surface of the housing to rotate the housing, and a weight driving mechanism that causes a weight to move along a predetermined axis. Also, the robot includes a power supply that is externally charged and supplies electric power to the set of driving wheels and weight driving mechanism, and a control circuit that stops rotation of the set of driving wheels and moves the weight along the predetermined axis to correspondingly move the display vertically.

Abstract: A control method for a mobile device that controls one or more illumination devices, the mobile device including a display, a computer, and a memory, the control method causing the computer of the mobile device to execute acquiring a piece of mobile-device location information indicating a location where the mobile device is present, sorting one or more setting screens corresponding to the respective one or more illumination devices using information stored in the memory, the information indicating correspondences between the one or more illumination devices and one or more pieces of illumination-device location information indicating locations where the respective one or more illumination devices are present, displaying the sorted one or more setting screens on the display, and transmitting a control signal in accordance with setting information indicating an illumination state set through the setting screens, to the one or more illumination devices.

Abstract: When there are no customers in a store, a laser is scanned along an aisle between product shelving units installed in the store, and if that laser is reflected midway in the optical path, it is determined that there is an object in the sensing range according to the laser. The determination result is then notified to a user by a site that corresponds to the position where the laser has been reflected being marked in a layout image that represents the product shelving units, displayed on a terminal device.

Abstract: A content sharing system includes: a server; a first information communication apparatus; and a second information communication apparatus, in which the first information communication apparatus includes a reserve requesting unit which sends to the server a reserve request message for requesting to reserve a sharing space to be newly generated, the reserve request message including first identification information for identifying the second information communication apparatus or the user using the second information communication apparatus, and the server includes: a first storage; and a sharing space generating unit which, upon receiving the reserve request message, generates the sharing space in the first storage, and stores in the first storage the first identification information included in the reserve request message.

Abstract: A method for controlling a mobile terminal that controls lighting devices that illuminate spaces, the terminal including a display and a memory. The method causes a computer of the terminal to obtain current time information, rearrange scene icons, using the memory that stores scenes indicating illumination states established by the lighting devices and scene time information indicating times of the scenes, while associating the scenes and the scene time information with each other. The scene icons correspond to the scenes based on the current time information and the scene time information. The rearranged scene icons are displayed on the display, and, when a scene icon is selected, a control signal for controlling the lighting devices is transmitted to the lighting devices, so that the spaces are illuminated in an illumination state indicated by a scene corresponding to the selected scene icon.

Abstract: A method for controlling a mobile terminal that includes a display and a memory, and that controls one or more lighting devices that illuminate one or more spaces. The method causes a computer of the mobile terminal and includes obtaining terminal location information indicating a location of the mobile terminal, rearranging one or more scene icons corresponding to the one or more scenes on the basis of the terminal location information and the one or more pieces of scene location information, displaying the rearranged one or more scene icons on the display, and transmitting, if one of the one or more scene icons is selected by a user, a control signal for controlling the one or more lighting devices to the one or more lighting devices, so that the one or more spaces are illuminated in an illumination state indicated by a scene corresponding to the selected scene icon.

Abstract: A content processing device accumulates, at every predetermined time period, social information that defines the relationship and the degree of intimacy between users calculated based on lifelog information between the users; determines a time period when a content was generated, out of the predetermined time periods, from meta-information of the content; determines an evaluation time period from the determined time period; calculates a degree of intimacy between shared users during the evaluation time period; determines the priority of the evaluation time period according to the magnitude of the degree of intimacy; and controls output of the content generated during the evaluation time period according to the determined priority.

Abstract: A method for controlling a communications terminal is provided. The method includes causing a computer included in the communications terminal to store first illumination setting information and second illumination setting information in the memory; causing the computer of the communications terminal to transmit, at a certain illumination start time at which the illumination device is to be turned on, a first control signal corresponding to the first illumination setting information to the illumination device such that the illumination device is set to the first illumination state; and causing the computer of the communications terminal to transmit, in a case where the sensor senses a motion of the communications terminal after the certain illumination start time has passed, a second control signal corresponding to the second illumination setting information to the illumination device such that the illumination device is set to the second illumination state.

Abstract: A content control device is provided with a receiving content accumulation unit which accumulates contents received from a terminal device connected via a network, an operation history information managing unit which manages operation history information indicative of a history on operations with respect to a first content accumulated in the receiving content accumulation unit, and a content control unit which generates control information for controlling a second content based on the operation history information, the second content corresponding to the first content and accumulated in the terminal device.

Abstract: A content information access control unit (107) displays terminal content (301 to 315), which is stored in a storage terminal owned by a user, on a display unit, displays a sharing mark (213), which represents a sharing service used to share content, on the display unit in association with shared content that has been shared on the sharing service, among the terminal content displayed on the display unit, and displays a terminal mark (214) representing the storage terminal on the display unit in association with the terminal content displayed on the display unit.

Abstract: A control method of a mobile device that controls one or more pieces of lighting equipment that illuminate a space includes: displaying a scene configuration screen that includes a configuration screen for configuring a new scene, and a configuration finish button; transmitting to the one or more pieces of lighting equipment a control signal based on configuration information indicating a lighting state configured by user operations on the configuration screen; activating the image capture unit after the configuration finish button is selected; storing in memory the configuration information from when the configuration finish button was selected as configuration information for the new scene, and also storing an image acquired by the image capture unit as a scene icon of the new scene; and displaying a new scene selection screen that includes the scene icon of the new scene.

Abstract: An MD management device manages action statistics associated with each of a plurality of shelving units. Action statistics for one shelving unit indicate actions that store visitors make near the shelving unit. An information terminal device acquires, from the MD management device merchandising information for each shelving unit. Merchandising information for one shelving unit includes a value of statistics for the shelving unit. The information terminal device displays a store screen including one or more shelving unit icons each representing one of one or more shelving units located in a store. Further, the information terminal device displays a graphic item in the vicinity of each shelving unit icon. The graphic item is displayed in a display state that is in accordance with the value of statistics for the corresponding shelving unit.

Abstract: A content information access control unit (107) displays terminal content (301 to 315), which is stored in a storage terminal owned by a user, on a display unit, displays a sharing mark (213), which represents a sharing service used to share content, on the display unit in association with shared content that has been shared on the sharing service, among the terminal content displayed on the display unit, and displays a terminal mark (214) representing the storage terminal on the display unit in association with the terminal content displayed on the display unit.

Abstract: Attribute information is extracted from content stored by users. A product expression model indicating a product display method is corrected using reference information pertaining to content characteristics suitable for the product expression model and using attribute information. Processing information is then determined for making the content suit the corrected product expression model. The content is processed according to the determined processing information and a product is generated using the corrected product expression model.

Abstract: A data processing device includes an input unit which acquires image data, a meaning information extraction unit which extracts meaning information indicating a feature of an object image included in an image represented by the image data, a compression specifying unit which determines an initial value of a compression ratio, a compression unit which compresses the image data according to the compression ratio to generate compressed image data, and a determination unit which determines whether or not the meaning information can be extracted from the compressed image data. The compression specifying unit further changes the compression ratio from the initial value according to a result of the determination by the determination unit, and when the compression ratio is changed, the compression unit further compresses the image data according to the changed compression ratio to newly generate compressed image data.

Abstract: A query input by a user is acquired, the structure of a target Web page is analyzed, a query related region relating to the query is determined from the target Web page, the query related region is adjusted on the basis of rectangle information indicating the size of the rectangle of a terminal screen and a query Web page is created, and the created query Web page is transmitted to a terminal device.

Abstract: An item presentation system detects a movement of a customer in a store, and includes a presentation apparatus that performs the item presentation in the store based on detection results. The item presentation method of the item presentation system includes: detecting a first movement indicating that the customer enters a predetermined area around a product shelf; detecting a second movement indicating that the customer reaches out one hand to a first item as one of the items displayed on the product shelf; starting to count time from a moment that the second movement is detected if the second movement is detected after the first movement is detected; and causing the presentation apparatus to perform the item presentation on the item to which the customer reaches out the hand in the product shelf if the time counted becomes equal to a predetermined period of time.

Abstract: A control method for a mobile device that controls one or more illumination devices, the mobile device including a display, a computer, and a memory, the control method causing the computer of the mobile device to execute acquiring a piece of mobile-device location information indicating a location where the mobile device is present, sorting one or more setting screens corresponding to the respective one or more illumination devices using information stored in the memory, the information indicating correspondences between the one or more illumination devices and one or more pieces of illumination-device location information indicating locations where the respective one or more illumination devices are present, displaying the sorted one or more setting screens on the display, and transmitting a control signal in accordance with setting information indicating an illumination state set through the setting screens, to the one or more illumination devices.

Abstract: An information display method is disclosed in a control system in which a lighting mode is selected from among a plurality of lighting modes, and lighting equipment is controlled at a lighting target area in accordance with the selected lighting mode. The method comprising: generating each of the merchandising values representing an index for evaluating a performance of at least one store; classifying each of the merchandising values in according with each of time periods; obtaining lighting mode information from the control system, the lighting mode information indicating the lighting mode selected in each of the time periods; and transmitting to the terminal device, each of the classified merchandising values and each pieces of the obtained lighting mode information corresponding to each of the classified merchandising values, in each of the time periods.

Abstract: When there are no customers in a store, a laser is scanned along an aisle between product shelving units installed in the store, and if that laser is reflected midway in the optical path, it is determined that there is an object in the sensing range according to the laser. The determination result is then notified to a user by a site that corresponds to the position where the laser has been reflected being marked in a layout image that represents the product shelving units, displayed on a terminal device.