Abstract: Provided is an information acquisition method in an information acquisition system including an information device possessed by a user. A detecting step detects a specific action performed by the user while driving a motor vehicle. A first saving step acquires and saves, in a storage unit, motor vehicle position information indicating a position of the motor vehicle if the specific action is detected by the detecting step. A deleting step deletes the motor vehicle position information from the storage unit in a case in which the specific action is an action other than an action of speaking a voice phrase, and when a designated time elapses in a case in which the user does not perform an action of speaking a voice phrase from a time at which the specific action was detected and before the designated time elapses.

Abstract: An information notification method includes obtaining a parking time limit during which a user is allowed to continuously park a vehicle at a parking lot, measuring a travel time required for the user to move from the parking lot to a destination, obtaining a round trip time required for the user to make a round trip between the destination and the parking lot, calculating a remaining time during which the user is allowed to stay at the destination by subtracting, from the parking time limit, the round trip time and an elapsed time measured from when the user has reached the destination, determining whether the remaining time is less than or equal to a threshold value preset to zero or greater, and notifying the user that the remaining time is short if it is determined that the remaining time is less than or equal to the threshold value.

Abstract: Provided is a content management device for protecting a content of a provider. A content management device 800 deletes one or more contents shared with and held by a user of another device. The content management device 800 comprises: a sharing unit 801 configured to distribute the contents to the user and thereby share the contents with the user; and a switching unit 802 configured to switch a method of the deletion to another method according to a time elapsed from the distribution.

Abstract: A pairing server (313) includes: a first generation unit (317a) which generates a first pairing identifier when the pairing server receives a first request from a receiving terminal (307); a first transmitting unit (316a) which transmits the first pairing identifier to the receiving terminal (307) in response to the first request; a second generation unit (317b) which generates a second pairing identifier when the pairing server receives from a transmitting terminal (301) a second request which includes the first pairing identifier; a second transmitting unit (316b) which transmits the second pairing identifier to the receiving terminal (307) or the transmitting terminal (301) in response to the second request; and a pairing unit (315e) which pairs the receiving terminal (307) and the transmitting terminal (301) when the pairing server receives a third request which includes the first pairing identifier and the second pairing identifier.

Abstract: A pairing server includes: a second determination unit which, when a first request is received from a transmitting terminal and a second request is received from a receiving terminal, determines whether or not there is matching of pairing identifiers included in the first and second requests and whether or not there is matching of communication device information included in the first and second requests; and a pairing unit which pairs the transmitting terminal and the receiving terminal using a first device identifier included in the first request and a second device identifier included in the second request when it is determined that there is matching of the pairing identifiers included in the first and second requests and that there is matching of the communication device information included in the first and second requests.

Abstract: When a secure counter malfunction detection unit 212 deters a malfunction in a secure counter 211, a content playability judgment unit 206 performs a content playability judgment based on information managed by a malfunctioning-state playback processing management unit 214. The malfunctioning-state playback processing management unit 214 stores a malfunctioning-state playback condition composed of information such as a playback count and a playback time. The content playability judgment unit 206 judges that content is playable when the malfunctioning-state playback condition is met, and a content playback unit 210 splays the content.

Abstract: An editing server is a multimedia content editing server that generates multimedia content including: media data including an image; and a media control script for controlling a reproduction scenario that includes at least one of a layout, a reproduction order, and a reproduction effect of the media data. The editing server includes: a script generation unit that generates the media control script, according to processing capability information that indicates a processing capability of a terminal for the media control script; and a multimedia content generation unit that generates the multimedia content including the media control script.

Abstract: A fatigue degree estimating method analyzes log information including an operation log of a user with respect to a device and a state log of the device for analyzing a direct operation by the user with respect to the device, and movement of the user before and after the direct operation; and estimates the fatigue degree of each part of the user and of a mental part of the user by the analyzed direct operation and the analyzed movement before and after the direct operation. The estimated fatigue degree of each part of the user and of the mental part of the user are notified to the user.

Abstract: A premium update system includes: an article transmission unit (607) which transmits via a network an article by a policy holder who has signed a predetermined contract with a service provider providing a predetermined service; an article display unit (609) which displays the article transmitted by the article transmission unit (607) to a viewer other than the policy holder; an interaction degree determination unit (901) which determines an interaction degree showing the degree of interaction relationship between the policy holder and the viewer; and a premium update unit (604) which determines the content (premium) of the contract in accordance with the interaction degree determined by the interaction degree determination unit (901).

Abstract: One aspect of the present disclosure provides an information presentation method for presenting a recommended guarantee content of a first device included in a plurality of devices. The information presentation method includes acquiring use history information including data indicating use of the first device (S3210), generating information indicating a use situation of the first device based on the use history information and processing defined in each type of the device (S3220), deciding the recommended guarantee content of the first device based on the information indicating the use situation of the first device (S3230), and presenting the recommended guarantee content to a user of the first device (S3240).

Abstract: A content presentation method includes: obtaining behavior history information of a user; determining a frequency for generating content based on the behavior history information and generating the content at the determined frequency, the content being for interaction with the user made by a device; and presenting the generated content to the user by distributing the generated content. For example, the determining further includes determining a type of the content to be generated based on the behavior history information and generating the content of the determined type.

Abstract: Disclosed is an information providing method and so on including: obtaining a use history of a device used by a user for processing on a substance; and providing information according to the obtained use history to the user, wherein the processing on the substance includes a movement of the substance or a change in a temperature of the substance. This allows providing the user of the device with information suitable for the user when the user simply uses a device for doing routine housework, without requiring the user to input information such as search words.

Abstract: A matching method includes: accumulating log information indicating histories of operations performed on devices by users; receiving a request for information regarding use of a first device from an information requester being one of the users and using the first device; analyzing log information of the first device from among the log information accumulated in the accumulating; identifying, as an information provider candidate, at least one of the users using a second device by using the log information of the first device analyzed in the analyzing and log information of the second device being of the same type as the first device; notifying the information provider candidate of the request from the information requester; and notifying the information requester of provided information which is information regarding use of the first device and provided by the information provider candidate in response to the request.

Abstract: An information displaying method includes: obtaining, for each of users, usage history information items on one or more appliances used by the user; calculating a utilization characteristic based on a usage history information item on a predetermined appliance among the one or more appliances used by a predetermined user among the users, the utilization characteristic being of the predetermined user using the predetermined appliance, and the usage history information item on the obtained predetermined appliance; obtaining, for each of the user, a post information item posted by the user; and displaying, in association with each other, (i) a utilization characteristic information item on the utilization characteristic calculated in the calculating and (ii) the post information item posted by the predetermined user, the utilization characteristic being of the predetermined user using the predetermined appliance, and the post information item being obtained in the obtaining of a post information item.

Abstract: When license information is transferred between a server machine and a client machine, an identifier which is unique to a series of communication sequences is provided. The identifier is sent when a communication is performed between the two machines, as well as when the license information is updated. Therefore, when a message for transferring the license information is received by the use of the same identifier, a response message is returned without updating the license information.

Abstract: A video search device extracts a plurality of objects each contained in a different one of frames of a video, assigns a weight value to each of the extracted objects based on a time-series feature of the frame containing the object, and searches for an object similar to each of the extracted objects based on the extracted objects each having the weight value assigned thereto.

Abstract: A data processing apparatus that determines a target region within a picture contained in a video content, on the basis of a trajectory input by a user in order to surround a moving object in the video content. The data processing apparatus includes an input unit configured to receive input data showing the trajectory input by the user in the displayed video content, and a correction unit configured to correct an input region, which is a region specified by the trajectory expressed by the input data, to thereby determine the target region.

Abstract: An editing server is a multimedia content editing server that generates multimedia content including: media data including an image; and a media control script for controlling a reproduction scenario that includes at least one of a layout, a reproduction order, and a reproduction effect of the media data. The editing server includes: a script generation unit that generates the media control script, according to processing capability information that indicates a processing capability of a terminal for the media control script; and a multimedia content generation unit that generates the multimedia content including the media control script.

Abstract: A vehicle temperature control apparatus for controlling temperature of a temperature control object, which is at least one of inside air of a vehicle compartment and a vehicle component, includes a heat capacitive element capable of storing heat, a refrigeration cycle in which heat is absorbed from a low temperature side and is dissipated to a high temperature side, a heat exchanger that causes the heat capacitive element to exchange heat with refrigerant of the refrigeration cycle, and a heat dissipation portion which dissipates heat in the refrigerant of the refrigeration cycle to the temperature control object. Thus, a temperature control by using the heat capacitive element can be effectively performed.

Abstract: A battery temperature regulating device is applied to a battery pack configured by parallely connecting battery groups, each of which is a series connection of battery cells capable of charge and discharge. The device regulates temperatures of the battery groups. The battery temperature regulating device includes a heat transfer unit that transfers heat of a part of the battery groups to another battery group.