Abstract: An apparatus and method are described for providing enhanced network coverage in a wireless network. The apparatus has a first antenna system for providing a first sector of a network, and a second antenna system for providing a second sector of the network. Further, the apparatus has a third antenna system for communicating with a base station of the network to provide a common wireless backhaul link for the first sector and the second sector. The apparatus also comprises control circuitry to monitor a performance characteristic of the common wireless backhaul link, and in dependence on the performance characteristic, to implement at least one mechanism to influence whether items of user equipment within at least one of the first sector and the second sector connect to the network via the apparatus.

Abstract: The system controls a heating cooker that cooks the food by heating the food. The system includes an acquiring unit that acquires an estimated time of arrival at a delivery destination of the food during a delivery of the food and a control unit that controls the heating cooker based on the estimated time of arrival. A method performed by a computer comprises: acquiring an estimated time of arrival at a delivery destination of the food during a delivery of the food and controlling a heating cooker that cooks the food by heating the food based on the estimated time of arrival.

Abstract: A system includes an information acquiring unit that acquires information indicating a past meal history of a user, a determination unit that determines a recommend meal menu for the user from a plurality of pre-registered meal menus based on information acquired by the information acquiring unit, and a provision unit that provides information indicating a meal menu determined by the determination unit. A method performed by a computer comprises acquiring information indicating a past meal history of a user. The method comprises determining the recommend meal menu for the user from the plurality of pre-registered meal menus based on the acquired information. The method comprises providing information indicating the determined meal menu.

Abstract: A delivery system is provided, the delivery system including: a superordinate vehicle that transports a plurality of packages and is capable of automated driving; a subordinate vehicle that transports a package received from the superordinate vehicle, and is capable of automated driving; and a managing server that manages automated delivery of a package by the superordinate vehicle and the subordinate vehicle, and manual delivery of a package by a courier, wherein the managing server has: a package information acquiring unit that acquires package information including at least any one of delivery destination information related to a delivery destination of a package, and content information related to a content of the package; and a delivery method selecting unit that selects a delivery method for the package from the automated delivery and the manual delivery based on the package information.

Abstract: A delivery system is provided, the delivery system including: a superordinate vehicle; a subordinate vehicle; and a managing server that manages delivery of a package, wherein the managing server has: a delivery destination information acquiring unit that acquires delivery destination information related to a delivery destination of a package; a transport managing unit that performs management to make the package transport by the superordinate vehicle and the subordinate vehicle by automated transportation to a delivery destination-supporting geographical point corresponding to the delivery destination of the package based on the delivery destination information; and a registered person selecting unit that selects a registered person to deliver the package having been transported to the delivery destination-supporting geographical point, the registered person being selected from a plurality of pre-registered registered persons, the package being delivered from the delivery destination-supporting geographical

Abstract: A delivery system is provided, the delivery system including: a superordinate vehicle; a subordinate vehicle; and a managing server that manages package delivery by the superordinate vehicle and the subordinate vehicle, wherein the managing server has: a recipient information acquiring unit that acquires user information about a recipient of the package; a terminal identification information identifying unit that identifies the terminal identification information corresponding to the user information about the recipient by referring to a correspondence data; a positional information acquiring unit that acquires positional information of a mobile communication terminal identified by the terminal identification information from the mobile communication terminal; and a schedule deciding unit that decides a schedule of delivery of the package by the superordinate vehicle and the subordinate vehicle based on the positional information.

Abstract: An information processing system is provided, the information processing system including: a user-related information acquiring unit that acquires user-related information sent by a mobile communication terminal of a user and including positional information of the mobile communication terminal; an arrival time predicting unit that predicts an arrival time at which the user arrives at a retail store, based on the user-related information; a generation time indication acquiring unit that acquires an indication of generation time during which a commodity that the user wishes to receive is generated at the retail store; and a start time deciding unit that decides a generation start time for the commodity based on the arrival time and the generation time.

Abstract: A customer serving control system includes: a customer information acquiring unit acquiring customer information about a customer that can be served by a customer serving apparatus; a presentation control unit causing the customer information to be presented to a first operator; a serving information generating unit generating, based on operation of the first operator, first serving information indicating a serving content according to which the customer serving apparatus should serve the customer; a serving control unit causing the first operator to serve the customer through the customer serving apparatus by instructing the customer serving apparatus to serve the customer based on the first serving information; an operator emotion identifying unit identifying an emotion of the first operator; and a serving determining unit determining, based on an emotion of the first operator, whether to maintain a state where the first operator is serving the customer through the customer serving apparatus.

Abstract: A customer serving control system includes: a customer information acquiring unit acquiring customer information about a customer that can be served by a customer serving apparatus; a presentation control unit causing the customer information to be presented to a first operator; a serving information generating unit generating, based on operation of the first operator, first serving information indicating a serving content according to which the customer serving apparatus should serve the customer; a serving control unit causing the first operator to serve the customer through the customer serving apparatus by instructing the customer serving apparatus to serve the customer based on the first serving information; an operator emotion identifying unit identifying an emotion of the first operator; and a serving determining unit determining, based on an emotion of the first operator, whether to maintain a state where the first operator is serving the customer through the customer serving apparatus.

Abstract: A memory control system includes: an information acquiring unit that acquires information for deciding an emotion of a target object; a secretion information generating unit that generates secretion information indicating a secretion amount of an endocrine substance to influence decision of the emotion of the target object, based on the information acquired by the information acquiring unit; a memory control unit that associates and stores the secretion information and memory information based on the information acquired by the information acquiring unit, when an intensity of the emotion of the target object decided based on the information acquired by the information acquiring unit exceeds a predetermined value; and an information selecting unit that selects memory information to be retrieved by the target object from the memory information that has been stored in association with the secretion information, based on the secretion information.

Abstract: An emotion identifying system includes: an information acquiring unit that acquires information for deciding an emotion of a target object; a judging unit that, based on the information, judges whether or not judgement factors associated respectively with a plurality of emotions are each met; an adjusting unit that, if the information matches a predetermined condition about a predetermined type of emotion among the plurality of emotions, expands a range occupied by the predetermined type of emotion in a space in which the plurality of emotions is mapped; an emotion identifying unit that identifies, among the plurality of emotions, an emotion for which the judging unit judges that the associated judgement factor is met; and an output control unit that causes information indicating an emotion identified by the emotion identifying unit and ranges occupied respectively by the plurality of emotions in the space to be output.

Abstract: A serving data collecting system includes: a customer information acquiring unit that acquires customer information which is information about a customer that can be served by a customer serving apparatus; a presentation control unit that causes the customer information to be presented to an operator; a serving information acquiring unit that acquires serving information indicative of a serving content which is decided by the operator and according to which the customer serving apparatus should serve the customer; a serving decision information acquiring unit that acquires decision information indicative of information that the operator used for deciding the serving content; and a recording control unit that causes the serving information and the decision information to be recorded in association with each other.

Abstract: An emotion determining system includes: an input information generating unit to generate, based on detection signals of one or more sensors that are provided to a target object, input information for determining an emotion of the target object; a secretion information generating unit to generate, based on the detection signals, secretion information indicating secretion amounts of one or more endocrine substances; a parameter adjusting unit to adjust an operation parameter for determining the emotion from the input information based on the secretion amounts of the one or more endocrine substances indicated by the secretion information.

Abstract: A control system includes: a recording information generating unit processing at least part of information detected continuously by a sensor and generating first recording format information or second recording format information having a larger amount of information than that of the first recording format information; a recording control unit causing information generated by the recording information generating unit to be recorded; an emotion determining unit determining intensity of an emotion at the control system based on at least part of information detected by the sensor; and a switching control unit switching a recording format of information which the recording control unit causes to be recorded from the first recording format to the second recording format in response to increase in intensity of an emotion determined by the emotion determining unit if the recording information generating unit is being caused to generate the first recording format information.

Abstract: A cellular base station and/or associated equipment will detect the presence of nearby public safety communication and, in response, will automatically change the base station's antenna beam pattern to be directed to a predefined safe direction, so as to quickly minimize the likelihood of the base station producing harmful interference to the public safety communication. Further, after thus quickly working to minimize the likelihood of such interference, the base station and/or associated equipment could then more specifically determine a direction from which the public safety communication is arriving and could further adjust the base station's antenna beam pattern to be directed away from the determined direction.

Abstract: An apparatus and method are described for providing enhanced network coverage in a wireless network. The apparatus has a first antenna system for providing a first sector of a network, and a second antenna system for providing a second sector of the network. Further, the apparatus has a third antenna system for communicating with a base station of the network to provide a common wireless backhaul link for the first sector and the second sector. The apparatus also comprises control circuitry to monitor a performance characteristic of the common wireless backhaul link, and in dependence on the performance characteristic, to implement at least one mechanism to influence whether items of user equipment within at least one of the first sector and the second sector connect to the network via the apparatus.

Abstract: An apparatus and method are described for providing enhanced network coverage in a wireless network. The apparatus has a first antenna system for providing a first sector of a network, and a second antenna system for providing a second sector of the network. Further, the apparatus has a third antenna system for communicating with a base station of the network to provide a common wireless backhaul link for the first sector and the second sector. The first and the second antenna systems are configured such that when the apparatus is deployed at a periphery of a building, the first sector extends into the building to provide enhanced availability of the network to items of user equipment within the building, whilst the second sector extends externally to the building to provide an additional source of network coverage to items of user equipment external to the building.

Abstract: It is impossible to change tastes and preferences with a robot or artificial intelligence. Provided is an emotion control system comprising an information acquiring section that acquires network content acquired from a public network; a storage section that stores effect information indicating an effect exerted on an emotion of a control target by the network content; an updating section that updates the effect information stored in the storage section, based on sensor information detected by a sensor of the control target; and an emotion control section that controls the emotion of the control target based on the network content acquired by the information acquiring section and the effect information stored in the storage section.

Abstract: The terminal according to the present application includes: a communication module for scanning to detect accessible access points and connecting to one of the accessible access points; and a connection controller for targeting an identical accessible access point, which has been consecutively detected by a predetermined number of times of scans at predetermined time intervals among the accessible access points, for connection.

Abstract: The terminal according to the present application includes: a communication module for scanning to detect accessible access points and connecting to one of the accessible access points; and a connection controller for targeting an identical accessible access point, which has been consecutively detected by a predetermined number of times of scans at predetermined time intervals among the accessible access points, for connection.