Abstract: A time/date information providing system is provided which includes a time/date information providing server for managing time/date information which is registered by information providers for providing various items of information associated with time and date as the time/date information, a calendar service providing server for providing a calendar service of performing schedule management on a user's schedule in association with time and date, acquiring the time/date information registered in the time/date information providing server, and providing the time/date information to the user in the calendar service, and at least one or more information processing terminals for accessing the calendar service providing server or the time/date information providing server via a communication network to acquire the time/date information from the calendar service providing server or the time/date information providing server.

Abstract: A doping process, including applying pressure to at least one first phase of a semiconductor containing an electrically inactive dopant and removing the pressure to cause at least one phase transformation of the semiconductor to at least one second phase, wherein the at least one phase transformation activates the dopant so that the at least one second phase includes at least one doped phase of the semiconductor in which the dopant is electrically active.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus is disclosed which includes: an accepting element for accepting an access request from a terminal over a network; a first acquiring element for acquiring information which designates a character unique to the terminal and which is received over the network; a second acquiring element for acquiring character data constituting the character designated by the character-designating information acquired by the first acquiring element; and a transmitting element for transmitting to the terminal over the network the character data acquired by the second acquiring element.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus, an information processing method and a medium which allow accurate control of an image pickup timing based on a result of image recognition with a simple construction. An image pickup section outputs picked up image data to an image recognition section and a delaying section. The image recognition section performs image recognition for the image data inputted thereto and, when it detects predetermined information from among the image data, outputs a trigger signal to an image fetching section to fetch an image. The delaying section delays the image data inputted thereto from the image recognition section to compensate for a delay corresponding to a time required for the image recognition by the image recognition section and outputs resulting image data to the image fetching section.

Abstract: A rotary blood pump (13) including: a motor adapted to magnetically rotate an impeller (2) within a housing (6). The impeller and/or the housing are formed of a composite material and the composite material includes a first material that is a relatively, insulative, biocompatible and impermeable polymer. The composite material may include a second material that reinforces the polymer.

Abstract: A program for processing information in a selected terminal apparatus includes reproducing contents data as a browsing object for output by the selected terminal apparatus; enabling operations to be performed on the browsing object; transmitting and receiving information over a network between a plurality of terminal apparatuses reproducing and outputting the contents data, the plurality of terminal apparatuses including the selected terminal apparatus, each of the terminal apparatuses having the browsing object, the information including shared information which denotes an operation performed on the browsing object of one of the plurality of terminal apparatuses to obtain a result; and sharing the result of the operation between the browsing objects of a remainder of the terminal apparatuses, the sharing being based on the shared information.

Abstract: A picture-information transmission apparatus including a file select means for selecting a predetermined file saved in a state of associating picture information with word information upon detection of execution of a predetermined operation, and a transmission-information creation means for creating transmission information for transmitting information of a predetermined file selected by the file select means to a predetermined partner, wherein the transmission information is created at the same time as the predetermined file is selected in a batch operation when the predetermined operation is executed.

Abstract: The invention provides a communication apparatus, a communication method and a program storage medium.

Abstract: The invention provides a communication apparatus, a communication method and a program storage medium.

Abstract: The invention relates to an apparatus and a method for information processing allowing a personal computer to pick up an image through operation of a single button. When a half-push switch is turned on, a CPU activates a window of an image pickup application program, causing the window to appear in front of the windows of all other application programs. An image displayed in the window of the image pickup application program is held still even if a personal computer is altered in its orientation. When a full-push switch is turned on, the image in the window of the image pickup application program is stored onto an HDD in a suitable format.

Abstract: Disclosed herein are a phone-call apparatus, a phone-call method, a communication control apparatus, a communication control method, and a program. In a phone-integrated terminal, a CPU controls a communication unit to implement a phone conversation with a communication partner through a communication network. An audio signal input to a microphone of an input unit is transmitted to the communication partner by way of the communication unit. On the other hand, an audio signal transmitted from the communication partner is output to earphones or a speaker in an audio reproduction unit. The audio signal output to the earphones or the speaker in the audio reproduction unit is superposed on a musical signal reproduced from a memory card. Thus, the user can listen to not only a voice of the communication partner but also music reproduced as BGM during the phone conversation. As a result, the user can enjoy the phone conversation.

Abstract: The invention provides a communication apparatus, a communication method and a program storage medium.

Abstract: The invention provides a communication apparatus, a communication method and a program storage medium.

Abstract: A method of forming a coating on an inner periphery of a tube with a cylindrical barrel, a mouth on one axial end of the barrel, and a shoulder located between the barrel and the mouth. The method involves holding the tube, and subsequently jetting powder into the tube from a spray gun, through a bottom side opening on the other axial end of said barrel. A first passage guides to the spray gun a first air stream together with the powder. A second passage feeds to the spray gun a second air stream with the powder. A third passage suction collects surplus powder through the tube mouth. A fourth passage suction collects surplus powder through the bottom side opening of the tube. At least one of the passages is subject to a feedback control such that flow rate and/or internal pressure therein are maintained at target levels.

Abstract: The invention provides a communication apparatus, a communication method and a program storage medium.

Abstract: A powder coating apparatus for forming a resin coating on the inner periphery of a container (2) having a barrel (21), a shoulder (22) and a mouth (23) does have a holder (3) for temporarily holding the container in place, a spray gun (4) for blowing into the container a powder through an open skirt (21a) of the container. The apparatus further has a first passage (51) for guiding to the spray gun a first air stream together with the powder, a second passage (61) for feeding a second air stream for stirring the powder into the spray gun. The apparatus still further has a third passage (81) for collecting a first surplus of the powder from the container mouth (23), a fourth passage (71) for collecting a second surplus of the powder from the open skirt of the container, and control unit respectively connected to the first to fourth passages.

Abstract: An arrangement in which plural users read a preset picture at different places and in which the attention of the users is directed in real-time to the picture. To this end, a picture management server 2 supervises an album made up by plural pictures. In the so supervised album, an URL is allocated to each picture. In case a PC 4-1 and a PC 4-2 acquire album data from the picture management server 2, plural pictures, derived from the album data, are demonstrated on respective display units. When a cursor of the PC 4-1, so far located on a preset picture, is moved, the URL of the picture of the destination of the movement is transmitted to the PC 4-2. The PC 4-2 causes movement of the cursor to the picture associated with the URL received. The arrangement may be applied to a personal computer configured for reading a digitized album or to a server supervising the album.

Abstract: According to the present invention, when displaying a jog-dial window menu on a liquid crystal display, hierarchically-structured menu items are displayed with a hierarchy icon, thereby enabling the user to easily recognize whether or not that menu item is hierarchically structured and improving the operation of menu selection. Furthermore, scroll display of a character string indicating a menu item is performed in an identification frame, thereby enabling the user to read the entire character string from beginning to end for easy recognition thereof and improving the operation of menu selection. Still further, a character string of a menu selected from among a plurality of menu items is displayed in a different color from other character strings, thereby enabling the user to easily recognize the selected menu item and improving the operation of menu selection.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus, an information processing method and a medium which allow accurate control of an image pickup timing based on a result of image recognition with a simple construction. An image pickup section outputs picked up image data to an image recognition section and a delaying section. The image recognition section performs image recognition for the image data inputted thereto and, when it detects predetermined information from among the image data, outputs a trigger signal to an image fetching section to fetch an image. The delaying section delays the image data inputted thereto from the image recognition section to compensate for a delay corresponding to a time required for the image recognition by the image recognition section and outputs resulting image data to the image fetching section.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus including an image-sensing controller controlling image-sensing so as to take a picture upon detection of execution of a first operation, a word generator recognizing speech upon detection of execution of a second operation and generating a word or a phrase corresponding to the recognized voice, and a portion associating the word or a phrase with the picture. Accordingly a word, a generated phrase or the like can be easily associated with an image-sensed still picture (with ease).