Abstract: A system and method for making menu items easily adjustable on the setting screen of a camera with regard to the predetermined object to be operated. The camera setting utility screen for the CCD camera is displayed on the liquid crystal display any one of the plural number of menu items is selected from said camera setting utility screen displayed according to the rotation operation and the push operation of the jog dial. The setting condition with regard to the menu item selected is adjusted corresponding to the rotation operation and the push operation of the jog dial. The CCD camera is set to the setting condition adjusted, such that operation of selection of menu item to the adjustment of setting condition can be conducted merely by the rotation operation and the push operation of the jog dial.

Abstract: A display displays a capture mode displaying source image data and a send mode displaying processed image data, which is to be sent. The display simultaneously displays, upon a switch from the capture mode to the send mode, the processed image data and a manipulation. The manipulation includes pixel values of the source image data and dummy values. An input inputs an address of a terminal to which the processed image data is to be transmitted. A transmitter transmits an address of a terminal together with the processed image data over a network to a server such that the server executes a processing for providing the processed image data to the terminal. An image data processor determines an image processing capacity of the terminal and converts an image size of the source image data such that the processed image data is commensurate with the image processing capacity of the terminal.

Abstract: A system is disclosed by which the load when a user tries to selectively communicate through a network with a person having information useful to the user from among a large number of persons can be distributed suitably on the network without the necessity for a large-scale network server. The user transmits profile information from a user apparatus to a plurality of different apparatus of different users. Each different apparatus uses the profile information and profile information of the user of the different apparatus to calculate correlativity between the users and sends back a result of the calculation. The user apparatus selects, from the results of the correlativity calculation from the different apparatus, an apparatus of a communication opposite party who exhibits a comparatively high correlativity, and issues a notification of or receives utilization information to or from the selected apparatus by communication.

Abstract: A system is disclosed by which the load when a user tries to selectively communicate through a network with a person having information useful to the user from among a large number of persons can be distributed suitably on the network without the necessity for a large-scale network server. The user transmits profile information from a user apparatus to a plurality of different apparatus of different users. Each different apparatus uses the profile information and profile information of the user of the different apparatus to calculate correlativity between the users and sends back a result of the calculation. The user apparatus selects, from the results of the correlativity calculation from the different apparatus, an apparatus of a communication opposite party who exhibits a comparatively high correlativity, and issues a notification of or receives utilization information to or from the selected apparatus by communication.

Abstract: The present invention is associated with an information processing apparatus and a program adapted to provide content to a terminal via a server without otherwise notifying the terminal thereof. A personal computer 1 transmits an image taken by a CCD video camera 33 for example to a server 6 along with the address of a terminal 6, which allows the personal computer 1 to request the server 5 for providing the transmitted image to the terminal 6. In response to the request from the personal computer 1, the server 5 provides the image supplied from the personal computer 1 to the terminal 6.

Abstract: [Object]The object of the present invention is to make the setting condition of menu items easily adjustable on the setting screen with regard to the predetermined object to be operated. [Solution]According to the present invention, since the camera setting utility screen 320 for the CCD camera 23 is displayed on the liquid crystal display 21, any one of the plural number of menu items is selected from said camera setting utility screen 320 displayed according to the rotation operation and the push operation of the jog dial 30, the setting condition with regard to the menu item selected is adjusted corresponding to the rotation operation and the push operation of the jog dial 30, and the CCD camera 23 is to be set to said setting condition adjusted, the whole processing from the selection of menu item to the adjustment of setting condition can be conducted only by the rotation operation and the push operation of the jog dial 30.

Abstract: The present invention relates to an information processing apparatus, an information processing method and a recording medium. The information processing apparatus of the present invention includes a hardware-dependent input means having a normal mode in which an event information associated with a user operation is supplied to an application program through an operating system and a quick action mode in which the event information is directly supplied to another hardware-dependent means previously specified by the application program, and a hardware-dependent output means for executing real-time control on hardware associated with the event information upon reception of the event information directly supplied from the hardware-dependent input means.