Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a processor that: acquires one or more remarks included in a conversation; determines whether a predetermined expression is included in the one or more remarks of one or more users participating in the conversation; in response to a determination that the predetermined expression is included in a remark, converts, based on environment information and conversion information, a word included in the remark into one or more specifying-purpose expressions, the environment information indicating an environment of the conversation, the conversion information defining a conversion rule for a word according to the environment information for each of the one or more users; specifies content based on the one or more specifying-purpose expressions; and outputs a specification result of the content.

Abstract: An information processing device includes processing circuitry. The processing circuitry implements a determination unit and a response unit. The determination unit determines, based on a word included in a conversation by a plurality of users, whether the conversation satisfies a predetermined intervention condition. The response outputs a response to change the conversation to a state different from a current state in response to a determination that the conversation satisfies the predetermined intervention condition.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a processor configured to execute processing. The processing is configured to: receive authentication information for a first terminal device authenticated by an authentication server among a plurality of terminal devices to be authenticated by the same authentication information; obtain authentication information from a second terminal device among the plurality of terminal devices; and authenticate the second terminal device in place of the authentication server based on the authentication information for the first and second terminal devices.

Abstract: A distribution apparatus packetizes streaming data of a variable bit rate, and distributes the resulting data to a plurality of playback apparatuses. The distributed streaming data is transferred from one playback apparatus to other one or more playback apparatuses. One playback apparatus measures the communication quality between the one playback apparatus and each of the other playback apparatuses of transfer destinations. One playback apparatus redivides the received streaming data into packets based on a playback data amount for each unit playback time in the received streaming data and on the measured communication quality and transfers the resulting streaming data.

Abstract: An information management apparatus includes a memory and a processor configured to execute a process. The process includes registering schedule information entered by a user, storing the registered schedule information in the memory, obtaining current environmental information from a mobile terminal of the user, and when the registered schedule information is changed, determining whether the user of the mobile terminal is a genuine user based on the current environmental information and past environmental information obtained from past schedule information stored in the memory.

Abstract: An input device including a display screen and a touch panel disposed on the display screen and a plurality of elements to be selected in the display screen by the touch panel, the input device includes a memory, a processor coupled to the memory, configured to recognize a contact body shape on the touch panel, put into non-display an element hidden by the contact body shape from among the plurality of elements to be selected in the display screen when the contact body shape is recognized as a specific shape, zoom-display an element to be selected different from the element put into non-display from among the plurality of elements to be selected, using an original region of the element to be selected put into non-display.

Abstract: A face recognition device includes a processor configured to: extract a plurality of feature points of a face included in an input image; detect a first and a second feature points that are paired from among the plurality of the feature points, a third feature point that is away from a straight line that connects the first and the second feature points, and two inter-feature vectors starting from the third feature point to the respective first the second feature points; calculate a feature angle formed by the two detected inter-feature vectors; and perform face recognition based on the feature angle formed by the two inter-feature vectors included in face information that is previously set as the face targeted for recognition and based on the calculated feature angle.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a memory; and a processor coupled to the memory, the processor configured to calculate based on a first position, a traveling speed, and a traveling direction of the information processing apparatus at a current time point, a second position of the information processing apparatus at a time point subsequent to the current time point; set a region for the second position calculated for the time point, the region being enlarged according to a temporal difference of the current time point and the time point; and output information related to a facility present within the set region.

Abstract: A stereoscopic picture generating apparatus comprising: a storage unit to get stored with a first image containing partial images and a second image containing partial images corresponding respectively to the partial images contained in the first image; and an arithmetic unit to extract a first position defined as an existing position of a first partial image contained in the first image and a second position defined as an existing position of a second partial image contained in the first image, to calculate a first differential quantity defined as a difference between the first position and the second position, to calculate a third position defined as a new existing position of a third partial image contained in the second image that corresponds to the first partial image based on the first differential quantity, and to generate a third image based on the third position of the third partial image.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a processor configured to execute processing. The processing includes receiving authentication information for one terminal device authenticated by an authentication server among a plurality of terminal devices to be authenticated by same authentication information; obtaining authentication information from another terminal device among the plurality of terminal devices in authenticating said another terminal device; and authenticating said another terminal device in place of the authentication server based on the authentication information for said another terminal device and based on the authentication information for the one terminal device.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a storage unit that stores first moving image data and a processor. The processor performs processes including monitoring a state of a communication network, generating second moving image data in accordance with a result of the monitoring by deleting a frame from the first moving image data in a manner such that a first frame rate indicating a first number of frames per unit time of the first moving image data becomes a second frame rate that is lower than the first frame rate, generating frame information related to the deleted frame, and transmitting the second moving image data and the frame information.

Abstract: A face recognition device includes a processor configured to: extract a plurality of feature points of a face included in an input image; detect a first and a second feature points that are paired from among the plurality of the feature points, a third feature point that is away from a straight line that connects the first and the second feature points, and two inter-feature vectors starting from the third feature point to the respective first the second feature points; calculate a feature angle formed by the two detected inter-feature vectors; and perform face recognition based on the feature angle formed by the two inter-feature vectors included in face information that is previously set as the face targeted for recognition and based on the calculated feature angle.

Abstract: A stereoscopic image display apparatus includes: a distance measuring unit that measures a distance to a viewer; a selecting unit that selects parallax images having a binocular parallax amount corresponding to the measured distance to the viewer from parallax images of a display object based on the measured distance to the viewer as a stereoscopic image pair; and a display control unit that causes a display unit to display the selected stereoscopic display image pair.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes an information storage unit configured to store characteristic information representing a characteristic of authentication image data by being associated with user identifying information and a control unit.

Abstract: A moving image output device includes a moving image acquisition unit to acquire moving image data which represents a moving image as a collection of a plurality of images, a image generation unit to generate each piece of image data which represents each image of the moving image by processing the moving image data acquired by the moving image acquisition unit, an image output unit to sequentially output each piece of image data generated by the image generation unit according to a set time interval, and an interval setting unit to set to the image output unit a first time interval, and temporarily setting to the image output unit a second time interval which is longer than the first time interval as for image data for which the image generation by the image generation unit fails to occur in time with the sequential image output with the first time interval.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a storage that stores status data indicating past usage of an access point by a terminal and a processor that executes a process. The process includes receiving encrypted status data via a network from the terminal, decrypting the encrypted status data received from the terminal, determining whether the decrypted status data is valid based on the status data stored in the storage, and when the decrypted status data is valid, establishing a peer-to-peer communication channel with the terminal via the network.

Abstract: An information management apparatus includes a memory and a processor configured to execute a process. The process includes registering schedule information entered by a user, storing the registered schedule information in the memory, obtaining current environmental information from a mobile terminal of the user, and when the registered schedule information is changed, determining whether the user of the mobile terminal is a genuine user based on the current environmental information and past environmental information obtained from past schedule information stored in the memory.

Abstract: A distribution apparatus packetizes streaming data of a variable bit rate, and distributes the resulting data to a plurality of playback apparatuses. The distributed streaming data is transferred from one playback apparatus to other one or more playback apparatuses. One playback apparatus measures the communication quality between the one playback apparatus and each of the other playback apparatuses of transfer destinations. One playback apparatus redivides the received streaming data into packets based on a playback data amount for each unit playback time in the received streaming data and on the measured communication quality and transfers the resulting streaming data.

Abstract: A stereoscopic image including a right eye image and a left eye image is printed on a print member. A lenticular lens converges a reflected light from the right eye image and a reflected light from the left eye image at different view zones by means of an array of a plurality of cylindrical lenses. One or more optical members are located between the print member and the lenticular lens. Each optical member includes a plurality of optical elements corresponding to pixels of color components of the right eye image and pixels of color components of the left eye image, which are arrayed in an array direction of the cylindrical lenses. Each optical element bends a light path of the reflected light that comes from a corresponding pixel of the stereoscopic image and enters into the lenticular lens, in the array direction.

Abstract: To enable a viewer to recognize a stereoscopic image even when a posture of the viewer is changed in front of a display device by providing a stereoscopic image display apparatus including: a lens sheet which is adjacent to a display surface of a display device, and is configured by arranging a plurality of plano convex lenses along an arrangement direction of display elements, consecutively side by side while varying a distance from the display surface; a storage unit storing stereoscopic display images corresponding to parallax points with respect to a display object at a plurality of viewing points; a sensing unit which senses a posture changing amount of a visual organ of a human body; a selection unit selecting the stereoscopic display images for the respective viewing points according to the posture changing amount sensed; and a display controller allowing the stereoscopic display images on the display device.