Abstract: Provided is a system for confirming that one kind of target object has been acquired, the system including a portable terminal device and a server, wherein the portable terminal device classifies, based on local features about shapes for detecting the plurality of kinds of target objects, whether one kind of target object is included in an image of a space captured by an image-capturing device of the portable terminal device, captures, as an acquired target-object image, the image classified as including the target object, and sends the acquired target-object image to the server, and wherein the server receives the acquired target-object image, determines, based on image features of one kind of target object, a feature correlation level of the acquired target-object image in relation to that target object, and classifies whether the acquired target-object image is an image in which the one kind of target object is captured.

Abstract: A card has a plurality of contact points attached on the same face thereof, the plurality of contact points being detectable by a detecting method for a touchscreen. In the case where the card is placed on the touchscreen, a recognition unit recognizes a kind of the card and a relative position and orientation of the card relative to the touchscreen on the basis of at least some of the plurality of contact points detected by the touchscreen. On the basis of the results of recognition by the recognition unit, a determining unit determines a relevant image to be displayed on the touchscreen and determines a size, position, and orientation for displaying the relevant image on the touchscreen.

Abstract: A program stored on a non-transitory computer readable medium executable on a computer to perform discriminating a fiducial marker from captured images successively output from a camera, based on marker information representing associations between fiducial markers and object identifiers, identifying start points of one or more structured markers in the captured images based on the discriminated fiducial marker and position information defined in association with the fiducial marker, determining states of the one or more structured markers continuing from the start points, and outputting an operation instruction in accordance with the determined states of the one or more structured markers to an object discriminated based on the object identifier associated with the discriminated fiducial marker.

Abstract: The present invention is a program executed by a processing device that performs rendering processing of a virtual space including a predetermined GUI object to be displayed on a display unit of a head-mounted display device, the program causing the processing device to execute a step of determining the position of a viewpoint of a user in the virtual space; a step of determining a movable range of the user in the virtual space; a step of determining a position of the GUI object in a region of the virtual space outside the determined movable range; a step of determining, by using a perspective property profile, a size of the GUI object in the virtual space such that the GUI object at the determined position has a constant display size on the display unit; and a step of generating rendering data of the virtual space including the GUI object.

Abstract: At a server, a load monitoring unit monitors whether or not a predetermined condition regarding processing of requests is satisfied. In the case where the predetermined condition is not satisfied, a wait-time calculating unit calculates a wait time as a time parameter for controlling the speed of time flow at a player terminal side. A request executing unit executes requests in the order of arrival and generates responses. A response sending control unit executes control to send responses to the player terminals that have sent the corresponding requests and to also send to the player terminals information representing the wait time in the case where the wait time has been calculated.

Abstract: The present invention provides a system used to confirm that a user of a mobile terminal device has visited a prescribed location, the system including the mobile terminal device and a server, the server including a control device and one or more wireless devices, wherein: the one or more wireless devices transmit a service notification; the mobile terminal device transmits a visit confirmation request; at least one wireless device transmits a task notification; the mobile terminal device executes a task on the basis of the task notification and repeatedly transmits a task completion notification; at least one wireless device transmits a solution request; the mobile terminal device transmits a solution notification; at least one wireless device receives the solution notification transmitted from the mobile terminal device; and the control device determines the legitimacy of the visit confirmation request on the basis of the solution notification.

Abstract: The present invention provides a program that causes an electronic device including a display unit and a processing unit to execute selecting, as candidate objects, objects related to game events from among objects to be rendered on the display unit; determining attention scores representing the degrees of attention that will be paid by a player to the individual selected candidate objects by determining weights relating to the occurrence of individual candidate events, which are events related to the candidate objects, on the basis of the candidate objects, an event or a sequence of events that occurred immediately before, and event history information; and determining resource allocation in the processing unit for rendering the individual candidate objects on the basis of the attention scores and depth distances of the candidate objects as viewed from the player.

Abstract: A difference calculating unit calculates the difference in evaluation quantity for a predetermined ranking index between a player of interest and another player at a higher rank than the player of interest according to the predetermined ranking index. A recording-recommendation presenting unit recommends the player of interest to create and upload a play-image for ranking information in the case where the difference has become less than or equal to a certain value.

Abstract: A player terminal displays a list including a plurality of candidate stamps and sends a stamp selected therefrom by a player to another player terminal. A stamp-metadata management unit of a server manages each of the plurality of candidate stamps in association with metadata indicating a certain situation in a game. A stamp-display-order determining unit controls the listing order for displaying the plurality of stamps on the player terminal on the basis of individual correlations between the plurality of metadata individually associated with the plurality of candidate stamps and situation data indicating a current situation in the game being executed. A metadata updating unit updates the content of the metadata for each of the plurality of candidate stamps on the basis of the result of selection of an item to send by the player.

Abstract: The present invention is a program for causing an electronic device having a display unit and a contact-type position input unit to execute displaying a screen including objects associated with events on the display unit; detecting, in the case where a touch on the contact-type position input unit is detected and two or more objects are located within a predetermined distance from the detected touched coordinates; selecting candidate objects in the case where the touch is detected, the candidate objects being the two or more objects located within the predetermined distance from the detected touched coordinates; determining weights relating to the occurrence of individual candidate events, the candidate events being events associated with the individual selected candidate objects, on the basis of the candidate events, a sequence of events executed immediately before, and event history information; and executing or presenting the candidate event having the highest weight.

Abstract: The present invention provides a program for a game in which characters operated by an electronic device and other electronic devices are placed in a common game field to play the game, the program causing the electronic device to execute receiving positions of the individual characters in the game field from a server; displaying a radar screen and icons; determining whether or not one of the icons has been touched; obtaining a touch termination position indicating a touched position that is detected just before a touch termination in a case where an icon has been touched and the touch has been terminated; determining whether the touch termination position falls within a predetermined range; and sending a sending request to the server in a case where the touch termination position falls within the predetermined range so that the server will send icon information to at least one of the other electronic devices.

Abstract: A history-information obtaining unit obtains operation history information from a plurality of player terminals. A feature-information generating unit generates, for each of a plurality of players, feature information representing a feature of operation in the form of a certain weighted value obtained from the operation history information. A clustering unit clusters the plurality of players on the basis of the individual feature information of the plurality of players. An other-player-information sending control unit executes control so as to send information about other players belonging to the same group to the individual player terminals of the clustered plurality of players, while prohibiting sending of information about other players belonging to other groups.

Abstract: The present invention is a translation support system for supporting machine translation from a source-language sentence into a target-language sentence, the translation support system including an input unit that accepts an input of a source-language sentence to be translated; an error database that at least stores words or combinations of words included in a plurality of source-language sentences for which machine translation from the source-language sentences into target-language sentences is not performed correctly; a controlled-source-language-sentence database that stores a plurality of source-language sentences as well as controlled source-language sentences, which are source-language sentences that are controlled, corresponding to the plurality of source-language sentences and expressed in a format satisfying predetermined conditions; a control unit that classifies whether or not the input source-language sentence is machine-translatable; and an output unit that is capable of outputting the input sour

Abstract: The system is for confirming that a user of a portable terminal device has viewed posted material in a plurality of places by visiting one of the posted places, the system including the portable terminal device and a server, the device including a portable-terminal control unit, a portable-terminal communication unit, an image capturing unit, a portable-terminal storage unit, and a position-information obtaining unit, the server including a server control unit, a server communication unit, and a server storage unit that stores authenticated images about the posted material in the individual posted places in association with position information of the posted places, wherein the portable-terminal control unit sends a viewing confirmation request including a viewed image, the normalization information, and the portable-terminal position information to the server by using the portable-terminal communication unit, and the server control unit determines whether the viewed image is valid on the basis of the request

Abstract: The present invention provides a program for a game in which characters operated by an electronic device and other electronic devices are placed in a common game field to play the game, the program causing the electronic device to execute receiving positions of the individual characters in the game field from a server; displaying a radar screen and icons; determining whether or not one of the icons has been touched; obtaining a touch termination position indicating a touched position that is detected just before a touch termination in a case where an icon has been touched and the touch has been terminated; determining whether the touch termination position falls within a predetermined range; and sending a sending request to the server in a case where the touch termination position falls within the predetermined range so that the server will send icon information to at least one of the other electronic devices.

Abstract: It is an object of the present invention to enable a player playing a game to readily view an image that may serve as a reference for the game. A server 1 carries out communications with a terminal 2-2 that generates metadata when needed during the execution of a game, the metadata including one or more kinds of attribute information. A management unit 11 manages one or more sets of data, the sets of data each including: image data related to the game or location data of the image data, and the metadata. A correlation calculating unit 21 calculates a correlation between metadata generated by the terminal 2-2 at a certain timing and the metadata included in each of the one or more managed sets. An image-sending control unit 22 sends, to the terminal 2-2, the image data or location data included in the same set as metadata whose correlation satisfies a predetermined criterion.

Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a game control program, a game control method, and a game control device with which the operability regarding movement instructions for a game character can be improved. A game control device 1 includes a touchscreen 10; a first determination unit 32 that determines, as a first touch operation, an operation in which contact with the touchscreen 10 is maintained and in which the contact position is moved continuously; a trajectory generating unit 33 that generates an anticipated movement trajectory of a character in the game in accordance with the direction and movement amount of the first touch operation; a second determination unit 35 that determines, as a second touch operation, new contact with the touchscreen 10 while the contact in the first touch operation is being continued; and a trajectory changing unit 36 that changes the anticipated movement trajectory in accordance with the kind, contact position, or movement amount of the second touch operation.

Abstract: A ranking rank identification unit identifies a rank of a participant for each of a plurality of kinds of ranking criteria. A predicted rank calculation unit of a ranking criterion recommendation unit calculates predicted ranks for at least some of the plurality of kinds of ranking criteria for the case where a subject player participates in the individual ranking criteria. A recommended ranking criterion determination unit determines, as recommended ranking criteria, ranking criteria to be recommended to the subject player on the basis of the predicted ranks. A recommendation result presentation unit presents the recommended ranking criteria to the player terminal of the subject player.

Abstract: A touch-pressure detection unit detects a touch pressure that changes according to a degree of a touch operation on a display surface of a display unit. An interrupt necessity determination unit determines whether or not an interrupt is necessary on the basis of a change period and change amount of the touch pressure. In the case where an interrupt is unnecessary, the ratchet function output unit inputs the touch pressure to a predetermined ratchet function, and provides an output value of the ratchet function to a game-character-action-amount determination unit. The game-character-action-amount determination unit determines a movement speed of the game character C according to the output value of the ratchet function.

Abstract: A reference-color-list generating unit of a server generates a reference color list on the basis of reference color lists stored in a CLDB, at a timing reported from a program-information management unit. An S-metadata generating unit generates S metadata from TV program information stored in an RVDB and the reference color list. A C-metadata generating unit of a user terminal generates C metadata from individual information of each frame constituting a captured image and the reference color list. An authenticity determining unit determines whether to permit or deny check-in by a user on the basis of the obtained C metadata, the S metadata extracted by the CMDB, and program detail information managed by the program-information management unit.