Abstract: Provided is an information visualization system that can present information most suitable for the sensitivity and interest of a user. The information visualization system according to the present invention uses interest degrees of the user for items to calculate relevance between the items and generates an item map reflecting the relevance as coordinate values of the items.

Abstract: An internal state of a user and a situation of the user are complementarily used to recommend optimal information for the individual user. An information providing system according to the present invention estimates a current strength of a desire of the user and a current situation of the user to refer to a database describing combinations of the strength and the situation to thereby present items that can satisfy both the desire of the user and the situation of the user.

Abstract: An embodiment of this invention is an image processing device, including: a sectioning unit for sectioning an image into a plurality of sections to be processed; and a classification unit for classifying the plurality of sections to be processed into at least a clarification-processing-adapted area for embedding a latent image into the image, and an obfuscation-processing-adapted area for embedding a digital watermark into the image based on a characteristic of the image.

Abstract: A security measure status self-checking system which can determine the security measure status in a more simplified and effective manner by focusing on the information leakage measure in the security measures, managing the PC's security measure status and the user's take-out operation status in an integrated and unitary manner, and providing security policy samples. Accordingly, the client computer collects security inventory information and operation log information and transmits the information to the server computer. Further, the server computer stores the security inventory information and the operation log information transmitted from the client computer and determines whether or not the information conforms to the security policy which has been set in advance. The check result is displayed on the server computer and when a policy violation is detected, the manager and the client are notified of that effect.

Abstract: In a system which realizes to prevent leakage/loss of secret information by prohibiting a write operation to a secondary storage apparatus and a write operation to an external medium, an automatic collection of secret data to a server is executed, an existing application mode of PC is not damaged, and then an update of OS and an application is executed. The present invention places a secondary storage apparatus write control driver on the lower level than a file system, and redirects a write operation to the secondary storage apparatus, setting up a memory to be a primary cache, and cache data file on a cache server of a network destination to be a secondary cache. Thereby, the write operation to the secondary storage apparatus is not executed, and difference data is stored on the cache server, so that the automatic collection of secret data to the server can be realized.

Abstract: The present invention achieves an information input apparatus for inputting position location information by an input using a pen-type input device configured to acquire handwriting data expressed as a trace of coordinate positions. The information input apparatus includes: an input format presenting unit for presenting an input format for interpreting the handwriting data, the input format having a location input field used to input a figure or a symbol in such a manner that a location in a drawing is identifiable; a location information acquisition unit for recognizing the figure or the symbol inputted in the location input field and for acquiring information on the location of the figure or the symbol inputted in the location input field, on the basis of the handwriting data of the figure or symbol inputted in the location input field.

Abstract: A cipher processing system for allowing file access while maintaining the integrity without a user being aware of the difference between files when the user accesses a file in a folder containing both a ciphertext file and a plaintext file. If a folder stores both a ciphertext file and a plaintext file, the ciphertext file is attached with identification information (preferably, footer information) indicating that the file is a ciphertext file, so that a plaintext file and a ciphertext file can be differentiated from each other when the files are read. A deciphered file gained by removing identification information from a ciphertext file and deciphering the file is delivered to an upper-level application. If the read file is a plaintext file, decipher processing is not executed on the plaintext file but the plaintext file is passed to the upper-level application program.

Abstract: A method is provided that automatically saves data on a user terminal of a thin client system to a file server or to the user terminal by appropriately and efficiently sorting the data. System update data such as a patch for the user terminal and confidential data that should be saved to the server are distinguished when written to a secondary storage device, and separately cached into memory. Then, the confidential data that should be saved to the server is automatically uploaded to the file server at any given timing, for example, at shut-down of the terminal, whereby a minimum amount of data can be efficiently saved to the file server.

Abstract: A function of browsing web content using a DLNA-compliant player device is provided. A DLNA content conversion device converts a structure of navigation tags represented by HTML data into a folder structure on a DLNA server having the same hierarchical structure as the hierarchical structure of the navigation tags.

Abstract: Insertion of a watermark corresponding to the content of a file at the time of the printing of the file is made possible. Importance and/or confidentiality is defined per keyword in advance, and the watermark to be inserted is defined based thereon. At the time of the printing of the file, a keyword search within the file is performed, and the watermark to be inserted is automatically selected based on the search result (see FIG. 5).

Abstract: The present invention aims to provide an apparatus capable of determining whether or not content is permitted to be taken out, by managing contents permitted to be taken out. One aspect of the invention is characterized by comprising: a storage means that stores therein taking-out-permitted-content identification data which is data generated on the basis of a part or entirety of each content permitted to be taken out; and a generating means that generates the taking-out-permitted-content identification data. Another aspect of the present invention is characterized by comprising: a storage means that stores therein taking-out-permitted-content identification data which is data generated on the basis of a part or entirety of each content permitted to be taken out to the outside; and an approving means that determines whether a content is permitted to be taken out, with reference to the taking-out-permitted-content identification data.

Abstract: When a storage capacity of a file server is expanded using an online storage service, elimination of an upper-limit constraint of the file size as a constraint of the online storage service and reduction in the communication cost are realized. A kernel module including logical volumes on the online storage service divides a file into block files at a fixed length and stores and manages the block files to prevent the upper-limit constraint of the file size. When a READ/WRITE request is generated for a mounted file system, only necessary block files are downloaded and used from the online storage service based on an offset value and size information to optimize the communication and realize the communication cost reduction.

Abstract: There is provided a technique for automatically acquiring metadata with respect to various organizations which significantly reduces the man-hours required to prepare models for metadata extraction. With a pair comprising a document and metadata appearing therein as input, using a layout feature, and proximate text string and partial text string features with respect to metadata and a text string that is not metadata, the use of the layout feature, the proximate text string and the partial text string with respect to the automatic acquisition of metadata is automatically configured (see FIG. 1).

Abstract: Proposed is a method for naturally and efficiently setting metadata in the daily process of searching for files. On a file search screen, there is provided a function of determining the candidate metadata of a metadata-nonregistered file, and initiating entry of metadata with the candidate metadata having been set. Determination of the candidate metadata is performed with any of the three following methods: a method of designating as a candidate a character string of a matched search keyword described in regular expression, a method of designating as a candidate a file path or a character string in a file that matches a keyword dictionary, and a method of designating as a candidate metadata that frequently appears in metadata-registered files.

Abstract: The device includes first means for splitting a biometric pattern image into a plurality of regions, assigning index numbers to the respective split-pattern images, and storing them in a split-image table; second means for splitting a newly read biometric pattern image into a plurality of regions, comparing each of the split-pattern images with the split-pattern images stored in the split-image table, acquiring or assigning, depending on if the split-image table is determined to have stored therein a similar split-pattern image, an index number to the relevant split-pattern image of the newly read pattern image, and storing them in the split-image table; and third means for creating, as biometric information that represents a feature of the newly read biometric pattern, an index number list composed of the index number.

Abstract: There are provided a file search system and program that perform efficient searches by creating, with respect to a file search environment where files for which a full-text search should be allowed and files for which a full-text search is unnecessary coexist, different index files. With respect to a file search system in which a file search server, a file server and a client are interconnected via a communications line 9, the file search server 1 comprises: metadata search means adapted to select, upon receiving a search request from the client 3, metadata matching records from an index 2 file based on a conditional search expression; full-text search means adapted to perform a search with respect to an index 1 file by referencing keywords based on the conditional search expression and the metadata matching records; and means adapted to transmit the search result to the client 3.

Abstract: An incident angle when illumination light from a position detecting device enters a reflecting surface may be large in some cases. In such cases, the retro-reflection rate of a reflecting surface having a prism structure decreases, leading to a cause of erroneous detection. In order to solve this problem, provided is a reflecting plate including a reflecting surface that retro-reflects illumination light emitted from an optical position detecting device towards the position detecting device that includes a light source, the reflecting plate further including: a surface structure in which a concavo-convex pattern having the same triangle shape in cross-section in a width direction of the reflecting plate continuously appears in a longitudinal direction thereof; and a retro-reflecting layer in which reflecting beads are evenly placed on at least one oblique surface of the concavo-convex pattern.

Abstract: A file server performs duplicate elimination on files, and creates a virtual file system that does not include a duplicate file and is used for creating a search index. A search server acquires search target files from the virtual file system in the file server, and creates the search index.

Abstract: To recommend information useful for a user regardless of domains and services, items are defined by basic desires as action objectives of the user, a user profile is expressed by basic desire strengths, constant strengths of the desires of the user calculated from an action history of the user are compared with current desire strengths, current desire degrees are calculated, and recommended items are presented.

Abstract: In order to make more efficient virtual folder creation work which is required at the time of virtually classifying files, the present invention provides a system having: a function of extracting keywords and frequencies thereof included in metadata; and a function of creating a virtual folder on the basis of the extracted keywords and the extracted frequencies thereof. At the time of extracting the keywords, character strings which can be considered as the keywords are comprehensively extracted. In addition, at the time of creating the virtual folder, the virtual folder is provided with a hierarchical structure including at least two hierarchical levels of a parent folder and a child folder. At the time of creating the child folder, in the case where child folder candidates having equivalent frequencies exist, a candidate having a longer character string is adopted.