Abstract: Provided is an apparatus and method which prioritizes transaction objects included on a reference list. The reference list contains transaction object information corresponding to the transaction objects. The apparatus stores a user's history of actions performed on the transaction objects and an interest parameter based on the user's history of actions. The interest parameter is used to select one or more transaction objects. The apparatus displays the reference list in an order prioritizing the selected transaction objects over non-selected transaction objects.

Abstract: A state information storage (121) stores an observation position, an observation direction, and a base direction in a virtual space. Upon acceptance of an instruction input given to an external controller and indicating a moving direction, an observation position updater (112) updates the observation position so that the observation position moves in the moving direction indicated by the instruction input relative to the base direction. An observation direction updater (114) updates the observation direction in accordance with a change in orientation of a display apparatus (100) as detected by a detector (113). An obtainer (115) obtains a relative position between the controller and the display apparatus (100). A base direction updater (116) updates the base direction on the basis of the observation direction and of the obtained relative position.

Abstract: A protective member of the present invention is configured as a protective member that is mountable to an aerial vehicle having a body 11 and at least one rotor held on the body, and includes a plurality of support members 22 that are connectable to the aerial vehicle and have a flexible member stretched between distal end portions thereof so as to surround an outside of the body in planar view, wherein at least one of the plurality of support members has a tension adjusting mechanism that is capable of adjusting a tension applied to the flexible member in a stretching direction, by changing a distance from a center of the body to the distal end portion.

Abstract: An information providing device includes a specifying unit that specifies a second trading object related to a second trading object page to be compared with a first trading object related to a first trading object page to be displayed on a user terminal, a comparison unit that extracts first trading object information corresponding to the first trading object and second trading object information corresponding to the second trading object from a page information database that stores trading object information corresponding to trading objects, and compares the first and second trading object information, and a page transmitting unit that presents comparison information indicating a result of comparison to a user. The second trading object page is a webpage displayed on the user terminal prior to the first trading object page.

Abstract: An authentication server that authenticates a user of a user terminal that plays a content stream provided by a content server, the authentication server authenticating the user. The authentication server includes storage means that stores registration information, authentication means that, when receiving an authentication request for content designated by a first user from a user terminal that the first user is using, compares information included in the authentication request with the registration information and authenticates the first user, generation means that, if the authentication succeeds, generates a first token indicating that the first user is an authenticated user, and communications means that transmits the generated first token to the user terminal. The generation means further generates a second token relating to the same content as the content designated by the first user, and the communications means is further configured to transmit the second token to the user terminal.

Abstract: A shape discrimination device includes an approximate curve calculator configured to calculate an approximate curve of a contour, the contour being a line having a finite length representing a part of an outline of an object shown in an image, the approximate curve being a line approximating to the contour and calculated based on coordinates forming the contour, a distance calculator configured to calculate a first distance and a second distance being distances from a first and second end of the contour to a first and second end of the approximate curve, respectively, a coincidence calculator configured to calculate a center coincidence being a degree of coincidence between a center of the contour and the approximate curve, and a specifier configured to specify a shape of the object or a part of the object based on the first distance, the second distance, and the center coincidence.

Abstract: An information processing device detects that an information terminal carried by a user has approached a shop, detects that a user has taken a purchase action in a shop, accumulates history information relating to a visit to a shop and the purchase action of a user, and transmits recommendation information relating to a second shop to an information terminal of a user who is detected to have approached a first shop when visit history information to the first shop is detected and purchase action history information in the first shop is not detected, and both visit history information and purchase action history information in the second shop is detected from history information of one user. The visit history information and the purchase action history information in the second shop have been accumulated after the history information relating to the first shop has been accumulated.

Abstract: An information processing device detects that a user has exited a shop, and transmits recommendation information based on information of the shop to a user who is detected to have exited the shop.

Abstract: Labor of photographing images of an object can be reduced in a case where the images of the object viewed from a viewpoint moving along with an orbit are displayed. Image obtaining means of a display control system obtains a plurality of image data pieces generated by photographing an object from a plurality of photographing positions that are different from one another in photographing directions. Information obtaining means obtains photograph information relating to the photographing positions of the respective image data pieces in a three-dimensional space based on the image data pieces. Image selecting means selects some of the image data pieces based on the photograph information of the respective image data pieces and orbit information relating to an orbit of a viewpoint that moves while changing a viewing direction in the three-dimensional space. Display control means displays, on display means, the image data pieces selected by the image selecting means in an order according to the orbit.

Abstract: An obtaining unit (120) obtains a ranking of a commercial product belonging to a category defined on an e-marketplace. A collecting unit (121) collects a term relevant to a commercial product at an upper position in the obtained ranking from a text contained in a sales page for selling the upper ranking position commercial product or a search query that triggers the sales page to be viewed. A calculating unit (122) calculates a score of each collected term based on at least a number of collections of the term. A presenting unit (123) presents, as a suggested keyword for search refinement of the commercial product belonging to the category, the term with the calculated score in an upper ranking position.

Abstract: An identifier (232) identifies an alternative product to an attended product getting attention from a user. A searcher (231) searches, when a search condition is given, a group of products satisfying the search condition. A first generator (233) generates a first search condition expected to obtain a search result containing the attended product and the alternative product. A verifier (234) verifies, based on an obtained first search result by the searcher (231) that has searched under the generated first condition, whether or not the first search condition is proper. A second generator (235) generates a second search condition that is the first search condition verified as proper and with an added or replaced condition of a price range that is different from a price range of the attended product. A presenter (240) presents an obtained second search result to the user by the searcher (231) that has searched under the generated second condition.

Abstract: A plurality of pieces of send candidate information are stored (S12). Each piece of send candidate information has sender identification information identifying a sender of an email, recipient identification information identifying a recipient of the email, item identification information (52b and 52c), item information that are associated with each other. The item information includes element values of one or more elements. From among the stored pieces of send candidate information, two or more pieces of send candidate information that have different pieces of sender identification information, the same recipient identification information, and related pieces of item identification information are extracted (S13).

Abstract: The purpose of the present invention is to enhance user convenience by combining stored value type and server management type payment systems. A portable terminal 5 stores a terminal-side value balance in the portable terminal, and an electronic money server 2 stores a server-side value balance related to the terminal-side value balance. At the time of payment, the portable terminal 5 connects to the electronic money server 2 via a payment terminal 6 or the Internet 3. Then, if payment can be made by using the server-side value balance, the electronic money server 2 makes payment by using the server-side value balance; if the server-side value balance is not enough and there is a shortfall, the electronic money server 2 adds an amount corresponding to the shortfall by subtracting the amount from the terminal-side value balance.

Abstract: Provided is an information processing system capable of effectively preventing a user's failure to take his or her basal body temperature. The base time setter 301 sets, as a base measurement time, a time used as a basis for a user to take the user's body temperature after awakening, based on the times at which the user's body temperatures were measured. The sleep duration estimator 302 estimates the user U's most recent sleep duration. When the user's most recent sleep duration exceeds a predetermined threshold value, the alarm controller 303 causes an alarm to sound at the base measurement time.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus is provided that is configured to facilitate the avoidance of a state in which the browsing of a web page displayed in a main display area is hindered by the displaying of a sub display area. When a web page scrollable in a predetermined scroll direction is displayed in a main display area, the information processing apparatus acquires an arrangement position of a display element displayed in the web page, the arrangement position being a position in a crossing direction crossing the scroll direction, and determines an arrangement position in the crossing direction of the sub display area arranged at a position overlapping the main display area in accordance with the acquired arrangement position of the display element.

Abstract: A problem that a load on an affiliate server increases when an affiliate reward is divided among a plurality of people is solved. When a user purchases a commodity or receives service in an EC site, an affiliate reward dividing apparatus adds a full amount of a reward to one of a poster database and an introducer database on the basis of a dividing ratio stored in an affiliate database. A computation of referring to a dividing ratio for each reward and dividing a reward, and a process of accumulating a divided reward in each data base is not necessary, so that a load on a system can be lessened.

Abstract: An information processing device identifies a search query of a target user to whom an electronic coupon is to be issued and the corresponding search time, and adds the elapsed time between the search time and the current time to an expected interval between the current time and viewing by the target user, to calculate an expected viewing duration. The information processing device then identifies, as estimated viewed items, items associated with an estimated viewing duration of less than or equal to or of less than the calculated expected viewing duration, among items included in estimated viewing duration information corresponding to the identified search query. Based on items included in the target user's history information and on the identified estimated viewed items, the information processing device generates an electronic coupon to be provided to the target user.

Abstract: A selection device (100) displays objects that are selection subjects on a touch screen, and selects an object according to an operation performed on the touch screen. In this selection device (100), a detector (130) detects a touch operation performed on the touch screen. A divider (150) divides the detection area of the touch screen into a plurality of sections on the basis of the positions of the objects that are currently displayed and the detection position where the detector (130) detected the touch operation. When an operation of selecting one of the sections divided by the divider (150) is detected, a confirmer (160) confirms the selection of the object that corresponds to the selected section.

Abstract: Provided are a device and a method which facilitate continued focusing of a used on specific content information by increasing the opportunities for said content information to appear (be exposed) even in case that said specific content information has been moved off the display screen by scrolling. At least one set of copy content information is generated which is a copy of focus content information identified from content information contained in a content list displayed on the display screen of a terminal device. Then, said generated copy content information is inserted at any insertion position in the sequence of the content list, and said inserted copy content information is displayed on the display screen in response to operations in which the user scrolls the display content on the display screen.

Abstract: Even when an image in which a watermark is embedded is processed, certainty of detecting the watermark is increased. Image data acquisition unit of an image processing device acquires image data. A watermark generation unit generates watermarks having a plurality of sizes. An image processing unit embeds the respective watermarks having the plurality of sizes generated by the watermark generation unit in an image indicated by the image data acquired by the image data acquisition unit.