Abstract: A display system having an input device that communicates with a display device. The input device being able to: detect a track of points of contact between the input device and the display surface; write the track data to a memory; and send the track data to the display device. The display device being able to: detect positions on the display surface contacted by the input device and generate a line formed by the detected positions; toggle between a position detection mode to a position non-detection mode; instruct the input device to detect the track it is in the position non-detection mode; request the track data from the input device when it toggles to the position detection mode; synthesize the track data from the input device and the drawing data to generate image data; and display the generated image data.

Abstract: A storage terminal includes a storage unit, a communication unit, and a controlling unit. The storage unit stores first information and second information. The first information is information that is displayed according to a procedure defined in an Internet browser program. The second information is information that is output according to a procedure defined in a program different from the Internet browser program. The communication unit carries out communications with an information processing apparatus on which the Internet browser program is executed. The controlling unit executes processing according to a request received from the information processing apparatus, by executing an Internet server program. The first information is transmitted according to a communication standard for communications by the storage terminal, and the second information is read and transmitted according to a read/write standard for reading and/or writing to the storage unit.

Abstract: A storage terminal includes an information storage unit, an association storage unit, a receiving unit, and a processing unit. The information storage unit includes a plurality of storage areas having individually different identifiers assigned thereto. The association storage unit stores the identifiers individually in association with different communication addresses on a network. The receiving unit receives a request including one of the communication addresses. The processing unit identifies the identifier associated with the communication address included in the request with reference to the association storage unit, and executes processing according to the request on the storage area having the identified identifier assigned thereto.

Abstract: An information processing system including a host device and a client device which requests the host device to process information, includes: a communication unit which provides communication between the host device and the client device, wherein the host device includes: a communication completion judgment: unit which judges whether or not first communication information to be transmitted and received via one round of communication provided by the communication unit has all been transmitted or received; and a communication information process determination unit which, in the event that the communication unit is unable to transmit or receive the first communication information before it is judged by the communication completion judgment unit that the first communication information has all been transmitted or received, determines a process related to the first communication information in accordance with second communication information received via a next or subsequent round of communication.

Abstract: A searching device includes: a text memory that stores text data, the text data showing at least one character strings, the character strings including n-number of characters, n being a natural number; an input device that receives an input of a keyword, the keyword including m-number of characters, m being a natural number that satisfies m?n; a selector that selects at least one search character from the m-number of characters included in the keyword, the search characters including a-number of characters, a being a natural number that satisfies a?m; a search window controller that sets a search window, the search window including b-number of characters, the b-number of characters being selected from the text data, b being a natural number that satisfies b?a; a determining unit that determines whether the search window includes the keyword on the basis of a comparison result of the characters in the search window with the search characters.

Abstract: A display apparatus includes: a display surface that includes a plurality of display elements of which colors are rewritten in accordance with a period of executing a rewriting process; a detection section that detects positions of the plurality of display elements subjected to the rewriting for each predetermined cycle; a rewriting section that rewrites colors of the corresponding display elements by performing the rewriting process on the display elements corresponding to a trace sequentially linking the positions detected by the detection section; a cycle changing section that, when the positions are designated, changes the cycle in which the detection section detects the corresponding positions; and a rewriting period changing section that, when the cycle changing section changes the cycle to be shortened, shortens a period of the rewriting process which is performed on the display elements by the rewriting section.

Abstract: A display apparatus includes: a display surface that includes a plurality of pixels; a detection section that detects positions of the plurality of pixels successively designated on the display surface for each predetermined cycle; a rewriting section that rewrites colors of the pixels corresponding to the trace sequentially linking the positions detected by the detection section; a direction specifying section that, when the detection section detects the positions, specifies a direction of the trace at the corresponding positions; and a cycle changing section that, when the direction of the trace specified by the direction specifying section is changed and a magnitude of change of the corresponding direction increases, shortens the cycle in which the detection section detects the positions.

Abstract: A printing device enables a laid-out and drawn image to be printed without any subsequent rotation. In the presence of an orientation change command, the printing device receives a layout command and determines a layout of each object in each page on the medium with conversion of coordinates at a preset position of the object. In the presence of the orientation change command, the printing device receives a print command, fetches an object according to the stored layout in each page, and draws and prints the fetched object in response to the orientation change command. No subsequent orientation change of drawing data, which has been laid out and drawn in the specified page orientation, is required to generate converted drawing data corresponding to the specified medium orientation.

Abstract: A display system having an input device that communicates with a display device. The input device being able to: detect a track of points of contact between the input device and the display surface; write the track data to a memory; and send the track data to the display device. The display device being able to: detect positions on the display surface contacted by the input device and generate a line formed by the detected positions; toggle between a position detection mode to a position non-detection mode; instruct the input device to detect the track it is in the position non-detection mode; request the track data from the input device when it toggles to the position detection mode; synthesize the track data from the input device and the drawing data to generate image data; and display the generated image data.

Abstract: A storage terminal includes a storage unit, a communication unit, and a controlling unit. The storage unit stores first information and second information. The first information is information that is displayed according to a procedure defined in an Internet browser program. The second information is information that is output according to a procedure defined in a program different from the Internet browser program. The communication unit carries out communications with an information processing apparatus on which the Internet browser program is executed. The controlling unit executes processing according to a request received from the information processing apparatus, by executing an Internet server program.

Abstract: A storage terminal includes an information storage unit, an association storage unit, a receiving unit, and a processing unit. The information storage unit includes a plurality of storage areas having individually different identifiers assigned thereto. The association storage unit stores the identifiers individually in association with different communication addresses on a network. The receiving unit receives a request including one of the communication addresses. The processing unit identifies the identifier associated with the communication address included in the request with reference to the association storage unit, and executes processing according to the request on the storage area having the identified identifier assigned thereto.

Abstract: A system including a plurality of clients and a host is provided. In the system, each client includes a storage-type display device holding a non-volatile display state; a unit storing data of a displayed document; client-side connection units that, when the host is connected, cause the client to communicate with the host and respectively correspond to predetermined processing; and a unit storing a response map indicating the predetermined processing corresponding to the client-side connection unit. The host includes a host-side connection unit which connects the host to the client-side connection unit; a unit obtaining data from the document storing unit, the data being displayed on the client display device set to communicate; and a unit executing predetermined processing on the obtained data, the processing being associated with the client-side connection unit, to which the host-side connection unit is connected, by the response map.

Abstract: An access control apparatus including a memory section that stores information; an authentication information memory section that stores at least first stored user authentication information and second stored user authentication information corresponding to a user; an input section in which first inputted user authentication information and second inputted user authentication information are inputted; a judgment section that judges whether the first inputted user authentication information matches the first stored user authentication information; a registration section that stores a second inputted authentication information in the authentication information memory section, if the judgment sections judges that the first inputted authentication information matches the first stored user authentication information; and an approval section that approves access to the information stored in the memory section for a predetermined time period if the judgment section judges that: (1) the first inputted authentication

Abstract: An information processing system including a host device and a client device which requests the host device to process information, includes: a communication unit which provides communication between the host device and the client device, wherein the host device includes: a communication completion judgment: unit which judges whether or not first communication information to foe transmitted and received via one round of communication provided by the communication unit has all been transmitted or received; and a communication information process determination unit which, in the event that the communication unit is unable to transmit or receive the first communication information before it is judged by the communication completion judgment unit that the first communication information has all been transmitted or received, determines a process related to the first communication information in accordance with second communication information received via a next or subsequent round of communication.

Abstract: An information processing system includes: a host device, and a plurality of client devices, each of which is in communication with the host device, the plurality of client devices having unique identification information for specifying each of them.

Abstract: An information display device for displaying prescribed information on a prescribed display body, includes: an authentication operation request section for allowing a user to make user authentication; and an operation permission section for accepting an operation on said information display device for a prescribed permission time since said information display device is lastly operated, if the user who makes the authentication operation is authorized to perform the operation of said information display device; wherein said operation permission section sets said permission time based on the display contents on said display body.

Abstract: A searching device includes: a text memory that stores text data, the text data showing at least one character strings, the character strings including n-number of characters, n being a natural number; an input device that receives an input of a keyword, the keyword including m-number of characters, m being a natural number that satisfies m?n; a selector that selects at least one search character from the m-number of characters included in the keyword, the search characters including a-number of characters, a being a natural number that satisfies a?m; a search window controller that sets a search window, the search window including b-number of characters, the b-number of characters being selected from the text data, b being a natural number that satisfies b?a; a determining unit that determines whether the search window includes the keyword on the basis of a comparison result of the characters in the search window with the search characters.

Abstract: An information display apparatus which displays additional information together with contents to be displayed on a predetermined display element, includes a display section for displaying the contents to be displayed and the additional information in different areas in a format depending on an attribute of the contents to be displayed.

Abstract: Every time a specified URL is given, an analyzer unit 30 stores the specified URL into a URL storage buffer area of a memory 50, whether or not an XHTML document is being currently analyzed. When any URL is present in the URL storage buffer area of the memory 50, the analyzer unit 30 successively reads and analyzes an XHTML document identified by the specified URL to create a DOM tree, and stores the DOM tree into a DOM tree storage area of the memory 50, whether or not a layouter 38 is currently making a layout.

Abstract: When a page size extracted from a style object created by analysis of a CSS document is greater than a paper size set in a printer, the technique of the invention updates the page size to the paper size, limits the size of the style object to a maximum allowable size of an element set according to the paper size, and lays out and prints elements based on the updated page size and the limited size of the style object. This arrangement desirably prevents potential troubles due to the greater page size than the printing size, for example, failed printing of part of the elements to be printed.