Abstract: Disclosed is a server apparatus for providing authentication information to associate a client terminal with a plurality of display apparatuses capable of displaying a content distributed from the client terminal. The server apparatus includes a storage configured to store authentication pattern information associated with information relating to operations of the client terminal; and an issuing unit configured to issue the authentication pattern information stored in the storage to a display apparatus on which an operation has been performed by the user, among the plurality of display apparatuses, in a mode of disabling issuing a same item of authentication pattern information in a period from issuing the authentication pattern information to receiving return of the authentication pattern information from the display apparatus.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus including: a memory, and a processor coupled to the memory and the processor configured to: detect a plurality of sounds in sound data captured in a space within a specified period, classify the plurality of sounds into a plurality of kinds of sound based on similarities of the plurality of sounds respectively, and determine a state of a person in the space within the specified period based on counts of the plurality of kinds of sound.

Abstract: An information reading system includes a passive-type IC tag that identifies a device installed on side of an environment, a tag reader that reads identification information of the passive-type IC tag, a sensor unit that detects a touch operation performed with respect to the passive-type IC tag, and a reading control unit that, when the sensor unit detects a touch operation, activates the tag reader and controls timing of reading the passive-type IC tag.

Abstract: A content projection apparatus including: a memory, and a processor coupled to the memory and the processor configured to: obtain a range image of a space, detect a plane region in the range image of the space, determine an aspect ratio of each of a plurality of grids, into which the plane region is divided, based on a horizontal-to-vertical ratio of contents to be projected on the space, determine at least one specified grid whose distance from an outside of the plane region is the longest in the plurality of grids, and output information for projecting the contents in a position of one of the at least one specified grid of the space with a specified size that is determined based on the distance.

Abstract: An electronic device includes a camera configured to capture a plurality of images according to an imaging time based on a first dock, a sensor configured to measure a parameter for determining an attitude according to a measurement time based on a second dock, and circuitry. The circuitry determines an attitude of the camera, determine an attitude of the sensor, calculates a rotation parameter indicating a difference between the attitude of the camera and the attitude of the sensor in a first measurement time period during which the attitude of the electronic device is in a stable state, corrects at least one of the attitude of the camera and the attitude of the sensor, calculate a time difference between a first time measured by the first clock and a second time measured by the second dock, and corrects at least one of the imaging time and the measurement time.

Abstract: A guidance support method is disclosed. Target information is detected in space information stored in a storage device. A device position of a display device is measured in a space defined in the space information and a target position of a target defined in the target information. An icon position of an icon to display is determined at the display device and a movement of the icon based on the device position and the target position, which are measured. The icon moving as determined at the icon position displayed is displayed at the display device as determined. The icon position and the movement of the icon displayed at the display device is changed depending on a change of the device position.

Abstract: An operation support method is disclosed. A three dimensional panorama image is generated by overlapping multiple images with each other based on posture information of a camera and a feature point map of the multiple images captured by the camera. The three dimensional panorama image is displayed at a first display device. At a second display device, position information of a target indicated is output based on current posture information of the camera in response to an indication of the target on the three dimensional panorama image.

Abstract: A display control system includes a communication device and a display control device configured to communicate with the communication device, wherein the communication device includes first circuitry configured to detect a specific event, and transmit notification information on the specific event to the display control device, and wherein the display control device includes second circuitry configured to detect drawing processing performed by a user on a screen, determine a window frame on the screen according to the drawing processing, and perform control to display a content in the window frame when the notification information is received, the content being designated as a display object by the communication device that has transmitted the notification information.

Abstract: A content display control method includes displaying a content image on a screen, detecting reflection light of a beam of light reflected off the screen, the beam of light being emitted from a portable device onto the screen, selecting, based on the detected reflection light, a desired one of modes set in association with states of the reflection light changed in accordance with a distance between the screen and the portable device, detecting a user's operation in a period from selecting the mode to turning off the beam of light, based on the state of the reflection light in association with the selected mode, and controlling display of the content image on the screen based on the detected user's operation.

Abstract: A display control method executed by a computer, the display control method including detecting a touch position of an object and a slide locus of the touch position on a display screen displayed by a display device, determining a position of a window and a size of the window based on the slide locus of the touch position, associating the window with a terminal when a first notification is received from the terminal, the first notification being a notification which the computer received for the first time after the determining, and displaying an image received from the associated terminal in the window determined based on the determined position and the determined size of the window.

Abstract: An image generation method is disclosed. A first image including an object placed in a real space is captured by using an imaging device. A first posture of the imaging device is detected when the first image is captured by the imaging device. A second image including the object placed in the real space is captured by the imaging device. A second posture of the imaging device is detected when the second image is captured. A relative location relationship between a first object location included in the first image and a second object location included in the second image are calculated based on the first posture and the second posture. A third image is generated by merging the first image and the second image based on the calculated relative location relationship.

Abstract: An information reading system includes a passive-type IC tag that identifies a device installed on side of an environment, a tag reader that reads identification information of the passive-type IC tag, a sensor unit that detects a touch operation performed with respect to the passive-type IC tag, and a reading control unit that, when the sensor unit detects a touch operation, activates the tag reader and controls timing of reading the passive-type IC tag.

Abstract: A robot includes: a moving mechanism; a position recognition section that recognizes a current position of the robot within a guide zone having at least one guide location; and a movement control section that moves the robot to each of guide locations in the guide zone by using the moving mechanism, while causing the position recognition section to recognize the current position. The robot further includes a transmission section that transmits, every time the robot moves to each of the guide locations, contents information corresponding to the guide location to a mobile receive terminal held by a person to be guided near the robot.

Abstract: A robot includes: a moving mechanism; a position recognition section that recognizes a current position of the robot within a guide zone having at least one guide location; and a movement control section that moves the robot to each of guide locations in the guide zone by using the moving mechanism, while causing the position recognition section to recognize the current position. The robot further includes a transmission section that transmits, every time the robot moves to each of the guide locations, contents information corresponding to the guide location to a mobile receive terminal held by a person to be guided near the robot.

Abstract: A robot for freely moving about in an environment where there is an obstacle. The robot includes a communication section transmitting by wireless an image taken by a camera to a base station, and via the base station to a communication terminal making a radio communication with the base station, and receiving by wireless movement target position information specified on the image by an operation of the communication terminal via the base station, and a motion control section that moves the robot up to a movement target position specified by the movement target position information acquired in the communication section.

Abstract: A remotely controlled robot comprises a unit storing the layout plan of a building, a unit receiving a position remotely designated in the layout plan from a remote location and a unit controlling the travel of the robot to the designated position. A self-position identification method is implemented by a robot with a camera whose shooting direction can be changed. The robot takes in advance a panoramic picture of a room where the robot may travel, generates a reference picture by extracting a plurality of block pictures from the panoramic picture and identifies a room where the robot is located, by applying correlation and DP matching, using both a picture taken in the room where the robot is located and the reference picture.

Abstract: The present invention aims to provide a robot having the structure suitable for freely moving about in the environment where there is an obstacle within the house, for example. The robot includes a communication section transmitting by wireless an image taken by the camera to a base station, and via the base station to a communication terminal making the radio communication with the base station, and receiving by wireless the movement target position information specified on the image by an operation of the communication terminal via the base station, and a motion control section that moves the robot up to a movement target position specified by the movement target position information acquired in the communication section.

Abstract: A remotely controlled robot comprises a unit storing the layout plan of a building, a unit receiving a position remotely designated in the layout plan from a remote location and a unit controlling the travel of the robot to the designated position. A self-position identification method is implemented by a robot with a camera whose shooting direction can be changed. The robot takes in advance a panoramic picture of a room where the robot may travel, generates a reference picture by extracting a plurality of block pictures from the panoramic picture and identifies a room where the robot is located, by applying correlation and DP matching, using both a picture taken in the room where the robot is located and the reference picture.

Abstract: A portable card type data storage device with a large capacity and low power consumption is provided which enalbes two storage mediums with different features to be installed into a single slot of an information processing device. The card type data storage device 100 of the invention includes a case 10 having a connection slot 10a, a first connector 11 adapted to be inserted into and connected with a connection slot 201 of an information processing device such as a PC 200, a hard disk 13 housed in the case 10, a second connector 12 for connection with a semiconductor memory 18 inserted into the connection slot 10a, and a storage device control section 20.

Abstract: In an image processing unit for performing an arithmetic operation between a reference image and a search image, a product-sum operation section comprises systoric array, a normalization and accumulation processing section and a correlation value memory control section. The product-sum operation section is used on a common basis for an operation for the addition of a square of a pixel value of a search image over a plurality of pixels and an operation for the addition of a multiplication of pixel values of pixels associated with the search image and the reference image over a plurality of pixels. An operation for a norm of the reference image is performed on a path (a reference image norm computing section) which is different from that of the product-sum operation section.