Abstract: An information processing device includes a communication unit and a control unit. The control unit is configured to determine a sprinkling mode based on information indicating the environment of a sprinkling place. The control unit is configured to send, through the communication unit, a notification indicating the sprinkling mode to at least one vehicle scheduled to travel in the sprinkling place.

Abstract: A control device includes a control unit and a communication unit. The control unit is configured to calculate a set value that is the set value of an air conditioner provided in the destination facility of a vehicle and is to be used by the occupants of the vehicle, based on information on the air conditioning environment in the vehicle and is configured to send the calculated set value of the air conditioner to a predetermined sending destination via the communication unit.

Abstract: An input item information DB stores input items and weighting factors for each service based on voice recognition, a specifying unit specifies the input items based on uttered information, a storage unit stores the uttered information for the specified input items, a calculation unit calculates a score for each service based on all the input items for which the uttered information is stored and the weighting factors, and a request unit requests a user to utter information for an uninput item for which the uttered information has yet to be stored in the service having the highest score. The request unit requests the user to utter the information for the uninput item for a service having the least number of uninput items in the indispensable input items or having the highest ratio of input for the indispensable input items among the services having the highest score.

Abstract: An input item information DB stores input items and weighting factors for each service based on voice recognition, a specifying unit specifies the input items based on uttered information, a storage unit stores the uttered information for the specified input items, a calculation unit calculates a score for each service based on all the input items for which the uttered information is stored and the weighting factors, and a request unit requests a user to utter information for an uninput item for which the uttered information has yet to be stored in the service having the highest score. The request unit requests the user to utter the information for the uninput item for a service having the least number of uninput items in the indispensable input items or having the highest ratio of input for the indispensable input items among the services having the highest score.

Abstract: Provided is a system including: a first vehicle equipped with a land mobile station for mobile communication; and a second vehicle that transports the first vehicle and a user holding a terminal for mobile communication. The system further includes a control unit configured to acquire radio wave intensity of the mobile communication at a current location of the second vehicle, and generate, when the acquired radio wave intensity is less than a predetermined intensity, a command to unload the first vehicle from the second vehicle; and generating a command to relay the mobile communication by the land mobile station of the first vehicle.

Abstract: Provided is a novel heating system for an electric vehicle. A heating system for a vehicle compartment includes: a heat source storage chamber disposed below a vehicle compartment floor of an electric vehicle and configured to store at least one heat source element unit selected from an automotive battery, a motor, a converter, and an inverter; and a connection chamber configured to connect between the heat source storage chamber and the vehicle compartment. A heat exchange medium flows in the heat source storage chamber and the connection chamber. The heat source element unit and air in the vehicle compartment exchange heat with each other through the heat exchange medium.

Abstract: An image transmission device including a communication interface configured to transmit a captured image of a mark target that faces an intersection to a server in a case where the mark target is inconspicuous.

Abstract: An in-vehicle information processing system includes a first in-vehicle device included in a vehicle, a second in-vehicle device connected to be communicable with the first in-vehicle device through an in-vehicle network and included in the vehicle, and a control device detachably connected to the first in-vehicle device. The control device is configured to store information to be used in control of the second in-vehicle device and transmit, to the first in-vehicle device, a signal including a control command to the second in-vehicle device. The first in-vehicle device is configured to convert the signal including the control command to the second in-vehicle device received from the control device to be transmittable through the in-vehicle network and transmit the signal to the second in-vehicle device.

Abstract: A social game and the like that can increase the fun and amusement of a team battle and enhance players' motivation to participate in or continue a game by suppressing an occurrence of any non-participation team not participating in the battle are provided. A guild status determination unit determines, for each guild, whether the guild is in an inactive state or an active state, based on a result of detecting a login state of each player. A guild integrated control unit forcibly disbands a guild (i.e. an inactive guild) determined to be in the inactive state, based on guild activity information notified from the status determination unit. A disbandment notification unit notifies each player belonging to the inactive guild, of the disbandment of the guild.

Abstract: A technique for enabling a user who wants to be pick-up by a vehicle to collect baggage deposited elsewhere by a pick-up vehicle. An information processing apparatus obtains user information including first information indicating a desired boarding location and a desired boarding time for a user who wishes to be picked-up by a vehicle, second information indicating deposit location at which the user has deposited a user baggage, and third information indicating that a driver of a pick-up vehicle picking-up the user is permitted to receive the user baggage from the deposit location. The information processing apparatus transmits the user information to a vehicle terminal associated with the pick-up vehicle.

Abstract: Provided is a system including: a first vehicle equipped with a land mobile station for mobile communication; and a second vehicle that transports the first vehicle and a user holding a terminal for mobile communication. The system further includes a control unit configured to acquire radio wave intensity of the mobile communication at a current location of the second vehicle, and generate, when the acquired radio wave intensity is less than a predetermined intensity, a command to unload the first vehicle from the second vehicle; and generating a command to relay the mobile communication by the land mobile station of the first vehicle.

Abstract: The present disclosure makes it possible to, when a user misses his way while moving by a vehicle, guide the user to a destination. An information processing apparatus according to the present disclosure manages a communication line for a telephone conversation between a user who is driving a vehicle and an operator who makes a telephone conversation with the user. When a current location of the vehicle is within a predetermined range from a destination of the user, the information processing apparatus executes a predetermined determination process for determining whether predetermined condition by which the user can be judged to miss his way is met. If judging that the predetermined condition is met in the predetermined determination process, the information processing apparatus notifies the operator to perform route guidance by a telephone conversation for the user.

Abstract: A toner includes a toner particle containing a binder resin and an inorganic infrared absorbent particle, wherein (1) in spectrometry of a fixed image obtained by fixing an unfixed image formed on a recording material by using the toner in a loading amount of 0.30 mg/cm2, a maximum value of a light absorbance in a wavelength range of 400 nm or more and 800 nm or less is 10% or less, and (2) in cross section observation of the toner particle using a transmission electron microscope, when a circle having the center of gravity of a cross section image of the toner particle as the center thereof and having a radius of 2.0 ?m is drawn and the circle is divided into four to form four quadrants, a coefficient of variation in number of the inorganic infrared absorbent particles observed in each quadrant is 0.50 or less.

Abstract: An information providing method includes acquiring speech information indicating what a user tells an operator through a call, generating voice recognition data indicating a voice recognition result of the speech information by performing a voice recognition process on the acquired speech information, extracting first information on a desire of the user from the generated voice recognition data, acquiring second information associated with the first extracted information, and presenting the second acquired information to a terminal device that is used by the operator.

Abstract: An image forming system includes: an image forming apparatus that includes an image forming section that forms an image on a recording material in accordance with a print job and a first reception section that receives a command about output of the print job; and a post-processing apparatus that includes a post-processing section that performs post-processing on the recording material transported from the image forming apparatus in accordance with the print job and a second reception section that receives a command about the post-processing and that receives a command about re-output of the print job in a case where the print job is to be possibly re-output.

Abstract: A position information providing apparatus includes: a posting information acquisition part that acquires, from a social media service, posting information having a posting date and time and a posted text that has been posted by a user and that includes a word related to a behavior; a vehicle information acquisition part that acquires vehicle information, including travel history information, based on a vehicle ID associated with a user ID of the acquired posting information; and a position information providing part that provides the posting information with position information related to a posting, based on the acquired posting information and travel history information.

Abstract: A social game and the like that can increase the fun and amusement of a team battle and enhance players' motivation to participate in or continue a game by suppressing an occurrence of any non-participation team not participating in the battle are provided. A guild status determination unit determines, for each guild, whether the guild is in an inactive state or an active state, based on a result of detecting a login state of each player. A guild integrated control unit forcibly disbands a guild (i.e. an inactive guild) determined to be in the inactive state, based on guild activity information notified from the status determination unit. A disbandment notification unit notifies each player belonging to the inactive guild, of the disbandment of the guild.

Abstract: An information providing method includes acquiring speech information indicating what a user tells an operator through a call, generating voice recognition data indicating a voice recognition result of the speech information by performing a voice recognition process on the acquired speech information, extracting first information on a desire of the user from the generated voice recognition data, acquiring second information associated with the first extracted information, and presenting the second acquired information to a terminal device that is used by the operator.

Abstract: A service providing device includes a receiver configured to receive utterance content information uttered by a user; a selection unit configured to select a target content device which would accept an order from the user among a plurality of content devices that execute an order acceptance process based on the utterance content information; an inquiry execution unit configured to sequentially execute an inquiry as to whether or not the order from the user is acceptable for the other content devices, in a case where an unacceptance response is received from the target content device, based on the utterance content information uttered to the target content device which has been received together with the unacceptance response; and a switching unit configured to reset the content device that transmits an acceptance response as the target content device in a case where the acceptance response is received.

Abstract: An information processing device including an electronic control unit is provided. The electronic control unit is configured: to acquire speech data which is uttered by a user; to acquire context in associated with a situation of the user; to convert the speech data into text data; to select a dictionary which is referred to for determining a meaning of a word included in the text data based on the context information when the speech data has been acquired; to give the meaning of the word determined with reference to the selected dictionary to the text data; and to provide a service based on the text data to which the meaning of the word is given.