Abstract: Provided is a communication system for an air conditioner including a housing and a control board accommodated in the housing. The communication system includes: a communication conversion unit accommodated in the housing and configured to acquire a required electric signal from the control board and to convert the electric signal into a digital signal for wire transmission; a cable having a first end connected to the communication conversion unit, the cable being drawn out of the housing to outside; and an antenna unit connected to a second end of the cable located outside the housing, the antenna unit being configured to establish wireless communication with a base station.

Abstract: Provided is a communication system for an air conditioner including a housing and a control board accommodated in the housing. The communication system includes: a communication conversion unit accommodated in the housing and configured to acquire a required electric signal from the control board and to convert the electric signal into a digital signal for wire transmission; a cable having a first end connected to the communication conversion unit, the cable being drawn out of the housing to outside; and an antenna unit connected to a second end of the cable located outside the housing, the antenna unit being configured to establish wireless communication with a base station.

Abstract: A communication device includes a communicating portion that sends content data to another device; and a controlling portion that acquires an operating status of the communication device, and generates a playback information list that comprises playback information corresponding to the content data based on the operation status, wherein the communicating portion sends to the other device the content data converted into a playback format based on the playback information selected by the other device.

Abstract: A server device includes a communicating portion that sends content data through a communication network to a client machine and a controlling portion that acquires processing capability information of the client machine that plays back the content data, and generates a playback format list that includes playback format information corresponding to the content data, based on, at least, the processing capability information acquired for the client machine. The content data is converted into a playback format based on playback format information selected by the client machine side from the playback format list, and is sent through the communicating portion to the client machine.

Abstract: A smartphone provides a content to a client device that displays the contents on a screen. The smartphone includes a gyro sensor and a control unit. The gyro sensor detects a direction that the smartphone is facing. The control unit stops transmission of a predetermined content for which confidentiality is to be preserved when the gyro sensor detects that the smartphone is facing a predetermined direction.

Abstract: A server device includes a communicating portion that sends content data through a communication network to a client machine and a controlling portion that acquires processing capability information of the client machine that plays back the content data, and generates a playback format list that includes playback format information corresponding to the content data, based on, at least, the processing capability information acquired for the client machine. The content data is converted into a playback format based on playback format information selected by the client machine side from the playback format list, and is sent through the communicating portion to the client machine.

Abstract: Disclosed is a reproduction apparatus including a server apparatus to distribute contents and a reproduction section to reproduce the contents distributed by the server apparatus, wherein a storage section included in the server apparatus stores set information pertaining to setting of a predetermined adjustment parameter related to a reproduction of content with respect to each of the contents distributable by the server apparatus; and the reproduction section reproduces the content on the basis of the set information stored in the storage section in the content distributed by the server apparatus.

Abstract: A content reception system, includes: a server; and a mobile client device which is connected to the server through a network to receive a content transmitted from the server, wherein the server includes: a content storage unit for storing a plurality of contents; and a list storage unit for storing a content list of the plurality of contents, and wherein the mobile client device includes: a stop detection unit for detecting that movement of the mobile client device is stopped; a judgment unit for judging that the mobile client device is in a predetermined stop state based on a detecting result obtained by the stop detection unit; a list obtaining unit for obtaining at least a part of the content list from the list storage unit of the server when the judgment unit judges that the mobile client device is in the stop state; a selection unit for selecting a content from the content list obtained by the list obtaining unit; and a content obtaining unit for obtaining the content selected by the selection unit, fro

Abstract: Disclosed is an image data server which transmits image data through a communication network to a client apparatus for displaying an image on a display screen, the image data server including: an obtainment section to obtain aspect ratio information of the display screen from the client apparatus through the communication network; a specification section to specify a display screen area where the image based on the image data is not displayed in the display screen of the client apparatus when the image is output to the client apparatus according to the aspect ratio information obtained by the obtainment section; a creation section to create combined data by combining background image data corresponding to the display screen area specified by the specification section with the image data; and a transmission section to transmit the combined data created by the creation section through the communication network to the client apparatus.

Abstract: A contents delivery system including a network player and plural network servers. When the network player transmits a contents acquisition requirement to one of the network servers, the network server detects a CPU load, and when the CPU load is judged to exceed a CPU load threshold, the network server judges whether contents which the network player requires to acquire were copied to any of network server. When the contents are judged to have been copied, the network server obtains from a HDD not only a contents URI corresponding to the copied contents but also a server ID corresponding to the network server in which the contents were copied and subsequently transmits the contents URI and the server ID to the network player. The network player a contents acquisition requirement to obtain contents, which corresponds to the contents URI, to the network server, which corresponds to the server ID.

Abstract: An information distribution method for sending similar information from a sending node to all of receiving nodes in a given state in a dense wireless network. The sending node sends, only one time, information including status data directly to all of receiving nodes in an area where communication with the sending node is possible, not via a node other than the respective receiving nodes. Thereafter, the sending node determines whether or not any record corresponding to a receiving node to which the information should be sent is left in a distribution list. Only when it is determined that any record corresponding to a receiving node is left in the distribution list, the sending node sends information similar in content to the information sent in the directly sending step to the receiving node corresponding to the record left in the distribution list by using a unicast protocol.

Abstract: Disclosed is an image data server which transmits image data through a communication network to a client apparatus for displaying an image on a display screen, the image data server including: an obtainment section to obtain aspect ratio information of the display screen from the client apparatus through the communication network; a specification section to specify a display screen area where the image based on the image data is not displayed in the display screen of the client apparatus when the image is output to the client apparatus according to the aspect ratio information obtained by the obtainment section; a creation section to create combined data by combining background image data corresponding to the display screen area specified by the specification section with the image data; and a transmission section to transmit the combined data created by the creation section through the communication network to the client apparatus.

Abstract: Disclosed is a reproduction apparatus including a server apparatus to distribute contents and a reproduction section to reproduce the contents distributed by the server apparatus, wherein a storage section included in the server apparatus stores set information pertaining to setting of a predetermined adjustment parameter related to a reproduction of content with respect to each of the contents distributable by the server apparatus; and the reproduction section reproduces the content on the basis of the set information stored in the storage section in the content distributed by the server apparatus.

Abstract: A content reception system, includes: a server; and a mobile client device which is connected to the server through a network to receive a content transmitted from the server, wherein the server includes: a content storage unit for storing a plurality of contents; and a list storage unit for storing a content list of the plurality of contents, and wherein the mobile client device includes: a stop detection unit for detecting that movement of the mobile client device is stopped; a judgment unit for judging that the mobile client device is in a predetermined stop state based on a detecting result obtained by the stop detection unit; a list obtaining unit for obtaining at least a part of the content list from the list storage unit of the server when the judgment unit judges that the mobile client device is in the stop state; a selection unit for selecting a content from the content list obtained by the list obtaining unit; and a content obtaining unit for obtaining the content selected by the selection unit, fro

Abstract: A contents delivery system including a network player and plural network servers. When the network player transmits a contents acquisition requirement to one of the network servers, the network server detects a CPU load, and when the CPU load is judged to exceed a CPU load threshold, the network server judges whether contents which the network player requires to acquire were copied to any of network server. When the contents are judged to have been copied, the network server obtains from a HDD not only a contents URI corresponding to the copied contents but also a server ID corresponding to the network server in which the contents were copied and subsequently transmits the contents URI and the server ID to the network player. The network player a contents acquisition requirement to obtain contents, which corresponds to the contents URI, to the network server, which corresponds to the server ID.

Abstract: An information distribution method for sending similar information from a sending node to all of receiving nodes in a given state in a dense wireless network. The sending node sends, only one time, information including status data directly to all of receiving nodes in an area where communication with the sending node is possible, not via a node other than the respective receiving nodes. Thereafter, the sending node determines whether or not any record corresponding to a receiving node to which the information should be sent is left in a distribution list. Only when it is determined that any record corresponding to a receiving node is left in the distribution list, the sending node sends information similar in content to the information sent in the directly sending step to the receiving node corresponding to the record left in the distribution list by using a unicast protocol.