Abstract: A handwriting input device accepts an input of a handwriting; and allows a display unit to display a handwriting with a predetermined length from a starting point to a present input point from among handwritings received by the reception unit at a present input point.

Abstract: An input apparatus includes, a display unit that causes a plurality of display screens on which images are to be displayed to display the images, a input detecting unit that detects a first input on a first display screen, a second input on the first display screen, and a third input on a second display screen, a position acquiring unit that acquires a first position, a second position and a third position, a start-position estimating unit that estimates a start position of an associated operation on the second display screen, and a continuity determining unit that determines whether the third input is the associated operation based upon the third position and the start position.

Abstract: A server, which is connected to a plurality of terminal devices, includes a device ID (identification) storage unit configured to store device ID items for identifying the terminal devices; an acquiring unit configured to acquire coordinate information that is input at the terminal devices identified by the device ID items and time information that is input; a positional relationship determining unit configured to determine positional relationships between the terminal devices according to a sequence of coordinates that is input in a manner to cross over the terminal devices, based on the coordinate information and the time information; and a group determining unit configured to extract, from determination results of the positional relationship determining unit, the device ID items identifying the terminal devices that are to be grouped together into a group.

Abstract: A message display device provided with a display section includes: an event acquisition section for acquiring an event that triggers display of a message on the display section and is associated with the message; a data acquisition section for acquiring a type of an application program and a display mode of an image to be displayed on the display section during execution of the application program; a data storage section for storing the type of the application program, the image display mode thereof, and a message display mode of displaying a message on the display section associated with one another; and a message display control section for, in response to acquisition of the event by the event acquisition section, displays the message associated with the event on the display section in the message display mode recognized from the data storage section.

Abstract: A PC displaying an image on a display unit accepts handwriting input to the image, and displays the accepted handwriting on the image. The PC detects object regions including a certain object in the image and comment placement regions corresponding to respective object regions. If the starting position of the first stroke of handwriting is included in any one of the object regions, the PC determines that the accepted handwriting is directed to the object region. When the input of the handwriting to the object region is finished, the PC identifies a display region for the handwriting and changes the size of the input handwriting so as to display the input handwriting in the comment placement region corresponding to the object region. The PC displays the size-changed handwriting in the identified display region and further displays a comment balloon surrounding the displayed handwriting.

Abstract: A handwriting input device accepts an input of a handwriting; and allows a display unit to display a handwriting with a predetermined length from a starting point to a present input point from among handwritings received by the reception unit at a present input point.

Abstract: An input apparatus includes, a display unit that causes a plurality of display screens on which images are to be displayed to display the images, a input detecting unit that detects a first input on a first display screen, a second input on the first display screen, and a third input on a second display screen, a position acquiring unit that acquires a first position, a second position and a third position, a start-position estimating unit that estimates a start position of an associated operation on the second display screen, and a continuity determining unit that determines whether the third input is the associated operation based upon the third position and the start position.

Abstract: Execution commands corresponding to the type of gesture are stored and by acquiring coordinate values of accepted handwriting input including gesture on a display screen, handwriting is displayed. When handwriting input is accepted, display data of handwriting is updated. When handwriting input is not completed, it is decided whether or not handwriting input is gesture input. When it is decided that the handwriting input is gesture input, the type of gesture is decided on the basis of the coordinate values of gesture on the display screen, an execution command corresponding to the type of gesture is read and the fact that the handwriting input is gesture input is displayed. When gesture input is completed, the execution command corresponding to gesture input is executed. Therefore, the user can make handwriting input according to the user's intent without performing mode switching.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus connected to a display apparatus and an input apparatus includes an image recording part for recording image data, an input part for receiving a mark to be displayed under a condition of overlapping the image from the input apparatus, a mark recording part for recording data that represents the mark, an image data acquiring part for acquiring pixel information that represents a pixel group of a portion of the image overlapping the mark in a predetermined range from the image data, an adjusting part for calculating a value that represents an overlapping degree between the mark and a character, graphic, or picture contained in the image, using the pixel information, and obtaining a position or shape of the mark whose overlapping degree represented by the value is lowest, and an output part for allowing the display apparatus to display the mark in the position or shape obtained by the adjusting part under the condition that the mark overlaps the image.

Abstract: According to an aspect of the invention, a display apparatus includes: an image acquisition part which acquires image data of a page on which characters are written; an image reduction part which reduces the image data of the page at a predetermined reduction rate; a complexity degree calculation part which analyzes an image structure of the image data of a character in the image data, and calculates a complexity degree of the image structure; a reduction control part which determines the reduction rate for the image reduction so that the complexity degree is kept to a predetermined extent even after the reduction; an image display part which displays the image data reduced by the image reduction part so that the image better fills the display screen.

Abstract: A message display device provided with a display section includes: an event acquisition section for acquiring an event that triggers display of a message on the display section and is associated with the message; a data acquisition section for acquiring a type of an application program and a display mode of an image to be displayed on the display section during execution of the application program; a data storage section for storing the type of the application program, the image display mode thereof, and a message display mode of displaying a message on the display section associated with one another; and a message display control section for, in response to acquisition of the event by the event acquisition section, displays the message associated with the event on the display section in the message display mode recognized from the data storage section.

Abstract: Execution commands corresponding to the type of gesture are stored and by acquiring coordinate values of accepted handwriting input including gesture on a display screen, handwriting is displayed. When handwriting input is accepted, display data of handwriting is updated. When handwriting input is not completed, it is decided whether or not handwriting input is gesture input. When it is decided that the handwriting input is gesture input, the type of gesture is decided on the basis of the coordinate values of gesture on the display screen, an execution command corresponding to the type of gesture is read and the fact that the handwriting input is gesture input is displayed. When gesture input is completed, the execution command corresponding to gesture input is executed. Therefore, the user can make handwriting input according to the user's intent without performing mode switching.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus connected to a display apparatus and an input apparatus includes an image recording part for recording image data, an input part for receiving a mark to be displayed under a condition of overlapping the image from the input apparatus, a mark recording part for recording data that represents the mark, an image data acquiring part for acquiring pixel information that represents a pixel group of a portion of the image overlapping the mark in a predetermined range from the image data, an adjusting part for calculating a value that represents an overlapping degree between the mark and a character, graphic, or picture contained in the image, using the pixel information, and obtaining a position or shape of the mark whose overlapping degree represented by the value is lowest, and an output part for allowing the display apparatus to display the mark in the position or shape obtained by the adjusting part under the condition that the mark overlaps the image.

Abstract: A learning support system is provided in which, when the same question is displayed at the second time and afterward, the question is displayed in a form so that a previous correctness/wrongness state is understood, whereby learning effects are enhanced. The learning support system having a question display part for displaying a question fetched from a question database on a screen and an answer input part, includes an answer determining part for matching an answer inputted from the answer input part with a correct answer in the question database to determine whether or not the answer inputted from the answer input part is correct, an answer determination result display part for displaying answer determination results by the answer determining part so that they are associated with the answer inputted from the answer input part, and an answer determination result memory for storing the answer determination results so that they are associated with a question.

Abstract: The invention presents a device and a method for entering a character string in which a dictionary is changed dynamically in accordance with the input situation of the user, and in which character strings that are generally suitable for the input situation of the user can be entered. When a character string is entered, the situation in which the character string is entered is acquired. In accordance with the acquired situation, a dictionary used for the generation of candidate character strings or a portion of such a dictionary are affirmed as a situation-optimized dictionary. Optimized output candidate character strings are generated and outputted in accordance with the situation from character strings that have been input using this situation-optimized dictionary, and when output candidate character strings are affirmed and outputted, the affirmed character strings are stored in the situation-optimized dictionary in accordance with the acquired situation.

Abstract: The invention relates to an electronic news system of stand-alone type or network type for managing electronic messages and replies to the messages such as an electronic bulletin board system in which data for reply selected by the user from among indicated data for fixed form replies is transmitted as a reply, so that the input operation of the reply is easy and many replies can be obtained from the readers of the message, and also by totaling the number of the respective selections out of data of plural replies, the opinions on the messages can be processed in the form of being easily referred to for example in a bar graph style.

Abstract: An on-line handwritten character pattern recognizing and editing method for recognizing and editing an on-line handwritten character pattern includes: obtaining and recognizing an on-line handwritten character pattern; outputting a recognition result character string and editing information in a specified region; storing the editing information as recognition result editing information data on the basis of the specified region; specifying a region for editing the recognition result character string; and reading the recognition result editing information data stored in a region corresponding to the region to be edited and editing, wherein an interface displaying no character frames is used for obtaining the on-line handwritten character pattern, and an interface displaying character frames is used for editing the on-line handwritten character pattern.

Abstract: A performance value determination system with respect to goods having an index for objectively evaluating performance thereof includes: a performance value determination condition input and storing part for inputting and storing a time condition for determining a performance value; a performance measuring part for measuring performance of the goods during use as performance data; a performance data storing part for storing the performance data; a performance value determination-timing judging part for judging whether or not the time condition for determining a performance value is satisfied; and a performance value determining part for, in a case where it is judged that the time condition for determining a performance value is satisfied, determining a value of the goods based on the performance data stored in the performance data storing part by a time determined by the time condition.

Abstract: A performance value determination system with respect to goods having an index for objectively evaluating performance thereof includes: a performance value determination condition input and storing part for inputting and storing a time condition for determining a performance value; a performance measuring part for measuring performance of the goods during use as performance data; a performance data storing part for storing the performance data; a performance value determination-timing judging part for judging whether or not the time condition for determining a performance value is satisfied; and a performance value determining part for, in a case where it is judged that the time condition for determining a performance value is satisfied, determining a value of the goods based on the performance data stored in the performance data storing part by a time determined by the time condition.

Abstract: The system enables a user to dispose information such as an icon to identify the article that the user posts from the client computer, on the display screen thereof, for example, at the position closer to an icon of an article that another user posted if the former user intends to express the opinion positively to the latter user's posted article. The server computer where many client computers can post articles and read the articles posted from other client computers, manages the coordinate data of the icons respectively disposed at the client computers according to the respective intentions of the articles and reproduces the icons on the display screen of a client computer, at the respective disposed positions so that a user at the client computer can instantly understand the intentions of the posted articles without reading the contents thereof.