Abstract: Provided are a communication terminal device with which a user can easily recognize restriction contents when access is restricted, and a control method therefor. A communication terminal device configured to control access restriction according to access restriction information received includes: a restriction determination unit configured to determine whether or not access restriction is valid; and a control unit configured to, in a case that it is determined that the access restriction is valid, emphasize only a display of a service permitted to be used under the access restriction. This enables the user to easily recognize restriction contents when access is restricted.

Abstract: In an electric power management advising device, advice generated by the advice generating section and related to electric power saving is outputted by the advice outputting section. On the basis the advice thus generated, the collective control executing section carries out controls of the respective plurality of devices collectively. Accordingly, a user is provided with the advice related to electric power saving, and the plurality of devices are collectively controlled on the basis of the advice. That is, when the user wants to adopt the advice provided to the user, the user does not have to handle an operation himself. This keeps the user free from inconvenience. Therefore, it becomes possible to achieve an electric power saving effect reliably and provide a more comfortable and enriched life to the user.

Abstract: The present invention is characterized in that a time elapsed since activation can be retained even after a time timer is updated to time information externally acquired, by updating a value in the time timer that starts count-up after activation with the time information externally acquired, and by subtracting a value of the time timer from the acquired time information and reflecting this subtracted value into a reference time storage part.

Abstract: An image-data display system includes: a display-related-information acquiring unit that acquires a display size of an object image including a plane projection image of a three-dimensional object; an output-image-data generating unit that acquires instruction image data indicative of two positions in the plane projection image displayed in the object image, a length between the two positions being actual size when the object image is displayed according to the display size; and a display device that displays the object image according to the display size, and executes display processing based on the instruction image data.

Abstract: In order to simultaneously and effectively display main information and advertisement information, there is provided an information display device including an information receiver receiving information having at least first and second information, an information controller extracting the first and second information from the information received, a first-information display unit displaying the fist information extracted, and a second-information display unit displaying the second information extracted.

Abstract: In order to simultaneously and effectively display main information and advertisement information, there is provided an information display device including an information receiver receiving information having at least first and second information, an information controller extracting the first and second information from the information received, a first-information display unit displaying the fist information extracted, and a second-information display unit displaying the second information extracted.

Abstract: A character and/or character-string retrieving method with retrieves a plurality of patterns at a time by using a single deterministic finite automaton prepared from a plurality of different patterns. There is also a method for optimizing the number of states for the above-mentioned retrieving method, and a storage medium having records of programs and data necessary for executing the above-mentioned character and/or character-string retrieving and a state number optimizing method. A plurality of regular expressions r.sub.1, r.sub.2, . . . , r.sub.n to be simultaneously retrieved by pattern matching are prepared, and then augmented to form an augmented regular expression ((r.sub.1)#.sub.1,).vertline.((r.sub.2)#.sub.2).vertline. . . . ((r.sub.n)#.sub.n). A deterministic finite automaton is constructed so that it treats states including positions corresponding to #.sub.1, #.sub.2, . . . , n, thereby simultaneously retrieving a plurality of regular expression patterns by distinguishing matches from one another.