Abstract: An information source selection system and an information source selection method for allowing a user to easily select an information source to which information is added at a frequency that matches the user's access frequency are provided.

Abstract: Provided is an information processing system with which a new function can be added without altering an application program itself. The information processing system includes: a first execution information obtaining unit configured to obtain first execution information which indicates an execution state of a first execution unit configured to execute an application program; an execution information storing unit configured to store the first execution information; and the first execution unit or a second execution unit configured to execute the application program, in which the first execution unit or the second execution unit uses the stored first execution information to execute the application program.

Abstract: A game system that can offer motivation promoting participation to players is provided. An information processing device accepts an investment instruction to specify any of plural game players as an investment-target player from an investor player and records a play result of a game by the investment-target player. Furthermore, the information processing device decides investment performance of the investor player according to the play result of the game recorded about the investment-target player specified by the investor player.

Abstract: A front end server receives a request to start executing a game on at least one game server, the at least one game server being capable of executing at least one game, having an upper limit set to a total of amounts of resources that can be secured in executing at least one game, and executing a game as an object of execution when an amount of resources associated with the game as the object of execution can be secured. A management server starts a new game server when an amount of resources associated with the game according to the execution start request exceeds an amount of remaining resources that can be secured in each game server already started or being started at a time of receiving the execution start request. The management server makes one of the game servers execute the game according to the execution start request.

Abstract: Disclosed herein is a drawing processing apparatus including: a drawing library section adapted to transmit a drawing command via a network; and a data transmission management section adapted to transmit reusable data, used to execute the drawing command, via the network at a time different from when the drawing command is transmitted. Also disclosed herein is a drawing processing apparatus including: a data reception management section adapted to receive reusable data, used to execute a drawing command, via a network at a time different from when the drawing command is received; and a drawing library section adapted to set the reusable data, received by the data reception management section, in a graphics processor as a resource and adapted to receive the drawing command via the network and supply the drawing command to the graphics processor.

Abstract: A rendering processing device includes: a rendering processing section configured to generate a vertex calculation result of an object on a basis of a rendering command, perform a rendering process on a basis of the vertex calculation result of each object, and store a rendering result in a rendering buffer; and a rendering command interpolating section configured to generate an interpolated vertex calculation result of each object on a basis of set values of rendering commands and vertex calculation results of each object at two different times. The rendering processing section performs the rendering process on a basis of the interpolated vertex calculation result, and stores an interpolated rendering result in the rendering buffer.

Abstract: Provided is an information processing system with which a new function can be added without altering an application program itself. The information processing system includes: a first execution information obtaining unit configured to obtain first execution information which indicates an execution state of a first execution unit configured to execute an application program; an execution information storing unit configured to store the first execution information; and the first execution unit or a second execution unit configured to execute the application program, in which the first execution unit or the second execution unit uses the stored first execution information to execute the application program.

Abstract: Provided is a technology that enables detection of a change in a feature of a page. An analysis unit identifies a content of a page whose content changes with a lapse of time. A feature change determination unit determines based on contents of the page identified at different timings whether or not a feature of the identified page has changed.

Abstract: A character input device not completely occupying a screen, good in visibility, and enabling input of characters while reducing to a minimum the movement of the fingers and line of sight, which, in the case of input of for example the hiragana 50-character phonetic syllabary of the Japanese language, displays an initial block of the major group lead characters a (), ka (), sa (), ta (), na () on a first row of a character input region on a display screen and the block of the remaining major group lead characters ha (), ma (), ya (), ra (), wa () on the second row, allows movement of a focus position or character position by “left” and “right” keys (a ()?ka ()?sa ()? . . . ), switches the character focused to the block of ha (), ma (), ya (), ra (), wa () after the focus position reaches na (), allows switching between displayed characters by for example using the “down” key to move to the next character (for example, a ()?i ()?u ()? . . .

Abstract: For an apparatus effectively providing a real three-dimensional model to a customer, three-dimensional shape data of a target is obtained at a data input section (10). The data is managed by a server which is connected to a network. A suitable formation section (14) is selected to form a real three-dimensional model based on the data. In addition, the formation completion is automatically notified to the customer via a completion display panel (260), a cellular phone (61), or the like.

Abstract: A three-dimensional model providing apparatus in which a customer can easily modify the input three-dimensional data. The apparatus comprises an input section (10) for inputting three-dimensional data, a server section (12) for managing the processes on the three-dimensional data from input to output, a providing section (14) for providing three-dimensional data, a communicating section for communicating the three-dimensional data between the input section, server section, and providing section, a receiving section (11) for receiving instruction contents from the customer, and a converting section (13) for modifying, processing, or converting the three-dimensional data according to the instruction contents.

Abstract: A content recording medium includes a content recording area where content data is recorded in such a manner that playback of the content data is restricted; and a playback-permission-information recording area where playback-permission information that allows canceling the playback restriction of the content data to permit playback is to be recorded, the playback-permission-information recording area being provided separately from the content recording area.

Abstract: Contents are supplied from a studio to a plant through a CD-R disc. In the plant, when it is determined that the contents have not been encrypted in accordance with Info_Sheet, a module encrypts the contents with different keys. A key locker creating portion groups the plurality of keys with which the contents have been encrypted, encrypts grouped keys with a disc key, and creates a key locker. A disc image creating portion creates image data to be recorded on a product CD with contents of a first session and a second session and the key locker. In accordance with the image data, the CD is produced. Since keys with which contents have been encrypted are grouped and encrypted, the keys can be prevented from leaking out.

Abstract: A character input device not completely occupying a screen, good in visibility, and enabling input of characters while reducing to a minimum the movement of the fingers and line of sight, which, in the case of input of for example the hiragana 50-character phonetic syllabary of the Japanese language, displays an initial block of the major group lead characters a , ka , sa , ta , na on a first row of a character input region on a display screen and the block of the remaining major group lead characters ha , ma , ya , ra , wa on the second row, allows movement of a focus position or character position by "left" and "right" keys (a → ka → sa → ...), switches the character focused to the block of ha , ma , ya , ra , wa after the focus position reaches na , allows switching between displayed characters by for example using the "down" key to move to the next character (for example, a → i → u → ...

Abstract: In a personal computer, a robot apparatus (1) exploits the information stored in a memory card or data of a database stored in e.g., a storage device to display an original message text (110) and its translation (111), a picture (112) and a user's message 113, as a diary picture.

Abstract: An apparatus for producing water containing dissolved ozone which comprises (A) a piping for supplying ultrapure water through which ultrapure water is supplied, (B) a catalytic reaction portion which is connected with the piping for supplying ultrapure water and in which the ultrapure water is brought into contact with an oxidation-reduction catalyst, (C) a filtration apparatus by which the ultrapure water treated in the catalytic reaction portion is filtered and (D) an apparatus for dissolving ozone in which ozone is dissolved into the ultrapure water discharged from the filtration apparatus; and an apparatus for producing water containing dissolved ozone which comprises an apparatus for producing ultrapure water which is equipped with an apparatus for irradiating with ultraviolet light, an apparatus for dissolving ozone in which ozone is dissolved into the ultrapure water produced in the apparatus for producing ultrapure water and a catalytic reaction portion which is packed with an oxidation-reduction cat

Abstract: An apparatus for managing picture data receives picture data representing a number of pictures at different times, generates a time code indicating the time of receipt of each picture, and stores the received picture data with a header that includes the time code. In order to retrieve selected pictures, retrieval parameter information is entered to indicate a selected time period, and the picture data that was received during the selected time period is retrieved. The apparatus also forms reduced size picture data for each received picture and stores the reduced size picture data in the header together with the time code for the corresponding picture. Upon retrieving selected ones of the stored pictures, the corresponding reduced size picture data is used to display simultaneously several reduced size pictures representing the pictures that have been retrieved.

Abstract: A printer can be simplified in arrangement by executing a masking operation of a system including a host computer and a color printer within the host computer. In this computer system, a host computer (2) incorporates therein a masking function (5) for converting RGB data into CMY data, and transfers the CMY data to a color printer (8). The masking function (5) is provided in association with printer driver software (4) incorporated in the host computer (2).

Abstract: An optical disc player for reproducing an optical disc having a pit width of 0.2-0.35 .mu.m, a pit depth of 100-120 nm, and a track pitch of 0.7-0.85 .mu.m. The optical disc player includes a semiconductor laser having a wavelength of 590-670 .mu.m and a laser beam projector which projects the laser beam from the laser onto the optical disc with a spot of a predetermined diameter.

Abstract: A high density optical disc having a track pitch of 0.85 .mu.m, a shortest pit length of 0.49 .mu.m, a pit depth of 100 nm, and a pit width of 0.35 .mu.m is rotated at a linear velocity of 2.4-2.8 m/s such that the same is optically reproduced by a laser beam having a wavelength of 635 nm which is converged to a spot size of 0.9 .mu.m by an objective lens having a numerical aperture of 0.6. Accordingly, data is read from the optical disc at a transfer rate of 5.6 Mbps.