Abstract: A portable terminal device (1) according to the present invention includes a housing (11), a display panel (14), a resin material, and a metal material. The display panel (14) is disposed on a principal surface (100a) of the housing (11). The metal material is disposed on a side wall (112a) of the housing (11). The resin material is disposed at ends of the housing (11), the ends sandwiching the side wall (112a) in a longitudinal direction of the side wall (112a). The metal material has a strength higher than that of the resin material.

Abstract: An apparatus of this invention is directed to an information processing apparatus that proposes an action to reduce an energy consumption amount by users of a system when an acceptance user proposes a place for accepting users. The information processing apparatus includes an acceptance information acquiring unit that acquires a proposal of an acceptance place accepting a plurality of users, a user position collector that collects the current positions of the plurality of users from communication terminals of the plurality of users, and a guidance information notification unit that selects the acceptance place as a place for gathering the plurality of users, and notifies the communication terminal of a user absent in the selected place of guidance information to the selected place.

Abstract: It is formed, on a display, a first display region in which at least one of measurement signals related to biological information of a subject is displayed in real time. It is formed, on the display, a second display region at a position where is not overlapping with the first display region. A first history display region and a second history display region are displayed in the second display region. The first history display region displays a history related to a first one of the measurement signals, and the second history display region displaying a history related to a second one of the measurement signals.

Abstract: An apparatus of this invention is directed to an information processing apparatus that auctions and delivers merchandise in consideration of quality degradation caused by delivery of the merchandise, and implements both an increase in profit and an increase in delivery efficiency.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a skin cleanser composition capable of providing an excellent frictional resistance feeling during rinsing and capable of giving an excellent silky feeling with moisturization to the skin after drying, and to a method for producing the composition. The skin cleanser composition contains a cat ionized hydroxypropyl cellulose (A) and a surfactant (B), and the cationized hydroxypropyl cellulose (A) has an anhydroglucose-derived main chain, and has a degree of substitution with cationized ethyleneoxy group of from 0.01 to 3.0 and a degree of substitution with propyleneoxy group of from 0.01 to 2.9.

Abstract: A candidate determination unit (13) calculates a prescribed parameter value on the basis of the statistical data (If) of service provided up to the present time, and on the basis of provider selection criteria and user selection criteria, in relation a service candidate stored by a storage unit (12), and determines a service candidate proposed to a provider on the basis thereof. The candidate determination unit (13) generates proposal information (Ib) indicating a service candidate. A selection criteria adjustment unit (16) adjusts the provider selection criteria on the basis of provider selection information (Ic) received by a provider selection information receiver (15) and service candidate information (Ie) indicating a value of the prescribed parameter of the determined service candidate. Also, the selection criteria adjustment unit (16) adjusts the user selection criteria on the basis of action information (Ia).

Abstract: An updater (16) of a behavior presentation device (1), on the basis of performed-behavior information acquired by a behavior information acquirer (15) and indicating a behavior performed by a target group comprising a plurality of users or a single target user, updates a behavior list stored by a behavior list storer (11) and indicating a possible behavior of the target group or the target user, and user information stored by a user information storer (12) and indicating a behavioral habit of the target group or the target user. On the basis of the user information, a presentation information generator (13) extracts, from the behavior list, a behavior that conforms with a predetermined evaluation criterion. The presentation information generator (13) generates presentation information for displaying the behavior extracted, and sends the presentation information to a display (14). The display (14) displays the presentation information and presents the behavior to the user.

Abstract: A traffic control system (100) is provided with: a road information database (101) that accumulates road information including congestion degree; a reservation fee setter (102) that refers to the accumulated road information and sets a road passage reservation fee for a user; a reservation collector (103) that collects a road passage reservation from a user for the road passage reservation fee being set; and a congestion degree predictor (104) that predicts congestion degree of a road, including a user who passes without making a road passage reservation, by using information of the collected road passage reservation. The predicted congestion degree is used for alleviating congestion of a road.

Abstract: A remaining power acquisition unit (12) of an action suggestion device (1) acquires an amount of power remaining in a battery cell (2). A forecast information acquisition unit (11) acquires, over the Internet, forecast information including at least one of the weather forecast in a region where a power generator that supplies power to the battery cell (2) is located and schedule information on planned blackouts. A suggestion information generator (14) extracts an action satisfying a predetermined evaluation criterion which is based on the forecast information and the amount of remaining power from an action list indicating possible actions to be taken by a user and stored in an action list storage (13), and generates suggestion information showing the extracted action. The suggestion information generator (14) makes a display (15) display the suggestion information.

Abstract: An activity information obtainer (11) obtains activity information indicating an activity of a user detected by an activity detector (21), and stores it in an activity information memory (12). A parameter selector (13) selects a parameter value within a predetermined range for each of multiple activity parameters indicating barometers of activities of the user from the activity information stored in the activity information memory (12), and selects a specific activity parameter based on the distribution of the selected parameter values and a predetermined selection condition. A position calculator (14) calculates a position of a target user relative to other users with respect to the specific activity parameter selected by the parameter selector (13). A presentation information generator (15) generates presentation information indicating the position of the target user, and transmits it to an outputter (22). The outputter (22) outputs the presentation information.

Abstract: A biological information displaying apparatus includes: a displaying section on which a measurement display screen displaying biological information under measurement and an abnormality display screen displaying information alarming an abnormality of the biological information, and the biological information at a timing when the abnormality occurs are displayed; and a display controlling section which is configured to display the abnormality display screen on the measurement display screen, so that the abnormality display screen is superimposed on the measurement display screen. In case where the abnormality display screen is displayed on the displaying section, the display controlling section controls the displaying section so that, even when the abnormality resolves, the information alarming the abnormality of the biological information, and the biological information at the timing when the abnormality occurs are continued to be displayed on the abnormality display screen.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a skin cleanser composition capable of providing an excellent frictional resistance feeling during rinsing and capable of giving an excellent silky feeling with moisturization to the skin after drying, and to a method for producing the composition. The skin cleanser composition contains a cat ionized hydroxypropyl cellulose (A) and a surfactant (B), and the cationized hydroxypropyl cellulose (A) has an anhydroglucose-derived main chain, and has a degree of substitution with cationized ethyleneoxy group of from 0.01 to 3.0 and a degree of substitution with propyleneoxy group of from 0.01 to 2.9.

Abstract: A behavior information acquirer (11) acquires behavior information representing the behavior of a user detected by a behavior detector (21), and stores the behavior information in a behavior information memory (12). How the influence of the behavior of the user indicated by the behavior information acquired by the behavior information acquirer (11) will spread over a network of mutual information is calculated from mutual information, user information, and a behavior list respectively stored in a mutual information memory (13), a user information memory (14), and a behavior information memory (12). A presentation information generator (16) generates presentation information depicting the way in which the influence of the behavior of the user indicated by the behavior information acquired by the behavior information acquirer (11) propagates to other users, and transmits the presentation information to a terminal device (2B).

Abstract: A communication information registering unit (11) acquires communication information that contains a sender, a receiver, and a sending time of information communicated between users that are communicating, and stores the communication information in a storage unit (12). A response time calculation unit (13) finds response time of the users from the communication information. A threshold value setting unit (14) finds a threshold value for determining the statuses of the users from distribution of frequencies of the response time. A current status determination unit (15) determines the status of a counterpart user from the response time by using the threshold value. A notification unit (16) notifies a user of the current status of its counterpart user.

Abstract: Using nature that a pixel value in a lung of a chest X-ray moving image varies due to heart beat, the variation information on the pixel value is effectively used for diagnosis such as of a lung embolism or a heart disease, considering the variation information as lung blood flow information. A continuous X-ray image screening examination device receives a chest X-ray moving image from an X-ray detector and receives an electrocardiogram to become original information on a heart beat variation from an electrocardiogram recording apparatus. From the dynamic state of the heart wall measured by the electrocardiograph or the chest X-ray moving image, the heart dynamic state during the cardiac chamber systolic and diastolic phases is grasped, and information such as the variation of the pixel value of the chest X-ray moving image due to increase (lung blood flow increase) of the blood flow from the heart to the lung during the cardiac chamber systolic phase is generated.

Abstract: An action presentation system (101) comprises an information DB (2) associating and storing request information presenting a request, state information presenting the state of a means for fulfilling at least part of the request, and action information presenting model actions for fulfilling at least part of the request. The action presentation system (101) additionally comprises a candidate creation part (12) creating multiple candidate actions a user (A) can execute in the state presented by the state information associated with the request information presenting the request of the user (A) based on model actions presented by the action information associated with the request information, and a cost calculation part (13) calculating the total cost of each of the candidate actions including mental cost presenting the magnitude of mental strain the first user will experience from execution of the created candidate action.

Abstract: An activity data presenting apparatus includes an activity information obtaining unit that obtains activity data representing a human activity, a personality data obtaining unit that obtains personality data representing the personality of a person to whom information is presented, a presenting data selecting unit that selects, on the basis of the person to whom the information is presented and of the personality data of that person, data to be presented among the activity data, a display method selecting unit that selects a display method of displaying the data to be presented corresponding to each piece of the personality data, an activity data processing unit that processes the activity data in accordance with the display method selected by the display method selecting unit, an activity data display unit that displays the activity data processed by the activity data processing unit, and a display unit.

Abstract: A machine translation device includes: an accepting portion that accepts a first-language document; storage portion in which are stored one or more pieces of multilingual parallel translation information that are each a set of synonymous words in the first language through the Nth language (N is 3 or more integer); a selecting portion that selects the multilingual parallel translation information including a word included in an ith-language document (i is an integer of 1 to N-1) from the one or more pieces of multilingual parallel translation information; a machine translation portion that repeats processing of machine translating the ith-language document into an (i+1)th language document until machine translation into the Nth language has been performed, so as to use parallel-translation relation between two languages included in the selected multilingual parallel translation information; and an output portion that outputs the Nth-language document.

Abstract: A parallel translation information generation device includes a bilingual dictionary storage portion in which are stored three or more types of bilingual dictionaries that link all two-language combinations of a first language, a second language, and a third language; a trilingual parallel translation information generation portion that generates trilingual parallel translation information that is a set of a word in the first language, a word in the second language, and a word in the third language having a relationship such that all sets of words in two languages among the first-language word, the second-language word, and the third-language word are linked by the bilingual dictionaries, and a trilingual parallel translation information output portion that outputs trilingual parallel translation information.

Abstract: Using nature that a pixel value in a lung of a chest X-ray moving image varies due to heart beat, the variation information on the pixel value is effectively used for diagnosis such as of a lung embolism or a heart disease, considering the variation information as lung blood flow information. A continuous X-ray image screening examination device 1 receives a chest X-ray moving image from an X-ray detector 2 and receives an electrocardiogram to become original information on a heat beat variation from an electrocardiogram recording apparatus 5. From the dynamic state of the heart wall measured by the electrocardiograph or the chest X-ray moving image, the heart dynamic state during the cardiac chamber systolic and diastolic phases is grasped, and information such as the variation of the pixel value of the chest X-ray moving image due to increase (lung blood flow increase) of the blood flow from the heart to the lung during the cardiac chamber systolic phase is generated.