Abstract: The future demand can be forecasted with high accuracy even without the pre-registration of an event schedule. Thus, a demand forecast system performs, for each of a plurality of targets, processes of creating a reference value based on actual demand data indicating a past time-series actual demand value, searching for one or more actual demand values in which a difference between the actual demand value and the reference value exceeds a threshold, and creating event data in which one or more periods according to the one or more actual demand values that were found are used as the one or more time periods of event occurrence.

Abstract: A fare refund system includes a standard movement pattern generation unit that collects a movement log of a passenger utilizing a transport facility and generates a standard movement pattern of the passenger based on a normal-time movement log of the transport facility in the collected movement log; a transport failure information acquisition unit that acquires information about a failure influenced area and time band associated with a transport failure; an influence presence/absence determination unit that determines the presence or absence of an influenced movement log in the collected movement log; a loss degree calculation unit that calculates the degree of loss for the passenger based on a difference between the standard movement pattern and the influenced movement log when it is determined by the influence presence/absence determination unit that there is the influenced movement log; and a refund unit that pays a refund fare corresponding to the calculated loss degree.

Abstract: A special device must be installed in order to compile actual timetables of a public transportation facility, and the present invention relates to a method and system for compiling actual service across a plurality of transportation facilities in a wide range by estimating arrival times and departure times for cars and and/or railcars from usage status information of a user such as boarding location, boarding time, alighting location, and alighting time collected by a transportation system IC transit card, etc. when a public transportation facility is used, and generating a timetable for indicating actual service.

Abstract: It is provided a sensing data display apparatus which displays a sensing data with regard to a human, the sensing data display apparatus comprising: a receiving module for receiving a data indicating a physical amount detected by a sensor terminal mounted by the human; a sensing data storing module for storing the data indicating the physical amount; an information creating module for creating a piece of information related to the sensor terminal from the data stored to the sensing data storing module; a display module for displaying the piece of information; and a viewer detecting module for detecting a viewer who locates at a vicinity of the sensing display apparatus. The display module displays the piece of information related to a piece of information of the viewer detected by the viewer detecting module.

Abstract: An information recording medium capable of displaying multiple labels and a storing case for the information recording medium are provided. The multiple labels are displayed by changing the labels to be displayed while selectively selecting information layers in a multi information recording medium. The medium has a function to receive either voltage or current, and the information layers selectively receive either voltage or current for changing the labels.

Abstract: A display apparatus and an imaging apparatus constructed such that a high-resolution clear three-dimensional video image can be viewed from any direction. The display apparatus projects frame images, projected from a projector such as an electronic projector, to a video image projection surface of a three-dimensional screen through a polygonal mirror provided around the three-dimensional screen, thereby providing a polyhedral video image such as a three-dimensional image to a person viewing from around the video image projection surface. The three-dimensional screen has a view field angle limiting filter and a directional reflection screen. The view field angle filter limits the angle of a view field in the left/right direction, the angle being the angle of the projection on the video image projection surface (50) of the screen. The directional reflection screen has two sheets in horizontal and vertical directions.

Abstract: A display apparatus and an imaging apparatus constructed such that a high-resolution clear three-dimensional video image can be viewed from any direction. The display apparatus projects frame images, projected from a projector such as an electronic projector, to a video image projection surface of a three-dimensional screen through a polygonal mirror provided around the three-dimensional screen, thereby providing a polyhedral video image such as a three-dimensional image to a person viewing from around the video image projection surface. The three-dimensional screen has a view field angle limiting filter and a directional reflection screen. The view field angle filter limits the angle of a view field in the left/right direction, the angle being the angle of the projection on the video image projection surface (50) of the screen. The directional reflection screen has two sheets in horizontal and vertical directions.

Abstract: A display apparatus is provided which can display different text/image information depending on the viewing angle and the viewer, display a high reality three-dimensional image viewable from any direction and realize stereoscopic viewing without glasses or the like. The display apparatus includes a display unit having a view angle-limiting filter on its surface, a rotary mechanism to rotate the display unit and a control unit which implements control so that when the display unit, rotated by the rotary mechanism, is faced to each of plural directions, the display unit displays a different text/image content associated with the direction.

Abstract: A conventional mouse and keyboard poses great load on the user's finger and hands at key operation, and the material used for its surface is rigid. An input device which can reduce the load on the user's finger, and gives soft touch by avoiding abrupt change in downward pressure at key operation. The input device includes elastic material on the surface, a camera to image the back surface of a key when the key is pressed, an image processor which determines finger position from the image, and an output which generates a signal according to the finger position. By using this input device, the user can carry out operations similar to those achieved by a mouse and keyboard for a computer.

Abstract: There is provided a display apparatus by which different information and images can be seen depending on a view angle and a viewer, a stereoscopic image can be seen realistically from surrounding directions, and a binocular stereoscopic vision is realized without using glasses and the like. The display apparatus according to the invention is characterized by including a rotary mechanism which rotates a polygonal pyramid body having a mirror on its surface and a disk having a slits fixed coaxially with the polygonal pyramid body, a display part which thereby displays images for projecting information or images differing from each other in accordance with an angle direction in which each side surface of the polygonal pyramid faces on each side surface of the polygonal pyramid body, and a light source part for projecting the images displayed on the display part onto the polygonal pyramid body.

Abstract: A group visualization system generates a tree structure having a hierachical structure by arranging data built up by a sensor network using small nameplates and further generates an organization topographical diagram expressing group dynamics from the tree structure. True roles of persons and true groups that have not appeared so far in existing organization diagrams can be readily obtained.

Abstract: A mirror is provided on flat side surfaces of a polygonal conic surface, respectively, to form a polygon mirror. Moreover, in a flat panel display, planar real images are displayed facing the respective mirrors of this polygon mirror, and these planar real images are arrayed in a ring shape about the center axis of the polygonal conic surface to form an image ring. An observer can view such planar real image via the mirror facing thereto. Here, each planar real image of the image ring is an image of the same object viewed from a different direction, and the angle of inclination and the like of the polygonal conic surface is set so that all the mirror images of such planar real images by the mirrors are produced at the center axis of the polygonal conic surface.

Abstract: A display apparatus and an imaging apparatus constructed such that a high-resolution clear three-dimensional video image can be viewed from any direction. The display apparatus projects frame images, projected from a projector such as an electronic projector, to a video image projection surface of a three-dimensional screen through a polygonal mirror provided around the three-dimensional screen, thereby providing a polyhedral video image such as a three-dimensional image to a person viewing from around the video image projection surface. The three-dimensional screen has a view field angle limiting filter and a directional reflection screen. The view field angle filter limits the angle of a view field in the left/right direction, the angle being the angle of the projection on the video image projection surface (50) of the screen. The directional reflection screen has two sheets in horizontal and vertical directions.

Abstract: An information recording medium capable of displaying multiple labels and a storing case for the information recording medium are provided. The multiple labels are displayed by changing the labels to be displayed while selectively selecting information layers in a multi information recording medium. The medium has a function to receive either voltage or current, and the information layers selectively receive either voltage or current for changing the labels.

Abstract: An in-vehicle apparatus (such as a car navigation system or a car audio) equipped with multiple detectors mounted around the operation portion to make it possible to detect from which direction a hand has approached the operation portion. The fields of view and the positions of the detectors are so determined that the detectors have no dead angle. If the positional relationship between passengers in the vehicle is previously known, it can be discerned from the detected direction as to whether the operator is the driver or a fellow passenger. At the same time, the multiple detectors arranged around the operation portion can also be used as detectors for simple operations utilizing hand waving that can be performed by the driver during driving.

Abstract: Position change of a cursor and an input from a keyboard are monitored and when the cursor is stopping over a predetermined time and also there has not been an input from the keyboard over a predetermined time retroactively from the present time, a click event is made to automatically occur.

Abstract: A display apparatus is provided which can display different text/image information depending on the viewing angle and the viewer, display a high reality three-dimensional image viewable from any direction and realize stereoscopic viewing without glasses or the like. The display apparatus includes a display unit having a view angle-limiting filter on its surface, a rotary mechanism to rotate the display unit and a control unit which implements control so that when the display unit, rotated by the rotary mechanism, is faced to each of plural directions, the display unit displays a different text/image content associated with the direction.

Abstract: A conventional mouse and keyboard poses great load on the user's finger and hands at key operation, and the material used for its surface is rigid. An input device which can reduce the load on the user's finger, and gives soft touch by avoiding abrupt change in downward pressure at key operation. The input device includes elastic material on the surface, a camera to image the back surface of a key when the key is pressed, an image processor which determines finger position from the image, and an output which generates a signal according to the finger position. By using this input device, the user can carry out operations similar to those achieved by a mouse and keyboard for a computer.

Abstract: It is made possible to view a high-resolution clear stereoscopic image from any direction without taking the projection timing of two-dimensional images into consideration. First and second polygonal mirrors each including mirrors arranged in a ring form around a rotation axis of a screen are disposed. An electronic projector is disposed on an extended line of the rotation axis of the screen so as to be opposed to mirror surfaces of the polygonal mirrors. The electronic projector emits concentrically arranged first and second frame image groups each including frame images arranged in a ring form. The first and second frame image groups are reflected respectively by the first and second polygonal mirrors and projected onto the rotating screen. As the screen rotates, each of the first and second image groups is projected onto the screen and displayed in order from frame image to frame image.

Abstract: A display apparatus is provided which can display different text/image information depending on the viewing angle and the viewer, display a high reality three-dimensional image viewable from any direction and realize stereoscopic viewing without glasses or the like. The display apparatus includes a display unit having a view angle-limiting filter on its surface, a rotary mechanism to rotate the display unit and a control unit which implements control so that when the display unit, rotated by the rotary mechanism, is faced to each of plural directions, the display unit displays a different text/image content associated with the direction.