Abstract: An image search apparatus includes a search processing unit and a display processing unit. The search processing unit extracts one or more images that meet a search condition, from a plurality of images associated with user accounts. The display processing unit displays the one or more images extracted by the search processing unit in such a manner that types of user accounts corresponding to the images can be discriminated.

Abstract: A menu generation system including a menu item information storage that stores menu information for each restaurant, a menu item property master storage that stores menu item properties including at least any one set of a plurality of ingredients that are used in menu items, a plurality of seasonings that are used in the menu items or a plurality of cooking styles of the menu items, processing circuitry that receives a request to edit a menu item property in the first language, consults the menu item property master storage, extracts choices of menu item properties, causes the extracted choices to be displayed, and receives input of a selected choice from among the displayed choices.

Abstract: An information providing apparatus includes an information storage unit configured to store a plurality of types of information concerning objects, a first display data providing unit configured to provide first display data for arranging and displaying a plurality of display regions on a display screen of a user terminal in a predetermined display shape respectively in correspondence with a plurality of objects such that a part of the information stored in the information storage unit is displayed in the plurality of display regions, a switching instruction acquiring unit configured to acquire a switching instruction from the user terminal, the switching instruction instructing to switch among the plurality of types of information concerning the objects, and an information switching unit configured to, when the switching instruction acquiring unit has acquired the switching instruction, switch a type of information displayed in the display regions based on the first display data.

Abstract: A menu generation system includes a menu item name database that stores a menu item name in multiple languages in association with each menu item ID that determines the menu item name, a property database that stores a menu item property in multiple languages in association with a property ID that determines the menu item property, a menu item database that stores a facility ID that determines a facility, a menu item ID and a property ID in association with one another, and processing circuitry that receives registration of menu item information and that provides menu item information.

Abstract: An information providing apparatus includes an information storage unit configured to store a plurality of types of information concerning objects, a first display data providing unit configured to provide first display data for arranging and displaying a plurality of display regions on a display screen of a user terminal in a predetermined display shape respectively in correspondence with a plurality of objects such that a part of the information stored in the information storage unit is displayed in the plurality of display regions, a switching instruction acquiring unit configured to acquire a switching instruction from the user terminal, the switching instruction instructing to switch among the plurality of types of information concerning the objects, and an information switching unit configured to, when the switching instruction acquiring unit has acquired the switching instruction, switch a type of information displayed in the display regions based on the first display data.

Abstract: An image search apparatus includes a search processing unit and a display processing unit. The search processing unit extracts one or more images that meet a search condition, from a plurality of images associated with user accounts. The display processing unit displays the one or more images extracted by the search processing unit in such a manner that types of user accounts corresponding to the images can be discriminated.

Abstract: A control method for a server includes controlling the server to execute: transmitting to a terminal for registration first display data for displaying a plurality of search conditions in a selectable manner and displaying a plurality of items of characteristic information in a selectable manner in association with a selected search condition; upon receiving a registration request including the search condition and the characteristic information to be associated with the search condition, registering the search condition and the characteristic information in association with an establishment; and upon receiving an establishment list display request including the search condition designated by a user via a user terminal, transmitting to the user terminal second display data for displaying a list of establishments associated with the search condition in association with the characteristic information associated with the search condition. In the registration, expense for registration is determined.

Abstract: An information multilingual conversion system that includes identification name processing circuitry that receives input of an identification name, introduction processing circuitry that receives input of an introduction in a first language, category property information processing circuitry that receives input of at least one of a category and property information, automatic translation circuitry that translates the introduction into a second language, a correspondence foreign-language term storage, foreign-language word conversion circuitry that converts the at least one of the category and the property information into the second language by using the correspondence relation between the first language and the second language, a display information storage, and information display circuitry that, in response to a display request from an information terminal configured to be able to browse various pieces of information, displays the display information on the information terminal.

Abstract: A control method and control program for a server, which select an ingredient list of content appropriate for a user that browses a menu item of a dish, are provided. The control method for a server includes: determining whether to use first ingredient name information indicating an official ingredient name in a birthplace of a dish or to use second ingredient name information indicating an ingredient name simplified from an official ingredient name in a birthplace of a dish; setting the first ingredient name information for ingredient list information of a dish that is provided at a facility (22) when it is determined to use the first ingredient name information (21), and setting the second ingredient name information for the ingredient list information (24) when it is determined to use the second ingredient name information (23); and outputting the ingredient list information to a user terminal (25).

Abstract: A menu generation system including a menu item information storage that stores menu information for each restaurant, a menu item property master storage that stores menu item properties including at least any one set of a plurality of ingredients that are used in menu items, a plurality of seasonings that are used in the menu items or a plurality of cooking styles of the menu items, processing circuitry that receives a request to edit a menu item property in the first language, consults the menu item property master storage, extracts choices of menu item properties, causes the extracted choices to be displayed, and receives input of a selected choice from among the displayed choices.

Abstract: A menu generation system includes a menu item name database that stores a menu item name in multiple languages in association with each menu item ID that determines the menu item name, a property database that stores a menu item property in multiple languages in association with a property ID that determines the menu item property, a menu item database that stores a facility ID that determines a facility, a menu item ID and a property ID in association with one another, and processing circuitry that receives registration of menu item information and that provides menu item information.

Abstract: A syringe having a barrel fitted with a plunger and a nozzle in which the barrel comprisesa hollow cylindrical portion and a tubular portion which is thinner than the cylindrical portion and connected to one end of the cylindrical portion,the other end of said cylindrical portion is an open end, andat least a part of the cylindrical portion adjacent to the open end has a diameter larger than that of one end of the plunger to be inserted in the barrel so that air present between the end of the plunger and the top surface of a medicament in the barrel can vent through the enlarged diameter part when the plunger is pushed into the barrel.