Abstract: A history-information obtaining unit obtains operation history information from a plurality of player terminals. A feature-information generating unit generates, for each of a plurality of players, feature information representing a feature of operation in the form of a certain weighted value obtained from the operation history information. A clustering unit clusters the plurality of players on the basis of the individual feature information of the plurality of players. An other-player-information sending control unit executes control so as to send information about other players belonging to the same group to the individual player terminals of the clustered plurality of players, while prohibiting sending of information about other players belonging to other groups.

Abstract: The system is for confirming that a user of a portable terminal device has viewed posted material in a plurality of places by visiting one of the posted places, the system including the portable terminal device and a server, the device including a portable-terminal control unit, a portable-terminal communication unit, an image capturing unit, a portable-terminal storage unit, and a position-information obtaining unit, the server including a server control unit, a server communication unit, and a server storage unit that stores authenticated images about the posted material in the individual posted places in association with position information of the posted places, wherein the portable-terminal control unit sends a viewing confirmation request including a viewed image, the normalization information, and the portable-terminal position information to the server by using the portable-terminal communication unit, and the server control unit determines whether the viewed image is valid on the basis of the request

Abstract: The present invention is a translation support system for supporting machine translation from a source-language sentence into a target-language sentence, the translation support system including an input unit that accepts an input of a source-language sentence to be translated; an error database that at least stores words or combinations of words included in a plurality of source-language sentences for which machine translation from the source-language sentences into target-language sentences is not performed correctly; a controlled-source-language-sentence database that stores a plurality of source-language sentences as well as controlled source-language sentences, which are source-language sentences that are controlled, corresponding to the plurality of source-language sentences and expressed in a format satisfying predetermined conditions; a control unit that classifies whether or not the input source-language sentence is machine-translatable; and an output unit that is capable of outputting the input sour

Abstract: It is an object of the present invention to enable a player playing a game to readily view an image that may serve as a reference for the game. A server 1 carries out communications with a terminal 2-2 that generates metadata when needed during the execution of a game, the metadata including one or more kinds of attribute information. A management unit 11 manages one or more sets of data, the sets of data each including: image data related to the game or location data of the image data, and the metadata. A correlation calculating unit 21 calculates a correlation between metadata generated by the terminal 2-2 at a certain timing and the metadata included in each of the one or more managed sets. An image-sending control unit 22 sends, to the terminal 2-2, the image data or location data included in the same set as metadata whose correlation satisfies a predetermined criterion.

Abstract: A ranking rank identification unit identifies a rank of a participant for each of a plurality of kinds of ranking criteria. A predicted rank calculation unit of a ranking criterion recommendation unit calculates predicted ranks for at least some of the plurality of kinds of ranking criteria for the case where a subject player participates in the individual ranking criteria. A recommended ranking criterion determination unit determines, as recommended ranking criteria, ranking criteria to be recommended to the subject player on the basis of the predicted ranks. A recommendation result presentation unit presents the recommended ranking criteria to the player terminal of the subject player.

Abstract: A touch-pressure detection unit detects a touch pressure that changes according to a degree of a touch operation on a display surface of a display unit. An interrupt necessity determination unit determines whether or not an interrupt is necessary on the basis of a change period and change amount of the touch pressure. In the case where an interrupt is unnecessary, the ratchet function output unit inputs the touch pressure to a predetermined ratchet function, and provides an output value of the ratchet function to a game-character-action-amount determination unit. The game-character-action-amount determination unit determines a movement speed of the game character C according to the output value of the ratchet function.

Abstract: A reference-color-list generating unit of a server generates a reference color list on the basis of reference color lists stored in a CLDB, at a timing reported from a program-information management unit. An S-metadata generating unit generates S metadata from TV program information stored in an RVDB and the reference color list. A C-metadata generating unit of a user terminal generates C metadata from individual information of each frame constituting a captured image and the reference color list. An authenticity determining unit determines whether to permit or deny check-in by a user on the basis of the obtained C metadata, the S metadata extracted by the CMDB, and program detail information managed by the program-information management unit.

Abstract: The present invention is an inconsistency detecting system in a mixed-reality system that includes a portable display device having a transmissive display unit and a photographing unit for photographing a real space and that renders a virtual object on the display unit in a predetermined real space such that the virtual object is visually recognized by a user, wherein the inconsistency detecting system generates first point cloud data from a combined image obtained by displaying the virtual object in a superimposed fashion on a naked-eye visual-field image, generates second point cloud data by using point cloud data of the three-dimensional space in the determined user environment as well as point cloud data of the virtual object, and detects an inconsistency on the basis of a result of comparison between the first point cloud data and the second point cloud data.

Abstract: The object of the present invention is to enable an instruction for timeshifted recording in a short time and with a simple operation. A play-video saving control unit 12 controls saving of log data regarding a game being executed. A display control unit 21 executes control so as to display, on a display medium, a plurality of images representing the proceedings of the game in sequential order of time on the basis of the log data in a case where a predetermined condition is satisfied. A touch-operation detecting unit 22 detects an operation of bringing a thing into contact with or in proximity to the display medium as an operation for selecting a certain image from the plurality of images. A recording-period detecting unit 23 determines a timing identified from the certain image selected by the detected operation as a start point for recording of an image representing the proceedings of the game.

Abstract: The present invention provides a board game system in which an electrostatic-capacitance-based touchscreen that is capable of detecting a plurality of touched positions by detecting changes in electrostatic capacitance is used as a board. The board game system includes an electronic device equipped with the touchscreen; and game pieces that are used while being placed on the touchscreen and that are constituted at least partially of a conductive section. The conductive section is laid out so as to be intervened by a non-conductive section or gaps on the contact face. In the case where the game piece is placed on the touchscreen, the conductive section causes the predetermined or greater amount of change in the electrostatic capacitance at the contact positions of the conductive section on the contact face in the case where the conductive section is touched by the user. The electronic device recognizes the game piece.

Abstract: The purpose of the present invention is to provide a position-independent user interface that can realize a large variety of commands and high responsiveness as perceived by a user. A control unit 30 functions when a game involving a plurality of kinds of actions corresponding to predetermined commands represented by predetermined sequences of input events is executed. An input detecting unit 31 detects an input event based on an operation of bringing something into contact with or in proximity to a touchscreen 40. An estimating unit 32 decides, as an estimated command, a command that is estimated as being an input command among the plurality of kinds of commands on the basis of a history of detection results in the input detecting unit 31. A display control unit 33 executes control for displaying an image related to the estimated command on the touchscreen 40.

Abstract: A difference calculating unit calculates the difference in evaluation quantity for a predetermined ranking index between a player of interest and another player at a higher rank than the player of interest according to the predetermined ranking index. A recording-recommendation presenting unit recommends the player of interest to create and upload a play-image for ranking information in the case where the difference has become less than or equal to a certain value.

Abstract: An information processing method executed by an information processing system that executes processing for searching data to be searched by using a query condition that can be entered via a predetermined user interface and in which individual conditions constituting a query satisfy three properties consisting of reductiveness, idempotence, and commutativity, includes a pre-processing executing step of executing processing prior to processing for searching, and a search processing step of executing processing for searching. The pre-processing executing step includes a query extracting step of extracting a plurality of limited kinds of sub-queries constituting minimum units of queries and satisfying the three properties consisting of the reductiveness, the idempotence, and the commutativity by analyzing a set of statically defined kinds of queries, and a query executing step of executing each of the plurality of kinds of sub-queries extracted in the query extracting step.

Abstract: A display control unit executes control to display images requested to be rendered, including effects in a plurality of formats and of a plurality of kinds according to rendering requests, on a display medium via a GPU by using effect data in which the amounts of data have been reduced in accordance with the rendering frequencies of the effects. Specifically, the display control unit determines the amount of data to be reduced for an effect in a format and of a kind according to a rendering request in accordance with the rendering frequency of the effect, extracts the effect data in which data has been reduced by the amount of data from effect-data storage DBs, and provides the effect data to the GPU.

Abstract: It is an object of the present invention to continuously and effectively motivate players playing a game to create and upload play-videos. At a server 1, an event obtaining unit 11 obtains log data of a demand-invoking event that has been processed as being negative in the game from a terminal 2-1, etc. on which the demand-invoking event has occurred. The event obtaining unit 11 obtains log data of a possible supply event that has been processed as being positive in the game from a terminal 2-2 on which the possible supply event has occurred. A demand-level calculating unit 13 selects demand-invoking events related to the possible supply event from one or more demand-invoking events on the basis of the individual log data obtained and calculates the level of potential demand on the basis of the result of selection.

Abstract: A system that enables real-time recognition of a real-space environment in a mixed-reality environment includes a server, a portable display device including a display unit for displaying a virtual object to a user and a photographing unit that photographs a real space, and image acquisition devices that acquire images individually from a plurality of fixed points where it is possible to photograph a region in a predetermined real space, the system making it possible to render the virtual object in a superimposed fashion on a real space or a photographed image of the real space, viewed by the user via the display unit, the server or the display device including a three-dimensional-space-data storage part, a table storage part, a color-information determining part, a color-information updating part, a user-environment determining part, a virtual-illumination-information generating part, and a rendering part.

Abstract: Technologies are generally described for providing a context-based content list for an electronic device. In some examples, a method performed under control of an electronic device may include gathering first information on or from one or more devices nearby the electronic device in response to a content file creation event on the electronic device; gathering second information on or from one or more devices nearby the electronic device in response to a content list creation event on the electronic device; calculating a similarity between the first information and the second information; and generating a content list based at least in part on the similarity between the first information and the second information.

Abstract: Technologies are generally described for rendering a character for games. In some examples, a method performed under control of a game server may include calculating a level of detail (LOD) for a first character positioned in a same virtual game space as a second character, based at least in part on a calculated degree of closeness between the first character and the second character; and controlling a display definition of the first character based at least in part on the calculated LOD.

Abstract: A state monitoring unit monitors whether or not the designation of a specific state is continuing at a user terminal that has performed an access using a first identifier. A second identifier generation unit generates a second identifier when the access using the first identifier by the user terminal is accepted by an accepting unit. An association management unit manages the association between the first identifier corresponding to the specific state and the generated second identifier during a period in which the designation of the specific state is continuing or during a prescribed period after the end of said period at the user terminal, and after that, when it is determined that the designation of the specific state has ended or the prescribed period has elapsed after the end at the user terminal, the association management unit discards the association between the first identifier and the second identifier.

Abstract: A program stored on a non-transitory computer readable medium executable on a computer to perform discriminating a fiducial marker from captured images successively output from a camera, based on marker information representing associations between fiducial markers and object identifiers, identifying start points of one or more structured markers in the captured images based on the discriminated fiducial marker and position information defined in association with the fiducial marker, determining states of the one or more structured markers continuing from the start points, and outputting an operation instruction in accordance with the determined states of the one or more structured markers to an object discriminated based on the object identifier associated with the discriminated fiducial marker.