Abstract: A search data update system includes a navigation apparatus that uses search data and a data providing center that provides update data for updating the search data to the navigation apparatus. The navigation apparatus reads a search data main body constituted with search tree data and a plurality of sets of substance data each specified based upon the search tree data from a recording medium. The data providing center provides the update data to be used to update the search data to the navigation apparatus. The update data are provided in units of individual sets of substance data and include attached thereto information to be used in a search in correspondence to each set of substance data. Upon obtaining the update data from the data providing center, the navigation apparatus stores the obtained update data into a nonvolatile memory separately from the search data main body.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a program and an information processing method and apparatus with which a connection can be formed reliably between apparatuses having different capabilities. A first application, using a presence function, announces a profile space ID representing processing for a service that can be provided. A second application receives the announcement. The second application requests the first application for detailed information of the service and registration to the service. The second application connects to the first application by peer to peer, based on a URI needed for peer-to-peer access, transmitted from the first application. The present invention can be applied to personal computers, network-enabled CE devices, and commercial application servers on the Internet.

Abstract: A first data product that can be read into a computer or a map data processing apparatus, contains therein map data having map-related information of a map. The map data includes: a structure having the map-related information divided into units of a plurality of divisions into which the map is divided; and a structure having management information for the map-related information divided into units of the divisions, and: the map-related information obtained by the computer or the map data processing apparatus can be updated in units of the individual divisions by using the management information.

Abstract: A first data product that can be read into a computer or a map data processing apparatus, contains therein map data having map-related information of a map. The map data includes: a structure having the map-related information divided into units of a plurality of divisions into which the map is divided; and a structure having management information for the map-related information divided into units of the divisions, and: the map-related information obtained by the computer or the map data processing apparatus can be updated in units of the individual divisions by using the management information.

Abstract: A first data product that can be read into a computer or a map data processing apparatus, contains therein map data having map-related information of a map. The map data includes: a structure having the map-related information divided into units of a plurality of divisions into which the map is divided; and a structure having management information for the map-related information divided into units of the divisions, and: the map-related information obtained by the computer or the map data processing apparatus can be updated in units of the individual divisions by using the management information.

Abstract: A plating member comprising a lead-free plating material is obtained by the present invention in a manner such that whisker formation on a plating layer 16 of the plating member can be suppressed and thus the plating member has good solderability. In the case of such plating member having, on the surface of a base material 15, a plating layer 16 comprising a lead-free material (Sn—Cu alloy, etc.), the plating layer 16 has a layer structure of two or more layers (a1 to a3), the average particle diameter of plating particles (P1 to P3) constituting each layer varies from layer to layer, and the plating particle volume fraction of the plating layer 16 is 80% to 90% when the proportion of plating particles occupying a unit volume is defined as a plating particle volume fraction of 100% on the assumption that a unit volume 20 is filled with plating particles P3 each having the maximum average particle diameter.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes an image bearing member for bearing a toner image; a movable endless transfer belt for transferring the toner image from the image bearing member onto a transfer material; and a transfer device for transferring the toner image from the image bearing member toward the transfer belt. The transfer device includes a transfer member for sliding on an inner surface of the transfer belt in contact with the inner surface, a supporting member for supporting the transfer member and an urging member for urging the supporting member toward the transfer belt. The transfer member is contacted to the inner surface of the transfer belt at a contact surface thereof without rotation relative to the supporting member during movement of the transfer belt. The supporting member is rotatable about a center axis thereof so as to be moved in a direction perpendicular to a movement direction of the transfer belt. The contact surface is convex with predetermined curvature toward the transfer belt.

Abstract: An FFC 1 as a flat circuit body includes a plurality of flat-plate-shaped electrodes 41 arranged with gaps between them at an end of the FFC 1, and configured to contact terminal blades 321a of terminals 32 included in a mating connector. Further, the FFC 1 includes an electrode-insulating film 51 for covering positions which do not contact the terminal blades 321a on surfaces of the electrodes 41 when the electrodes 41 and the terminal blades 321a of the terminals 32 contact each other.

Abstract: In a plated member (3) that has a pure Sn plating layer (2) of a lead-free material on a surface of a base material 1, the orientation indices of a (101) plane and a (112) plane of the pure Sn plating layer are increased to values higher than the orientation indices of the other crystal orientation planes.

Abstract: A navigation apparatus includes: a map data obtaining unit that obtains map data; a navigation processing unit that executes navigation processing by using the obtained map data; a search data obtaining unit that obtains search data; a specific data detection unit that detects specific data for a specified search target by using the obtained search data; a correspondence table obtaining unit that obtains a correspondence table indicating correspondence between identification information used to identify individual road units into which each road is divided in predetermined units and map data road unit information related to map data road units defined in the map data individually corresponding to the road units; and a map position determining unit that determines a position of the specified search target in the map data based upon the specific data for the specified search target having been detected and the correspondence table having been obtained.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a program and an information processing method and apparatus with which a connection can be formed reliably between apparatuses having different capabilities. An application #1, using a presence function, announces a profile space ID representing processing for a service that can be provided. An application #n receives the announcement. The application #n requests the application #1 for detailed information of the service and registration to the service. The application #n connects to the application #1 by peer to peer, based on a URI needed for peer-to-peer access, transmitted from the application #1. The present invention can be applied to personal computers, network-enabled CE devices, and commercial application servers on the Internet.

Abstract: A terminal 104 that can appropriately control an operation mode of the terminal regardless of presence/absence of a user operation includes: a storage 206 storing a mode identifier for identifying a manner mode or a normal mode; a communication device 210; a position obtaining device 208 obtaining a current position; an input device 204 allowing the user to designate the operation mode; and a control unit 200 for transmitting a mode change instruction including the current position and the mode identifier through the communication device 210, when the operation mode is designated.

Abstract: A fixing apparatus includes a control circuit which controls the electrifying to a first heater so that a temperature detected by a first temperature detection portion reaches a first target temperature and controls the electrifying to a second heater so that a temperature detected by a second temperature detection portion reaches a second target temperature, when warm-up is initiated, and, when the warm-up initiated, if an initial temperature of a rotary member is below a predetermined temperature, the control circuit sets the first target temperature to a temperature value greater than the first target temperature set when the initial temperature of the rotary member is greater than the predetermined temperature and sets the second target temperature to a temperature value greater than the second target temperature set when the initial temperature of the rotary member is greater than the predetermined temperature.

Abstract: A procedure from when device registration is completed until an always-on connection session with a server apparatus is established is simplified. Upon receiving a start request for directly accessing a controlled device from a controlling device via a service server, a direct-access management server transmits a direct-access URI obtaining request to the controlled device. The controlled device transmits a direct-access-port NAT setting request to a router. Upon receiving a notification of a global-IP-address and port-number obtaining error from the router, the controlled device transmits, to the direct-access management server, an error code for giving an instruction for a new remote video-recording reservation using tunneling. Upon receiving the error code, the direct-access management server assigns a tunneling port in the server, creates a direct-access URI based on the information of the port and so on, and transmits the direct-access URI to the controlling device via the service server.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a program, an information processing method and apparatus, and a data structure with which connection can be formed reliably between apparatuses having different capabilities. A service that can be provided to another party is represented by five dimensional parameters, namely, Access Method, Link Speed, X scale, Y scale, and Audio Codec. The values of the parameters are all represented by integer values. Access Method is represented by number 1 in the case of RTSP/TCP+RTP/UDP, and by number 2 in the case of HTTP tunnelling. Link Speed is normalized by kbps as a base unit, and X scale and Y scale are normalized by 16 pixels as a base unit. Audio Codec supports predetermined methods represented by numbers 0 to 6. The present invention can be applied to a personal computer.

Abstract: When various content is broadcasted via the Internet, a user is free from restriction of time and space and user's desired content is provided. The content is controllably recorded and read to a random-access recording medium via a network, and at least the content read from the recording medium is transmitted to the network.

Abstract: A data product that can be read into a computer or a map data processing apparatus contains map data that includes map-related information related to a map. The map data includes: a structure achieved by dividing the map into a plurality of mesh-like subdivisions and dividing the map-related information into units corresponding to the individual subdivisions; and a structure in which the map-related information is managed in units of subdivision sets each containing a plurality of adjacent subdivisions and the map-related information is used in the map data processing apparatus in units of the individual subdivision sets.

Abstract: A map update system includes: a navigation apparatus that provides guidance from a current position to a destination having been set based upon map data stored therein and downloads various types of information requested by a user; and a providing apparatus that provides the various types of information to be downloaded at the navigation apparatus, and: the providing apparatus transmits the various types of information and update information related to an update of map data to the navigation apparatus in response to a download request transmitted from the navigation apparatus; and the navigation apparatus issues a notice related to the update of the map data based upon the update information transmitted from the providing apparatus, while downloading the various types of information.

Abstract: A controlled device executes processing for device authentication and processing for device registration, receives a response of registration completion from a direct-access management server, and sets an automatic connection flag indicating the registration is completed. When the automatic connection flag is not set, the controlled device establishes an always-on connection session with the direct-access management server after executing the processing for the device authentication and the processing for the device registration. When the automatic connection flag is set, the controlled device skips the processing for the device authentication and the processing for the device registration to enter processing for establishing an always-on connection session.

Abstract: According to the present invention, in order to suppress whisker formation on a plated member having a plated layer comprising a lead-free material, the orientation index of the plane (321) in a plated layer for a plated member 3 having a plated layer 2 comprising a lead-free material on the surface of a base material 1 is 2.5 to 4.0. In another embodiment, the value (220)/(321) derived from the ratio of the orientation index of the plane (220) to that of the plane (321) for the plated layer is 0.5 to 1.5. An undercoat layer 4 having the orientation plane (220) may be formed between the base material 1 and the plated layer 2.