Abstract: A mechanical timepiece includes: a hairspring; a permanent magnet; a soft magnetic core; a control circuit for performing rate adjustment based on a counter-electromotive voltage caused in a coil by a motion of the permanent magnet accompanying a forward direction motion and a reverse direction motion of the balance wheel. The permanent magnet is arranged so that, under a state in which the hairspring is brought to an equilibrium length, a direction of magnetization is directed to the first end portion side or the second end portion side.

Abstract: Provided are an electromechanical transducer including a light movable member that is easy to move and charged portions whose amount of electrostatic charge does not substantially change over time and a method for manufacturing such an electromechanical transducer.

Abstract: Provided are an electromechanical transducer including a light movable member that is easy to move and charged portions whose amount of electrostatic charge does not substantially change over time and a method for manufacturing such an electromechanical transducer.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a processor and a memory unit connected to the processor. The memory unit stores a setting value and an web application. The web application causes the processor to change the setting value according to a request message from a client. The web application causes the processor to update the setting value stored in the memory unit with a setting value contained in a query string if the request message indicates a request for changing the setting value and the request message is transmitted from the client by a user with administrator privilege, and the web application causes the processor to insert a cookie having the setting value contained in the query string to a response header if the request message is transmitted from the client by a user without administrator privilege.

Abstract: There is provided an image forming system in which each user can arbitrarily change an information display page for referring to various kinds of information of an image forming apparatus by a user's terminal unit connected to a network. An image forming apparatus 10, in which various kinds of information relating to the operation of an image forming apparatus can be referred to and set by a terminal unit 410 connected to the image forming apparatus through a network 300, is constructed in such a way that an information display page (my page) 230 specific to a user, in which each information item selected by the user is displayed at each specified position, is displayed as an information display page 210 expressing various kinds of information on the screen of the terminal unit.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a processor and a memory unit connected to the processor. The memory unit stores a setting value and an web application. The web application causes the processor to change the setting value according to a request message from a client. The web application causes the processor to update the setting value stored in the memory unit with a setting value contained in a query string if the request message indicates a request for changing the setting value and the request message is transmitted from the client by a user with administrator privilege, and the web application causes the processor to insert a cookie having the setting value contained in the query string to a response header if the request message is transmitted from the client by a user without administrator privilege.

Abstract: An Internet browsing device includes: a web page selecting unit which selects a web page to be displayed; an information obtaining unit which obtains information about pop-up pages linked to the web page selected by the web page selecting unit; a display unit which displays the information obtained by the information obtaining unit; a pop-up page selecting unit which selects information about the pop-up pages to be displayed among the information displayed by the display unit; and a pop-up page displaying unit which opens and displays a pop-up page based on the information selected by the pop-up page selecting unit.

Abstract: An information processing device which is connectable to a network, the information processing device includes: a fixed address setting unit adapted to set a first fixed address of the information processing device in the network; a dynamic address obtaining unit adapted to obtain a dynamic address of the information processing device, using a protocol in the network; an address conflict checking unit which connects the information processing device to the network with the dynamic address obtained by the dynamic address obtaining unit and checks whether or not the first fixed address set by the fixed address setting unit is being used by another device in the network; and a reconnecting unit which disconnects a network connection with the dynamic address and connects the information processing device to the network again with the first fixed address when no conflict of the first fixed address is recognized by the address conflict checking unit.

Abstract: When a user inputs an instruction to execute cursor addition processing, an information processing unit (2a) of a computer (2) writes cursor information consisting of cursor number and index information indicating a position of a current cursor and the like, to RAM (2b), and registers the current cursor in memory. When the user inputs an instruction to execute cursor deletion processing, cursor information of a specified registered cursor is deleted from the RAM (2b). When the user inputs an instruction to execute cursor selection processing, a cursor selected from among registered cursors is set as an operative cursor, and the current cursor is moved to a position in the index information of the operative cursor, stored in the RAM (2b).

Abstract: There is provided an image forming system in which each user can arbitrarily change an information display page for referring to various kinds of information of an image forming apparatus by a user's terminal unit connected to a network. An image forming apparatus 10, in which various kinds of information relating to the operation of an image forming apparatus can be referred to and set by a terminal unit 410 connected to the image forming apparatus through a network 300, is constructed in such a way that an information display page (my page) 230 specific to a user, in which each information item selected by the user is displayed at each specified position, is displayed as an information display page 210 expressing various kinds of information on the screen of the terminal unit.

Abstract: First communication data is in a first transmission protocol and serial in first communication cycles. The first communication data is accumulated and then transmitted at second communication cycles. The first communication data is then converted into second communication data in a second transmission protocol. The first communication data is received in accordance with a first clock signal supplied together with the first communication data. The accumulated first communication data is transmitted in accordance with a second clock signal. The difference in transmission protocol and transmission timings between the first and second communication data is thereby eliminated.